Sentence examples for let alone encourage from inspiring English sources

In the spring, speaking in his leafy monastery in Mandalay, he told The Independent that he did not condone the murder of Muslims, let alone encourage it.

Never in a million years would Anna permit, let alone encourage, a member of the lower orders to visit one of the upstairs crew.

The taking of a man's life, followed by the inane, cretinous and wilfully blind self-justifications we heard in court from two men who have crossed into territory that no deity – of any order – would ever sanction, let alone encourage.

The fact that some form of proto-sporting prowess may have delivered a survival advantage during the Pleistocene period is no reason to preserve, let alone encourage, the practice of sport today.

"There is surely no other condition where we could tolerate, let alone encourage people being kept in the dark, without treatments or support and unable to make decisions about their life," he said.

Certainly there are very, very few editors who will permit — let alone encourage — even senior staffers to write posts opposed to the publication's party line.

Women shouldn't be expected, let alone encouraged, to sacrifice their health and wellbeing.

Some people are opposed to all (or nearly all) abortion and believe that the state should not even be allowing, let alone encouraging or funding, abortions whether connected to PNS or not.

The idea that to be an artist you have to experience madness and psychological breakdown is one we no longer condone or find credible, let alone wish to encourage.

Today, very little is known about family members' attitudes and feelings about engagement, let alone strategies to encourage involvement and whether families would be more willing to act on their loved ones' behalf than if they themselves were a patient in hospital.

It may well be cheaper to replace the five color tank every time, but is that the kind of wasteful behavior you want to encourage, let alone participate in?