In Benghazi, there are already calls for autonomy, if not outright independence.

There are probably 40 or more official organizations from abroad, if not more, already engaged in the recovery effort.

Mecca has, indeed, become a potent venue for political summitry and a tool for mediation if not media manipulation.

The time for any old kind of public spending simply to support aggregate demand, if not already over, soon will be.

Sometime this year, China s GDP will exceed that of Japan (if it has not already done so).

The Fed was hardly alone.

However, only a comprehensive peace can be a lasting peace.

The irony is that little has been revealed that we didn t know already.

I couldn't get any food unless it was brought to me.

You live freely if you haven't a reputation to lose.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

What they were doing in Egypt was not governing badly.

Nothing happens unless it is preceded by a dream.

Reaching this uneasy state has not been easy.

Yesterday was not as good as we remember it.

Needless to say, this was not quite the case.

The frequency of hurricanes has not changed much, if at all.

Germany does not want closer financial solidarity if not accompanied by political integration.

If you have nothing to do, why not read a book?

In short, it remained the best, if not the only, option.

The biggest but most important challenge is to build and maintain good institutions. (...) transparency will be the most powerful lever for accountability.

Shark finning was already illegal in Canadian waters, but there was no law to stop importing into Canada.

That is not boring. That is nothing if it's not boring.

But what if the option to have your car stolen was not exactly like this.

Tunisians didn t need Tunileaks to tell them their country was corrupt.

The time horizon for transition is five to ten years, if not more.

if they if they if they actually if they actually said that, I'm getting out.

Didn't have the time. Didn't have the technology. You know, I didn't have the right manager. Didn't have the ...

But domestic demand did not call for the same goods, and the goods that were locally demanded were already in short supply before the crisis.

Even if the Doha Round cannot be concluded, there may be other routes, such as implementing what has already been agreed.

Our fractured landscape for energy governance was not planned.

Economic growth, of course, has never been linear in any country.

President Mahmoud Abbas was never an inspiring figure for Palestinians.

Peace is never a zero sum game.

But so are many, perhaps most.

In most cases if not all of them the grand Mufti approves and supports the judge s verdict.

What is just as important, if not more so, is the effectiveness of aid.

The Falkland Islands, unlike Argentina, had never had an indigenous population.

The sharp fiscal retrenchment that has now started throughout southern Europe should contribute further to a sharp deceleration, if not outright fall, in domestic demand there.

Although growth has indeed been significantly above trend in recent years, performance over the entire decade was unimpressive.

Neither Government had any responsive information prepared to those requests when the Group arrived for the first meetings in their capitals. After repeated verbal requests and explanations the Group did receive some data, none of which satisfied the Group's original requests.

Yet the global resources and instruments needed to manage (if not avert) the next crisis have not been secured.

Moreover, a phone, if you had one, was not necessarily a blessing.

The failure of Copenhagen was not the absence of a legally binding agreement.

But the fear, if not despair, of the poor and not so poor has increased tremendously.