But the Chinese leadership declined the offer, explaining that China is a developing country that can hardly meet its own people s needs.

Banks, for example, were said to be in good shape, whereas several were barely solvent.

Almost.

We barely started.

I can hardly hear you.

I can hardly walk.

I can hardly hear you.

He can scarcely write his name.

Almost no one believed her.

These policies should allow Colombia s economy to grow barely this year, but only as long as the world economy begins to stabilize before the end of the first quarter.

I can play the piano after a fashion.

Fadil barely recognized Dania.

Layla could barely breathe.

The express train went by so fast we hardly saw it.

Sami could barely read or write.

The task of saving lives has barely begun.

I came yesterday just after the medical team had left.

I could hardly see five feet in front of myself.

And we could hardly even pay anything, any salaries, in the economy.

The Swiss government could afford the bailout, just.

It could barely support its own population, let alone the Red Armies.

Africa s agricultural potential has barely been touched.

Ravshan died. Rasul barely survived.

In the US, consolidation has barely begun.

Incredibly, however the issues involved have barely registered the attention of the international community.

When the ice was flat or flattish, I could just about pull both.

The highest point hardly rises over 170.5 metres in the north.

Luke Massella I was really sick. I could barely get out of bed.

But moving Germany s gold is hardly helpful in this regard.

Ruling out compensation practices hardly leaves us at a loss for culprits.

I guess there s hardly a blogger in Belarus who hasn t commented on the bomb blast.

Keeping a weak banking system afloat has high economic costs.

First, there is the economic and financial crisis that we are only slowly overcoming.

Indeed, balance sheet repair has barely begun for US households.

As a result, however much the government cuts its spending, its deficit will barely shrink.

In 2006, the Swedish speaking inhabitants represented barely 9 of the total population.

Some victims were accused of collaboration with FDN.

It was able but only it was able to organize health care, education, policing, justice.

When US President Barack Obama visited China in November 2009, he acknowledged China s rapid rise and offered a partnership in maintaining and improving the world order. But the Chinese leadership declined the offer, explaining that China is a developing country that can hardly meet its own people s needs.

Hugo Chavez did not invent the disaffected middle and lower class of Venezuela. He merely led them.

As for Germany and the Germans, one hardly recognizes one s own country and people.

Please join us in remembering Ali, someone most of us barely knew but whose work touched thousands.

One of our guards returned late last night, and only just with his life.

By the time of the French Revolution, the standard of living had hardly doubled since the Roman Empire.

There was hardly any waste generated in a typical household.