Sentence examples for if troublesome from inspiring English sources

But China may hesitate to move against an old, if troublesome, ally.

Especially in B2B services, executives risk increasing employee turnover and losing institutional knowledge if troublesome customers are not cut loose.

For Berniece the piano has ceased to be a mere musical instrument — she has refused to touch its keys since her mother died — and become a living if troublesome presence, a repository of the pain and hardship her forebears have endured.

The elder Keeler asked the chief if the troublesome Leonarde could see a demonstration of Larson's apparatus firsthand.

And if particularly troublesome, it may be necessary to seek appropriate advice from a qualified healthcare professional.

These works of the last 20 years, performed here with many more, presented a portrait of an engaging if also troublesome and unreliable composer.

Sometimes she'll show clients properties with a deal breaker too, to test how they really feel about it — especially if the troublesome thing can be changed without too much aggravation or cost.

But if the troublesome past could be swept under the Wall for almost three decades, once it was gone the skeletons rose once more to the surface of the German collective conscience.

Each of us walked away, but then looked back, realizing that this familiar friend would be gone from our lives forever and, more poignantly, that we were abandoning a faithful, if increasingly troublesome, retainer.

Benitez stuck to his recent theme that Terry, an unused substitute for the fifth time in Benitez's short spell in charge for the Europa League tie in Prague on Thursday, faces far greater competition for his place, especially if his troublesome knee prevents him from playing a full part in training.

Riordan lived in Moscow for many years during the cold war, and his status as a respected, if sometimes troublesome, visiting communist from the west helped him to gain access to many important players, coaches and administrators who helped to build the Soviet system.