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835 Sentences With "were it not for"

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My bathroom would not exist were it not for Amazon.
Were it not for two things, you probably would, too.
None of this would be possible were it not for sand.
These questions would scarcely plague us were it not for McDormand.
Were it not for sweets, there would hardly be a story.
This would seem like psychopathology were it not for several factors.
The puppies damn near died were it not for a Good Samaritan.
Were it not for the internet, they would probably never have met.
Were it not for the euphoria I was experiencing, I would've panicked.
I would agree, were it not for the Department of Justice report.
But Clinton believes she would have won were it not for that.
We wouldn't have the ability were it not for capital partners like SoftBank.
This date would not have been interesting were it not for Rachel Lindsay.
But he might have skipped it were it not for the looming referendum.
Were it not for that crushing debt, many would still be in business.
Were it not for immigrants, the labor crunch would be even more intense.
Were it not for the coincidence of Mr. McGahn, she might well be.
Last, were it not for this policy, I would like to visit the country.
The plan might have passed last year, were it not for Mitch McConnell's rejection.
Were it not for their skulduggery, Mr Trump insists, he would lead by 20%.
Were it not for her vocal career, she and Clouzot might never have connected.
Were it not for her vocal career, she and Clouzot might never have connected.
It would be tiresome were it not for the casual energy of the filmmaking.
Observers have noted that Italians might speak better English were it not for dubbing.
That might include all Pool users, were it not for one thing: the walking.
That run would have tied the game—were it not for Mr Rizzo's free pass.
Were it not for Bradford, Daniel would have a real shot at the starting gig.
Likely would have been built by now were it not for the Obama Administration's obstructionism.
Were it not for his religious fanaticism, I would vote for Pence in a heartbeat.
Of course, there would be no composer in residence were it not for Mr. Gilbert.
And it might have never come to light were it not for Denhollander, Ford suggested.
Were it not for their work, one can almost imagine their relationship had never happened.
"Were it not for her, Bulgari would not be what it is today," he said.
But were it not for those three characteristics I would not be welcome here possibly.
Were it not for a number of practical considerations, the Court would do just that.
"Delaware," Mr. Biden said, "I'd not be taking this journey were it not for you."
Recruiting would have been more difficult were it not for Spain's epidemic of youth unemployment.
Were it not for the whistleblower, we might today be living in this alternate reality.
That would be even higher were it not for growth in another category – personal loans.
Were it not for my day job, I would watch the game in a pub.
He might have been right — were it not for World War I and Eisenhower's convoy.
He might have been right — were it not for World War I and Eisenhower's convoy.
Maybe it never would have happened were it not for this one surprise hit Scream parody.
Were it not for the visitors walking through the museum, the work wouldn't come to life.
These important issues would have remained hidden, were it not for people speaking out about them.
Mr Haber says he might not have moved to Celebration were it not for the school.
Were it not for the daily horror of chugging ghee, I might think myself on vacation.
Bill Clinton's might have been Northern Ireland peace were it not for the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
For this we might be grateful, were it not for two complaints: cost and shameless hypocrisy.
For all their intensity, Ireland's internal arguments would be manageable, were it not for another spectre.
In some quarters, Exxon would not have made any money were it not for its refineries.
Councils might get rid of the barmiest rules were it not for the second problem: taxation.
Delrahim would be entering his second month on the job were it not for one senator.
We would not be the great country we are today were it not for Latino contributions.
Were it not for the insurance issue, would you have just stayed in boxing full time?
Mr. Bush believed he would have won were it not for Mr. Perot, Mr. Baker said.
It would have been more dangerous, were it not for a large sign with a skull.
It can be really hilarious were it not for the attention he pays to his characters.
The margin could have been even more lopsided were it not for 13 Wichita State turnovers.
"That would have been a two-day story were it not for me," Mr. Avenatti said.
Frankly, Jackson might have gone the same way, were it not for the right role or two.
Were it not for Focus's inability to push to read-later apps, I'd switch to it immediately.
Such costs might be borne, were it not for the dreadful political economy of climate-change mitigation.
That might be tolerable, were it not for the other big cost of the Trump era: unpredictability.
All this could be cloying, were it not for the pickled cauliflower resetting your palate for more.
The company never would have achieved critical mass [on the supply side] were it not for Venezuelans.
Would we have ever seen each other again were it not for my butt and its schemes?
Were it not for the dominance of Le'Veon Bell, the game might have gone the other way.
Were it not for her emergency albuterol inhaler, she might have had to call 911, she added.
They would be law, he can say, were it not for pesky judges getting in the way.
It would seem a near impossible task, were it not for the fact that The People v.
The school has long acknowledged that it would not exist were it not for Mr. Montgomery's sacrifice.
Were it not for her veil, the Virgin Enthroned could be male or female, boy or girl.
That could have been the end of it, were it not for the "Find my iPhone" feature.
That wouldn't be the case, however, were it not for two stocks critical to this year's performance.
Were it not for the New York Times's efforts, those documents would likely have been lost forever.
This means their profits could have been almost one-third higher were it not for these legal costs.
We couldn't have told the story in as much vivid detail were it not for computer-generated imagery.
Many soldiers have told me they would have committed suicide were it not for the Wounded Warrior Project.
Houston could have seen a massive foreclosure crisis were it not for strong investor demand in the market.
In fact, were it not for the text, the show would not feel like a memorial at all.
Were it not for immigrants and their children, the working-age population would be shrinking (see chart 1).
That would be steeper were it not for a planned production hike at the miner's Radomiro Tomic prospect.
Ms Park would never have risen to power were it not for the enduring reverence for her father.
The blokeyness of the production would be overwhelming were it not for the deep fragility running through it.
The world would have many fewer firms developing electric cars were it not for Elon Musk and Tesla.
Were it not for rookie Carson Wentz, Daniel would be getting buzz as the quarterback of the future.
Were it not for Donald Trump, the latest Pew Research findings would make dismal reading for Vladimir Putin.
The natural wonders immortalized in print might not look as magnificent today were it not for these programs.
People who probably wouldn't need looking after were it not for the huge quantities of alcohol they'd drunk.
And the CBO wouldn't play anything like that role were it not for the contributions of Alice Rivlin.
That would still be a mystery were it not for the anomalous data received by the Galileo magnetometer.
The view would be impressive were it not for a single very tall tree about a mile away.
Our sources say the D.A. called the case "potentially prosecutable" ... were it not for the statute of limitations.
"I'd remind people: We would not have health care today were it not for Nancy Pelosi," Obey said.
Indeed, over half of the people that were hired wouldn't have been were it not for the platform.
I might have accepted such a fate without question were it not for my parents' ongoing bad choices.
That number would have been considerably lower were it not for the addition of 25,000 temporary census workers.
"The Chevy Bolt might not exist now were it not for Tesla," said Sam Abuelsamid, an analyst at Navigant.
Demi conversation would be a classic Bachelor spat, were it not for the strange age conversation embedded in it.
Were it not for the curve (what is it with Samsung and curved screens?), it would all but disappear.
Were it not for Leicester and Claudio Ranieri, Koeman would be considered the greatest warrior in the Premier League.
Were it not for food aid, often dropped out of planes onto remote villages, hundreds of thousands would starve.
Ryanair's profit figures would have been much stronger over the past six months, were it not for slowing demand.
Pristine beaches and ancient pagodas might attract tourists, were it not for the rudimentary infrastructure and threat of violence.
Shawn Rech: I learned that, were it not for law enforcement, Wershe may never have sold drugs at all.
Likewise her name might not be touted for the ticket were it not for the complexion of the race.
My dog (Julie) being perfectly happy were it not for social stigma, pictured with her owners She loves it.
Were it not for funding, there would be no life on Earth, or no life as we know it.
"The United States would not long exist were it not for the selfless commitment of such warriors," he said.
That's the other thing—I would not be the musician I have become were it not for my kids.
Were it not for its frightening underside, the popular view of politicians would be laughable in its utter inaccuracy.
"All New Yorkers would not have free public theater were it not for Merle Debuskey, period," Mr. Birsh said.
The matter would have ended there, were it not for a push to have Archbishop Sheen declared a saint.
The question of what to do about fish migration wouldn't really exist were it not for man-made dams.
" Were it not for his own advice to Mr. Rouhani, the ayatollah said, "we would have given up more.
Betts said he was "100 percent positive" he would have caught the ball were it not for the fan.
Finally, the trends, plans and opinions would not be as positive were it not for the positive growth climate.
Those were all very significant victories—and were it not for the Problem Solvers, they might never have materialized.
Eighty percent of those people will tell you they would not have started vaping were it not for flavors.
The risk of audience members joining the dancers in dozing would be high, were it not for the music.
WERE it not for Saudi intolerance, there might never have been Al Jazeera, the Arab world's most popular news channel.
Were it not for the $15 million in dead cap space, Atlanta would be a top-10 cap space team.
Were it not for these beautiful goals, we'd have probably surrendered to the sweet embrace of death at this point.
"Were it not for the rand's slump, South Africa would not have surrendered its second place during 2015," Viljoen added.
"Houston could have seen a massive foreclosure crisis were it not for strong investor demand in the market," CNBC reported.
Nobody would be able to make any sense of all the races, were it not for this Premier League preview.
But it would not have resonated so far and wide were it not for the first two factors listed above.
SGE would have been rated one notch off the parent were it not for the constraint by Bulgaria's sovereign rating.
Ballet Valet might have remained a one-off were it not for the arrival of Art Basel in Miami Beach.
Were it not for a video uploaded to YouTube, the community likely would not have known what happened to Sterling.
Were it not for her bald head, it would be difficult to tell that she has stage IV breast cancer.
Another emerging villain is Bekah, the 22-year-old who, were it not for her age, would be a frontrunner.
Expressbank would have been rated one notch off the parent were it not for the constraint from Bulgaria's Country Ceiling.
Mr Brooks might have scored an endorsement from the president were it not for his statements during the presidential primary.
In fact, they might have made the Playoff last year were it not for a rash of injuries on defense.
Democrats clearly prefer his agenda to hers; were it not for her gender, the socialist would have defeated her handily.
Were it not for the water, few features in the ocean would present an off-road car with much difficulty.
Were it not for its aging nuclear arsenal, they would fall somewhere between Brazil and Canada on the threat matrix.
It could almost be mistaken for a family home were it not for the protesters, who arrive about 8 a.m.
Were it not for this assistance, the Egyptian security forces would be taking even higher casualties than it currently suffers.
But it could have made even more were it not for the strength of the dollar compared to other currencies.
How many listeners would enjoy Stravinsky's tricky, acerbic "Agon" were it not for George Balanchine's penetrating ballet to the score?
It is possible, of course, that Republican losses might have been even larger were it not for the strong economy.
Wichita could be among the most tax-friendly states were it not for its higher-than-average property tax rates.
But the fact is, many Americans would soon lack health insurance were it not for the unity of elected Democrats.
Were it not for courageous public servants doing their duty and testifying, the President's scheme might still be concealed today.
Were it not for her bringing it up to government officials repeatedly, this issue could have been easily swept aside.
She said the city would not have got away with the evictions were it not for the 240 Olympic Games.
The scenic disparity would be a quibble were it not for the novel's final act, which takes place in India.
At the same time, some Yellow Vests acknowledge their complaints might not be heard were it not for the casseurs.
Were it not for the ticket booth and placard at the edge of the location, one could easily miss them.
Were it not for Marco Rubio and John Kasich, he might have won North Carolina, and may even have taken Illinois.
Were it not for the posters, the odd noisy campaign van and occasional rallies outside train stations, few people would notice.
The meeting would seem perfectly innocent, were it not for the fact that Diamond and Silk were paid Trump campaign consultants.
"Were it not for the provocative behavior of North Korea, we would have no need for THAAD out here," he added.
Traders said the prices could have fallen further were it not for exports, including to France where nuclear supply is tight.
Things would surely be worse were it not for a constitutional amendment in 2016, which caps the rise in public spending.
And were it not for this story, there's no way I would have voluntarily set foot on a cruise ship again.
That would have been more severe were it not for truck sales, according to a report by tracking firm LMC Automotive.
"The casualties would be much higher were it not for the heat action plans that many cities have adopted," he said.
The last time I spoke with her, she said that were it not for the boys, she'd be off the board.
Were it not for AWS, Amazon probably would not have posted a profit in the string of quarters that it did.
And both the numbers in the U.S. and in Europe would be far worse were it not for higher immigrant fertility.
The party holds half the Assembly's 60 seats (and would hold more, were it not for the Assembly's proportional voting system).
The thing is, he might have gotten away with it—were it not for his hobby of producing Nazi-themed breakfasts.
"Were it not for the provocative behavior of North Korea, we would have no need for THAAD out here," Mattis said.
Were it not for its precious score, zany one-liners, and cool-kid cachet, Juno might have slipped under the radar.
Taron Egerton says he wouldn't be the successful, rising star he is today were it not for his family's unyielding support.
"Were it not for his political stance, he'd be employed right now," said Jeremi Duru, a law professor at American University.
And were it not for a family connection, Bill Murray may have embellished his bartending experience to book his latest gig.
Wages grew at a slightly faster pace in March, and might have risen more were it not for blustery spring weather.
Roadway deaths would no doubt be more common were it not for infrastructure improvements like crash cushions and energy-absorbing guardrails.
A vibrant segment of the stock-photo industry would cease to exist were it not for our fear of the void.
Were it not for the unrest in Hong Kong, now could be an opportune time for Alibaba to approach the market.
I am aware of the missed adventures and career options I might have pursued were it not for my two daughters.
Musk also told Auto Express that he would have considered building the factory in the UK, were it not for Brexit.
The state would likely rank higher in the category were it not for low unemployment putting skilled workers in short supply.
Normally, this would be a journalistic sin, were it not for an elegant and cynical workaround: giving the subject the byline.
Eric Gordon was 2-for-12, which would have looked worse were it not for James Harden's 2-for-13 performance.
Mr. Singer, now 56, believes it would have been occupied long ago, were it not for the interference of bad actors.
The most recent fire could have been worse, he said, were it not for an abrupt drop in wind and temperature.
Lawyers for all three argue that it does, because they would not have been fired were it not for their sex.
Many schools wouldn't be able to pay for Spheros were it not for the money that stem and related initiatives provide.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, unpopular and deeply distrusted, might well be trailing badly were it not for that fear factor.
Were it not for a few, barely visible ripples, you wouldn't have known that my sandaled feet were submerged at all.
Were it not for Sy on Emmit's side and Nikki on Ray's, a peaceful arrangement between the brothers would seem achievable.
" Noah joked that it would have been the same old story after the shooting were it not for "those meddling kids.
He claimed that were it not for the "negative phony stuff" on "Russia, Russia, Russia," he would be polling substantially higher.
Like Mr. Schute and Mr. Layton, he sees something in Kurdistan that would be obvious were it not for the news.
Denton has said that Gawker Media would be profitable were it not for the money it's shelling out in legal fees.
A prevailing theory among environmental groups is that none of this would have happened were it not for the Endangered Species Act.
West Brom would be an absolute certainty for last spot on Match of the Day – were it not for Stoke vs. Swansea.
In the old days, Pruitt would be in danger of being burned at the stake — were it not for the carbon emissions.
While sales are improved, they could be even stronger, were it not for the short supply of available homes on the market.
He then reveals a pancake that looks more like a spill than a cartoon, were it not for its two strawberry eyes.
It's a delicate story that would be impossible to adapt for film were it not for the strength of the actors involved.
The reviews of Kenneth Lonergan's masterpiece were swooning — it would be 100% on Rotten Tomatoes were it not for something called Redeye.
"I'm really not sure those views in Fredricksburg would be aired were it not for Trump's 'mainstreaming' of these prejudices," Feldman says.
Many of the deaths could have been prevented, investigators argued, were it not for bungling by the police and the fire service.
And he would have been, were it not for ISIS, the position of which he had unwittingly reiterated almost word for word.
Some of the operational correspondence I have seen during my career would grace many an anthology were it not for its classification.
Some come from countries in which doing business with Iran, for example, would be no problem were it not for America's stance.
It would all be too much were it not for the standout cast, who should be your next Instagram follows, for sure.
The heroic staff cared for several children with infections that could have proved fatal, were it not for their intervention and care.
Were it not for the escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, oil prices would likely be plummeting today, rather than rising.
Were it not for the gnocchi and langoustines cushioning my digestive tract, I'm sure I would have felt butterflies in my stomach.
In interviews with CNN, several voters said were it not for Trump, they would have most likely backed Cruz in the primary.
The D.A. called the case "potentially prosecutable" were it not for the statute of limitations, so the case will not be filed.
Great News would be one in a queue of irreverent workplace comedies were it not for one thing: Its dedication to farts.
The federal deficit likely would have ticked higher were it not for the timing of certain payments based on when weekends fell.
Lillard's euro step layup with 7.6 seconds left would have been the game-winner were it not for Huerter's sweeping layup with .
The standard is: It's a campaign expenditure if it is an obligation that would not exist were it not for the campaign.
Geraldo Abreu, head of environmental regulation at Semad, admits were it not for the spill, a license to restart would be simple.
Réal's life would not have passed into obscurity, like those of so many other sex workers, were it not for her diaries.
That exhibition should have included Joan Mitchell, who was quite close to Riopelle, were it not for the art world's stifling machismo.
And just on July 3 he tweeted that were it not for him, the US would be at war with North Korea.
Were it not for his biblical role, "he would be remembered as a Roman official who didn't do so well," he said.
"We would have been crushed like cockroaches were it not for the anarchists and the anti-fascists," he said on the show.
It would be more painful still were it not for the LME's rules capping the longs' daily fee for lending their metal.
Were it not for him, say police and witnesses, a gun-toting man's rampage in a Tennessee church would have been deadlier.
But it could have dragged on longer and proven deadlier were it not for the rapid response of a school resource officer.
Trump simply lied when he said that he would have won the popular vote were it not for millions of illegal votes.
"Were it not for the trade war between the U.S. and China, we would have a much higher copper price," Prokurica said.
"Were it not for the provocative behavior of North Korea, we would have no need for Thaad out here," Mr. Mattis added.
Were it not for the director's steady hand and adamantine focus on her destination, this ambition could have been the film's undoing.
"Were it not for Hawaii, we would absolutely be adding some more international routes and augmenting some of our flying," Kelly said.
Certain frames could be mistaken for photos, were it not for the audio of howling wind or dripping water or rustling trees.
The predictability would taint the record, were it not for the fact that each song can stand on its own arresting sound.
They loved Germany, and were it not for the genocide, their descendants would likely be living happily in Germany to this day.
Obama might have salvaged his foreign policy legacy were it not for Syria, which history will judge his and the world's greatest failure.
Ford wrote she would "give myself four stars" for how she handled the visit, were it not for the slip of the titles.
The composition itself wouldn't be so strange were it not for the fact that Ivanka was 15 at the time of the photograph.
"I would be able to go totally down that line of thinking were it not for Matilda not having her dad," she said.
Meanwhile, Japan continues to run a rather large budget deficit; were it not for that, it's current-account surplus would likely be larger.
Who knows where the careers of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint would be were it not for the Potter film franchise?
Were it not for a certain meticulous spit-shine in the production, this album could've been released in 1998—and I'm all in.
LA-based producer Julian Scanlan might still be working at a Best Buy in New Jersey were it not for a SoundCloud violation.
Environmental experts say the rate of forest loss would be far higher were it not for the bamboo in areas like Manicaland Province.
"Were it not for Donald Trump, I don't think you'd see the Democratic energy that we're witnessing on Long Island," Mr. Israel said.
The bridge, officially called Squibb Park Bridge, would have been a footnote to Brooklyn Bridge Park were it not for its embarrassing debut.
Were it not for the courageous voices speaking out publicly in the last two weeks, there would be less accountability for sexual misconduct.
And why are we searching for that answer in what is perhaps a wholly unremarkable release were it not for Stapleton's sheer talent?
Were it not for that, Mr. Giraldo's jailers would have had no hint that he was ever a force to be reckoned with.
Were it not for the life-saving ring from Japan's central bank, the dollar/yen premiums would have gone much higher, analysts said.
Mr. Chumlong likely would have gotten away with the scheme were it not for Johnny Olivier, a fixer and interpreter in South Africa.
"Winter" had surpassed itself, leading me toward a life that I never would have had were it not for this random VHS rental.
And the drawings would be pure juvenilia, were it not for later changes he made: In the mid-2000s, he added written texts.
We might have been able to martial an innovative approach to controlling the mosquitoes, were it not for dysfunctional and dilatory government regulation.
Were it not for the way mangroves served as shields, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami could have taken many more than 220,203 lives.
Were it not for our reverence for money, Mr. Trump would be easily recognized as the simple-minded, vulgar, bigoted blowhard he is.
Many have told Reuters they might have stayed in the United States were it not for President Donald Trump's immigration rhetoric and policies.
She is intimidatingly beautiful, ruthless, and self-possessed—attributes that might easily be criticized, were it not for the show's expert character-crafting.
Many were in the United States legally and some interviewed by Reuters said they might have stayed were it not for an immigration crackdown.
While the pork sector has limited its losses, it might make great gains in sales to China were it not for the trade war.
Were it not for George Holliday, a plumber from Argentina, videotaping King's beating from his apartment window, the incident may have escaped public attention.
The idea that Germany would attack France or that Austria would go to war against Italy were it not for the EU is laughable.
Chief Financial Officer Duncan Tatton-Brown said the sales increase would have been "closer to 13 percent" were it not for the driver shortage.
This important information that finally opened people's eyes to democrat candidates and operatives would not have been exposed were it not for Julian Assange.
Were it not for Mr Trump, reform-minded conservatives would probably be cutting a far more Trumpian path (loosely defined) than they are now.
Today, the clinic provides treatment for 5,800 patients—a huge burden, were it not for the "HIV clubs" that stretch the public sector's budget.
Were it not for Chinese banks extending vast amounts of credit with minimal safeguards, Sri Lanka would never have been saddled with these debts.
While Republicans dutifully blame Democrats, most seem to agree that, were it not for Trump, there would be little trouble keeping the government open.
He and Deem should not be rewarded for merely first doing what many others could have done, were it not for their own scruples.
Clearly, Anastasia Romanoff would have been a prototypical Disney princess, were it not for one big, whopping problem: Anastasia is not a Disney movie.
The paycheck strategy would be politically amusing were it not for the fact that the budget impasse is having severe effects on Illinois citizens.
His show would read like a straightforward bit of reportage, were it not for the material twist he has given this body of photos.
Were it not for her friends going to the media and bringing attention to the matter, her death would've been more like a disappearance.
Aviation experts say, however, that at least some of this could be handled with existing infrastructure, were it not for the military's heavy hand.
California and the courts could not have been ready for our case were it not for the many, many actions of many other people.
Samantha says she would have had nowhere to turn after her latest stint in jail for drug possession were it not for Angel Reach.
" Brahms's two male voices, tenor and bass, fondly, sighingly, invoke their charms: "I should long since have turned monk were it not for women!
I spoke with Mr. Aucoin and he mentioned that, were it not for "Crossing," he likely never would have set Whitman's words to music.
It might all be nursery rhyme were it not for the foreboding "too many" anaphora and the recurring "spoil" (with its toil and trouble).
Were it not for the efforts of the whistle-blower, everything about this would have been hidden from the F.E.C. and the American people.
Were it not for Michael R. Bloomberg's nine-figure media budget, Mr. Steyer would be by far the biggest spender in the 2020 race.
FactSet analysts note that the valuation level would be higher were it not for Wall Street expecting record earnings over the next two years.
Were it not for Trump's clumsy approach to governance, the original push to add a citizenship question would have likely attracted far less scrutiny.
The market reaction would likely have been much greater were it not for the substantial increase in US crude production over the past decade.
Many were in the United States legally and some interviewed by Reuters said they might have stayed were it not for an immigration crackdown.
In a parallel world, both Argentina and Venezuela would be the region's richest countries, were it not for their leaders' penchants for mismanagement and corruption.
They kept that under wraps and would never have let the American public know how biased they were, were it not for the Inspector General.
Were it not for a yearbook article about his new career, it's possible that his classmates would still be asking: Whatever happened to Stefano Disalvo?
The hospital is located in a non-descript office building and would go unnoticed were it not for the wheelchairs visible through the open door.
Were it not for Planned Parenthood, I would not have had access to the tools I needed to take care of my body and myself.
Were it not for America's tough stance against FIFA, for instance, the dodgy officials who ran world football would not have been brought to book.
The scarlet Dior creation Ms. Lawrence wore to the Golden Globes would be considered nearly conservative were it not for strategic slivers of exposed abs.
The drop would be bigger still were it not for breakneck growth in China, where skier-days nearly tripled in the same period to 11m.
I don't think I would be, professionally, I generally don't think I would be where I am today, were it not for social media. Okay.
Crystal Palace might be in genuine relegation trouble at this point, were it not for the true awfulness of the teams in the bottom three.
The damage and death toll would have been far worse were it not for the efforts of first responders like David Nordquist and Joel Smith.
A former monastery on a hilltop, it would resemble a high school campus were it not for the rings of concertina wire that surround it.
He probably wouldn't have remembered our agency were it not for the fact that, he told me, he loved our Mekanism hoodie and wore it.
Were it not for the specialist pole burn treatment center, with a first aider in attendance, you could be at any gymnastics or dance event.
All this might have become oppressive were it not for contrasting moments of quiet, frail beauty: voices braided around one another in gently dissonant chords.
He inspired a whole generation of chefs and the UK restaurant scene would not be what it is today were it not for his influence.
They are often overheard talking about vacations and cruises, which would attract no attention were it not for the obvious assault on ethically minded people.
Were it not for a federal judge's ruling that the program must at least temporarily continue, 25,000 DACA recipients would be at risk of deportation.
These important changes would not be happening were it not for actions by multiple administrations — a rare display of bipartisanship in an otherwise partisan era.
It's awkward, and, honestly, I'm not sure I would have figured it out were it not for our friends at Ars Technica pointing it out.
Were it not for reporters on the ground, like Gene Roberts of The New York Times, the truth of Hue would never have gotten out.
Wright might have been able to continue the scam for much longer were it not for a supervisor at the federal agency where he worked.
Latef Alabi, the imam at Linwood, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that were it not for Wahabzadah's actions, the death toll would have been higher.
Such tactics alone would never suffice, however, were it not for crucial support for Chavismo — Hugo Chávez's brand of socialism — by its Eastern benefactor, Beijing.
Hur and Skin-Tight's photos serve as peeks into lives we might never know about were it not for those on the inside documenting them.
He calls 2002 through 2010 "bad years," and were it not for the spiritual uplift inherent in house music, Fichon admits he might have gone under.
Biden would clearly have loved to run in 20163, were it not for the fact that he was still grieving the loss of his son, Beau.
LONDON (Reuters) - Were it not for Tom Cruise and Mary Poppins, Britain's economy might not have gained any speed at all during a sluggish second quarter.
Whole Foods would literally grind to a full stop were it not for the hard work that WFM team members put into their jobs every day.
The rub is that he could have come closer, were it not for some campaign miscues that made it even harder for the Vermont senator's campaign.
An early analysis has found that this sweltering European summer would have been less than half as likely were it not for human-induced global warming.
Meadow's lawyer is claiming the fire was the cause of Paul's demise, and he'd still be alive were it not for a defect in the cell.
It's one of the largest political advertisers on Facebook — and were it not for some sleuthing by reporters, we would have no idea who it is.
In fact, the GDPR would probably not exist at all were it not for this collection of companies, which have an insatiable hunger for personal data.
Technology and biotechs led the charge and activity would have been even higher were it not for below-average activity in the energy and financial sectors.
"Warcraft," with its $160 million budget, would be a financial catastrophe were it not for China, where the fantasy adventure has earned more than $200 million.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads I'd call Sarah Braman's show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash a breakthrough were it not for her slow and steady ascent.
High profits might be a sign of brilliant innovations or wise long-term investments, were it not for the fact that they are also suspiciously persistent.
Were it not for milk and the Lon Lon Ranch storyline that surrounds it, the story of Hero of Time-era Link would be a tragedy.
They are used to indicate gratitude when God bestows something upon you that you would have been incapable of attaining were it not for divine benevolence.
I'll admit it: I'd be far less in the latter camp were it not for this show's obsession with the aforementioned grand monologuing on a dime.
Ms. Grande's song "wouldn't exist in its current form were it not for 'My Favorite Things,'" Jake Wisely, Concord's chief publishing executive, said in an interview.
Were it not for the textbook that changed my life, I would have abandoned the language faster than Marie Antoinette fleeing a mob of angry peasants.
Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley would long since have been lost to history were it not for one thing: He ponied up 10 guineas for a trophy.
Were it not for a digital black box that recorded everything on IDT's network, along with Mr. Ben-Oni's tenacity, the attack might have gone unnoticed.
I would love to wear it under a blazer, were it not for the deep seam down the middle that leaves the pattern looking slightly off.
He would agree with them, were it not for the fact that his previous job in a steel mill near St. Louis paid $28 an hour.
The discovery would have been a shock, were it not for the fact that such breaches have become routine, unavoidable costs of a data-powered internet.
Mr. Obama, for example, might never have been elected to the Senate in 2004 were it not for damaging revelations about his rivals and their divorces.
But the state would do much better were it not for a brain drain in which hundreds of college students every year are leaving after they graduate.
And he added what is undoubtedly true — that he "probably wouldn't be here right now" were it not for his use of social media during the campaign.
Looking back, he's not sure how that standoff would have been resolved were it not for a job offer that came two weeks after his mother's ultimatum.
Thousands would have crossed picket lines already were it not for colleagues who maintain solidarity, by, for example, forcing strikebreakers to strip naked or smashing their phones.
WERE it not for the graffiti on abandoned buildings, Bitterfeld-Wolfen, two towns north of Leipzig joined as one in 2007, would seem devoid of young people.
Indeed, were it not for one tournament, "El Pibe de Oro" would be regarded as a supremely gifted player whose dissolute social life ultimately undermined his talent.
The decision to go with prominent notches is one that simply would not have been taken were it not for the iPhone X. Our notch is smaller!
Goldman Sachs economists expect 170,000 payrolls, and say that their forecast could have been 30,000 to 60,000 higher were it not for the winter storms in March.
Not only did he popularize the glitch but I wouldn't have known about the [on-the-ground] throw effect were it not for watching his old clips.
But supporters say that therapists would surely never have received such evidence were it not for that confidentiality, and that untreated paedophiles are more likely to offend.
Johnson would have been fined 200,000 pounds ($290,000) were it not for evidence that this would cause him serious financial hardship, the FCA said in a statement.
And were it not for a man named Daniel J. Jones and a 20143 report detailing the secret program, you may have never even learned about it.
"Max Rose," a soggy, fragile feature about love, death, marriage and memories, might never have made it to theaters were it not for its star, Jerry Lewis.
Her daughter was too young to read the newspapers, and so would have been unaware were it not for the talk among friends' parents and older siblings.
This announcement would have attracted very little attention were it not for the unusual path the company has chosen to go public: without the SEC's explicit approval.
Age might have been a very big issue this year, were it not for the fact that both of our candidates are in the same calendric boat.
And that might be enough to recommend it as a few hours of mindless entertainment on a Saturday night — were it not for one perplexing, troubling flaw.
Bret: You make an excellent point, which I would be strongly tempted to agree with, were it not for one thing: I'm a bit of a jerk.
A slighted police chief The allegations of murder may never have surfaced were it not for an attempted power play by the Prime Minister late last year.
But were it not for Netflix, he continued during an interview in Manhattan a few weeks ago, "Okja" as he conceived it could not have been made.
Romantic attachment and disappointment are presented as mirror images of social attachment and disappointment, a stance that, were it not for the jokes, would seem almost Chekhovian.
It began with Psychedelicat, a horse that would have remained unremarkable for the rest of his life, were it not for the precise timing of his death.
The result: A 3 ½-hour gangster epic that's beautifully done, but which easily could be confused for a streaming miniseries were it not for all those stars.
But the most perplexing thing about Clinton's proposal is that, were it not for the fact that this will happen to all borrowers, this option already exists.
Qiao and Bin's problems might not have amounted to a hill of beans were it not for the engrossing and empathic efforts of Jia's two lead actors.
Were it not for the wedding of modern feminism with the sexual revolution, many more men, I think, would more readily value the culturally essential work of caregiving.
"This important information (the emails) that finally opened people's eyes to democrat candidates and operatives would not have been exposed were it not for Julian Assange," she wrote.
A year ago, Fitch said Russia's sovereign rating would be one notch higher than its current BBB- level were it not for the latest round of U.S. sanctions.
The salaries of US-born computer scientists might be higher were it not for the influx of high-skilled immigrants into the tech industry, a new report suggests.
There are theoretically romantic overtures that could be creepy were it not for the fact that both characters involved actually like each other (a classic rom-com tactic).
The irony for Sessions is that the STATES Act probably wouldn't exist — certainly not with bipartisan backing — were it not for Sessions' own policy positions and saber rattling.
I could almost subscribe to this idea were it not for the fact that the show is littered with iconographic retreads: unicorns, a flayed horse, and so on.
Were it not for the "Prince Harry and Meghan Markle prepare for their wedding" show, this birth would have been the undisputed biggest royal news of the spring.
Were it not for his catastrophic decision to call the EU referendum, Mr Cameron would have gone down in history as one of the Tories' best party managers.
Were it not for her ties to Wall Street, the candidate Ms Gillibrand most resembles is Elizabeth Warren, though she lacks Ms Warren's academic record on public policy.
This would feel cliche, were it not for Mulligan's delicate (and slightly manic) portrayal of a woman on the brink, dissatisfied with herself, her son, and her life.
But the fall would have been even larger were it not for the 2.3 trillion euros of bonds that changed hands in November, the month of the election.
But were it not for trainer Jason Crutchfield, who coaches at Flint's legendary F.W.C. Berston Boxing Club, Shields would be working down near her home in sunny Florida.
"Were it not for our efforts to spearhead the sanctions and foil Iran's nuclear program, Iran would have already had nuclear weapons long ago," Netanyahu told his cabinet.
The 'King'  would have been quite mediocre were it not for the black women who pushed the boundaries that made space for him to be recognized as great.
His melodramatic, almost adolescent conniptions would be laughable were it not for what follows: the execution of five kneeling men in orange jumpsuits, accused of being British spies.
My career would not have progressed the way it did were it not for your father who never once complained about the time I spent away from home.
Goldman Sachs economists forecast 22001,000 jobs were created in March, but they say that number could have been 30,000 to 60,000 higher were it not for the weather.
UBB could be rated within one notch of its parent were it not for the constraint from Bulgaria's Country Ceiling, which caps UBB's Long-Term IDR at 'BBB+'.
His wealth could serve to secure a future for both Lady Susan and Frederica, were it not for the fact that Frederica despises the very sight of him.
Were it not for the explanatory museum labels, a viewer today would have a hard time making out what's going on in either of the two later works.
Were it not for Monica's intervention, combined with the blind luck of Gavin Belson inadvertently giving huge market value to a rival platform, Richard's dream would be dead.
Were it not for the literary hoaxes early in his career, perhaps he would never have been inspired to push the boundaries of fiction in his later masterpiece.
The one thing we can say with absolute certainty is that we'd hear about it every day were it not for the fact that Donald Trump is 70.
This sense of therapeutic mission might be unpalatably gooey were it not for the show's command of tone: its skill at combining earnest quests with wild-goose chases.
Were it not for the bravery and generosity of those Americans who served in Vietnam during the war and immediately afterwards, my family might not be here today.
And in an age when queer publishing is drying up, Beijing Comrades may have continued to exist only in digital form were it not for the Feminist Press.
Were it not for the game-changing superstardom of Conor McGregor, Alvarez's defeat of Pettis might well have earned him a shot at Rafael Dos Anjos' lightweight title.
Andrew Cuomo, offering her the sort of momentum going into the September primary that she might not have had were it not for the state's bifurcated nominating process.
That Eddie is black and Jess an immigrant would be incidental were it not for the way those facts comment on John and Ani's disabilities, and vice versa.
And virtually all the interviewees attest to the fact that many more European Jews could have been saved were it not for the United States' stringent immigration quotas.
It's all but certain that the 22018 resurgence of the #MeToo movement would not have started were it not for the reporting of Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey.
Were it not for whistleblowers bringing this misconduct to light, the doping practices would have likely continued under the radar, and likely do continue under the radar elsewhere.
Gaucher said building would be even stronger were it not for shortages of skilled construction workers and a lack of developable land in some parts of the country.
"Were it not for the coronavirus, the sustainability of [its performance in China] would not be called into question ... It's an important risk that investors need to monitor."
Were it not for that romance, however, this Archie wouldn't have climbed into a car that crashes, thereby losing the thumb and index finger of his left hand.
Ms. Köhler said the death toll would have been higher, were it not for an automatic braking system that kicked in shortly after the vehicle jumped the sidewalk.
"Letter From an Unknown Woman" is so beautifully self-contained that, were it not for Ophüls's choreographed camera movement, it might have been filmed in a snow globe.
Do you think you would have reached an agreement, were it not for the sudden banning of vaping products in parts of the U.S. and around the world?
Conway tells me that were it not for Crane's scrupulous note-taking—a product of her career as a nurse and paralegal—the case wouldn't stand a shot.
That might not have been available, were it not for the "financialisation" of housing—the liberalisation of mortgage lending, sometimes funded by foreign capital, in the 20003s and 1990s.
It would be somewhat dark were it not for the flowers on the fabric and the textured polka-dots, which make the dress as playful as the actress herself.
A noble and kind gesture, were it not for the slip-of-hand that resulted in the cap fleeing from its owner and launching itself back into the pool.
There, she meets Lizzie (Dear White People's Logan Browning), Anton's star pupil, who's enjoying the very life Charlotte could have had were it not for her mother's sudden illness.
He refers to the professor as "McGonagall," which would be a nice moment were it not for the fact that, uh, the McGonagall from the books wasn't born yet.
Were it not for the bravery of the assistant principal who noticed something was off and chose to investigate, these teenagers might have been exploited for many more years.
Were it not for its most famous panelist and her large media pack, it would have been just like any other liberal community meeting taking place all over America.
Were it not for the debt, she says she would be able to max out her 401(k) with an $18,000 contribution every year, plus saving in an IRA.
Obviously I wasn't a garden, and I didn't get arrested, but I feel like it would've been a great acid trip were it not for all the gang violence.
Even the criminals (of which nothing is known) should kick themselves: were it not for a typo in one of their requests, dozens more payments might have gone through.
Coal prices likely would have fallen further were it not for a cold snap across North Asia in mid-November that boosted demand for coal and other heating fuels.
Growth in the euro area has been revised upwards, thanks to unexpectedly strong first-quarter GDP growth, but it would have been even higher were it not for Brexit.
And yet, were it not for the internet, blochead's cry for help might never have been heard, and you might never have reached out like a true, IRL friend.
And she'd be spared meeting with all those clients, day in and day out, who never would have set foot in the house were it not for death's mandate.
The climate would most likely be cooling slightly, due to a downward trend in natural factors, were it not for the overwhelming influence of human activities warming the planet.
Nevertheless, the hourlong "Afterplay" is a minor work by this Irish master, and could seem slight were it not for the superb pairing of Dermot Crowley and Dearbhla Molloy.
"Were it not for growth in prosperous communities, the U.S. economy would still have been 1.5 million jobs short of a full employment recovery in 2015," per the report.
She could have been mistaken for just another white-haired lady from the neighborhood were it not for the Secret Service agent in a suit and sunglasses close behind.
You wouldn't know there was a shanty town on Boulevard Ney, were it not for the plumes of thick smoke rising up from the disused rail tracks down below.
New spiders are discovered all the time, and the paper likely would have gone largely unnoticed — were it not for an article in Science magazine that appeared soon afterward.
Crucially, neither of these malevolent geniuses would have emerged from obscurity were it not for the first great cataclysm of the 20th century, then known as the Great War.
Were it not for a dark wooden door, a gunman may have succeeded in carrying out a massacre of Jews he had planned to broadcast live around the world.
Advance fourth quarter GDP lands Thursday — 2.1% growth is expected — and Trump might repeat his argument that were it not for Fed policy tightening, growth would be near 4%.
Advance fourth quarter GDP lands Thursday — 2.1% growth is expected — and Trump might repeat his argument that were it not for Fed policy tightening, growth would be near 4%.
And from Julia Phillips's "Disappearing Earth" I learned where Kamchatka was — which, embarrassingly, I did not know and would probably still not know, were it not for her book.
Advance fourth quarter GDP lands Thursday -- 2.1% growth is expected -- and Trump might repeat his argument that were it not for Fed policy tightening, growth would be near 4%.
Mr Mueller went on to describe a level of presidential misbehaviour that would be shocking were it not for the frog-boiling nature of living through the Trump presidency.
Ms. Sarandon was critically lauded for "The Meddler," he noted, and might have made some headway were it not for the unusually stiff competition for best actress this year.
Were it not for Prince's "purple purge" and one very enthusiastic mother, this seemingly run-of-the-mill notice-and-takedown likely would not have crossed a court's radar.
Typical Kings/Kingz/Kangz memes revolve around low-effort posts wherein the poster mockingly asserts that, were it not for (implied nonexistent) white oppression, black people would be royalty.
Nominal wage growth last year, at 2.3%, might have been stronger were it not for unusually low consumer-price inflation, of 0.4% (thanks to a slump in the oil price).
In February of that year cyber-crooks stole $22013m directly from the central bank of Bangladesh—and would have got away with more were it not for a crucial typo.
It could have honestly felt a little cheap, were it not for Falk's commitment to finding a way for Jimmy and Gretchen to be together while still flouting societal conventions.
This would be an admirable accolade, were it not for a suspicion that the dearth of such performances can be explained by the fact that they rarely work very well.
Because that bridge wouldn't have happened were it not for the melody change, because it makes more sense melodically, you can hear the intensity and the ability to get there.
Were it not for an inspiring high school math teacher, Mueller says he never could have even dreamed a logger's kid from St. Maries, Idaho could become a rocket scientist.
We could, were it not for two crucial facts: The first fact is the American producers who export have what economists call a "comparative advantage" in what they are doing.
Given the strength of global growth, Britain's would have grown by about 2.5 percent in 1.03 were it not for the Brexit vote, Kallum Pickering, an economist with Berenberg, said.
His belittling wife (Magdeleine Bérubet) might herself lay claim to the movie's title were it not for Legrand's succumbing to the charms of a mercenary prostitute named Lulu (Janie Marèse).
"Today's votes would never have occurred were it not for the loud voices of the American people echoing through the halls of the Capitol last week," Murphy said in statement.
It's almost certain that Syria would have made the big boys list were it not for Trump's desire to preserve his ties with Vladimir Putin and US-Russian cooperation there.
All of those processes are incorporated because this immigration would not exist were it not for very strategic socially, scientifically, and economically constructed interventions to rationalize a market-based economy.
His transformation is irrelevant to whether or not I will be able to live the sort of life I could have were it not for the injustice done to me.
It's another that they both have residual feelings that could be revived were it not for their TV commitments, one of which involves trying to get engaged to someone else.
Its wings are so long that it wouldn't have been able to fit at most airports were it not for a unique feature never before seen on a passenger jet...
Or it would, were it not for the fleet of excavator barges that sails out from the local port every day, and the large building site hiding behind the pines.
"Were it not for Brexit uncertainty, the Bank of England would probably have laid the groundwork [on Thursday] for its next rate hike," BNP Paribas analysts said in a note.
Mr. Yu said he believed that were it not for the Trump administration's pressure on the firm, Huawei would have finished the year as the planet's No. 1 smartphone maker.
Mr. Yu said he believed that were it not for the Trump administration's pressure on the firm, Huawei would have finished the year as the planet's No. 1 smartphone maker.
The tales might have been lost among the countless episodes of cruelty in Colombia's long civil war were it not for one thing: "Santiago," the ranch owner, was Santiago Uribe.
Were it not for Douglass's oratory, the historian Lisa Tetrault tells us in "The Myth of Seneca Falls," the "controversial" resolution demanding the vote for women might actually have failed.
One might even be tempted to give Arsenal a chance of progression, were it not for the telltale signs of domestic disintegration and the evidence of the last six campaigns.
They would be of little interest were it not for their authorship and a series of exchanges that put them in the hands of the FBI just before the 2016 election.
"Were it not for the asteroid, humans would never have evolved," said Ian Miller, curator of paleobotany and director of earth and space sciences at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
The bakery would have ended there, were it not for a small band of former employees who decided to reopen—and, in 1953, convince the government to allow Elise to return.
The judge would never have seen those improvements were it not for my mother's money, which paid for the multiple bails that freed me from awaiting my court dates in jail.
The former Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych, unconstitutionally imprisoned his democratic predecessor Yulia Tymoshenko -- who, like Clinton last night, might have had more sympathy were it not for her reputation for corruption.
LHP Daniel Norris allowed eight hits in five innings Saturday night but would have gone out for the sixth were it not for a rain delay of more than an hour.
In fact, the Euro-Asian group might have been able to topple VW overall were it not for a 28.4 percent sales decline by Nissan, which delivered 2681 million light vehicles.
Yet even that might be a surmountable obstacle, were it not for the fact that iPhones can also be set to wipe themselves clean after ten failed attempts to log in.
Baba Ramdev, a yoga leader, upped the ante further by asserting that were it not for India's constitution he would have "beheaded hundreds of thousands" for refusing to repeat the chant.
"I believe — we all believe — were it not for our journey, we would not be this band," Schlapman told a crowd of several hundred family and friends at a museum reception.
But few voters would have taken his violent solutions seriously, nor seen him as a legitimate candidate, were it not for the gradual rehabilitation of the dictatorship in the public consciousness.
" Ms. Thompson added, "She would probably be torn to shreds by the new feminists were it not for the fact that her calm style helps to conceal her transgressions against orthodoxy.
In fact, were it not for the unshakable dominance of former UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre, Fitch probably would have worn UFC gold—perhaps for a significant period of time.
Jon Snow himself wouldn't be alive now if not for Melisandre, and he certainly wouldn't have the allegiance of the North were it not for a little spitfire named Lyanna Mormont.
"There's no question that the shooter would not have been able to buy the guns were it not for the negligence of the Air Force," said Austin plaintiff's lawyer Laurie Higginbotham.
Were it not for DeMar DeRozan's heel getting a little too familiar with the out-of-bounds line on a play with 12 seconds to go, things may have been different.
Finishing in 45th place would be nothing to crow about were it not for the fact that this is Rhode Island's best finish since we began rating the states in 2007.
Many of the enlistees arrayed around the screens are in their 20s and might pass for stock traders or Google employees were it not for their military boots and combat fatigues.
Sweet Maine shrimp would make an excellent substitute were it not for the fact that the fishing season was canceled this winter because of diminished stocks, resulting from rising ocean temperatures.
The elderly were once among the poorest groups—and still would be were it not for the old-age cash and health benefits provided by Social Security and the Medicare programme.
But America's latest crush might never have been known to millions of adoring fans were it not for the somewhat accidental start to his acting career that came 14 years ago.
According to the agency's acting director, Thomas Homan, hundreds of other immigrants would have been caught in the sting were it not for the actions of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (D).
We might never have learned about all this were it not for the player who stepped on the scene in the manner of the hero in a Greek tragedy, the whistleblower.
Paul Manafort would have been found guilty on all 18 criminal counts were it not for single holdout on the jury, a fellow juror at the trial told Fox News Wednesday.
McGovern said the project would have been much easier were it not for the decades-old U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, that President Donald Trump has tightened since coming to power.
Notwithstanding the psychological costs incurred by the target, open letters signed by academics could be safely dismissed were it not for the fact that the signatories often get exactly what they want.
More to the point: Were it not for the law, North Carolina almost certainly would have edged out Texas for second place this year and might well be knocking on Utah's door.
Were it not for the hundreds of thousands of people arrested for marijuana law violations every year, it's almost like the past 40 years of aggressive anti-marijuana drug policy didn't exist.
"Were it not for Hawaii, we would absolutely be adding some more international routes and augmenting some of our flying," Southwest CEO Gary Kelly told analysts on an earnings call in January.
Cannibalism and murder are invoked, the n-word is tossed around (to refer to Hardy!), and the dark humorlessness of it all might feel claustrophobic, were it not for the show's star.
Patel tells me that at Sundance Film Festival (where the film launched), an audience member told her they would have swerved a sex trafficking film were it not for the VR component.
The move might not be considered so worthy of note, were it not for the fact that these are not a bunch of pie-in-the-sky, fly-by-night crypto cowboys.
Seated in a maroon plastic chair just a few feet away from me, his large frame might have been imposing were it not for his warm body language and soft-spoken tone.
Which points to an awkward truth: were it not for Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system, which rewards large, broad parties, the Conservatives would not sit together in Parliament at all.
Marriott has its own team of event planners that brainstorms and plans these special "moments," which for most people would be out of financial reach were it not for their loyalty points.
But I found it pretty comfortable throughout the week I spent with it, and would have often forgotten I was wearing it were it not for my review unit's bright orange body.
As those images suggest, this song might tend toward the too-sterile end of the spectrum were it not for Lil Wayne's martian voice swinging in to give it a humanizing touch.
Hundreds of former federal prosecutors and DOJ officials have signed on to a letter saying that they believe Trump would have been charged with a crime were it not for the guidance.
The offer would have been easily disregarded were it not for a recent investigation by Aleksei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, that gives some credence to her association with an influential oligarch.
Her assertion would be easy to disregard were it not for a 25-minute video investigation posted last month by a Russian opposition figure that relies heavily on her footage and photographs.
Her assertion would be easy to disregard, were it not for a 25-minute video investigation posted last month by a Russian opposition figure that relies heavily on her footage and photographs.
Still, the company would be expanding more quickly, growing its fleet and adding routes, were it not for the failure of the president's economic policies, its chief executive officer, Sebastián Pereira, complains.
Were it not for a highly effective vaccine, the DRC epidemic could easily have been as severe as in West Africa, and we can't let this DRC epidemic slip out of control.
He would surely have had many more than his 35 World Cup race wins were it not for injuries, such as those to his knee that cut short his last two seasons.
One more thing about Jamie ... people who have been around him and Britney are almost unanimous -- were it not for Jamie stepping in 12 years ago, Britney probably would not have survived.
Still, "Stranger Things" might feel like a mere retro roller coaster were it not for that slow drip of sorrow and trauma, the residue of Reagan-era anxiety about the nuclear family.
Were it not for the irrational fear of being buried alive, George Washington wouldn't have requested his corpse be kept on his deathbed for three days, or Schopenhauer on his for five.
William Barber, from Mary McLeod Bethune to Diane Nash, from Thurgood Marshall to Senator Kamala Harris — many of whom would not have had access to higher education were it not for H.B.C.U.s.
They're dismantling the Dodd-Frank rules for Wall Street, or trying to, which is something that, were it not for the Trump show, would be front-page news on an ongoing basis.
State media has produced a constant drum beat of news that the terrorism threat in the region is real and would spin out of control were it not for the strict security measures.
The bill would likely have died in Congress were it not for the persistence of the King Center and union members in various industries across the country, who advocated strongly for the holiday.
Were it not for Soong's determination to give his daughters a thoroughly Western education and Sun's attraction to westernized women, the last 100 years of Chinese history might have turned out very differently.
The 9/11 Commission Report stated that, were it not for the first responders, the lives lost would have been far more magnified, and that just their presence made dire circumstances more bearable.
Were it not for a few problems — the screen, the slightly inelegant design, and (yes) the lack of a headphone jack — it might have received the highest score we've ever given a phone.
He added that the ship would likely have sunk were it not for the heroic efforts of sailors on board, who prevented the flooding from "catastrophically spreading" to other parts of the warship.
Ms. Larson is 26, and her inward turn in "Room" might have been overlooked were it not for her astonishing young co-star, Jacob Tremblay, whose performance, though not Oscar-nominated, drew raves.
The youngest Jenner revealed her interpretation of the classic toy on her Instagram via an elaborate series of photos that could easily be an official modeling photoshoot were it not for the date.
In our opinion, were it not for the loan, PREPA would not have made the payment, and that the creditor loans were a necessary condition for PREPA to make the debt service payment.
The inkblots would have died with him, were it not for the child psychologist David Mordecai Levy, who, in 1923, translated Psychodiagnostics into English and taught the first U.S. seminar on the Rorschach.
On its own, the Turi deal wouldn't raise eyebrows were it not for the record amount of M&A in artificial intelligence, with the giants Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft leading transactions.
Tracking a bounty, the Mandalorian crosses a desert ridge and stares down at a stucco compound that could exist in a Spaghetti Western were it not for the alien desperados wandering its grounds.
Were it not for that city law, one 33-year-old man might have been sent back to Honduras this summer — for hanging a green pine tree air-freshener on his rearview mirror.
And yet, we could have just as easily been mired in a relative "dark age" of information sharing in government, were it not for the even-keeled prudence and vision of agency heads.
The cut could have been more severe were it not for a weaker yen and Chinese smartphone makers' strong demand for Sony's image sensors - itself a business only just recovering from earthquake damage.
Were it not for the fact that the dollar is the main global currency and that Washington can still borrow in the dollars it prints, the country would have gone bankrupt long ago.
"I chose abstinence over indulgence," he says, and Pattinson is so fiercely ascetic in the role that, were it not for Monte's gentleness toward Willow, you might mistake him for an android stowaway.
That alone might not be so bad for global stability were it not for the fact that the United States, the nation that shaped today's Europe, is turning its back on the continent.
The settlement came after nearly four years of intense negotiations, many surrounding the N.Y.C. apartment — which Frankel now claims could have been avoided were it not for the trust the lawyers set up.
The film is a masterful comedy that nails the art of restraint and ridiculousness with such precision that you'd mistake it for an absurd documentary, were it not for all the recognizable faces.
If Dureland became a citizen through a process that would be unproblematic were it not for this supposed "Alindor" application, why should that now affect her right to remain in the United States?
It's also hard to say with any degree of certainty that we'd even know the names of the small fraction of victims who have made national headlines were it not for video documentation.
This would be depressing, in the cute musical comedy manner, were it not for the constant presence of the upbeat Mr. Rossmer, who narrates the story from a happier place a year later.
The stainless steel drip tray makes cleaning up easy, and this stove might be my top pick were it not for the shoddy latch, which doesn't look like it's going to last long.
Were it not for a dean who went out of her way to counsel and reassure me, I may not have come back a year later to a college that I loved enormously.
The fact that this all-women show is the brainchild of men might have drawn fire for paternalism were it not for the show's persuasive politics, at the intersection of feminism and race.
On the other hand, there's plenty of evidence that prospective clients would never receive the legal help they need were it not for lawyers exercising their free speech right to market their services.
"Were it not for Brexit uncertainty, the Bank of England would probably have laid the groundwork (at its meeting on Thursday) for its next rate hike," BNP Paribas analysts said in a note.
Indeed, it is hard to imagine Apple standing up to the FBI in such a big way were it not for the civil liberties debate kicked into high gear by Manning and Snowden.
Many farmers said the devastation would have been considerably worse were it not for the workers on the front lines, frenetically spraying water from hoses and small water tanks mounted on their backs.
The Game Bakers' latest is an unexpected gem in a year that, in my opinion, has been full of them, and I may have never played it were it not for PS Plus.
No one would have known the trio had trespassed, were it not for the fact that Joel recorded the hijinks and posted it to his YouTube page, which has more than 700,000 subscribers.
We walked a few blocks up a dirt road into a tiny town that, were it not for a few modern details (Internet cafe, pickup truck), could have existed a century in the past.
Were it not for the fact that Scalise is a member of the House leadership and has a security detail that travels with him, that baseball practice would have had a much different ending.
Killen's culinary experience was also informed by his time studying as a pastry chef, a role that he could have excelled in were it not for his sights being set on more savory endeavors.
The adult Nicholas (Michael Douglas) is a wealthy investment banker, living the kind of empty-mansion, reheated-dinner existence that you'd think The LEGO Batman Movie was satirizing were it not for Bruce Wayne.
They would not have launched an investigation were it not for the international pressure on them," he said, accusing the government of effectively supporting "the terrorism conducted by (West Bank) settlers against our people.
Things might be worse still were it not for the country's central bank, which for years has intervened to keep foreign reserves stable, approved stimulus packages and guaranteed loans for housing, energy and business.
Were it not for their small size and soft touch (compared to the Wii remotes' harder plastic), I wouldn't have noticed a tangible difference in how the controllers fundamentally played in this specific game.
That would be bad news indeed for Reuters, were it not for one thing: As part of the deal, Blackstone has agreed to pay Reuters at least $325 million a year for its news.
For the uninitiated, I'm here to testify that vaginal orgasms are not a myth, but I may never have discovered them were it not for the one-time car accident in my birth canal.
Swalwell is a liberal, and were it not for his presidential ambitions, he would largely blend in as one in the sea of liberal white men who still comprise the majority of House Democrats.
The finer points of the Clinton investigation might have already been consigned to history were it not for the fact that the two principals in last year's presidential election continue to litigate Comey's actions.
In a Santelli Extra interview exclusive to CNBC Pro subscribers, former Federal Reserve Board Governor Mark Olson contends that the central bank would be raising rates were it not for volatility in international markets.
Fury Road would have been a pretty boring movie were it not for Miller's direction and John Seale's phenomenal cinematography, and so it is with Doom's dedication to the mechanics of its particular medium.
The conventionality of the plot could have easily led to a prosaic and hackneyed storyline, were it not for Scorsese's unflinching camera lens, De Niro's outstanding turn as LaMotta, and a carefully penned script.
"You Were Never Really Here" is hard going: easy to revere, fascinating to explore, but nagging in its grimness and, were it not for the rooted presence of Joaquin Phoenix, difficult to believe in.
It is a more lifelike representation of the "I Love Lucy" star than its predecessor, a grimacing, glaring hulk that would be unrecognizable were it not for a bottle of Vitameatavegamin in her hand.
But the piece also relies on the dubious assumption that, were it not for that industry's interference, we would be far along in developing a robust alternative-energy economy using wind and solar technology.
The constant travel might seem unaffordable on a public university professor's salary, were it not for the generosity of his wife, Dr. Cheryl Lewison, who shares his coaster affinity and his impressive riding totals.
"We would have at least two more seats in the House were it not for gerrymandering," said Representative Debbie Dingell of Michigan, who expressed surprise at how much enthusiasm there is for the measure.
Were it not for the genetic findings, "nobody would have believed the scale of the turnover," said Ian Armit, an archaeologist at the University of Bradford who collaborated with Dr. Reich on the research.
That would have been the end of the story, were it not for the fact that the very next day I got an email from Nell Freudenberger, a terrific novelist whose books I love.
Filion, who would have won even more races were it not for a seven-year suspension beginning in the mid-1893s, died on June 22 at a hospital in Mineola, N.Y. He was 77.
HALLE, Germany — Were it not for a dark wooden door, the authorities say, Stephan Balliet may have succeeded in carrying out a massacre of Jews he had planned to broadcast live around the world.
Indeed, were it not for the contrast with the dire fates of Taim and Omar, they might be characters in a telenovela, though they are enacted by an excellent cast with much more subtlety.
Were it not for the racial minorities countering this aging of the US population, the US by 2030 and later would have become even older than it is today and will be in 2030.
Lee said it's even possible Russia and Saudi Arabia could ultimately break off their agreement, and it may have been ended already were it not for Russia's problems with contaminated oil earlier this year.
Sometimes, the ideal place to drink is in the comfort of your own apartment—or it would be, were it not for the dirty dishes, the sick cat, and the alarming thuds from upstairs.
Were it not for the deadly serious nature of the work conducted there, the State Department's new Foreign Affairs Security Training Center in Blackstone, Virginia, would certainly be a cool place to hang out.
But for all the Russian social media help boosting Trump, it wouldn't have had much of an effect were it not for the fact that he has a legion of extremely loyal Florida followers.
Many students enrolled on the course at the University of North Carolina are firmly attached to their jobs and would not have considered an MBA course were it not for the chance to study online.
It would have happened sooner were it not for a massive and largely unforeseen production surge in Myanmar, which has become a major supplier of raw materials to Chinese smelters over the last few years.
While Saoirse Ronan's Best Actress Oscar nomination is a credit to her performance in Brooklyn, Ronan says she might not have made it through filming were it not for a special surrogate mom on set.
Janney also had to transform her appearance for the role, and in fact, the blunt-banged wig she sports throughout the film could have been distracting were it not for the strength of her acting.
Extending financial assistance will be "an expression of good faith as their accredited peer-operators would not have suffered the current predicament were it not for the predatory actions of respondent Uber," the LTFRB said.
This quarter's volume would have been significantly lower were it not for U.S. mega deals, given that total deal count globally fell to its lowest quarterly level since the 203 financial crisis, Refinitiv data showed.
Were it not for their affordable prices and the shop's location in Dolapdere, a neighborhood adjacent to the infamous Tarlabaşı—known for its crime, drugs and sex workers—Ideal Salam would be a boutique charcuterie.
"Were it not for Brexit, the BoE on Thursday would probably be providing guidance on a rate hike, possibly in February given the compelling evidence of rising wage growth," MUFG analysts said in a note.
Trump may be an unrepentant illiberal authoritarian, these critics admit, but he would be well contained within the presidency were it not for President Barack Obama's own monomania and precedent-setting expansion of executive power.
Brian's statement wasn't an effort to woo Lindsay; it was an effort to establish dominance over Willie G. This interaction would have been all in good fun were it not for that "sloppy seconds" comment.
The FARC could not have survived this many decades dispersed across the Colombian jungle were it not for the discipline of its troops, and commanders have been briefing mid-level officers throughout the peace process.
BERLIN (Reuters) - The identity card, issued more than three decades ago by East Germany's Stasi secret police, would be of little interest were it not for the name of the man staring out: Vladimir Putin.
More than 800 former federal prosecutors have signed a letter saying that Trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice, were it not for DOJ guidance stating that a sitting president cannot be indicted.
That's partly because, were it not for a $130,000 payment Cohen made to Daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair with Trump, the Cohen raid and Monday's hearing may never have taken place.
Though he has a great job and a steady relationship, "it still hurts to think" that he could be living in a house right now, were it not for his crippling opioid addiction, he said.
When the performance ended, one of the Olympic commentators said "it could have actually been a much worse of a problem for her" were it not for the rest of the costume being well designed.
This point would go without saying were it not for this war's curious history, which again and again relegated both Koreas to the rank of extras as they were upstaged by their Cold War patrons.
Because the industry has such a voracious need for capital, and capital costs money, fracking could not have taken off so dramatically were it not for record low interest rates after the 2008 financial crisis.
The film, "Confessions of a Womanizer," which was written and directed by Miguel Ali and also stars Gary Busey, wouldn't have registered as a blip in the awards race were it not for this news.
"I don't think I would be where I am today, doing what I do as my profession, were it not for Jimmy and his wooden partners, Danny O'Day and Farfel," Mr. Dunham wrote on Facebook.
But some have speculated that the number of people obtaining medication abortions could be much higher were it not for the FDA's longstanding restrictions on mifepristone, which went into effect simultaneous with the drug's approval.
Were it not for Huawei's continued presence on the entity list, we'd have said that — on first impressions at least — the Mate 30 series looks like another set of decently specced flagship devices from Huawei.
"Were it not for Wildstein's decision to cooperate and disclose the true nature of the lane reductions, there likely would have been no prosecutions related to the bridge scheme," prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo.
"I would not have had nearly as much W.N.B.A. interest were it not for the success of my team and our 30-0 season," she said, referring to Princeton's regular-season record in 2014-15.
Swalwell is a liberal, and were it not for his presidential ambitions, he would largely blend in as one in the sea of liberal white men that still make up the majority of House Democrats.
The visit would have been a diplomatic triumph—were it not for the comments Mr Sajjan made to an Indian audience that exaggerated the role he played while a member of the Canadian military in Afghanistan.
Given the upheaval and price-cutting that online shopping has brought to the rest of the retail world, this is at the very least odd, and seems unsustainable, were it not for the power of inertia.
Located in a twee movie-set version of the city, complete with a fountain, café and overpriced bistro, it could easily pass for the real thing, were it not for the diminutive scale and cheerful waiters.
It's a smart tactic, because while its score is continually beguiling, "Hadestown" might feel static were it not for Ms. Chavkin's simple but inventive staging, which is enhanced by the fluid lighting design of Bradley King.
It would be tempting to consider this a kind of sex-positive progress — the twilight of excessive prudishness and the dawn of grown-up honesty — were it not for a few galling details and nagging questions.
The former teacher would have had to close the cinema long ago were it not for a small cultural grant from the state and if she had not put in a good cut of her pension.
It could easily be dismissed as an impossibly amorphous process for overworked teachers and volatile students were it not for its success so far, in programs in Denver and Oakland that started in the mid-220s.
Were it not for Reed taking away what might have been a Packers pick-six in the first half and turning it into a gain, Green Bay might have run away with the game much sooner.
I'm also sure I would have dropped out of college, or lost any number of the jobs I've held since, were it not for the proper, however imperfect, treatment I landed on with psychiatrists and therapists.
Ultimately, this episode would be comical, and might even seem a bit romantic, were it not for the fact that it is all so false and that its uncritical repetition in the media is so frightening.
The space, crowded with garment racks, could have been mistaken for a costume shop, were it not for the giant poster boards propped against the walls, which were covered in mini-Polaroids of harsh, alluring faces.
The car tariff of up to 25 percent, applying to vehicles and components from everywhere else in the world, would be automatically illegal were it not for a WTO exception granted in cases of national security.
Having written earworms for the likes of Lim Kim and AOA, Suran could be one of K-pop's busiest hitmakers were it not for her tremendous skills as a vocalist, pianist, and artist in her own right.
IBARAKI, Japan (Reuters) - Michelle Wie appears to be back to close to her best nearly two months after an emergency appendectomy, and she probably would have got there sooner were it not for issues with her clubs.
Chernobyl the show illuminates just how devastating the event really was — and how much worse it could've been, were it not for the efforts of scientists and Soviet citizens who risked their lives in the clean-up.
The rest is less clear, with Trump's positions fuzzy on many topics, and Clinton is seen leaning a bit more left of center than she might otherwise were it not for her continued run against Vermont Sen.
According to Pavel Reid of the Catholic archdiocese of Vancouver, the church would be closing parishes (as is the case elsewhere in Canada) were it not for the new arrivals from a land which is 80% Catholic.
All of this would be laugh-out-loud slap stick were it not for how it undermines the national security of both the U.S. and Ukraine, and our shared desire for the rule of law and democracy.
THEIR hair tightly braided, two young girls sleep head-to-toe in matching pink dresses with gold trim—a sight to gladden the heart were it not for the startling white bandages around their arms and legs.
The goal is to get to the bottom of the problems facing the ward's patients, who, were it not for the new system, would be in an actual, physical ward, but are instead being treated at home.
We'd be a little more surprised by this streetwear tribute to the former POTUS were it not for Joe Fresh Goods's "Thank You Obama" capsule that dropped earlier this month, with Chance the Rapper as its model.
It ratchets up the drama to deadly serious heights in the second act that might seem melodramatic were it not for the legitimate points that the story and the dialogue raise about human nature and racial prejudice.
It sits in his inner sanctum, where he likes to compose, undisturbed; or, rather, where he would compose, were it not for a nasty case of writer's block, compounded by failure of another kind, the poor lunk.
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Were it not for the motherly cradle of her voice and the ecstatic bombast of the synthetic horns and strings, it would all probably be too much to take in—and to many listeners, it probably was.
"I sincerely believe that Ms. Rousseff's impeachment would not have occurred were it not for the June Journeys," wrote Fernando Haddad, the former mayor of São Paulo and a prominent figure in Mr. da Silva's Workers' Party.
So far, so right, you might think, were it not for the insistence on proclamation over conversation, and for language so overripe — the saliva imagery is a doozy — that the entire thing verges on the self-satiric.
Her hands clutch and flay, she squats with legs wide as in childbirth, and her body pitches and sways in a dance that would be almost witchlike were it not for the rigor of her flamenco stance.
But experts say that percentage could be much higher were it not for the decades-old FDA regulations, which have been opposed by organizations like the World Health Organization and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
He remained largely under the art world radar and might have stayed there, were it not for his daughter Justine Kurland, a well-known photographer who shares the walls with him in "Airless Spaces," at Higher Pictures.
Were it not for the whole "women's fight in a top MMA promotion" aspect of it, Paige VanZant's defeat at the hands of Rose Namajunas last December could have been the climax of a nineties alternative teen film.
Doppler Labs calls this Adaptive Listening, and these improved filters would not be possible were it not for the computational power within the Here Buds themselves, as well as the new directional microphones embedded in the updated hardware.
This would seem a remarkable feature-set for a $229 device, were it not for the fact that many of us already have smartphones and tablets that can do all of these things and more, with added portability.
The U.S., who crushed Thailand 13-0 in the group stage, would have racked up another high number against Chile were it not for goalkeeper Christiane Endler making several stunning saves to keep the score at 3-20440.
The Germans have so far failed to live up to their expectations as title favorites and were it not for those players hungry for World Cup success, they might already have been booking their return flights to Frankfurt.
And there, in humanity's dark shadows, he might have remained, were it not for the fact that in 2005, exactly 40 years after the genocide began, he met an idealistic young American-born documentary-maker named Joshua Oppenheimer.
None of this would seem out of the ordinary in the hurly-burly of Israeli politics were it not for the fact that the other of those small parties is the far-right extremist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power).
Ray-Jones says it's difficult to interpret the 13 percent spike, which might be much greater were it not for what she termed a "heightened fear about detention and deportation" preventing undocumented people from contacting authorities about abuse.
Caroline: Were it not for our friend Alan Sepinwall constantly stumping for Stubbs — which, by the way, is the actual name of Hemsworth's character — I would have forgotten completely that this show co-stars the grimmest of Hemsworths.
"You know, 500 years ago, the Reformation never would have had the success it did were it not for the revolution of the printing press and the ability to get a message out to the masses," Heil says.
For someone who earned his nickname, "One Time," by scoring 22 knockouts, Thurman only seemed interested in squeaking out a win on the cards against Garcia, who may have won were it not for his disappointing first round.
Were it not for Joshua's knock out of Charles Martin—a man who won a vacant IBF crown when opponent Vyacheslav Glazkov slipped and tore his ACL during their 29 bout—he wouldn't have any title to defend.
Vlieghe told a discussion panel at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research that he would have expected the British economy to be gathering speed were it not for global trade tensions and continued uncertainty about Brexit.
A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that America's gender pay gap would be as much as 46% smaller were it not for the increasingly disproportionate rewards for working extra hours since the 1980s.
But we would be remiss if we did not etch his name alongside his illustrious forebears, because this country would not be the same were it not for the courageous service of all three of these great men.
Writing about the future is usually just a way of writing about the present, and were it not for climate change, one might see widespread anxiety about what's coming as just an expression of despair about what's here.
The headset hadn't seen a price drop since it launched in 2016 for $599, which provided a major barrier for more casual gamers who may have been interested in VR were it not for the hefty price tag.
Mr. Salonen would not be the composer and conductor the world now values so highly were it not for his 17 momentous years as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the last nine on Ms. Borda's watch.
And the fact that he was paid only $5,000 by Kuchar might not have become as widely known as it did were it not for the efforts of Graubart, who regularly employs Ortiz during golf vacations in Mexico.
Were it not for the concert by Moranbong Band being broadcast on the flat-screen television in lieu of a ballgame, I might have imagined myself to be in an upmarket sports bar somewhere in Chicago or Boston.
Truly bizarre stuff and hopefully something that the people around Chiles don't encourage because were it not for those moments of extremely poor sportsmanship this bout would have been remembered for the top-notch ability of the two youngsters.
In a contentious interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week," White House policy director Stephen Miller repeated Trump's claim last week that he would have won New Hampshire were it not for "thousands" of people being bused there.
Letter of Recommendation Lurking on my phone is an app I didn't put there, one I wouldn't have touched were it not for a few glasses of wine and a pointer-fingered dare from an insolent friend named Jeff.
YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With its sunset-like colors, Charnelle Lumière's painting would seem warm and happy, were it not for the limp body of a young girl hanging from a tree, suspended by a rope around her neck.
These models, socialites, and world-travelers boasting tens of thousands of Instagram followers, and almost seem like they could be my friends were it not for the fact that they probably have Prince Harry's number in their cell phone.
This would be unremarkable were it not for the fact that the two were enrolled at NYU that semester, making the shrine to the famous teens more unsettling because they were not just celebrities now, they were our classmates.
One of these combos, which occurred in the final seconds of the first round, sent Cowboy careening to the canvas in a moment that, were it not for the end of the round, would have been ruled a knockout.
" This would be mostly reassuring, were it not for WikiLeaks' claim that the CIA recently "lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized 'zero day' exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation.
Yet, according to an analysis in the Journal of Law and Policy, most individuals under electronic monitoring haven't committed serious or violent offenses and were it not for monitoring may not be under any form of state control whatsoever.
In " Elena " (2011), the middle-aged heroine travels out of the city to see her son, walking down a rough track that might feel rustic were it not for the concrete cooling towers of the power plant beside it.
St-Pierre is an uber-athlete and professionally bland personality who, were it not for being in the employ of a talent agency that's a rival to WME-IMG, would benefit greatly from his new overlords' cross-media connections.
A Rising Star in the Republican Party, McDonnell might have been part of the "deep bench" Donald Trump spent the last year bullying, were it not for his high-profile graft prosecution and the embarrassing personal details it exposed.
Clanging, echoey guitars gradually give way to a drum pattern that would sound surprisingly breezy were it not for the hollowed out percussion in use and what sounds like the repeated howl of a prisoner of war being tortured.
Nassrolah Gani, a 35-year-old police officer whose unit is helping the military in recovering casualties from the crocodile-infested marshland, said his men would be easily lost in the swamps were it not for their MILF guides.
Were it not for a pool of unused money from discontinued peacekeeping missions this year, he said, "it is doubtful" that the organization would have been able to finance the General Assembly session that ended a few weeks ago.
For all of Trump's talk about "lovers" and "dirty cops" and "12 angry Democrats," there have been startling discoveries about the President and his circle that would not have been uncovered were it not for the special counsel's work.
"Were it not for well-above-target inflation, it appears highly unlikely that yesterday's historic hike would have occurred, and the pound remains susceptible to further declines going forward," said David Cheetham, chief market analyst at X-Trade Brokers.
Were it not for people who were willing to step up at critical points and vouch for my abilities and potential as a student, scientist and teacher, my expertise and experience would not be applied as they are today.
In meetings with investors this week at the St. Regis Hotel in New York, Lyft executives said the company would be profitable much sooner were it not for investments in areas such as its scooter business, the sources said.
A new film essay from Daniel Netzel suggests that his über-masculine mystique likely wouldn't have been nearly as potent were it not for the two goofy old men who created the sound design for David Fincher's counterculture classic.
Our imports would be even less were it not for the fact that foreign governments bought up 30 percent of America's refineries, converting it to refine their heavy sour crude with the intent to take away U.S. producers' market share.
First-quarter sales would have been 90 million reais higher were it not for a new accounting practice to take sales in account only when clients sign off on mortgages, which already extends to 40 percent of MRV's operations, Menin said.
When he lost, he pledged $1 million to support others who might want to sue us, and, though we won the case, were it not for the support of our readers the out-of-pocket costs would have hobbled us.
Carney said the overshoot would have been visibly higher were it not for the fact that markets unusually indicate oil prices will fall over the coming years - something which has a mechanical downward effect on the BoE's medium-term inflation forecasts.
Star Club, a Mario-themed bar in Tokyo's Shinjuku nightlife district (and the retro-gaming themed 8-bit Cafe, around the corner), would do less business with foreign fans and Japanese otaku alike were it not for the cheery moustachioed presence.
But he concedes were it not for the project's eye-catching design - a marble structure modeled on a 19th century Italian galleria with shops tailored to super-rich Qataris, whose jobs have survived the austerity - his business might be in trouble.
From that contrary vantage point, were it not for his April 2016 arrest and subsequent 30 month imprisonment on federal gun charges, the bearded Puerto Rican rapper would assuredly be the one making hits with Cardi B and headlining sports arenas.
Click here to view original GIFThe internet would be a far less awesome place to waste valuable hours at work were it not for the The Slow Mo Guys turning the mundane into the amazing with their high-speed camera.
The losses for the Conservatives would have been worse were it not for an extraordinary surge for May's party in Scotland, where the Scottish National Party, who were dominant in 2015, winning 56 seats out of 59, saw seats fall.
The airline has reportedly been burning cash at a rate of roughly 1 million euros a day, and were it not for the latest government intervention its remaining cash reserves would have run out by the middle of this month.
But he concedes were it not for the project's eye-catching design - a marble structure modelled on a 19th century Italian galleria with shops tailored to super-rich Qataris, whose jobs have survived the austerity - his business might be in trouble.
Were it not for the less strong wage growth, this report would have also inclined the Fed to be aggressive about the future path of rates given the strong improvement in the unemployment rate and the decline in the participation rate.
It's a much more fantastical addition to the Frozen universe — to the extent that, were it not for the presence of known characters like Anna and Elsa, it would be hard to tell at all this was a Frozen movie.
There would be no peace between Egypt, Jordan, and Israel were it not for those country's leaders meeting face-to-face over the course of many years, building the trust, familiarity, and respect that is needed for any successful relationship.
Given its anachronistic character, it's also an event that, were it not for its illustrious history and its continuing ability to attract heads of state, movie stars, entrepreneurs and executives of the world's biggest companies, would certainly no longer exist.
She might not have felt ready to take it on, she said, were it not for the experience she had in 2013 with "The Commons of Pensacola," a play by Amanda Peet that Ms. Parker starred in, alongside Blythe Danner.
Were it not for Harris, Colorado Senator Michael Bennet—a late entry into the presidential race—might have gotten more attention from a solid performance as he tried to stake out his credentials as a leading moderate in the field.
Visitors who enter the academy are greeted by a work from the artist Rero: a bust one might attribute to a 19th-century sculptor, were it not for the head missing its top half, replaced with a plaster "loading" sign.
In early August, Mr Kaine, who attends a majority-black Roman Catholic church and jokes that he might have become a Jesuit priest were it not for the celibacy requirement, addressed an organisation of African-American ministers in New Orleans.
Due to the scale and breadth of the works, the exhibition feels more like viewing a museum's permanent collection, were it not for the metal gate one passes to access the show and the overall industrial atmosphere of the space.
Whether Trump would be charged with obstruction of justice were it not for the Justice Department guidance has been an area of focus for Democrats, some of whom are pushing to start impeachment proceedings against Trump in light of Mueller's findings.
Were it not for the overarching air of trickery — the Duchampian last name of a Cattelan Archive employee who is interviewed extensively is another clue that this isn't pure nonfiction — Be Right Back would be a fairly straightforward art documentary.
" The president also tweeted that were it not for Warren's candidacy, Sanders "would have EASILY won Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas" — all states where Biden emerged triumphant — and predicted that Warren "may very well go down as the all time great SPOILER!
For one thing, baked into the premise of this question is the idea that the Nazis would not have risen to power, launched World War II, and carried out the Holocaust were it not for the existence of Adolf Hitler.
Were it not for the popular Scottish Conservative Party leader, Ruth Davidson, May might well have been another dozen members of Parliament down and unable to govern, even with the support of the Northern Irish Democratic Unionist Party, or DUP.
You'd almost let it go by unnoticed were it not for the digitally assisted feature from Justin Bieber, who continues to trickle out just enough cameo appearances to distract from the fact that he hasn't released an album in years.
This unfair system would be easier to reform were it not for a handful of super-rich who not only are hoarding resources, but using them to reshape policy and build alliances with reactionary leaders like Trump furious about social change.
Were it not for the caliber of the tablemates — especially Lisa Kudrow and Craig Robinson as a miserable married couple and Stephen Merchant as a maladroit ex-con — the movie would fall as flat as mother-of-the-bride karaoke.
But the alt-right movement is hardly monolithic, despite a well-publicized gathering last month in Washington — one that might have been mistaken for just another corporate conference were it not for the white-nationalist sentiments and the Nazi salutes.
Buddy evolves over the course of the film from an ally to an adversary, an arc that could scan as arbitrary were it not for the undercurrent of brutality Hamm brings to the role, even when Buddy's at his most charming.
By comparison, the provocations of the American writer Robert Askins's "Hand to God" might seem fairly small were it not for the fervor with which the latest New York title to cross the Atlantic ensnares the hot-button topic that is religion.
Were it not for group challenges, players could simply play with their strongest weapon and hero and ignore the rest of their arsenal, but changing up the gameplay for the good of the group requires more strategy and planning in the walker encounters.
The film may have been a quaint display of American decency and small-town folksiness — with his ingénue bright face, John Dall as Bart fits this idea to a T — were it not for the electrifying and darker, more complex presence of Cummins.
In the Middle East, he has talked about forcing Kuwait to hand over a quarter of its oil revenues as payment for its security and said that Saudi Arabia "would not be around" were it not for "the cloak of American protection".
"Were it not for the fact that at least some witnesses have given us documents, we would not know that there is a paper record of efforts to condition this meeting and perhaps condition military support itself on these political investigations," Schiff said.
" Hence, why I might have ended up a serial killer, prone to losing myself in paranoid rage or jealousy, were it not for the influence of my sun, which happens to sit at the perfect angle to serve as a "mitigating factor.
If the adage about history repeating itself is really true, then Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga, the stars of the 2018 A Star Is Born, would essentially be guaranteed Best Actor and Best Actress awards — were it not for one little change.
Put simply, all six women have to prove that they would have been successful actresses were it not for the alleged Weinstein Sexual Enterprise, and that it was the same action by Weinstein and his "army" that brought each of them down.
Mueller caused confusion when he testified while being questioned by Democratic Representative Ted Lieu during the first hearing that he would have sought to indict Trump were it not for a Justice Department policy against bringing criminal charges against a sitting president.
"If you're able to charge two times the prevailing ADR [average daily rate] during a high-compression period, who's to say you couldn't charge 3 times were it not for Airbnb?" said Richard Hightower, head of real estate research at Evercore ISI.
Mitrione and Ortiz fight in different weight classes, come from entirely different eras of the sport, and really, would probably never be mentioned in the same sentence were it not for their nearly coming to blows at the UFC Fighter Summit in 2011.
With the news cycle dominated by the ongoing Russia investigation and the president's venting about his enemies, it would be easy to miss the daily drip-drip-drip of ethics improprieties committed by Trump administration officials – were it not for Scott Pruitt.
"After that investigation, if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that," Mueller said in his remarks, without noting whether he would have charged Trump with a crime were it not for the policy.
It would be possible to see the recent incidents as a survivable pestering—racism as nuisance—were it not for the fact that the denial of the unimpeded use of public space has been central to the battles over civil rights since Emancipation.
One of my favorite moments on video from our beloved, late colleague, David Carr, was when he held up a picture of what aggregation machine sites would look like were it not for the original journalism that outlets like The Times produces.
He inflated the size of his inaugural crowds, he erroneously called the United States the most taxed nation in the world and claimed he would have won the popular vote in last year's election were it not for "millions" of illegal voters.
Plan Colombia would be but a footnote in history – and Colombia itself very likely a failed "narco" state – were it not for the staunch and unwavering support the Plan has received from both sides of the U.S. political aisle from the outset.
LONDON(Reuters) - Julia Marino will head to next month's Winter Games as a major medal contender, yet the American snowboarder may not have been on the plane to Pyeongchang at all were it not for a twist of fate during her teenage years.
It is sad when Yankah writes "Were it not for our reverence for money, Mr. Trump would be easily recognized as the simple-minded, vulgar, bigoted blowhard he is," but he singles out Trump's supporters to somehow make his illogical hypothesis logical.
Two years ago, when a Muslim politician refused to chant a nationalist slogan, Ramdev laid into him at a right-wing rally, saying that were it not for his respect for the law, "we would behead hundreds of thousands" of such people.
Here is a list of Democrats who have signed on so far: It's unclear whether the calls to abolish ICE would have reached Gillibrand and De Blasio were it not for candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who beat House Democratic Caucus Chair Rep.
Or, it would be, were it not for the simple fact that there is an unresolved question at the heart of physics that requires at least some consideration of this matter, or lack thereof: why is there something (our universe) instead of nothing?
This would be a heartwarming story of family perseverance were it not for one fact: Mr. Allard, 72, is Canadian, and no relation to Sydney Allard, the British racer who produced the original J2X and other fast cars (and who died in 1966).
Washington (CNN)Federal authorities would not have known earlier this summer that William Patrick Williams had threatened to "shoot up" a Lubbock, Texas, hotel where he was staying and had amassed weapons, ammunition and tactical gear were it not for Williams' grandmother.
In an attack last month at the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul, only two civilians were killed, military officials said, noting that the attack could have been much worse were it not for the fast response of the Afghan police special operations forces.
His story would still perhaps be unknown, Mr. Major said, were it not for several residents of Zwolle who knocked on his door in Montreal in 1969 to ask him to participate in a ceremony commemorating the town's liberation from the Nazis.
It's also a game where you can't play as a woman, a failing common to a lot of video games that might have been overlooked, were it not for the inflammatory comments made by the game's developers in the past—and this week.
Putin's Russia has to come up with ways to make up for its economic and geopolitical weakness; its traditional levers of influence are limited, and, were it not for a formidable nuclear arsenal, it's unclear how important a world power it would be.
In one, in a kind of technological update of King Kong, the all-metal Iron Man embraces an adoring blond woman in a landscape of palm trees that could be an ad for Caribbean vacations, were it not for the sulfurous pink atmosphere.
Seriously, were it not for the mass of MAGA hats, D.C. onlookers to Friday's incident could reasonably have assumed they happened upon some spontaneous Washington NFL team pep rally, whipped out a grill, fired up burgers and brats and joined in the nastiness.
However, establishing that a program is additional requires evaluating a counterfactual — that a particular nature preserve or restoration effort would not have happened were it not for this purchase — and many initiatives have struggled to demonstrate that this is true for their interventions.
And some may argue that unity in South Korea wouldn't have been possible were it not for the fact that it lacks significant racial diversity, but this ignores the very deep divisions in Korean society along regional, religious, economic and political lines.
Journalists are doing a lot of deeply critical reporting on the Russia scandal and other parts of the Trump administration; it's very likely that were it not for the Washington Post publicly exposing his lies, Michael Flynn would still be national security adviser.
"Put simply, were it not for Wildstein's decision to cooperate and disclose the true nature of the lane reductions, there likely would have been no prosecutions related to the bridge scheme," U.S. prosecutors wrote in arguing that Wildstein should receive probation but no prison time.
This feature wouldn't seem all the helpful in a pinch were it not for another change coming to Lens: It'll work in real-time, so you won't have to snap a picture in order for Lens to interpret whatever you're pointing your camera at.
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England would be able to do more to counter a projected rise in unemployment were it not for a sharp increase in inflation pressure caused by sterling's fall since June's Brexit vote, Deputy Governor Ben Broadbent said on Friday.
His performance might have been more impressive or even made him a viable candidate to reach the second round were it not for the fifth candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a gruff and amiable old-fashioned socialist who sucks away voters on Mr Hamon's left.
Peter Thiel, PayPal and Why Distribution Matters In his book 'Zero to One', Peter Thiel talks about how PayPal almost didn't survive were it not for their lucky break stumbling onto what would become their biggest distribution channel, growth engine, and eventual acquirer: eBay.
In fact, the CEO admitted to me that were it not for Vance's desire to expound on the company's efforts and a forthcoming attempt at winning a $12 million DARPA prize for responsive rocketry, Astra would still be content to continue to operate essentially undercover.
There diamonds would have remained were it not for molten rock rushing through the mantle and drawing diamonds, garnets and other minerals with it, like a furious river pulling dirt from its banks, before erupting through Earth's surface faster than the speed of sound.
While notched screens are taking over the Android world this year, the use of seemingly identical 6.28-inch OLED panels across the latest Oppo, OnePlus, and Vivo phones would be a pretty big coincidence were it not for some degree of supply chain integration.
The fact that certain emoji take up more space in your Tweet wouldn't necessarily be a problem, were it not for the fact that emoji designed to be more inclusive have in some cases ended up taking up more characters than the original yellow emoji.
Pete's date reminds us, more than anything, that this is what the entire season could have been like — sweaty, sexy, heartfelt, meaningful — were it not for the drama of Luke P. (and Cam, to a much lesser extent, and Scott, to almost no extent).
The repercussions of the killings will likely extend beyond the local community because the suspect is an undocumented immigrant who had been deported once -- and who faced possible deportation a second time were it not for a bureaucratic mistake by the federal immigration agency.
But it is not at all obvious that employers ought to provide health insurance as a benefit, or that such a system would have materialized (particularly on such a scale) were it not for the harmful wage controls of the World War II era.
The repercussions of the killing spree will likely extend beyond the local community because the suspect is an undocumented immigrant who had been deported once -- and who faced possible deportation a second time were it not for a bureaucratic mistake by the federal immigration agency.
It would have been "virtually impossible" for Earth to have reached record annual average temperatures during this century's four record-busting years were it not for the effects of greenhouse gas pollution, said Andrew King, a climate change researcher at the University of Melbourne.
Samsung showed both a tank top and pair of athletic pants at its booth, and were it not for the bottle-cap size metal nubs on each, I would have thought they were just like any sportswear you might get a Foot Locker or Lululemon.
The results, compiled in a book recently published by The Eriskay Connection, are astonishingly convincing; in fact, were it not for its title, Alternative Moons, a viewer quickly thumbing through the pages would likely immediately accept these grayscale images as records of real moons.
Which isn't to say Brooklyn doesn't play a role: Were it not for one of that borough's failed poets and his dime-store pulp, Pollock's destitute heroes would never have become the Jewett Gang and much of the novel's mayhem might have been avoided.
But I may have not gathered the courage to send an early story to a literary editor were it not for what I learned from Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" and from Agnon's "In the Prime of Her Life" and from M. Y. Berdyczewski's short stories.
We could perhaps describe it as dirty realism were it not for the variety of voices within it, in longer passages where individuals speak of some mysterious historical semi-magical event, or in those where the attention is on the sheer fascination of natural detail.
On last year's American Drift, you'll hear moments inspired by or sampled from Lil Jon songs, Bolivian folk music, and anime soundtracks; it'd be easy to get lost in the flurry of disparate sounds were it not for the careful way she arranges them.
This shift would be an opportunity for conservatives to claim intellectual and moral vindication, were it not for the fact that many on the right have found themselves justifying our current president's priapism with the same arguments that liberals once used to excuse Clinton.
Sporting I've come to think that Venmo, PayPal and the like might very well go out of business were it not for the annual three-week gambling festival known as the N.C.A.A. Division I men's basketball tournament (estimated wagers this year: more than $10 billion).
Were it not for her political skill and keen strategic sense, they say, President George W. Bush could not have secured the bank bailout he needed to halt an economic free fall and President Barack Obama could not have passed the Affordable Care Act.
They say they owe their lives to Mr. Truitt, Mr. McDaniel and Christopher Hall, the third man who tackled the gunman, and that the shooting in Daingerfield could have been far deadlier than the one in Sutherland Springs were it not for their actions.
"I wouldn't be in this room were it not for the public funding I received from Scotland for free higher education, and later in the form of artists' bursaries and grants to support not only the production of work but living costs," she said.
Of course, they did lose Game 4 at home to the Warriors and might have been eliminated back in Oakland in Game 5 were it not for the fact that Golden State's Draymond Green had to serve a one-game suspension for a flagrant foul.
"Were it not for the grass-roots support of this community — artists, audiences, small-business owners, neighbors, friends and elected officials — the Chocolate Factory would not be what it is today," Mr. Rogers and Sheila Lewandowski, the organization's executive director, said in a statement.
Hundreds of troops there believe they would be serving in Iraq were it not for the administration's desire to keep the troop level as low as possible and feel that their service isn't being similarly recognized, according to a service member in the region.
Nunes Weathers Tough Third Round for Unanimous Nod The main card began in the women's bantamweight division, as Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko met in a bout that, were it not for the looming return of Ronda Rousey, would probably produce the division's next title challenger.
Whether Clinton's complaint is valid or not, the case would never have been thrust into the frenzied final days of the presidential election were it not for her decision to use a private email server in the first place -- something she has admitted is a mistake.
There wouldn't even be a lawsuit were it not for the fact that, last month, a company that Cohen set up to make the payment to Clifford obtained from an arbitrator a temporary restraining order directing Clifford to remain silent, or risk a million-dollar penalty.
Sitting on a quiet corner of Western Avenue in the city's Ukrainian Village, with an Old Style sign hanging over the door, it could easily be just another Chicago dive, were it not for the suggestion on the banner of what lies within: Music Friendly Dancing.
Important seeds were sown during those months of activism that raised public awareness about an important but obscure and relatively complicated telecom regulatory rule that could have easily gone unnoticed were it not for the protests, late-night television coverage, and information campaigns on sites like Reddit.
There's something of that reckless abandon, too, in Giorgio De Maria's startling THE TWENTY DAYS OF TURIN (Liveright, $24.95), a novel that would place its author in the vanguard of the new horror were it not for the inconvenient fact that he wrote it 40 years ago.
Tan and unshaven in loafers, Left possessed the vaguely louche charisma of a club promoter, which is what you might mistake him for were it not for his eyes — green, wet, melancholy eyes, which, because they cannot but project sincerity, are his greatest tools on television.
The memo says then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe testified he believed a court would not have approved the warrant for the surveillance of Trump advisor Carter Page were it not for information that was included in a dossier assembled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
Were it not for the improved 2x optical zoom in/out on the iPhone 11 Pro Max, I may not have noticed the dirt on Fergus's nose — a sign that he is once again trying to tunnel under the house like some befurred Boring Company digger.
Myhers, the Rincon Valley assistant superintendent for student services who oversees the district's special education program, testified that a school campus would be the best place to meet Brooke's educational and social development goals, were it not for the illegality of having the medicine on campus.
And were it not for the past temperature of the nation -- of this election -- you know I don't think he would be as emboldened to approach me in the manner that he did and just outright label me, you know, as a black man trying to steal food.
With its suave aesthetic—all polished upcycled wood, dim lighting, and artfully arrayed bric-a-brac—The Night Rooster would feel right at home in London or Manhattan, were it not for the fact that the concise cocktail menu draws deeply on the fruits and flavors of Indonesia.
Dazzling though Mr. Frayn's engineering is, "Noises Off" would be a mere dissertation in clever dramaturgical mechanics, were it not for the expertly drawn characters, here embodied by a first-rate cast well aware of the addictions, indulgences, pretensions and general egotism of actors (some actors!) that Mr.
Judge Lawrence Moniz, who is weighing the evidence himself after Carter waived her right to a trial by jury, has to decide if the state has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Roy would not have taken his own life were it not for Carter's texts and calls.
That might have spelled the end of psychedelic research were it not for a small group of dedicated individuals and organizations such as the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, the Heffter Research Institute, and the Beckley Foundation, who faced the stigma and challenges associated with psychedelic research head on.
It also prevents measles, one of the many conditions the CDC estimated in 2014 would have caused an additional 21 million hospital visits and 732,000 deaths among children born in the past 0003 years were it not for the success of the Vaccines for Children program launched in 1994.
"Were it not for what Ms. Haspel herself called the 'shadow' of the interrogation program, her confirmation would likely be an easy call even in this time of partisan polarization," the board wrote, citing Haspel's extensive experience working at dangerous posts, volunteering for the CIA's counterterrorism center on Sept.
Maybe the creators of Texts from Hillary (publicists with no official prior connection to Clinton) would have revived the meme during her campaign, were it not for the inconvenient fact that her BlackBerry has come to be associated with the most unfortunate story of Hillary's campaign: her emails.
Were it not for a small crack in America's refugee policy in the 85033s, a policy that prevented most Jews from getting into the United States, my entire family might have gone the way of most of Europe's Jews, to the death chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and others.
Via the Star Tribune: "Jim McManus, a Blue Cross spokesman, said that were it not for the state's reinsurance program, the carrier's Blue Plus HMO would be seeking an average individual market premium increase of 4.8 percent as opposed to the 11.8 percent decrease" the state released Friday.
You could describe them as classic Camden Lock goth, were it not for the fact they seem like remarkably well-kept, happy – if a little performatively sad – young men, many of them seemingly being readied for a future in which their college tuition will be paid in full.
He would have likely notched another victory, were it not for the pandemic: Ohio was scheduled to vote, but it has delayed its primary to comply with White House guidance that there be no gatherings of more than 10 people in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Only congressional leaders are assigned security details; were it not for the fact that the Republican team includes Representative Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the House majority whip who was shot in the attack, there would have been no security present at the ball field on Wednesday at all.
The fact is that all of East Asia, all of Europe, and all of North America are experiencing birthrates that are below replacement level — which means, simply, were it not for immigration and longer life spans, all of these regions would be experiencing year-to-year population decline.
The movie, directed by Amat Escalante from a script he wrote with Gibrán Portela, might be a dour, observant study of modern relationships among the urban middle class were it not for the presence of a slimy, many-tentacled space creature living in a cabin in the countryside.
Were it not for all the restrictions on housing in the most productive places — if workers were able to more freely migrate to them — Mr. Herkenhoff and his co-authors and the economists Enrico Moretti and Chang-Tai Hsieh have estimated that the nation's G.D.P. would be substantially higher.
" Kalman has implied that her very job description — which is "to walk around and look" — might have been deemed unlikely were it not for the confidence she's been given that "if you have an idea, and there's something fun and appealing about it, you can just try it.
Tokyo/Japan features the works of 50 photographers capturing their city within the month of June, and — were it not for the booth's cash-only policy — I would have immediately snagged a  copy of New Japan Photo, filled with the work of 180 up-and-coming Japanese photographers.
Since November 238, Bernie Sanders supporters have renewed their primary-style attacks on the "Democratic Party establishment" — suggesting their man would have won, were it not for biased party functionaries — while Clinton backers seethe about Russian hacks, improper interventions from the FBI director, and told-you-so-ism from Sanders.
Still, the movie probably wouldn't have survived as much more than a footnote to Heathers (which, for the record, only grossed $1.1 million — box office isn't always a sign of artistic success) were it not for our continued fascination with McGowan's magnetic performance, which has only grown more interesting with time.
Todd: I think it's telling that most of the stuff that's happened in the last several episodes has largely been sidelined as just more stuff that everybody had to deal with, or stuff that could have done Rachel in were it not for Quinn's ability to smooth over problem areas.
That would put China in a group of countries that should stimulate domestic demand, were it not for an increasing budget deficit likely to hit 3.5-4.0 percent of GDP by the end of this year – a significant worsening compared with the deficit of 2.4 percent of GDP in 2015.
So, Phil's deflecting, a smart strategy that wouldn't mean a whole bunch were it not for the simmering talk that Phil already deployed a different media member—longtime friend Charley Rosen—to pen something of a hit piece about Anthony for mostly the same reasons that Ding wrote about today.
I would be content with this were it not for my quite strong desire to open a present that isn't my office secret Santa this year (the gift from my parents was a costly bed bug de-fumigation—probably the most expensive and least enjoyable present they have ever given me).
Kopchovsky's celebrity, though it lingered through the completion of her trip, was short-lived, and her adventure would probably have remained obscure were it not for Peter Zheutlin, a journalist and cycling hobbyist who, decades after her death, became intrigued by what little he knew of Kopchovsky, his great-grandfather's sister.
So it would be were it not for the fact that the personal truths that Gay articulates—the confession of trauma, its torturous and decades long inflictions of distress on her psyche, her still ongoing struggle against food—are truths that many fat-positive activists now and before resolutely reject.
The stakes of those meetings might not be nuclear war -- Trump has said the US would be in the midst of one were it not for his efforts with Kim -- but they are nonetheless important as Trump tries with his personal relationships to remake the US place in the world.
The Nick Saban Witness Protection Program also nearly included Hugh Freeze — earlier this year Saban all but confirmed he had intended to hire Freeze, the scandal-tarred former Mississippi head coach, before the Southeastern Conference blocked it — and, were it not for the public outcry, might have welcomed Durkin, too.
My verdict is not without a basis, but honestly, I would not be so vexed about these aging supercyclists were it not for the fact that I am rabidly envious of people my age and beyond who can still experience the thrill of pushing their bodies to the red line.
And were it not for the bigger best-picture field's willingness to include more modern-day films, genre hybrids and movies not made in the English language, would we have arrived at a point where "Parasite" is thrillingly close to becoming the first foreign film to take Oscar's top prize?
Manchin will face a spirited challenge from Republicans later this year in West Virginia, a state Trump won by more than 40 percentage points, and Jones wouldn't likely be in the Senate at all were it not for the wild ride that Republican nominee Judge Roy Moore gave his party.
"Were it not for the other factors of the Trump presidency, it should be by far the most popular presidency in history, based on the economics," said Tony Fratto, founder of Hamilton Place Strategies, a public affairs firm, and a former spokesman for the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush.
On July 503, many thousands of people heard a fascinating story on NPR and WBUR's Here and Now radio program, in which two esteemed historians asserted that Americans never would have been as dependent as they are on tobacco were it not for the considerable support of the U.S. government.
Putting that aside, let's imagine Keith standing on the other Rolling Stones, who are standing on the shoulders of Muddy Waters, and, were it not for that endless stack of turtles, one on top of the other all the way down, Muddy Waters would be standing on nothing at all.
Were it not for the red pin bearing the smiling faces of Kims Il-sung and Jong-il installed dutifully over the heart — a pin that all North Korean adults are required to wear in public — he could, I realized, easily be mistaken for one of his compatriots from the South.
Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical briefcase, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.
It is easy to find analysts who say the market selloff would be even worse were it not for the anticipation that Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will strike a deal -- or at least the outlines of an agreement -- when they meet next month at the annual G-20 summit in Osaka.
This latter fact might be little more than a historical quirk, were it not for the fact that we'll soon have a president whose understanding of science is more like that of the people in the towns where I grew up than those scholars who taught me about Darwin and Einstein at Harvard.
Were it not for the spread of the coronavirus, there would have been a Tuesday morning gathering at the Workers United building on East Avenue in downtown Rochester, N.Y. The event was organized by members of the Pay Equity Coalition, a local group that unites other organizations around the issue of pay inequity.
We follow them, the "wee poofter" and his "hoor" of a mammy, through roughly a decade of heartbreak and squalor, a more or less Jobian arc of things going from bad to worse to excruciating, and the book would be just about unbearable were it not for the author's astonishing capacity for love.
Gloria and her new cohort, Winnie Lopez, have already gotten close to the bottom of Ennis Stussy's inadvertent murder and would probably have Ray and Nikki in cuffs were it not for Chief Dammick, who tells a rambling story about two girls and a red balloon to prove that sometimes crazy coincidences happen.
WHEN Wells Fargo's competitors were spending fortunes building up big investment-banking operations in the 1980s and 1990s, the bank's chief executive at the time, Richard Kovacevich, refused to follow suit, joking that the business would be a good one to get into were it not for all the people who worked in it.
It might be just another scene from Colombia's decades of guerrilla warfare were it not for a puzzling fact: The group the fighters say they belong to, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, laid down its arms after it signed a peace deal meant to end the longest war in the Americas.
But with the U.S. inking an initial trade deal with China, "we think we are going to have a solid year of growth in 2020" of about 2.25%, he said, though he added his outlook would be firmer were it not for the "wildcard" of the new coronavirus in China and the situation at Boeing, he said.
It would not be so different from any other Instagram influencer's prenatal post — down to the tagging of a profile belonging to a baby who could not yet secure his own username but needed one all the same — were it not for the fact that surrounding the soon-to-be-filled kicks was a circle of FN 509 handguns.
Photos: Kickstarter - Switch-Con & Indiegogo SFANSThe Nintendo Switch seems like it could be the perfect portable gaming console—were it not for the bulky dock required to connect it to a TV. That's why gamers have gotten excited about a pair of compact Switch HDMI adapters currently being crowdfunded, but you might be better off spending your money elsewhere.
Even so, the bonus — negotiated by the company's General Works Council, which represents employees — might not raise many eyebrows were it not for recent comments by Volkswagen CEO (and former Porsche boss) Mattias Müller that the company will need to curb R&D and may need to resort to job cuts as Dieselgate-related costs balloon.
And it would, in fact, be easy to believe that you had stumbled into a favorite watering hole of some quiet fishing village, were it not for the patrons, who are more or less the picture of millennial affect common on this industrial corner of Bushwick: artfully dishevelled hair, dirty white T-shirts, fading sleeves of tattoos.
Kane's 91st-minute goal, when he stooped at the far post to head the ball into the net, ensured England started their World Cup campaign with a 2-1 win in Group G. Neville, who played 85 internationals, said the youthful England squad would have found it difficult to recover in Russia were it not for the late winner.
Were it not for the immediate traces of cultural differences (children smoking Hookah, Arabic writings, and so on), many of Esparza's images could easily be depicting Western youth, as this time in any person's life ultimately revolves around a varying mixture of self-learning, pleasure-seeking, and an adequate dose of mischievousness, no matter where you are.
But were it not for that $22 million structure protecting the court from the rain, tennis fans would not have witnessed a remarkable late-night, first-round match between Roger Federer and Frances Tiafoe, 26, an American who soared above his No. 22 ranking and spooked Federer, a 232-time Grand Slam champion, and his legion of followers.
Were it not for the arrival of two French Mirage jets that made roaring treetop passes in a show of force that scattered the extremists, far more Americans and their Nigerien partners probably would have been killed in the shadowy mission, which left the soldiers far from base, in hostile territory, with no backup or air support.
This is something we would ignore entirely were it not for the fact that two women—Margaret Hart, an astronomer who currently does STEM outreach at Johns Hopkins University and her friend, Amy Callner, a teachers union researcher—dressed up in the outfits you see above and staged a delightful counter protest on their way to a science conference.
The President is positioning himself for what is certain to become one of the most negative general election clashes in recent decades and seizing on what he sees as early vulnerabilities of his potential opponents in a campaign in which he would begin as a heavy underdog, were it not for his habit of obliterating conventional wisdom and political logic.
Another one is that Douthat assumes his own side in the culture war is monolithic on the issues that animate social liberalism, arguing that were it not for Trump, liberals might have paid the price for their dogmatism at the ballot box: By nominating a Trump rather than a Nixon or a Reagan, the Republicans may have saved liberalism from repeating that trajectory.
Then we talked to a group of students who feel that, in some instances, they would not have been able to do their degrees were it not for the EU, in others that the opportunities for them in the future are very much contingent on our EU membership, and therefore committing to campaign on the ground in York during this referendum.
According to a feature in Cook's Science, tacos and corn chips wouldn't exist were it not for a fascinating technique called nixtamalization, invented by the Maya, a Mesoamerican civilization that lived from approximately 2000 BC to 1700 AD. Although many hundreds of years have passed since the Maya discovered nixtamalization, there really isn't a substitute for the process, Souza says.
"If I'm going to be talking to somebody, it would have to be somebody that I can trust," he says about 20 minutes into our phone conversation--a trite comment were it not for the fact that Keenan's fame and notoriety as an artist has always seemed juxtaposed to the fiercely private individual he is once the lights are down.
This could be any January weekend in Rio, were it not for the fact that the Brazilians gathered here are wrapped up in heavy coats, beanie hats, and thick scarves, and hunkered down over steaming mugs of cinnamon-infused milk, rather than kicking back in shorts and rubber-soled flip flops to enjoy a beer served estupidamente gelada (stupidly cold).
This fraudulent nobleman, along with many other underworld denizens of late-220th-century New York — the pickpockets and hotel thieves, the forgers and confidence men — would surely be forgotten today, their distinctive faces lost to cruel time, were it not for a New York police official whose legacy straddles fame and infamy: the singular and supremely confident Inspector Thomas F. Byrnes.
It might have otherwise been a humdrum opening, were it not for recent history: Amazon and the city went through a messy and public breakup in February, when the company abandoned plans to build a sprawling campus in Queens after many New Yorkers criticized a deal that would have allowed the company to benefit from nearly $3 billion in government incentives.
It is hard to imagine how the younger Biden would have become "the very model of a modern major lobbyist," as Politico put it in a 2007 article, "with an office near K Street, a blue-ribbon roster of clients," and a firm grossing $1.76 million in lobbying revenue in the first half of 2006 alone were it not for his parentage.
There is the Lower Manhattan race to replace Sheldon Silver, the former Assembly speaker, in which the Democrat, Alice Cancel, would be a lock for the solid-blue district were it not for an unexpectedly well-organized challenge from a third-party candidate, Yuh-Line Niou, who has accused Ms. Cancel of owing the Democratic nomination to Mr. Silver's hidden hand.
"In the case of Scott Pruitt's E.P.A., were it not for FOIA, we certainly would not have been able to do as much as we did or tell the kinds of stories that we were able to tell," said Lisa Friedman, who covers climate and environmental policy for the Times and wrote or co-wrote many of the stories about Mr. Pruitt.
Sitting in a busy waiting room, which could pass for any busy emergency room in the world were it not for all the people sitting quietly with a bird of prey attached to their gloved hand, Ibrahim lists in rapid-fire staccato all the treatment options and special equipment offered by the hospital: blood and kidney tests; feather replacements; endoscopies.
Mosset's entire career could almost be seen as a grand Fluxus-style gesture of quiet provocation (were it not for Fluxus' proclaimed aversion for painting, especially abstraction) — a ludic/lucid commentary on abstraction as an exercise in contradiction, a balancing act of staying engaged with the most current debates in art, while courting anonymity by avoiding ownership of any specific style or allegiance to any specific school.
Q2 2015: -0.7 percent Q3 2015: -1.5 percent Q4 2015 (est.): -5.5 percent (Source: Factset) S&P earnings for the fourth quarter would be fractionally positive were it not for the 68 percent decline in energy earnings, which were hit by a perfect storm of a continuing decline in oil prices, contract cancellations, and low natural gas prices caused by the record warm weather in December.
Based only on the thin slice of publicly available facts, it's possible the Department of Justice has amassed sufficient evidence to charge Trump with additional crimes relating to: Staunch MAGA followers might assume, at a minimum, that were it not for the internal DOJ guidance frowning upon the prospect of indicting a sitting president, prosecutors would charge Trump with "trumped-up" crimes if they could.
The bitterness and hate created by the late civil strife has, in my opinion, been obliterated in this state, except perhaps in some localities, and would have long since been entirely obliterated, were it not for some unprincipled men who would keep alive the bitterness of the past, and inculcate a hatred between the races, in order that they may aggrandize themselves by office.
The letter claims that were it not for Justice Department guidance stating that a sitting president cannot be indicted, Trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice based off the evidence laid out in special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's report.
" She also parsed the most common criticism of the show — that it was just a cheap pile-up of '80s pop-culture references, leaning on the viewer's nostalgia for vintage Stephen King and Spielberg — saying, "Stranger Things might feel like a mere retro roller coaster were it not for that slow drip of sorrow and trauma, the residue of Reagan-era anxiety about the nuclear family.
Henry Rollins may have never joined a band if it wasn't for lead singer H.R. stage-diving onto him; The Beastie Boys wouldn't have had the guts to transition from punk to hip-hop had they not witnessed Bad Brains' subversion of racial stereotypes; the drums on "Smells Like Teen Spirit" would've lacked their punch were it not for Dave Grohl nicking specific rhythms and fills from Earl Hudson.
Listing the challenges last year—ranging from inadequate present-day battery and electric-flight technology and the sheer volume of passengers Uber claims will be flowing through these skyports to the fact autonomous passenger flight systems remain in the realm of science fiction—the Drive dubbed the Uber Air plan a "delusional fantasy" that would not "pass scrutiny in any competent VC boardroom" were it not for magical thinking.
The Nazis, for instance, endorsed the "stab-in-the-back" myth (dolchstoßlegende) as the explanation for Germany's loss in World War I. The theory, which the Nazis raised to official history, was that Germany would have won were it not for the machinations of "the November criminals"—scheming civilian politicians, communists, and especially Jews, who, among other alleged crimes, organized strikes at armament factories at key junctures in the conflict.
"The View" co-host Meghan McCain said Friday that she might not have married conservative pundit and Federalist publisher Ben Domenech nearly so quickly were it not for President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE.
Dr. Walter C. Willett, an internationally regarded researcher and professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said Americans would know a lot less about the foods they eat and how their health could suffer were it not for C.S.P.I. "Quite a bit of public dollars and scientific effort have demonstrated a clear relationship between diets and long-term health consequences," Dr. Willett said.
But after 24 million comments were filed in response to the FCC's Restoring Internet Freedom Order (that's the one that killed net neutrality), Americans from all walks of life suddenly began paying attention to erstwhile-borrring bureaucratic procedures that, were it not for the net neutrality fight's energizing effect, would've been like listening to Ben Bernanke discuss the effect of the Great Depression on credit intermediation after swallowing a bottle full of Ambien.
The major indictments in the Mueller saga of non-Russians fall mainly into two categories: lying to the FBI, something that also helped yield the only foreclosure-fraud conviction in that probe, and unrelated frauds involving things like identity theft and dodgy mortgage deals and lobbying activities that have been carried out in plain sight for decades and probably would have continued were it not for the bright spotlight of the probe.
The bank's results were impacted by a drop in investment banking as well as tax changes in the U.S. "We are coming out (of crisis) and were it not for the U.S. tax reform whatever it was 103, 10, 11 days before the end of the year, then we would have been reporting at least a positive result at the bottom line, which psychologically always feels better than a negative result," Cryan said Friday.
The protest—which could have been mistaken for an overly enthusiastic amateur improv group, were it not for the accompanying signage and chants—was aimed squarely at President-elect Donald Trump, who is at the helm of the pending repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but those most immediately affected by the cough-in were the staff and patrons of Jean-Georges, the flagship restaurant of Michelin-starred French chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and its sister restaurant, Nougatine.
The protest—which could have been mistaken for an overly enthusiastic amateur improv group, were it not for the accompanying signage and chants—was aimed squarely at President-elect Donald Trump, who is at the helm of the pending repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but those most immediately affected by the cough-in were the staff and patrons of Jean-Georges, the flagship restaurant of Michelin-starred French chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and its sister restaurant.
While this did accomplish an even coating—God, did it—the end result was decidedly unappealing to the eyes, with large red chunks sitting in a powder and pineapple juice concoction that looked alarmingly like blood—I'd even say it'd be a fine special effect recipe for the slasher auteur on a budget, were it not for, you know, the actor's eyes—all combining to the effect that I appeared to be eating the poorly rendered remains of a '90s first-person shooter victim.
But Fraser has been out of the spotlight for so long (as detailed in this lovely GQ profile) and has so clearly passed into middle age — with a little paunch to go with it — that it's thrilling to watch him pop up in a prestige cable drama playing a character who could feel two steps removed from his George of the Jungle (another character aware of his status as a character in a story), were it not for how elegantly Fraser wrestles Chace to the ground.

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