Sentence examples for if not nil from inspiring English sources

Once a person has admitted guilt and spelled out the details of the crime sufficient for the court to accept the plea, the chances of reversing such convictions are very slight if not nil.

If it doesn't, Baltimore's chances are slim but not nil.

Results of invasion analysis can change if this assumption is slightly relaxed (i.e., the density of an invading species is assumed to be very small but not nil).

If not, the effectiveness of the ITS in that situation is negligible or nil.

In the 1980s, a decade in which feminist theory more powerfully influenced art-world thinking if not popular marketing, the chances of Mr. Ramos's being seen as anything but an outmoded sexist Neanderthal were nil.

(Don't complain: nil-nil, as I wrote once, is the score of life).

You don't want nil-nil draws, they'll never keep the crowds here".

Even spelling his name is not straightforward: Nil Ushakov is the transliteration from the Russian, but Nils Ušakovs is his official Latvian name.

A player might get a bonus of 100 points, for example, if they bid nil and don't take any tricks, and a penalty of -100 if they do take at least one trick.

Note also that is an infra-nil endomorphism if and only if is a nil endomorphism.

I'm betting there won't be a nil-nil tonight.