Sentence examples for if not absolute from inspiring English sources

The hope was that two weeks of immersion, while living with a French family, might lift us to a new level of competence, if not absolute fluency.

If the ECB keeps its inflation target at less than 2%, higher inflation in some countries will mean even lower inflation, if not absolute deflation, in Germany.

Puerto Rico is feeling the heat, having fallen behind it in tourism receipts, if not absolute numbers, in 2004, and is fighting back with a new Tourism and Transportation Strategic Plan.

Several of the 15 brothers who inhabit the monastery — accepting its vows of poverty, celibacy and obedience, and embracing its extensive if not absolute silence — had prior lives in the worldly hurly-burly.

A8 Mideast Edges Toward Meeting A second day of relative if not absolute quiet in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip appeared to pave the way for a meeting as soon as today between Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, and Shimon Peres, the Israeli foreign minister.

Szwed makes a strong case for the autobiography's authenticity — if not absolute veracity — as Holiday's self-representation, or her representation of her self-image, especially in the light of all that it originally contained: "Shouldn't an author have the right to create a self different from what readers think that they already know about her?

"Even if they are not absolute rights, limitations to these rights, even those based on national security concerns, must be prescribed by law, guaranteeing that exceptions are both necessary and proportionate.

She was committed to the Navy as a career even if the fit was not absolute.

Citing a Supreme Court decision, Mr. Moses responded that the right to use a park was not absolute, especially if there was a likelihood of riot or fatalities.

If an equivalence relation is not absolute it is relative.

1) If people cannot afford a medication then the drug will not be bought; 2) Assistance programs are not absolute; 3) If the record profits this company is showing doesn't allow for further research and development, there is a problem within the structure.