Sentence examples for if unsatisfactory from inspiring English sources

This is sound, if unsatisfactory, advice.

To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory, conclusion.... [It] is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could.

For example, why couldn't he have distributed copies of the stolen data to trusted friends or an attorney or two overseas and then begun speaking with his superiors at NSA, demanding answers and explanations which if unsatisfactory would result in the release of information?

Images were viewed immediately and repeated if unsatisfactory.

In this event, the patient's adherence to therapy was checked and, if unsatisfactory, individually tailored interventions promoting adherence were carried up.

Or, if something unsatisfactory takes place, it could last until the 11th hole Thursday.

CT scanning performed prior to referral was only repeated if deemed unsatisfactory by the radiologist.

Besides this consideration, one imagines that the resulting incongruence between underreporting of sleep problems and the actual sleep experience, if deemed unsatisfactory, would probably be itself a precipitating factor in the onset of insomnia.

Individuals were excluded from the present analysis if they did not provide blood samples (n=20 cases, n=56 controls), if interviews were unsatisfactory (n=7 cases, n=4 controls), or if they were missing any of the covariate information used in multivariable modeling (n=8 cases, n=15 controls).

Defining the postoperative version as excellent if less than 5º from the neutral position, as satisfactory if between 5º and 10º from neutral, and as unsatisfactory if more than 10º from neutral, the postoperative version was found to be excellent for group A2, satisfactory for A1 and B1, and unsatisfactory for the most severely retroverted groups (B2 and C).

In contrast, a win of −50 appears satisfactory if the unobtained outcome is revealed to be −200, but unsatisfactory if the unobtained outcome is revealed to be +200.