let's hasten

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

So let's hasten the go-out-of-business process as quickly as possible.

Let's hope the behavior of Santino helps hasten the arrival of that day.

Let's hope the next "step change" in technology, whether in robotics or another promising area, will hasten the Fukushima recovery, and prevent nuclear disasters from ever happening again.

The flesh is John Lithgow's, and let me hasten to add that a) Mr. Lithgow has been naked onstage before; b) his flesh in and of itself is not scary; and c) only his upper torso is on full view.

Matloff's criticism, let me hasten to note, is of national policies and not of Lu, who has only taken advantage of opportunities legally available to her. "The H-1B does not require employers to give hiring priority to Americans," Matloff continues.

Let me hasten to say that I believe now, and believed then, that President Clinton's military actions in Bosnia and Kosovo were the right thing to do for those countries at that time.

STEVE COLL: Yes, let me hasten to confirm that.

There is, let me hasten to note, no evidence of any such conspiracy.

There is nothing wrong with elegance, let me hasten to add.

"Let me hasten to say that that doesn't mean we won't disagree — perhaps on many things," he said.

None of this, let me hasten to add, ever feels slick or, for that matter, entirely professional.