If you are not steadily allocating villagers to mine gold, then the 800 gold requirement suddenly becomes a much harder target.
But, unlike Orwell, she is not steadily organised.
Early in the 1st millennium Iranian Medes already controlled almost all of the eastern Zagros and were infiltrating, if not actually pushing steadily into, the western Zagros, in some areas right up to the edge of the plateau and to the borders of lowland Mesopotamia.
It's an unremarkable, pedestrian-looking town, or would be if Sakurajima, an active volcano, didn't steadily dust everything in a blizzard of ash.
The arrangement has been steadily, if not always hugely, profitable.
Since then, Tridentine Masses have been increasing steadily, if not flourishing.
Crate and Barrel has grown steadily, if not spectacularly, even during economic slumps.
NEW YORK — When the television series "Mad Men" debuted in 2007, virtually everyone it portrayed was steadily (if not thrillingly) married, children tended to grow up with their fathers, women kept to their place, and nobody was known to be gay.
Still, the program has been growing steadily, if not at the aggressive pace proponents had envisioned when they thought the shoe scanner and other technology would be in use by now.
The company's revenue has been growing steadily, if not dramatically, in the past couple of years — it was $156 million in 2011, up from $121 million in 2010 and $103 million in 2009.
