"letting them develop" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means allowing something or someone to develop or progress. Example: "The parents took a hands-off approach to parenting, letting their children develop their own unique interests and talents."
Eikenberry's plan actually helped Afghans, a lot, by letting them develop energy solutions themselves, while the military's "quick development project" was just a gigantic fuel burden on the locals and a massive welfare commitment from the already retarded central government.
We would cook at least sixty dumplings at a time; if we didn't eat them all on the first go we could refry them in butter the next day, letting them develop a sumptuous, crispy bottom.
Letting them develop a sense of gender-dictated birthright that will be whisked away from under their noses by high-achieving girls, as surely as the tortoise triumphed over the hare, is a recipe for resentment between the sexes.
Led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science University, the team that CRISPR'd the embryos only let them grow for a few days, with zero intention of letting them develop into a human baby.
► The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has put funding on hold for experiments that involve "mixing human stem cells into very early animal embryos and letting them develop" while it "reconsiders its rules" for this type of research, Gretchen Vogel reported Wednesday.
Hope envisions a future that would free academics of such pressures, letting them develop a portfolio career where they would only be employed part time by an academic institution and complement their working lives and incomes as freelance writers, consultants, industry-based researchers, or entrepreneurs.
If only he'd let them develop; here, even the all-important climactic reveal is rushed.
Most are apprehensive and Williams lets them develop things to build confidence and overcome their fears.
It also offers the best chance to bring together disparate communities and let them develop a common identity.
He added, "You have to let them develop a full and complete record to have a reaction to it".
He created beings and let them develop according to internal laws which He gave every one, so they would develop, so they would reach maturity".
