Governments have been reluctant to criticise each other in public, let alone to mete out fines.
Without long-term, paid-up capital, it is hard to write multi-year policies, let alone to organise insurance-backed bond issues or derivatives.
It takes unusual leadership qualities to get European countries to agree to anything, let alone to act beyond their national interests.
Many more are struggling to afford health care premiums and house payments, let alone to save for an education or retirement.
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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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He rarely pauses in his narratives to synthesize or analyze, let alone to judge his powerful subjects, especially those who have been his sources.
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.
It is a full-time job to understand how any of these systems work, let alone to implement one and qualify it as a new product.
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.
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.
Still, it seems unlikely that the majority of legislators would be willing to be associated with defeatism in Iraq, let alone to champion it, were they absolutely clear about the stakes.
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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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.
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.
The Russian leadership is painfully aware that it still does not have the financial or military resources to pit itself against the United States, let alone to woo back the countries of Central Asia a second time.
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.
"The A12 from Woodbridge to Lowestoft is just not fit for purpose - let alone to carry the volumes of heavy lorries in particular which will be necessary for the Sizewell C project, " a Suffolk Coastal council spokesman said.
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But none of this necessarily means that thinking has changed enough to keep talks going once started, let alone to produce a settlement to a dispute that has brought about two wars and a 12-year insurgency involving some 35, 000 deaths.
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.
This and his having already told her she would have to turn over whatever she had, hardly can support a charge of obstruction or misprision or conspiracy as a criminal offense, let alone to justify the majority counsel's conclusion of an impeachable one.
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Our commanders will soon be hard pressed to preserve today's deployments of American forces in Iraq, let alone to have them take up once again the sorts of positions in the urban areas that they held to such therapeutic effect during the surge.
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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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.
Neither Mr Netanyahu nor Mr Abbas seems ready or able to begin negotiations, let alone agree to lasting peace.
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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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.
His detractors labeled him a failure and said he was over his head, unable to understand the still sluggish economy recovering from recession, let alone how to strengthen it.
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