It takes unusual leadership qualities to get European countries to agree to anything, let alone to act beyond their national interests.
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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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.
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.
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.
It would be folly to limit, let alone effectively preclude, available options to do so.
Difficult to trace, let alone prosecute, they are the most likely to be breaking the law and employing illegal immigrants.
There is no appetite to return to the moon, let alone push on to Mars, El Dorado of space exploration.
Now they're snorefully boring and cumulatively deadening because they owe no allegiance to the laws of physics, let alone to the dictates of effective drama.
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Lord Irvine says that the Scottish Parliament has no legal right to hold such a referendum, let alone to secede on the strength of one.
Since most people doubt the existence of such things, it seems a rum way to run a parish poll, let alone to decide an important constitutional issue.
But the GOP's narrow majority in the House makes it difficult for the party to pursue an agenda that appeals to party moderates and conservatives, let alone to more than a handful of Democrats.
With the UN unable to drum up even half the heralded force supposed to keep the peace in Sudan's ravaged Darfur region, no one has the guts or cash to send a serious force to bring order, let alone justice, to Somalia.
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But it barely seemed to grasp, let alone fix, the ingrained cultural and behavioural problems that help to keep some poor places poor.
The software entrepreneur and his wife each were the first in their families to finish high school, let alone go to college, so they don't have outsize academic dreams for Shark.
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