Sentence examples for if only lightly from inspiring English sources

The monitoring of the lives of others in an age of warrantless wiretapping is an existential theme here, if only lightly touched on.

Dowie also touches, if only lightly, on an idea that some reformers believe would be better: to require foundations to spend more -- perhaps even to spend it all.

If you only lightly pick the string, you will probably reduce or eliminate the buzz.

If it ran out of fuel, he said, a drone "might come down gently" and be damaged only lightly if it did not hit something.

Sites that were only lightly, if at all, grazed, had a fire frequency >10 years, and did not have coarse woody debris removed were healthy, indicating that the drying and warming climate of the past three decades is within the bioclimatic envelope of the species examined.

If the zipper is only lightly stuck, this might do the trick.

Many of these techniques are relatively untested and most are only lightly regulated, if at all – the sheer volume of new scientific research, and the economic forces that are driving it, means that artificial enhancement in sport is more or less beyond regulation anyway.

Assuming your references are impressive, the first thing that will pop out is if you're being praised, but only lightly.

Unfortunately, the data structures and other information contained in this super-sized SI remains largely uncontrolled by publishers, and one suspects only lightly inspected by referees if at all.

If so, Dianne Reeves is their opposite: she's only lightly concerned with reticence.

If a program uses a NumPy-dependent package only lightly, any speed NumPy provides may be offset by the slowness of standard Python.