Sentence examples for if not ample from inspiring English sources

In this hospitable setting, works by 80 of the arts council's members have adequate, if not ample, space.

The ordinance, which city officials acknowledge would be difficult to enforce, will limit the number of dispensaries to 70, but its language suggests that even fewer will be permitted if there is not ample space under the new parameters to accommodate them.

He is following a theory popularized by the Len Ragozin sheets, a speed figure and data service that believes horses will take a step backward off a big effort if not given ample rest between starts.

"Not ample, but adequate".

Was Jason's apology not ample enough?

(As if there wasn't ample evidence of what was "tortured" about Grass in all the books leading up to this one!) Another writer in the Frankfurter Allgemeine conjectured that the last, unfulfilled mission of Grass's Frundsberg tank division was to get Hitler out of Berlin.

If not, that statement provides ample evidence that the director of Homeland Security is indeed operating in the Dark Ages.

Explanations often seem absurd to readers, if not reporters, and suggest ample reason to doubt the veracity of the source.

Medieval exegetes provided ample (if not always persuasive) justification for the Bible's choice of these particular branches and fruit as symbols of rejoicing.

The brakes have ample, if not impressive, stopping power, and the antilock system worked well enough to save me from some scrapes when stopping short in the rain.

We took an afternoon excursion to Cayo Santiago, a half-hour motorboat ride, where the surrounding coral reef provides an ample, if not abundant, variety of fish.