Sentence examples for if not ban from inspiring English sources

Sometime in October, the city's urban planning bureau is expected to revise local building laws to limit, if not ban, high-rise development.

Roosevelt, fearing that Eliot would "emasculate" the game, if not ban it, summoned officials from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to the White House, and implored them to find ways of ratcheting back the carnage or risk the end of football.

We fear not all actors will be as prudent, and we would like therefore to see the UK government take a leading role in discussions to build an international consensus around a set of norms to regulate, if not ban, LAWS".

By the time we're sure of that, it will be too late to save the native species". Now the French Society of Herpetologists, joined by biologists from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, has formed a pressure group, demanding that governments limit, if not ban, imports of turtles.

In order to prevent future attacks, so the line of thinking goes, officials there want at the very least to force Google to blur our sensitive sites from the software, if not ban it outright.

"That basically censors, if not bans, legitimate advertising to adults".

Those super-duper powers would be tightly regulated, if not banned outright.

Much chimurenga was censored, if not banned, and Mapfumo was imprisoned for several months in 1977.

It is now unprofitable, if not banned, for US banks to perform some of the services they used to perform.

And go after – if not banning, then rationing – the stuff that does society real, undeniable harm.

Not long ago, members of the government discussed limiting, if not banning, both caesarean section and abortion rights in Turkey.