Abbiati had made a handful of saves, even if few were outstanding.
In contrast, the American-born players who are drafted have always been forced to become either a hitter or a pitcher – even if they were outstanding at both in high school or college.
Once upon a time, publishing houses used to hire women as typists and fact checkers even if they had outstanding academic records but now publishers are equal opportunity employers.
And if two out of the five KLOEs are "outstanding", you can rate the whole place "outstanding", even if the rest of the KLOEs are rubbish, but you won't know that, because you won't have looked at them, and that will be that for a year or so, until the next inspection.
Again Javier Mascherano was outstanding, even if he was fortunate on at least two occasions that mistimed tackles did not result in a second yellow card.
I don't know that, even if I was this outstanding citizen and didn't smoke pot or whatever, if I would have been able to live up to the expectation that they were looking for.
Holden concluded that "We Are the World" was "a simple, eloquent ballad" and a "realized pop statement that would sound outstanding even if it weren't recorded by stars".
If you've proved you can handle debt responsibly and you have a good credit score to show for it, mortgage lenders will be more likely to approve you -- even if you still have outstanding student loans.
Some of the most powerful nations, including the United States, came to view Hammarskjold as an outstanding leader, even if they sometimes disagreed with him.
And a school that failed its lower-achieving kids shouldn't be able to gain "outstanding" status even if it served its brightest pupils brilliantly.
It's one of the year's truly outstanding performances, even if the movie never quite penetrates Brown's rhino-rough hide.
