If it were not for the double standard, one could almost excuse their ignorance.
If it were not for London, Britain would be off the map for both businessmen and tourists.
The sound of pop music would be very different if it were not for the likes of Vee-Jay Records.
The electron would have no mass if it were not for this "substance, " the field made of Higgs particles.
If it were not for the suitcase scandal, the preferential treatment conferred on PDVSA flights and passengers would sure continue.
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If it were not for the last quarters, growth would have been better than the 2.0% the economy registered for 2012.
But Dr Gill Markham, also of the CCSC, said nothing new would get built if it were not for the PFI.
If it were not for the Electronic Privacy Information Center's lawsuit, we would be unaware of the details of this latest program.
Indeed, if it were not for foreclosures the net asset position of US households would be getting worse even as their savings rate rose.
The picture would be much worse if it were not for the 2012 Olympics in London and, more important, these rising political advertising expenditures.
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Widely watched car sales, for instance, increased only 0.3% in November, year-on-year, but they would have declined if it were not for unusually large year-end discounts.
It was barely a month ago that Wigan went down 9-1 at Tottenham - and if it were not for good fortune they might have suffered a similar fate at Old Trafford.
Rising interest rates mean losses for holders of long-dated debt, and he says that if it were not for the Federal Reserve's bond-buying programme, US Treasury yields would be "higher, meaningfully higher".
President Ronald Reagan's drive for deficit-inducing tax cuts and deregulation might not have worked if it were not for the grass-roots conservative activism of the 1970s that pushed national debate to the right.
"TWA would not be in bankruptcy court now if it were not for Mr. Icahn's prior plundering of our airline's resources, " said Robert Pastore , chairman of the TWA Master Executive Council of Air Line Pilots in a statement.
Judge Reddihough added the large number of other websites illegally streaming football matches called "for court to impose deterrent sentences", and that if it were not for mitigating factors of young age and previous good character that he "would have had in mind a custodial sentence".
If it were not for this kick, the apparatus would be behaving just like Maxwell's Demon, a hypothetical creature (conceived of in the 19th century by James Clerk Maxwell) that could cause the spontaneous separation of hot and cold particles and thus do serious damage to some of the laws of physics.
Such a fund would be self sustaining if it were a not for profit organization and reinvested profits earned in expanding services.
That would be worth repeating several times if it were not too cringingly presented for parents.
Even if they were, it is not clear whether they were working for us.
The trip to hospital was related to Mrs Glauber's pregnancy but it is not clear if they were going there for the child's birth.
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Still, Google's business will not likely be impacted even if it were for some reason forced to abandon the project.
But Ive said it was not uncommon for Apple to scrap "incredibly compelling" devices at the production stage if they were not considered game changing, or the design problems were considered deep-seated.
It is simply not possible or reasonable for law enforcement to respond to every missing child case as if it were a sexually motivated nonfamily abduction.
If QE were attempted on that scale, it would not be good for the dollar.
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The decline would be steeper and faster were it not for a continuing, if modest since it is already world-beating, increase in longevity of old people.
Thus, a spy plane could not be completely invisible if it were to be used for espionage or, indeed, flown at all, since its pilots would need to know its position relative to the ground.
If it was not a display itself, it looked like they were practising for a display.
The more insurmountable problem is that even if bank balance sheets were made whole again, it might not make sense for banks to lend.
But even if the technology were 100% perfect, it would still not be a replacement for parental involvement.
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