So their responsibility is clear, if not directly, perhaps indirectly".
In Syria, we are complicit even if not directly to blame.
"In concept, if not directly word for word, it is the Microsoft-Netscape situation," Mr. Blumenthal said.
They were also more solemn, for every Dominican was touched, spiritually if not directly, by the doomed flight.
Because the money raised for the CTRT appeal has come out of writing, if not directly out of book sales.
"I fully anticipate her, if not directly then indirectly, operating her company, or at least having a significant" impact.
Now a whole class of them, even if not directly backed by businesses, have taken on corporate trappings.
Others blame separatist terrorists, inspired, if not directly abetted, by groups such as al-Qaeda and Jemaah Islamiah.
So does the topic of the countless male artists, gay and straight, whose work has been influenced, if not directly shaped, by three decades of feminist art.
The Trump campaign is often accused of "dog-whistling": communicating with a subset of the population through its concerns, if not directly through its language.
But her affect of blankness, which Arbus no doubt desired, if not directly ordered, seems not quite strange and portentous enough, as it does with Marcella.
