Sentence examples for if inconclusive from inspiring English sources

Other research is also fascinating, if inconclusive.

CBS paid Nixon's chief of staff H. R. Haldeman $100,000 for exclusive (if inconclusive) interviews with Mr. Wallace in 1975.

She offers various interpretations of the victim of the book's famously motiveless murder (an Arab shot by a European), which are compelling, if inconclusive.

The visit allowed government officials, legislators and business executives to interact with the Chinese leader face to face for the first time, and the discussions were generally positive, if inconclusive.

After the Chinese crackdown on Tibetan protesters this year, Mr. Sarkozy had threatened to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games but decided to go after delegates of China and the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, held formal, if inconclusive, talks.

THE NIGHT CALLS (St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95), David Pirie's second period mystery (after "The Patient's Eyes") to feature the brainy team of Arthur Conan Doyle and the eminent criminologist Dr. Joseph Bell, begins in Edinburgh in 1878 and comes to an exciting, if inconclusive, ending in London in 1883, with the youthful Dr. Doyle and his real-life mentor stymied by a new breed of monster.

"The Gardner Heist," by Ulrich Boser, tells the full, if maddeningly inconclusive, story of the crime and the investigation.

Although in the univariate analysis previous arrhythmias and functional class show a tendency to be associated, it is not possible to determine if the inconclusive results are due to sample size limitations or to undefined particularities of our population.

If an inconclusive response was considered as a positive result (secondary analysis), the dog's sensitivity and specificity were 100%91%1% to 100% and 944%83%to98% 98%), respectively.

In these patients, since they are considered to have possible pregnancy failures, a serum beta HCG is measured, and if they are stable, a follow-up visit in 48 hours is scheduled, where a new serum beta HCG takes place, and if still inconclusive, reexamination with another vaginal ultrasound and new serum beta HCG (the third measurement) is repeated in a week's time.

The consolidated data were deemed "strong" if multiple studies in multiple species indicated similar BPA-associated effects, "limited" if some but not most studies indicated a similar end point or if studies disagreed across species, or "inconclusive" if studies were limited in number or had only been done in one species or in vitro.