Sentence examples for let alone passed from inspiring English sources

That was hardly surprising: at the time, few women had ever taken, let alone passed, the foreign service examination.

The antics of the opposition in Parliament's upper house, where the BJP has just 45 out of 245 seats, meant the bills were not even considered, let alone passed.

It has no chance of attracting enough signatures to get on the ballot, let alone passing.

But it's an open question whether the Senate will even take up the bill, let alone pass it.

He reckons it will be hard for Republicans to find the votes to speed up and make permanent the Bush tax cut, let alone pass new ones.

One of the key problems grammar schools have faced is getting children from hard-to-reach communities to even sit the test, let alone pass.

But without the support of Ms. Glick, who is a 22-year veteran of the Assembly, the bill has an extremely slim chance of coming up for a vote this session — let alone passing.

And how is such a person supposed to suddenly take possession of state secrets, let alone pass them along?" Russia's treason law was amended by parliament in October, 2012, following a season of anti-Kremlin protest.

During the rediscovery of the ancient world that was the Renaissance, Lucretia became a favourite subject for the greatest painters: republican heroism, bare female flesh, a body marked as one's own rather than belonging to God and church, let alone passing males – Lucretia gathered all this into her image to become a pictorial champion of humanism.

Men have been writing down and collecting the things they say to each other for centuries, and for most of that time women have generally been regarded as having nothing to say worth even hearing, let alone passing on from generation to generation.

If KBR had declined to write performance clauses into the drill subcontract, the company had also included language that prevented the crews from speaking directly with the Army Corps, let alone passing along word that some of them knew that the effort was futile.