Sentence examples for if not prevent from inspiring English sources

Its supporters say the code would make it easier to punish, if not prevent, online spying.

Its supporters say this code would make it easier to punish, if not prevent, online spying.

Still, he and other experts believe that breast-feeding along with other protective measures can at least postpone if not prevent the emergence of an inherited allergic tendency.

The recent financial crisis weakened ING enough that the Dutch government announced Sunday that it would provide $13.4 billion to stabilize ING's operations, if not prevent a possible collapse.

The Russian invasion of Georgia in August 2008 and the West's half-hearted opposition to that suggest to many in the Russian capital that "a good little war" is just what they need to generate domestic support and put off if not prevent disintegration.

In nonhypertensives, dietary changes can lower BP and delay, if not prevent, hypertension.

"If not prevented, God forbid, catastrophe will emerge, which will not only destabilize the country, but the region and the world".

We have already witnessed skirmishes between Copé and Fillon in recent months and this could degenerate into all-out war if not prevented.

Freeman's analogy was merited because that's what the Orange institution does and, if not prevented by the Parades Commission, would seek to do more often.

Yet its rulers were "so wise and so bent on enlarging their territories, that, if not prevented in time, all the neighbouring states may lament it too late".

One speaker argued that economists should give up on prediction and settle for explanation, identifying where earthquakes might strike, if not when, and how they might be withstood, if not prevented.