Sentence examples for if not false from inspiring English sources

Such extravagant, if not false, claims certainly contributed to the hostility that many among the poorly educated feel toward the well-educated.

"Under the circumstances, it is reasonable to take the strongest possible negative inference from [Puccio's] failure to provide supporting evidence," the administrative law judge, Thomas C. Sacca, admonished, in effect dismissing much of Puccio's testimony as unreliable, if not false.

In 1999, Judge Ralph G. Thompson of Federal District Court in Oklahoma City ruled that Ms. Gilchrist had given testimony about hair and fluid evidence in the case of Alfred Brian Mitchell that "was terribly misleading, if not false".

As president, Obama would not only reach across the aisle, listen to the Republicans, and credit their good ideas, but also demonstrate that the division between the parties was exaggerated if not false, as many Americans, younger voters above all, fervently believed.

To a large extent, it was his repeated claims that Iraq was aiding Al Qaeda that fueled the current debate between Republicans and Democrats over whether the administration led the nation to war on the basis of flimsy, if not false, evidence.

Looking for political patterns is also fraught: the once-canvassed claim, for example, that right-wing refugees were drawn to conservative Britain, radical ones to a forward-looking United States now seems schematic, if not false on the facts.The Hitler refugees made an impact nevertheless, especially in Britain, which was smaller and culturally more compact.

The King, Cromwell replies, has always known of Anne's crimes: "He knows if she was not false to him in body she was so in words, and if not in deeds then in dreams".

If they are not false positive, they are likely a "negligible" part of ubiquitous transcription.

If this dichotomy were not false, contaminated consumer products in China and the worldwide financial meltdown would count as "benefits of a market-based system".

Not false bravado — if you have challenges, you let people know what the challenges are — but you need to show people that you're serious, you had thought it through and had contingencies in place.

It's not false advertising if your friend genuinely does like your writing.