let-alone policy
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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 Beers, R. W.
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 Barnes, William Horatio
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
LAISSEZ-FAIRE, the let-alone policy of each for himself and devil take the hindmost.
From The Iron Heel by London, Jack
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 Coolidge, Calvin