Sentence examples for if we overlook from inspiring English sources

Manhattan's grid may be the easiest road network to master in the developed world (if we overlook the nuances), yet the routes leading to and from it are as tricky as the tributaries of the Amazon.

Wittgenstein suggests that analogies between mathematical computations and mechanical processes only seem appealing if we overlook the fact that real machines have parts that bend and melt and are invariably subject to breakdown.

All was well with the world – if we overlook the furrowed brows of Andrew Hilditch, Greg Chappell, Tim Nielsen, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke and anyone else who holds a position of authority with Cricket Australia.

Last season the gap between the final relegation spot and final play-off spot was 35 points – or 27 if we overlook Portsmouth's deduction for their financial problems – it now stands at 13.

Unlike some other perceived football villains, Bowyer has never seemed unpopular with his managers and team-mates - at any rate if we overlook the day five years ago when he and Kieron Dyer, as Newcastle United players, were sent off for fighting each other during a 3-0 defeat by Aston Villa at St James Parkk.

Craig Breighner, New Oxford, Penn.: We should only be dismayed at proposed immigration legislation as a departure from democratic ideals if we overlook — and I don't think I'm saying this too cynically — a not-so-well-articulated pillar of the Bush doctrine of "democracy is for other people".

It would be a pity if we overlooked the work of a poet whose distinctive voice constantly reminds us that – like Smith herself – most of us are simultaneously waving and drowning.

If we can overlook the irony that this social critique is born of capitalism's very own "culture industry", what we find in the opening of The Lego Movie is a pertinent appraisal of modern society, whose rhythms are organised primarily around the activity of paid work.

But even if we can overlook those issues, Rose's key problem -- even with his improved play -- is a lack of overall efficiency.

However, if we wilfully overlook the ways in which experiences of "race", ethnicity, health, class, gender and gender identity crash together to produce sites of inequality and violence, we can never hope to truly grapple with the tragedies and horrors that 2017 produced.

Fifth, we overlooked late effects (if the vaccine prevents complications that increase mortality after flu season).