Sentence examples for alone accepting from inspiring English sources

Still, she lived alone, accepting no help until she reached the age of 92.

THE Serbian government's website greets visitors with a prominent headline: "Challenge Accepted!" Three years after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, it is having problems surviving, let alone accepting challenges.

Once customers know that a firm's price list is a work of fiction and that it will resort to discounts as soon as sales dip, it will be a long haul to get them used to paying full price, let alone accepting increases.

In 1924, the composer had produced a twenty-minute stage opera, "à la African-American," called "Blue Monday" (later renamed "135th Street"), which presaged "Porgy and Bess" in a number of ways — down to the inclusion of a gambling argument that precipitates an act of violence and a melancholy female character who has a hard time understanding, let alone accepting, love.

Amid all the agreement about the difficulty of hearing, let alone accepting, the kind of advice that can make a young parent feel judged and unsupported were some powerful suggestions about trying to look at things from the older parent's point of view.

As many members of the LGBT community celebrated National Coming Out Day this month, it is important for us to take a moment to remember that not everyone who comes out has the luxury of receiving a safe, let alone accepting, reaction.

You have not even received a final offer, let alone accepted it.

"We are indeed a society that cannot abide talking about the end of life, let alone accept it".

But for anyone younger, Lovelock's prognosis for our species is hard to hear, let alone accept.

These films reveal a wounded nation in post-traumatic shock, reeling from a devastating defeat that it never officially acknowledged, let alone accepted.

Like his father, he is a prolific womaniser, unable to see, let alone accept responsibility for, the emotional damage he causes.