These are opportunities the alarmists will not let pass.

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But he would later threaten to have them arrested if they did not let him pass.

ECONOMIST: Soft paternalism

Take responsibility for your experience of life and make the decision starting right now: Do not let another day pass by settling for your needs going unmet, your frustrations running unfetted and your life passing uncherished.

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Thatcher and Reagan were determined not to let that opportunity pass by.

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Determined not to let the summit pass without an agreement, Ms. Merkel invited the French president, who objected to the German push for bondholder losses, to Berlin.

WSJ: European Disunion: Dithering at the Top Turned EU Crisis to Global Threat

Law or no law, American was not going to let that one pass.

FORBES: Dogfight

Recently, and after enduring our grinding recession for two years, we did not let scheduled tax increases come to pass.

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Let us at least agree we should not pass any measure, no measure should be passed that threatens Social Security.

CNN: AllPolitics - State Of The Union Transcript, 1997

It was a fascinating detail, and it was mine, not his, which meant that he would let it pass without comment.

NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky

It also stated that Ferrari viewed the incident as 'team tactics', not team orders, because Massa was never explicitly ordered to let Alonso pass.

BBC: F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone makes team orders hint

Democratic leaders are threatening to go over the fiscal cliff and let all the Bush-era tax rates expire, not pass a 2012 AMT patch and seek to pass tax cuts retroactively to Jan. 1, 2013 (and hopefully the AMT patch retroactive to 2012).

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White House officials and their allies on Capitol Hill, including key Republican lawmakers, are increasingly optimistic the measure will pass Congress, but an administration official said the White House would not let its guard down because the number of lawmakers publicly committed to the measure was still shy of the votes necessary for passage.

CNN: White House steps up lobbying effort for China trade bill

She said she had to be picked up by her mother, after an NCT driver refused to let her on because the chip in her bus pass was faulty so he could not tell if it was valid.

BBC: Faulty bus pass girl barred from Nottingham evening bus