"How I would, by some means of telepathy or other magical means, be able to orchestrate, first of all to be able to provoke a dispute - heaven knows how I would even want to, let alone be able to provoke a dispute - and then intervene in it so that when there was a deal it then collapsed, I don't know, " he said.
It is inconceivable that a man as publicly and closely aligned with the views of Iran and its agents of influence in America will be able to exercise truly independent judgment about what the mullahs are up to, let alone offer objective intelligence analysis about how best to contend with them.
It takes unusual leadership qualities to get European countries to agree to anything, let alone to act beyond their national interests.
Predictably, however, these, watered-down to buy the support of the Russians and the Chinese, failed to bite, let alone to force Iranian compliance.
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Yet it is equally certain that Mr Speight's preferred solution a divided country, in which ethnic Indians would be lucky even to vote, let alone to hold any power would also bring ethnic unrest.
The actual moment when a "daughter" species can (or will) no longer cross-breed with the population from which it sprang (the definition of speciation) is almost impossible to pinpoint, let alone to witness.
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They haven't really explained to themselves, let alone to others, why and how their soldiers behaved in such abominable ways during the war with China and, as a result, the Japanese have not really come to terms with that past.
The Austrian is fortunate to be able to walk let alone ski, yet he has defied doctors and his critics to clinch the title for a fourth time.
Sadly, in Israel, the Olmert government refuses to acknowledge, let alone respond to domestic criticisms of its mishandling of the situation with the Palestinians and its mismanagement of Lebanon.
As former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Keith Payne, who headed up the U.S. delegation to those talks, pointed out to a Capitol Hill audience last week, his explicit instructions were not to discuss (let alone agree to) limits of any kind on our anti-missile capabilities.
However, DELL eventually learned (to its credit) it was not extensible to even notebook PCs let alone to the consumer electronics market.
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Neither country is accustomed to, let alone comfortable with, an international system whose functionality rides in large measure on cooperation between two countries.
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The proposals of Cain and Perry are not likely, without further revision, to generate revenue equal to, let alone above, the revenue generated now.
No one, needless to say, has a clue what anyone else is up to, let alone what happened before the marriage craze set in.
The danger is enormously exacerbated by the almost-complete failure of American officials at every level of government to acknowledge, let alone act, to prevent the Saudis' true agenda.
It also offends by being so much in my face, without my having requested it and in spite of polite entreaties to desist another celebrated precept about the right to be let alone.
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They would be well advised to let matters alone.
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Then again, it could well be that the new technologies render us more autistic: less inclined and able to communicate, and therefore happier in front of a screen rather than talking to, let alone loving, our fellow man.
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It is bad enough that the Clinton Administration is allowing political considerations to enter into, let alone to drive, decisions concerning the further U.S. involvement in the Mir program that should be made exclusively on the basis of realistic net assessments of the considerable safety and financial costs weighed against what are, at best, limited prospective scientific and technical benefits.
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Yet even its warmest admirers do not imagine that air power alone can win the battle for Kosovo quickly or decisively enough to prevent further killing there, let alone to impose a peace settlement.
Neither Mr Netanyahu nor Mr Abbas seems ready or able to begin negotiations, let alone agree to lasting peace.
He rarely pauses in his narratives to synthesize or analyze, let alone to judge his powerful subjects, especially those who have been his sources.
There is no legitimate reason for Frank Shaw to even have access to this discussion, let alone leave to post it on Twitter for the world to see.
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Reasonably enough, these focus on infrastructure: one of the south's obvious handicaps is that getting products to ports and airports, let alone to the United States, is slow and expensive.
It is far from clear whether Mr Reid can muster the 60-vote supermajority he needs simply to bring such a bill to the Senate floor, let alone to pass it.
As a result, he has done little to prepare public opinion, let alone to persuade it of the necessity of yet more short-term unpleasantness for the sake of longer-term gratification.
Activists who came from Sarawak said they were surprised even to be allowed to attend the meeting (in the past their passports have been snatched and lawyers forbidden to meet them), let alone to reach an agreement.
If they wish to be taken seriously, let alone to secure the support of the American people for their policies, however, they must ensure that the President's team is no longer undercut by disloyalists among the administration's own senior ranks.
Mr. Topolsky appears to have no clue how next generation wireless networks are built, if he imagines that Government has the capability or competence to tell industry how to build wireless networks let alone how to build the most cutting edge next generation wireless networks that lead the world.
It would be folly to limit, let alone effectively preclude, available options to do so.
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