It hardly serves you to be walking around on stumps.

It would hardly serve either of us to play at tugging strings.

And if hes in the brig, the second officer continued, he can hardly serve as weapons chief.

But lust directed at a construct of air and imagination could hardly serve those purposes.

Violence against civilians can hardly serve the cause of human rights.

Not surprisingly, that hardly serves as a deterrent to criminals.

He was abroad from 1264 to 1280, thus hardly serving in his own diocese.

It was now curving farther away from the mountain, so could hardly serve the Master's purpose.

At least, they can hardly serve as models of intellect and comportment away from their sports.

Marriage on those terms hardly serves the goals each partner had originally hoped to achieve.