if it doesn't apply

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

If it doesn't apply here, why bother?

Their message: how "comprehensive" is immigration reform if it doesn't apply equally to everybody?

"Who cares about world-class research if it doesn't apply to the conditions that you are in?" he asks.The tallest poppiesHigher salaries for academics returning home are causing rancour.

"Lack of a federal privilege really undermines all the state privileges, because virtually every state has a reporter's privilege, but if it doesn't apply in a federal court that makes it less certain," said Boutrous, who represented Cooper in the 2005 case.

If it doesn't apply to anything, what the hell do you have the regulation for?

He said the change is particularly important for mixed-status families, many of whom won't sign up for coverage if it doesn't apply to everyone.

Vive la concurrence, even if it does not apply to super-jumbos and sonic cruisers.

If it does not apply, it is simply irrelevant to the outcome.

Pascal explains that institutions could suggest that all staff be exposed to each core area, but "if it does not apply, then it's not required".

If it does not apply this charge evenly across the board, or starts carving out exceptions to do biz dev deals (and Verizon made some indications to Silicon Valley startups it was moving in this direction prior to the rate hike announcement), then it will be giving preferential treatment to one source of information over the other.

Indeed it means nothing if it does not apply to political dissent and the defense of life on earth.