Sentence examples for if not break from inspiring English sources

First team to win two games, if not break 80, raises the Larry O'Brien Trophy in San Antonio.

Isn't that an acknowledgment, sir, of something you and he have long denied, that there was an attempt to bend, if not break, the spirit, if not the letter, of campaign finance laws during your re-election campaign?

The perceived independent status of the assessments produced by IFC is central to their remit to counter and minimise the alleged tendency of governments to produce over-optimistic forecasts and/or use technical loopholes to bend, if not break, fiscal rules.

It has the capacity to help dampen, if not break, the cycle.

And in this last administration, we saw executive actions that seemed to bend, if not break, those laws.

If not, break them into halves or large pieces.

Virgil Robinson Jr., Dryades's chief executive, said his bank "certainly won't show a profit for 2005," but he expects only a modest loss for the year, if not break-even.

These rules are frequently bent, if not broken.

Hawkins took the field with his nose swollen and bloodied, if not broken.

His back was broken; or if not broken, then something worse.

Another said of the relationship: "If not broken, it is certainly fractured.