Sentence examples for if not unrealistic from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, if traditional holiday plans are not canceled or modified and the traveling remains grueling, visitors may have high, if not unrealistic, expectations of their hosts.

External adjustment for selection bias is commonly undertaken when such bias is suspected, but the methods used can be overly simplistic, if not unrealistic, and fail to allow for simultaneous adjustment of associations of the exposure and covariates with the outcome, when of interest.

A starry-eyed embrace of all that Mr. Varoufakis said and did, the book also highlights the extent to which unorthodox, if not unrealistic, economic thinking reached the highest levels of the Greek government as it battled with its creditors last summer.

Achieving efficacies in the region of 90% for any one intervention in Liberia would be challenging, if not unrealistic.

For most organisms, developing hundreds of genetic markers spanning the whole genome still requires excessive if not unrealistic efforts.

Given the rising age and increasing morbidity and consumerism of the population, efficient management of high--if not unrealistic--patient expectations becomes a core function of primary care.

"It is not unrealistic, if you see the situation at this moment, and the repression from Madrid and the prison sentences with which they are threatening, that the question is whether such a person still has a chance to a fair trial of course," Belgium's migration minister, Theo Francken, told VTM News, a Belgian television station, over the weekend.

While these values are greater than atmospheric pressure, they are not unrealistic, if we compare to the experimental pressures used in [4] for HT-T.

Three-time runners-up Netherlands will suddenly find themselves talked about among the leading contenders to lift the title and it is not unrealistic if they maintain this level of display.

But At Last is as close to a resolution as Patrick will ever come and ends, if not with unrealistic optimism, then at least with hope.

The idea that this issue could ever be extricated from the heated political debates currently on display strikes most people as improbable, if not downright unrealistic.