Sentence examples for if not preventing from inspiring English sources

This process is known as forward contamination, and minimizing, if not preventing, its occurrence is the responsibility of Cassie Conley, a plant biologist who has served as NASA's planetary-protection officer since 2006.

However, no patients developed IRIS while still on corticosteroids – thereby if not preventing at least possibly delaying the onset of IRIS.

In this review, we set out to identify and classify the sources of the unexpected divergences between design and actual function of synthetic systems and analyze possible methodologies aimed at controlling, if not preventing, unwanted contextual issues.

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.

"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.

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.

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.