Sentences with phrase «let alone winning»

I'm not aware of anything other than threats and never heard of any company being sued, let alone winning or losing.

«For the Conservatives, the challenge of remaining in government, let alone winning an overall majority, is formidable,» Ashcroft wrote.

When Boris Johnson's name was first mentioned as a possible candidate in July 2007, the prospect of him running, let alone winning, was considered so bizarre that the BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, who had received the tip - off, didn't press to get it on the main evening news.

The obvious bet for most punters will be both teams getting on the scoresheet, but this is Sunderland's very first encounter without Darren Bent and it may take time for the entire team to adjust to life without their star man before they get back to scoring ways, let alone winning ways.

Covic suggests that, even though the Wanderers were already through to the quarter - finals when the Draw was finalised, no account was taken of the likelihood of the Wanderers» progressing — let alone winning the Asian championship.

I blame our manager the most because he can not compete for the major title let alone winning it.

«When we came to this school, I don't think anyone would have expected that we'd be playing for a CCS Open Division championship, let alone winning one,» Burr - Kirven said.

Despite this recent trend, most bettors aren't optimistic about the Grizzlies» chances of covering the spread, let alone winning the game.

A squad full of top internationals going out and playing a squad of schoolboys, and not even look interested in playing let alone winning.

Problem now is that even with these players I can not see us getting top four let alone winning the PL.

We have too many average players on high wages and we can not buy the players to challenge for trophies let alone winning it.

Truth is we are no where near challenging let alone winning the league and even further away from making the champions league semi finals even and keep on making the same mistakes.

Well said, you must crawl b4 you can walk.An at the moment Ozil is not ven close to a ballon d'or nomination let alone winning it, hes just not good enough to compete with Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar, Suarez, ibra etc, h just doesn't score enough goals to compete.Your rite galen, he needs to try winning sports writers player of the year or the pfa player of the year first.

Every criticism of players gets interpreted as hate by the AKBs... Ridiculous... Here is the basic truth Iwobi has some good points as you identify but he is a long way from being the finished article and it is absurd that he is a regular in a team trying for top 4 let alone winning big titles..

But Here's the Kicker, with little to no experience doing well in developmental levels like U21 or U19 in a tournament (let alone winning one), When they reach the Senior team are expected to go out and Perform well in the World Cups and Euro's.

It's a shame really, we were known as the best attacking team in the league at one point then through Wenger's delusion we don't even play good football let alone winning by big margin.

So i think we are going to have an uphill battle for top4 finish yet again, let alone winning the title.

I say praise with the express acknowledgement that I think Rick would have had a hard time winning the Republican nomination, let alone winning a popular — or even an electoral majority — against the current president in the general election in the first place.

Military teams have hardly ever finished, let alone won, an adventure race.

This might even be above and beyond whats necessary to be nominated for, let alone win a Nobel Prize.

Though Lance and I disagree on many things right now, I didn't want to argue, let alone win an argument.

Toddlers don't qualify for the Champions League let alone win it.

Pick everyone got wrong: Like you expected John Tortorella to still have a job, let alone win the damn Jack Adams Award.

Not many Teams can say they Won multiple Playoff Games in All Sports Series let alone won multiple in just one night.

Surely Reading fans are a touch on the concerned side, considering their team's inability to score, let alone win a game.

if we get a draw, let alone a win against milan — and they arent a great team by any stretch of the imagination — the usual suspects will be back on their football cosmic jive with their half backed histories, bizarro use of «the facts» and fear mongering about an uncertain future... until of course someone dumps us out of the europa cup..

Here is a side that in the last 4 years couldn't even win the fa cup let alone win 3 of the last 4.

A double - digit seed has never played in the national championship game, let alone won the whole thing.

They felt like he made no effort to win the team, let alone win his job.

«There are lots of coaches who have never had a kid reach a final, let alone win a state title.

But they didn't participate in their conference's title game, let alone win it.

So it must be killing him that Arsenal can not even compete, let alone win!

Yet I don't know how he was able to keep a clean sheet against City, let alone win or draw a game.

Apparently the football world is saying Arsenal won't even be in the top 6 next season let alone win the EPL or the top 4 Wenger trophy.Everton will overtake Arsenal according to them.

Most of the players too are on fat salaries with no pressure to perform let alone win titles and few if any show any inclination to leave.

Give Wenger WC players, lots of money, and even weaken all of our rivals with the constant managerial changes over the last three years, and STILL Wenger can not even be competitive, let alone win!

I am not going to lie here, I have put us for a draw at best and if Dean will be the referee then you can kiss goodbye to any chance of draw let alone win.

Can't see arsenal taking top 4 let alone win the EPL We hold the FA cup but for how long?

Between the season - ending injury to Luke Shaw and the more - recent foot injury to star youngster Anthony Martial, Man United may need to make some serious moves in January just to secure a top four finish, let alone win the whole thing.

Either Wenger just doesn't care or he's completely deluded because no way is sanogo good enough to lead arsenal back to 4th place let alone the win the league.

How many of you are sure if we buy Lemar, Carvalho, Aubameyang that we will compete let alone win...

That tandem isn't good enough to get 4th place let alone win the EPL... the fact remains that when they play together Ramsey spends far more time inside the opposing teams's final 3rd which means that Xhaka has to drop even deeper to compensate for the freedom Wenger gives to his beloved Welshman... the obvious problem with that is it exposes the weakness of both players

Longshots are rare to make the World Cup Finals, let alone win the whole thing.

Pretty much any racing driver can enter the Indy 500 or Le Mans as a one - off, but these days the only chance anyone has of winning at Monaco is by having an entire F1 career, drastically reducing the pool of people who can realistically go after the Triple Crown, let alone win it.

I've seen the shows where, retroactively, pundits and experts said there was no way a defense as bad as Green Bay's could make the Super Bowl, let alone win.

I'll view UMBC's win as major college sports» greatest upset ever, because of the stage on which it happened and the flip - flopped margin of victory, and Chaminade's as the most unbelievable, because it's amazing the Silverswords landed a game against a DI power to begin with, let alone stayed within 50 points, let alone won.

With Leicester narrowly surviving relegation the previous year, Claudio had a job just to keep them up again, let alone win the title.

He is delusional to think we can make the top 4 let alone win the title and Top 4 should not be our goal anyway.

They have no idea what it is like for their team to be in the final stages of a cup let alone win it countless times.

The Argentina team of 1986 was not as poor as some suggest, but without their talisman El Diego, it seems unlikely they would have made waves in Mexico, let alone won their second World Cup.