Sentence examples for if occasional from inspiring English sources

Is this a clever short-term jobs program designed to shore up and improve an important, if occasional, national project?

Batting 71.80 Moeen Ali - 5 Batting quiet until last match, bowling still not to be trusted despite a happy if occasional knack for taking wickets.

As recently as 2011 women were excluded from voting in municipal elections — the highest, if occasional, forum for democracy in a kingdom that has no elected national institutions.

It was part of the bedrock of America's legal system, steeped in the intent of the founders, the will of most state legislatures and the forceful — if occasional — rulings of the courts.

"You've got Sarah Palin coming out in two weeks" — with her book, "Going Rogue" — "and you've got Andre Agassi" — an actual, if occasional, meth consumer, it appears — coming out with a memoir of his own.

What should not have been evident yet was a nasty, if occasional, variation in bounce as the ball struck either side of the cracks, which, if the sun continues to bake the surface, will only get wider and more influential.

She is in occasional, if infrequent, touch with Mr. Dylan, and is extremely respectful of his privacy.

From then on, I laughed a lot, and I honestly didn't care if an occasional setup failed, or if the Michael plots were weaker than the others, or if some of the Mexico stuff was a little bit confusing.

The storytelling is clear and the text benefits from being spoken in conversational fashion, even if on occasional it sounds as if everyone is delivering a very urgent telegram.

If people are always asking you to hang out, or even if the occasional unlikely person asks you to hang out, you should start taking their invitations seriously instead of turning them down.

Coyne might even see if his occasional collaborator Miley Cyrus is around.