Sentence examples for let alone restore from inspiring English sources

The conflict has deepened ethnic bitterness; experts wonder how it will be possible to keep Ivory Coast together, let alone restore stability.

The journalists of "Spotlight" can't offer money, let alone restore a childhood; at best, victims receive the satisfaction of knowing the perpetrators have been brought to light.

While Radoslav's opinion is shared by more than a few of his generation, maintaining (let alone restoring) Buzludzha is a question of money.

Is there any reason to expect spending on homeland security and national defense to fall back to pre-Sept.-11 levels, let alone far enough to restore budget balance, anytime in the foreseeable future?

Because the new omnibus bill doesn't fully restore the sequestration cuts, let alone keep up with inflation, many of these projects are now complete goners.

Mr. Durruty had never restored a building before, let alone a crumbling one built in the early 1700s.

Although Japan's third-biggest retailer has been bailed out twice in the past three years, receiving total loan write-offs of ¥640 billion ($5.1 billion), it shows little sign of restoring itself to solvency, let alone profitability.

If it ever reaches the front line, £120m of new funding will not restore services to 2010 levels, let alone "revolutionise" access to treatment of mental illness.

Fragmented, protracted and disparate inquiries behind closed doors, let alone carried out by police officers, will hardly restore public confidence already severely dented by denial and deceit.

It may take much longer to restore a minimum of trust to Haitian political life, let alone reverse the country's economic ruin.

Unfortunately, I don't see that the reelected government in Madrid will have the confidence to introduce the needed measures to restore the all-time low consumer confidence level, or the economy, let alone the property market soon".