Sentence examples for alone got to from inspiring English sources

The politically fractious Board of Education was abolished in July, and as a result, Mr. Bloomberg alone got to choose the new chancellor, Joel I. Klein.

They know that China, alone, gets to decide.

My clients alone get to decide whether to go to trial or plead guilty.

In her will, she alone gets to decide what goes to whom.

Or was it manipulative, and is anonymity a veil that she alone gets to drop when it seems to her advantage to do so?

Characters come and go so quickly we barely have time to register their famous names, let alone get to know them.

People are a key part of the journey and are often folk you wouldn't normally speak to, let alone get to know.

But with only two or three professionals for every thousand students, they cannot see, let alone get to know, all the students who need help.

Ms. Burlingame, for one, rejected the idea that there is such a thing as an outsider in regard to 9/11 and its aftermath, or that New Yorkers alone get to decide how to rebuild their city.

It's still much easier to get attention, let alone get to "high-level meetings," when you are American, and the wide diversity of local and quieter initiatives often goes rather unnoticed.

"Then getting fired the next year and saying, 'This could be the end of the line.' "After all the years in baseball, you never were afforded the opportunity to even make the postseason, let alone getting to the World Series.