The doctrine is, I take it, one from which a modern theorist can hardly escape, or hardly wishes to.

With their ship destroyed, they could hardly escape.

King Samuel Aba could hardly escape from the battlefield and he died soon.

We cannot celebrate that paradox, yet we can hardly escape it.

Such a revolutionary finding, heralded in a leading scientific journal, could hardly escape attack, and the first critics have struck with unusual speed.

A proton hardly ever escapes from a nucleus, even though its quarks may be doing a crazy dance.

The gods knew the Enemy-they could hardly escape it.

Montrose's men were routed and two-thirds of them killed or taken, and he himself hardly escaped for the time.

But even in disguise, fifty-odd armed men moving through the corridors of the palace could hardly escape attention.

However, the republic hardly escaped the increasingly nationalistic climate of the time unscathed.