Sentence examples for if it doesn't serve from inspiring English sources

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He ordered a Cobb salad, asked the waiter to hold the croutons, then drawled, "If it doesn't serve me, these days, it's outta there".

The message that addiction is chronic and relapse inevitable is demoralizing to patients and gives the treatment system an excuse if it doesn't serve them well.

That basic notion — that the world is there for us, and if it doesn't serve our purposes it's dispensable — has produced the devastation of vast areas.

As Tufts University's Jeffrey W. Taliaferro argues, "the aversion of senior officials to perceived losses — in terms of their state's relative power, international status, or prestige — drives great power intervention in peripheral regions". It makes us reluctant to forfeit our global leadership role, even if it doesn't serve our core national interests.

At the end of the day, technology means nothing if it doesn't serve the business.

If it's not really meaningful, if it doesn't serve a greater purpose, if it's not a game changer, why do it?

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It seems that literature is worth nothing if it does not serve a political master.

Religion is harnessed to political purpose and is not freely exercised if it does not serve that purpose.

The big picture is his forte, but he knows it must not dwarf the play: 'Design fails if it does not serve the piece.' He deplores 'designer theatre'.

The prime minister represents both of the strands that former Labour MP David Marquand identified in the Tory tribe: the Whig imperialists who believe in muscular intervention in good international causes; and the Tory nationalists who want nothing if it does not serve narrowly defined British interests.

"If a bill is against the constitution, or if it does not serve the public good, or if it is against democracy in general... of course I would refer it back to parliament".

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