Sentence examples for but not future from inspiring English sources

France wants the words "material breach" to be included to describe past and current actions by Iraq, but not future hypothetical ones.

The -m ending on the verb "si" (see) indicates that the event is either happening now or has already happened, a "present or past but not future" tense that does not exist in English or Warlpiri.

These changes are assumed to have a one-time effect: that is, they would affect the status of the roughly 11 million unauthorized immigrants who are already in the United States, but not future groups of immigrants.

Note that the Purple Tax Plan taxes existing wealth, but not future wealth formation, i.e., saving.

Dibango sued Jackson and settled out of court for one million French francs, agreeing thereby to waive future rights to this recording but not future use of the material.

Existing gene cards, however, rarely contain records of relevant publications, and generally only include the original genome sequencing and annotation publications but not future evidence associated with specific genes, pathways, subsystems, etc.

The Kings will have a Robitaille on their roster after all--but not future Hall of Famer Luc Robitaille.

I used to avidly follow the adventures of that once-but-not-future Sun-King of Central Asia, the now deceased Turkmenbashi or "leader of the Turkmen," Saparmurat Niyazov, head of the immensely gas-rich Republic of Turkmenistan, as if he were a Conradian hero.

So English distinguishes between past and non-past but not between future and non-future.

We used to know the past but not the future.

But not the future queen's very sibling!