Sentence examples for let alone stop from inspiring English sources

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Where and when will their operations go into reverse let alone stop?

It's hardly enough time to get through the door, let alone stop for a chat.

Against it: there is a reverie in the notes Lora plays that time can't reach, let alone stop.

Somehow, by the end of Sunday, it felt like there was a forward momentum that I could barely try and steer let alone stop.

"Turkish civil society barely has the strength to redirect major roads, let alone stop the generals from acting if they see it as in the national interest," argues Howard Eissenstat, a New York-based historian.

John Grierson's famous 1936 documentary, Night Mail, shows a Travelling Post Office dispatching and collecting mail all along its route from London to Scotland without the train even needing to slow down, let alone stop.

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That doesn't mean the sabotage has slowed, let alone stopped, but in the midst of this crucial election.

What struck me, watching a preview of part one, was the way that politicians — however confident they may appear in public — feel themselves the prisoner of events heading towards them like a driverless train; there seems no obvious way of slowing it down, let alone stopping it before it crashes through the barriers.

Similarly, the New York Post called on the NYPD to re-institute its suspicionless surveillance program that blanketed the city's entire Muslim population, while forgetting to mention that in the years it was active, the program never produced a single promising lead, let alone stopped an attack.

You think GMO's will be labeled, let alone stopped?

And the suicide epidemic ravaging the military and vet community shows no signs of waning, let alone stopping.

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