The Russian avant-garde painting of the early 20th century is scarcely less wondrous in its way.
Scarcely less comforting is the "new direction" Senator Kerry would seemingly chart on the home front.
Yet it is scarcely less defeatist than the recent decision of Le Monde, France's most influential newspaper, to publish a regular 20-page supplement in English.
Scarcely less worrying is the prospect that those who fight on our behalf may feel increasingly disconnected from the society they are serving so admirably.
Scarcely less bizarre than the effort to impute vital signs to the moribund ABM Treaty were two other highlights of Mr. Clinton's adventures in Moscow.
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Scarcely less shrill are the sounds of teeth-gnashing from former U.S. government officials and others who insist that Washington must negotiate with Pyongyang to avoid this dread outcome.
Scarcely less troubling are Senator Durbin's choice of witnesses.
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Scarcely less appetizing is the prospect that Western assistance will be absorbed by a lucky few in Russia particularly those in a position to milk the system and to line their own pockets.
Agencies working inside the country hope so: to respond to the cyclone some had to divert resources from other parts of the country where the situation is scarcely less awful than in the delta.
Scarcely less appetizing is the prospect that Western assistance will be absorbed by a lucky few in Russia -- particularly those in a position to milk the system and to line their own pockets.
Scarcely less galling to those who voted for the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, however, was the fact that it afforded Presidents Johnson and Nixon a credible basis for claiming that the responsibility for an increasingly unpopular entanglement was one shared by the executive and legislative branches.
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Now, as he enters the 2008 presidential contest months late and offers little that sounds new or different, Thompson could scarcely be less Reaganesque.
Most of the islands that marines had fought over and secured had been jungle horrors, infested by disease and rot, or sun-scorched coral outcroppings, use-less as real estate and, in strategic terms, scarcely worth conquering, much less destroying thousands of American lives to capture.
The best thing to be said for Mr Gasparovic is that he is scarcely known outside Slovakia, making him less of a diplomatic embarrassment.
But at some point savers will realize that the 4.8% coupon on a long Treasury scarcely makes up for inflation, much less covers taxes or provides a real return.
Only a small fraction of those able to register to vote actually do so less than 14, 000 last time, or scarcely 20 votes per constituency.
The other side of that argument, it has to be said, is that under a commercial system, there would be less room for serious news: the model of the American networks is scarcely one to aspire to.
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