The arrangements, if not ideal, are fairly satisfactory.
If there is something unexplained, he pursues it, trying to provide an answer, if not the answer.
We can thus conclude that the gold standard, if not abused, is not conducive to boom-bust cycles.
Severe cases of bacterial meningitis can result in brain damage or death if not treated quickly.
Silk dresses are easy to crumple up if not carefully handled.
Water in an arid conflict zone is like any other disputed resource, a prize to be controlled if possible-and, if not, destroyed.
Detecting signs of life elsewhere will not be easy, but it may well occur in my lifetime, if not during the next decade.
And fruit, if not a total food, pistachio, hazelnut can also be the best partner of your diet.
Funding can be unpredictable, short-lived, or inflexible, making it difficult, if not impossible, to launch long-term plans.
Bathing is also best done if you are alone in the house, but if not, everyone else in the house must know that you CANNOT be disturbed, even if the house is burning down.
If you do well, you can hold up your head; but if not, sin is a demon lurking at the door: his urge is toward you, yet you can be his master.
And if not, is he a devil?
Infection, if not treated, is almost invariably fatal.
If the efforts to seal off the leak that was left behind do not succeed soon, the final tally of destruction, if not death, may rise quite quickly.
There are hints of intensifying debate, if not infighting, within the regime.
And if we'd done our homework and market research we could have known that this would be, if not a show-stopper at least a significant obstacle.
And techniques from lightweight processes, such as automated unit testing, now infiltrate many, if not most, development shops.
If you know at the beginning what the system needs to do and how it needs to do it, you can do most (if not all) your design up front.
They wander about for food and howl if not satisfied.
Most people spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars on gifts and wrapping.
Such fruitful results would be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve without the speed enabled by agile development processes.
I am nothing, if not critical.
The new subscriber enrolls (establishes an account) with the service provider if not already a member.
And not surprisingly, 29 percent of the students in this study were overweight, if not obese.
Dodo says pranks can also potentially alienate or hurt someone's feelings if not carried out in good taste.