Sentence examples for if sane from inspiring English sources

Most people, if sane, do everything in their power to forget it.

If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the G.O.P. on a suicide mission.

If sane he should be tried again as a traitor; if insane he ought not to be released merely because he is a poet.

When it comes to responding to William Faulkner's request of support for Ezra Pound (who had been committed to a hospital for the insane after making anti-American and anti-Semitic broadcasts during World War II), Bellow is succinct in his moral outrage: "If sane he should be tried again as a traitor; if insane he ought not to be released merely because he is a poet.

If Sane Christians, Sane Jews, Sane Hindus, Sane Muslims, Sane Buddhists, Sane Atheists etc, would join together, I think we would have a healthier religious discourse, and a healthier and more compassionate world.

If found sane, Breivik would face 21 years in prison, though he can be held longer if deemed a danger to society.

You can feel literally buffeted, gaining a visceral experience of how much the senses edit out to remain functional, if not sane.

At the time, of course, it all seemed if not sane, then at least necessary, to divide into two warring camps, to defend yourself and to drive your neighbors across the river.

But there is a similar impulse at work in all the best art and photography books, as well as in those unclassifiable volumes we call "gift books," as if no sane mortal would purchase them for himself.

"If any sane person or country was going to be looking for a place to store nuclear waste, you could hardly find a worse place than this," said Ms. Treichel, whose organization has been based in Las Vegas for 17 years.

If the sane voices that last week spoke up in condemnation of the Israeli offensive in Gaza do not speak now to address Hamas excesses, the cause will remain lost with the loss of a moral high-ground.