Sentence examples for let alone set from inspiring English sources

However, concrete plans do not appear to have been laid down, let alone set in motion.

Right now, humans cannot even summon the money or political will to get back to the Moon, let alone set sail for another star.

Mum and I follow and, despite numerous attempts, we spectacularly fail to get the red ball anywhere near the pocket, let alone set up the cue ball for our next shot.

As anybody knows who has spent time in Zuccotti Park and sat through one of the "General Assemblies," it is tough for the organizers of the protest to get anything done, let alone set up a new political party.

Since European spending on weapons and research is so puny, the Union is scarcely able to meet the targets it has already set the ability to conduct a range of peacekeeping missions called the Petersberg tasks, and the capacity, by next year, to field a 60,000-strong "rapid-reaction force"—let alone set new ones.In this section Can these bones live?

WITH five children ranging in age from 2 to 12 and a $380,000 mortgage, Peter and Lisa Fatianow of Highlands Ranch, Colo., would seem hard-pressed to stay on top of their monthly bills, let alone set aside money for college.

It is meant to 'put the next generation first' but Labour is likely to point out that many people can hardly afford day-to-day costs, let alone setting aside thousands of pounds in savings.

When the children get home, the parents are too tired to help the kids with their homework, let alone setting down and having a "Family Dinner", with everyone at the table.

Faced to the difficulty to design a general purpose clustering algorithm and to choose a good, let alone perfect, set of criteria for clustering a data set, one solution is to resort to a variety of clustering procedures based on different techniques, parameters and/or initializations, in order to construct one (or several) final clustering(s).

In precarious times, it's difficult to see beyond the present, let alone to set our sights farther out.

In fact, they were poems to be dissected in the classroom rather than performed on stage, let alone filmed, set to music, danced, translated.