Sentence examples for alone serve from inspiring English sources

Whether the prime minister succeeds will determine whether his government can last through the winter — let alone serve its four-year mandate, as he hopes.

In urging the President (and Mitt Romney) to renounce negative campaigning, Booker inadvertently offered a barometer of the difference between the Barack Obama of 2008, who strode into Washington vowing to change the tone of our politics, and the battered pol who had to produce a birth certificate to assure the public he was qualified to vote for President, let alone serve as one.

The Space at Jury's Inn isn't fit to host a conference let alone serve as a venue for comedy, yet I'll admit it adds some much-needed realism (what with its lack of windows, stifling heat and general sense of impending doom) to a play set in a run-down hospice.

As a computer systems manager at the AT&T Capital Corporation and at the CNA Insurance Companies, and later as the chief information officer for a succession of corporations, he says he was never allowed to run other departments, let alone serve on high-level management teams at these firms.

No one can say how strong this burst of citizen activism will prove to be — whether it can recreate the crowd of 50,000 that gathered Dec. 10 in Moscow, let alone serve as the foundation of a permanent political force.

It's probably because of my background: I'm from the South, and I'm the first in my family even to go to college, let alone serve on a university faculty.

Rarely straying from the baseline, let alone serve-volleying like her idol Martina, she blasted the fourth seed Azarenka into virtual submission, with a barrage of powerful groundstrokes and six aces.

He never did; memory alone served him.

Injection of culture medium or cell alone served as controls.

Of all art practices theatre alone serves no purpose.

Patients whose sperm were incubated with sperm-washing medium alone served as controls.