Sentences with word «hardly»

There was hardly a murmur of surprise on Friday when Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer announced he would be stepping down within the next 12 months, after a successor is found.

The idea is certainly very futuristic, but hardly new, as Hyperloop is a type of vac - train.

A certain percentage of Tim Hortons customers will continue to order their usual size out of habit, hardly noticing that the corresponding cup size and price have changed.

For a while, DiCostanzo and Sherry sold bikes to their friends, who in turn sold them to their friends through parties — hardly a sustainable business model.

So far that sounds like good but hardly astounding leadership.

And I've hardly ever met one who was so successful.

Still, we're hardly riverboat gamblers when it comes to our savings.

It's hardly news that yet another old American factory is closing down, particularly one that makes processed meats, which have declined in popularity as millennials look for healthier options.

But while the impeachment of Rousseff may have been a necessary condition to bring Brazil back to the market, it is hardly sufficient.

In - store shopping is hardly disappearing — Forrester Research estimates that 87 % of retail sales in 2017 took place in stores.

The idea of a group of people pitching in to make something come to fruition is hardly novel, but the way the Kickstarter team leveraged the internet to pitch to millions of people simultaneously — as opposed to a coterie of traditional investors — certainly was.

But as with many a business venture announced in China with much fanfare, it's hardly a done deal — more of a memorandum of understanding.

A graduate of Bunbury Cathedral Grammar, Andrew Hall admits he was hardly a model student when he started a science degree in the early 1990s at the University of Western Australia.

It hardly seems possible, but there it is.

Spicer's insistence that a border tax would mean that Mexico is «paying for the wall» is hardly correct.

«We're hardly rushing to buy.

But it's hardly great news, experts say.

Woolverton was hardly a chef, but he was determined to concoct a healthy and decent - tasting treat.

And also we can hire rural people, who have hardly any opportunities.»

Since rookies are encountering most experiences for the first time, it's easy to let the imagination run to the worst - case scenario, which is hardly productive.

And though they displayed the full creative range of executive thievery, they had one thing in common: Hardly anyone ever went to prison.

Of course, choosing to use a DCF model hardly ends the discussion.

This is hardly the first time Cummings and other top Democrats have pushed their Republican counterparts or the White House to obtain or provide information related to Kushner, Flynn, and others who serve or served in the administration.

It's remarkably easy to get caught up in our own brilliance and forget that if our idea doesn't matter to others, it's hardly an innovation with impact.

This industry hardly even existed a year ago, yet there are already dozens of startups fighting for a piece of the growing market.

While it's hardly an ideal situation, and may even result in lower productivity, it's become the norm.

«That's hardly the type of justice the American people deserve given the sheer magnitude of misconduct at issue, and I accordingly dissent in part.»

Given that, a similar scheme in wireless hardly seems worth the trouble.

IT seems hardly a week goes by in the present economic environment without a major Australian employer making an announcement about cutting its workforce.

But her experience of suffering, largely in silence, was hardly unique among the 28,000 troops who have served at the U.S. military prison since it opened in 2002 to indefinitely detain captives in the «war on terror.»

It's hardly surprising, then, that it would eventually show up on the world's largest social network, which described it as an evolution of how people share their lives online.

Ford's offence, after all, was hardly armed robbery.

Tons of people are building things right now, but hardly anyone is building something novel and uncomplicated — something that works and becomes integral to a target demographic.

The cost of building the mobile app will hardly matter in the long run if it takes off and gains a large market of users.

That's hardly the only change, explains CEO Geoffrey Martin.

When Davis was creative director for the Republican National Convention in 2008 he said he «could hardly get any celebrities from Hollywood to even come and attend the convention.»

Now semi-retired from BlackBerry (he retires completely as of May 1), Lazaridis has hardly retreated to his study to build model ships.

Snap is hardly blind to the risks posed by Brexit.

He also joined Bain Capital, which is hardly the ideal launching pad for a quest to win over liberal activists.

That's hardly the same as receiving an unsolicited cold call or email at an inconvenient moment.

Yet compromise has not always been the strong suit of private - sector unions, whose internal squabbles are hardly rare.

Relatively speaking, the viscosity hardly matters.»

Purolator is hardly alone in shaking up its sales operation.

Minnesota Vikings fans were hoping to see their home team play in the big game at Minneapolis» U.S. Bank Stadium, but Sunday's 38 - 7 shellacking by the Philadelphia Eagles means tickets on the resale market aren't quite as insanely priced — though they're hardly cheap.

This is hardly news for entrepreneurs.

And there's hardly anything authentic about that.

The depressed prices mean lower prices for refiners and less pump pain for North American drivers, but it's hardly good news for Canada's oil industry, which spent billions on oilsands projects after world crude prices had risen high enough to justify the investment.

A chromebook boots to a browser, so it has hardly anything to load.

Advertisements by the pro-HST side, for example, offer up accountants testifying to the job - creating benefits of the harmonized federal - provincial levy over the alternative specified in the referendum question, a reintroduction of the 7 % provincial sales tax — hardly the sort of stirring campaign rhetoric likely to rally a silent majority to its side.

Her story is hardly unique.