let-alone policy

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We have the let-alone policy, in puris naturalibus, and everything is truly let alone, but the property of the master.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore

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 Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

Sipsu's let-alone policy caused his wife to complain that she only of the women was without even a needle.

From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

LAISSEZ-FAIRE, the let-alone policy of each for himself and devil take the hindmost.

From The Iron Heel by London, Jack

The let-alone policy toward the South, to which Grant was prompted both by his virtues and his limitations, would not on the whole have been unacceptable to the mass of the Southern whites.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring