There is only one so-called A-segment car--the Smart ForTwo--for sale in the U.S. now (and it's hardly a barn burner, with sales of fewer than 6, 000last year).
It deflates their egos wonderfully: they do hardly any better than laymen.
But selling decorative lithographs printed in large editions is hardly more noteworthy than vending posters.
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Meantime, corporations like Prudential Financial and General Electric issue preferreds with yields hardly more than 5 percent.
Their record on spending could hardly be any worse than the Republicans'.
Those seeking a taste of old New Orleans, as well as the amenities of a larger hotel, could hardly do better than the Maison Orleans.
Even the storied Rio Grande, which she and Brian had seen on a disagreeable weekend trip several years ago to Matamoros, was hardly more than a drainage ditch.
And, by the way, we are several trillion dollars closer to insolvency than we were in 2010 and the economic recovery seems hardly more secure than it was then.
Young men swept up in the raid are sprung from jail by a councilman seeking their votes, crowds form in the street to pocket cash payments from competing candidates, and campaign rallies, which are joined with religious celebrations, are hardly more than stomping grounds for pickpockets.
By contrast in transportation, for instance, we are hardly more advanced today than we were 40 years ago.
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To be sure, the bidding war for NYSE Euronext (NYX) could hardly be anything less than a riveting daily news saga.
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You could hardly get more creative than being a Nobel Prize winner.
It can apply pressure to politicians, especially those in opposition parties, to face up to the problems of unemployment, rather than to pretend they hardly exist.
It is hardly surprising that many poor defendants receive less than sterling representation.
The 2% year-on-year growth in euro-area retail sales, announced on May 28th and covering the twelve months to March, is hardly spectacular, even if it is marginally better than expected.
The aggregate national outlook is better than California's, but hardly encouraging.
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The pollution produced by burning petrol in cars imposes a cost on the environment and on human health, yet its price hardly reflects this fact: petrol remains cheaper than water in America.
Baseball was hardly the only sport to be much whiter than the populace at Richards.
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There will be hardly a human being, other than the protestors, in The City.
Over time if not early on, Saddam's cooperation will prove to be far less than complete, his acceptance of inspections hardly unconditional.
For someone in her business, there could hardly be a bigger stage on which to display these than an entire network.
He notes that interest rates are so low that the government can get cash cheaper than ever, and inflation is hardly an imminent threat.
Those works of Lennon are frankly mediocre, with a tossed-off feeling, and hardly worthy of our attention other than the fact that they are by Lennon.
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France Telecom is less globally diversified than these two peers, but the company is hardly provincial.
Though hardly impervious to secular winds, they have managed to maintain rituals better than others.
The alternative case is hardly more than descriptions of the failures of the Canadian and British systems.
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Though bigger than most, the courthouse case is hardly an isolated one.
Whatever shortcomings Wal-Mart may have as an employer, it can hardly be accused of paying less than the market rate, at least in America.
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It is better to produce half as much, get plenty of exercise and not go crazy than to speed up so that your head is hardly normal.
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