But urgency was a major, if not overriding, factor as well.
Text donations have become a major, if not a required, tool to raise money and awareness.
"And improper revenue recognition is a major, if not the primary, cause of earnings restatements in the technology sector".
In some depictions the collar is clearly the major, if not the only, item of apparel worn.
White has pedigree – a World Cup winners medal and victory over the touring Lions no less – but his major, if not only, obstacle is he's not an Australian.
The transition, he said, was "one of the major, if not the major step forward in the history of European integration".
For example, we have heard for months from Republicans that government regulation is a major, if not the primary, factor holding back economic expansion and employment growth.
The effect the Classic has on Horse of the Year voting certainly suggests that it should be considered the fourth major, if not the first.
It has an ultra-modern infrastructure that is fast turning it into a major, if not the major, commercial centre for the entire Gulf, whose collective economy is worth a trillion dollars a year.
"Florida is one of the major – if not the major – states in the country that has relied on incarceration as the solution to its problems," Howard Simon, head of the ACLU in Florida, recently told the Guardian.
