"Even someone innocent of all wrongdoing," he said, could hardly prove that without knowing what the charge was.

But that hardly proves I had a motive to bum his offices.

Rent control and security of tenure hardly proved to be such temporary measures as had been originally intended.

But he insisted in the interview tonight that that hardly proved his loyalty to the Iraqi leader.

But this proved hardly to be the case.

Later, it proves hardly to be a castle at all, merely a "miserable little town" or a group of "village houses."

"Ay, but it will hardly prove politics in your meaning, my friend," said the gratified Miller.

But that hardly proves that cheap Mexican labor is to blame.

The medallion hardly proves he was aboard the submarine.

The work was tedious, and in the nature of the case could hardly prove immediately productive.