Sentence examples for if not forbidden from inspiring English sources

It would be a remarkable development for a region in which the idea of women competing in sports was discouraged, if not forbidden, less than a generation ago.

In Europe and the United States, this has meant the breakdown of white, Christian cultural ascendancy as liberalism has progressively recognized the rights of people of color; of Jews and Muslims; of gays and others with sexual orientations frowned upon, if not forbidden, by the major religions; and, more recently, of refugees and migrants.

With the boss out of the picture, I became a spiritual freelancer, exploring philosophies and experiences that were discouraged, if not forbidden, by the corporate faith.

May I gently suggest -- if it is not forbidden by their religion -- that next year the 44 Gentile victims be included in the prayers.

"In quantum physics, if something is not forbidden, it necessarily happens with some non-zero probability," says Alexander Vilenkin of Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts.

A vertex is allowed, if it is not forbidden.

The closest I can manage is that there's usually something about something about the consequences of "what if" scenarios – whether or not forbidden by the laws of physics.

His words were echoed by Mohammed Qudah, a professor of Islamic law at the University of Jordan, who told the Associated Press news agency that burying Bin Laden at sea was not forbidden if there was nobody to receive the body and provide a Muslim burial.

If all possibilities -- all universes with all laws -- can arise dynamically, and if anything that is not forbidden must arise, then this implies that both nothing and something must both exist, and we will of necessity find ourselves amidst something.

If the destination of the packet is not forbidden, the queue passes the packet to the AP for transmission.

If those differences have any rational relationship to the legislative command, the discrimination is not forbidden.