Sentence examples for primarily if not from inspiring English sources

Canines are all predators that are primarily, if not exclusively, meat eaters.

"They focus primarily, if not exclusively, on us and on the here and now," said Leonard Lardaro, an economics professor at the university.

He was "motivated primarily, if not entirely, by money, not the desire to influence a government, in this case anti-American ideology, or for any political reasons".

The prevailing mood among Turkey's discontents is that Erdogan now cares for primarily, if not solely, those who voted for him.

For the middle third of the 20th century our cases based the rule against admitting coerced confessions primarily, if not exclusively, on notions of due process...

The dogmatic controversies of the Reformation period give the impression that the tradition of the church has to do primarily, if not exclusively, with ecclesiastical doctrinal tradition.

Jonathan Kaplan (2000) identifies three different ways in which claims about genetic determinism might be understood: (i) as "complete information" where everything about us is viewed as predictable based on our genes; (ii) as "intervention is useless" where traits are said to be impervious to environmental changes; and (iii) as traits that are in some sense primarily, even if not wholly, genetic.

The auction house denies any wrongdoing, but has nonetheless announced a series of procedural changes aimed primarily at limiting, if not ending, its 158-year relationship with the commissionaires.

Even if a woman wants to use protection, it is often, if not primarily, the man who refuses, in which case the stigma's object is misplaced.

The "sandwich war" referred to in that story was waged not only against KLM, Swissair, and Air France but also, if not primarily, against SAS.

Gould (2002 p. 1333) explained that: [A] narrative or historical style that explicitly links the explanation of outcomes not only to spatiotemporally invariant laws of nature, but also, if not primarily, to the specific contingencies of antecedent states, which, if constituted differently, could not have generated the observed result.