Sentence examples for if not willingly from inspiring English sources

Her tone, measured yet distraught, is that of a witness who has journeyed, consciously if not willingly, to the heart of private and, more momentously, public horror in order to bring us back the bad news.

In Houston, the most the authorities can do to halt a building project that threatens a historic site is to force a delay of 90 days, after which the project, if not willingly modified, can go forward.

After months of legal wrangling, political infighting, threats of violence and marathon negotiations, the Ulpana families moved quietly if not willingly on Tuesday, resentful of losing homes they love but grateful that the government had agreed to build 10 times their number in this sprawling religious settlement near the Palestinian city of El Bireh.

Since then, there have been complaints that employees of this firm haven't been given the correct training, the instructions on voter ID they're giving are often confusing and contradictory and overall it has been an incompetent (if not willingly bad) job.

Libya's deputy ambassador to the United Nations said today that if Qaddafi does not willingly step down "the Libyan people will get rid of him".

Wilhelmsen, in a November 19 Facebook posting, claimed that if President Obama did not willingly leave Washington D.C. he would be 'dead within a month.'".

Ms. Merkel said that she would support Maia's meeting her birth parents if it was possible, but that she would not willingly return her to them, even if there was evidence that she had been taken.

On the other hand, Mr. Walton said, staying with friends and relatives, if not actually willingly sharing a hotel room with a co-worker "might be an option some people think of" when left to their own discretion to decide how to reduce travel costs.

So power will not willingly be devolved.

But they do not willingly eat anybody else's food.

Most people do not willingly leave their homes.