Sentence examples for if not ended from inspiring English sources

If all goes well, another Balkan war is, if not ended, at least less likely to explode.

It resulted in prison sentences for senior military members and weakened, if not ended, the military's capacity to conduct coups as it had done in the past.

In his case, that perspective is available only now that the so-called Freud wars have, if not ended, at least abated.

High prices, overproduction and stiff competition, particularly from what Europeans still quaintly refer to as "the New World," have seriously diminished, if not ended, France's role as the leader in wine exports.

The apparent lack of progress after months of intermittent meetings suggests that the effort could soon be sidelined, if not ended, as the president and Congress turn to the more pressing work of negotiating measures to finance the government and increase the nation's borrowing limit before October deadlines.

But as Mr. Hagel heads into contentious confirmation hearings to be President Obama's secretary of defense, the two remain estranged over policy differences that started with the Iraq War, spread into bitter presidential politics and ultimately damaged, if not ended, a friendship.

Global warming is going to hobble the world economy, if not end life on earth.

None of those hits were by Alex Rodriguez, whose penchant for theater set up a dramatic moment, if not ending.

In the last couple of weeks it has surfaced spectacularly in the worlds of show business and fashion, blighting, if not ending, two major careers.

Mr Orban's foreign critics might do better to wait for economic woes to do the work of curbing, if not ending, his rule.

The auction house denies any wrongdoing, but has nonetheless announced a series of procedural changes aimed primarily at limiting, if not ending, its 158-year relationship with the commissionaires.