It failed to play a mediatory role, let alone rise to the challenges".
This prime minister is as close as any British Labour leader can come to being an American neo-conservative.With Mr Blair weakened and his own political capital trickling away, Mr Bush will find it harder to trust his own instincts, let alone rise Churchill-like to the challenges in the remaining two and a half years of his presidency.
Blackman, who has written over 60 books and was awarded an OBE in 2008 for services to children's literature, said she would never have become a writer, let alone risen to be children's laureate, without her local library and warned that without libraries, literacy would become "the province of a lucky few", rather than the democratising force they are at present.
Also, although many analysts are talking these days about housing "bottoming," it's unlikely that prices will stop falling once they get to their average levels (let alone start rising).
According to the shadow local government minister, Hilary Benn: "It's going to be harder for councils to keep services going, let alone cope with rising demand for social care as the number of older people increases".
But it doesn't amount to a military strategy for bringing peace to Syria and the wider Middle East, let alone stemming the rising tide of refuges trying to enter Europe.
How does such an object function, let alone give rise to consciousness?
An animal that was born with, say, teeth or sense organs that were somehow different from its parents' would not be able to survive, let alone give rise to an entirely new kind of creature.
Soviet agriculture could not feed the urban population, let alone provide for the rising standard of living, which the government promised as the fruits of "mature socialism", and on which industrial productivity depended.
The region's social welfare systems are not strong enough to accommodate the current number of orphans, let alone a projected rise in the number of children orphaned by AIDS.
