Sentence examples for if not intention from inspiring English sources

But Hamilton is in the minority, in execution if not intention.

In effect if not intention, the banks had been creating fictitious profits, much of which ultimately ended up as losses.

In effect, if not intention, the model converts "disaster myopia"—the human tendency to discount previous highly negative experiences into a dollar figure, thereby giving it a ring of authenticity.

In effect, if not intention, the model converts "disaster myopia" — the human tendency to discount previous highly negative experiences — into a dollar figure, thereby giving it a ring of authenticity.

If by saying we "failed" Alan Kurdi we mean we enacted a policy, which in consequence if not intention, ignored, excluded, rejected, dehumanized, and incarcerated previous Alan Kurdis, this then is not a failure.

They advocate a G16 approach to getting the G8 out of its rut, integrating the emerging economies into an enlarged group that is nonetheless small enough to be effective; and they do so with an eye toward the moral valences of global governance that does not slip into the bloodless (and all too colonial, in effect if not intention) moralism of the G8's usual noblesse oblige.

Targeting Tea Party groups for scrutiny, even if through incompetence, not intention, turned the IRS into a nasty carbuncle on the governing body.

That has been the effect, if not the intention.

"If not our intention would be to go to court".

They hoped he would come out, and if not, the intention was to call him and encourage him to surrender.

For reasons of professional legality, if not honourable intention, mum was unable to smack Michael against the floor mat like an unformed pizza base, so it was up to me to call on my negligible experience of martial arts and do the job for her.