leaving aside

“Leaving aside the human issues, leaving aside the law issues, we think that would be very destructive economically,” said Adam Posen, the president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

But even leaving aside President-elect Donald Trump’s open opposition to a Google breakup, legal observers question whether the Justice Department will get what it wants.

This proceeding is not about proving crimes beyond a reasonable doubt in a court; it’s about whether, leaving aside his absolute absence of the experience necessary to run the Justice Department, Gaetz is fit to do so.

And even leaving aside his alleged sexual misconduct, his character deficiencies are legion.

Leaving aside the fact that the details of this method would have made it so egregiously complicated that it would have been rejected by the writers of “Ocean’s Eleven,” the Cyber Ninjas announced that they could hunt for these fake ballots by looking for paper containing bamboo fibers — because if paper was printed in China, it must, of course, be made of bamboo.