let-alone policy
Example Sentences
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Accordingly, the policy which I advocate is not the let-alone policy.
From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by R. W. Beers
On this day, however, Mr. Bright, Lord Granville, and Mr. Gladstone stood alone against the rest of the Cabinet in supporting a let-alone policy.'
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
The second was "the let-alone policy, which would merely refuse them representation until they had adopted the constitutional amendments."
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
LAISSEZ-FAIRE, the let-alone policy of each for himself and devil take the hindmost.
From The Iron Heel by Jack London
First: the let-alone policy; every man to look out for number one.
From Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages by Calvin Coolidge
