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  • He shouldn't be courting her let alone possibly wanting to marry her.
  • Find supermarket shopping almost impossible now, barely able to walk let alone push a trolley so did my first internet shop last night. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • Above all else, the Monte Carlo Rally is so legendary because of how difficult it is to finish, let alone win. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • What the UN and the West are doing is the colonial thing of merely resorting to bully-boy tactics, Neither would attempt to pass judgement let alone threaten to intervene using military force, in any election held in the Russian Federation or attempt to invade China because it does not have democractic government. Ivory Coast's descent into madness
  • Markets do not lead to efficient outcomes, let alone outcomes that comport with social justice.
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  • And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.
  • The non-smoker though should also be allowed the right not to contract cancer etc… from passive smoking, let alone have to deal with the unpleasantries.
  • My understanding (let alone expertise) in such fields is nonexistent and some of my opinions others on this site find wrong-headed.
  • He was particularly perturbed that he had no recollection of even seeing the wine, let alone tasting it.
  • He didn't seem to notice, let alone give a stuffing, that the rest of the political world had stopped, at least for a day.
  • Bad enough when a guy has no stamina ... let alone just wanting you to stand there while he "strums" on his pricktar. heheheh Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
  • But since it is rare in any book aimed at children to see a discussion of economics, let alone imperialism and militarism, that criticism might be held in abeyance.
  • But non-intervention does not mean stability, let alone peace. Times, Sunday Times
  • Too few dancers seem to me to have even a decent sense of rhythm, let alone demonstrate musical understanding.
  • We have only a limited capacity for checking the accuracy of many environmental monitoring results, let alone of predictions.
  • I concentrated on sliding into his life, his history, his sacred imperial flesh, flesh that a person could be killed on the spot for touching with their eyes, let alone his dirty ungentle hands.
  • I paused at the small shop frontage from where some of the taxis are commanded, but it looked very unwelcoming and I wasn't sure of getting any sort of answer, let alone a helpful one.
  • However, with all the turmoil we've been experiencing in the past two months, the moving around and general unsettled life we've been leading we never quite managed the first schedule, let alone the second.
  • A 63 year old man, with a knee the size of Milwaukee, who can barely walk, let alone compete, is "average"? Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs Senior Citizens : Triage for Dummies.
  • I find it incredible that anyone uses it seriously, let alone about themselves. Times, Sunday Times
  • And it's not as if every pub will apply for a 24 hr license - there's not the demand, let alone the desire of the local council to accede to the request.
  • But even then, Carey affirmed with a "howsomdever," and "nevertheless," that if they carried young, and especially a "'possum," (which has more young ones than most other beasts,) he thought they ought to be let alone until their appropriate time. Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.
  • With a camelteer in view there is nothing to worry about, but I would not like to be left alone with a camel, let alone have to hobble a herd of bull camels at night.
  • Like I have said I have a letter from major marcels son who saw the wreckage and in this letter he says "the wreckage was nothing like a weather balloon" it was as thin as tin foil yet you could not bend it or break it, let alone eve scratch its surface! The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 4
  • In one scene he was busking and putting so much into his singing (aka shouting) that I just thought - wow, he wouldn't last 10 minutes let alone half a day, singing like that on the street, and yes, I know he has busked for real. Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing
  • Society is creating an underclass without standards, principles or decency, but nobody seems to recognise this, let alone be doing anything about it.
  • I could barely walk in them, let alone gracefully glide over smooth ice.
  • This is hardly evidence for it to be the burial place of Khufu, let alone for anything else, although it is perfectly possible that Khufu was buried at this “special” place where later or earlier a pyramid was constructed. Name Stargate | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • I am seething with rage at anyone who dares suggest that, in any way, such acts are even explicable, let alone justifiable.
  • It is another sign of change that he speaks at all, let alone with such openness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Let alone the content of the piece, the tsarist ring of the title was bound to provoke Soviet anger.
  • No way anybody but Foreman, his handlers, and Cosell thought Foreman could win, let alone actually pull it off.
  • He was the prettiest baby we ever had, too, except -- except Edith, of course. An 'after Austin we didn't even bring up the subject again -- we was pretty well occupied wonderin' how we was goin 'to feed an' clothe 'em all, let alone havin 'pictures of' em. The Old Gray Homestead
  • The European nation was not expecting to lose the war, let alone anticipate being burdened with payments that would reach into the next century.
  • And third, I don’t know why the fact that Professor Bernstein agitates more people than other VC posters should be seen as proof of anything, let alone reflect unfavorably on him. The Volokh Conspiracy » Kagan and the Cult of Personality
  • It was not capable of being enacted into law, let alone put into operation or enforced.
  • I refused, humiliated and ashamed that I even had the chutzpah to belay Bean, let alone allow him to fall on my watch. Adrian Margaret Brune: Patagonia Climber Bean Bowers: 1973-2011, He Always Picked Himself -- And Others -- Up Again
  • The practice is quite widespread, but no one has achieved any very reliable estimate of its scale, let alone a trend.
  • They were stunned; they'd never thought their precious boy could harm a fly, let alone choke another person.
  • In reality, Diana was struggling to keep her head above water, let alone undertake a radical management restructuring programme.
  • To date, they remain irreproducible even with state-of-the-art synthesizers, let alone with cassette machines outdoors.
  • How can we expect this institution to be an effective dispenser of services for all those with AIDS, let alone a leader of political struggles around AIDS in black communities here and abroad?
  • The truth of the matter is there isn't anything in the gift line that I want, let alone need.
  • I didn't do biology O-level , so I have not even the smallest grasp of the nutritional properties of plants and seeds, let alone animals.
  • Lth. 1956; in imper. = let alone, not to mention; hence phr. haud awa frae, with the exception of ne. Languagehat.com: GO TO, THOU ART A FOOLISH FELLOW.
  • I dinna consort wi 'shoplifters, an' idiots, an 'suckin' bairns -- wi 'long nose, an' short nose, an 'pug nose, an' seventeen Deuks o 'Wellington, let alone a baker's dizen Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
  • The thought of a day, let alone months, spent on board a narrow boat would fill her with horror.
  • We had major novelty value - it's strange enough for a foreigner to visit the area let alone pose in a raft.
  • I can give one very simple reason, the investment in equipment is far less, let alone the fact you can play basketball anywhere you can put a hoop. The Volokh Conspiracy » Dubious Grousing over the Percentage of African-American Players in Major League Baseball
  • They didn't even have a clear front-runner in the primaries, let alone someone who would threaten him in the general election. TIES THAT BIND
  • But far from being examined - let alone disavowed - the policies behind these developments are being redoubled.
  • It is an insult to the primary producers of this region to be snubbed by any Minister, let alone one who supposedly represents their industry.
  • To us it makes a mockery of the show 's premise if foreign acts enter, let alone win. The Sun
  • It sounded like a feat of endurance for the audience - let alone a man who turned 89 this month. The Sun
  • No news on the job front as I haven't even updated my resume let alone applied anywhere.
  • Juergen Buettner, a German retiree who lives in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second-largest city after the capital, Sofia, complained of his difficulty in finding "anyone who speaks a semblance of English, let alone German, even though they supposedly have degrees in tourism and languages. Bulgaria Wants More Tourists
  • We don't have enough for ourselves let alone a busted flush currency like the euro. The Sun
  • I dare say that had she briefed a silk in the first place she would have been acquitted and saved a large sum because the case would not have run for five days let alone five weeks.
  • He never really expected to actually see this girl again, let alone live in the same town.
  • There is no indication he had ever set eyes on a copy of Liber abbaci, let alone read it.
  • It is not economically feasible, let alone fair, to expect younger people to shoulder this burden with higher taxes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Only the blindest of ideologues could look at this situation and think the government is to blame, let alone to blame on the same order of magnitude as our incompetent response to the flooding in New Orleans. The Volokh Conspiracy » Now that the Government has Proved as Incompetent
  • First, plenty of Europeans are pig-ignorant of the recent past, let alone antiquity. America's incomplete vision of the past
  • You'd be hard pressed to buy any decent Heidelberg school paintings in Australia let alone getting into the serious, cravat wearing Impressionist buyer's scene.
  • Murderers, let alone orchestrators of genocide, are different.
  • This was evidently named by someone who has never seen either a lime or a melon, let alone a pomelo. Limecat Halloween Costume » E-Mail
  • They're what they call shaped charges and they fire out a ball of molten copper which will cut through an Abrams tank armor, let alone a Humvee. CNN Transcript May 13, 2007
  • Political leaders on all sides had inflamed the situation, creating a momentum that they could no longer control let alone quell.
  • Of course, he did not counsel indifference, let alone abstention, from the economic struggles of the working class.
  • What astonishes the contemporary reader is that a genuine, independent intellectual like Galbraith was permitted to serve in government, let alone become the confidant of presidents.
  • Anyone who has moved house, remortgaged, or had to draw up a party wall agreement with their neighbours recently don't get me started will know that even corresponding with a solicitor, let alone engaging their "help", can be a costly and frustrating business. Even Mervyn King is losing faith in Osborne
  • You need a fair amount of computing power to understand and interpret written music, let alone play it in a way that captures the audience. Times, Sunday Times
  • My opinion is that life is too short for any sort of essay, let alone a cine-essay. Times, Sunday Times
  • Possibly this is one of the most visionary sci-fi books I have ever read, and so chock full of controversial ideas (let alone nonlinear narrative, bizarre writing style, and strange futuristic pidgin lingo) that it surely has to make this list. MIND MELD: What are the Most Controversial SF/F Novels of the Past & Present?
  • First, the very notion of a budget surplus would have been considered a bizarre "X-Files" plot when President Clinton took office, let alone a $1 trillion mid-session re-estimate. Press Briefing
  • Certainly this critique of autobiography has validity; how many autobiographers are truly honest even with themselves, let alone with their readers, about themselves in narrative?
  • I say this because so many people cannot bring themselves to formulate an opinion, let alone an informed one.
  • He had never seen a dead owl, let alone been present at the moment of decease. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
  • Many philosophers blenched at the idea even of educating, let alone empowering, the common people.
  • They walk a short distance and enjoy a normal school life without having to worry about the abominable weather, let alone the wind.
  • The practice is quite widespread, but no one has achieved any very reliable estimate of its scale, let alone a trend.
  • The gangs of feral youths that "own" the streets now know that the chances of a policeman catching them in the act of mugging a passerby are almost zero, the chances of any CCTV actually working or producing a decent image or not being used to take photos of cars parked six inches onto a yellow line or one minute into a proscribed period are also nil and even if caught the chances of being charged let alone convicted are somewhat slim and as for having to go to prison for more than six months, the odds are infinitesimal. Archive 2008-01-01
  • Presently it is difficult to locate a mooring to berth a boat for the night, let alone find one to tie to while diving.
  • Henceforth let us shun great towns, and still lie in a convent or a cow-house; for I'd liever sleep on fresh straw, than on linen well washed six months agone; and the breath of kine it is sweeter than that of Christians, let alone the garlic, which men and women folk affect, but cowen abhor from, and so do The Cloister and the Hearth
  • We don't have enough for ourselves let alone a busted flush currency like the euro. The Sun
  • We tend to snigger at anyone or anything that suggests we take sex too seriously, let alone explore the potential for sex to be mind-altering. 'In the West we diminish sex.
  • And is it the way I'd be leavin 'you marry some good-for-nothing idle jackeen, who couldn't buy a ha'porth of bird seed for a linnet or a finch, let alone to keep a wife? Duty, and other Irish Comedies
  • With two of the office down with chicken-pox, she hardly had time to think these days, let alone relax.
  • Since I had never mastered the threading of a sewing machine, let alone made an item of clothing, this was taking a risk, but I was soon chalking out patterns and even running up the odd wonky seam without mishap.
  • I wasn't sure I knew how to forge a metal like that, let alone how to make the synthetic compounds that made the stock and foregrip.
  • Totally didn't expect the hot blonde chick to even know the word conducive let alone use it in a sentence. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
  • He'd been short and uncivil with her, but it was difficult enough coping with his own problems at the moment, let alone hers. WALL GAMES
  • Rarely have I read, even privately, let alone in public, anything more raunchy.
  • He had not been wounded, let alone shot, because the attacker's pistol was loaded with blanks.
  • Smaller and warmer-blooded nations able to work harmoniously and more responsively in a radically changing world might pull of a truly edifying World Expo in 2020, one that the muscle-bound giants will never imagine, let alone create. Bob Jacobson: Can the US Get Back the Needed Moral Authority to Host a 2020 World Expo?
  • Everything's been scraped back so far that the British Army rattles when it walks and those brain surgeons in Logistics hadn't even given us enough blanks to scare the bloody crows, let alone put the wind up Eyetie cooks. Whispers Of Betrayal
  • I kept my voice steady, but I wasn't even fooling myself, let alone Aaron.
  • We have only a limited capacity for checking the accuracy of many environmental monitoring results, let alone of predictions.
  • Is there a certain etiquette to tracking a deer when you know you're going to have to move through another hunters territory, let alone if you find the deer down 60 yards from his stand? Etiquette question...I've always rifle hunted and have been lucky to not have to track any of my kills.
  • When you are abubble with hormonal rebellion and so oversexed you don't know what to do, who's to know what doesn't turn you on, let alone (God forbid!) what's right.
  • It was certainly not a typewriter, let alone a photostat machine.
  • The report says Britain could one day be unable to defend its own shores, let alone carry out the many security tasks it currently undertakes worldwide. The Sun
  • The pages were scrawled with unreadable shorthand, quotes he would later unsuccessfully attempt to decipher, let alone match to any of the news stories he was supposed to be working on.
  • The sequence included chickenpox and flu, but more often it was tonsillitis that prevented her from practising, let alone playing.
  • Every member of the household was expected to carry out and fulfil their role, so I very much doubt for the poorer classes of society then, that they had the time to get bored, let alone to think.
  • He could barely handle a skimmer, let alone a light-fast freighter best flown by a pair of able pilots. This Time It's Personal.... - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games
  • The MP in question now feels he has bitten off rather more than he can swallow, let alone chew, and is now back-pedalling frantically.
  • This backward-looking attitude we are living with around the globe is not helpful to the social, political, or economic health of the nation, let alone the world. John M. Eger: Women and the Creative Economy
  • On one farm I know in Perthshire they have not even been able to sow their grass, let alone cut it.
  • Between email, cell phones and stop-and-go traffic, there's barely time to breathe, let alone attend a dance performance.
  • He wondered how he could check, let alone double-check, Lowery's alibi. THE BOOK LADY
  • Ye canna live in a man's oxter for three years without learning a great many things ye dinna want to know about him, let alone something like that. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
  • Meanwhile the Malays and Chinese had managed to build impressive civilisations without so much as a past tense, let alone a subjunctive, or genitive plural.
  • she can't boil potatoes, let alone cook a meal
  • Like all other scientists the professor from Würzburg University in Franconia always sought recognition from his peers, but Röntgen rarely appeared at scientific conferences or wrote papers, let alone promoted his research findings outside of his field. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1901 - Perspectives
  • But this lifting did not feel like divine intervention, let alone a result of effort, but more like a natural process of revisiting and healing and recovering. Times, Sunday Times
  • Miss Wilson can't even control her tragic 70s hairdo let alone a class.
  • When you have a stutter, your own language is hard enough, let alone trying something new.
  • Nothing of the implausible metaphysics of this poem, let alone its specific Neoplatonic decor, need obscure what comes to light, and to ear, by such associations about a continuous human potentiality modeled in verse itself. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • They obviously do not include injury to feelings or psychiatric damage, let alone aggravated damages.
  • All she does is talk in riddles and she can't even complete a thought, let alone a sentence! Latest ethics complaints should be 'a wake-up call,' Palin says
  • Database scalability is a many-headed hydra that's hard to define, let alone tame.
  • If I had a job where I was always expected to be able to protect the public (let alone protect my partner and myself), I would sure as hell train myself and pay for shooting schools until I felt adequately prepared for a gunfight, which is part of the job description. Spray and Pray: Why cops should go back to carrying revolvers
  • The music was very loud and very crackly, and there was hardly room to move, let alone to dance. THE WHITE DOVE
  • Last night somewhere between Fulham Broadway and Westminster I was musing upon the fact that there was a point when I didn't even go on trains, let alone take three-change journeys.
  • They would barely hold open a window, let alone a door. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fibber! You couldn't run 10km, let alone a marathon!
  • As the son of a 90 year old mother with lung cancer but otherwise in amazingly good health, these are incredibly difficult issues to confront let alone discuss or decide. Wonk Room » Obama Speaks Out On The Challenges Of Comparative Effectiveness Research
  • Naturally, the show has its share of touchy-feely and maudlin moments, and the sort of self-examination that some of us would have a hard time acknowledging to ourselves, let alone sharing with thousands of strangers.
  • If any of you have seen an MRI tube, they tend to be small and cramped, difficult for claustrophobics to handle, and a tight enough squeeze for one person, let alone two.
  • - 'Why, it is my daily pleasure now to look out for the little cottage bonnet and the silk scarf glancing through the trees in the lane, and to know that my quiet, shrewd, thoughtful companion and monitress is coming back to me: that I shall have her sitting in the room to look at, to talk to, or to let alone, as she and I please. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • So, given these poor ratios, how can students realistically receive decent instruction in those subjects, let alone a balanced view of the demands of life in this world and those of life in the hereafter?
  • The United States and other major spacefaring nations have never signed, let alone ratified, the treaty.
  • The museum directors and critics did not name any abstract expressionist, let alone Pollock.
  • You need a fair amount of computing power to understand and interpret written music, let alone play it in a way that captures the audience. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm gonna have to vote for Palm "preppies," because were cooler than "prefects," which is downright bad english, let alone stooopid. Everything Treo
  • Because he's a lowly adjunct professor who can't even dream of a full professorship let alone tenure, he discovers that neither side will have him.
  • After all, it rarely addresses the full costs of those conflicts to U.S. troops (including their redeployment to war zones, even when already traumatized), let alone to foreign non-combatants in faraway Muslim lands. William J. Astore: The New American Isolationism: The Cost of Turning Away From War's Horrific Realities
  • Indeed, my hermeneutic principles, which insist that any notion of alterity is inevitably determined by reference to the subject who constructs it and thus by reference to our present, forbid me to imagine, let alone to lobby for, any such transcendental object of historical knowledge and desire. 'That Obscure Object of Historical Desire'
  • The case against them, let alone against the government itself, is unproven.
  • Huge reserves of fossil fuels remain to be even considered, let alone tapped, eg gas hydrates under the oceans.
  • The engines for USA must be built before the Canada engines are used, let alone stripped and inspected.
  • Nobody had ever made theatre look like it, let alone Shakespeare - on a bare white stage with trapezes and ropes.
  • I never expected them to be twins, let alone triplets or quadruplets.
  • The thread from these commentators was that a big boofy bloke, let alone a former political leader, couldn't chuck it in.
  • And why is a bloody Eyetie in charge of a British film - let alone an Ealing film, the most British productions of all? Film | guardian.co.uk
  • Many other lofty peaks remain unmapped let alone explored.
  • Having no proven track record with Mars spacecraft themselves, let alone Mars landers, ESA asked the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to evaluate Beagle 2.
  • But there is little evidence that measures such as curricular reform, school-based management, and school choice will address, let alone solve, the biggest problem schools face: the rising number of children who come from disrupted families. Dan Quayle Was Right
  • When these kitchens were designed, cooktops, wall ovens and dishwashers - let alone Cuisinarts and yogurt makers - were still years in the future.
  • There is too much to take in from just being on the internet, let alone when dozens of ads are clamouring for our attention. Times, Sunday Times
  • My feet were so heavy I could barely pick them up, let alone jog along beside the sled to give the dogs a breather on the uphill.
  • Predicting tomorrow's weather is chancy business, let alone a five-day forecast.
  • If your budget can scarcely stretch to the basics, let alone an excess waiver, do ask for help from your parents. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although America sometimes exhibits imperial behavior, the romanticizing of “American empire” is not even close to taking material, let alone constitutional, form outside academic phrasemaking. Magic and Mayhem
  • Few adherents to the new classical macroeconomics trouble even to question it, let alone provide an analytical basis to justify it.
  • Don't ye mind the time the trusters had planned to give us all paint-boxes for Christmas, an 'half of us not able to hold a brush, let alone paint things, an' Miss Peggie blarneyed them round into givin 'us books? The Primrose Ring
  • Freedom is hard to define, let alone achieve, but those who are unfree know exactly what unfreedom is.
  • As will be explained later, going to the men's toilets for any reason, let alone to throw up, is unadvisable.
  • Up until about an hour ago I had been the only person I knew who even knew what a ley line was, let alone could actually use them, but the rule still applied.
  • But this lifting did not feel like divine intervention, let alone a result of effort, but more like a natural process of revisiting and healing and recovering. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's much harder to get traction with editors, let alone readers, to tell that story.
  • My appreciation for all things peculiarly British, let alone particular to the westcountry, rose a notch yesterday whilst sat at Taunton station waiting for the bus to Minehead.
  • And how they were suckered into even thinking about it .... let alone being 'entranced' ... Liberty Has Been Lost
  • If I was as drunk as these bottles say I was, I couldn't have cast a rune, let alone a spell.
  • There is not enough actual plot in BD to make ONE film, let alone two, and she knows it. Kristen Stewart Wants BREAKING DAWN to be Two Movies and What Does She Think of a 3D TWILIGHT? – Collider.com
  • We had no money at the time and couldn't afford basic security on our own homes, let alone a bodyguard.
  • The Baltimore Sun elaborates on an ongoing dispute over the decoding of Isthmian, a writing system whose linguistic base, let alone characters, are unclear.
  • It never reached its original limit of 440 billion euros, let alone its utopic limit of 1,000 billion euros announced in October 2011. Georges Ugeux: France's Downgrade Threatens the Eurozone's AAA
  • Confronted with such an interrogation our beloved Prime Minister would undoubtedly say that he would not dignify it with acknowledgement, let alone answers, and he would be perfectly within his rights to do so.
  • The triumphalists hadn't predicted it either, let alone noticed the hollow centre of this great victory, but that is beside the point.
  • I was really gun-shy about signing anything, let alone signing a contract with a management company.
  • I don't suppose even the full concert version, let alone the vigil will be oft performed, which is a shame.
  • OTOH, I've read blogs that tell writers to be super-duper careful about multiple POV, let alone Cast of Thousands POV. Good little goth girl
  • Most consumers have never heard of beefalo, let alone tasted it, and only a few Seattle grocery stores carry it.
  • Again, no one has ventured a coherent explanation of this theory, let alone bothered to hint at what the evidence for it might be.
  • None of these people want to be fingered for conniving in lying to the Australian people, let alone on a matter like this.
  • I lay there for what seemed like forever before I could breathe, let alone move.
  • Poorly cast and performed (including an embarrassing turn by Val Kilmer), XIII is shot so murkily and staged so badly, you can hardly tell where people are, let alone where they're going. 'XIII' isn't unlucky, it's just bad
  • He moves around opponents with a litheness and grace unexpected in most prizefighters, let alone movie stars.
  • So there's no whodunit, no howdunit, and no compelling why-he-dunnit, and no need for a detective as brilliant as Clouseau to be assigned to the case, let alone for a "Dream Team" of brilliant detectives. Clouseau vs. Clouseau
  • They may be demanding it, but I doubt most of them have more than abandoned clues as to what that change needs to be, let alone what will be required of ~them~ to make it happen. Obama Offers Most Extensive Response Yet To Questions About Rev. Wright
  • That she should spare a first glance, let alone a second, on this man was almost incredible.
  • Hanging from an overhang by a bare knuckle with not so much as a carabiner, let alone a safety net to halt your fall, I hear you gasp.
  • Clearly no government can legislate for such a wide array of circumstances, let alone attempt to enforce such legislation.
  • This "greediest generation", who only lived for today, and didn't plan for their own futures (let alone their children's), were the driving force behind the speculative and over-leveraged behavior that caused this down turn in the first place. Poll: Paterson's TV ads still not helping
  • My bet's that Tracy would win, Amber can't handle getting a "blemish" let alone get in a fight!
  • The guitar had a moulded plastic fretboard and friction pegs, and was of course completely untunable, let alone playable.
  • It is blatantly obvious that the current incumbents at the Home Office cannot even spell the words civil and liberty, let alone grasp their meaning.
  • Perhaps at the absolute extreme some see dogs as an affront to God because they live in the moment, unconscious of tomorrow let alone eternity, and have no desire to govern their appetites.
  • Accommodations were basic in Kharagpur, let alone at the outlying bases. Whirlwind
  • I'm not even sure how to ask that question, let alone answer it.
  • In theory they will not have fully overcome jet lag - experts advise one day per hour of change - let alone adjusted their skills. Times, Sunday Times
  • And the place is a nut we're hardly likely to crack with an army, let alone this handful of us.
  • It was impossible for us latecomers to squeeze in far enough to see either of the giant TV screens, let alone the approaching buses.
  • Since fresh supplies of slaves were deemed essential even to maintain, let alone to expand, the production of tropical staples, West Africa was an integral part of the Atlantic commercial system.
  • But it did not occur to me that there could be a mistake, that he could be innocent, let alone the victim of a frame-up.
  • It is expensive to litigate in defamation, even in the smaller cases, let alone monster cases like this.
  • I believe that most public servants like their jobs, believe that they're acting in the public interest, would not consciously assist in or connive in something that was clearly morally wrong, let alone criminal.
  • Will mankind, even under advanced capitalism, let alone any future more liberated society, ever cease to sing and dance?

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