Sentences with phrase «let alone make»

It is hard to find a chair to sit on, let alone make a room pretty for fall.

Some of the banks in Singapore are looking for contract staff but they struggle to even get CVs, let alone make a successful hire».

With Samsung Pay, you can't even see your account online, let alone make any payments to people or other websites.

Not many expected the Finnish phone company to jump into VR, let alone make a $ 60,000 (about # 40,000, AU$ 83,000) device for professionals in the filmmaking world.

If we've seen anything from the green startup automakers who sought Energy Department loans, it is very, very hard to get a new car company off the ground, let alone make it profitable using new technology.

Leaving aside the details of the rules — «Kafkaesque» may be a bit strong, but not by much — the fundamental problem of any mandatory CPD requirement is that there is no way to know, let alone make sure, that the completion of a unit of CPD will do anything to deal with a lawyer's potential incompetence.

To date, and despite fulfilling all their obligations under the Contract, the Claimants have yet to recover their Petroleum Costs from the KRG (second, above) let alone make any return on their investment (first and third, above).

Mindlessly chanting «what we need...» is not going to bring the tooth fairy to your pillow, let alone make cap - and - trade work effectively.

Utilities are slow to latch on to everything from hardware to interfaces connecting them to the consumers, which makes it difficult to get pilot programs and new systems in place, let alone make any money off of them.

There are many who will not like this recent paper published in Nature Communications on principle as it talks of the hiatus in global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little Ice Age was global in extent, and that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions about what will happen in the future.

I suspect that it looked OK in your view or you didn't check; «the paper i cited talks of the hiatus in global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little Ice Age was global in extent, and that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions about what will happen in the future.

that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions about what will happen in the future.that century - scale variations in tropical Pacific climate modes can significantly modulate radiatively forced shifts in global temperature.»

If the whole earth, including the Sahara, the Himalayan Mountain peaks, Greenland, Antarctica and every square mile of the ocean bottom, to the deepest abyss, were as packed as Manhattan at noon, surely you would agree that no way to support such a population (let alone make it comfortable) was conceivable.

Even when I was working long hours and returning home too tired to think creatively anymore, let alone make art, I viewed what I was doing as a stepping stone to where I wanted to be.

The tiles are complex to assemble, let alone make usable in a simplified editor like Super Mario Maker.

One particularly bad section has you platforming off a log onto a ledge and it took me upwards of ten tries just to have Billy (or Jimmy, I don't bloody well know) navigate to the edge of the log without falling, let alone make the jump.

Cats rarely kill full - grown poultry of any sort, let alone make a living on turkeys, as one writer asserted.

The more fees and interest they tack on, the more impossible it becomes for me to make the minimum, let alone make any progress on it.

While anyone can publish a book, not everyone can publish a book that will sell well enough to recoup costs, let alone make a profit.

To all of our UK clients - our apologies for any problems you encountered after the office closing, it was as much a shock to you as it was to us, and we had yet enough time to empty our desks let alone make contact.

There is no guarantee the book will sell enough copies to break even, let alone make a profit, so self - publishing authors should be prepared for the possibility that they won't recoup their investment.

As a reader, often tour content isn't interesting enough to read, let alone make me want to buy the book.

That's a worthy goal but, usually, it's not enough to get you noticed — let alone make that fortune you're dreaming about.

It'll take that long just to do the CGI needed to transform Hardy into a drooling extraterrestrial, let alone make a decent film.

Likewise, how many teen comedies address money problems at all, let alone make class insecurity — and what it's like to grow up poor, especially when surrounded by well - off classmates — a central focus?

Figuring out what coffee to order (let alone make) can be overwhelming on its own.

Being someone who can't sew at all, I'm always so impressed when people can sew, let alone make something beautiful!

Let alone make a funny blog post.

You're so tired at the end of the day, you can barely get home for dinner, let alone make a trip to the gym.

It really is for when you literally don't have a moment to think let alone make breakfast.

However, it is worth remembering that amongst NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS - who don't read, let alone make comments on this august website - Ken Clarke's appearances, over the last three months in particular, have resonated well, and for punters who are otherwise still unsure of our economic competance he has been an asset.

«I want to state unequivocally that until today, Monday, the 5th of December, I never knew of a hotel called Madison Lodge let alone make a booking there.

ALBANY — The State Senate may not extend mayoral control of New York City schools, let alone make it permanent, according to a prominent Republican senator.

Most of us can't drag ourselves out of bed while suffering from morning sickness, let alone make it to the gym.

The part about making your own wipes, though... I'm not sure about the rest of the Moms reading this but when I was taking care of a baby, I did not have time to brush my teeth, let alone make my own wipes.

With parenting like that, it's amazing these women can choose from a menu, let alone make smart career decisions.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

I have made jello shots before, but never even heard of pudding shots till last year at Rock Fest, let alone make them.

I'm not sure any of my friends even know what my website link is, let alone make recipes from it!

Gone are the days when guests would need to trek to the lobby to sign up for an excursion, let alone make a phone call.

I don't want to make you feel guilty if you're just like the rest of us who barely have time to get the dishes and laundry done, let alone make a pantry look pretty!

Just made this and it's the best apple pie I've ever had, let alone make.

But then you have discarded the ultimate Standard of authority from which to judge my claims, let alone make your own.

Romney does not qualify to be called American by his hindu pagan faith, criminal belief, let alone make him a president of USA.

I hope their laudable objective will not be hindered by the fact that they've all apparently been assigned and branded with religious and ideological identities before they're even old enough to comprehend the meaning of them, let alone make an informed decision for themselves.

I'd be surprised if lionlylamb could convince his one - eyed baldie to puke, let alone make a kitty shriek.

The local government's crippling debt of more than $ 73 billion and PREPA's own obligations of $ 9 billion made it hard to keep up with critical maintenance like trimming tree branches away from power lines, let alone make upgrades to make the energy network.

Amazingly, 48 percent of sale people never follow up at all, let alone make five calls.

Going back and finding them, let alone making sense of them, can be a nightmare.

If you're struggling with pronouncing it (ˈviːɡən), let alone making a sandwich like one, then you might be scratching your head right now in amazement.