Sentence examples for if not virtually from inspiring English sources

Such genetic manipulation would be extremely difficult, if not virtually impossible, to detect using current methods, scientists said.

Senior military leaders have already stated in the press and in other public forums that our influence over events is waning at best, if not virtually nonexistent.

Thus, advertising (or commercial speech) is said to be protected as is much (if not virtually all) obscenity, although reservations are heard about child pornography and about inducements to violence and the worst depravity.

In an era when many show titles are bland and interchangeable (if not virtually identical: how did we end up with "The Trouble With Normal," "Normal, Ohio" and "Norm" all in the same year?), "Jackass," which had its premiere last Sunday at 9 p.m., is perhaps the most perfectly named program on the air.

In truth, it would be hard -- if not virtually impossible -- for Democrats to deny the governor the chance to seek re-election, though Republicans are certainly trying, And so they have already started to campaign against Mr. McGreevey, making him the main focus of this election.

But other leading telomere scientists say such tests are premature, if not virtually useless.

Many, if not most, were Louisiana natives, and virtually all were members of the working class -- nurses, janitors, barbers, merchant marines.

That is particularly evident since energy resources drive much if not most of the world's economic activity, in virtually all economic sectors.

If they are not virtually all the same, the entanglement has been disturbed, and the intruder has been found.

She shows that, if (G^* A, tau )) is not virtually abelian, then any finitely presented cover of it has non-abelian free subgroups.

So, if the bidder is not virtually present at the time of bidding, automatically the bidding will perform on his behalf up to the defined amount.