Even the necessary minimum of a common language requires a deliberate effort, to say nothing of certain rules of behavior.

Iranian films and the much loved Indian TV serials, not to mention the occasional American film, influence peoples' expectations.

Regardless, a new Cold War might just get a little colder.

We know already about heavy attendance at the country s mosques.

He cannot speak English, much less German.

Israel is not the Jewish people and much less the Jewish religion.

Consider Portugal or the Netherlands, not to mention Spain.

Local phone calls let alone international ones frequently fail to connect.

Not to mention that public administration lacks any web presence !

Civilizations and cultures are diverse and numerous, as are languages and races.

In anglophone countries, presidents and prime ministers, not to mention some leading central bankers, boasted of superior financial systems that were the envy of the world.

The syllabus doesn't mention even the fact that we're naked, let alone look for a reason to it.

Never mind that this is hugely inefficient in terms of water and land usage.

Never mind the fact that I was 14 they told me, Write about being 14.

But Leterme seems unable to keep his own country together, let alone unite Europe.

Modern terrorism is too destructive to be tolerated, much less supported.

But Europe doesn t have months, much less years, to resolve its crisis.

Europe s future, not to mention the future of the IMF, depends on it.

This war will have its biggest impact on children, let alone the infrastructure that has been destroyed. SaveYemen Zaid al Alaya'a ( zaidaahmed) April 11, 2015

India s historical patrimony is very different from China s, for example, not to mention the singular experience of Japan.

Of course, many of those statistics are not even collected, yet alone published.

Bending, much less breaking, will not come naturally to such a prideful country.

In Saudi Arabia, women are not even permitted to drive a car, let alone vote.

Israel has never acknowledged having nuclear weapons, let alone the size and scope of its arsenal.

Agencies report persistent problems with funding ongoing programmes, not to mention new projects.

Some of the state assemblies in India s federal system have already witnessed scenes of furniture upended, microphones ripped out, and slippers flung by unruly legislators, not to mention fistfights and garments torn in scuffles.

It is not immediately apparent why Jewish or some extreme forms of Christian orthodoxy should be more compatible with Republican values, let alone feminism, than Muslim salafism.

That is all the more poignant given that some damage, such as psychological trauma, if not addressed immediately can become irreparable, not to mention the dark despair of disillusionment.

The showers of the Arab Spring have not produced an attractive crop of leaders, let alone a harvest of democracy.

Needless to say, this would cut short girls education, not to mention other harmful implications.

The future of Iraq, not to mention democracy there, remains uncertain at best.

But few official pronouncements, let alone policies, are addressing Europe s deficit of trust and credibility.

But that does not impugn the whole FOMC, much less the entire institution.

True, the European working class, not to mention women, did not have voting rights 200 years ago.

I then sat on the ground in a state of complete shock.. added to that the sound of the explosion which must have been heard over a long distance.

So, he had to focus each tube just to get the memory up and running, let alone having, you know, software problems.

Today, it is far from clear how the balance of power is measured, much less how to develop successful survival strategies.

Such repression is not meant to protect communism, let alone what little is left of Maoism.

There is no interest in Washington, DC, in addressing the needs of America s poor, much less the needs of the world s poor.

The reality, however, is that there is no common stance, let alone a common plan.

In its current state, the global economy is unfit to serve today s collective needs, let alone tomorrow s.

But not one person was ever charged with a crime, much less tried and punished.

Leprosy is thus an infectious disease it is not hereditary, let alone a divine punishment.

Slaves in Mauritania do not have a legal right to own property, let alone have a surname.

We now know that some of these market emperors had no clothes, and that their activities, far from benign, could result in severe financial instability and generate serious losses for taxpayers, not to mention precipitating a global recession.