As Judge Alsup put it, "The main, if not exclusive, rationale for ending DACA was its supposed illegality.
"I am a third-world person [she is Colombian], and came as such to this modernist, industrial space that has become one of the main – if not the main – cultural centres in Europe.
"For nearly twenty years," Samuel Taylor Coleridge complained in "Biographia Literaria," Wordsworth's poems "have well-nigh engrossed criticism, as the main, if not the only, butt of review, magazine, pamphlet, poem, and paragraph".
It is true that the movements of American reporters in Iran are controlled and curtailed to the point where Tehran is the main, if not the only, point of access, apart from the hard-line holy city of Qom.
It's the same reason why, in the ongoing education debate, it seems self-evident that the first, and the main, if not the only, effective change to make is the drastic reduction of class size.
When Turkey goes to the polls on Sunday, in what is shaping up to be an epic and fateful election, Erdoğan and his legacy will be the main, if not the only, issue on voters' minds.
He's been one of the main reasons, if not the main reason, for the turnaround in fortunes.
In fact, I'm told, he said that It's actually undisputed among economists worldwide that one of the main causes – if not the main cause – of the turbulence – not just now, but already in 2008 – was excessive public debt everywhere in the world.
In an OWC (oscillating water column) wave energy converter the damping exerted by the turbine on the movements of the water column is one of the main factors, if not the main, affecting the power output.
This represents an important potential gap because the impact of long-term irreversible disease progression on health-related quality of life (HRQL) and costs is an arguably critical driver of cost-effectiveness and to a large degree, one of the main reasons, if not the main reason, for why early, aggressive RA should be treated as effectively as possible.
For most of the 12-song set, Mr. Rollins was the main soloist, if not the only one.
