If the Dominican Republic achieves free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U.S. show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened restoration of Trujillo dictatorship.

If the President of the United States really feels he won himself a `` lousy job '', then heaven help us all.

If it comes down too hard on the potential dangers of fallout, it will box the President on resuming atmospheric tests.

The Vice President said, `` If you hear of any names that would fix me cheap in return for advertising they decorated the Vice President's home, let me know.

Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

If organized as a division then the top manager is often known as an Executive Vice President ( for example, Todd Bradley who heads the Personal Systems Group in Hewlett Packard ).

If the corporate President is not the COO ( such as Richard Parsons of Time Warner from 1995 – 2001 ), then many division heads report directly to the CEO themselves, with the President taking on special assignments from the CEO.

On October 7, Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós spoke at the UN General Assembly: " If ... we are attacked, we will defend ourselves.

If he returns with the President and the tape in time for the summit, Hauk will save him.

President Obama observed, " If media is operating basically as a talk radio format, then that's one thing, and if it's operating as a news outlet, then that's another ".

::: Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States ; If he approves he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated ...

If the Vice President did not preside over an impeachment ( of anyone besides the President ), the duties would fall to the President pro tempore of the Senate.

If the Supreme Court upholds the bill, the President must sign it.

If, however, it is found to be unconstitutional, the President will decline to give assent.

If requested to do so by a petition signed by a majority of the membership of the Seanad, and one-third of the membership of the Dáil, the President may, after consultation with the Council of State, decline to sign into law a bill ( other than a bill to amend the constitution ) he / she considers to be of great " national importance " until it has been approved by either the people in an ordinary referendum or the Dáil reassembling after a general election, held within eight months.

If the prime minister is declared permanently incapacitated, or that period expires, the President of Israel oversees the process of assembling a new governing coalition, and in the meantime the acting prime minister or other incumbent minister is appointed by the Cabinet to serve as Interim Prime Minister.

If the President cannot attend meetings, including meetings of the Council of Ministers, he can ask the Prime Minister to attend in his stead ( Constitution, article 21 ).

President Hugo Chávez has repeatedly expressed his disapproval of the practice of kidnapping stating on 14 April that, " If I were a guerrilla, I wouldn't have the need to hold a woman, a man who aren't soldiers ... Free the civilians who don't have anything to do with the war.

If the declaration is done by the Vice President and Cabinet, the Amendment permits the President to take control back, unless the Vice President and Cabinet challenge the President and two-thirds of both Houses vote to sustain the findings of the Vice President and Cabinet.

If some supporters articulate that they agree to the independence of Taiwan, they may either be referring to the notion of formally creating an independent Republic of Taiwan, or to the notion that Taiwan is synonymous with the current Republic of China and already is independent, which is against the People's Republic of China's claim.

If ranked today, the United Arab Republic would be the 25th largest nation on the planet ( Egypt is 30th and Syria is 88th ).

Iran, however, has made the following reservation “ If the text of the Convention is or becomes incompatible with the domestic laws and Islamic standards at any time or in any case, the Government of the Islamic Republic shall not abide by it .” Iran has also signed the both optional protocols which relate to the special protection of children against involvement in armed conflict and the sale of children and sexual exploitation.

If the latter argument is accepted, then the Republic of China may have ceased to be a state post-1971 as a matter of international law (" de jure "), yet continued to otherwise function as the state that it previously was recognised as (" de facto ").

* If the president of the National Assembly, the president of the Senate or 60 deputies or 60 senators claim that a just-voted statute is unconstitutional, the President of the Republic does not sign the law and instead waits for a petition to be sent to the Constitutional Council.

* If the country merged into an existing country, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of this country is used ( e. g., the German Democratic Republic merged into Germany, whose alpha-2 code is < tt > DE </ tt >).

* If the country was divided into several parts, the special code < tt > HH </ tt > is used to indicate that there is no single successor country ( e. g., Czechoslovakia was divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia ), with the exception of Serbia and Montenegro, for which < tt > XX </ tt > is used to avoid duplicate use of the same ISO 3166-3 code, as the alpha-2 code < tt > CS </ tt > had twice been deleted from ISO 3166-1, the first time due to the split of Czechoslovakia and the second time due to the split of Serbia and Montenegro.

If the Republic must be destroyed by someone, Cicero fulminates against Clodius in mock resignation, let it at least be destroyed by a real man ( Latin vir ).

If you know of works set in the Early Republic, please expand this section.

If you know of works set in the Middle Republic, please expand this section.

If so, this group may be the original so-called knights equo privato, a rank that is attested throughout the history of the Republic ( in contrast to knights equo publico ).

If the Republic had been in danger, they would have been called up by the General Staff, supplied with arms, and allotted to their places.

If the chairman was from the Czech Socialist Republic, the vice chairman must have been from the Slovak Socialist Republic, and vice versa.

" If the US attacked Iran, despite all my problems with the Islamic Republic, I'd go back and fight these bastards ...

If once again the required majority is not attained, voting is repeated after five days, the person receiving the votes of a three-fifths majority of the total number of Members of Parliament shall be elected President of the Republic.

If the inhabitants would rise against Spain, the Southern Netherlands would be afforded independence on the model of the Cantons of Switzerland, however with the Flemish seacoast, Namur and Thionville annexed by France, and Breda, Geldern and Hulst going to the Republic.

If the inhabitants resisted, the country would be partitioned outright, with the Francophone provinces and western Flanders going to France, and the remainder to the Republic.

*" If one admits that the Iraqis are delighted with Saddam Hussein's end, one must also think about the possibility that maybe, the Iranians would celebrate at the end of the Islamic Republic as well.

If the Assembly is in crisis, The President of the Republic may dissolve the National Assembly, upon an elaborated proposal of the government.

If the position angle of the body's Prime Meridian increases with time, the body has a direct ( or prograde ) rotation ; otherwise the rotation is said to be retrograde.

If the Prime Minister dies in office, the Cabinet chooses an Interim Prime Minister, to run the government until a new government is placed in power.

If, for instance the British Prime Minister wished to dissolve parliament in order for a general election to take place, the Prime Minister is constitutionally bound to request permission from the sovereign in order to attain such a wish.

If the case is the former, then when Wesley Crusher is sentenced to death, the violation of the Prime Directive had already occurred and the issue of rescuing him, while politically exacerbating matters, might not have been a violation of the Directive.

If the Prime Minister refuses to do either, it is then open to the Governor-General to dismiss his present Ministers and seek others who are prepared to give him the only proper advice open.

If the Assembly passes a motion of no confidence in the government, the Prime Minister and the rest of Cabinet are expected either to resign their offices or to ask for Parliament to be dissolved so that a general election can be held.

Responding to a remark made by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson about not having boots in which to go to school, Macmillan retorted: ' If Mr Wilson did not have boots to go to school that is because he was too big for them.

If the high ranking minister is the Prime Minister, this can be seen by the " PM " behind his name.

If a vote of no confidence is cast against the Prime Minister ( Sw. Statsminister ), this means the entire government is rejected.

If the Senate twice in a three month period refuses to pass the same piece of legislation that was initiated in the lower house, the government may either abandon the bill or continue to revise it, or, in certain circumstances outlined in section 57 of the Constitution, the Prime Minister can recommend the governor-general dissolve the entire parliament in a double dissolution.

" If the U. S. and friendly countries help us achieve the withdrawal of Israel from Shebaa farms, this would make it possible for the Lebanese forces to be the sole owner of weapons and arms in the country ," Lebanese Prime Minister Foaud Seniora said.

If the Prime Minister-designate is approved he or she chooses which and how many members ( ministers ) are to be included in his or her government.

If the Prime Minister is forced by a vote of no confidence to resign the entire cabinet falls and the process of electing a Prime minister starts over.

If the Prime Minister is unable to nominate his Council of Ministers within one month, the Presidency Council shall name another Prime Minister ..

When asked during an interview in February 2009 about becoming Prime Minister, Straw said: " If someone came and said " Sign on the dotted line ", yes, I'd sign.

If passed by a majority vote, the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers resigns collectively.

If granted, the decree of pardon is signed by the President, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice and possibly other ministers involved in the consideration of the case.

When he refused, (" If the Constitution goes, I go ," he defiantly declared ) the group, including the army commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, former Prime Minister and 1987 Coup Leader Sitiveni Rabuka, former military commander Ratu Epeli Ganilau ( a son-in-law of Mara's ), and a former Police Commissioner Isikia Savua, are alleged to have asked for, and possibly forced, Mara's resignation.