For Europe, the stakes over the Greek debt crisis could hardly have been higher.

In this respect, the last two American presidential elections have hardly been models for the world.

While foreign companies have not been deliberately targeted, regular headlines of new killings hardly present a positive international image.

Trying to have those rules enforced is hardly censorship.

Such work would hardly have been possible without the cooperation and the full participation of all Member States, individually or within the various groups.

But if that were the objective, clearly a long list of countries should have been drawn up, and it is hardly certain that Iraq would have come out on top.

For starters, if the US had set out to destabilize Iraq, its efforts could hardly have been more successful ten years later, the country s viability as a single state has never been in greater doubt.

That is a simple, yet as recent events have demonstrated hardly an obvious lesson.

Besides, it is hardly credible that he would have been released and assigned to the airbase if the military authorities had still had the slightest doubt about the matter.

Well, hardly ever!

Georgia s economic success has been largely dependent on direct foreign investment, for which there is hardly any appetite today.

This is hardly surprising.

That is hardly surprising.

Sinai is hardly alone.

Trustworthiness is hardly universal.

Tretyakov is hardly alone.

This is hardly surprising.

I can hardly walk.

Hardly any major projects between China and Latin America have been initiated by the private, public, or academic sectors, and bilateral institutions do not yet reflect the weight of economic dynamics.

This is hardly the first time I have stressed the need for wholesale debt write downs.

Hardly any children in poor countries have access to cotrimoxazole prophylaxis to prevent commonly acquired infections.

The Cup s organization has been exceptional (as was to be expected), with excellent police work giving hooligans hardly a chance.

The Fed was hardly alone.

My experiences are hardly unique.

There is hardly any time.

I can hardly hear you.

I can hardly hear you.

These are hardly encouraging signs.

While the directive s rules governing migration of employed and self employed people hardly differ from previous EU law, the migration and social welfare rights of non working EU citizens have been significantly extended.

While populists might be particularly prone to advocating facile solutions, they hardly have a monopoly on that tactic.

Moreover, Kundera s case is hardly unique.

It could hardly be more clear.

But this was hardly for everyone.

But Humala is hardly a saint.

The stakes could hardly be higher.

And Ike was hardly an isolationist.

But the Kurds are hardly alone.

However, as developer Anas Maarrawi pointed, innovation can hardly flourish while innovators like Bassel Safadi remained imprisoned, and when the majority of Syrian free thinkers have been killed, detained or forced to leave the country.

Daily wages for laborers in Baghdad have doubled in the last three years hardly a sign of rising unemployment.

It is hardly surprising, then, that Chinese officials have begun to seek more diverse and profitable investment possibilities worldwide.

SHANGHAI Since Xi Jinping was anointed as China s new president, reports of official repression of dissent have hardly abated.

Some important tasks relating to post conflict rehabilitation have hardly been started, such as the settlement of conflicting land claims the broader issue of property rights the question of national reconciliation and that of transitional justice.

We hardly ever see you around here.

This outcome is hardly a foregone conclusion.

But that description hardly seems appropriate nowadays.