If it were, then under the tremendous tension of the mainspring, it would require a huge force on the trigger to disengage the sear.

If the owner continues to wind and use the watch without servicing, eventually the friction force reaches the ' flat ' part of the torque curve, and quickly a point is reached where the mainspring doesn't have the force to run the watch even at full wind, so the watch stops with the mainspring fully wound.

* If the fusee chain broke, the force of the mainspring sent the end whipping about the inside of the clock, causing damage.

`` If you go broke '', she said, smiling up at him, `` I'll leave you ''.

If the assembly broke the law, the only thing that might happen is that it would punish those who had made the proposal that it had agreed to.

In response to a fight that broke out at one of his seminal Storm Raves in New York City, Bones got on the microphone and yelled “ If you don ’ t start showing some peace, love, and unity, I ’ ll break your faces .”

If it came to the sudden-death tie-breaker, only the final question ( the one that ultimately broke the tie ) was kept and aired.

If someone broke his boundaries, thus getting more than his ordained part, then he would be punished by law.

The song involves Marvin describing his views on life (" I'd feel a little better if they broke me up for spares ", " If I had my time again, I'd rather be a lemming "), to a synthesiser backing.

Although Burke ultimately won the chart war, Burke broke rank and supported his rival: “ I would go to the radio stations and say, ‘ Hi, I ’ m Solomon Burke, and I ’ m here promoting the new record “ If You Need Me ”… by Wilson Pickett .’” Despite his efforts, Burke's version jockeyed with Pickett's for position in the Hot 100, before " beating Pickett to the punch " because of " Solomon ’ s popularity and Atlantic ’ s distribution.

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

If one belt broke, the vehicle could still be driven.

If we filled the house at 100 percent at half price, we'd go broke and I haven't seen any surge of tourist business yet this season.

If any member territory broke the NWA's rules, it faced expulsion, and thus risked missing out on having nationally-known wrestlers appear on their local shows.

* If fire broke out, how long did it last and what damage did it cause?

" If the pot broke, the soldier was exposed to attack from snakes or spiders, hence the name " spider hole ".

Lord Vetinari's genius political thinking and his running of the city can be summed up by his belief that what people wish for most is not good government, or even justice, but merely for things to stay the same ; the Vetinari family motto is, after all, Si non confectus, non reficiat (" If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

") His family motto is Si non confectus, non reficiat ( If it ain't broke, don't fix it ).

In 2004 Hardie Boys announced his opposition to New Zealand becoming a republic stating in an interview: " If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

If a big name such as Jeff Beck was playing, UFO broke even, but the club usually lost money.

If the spring broke, the reverse recoil of the barrel, instead of being passed on to the gear train, would simply unscrew the pinion.

If a western train broke down in East Berlin territory, then passengers would need to wait for Eastern border police to appear and escort them out.

If individuals speaking a single language migrated to the region of present-day Mali and then broke off into small groups that had little connection, it would be expected that the languages would develop different characteristics over time.

If the marriage broke up after the end of seven years, the woman was entitled to half the common pool.

* Pragmatic monarchists who maintained that, whatever the argued weaknesses of the current system, it also had many strengths ; following the motto of " If it ain't broke, don't fix it ".

If I proposed that anybody trying to knife or pistol another person should walk away and resume his daily amusements if the knife broke or the pistol missed fire, they would certainly ask me if I had contemplated the possibility of encouraging the employment of knives and pistols.

If war broke out with Great Britain and a decisive military breakthrough was achieved by the U. S. to a similar extent that occurred in the Mexican War, a movement to annex " all of Canada " could very well have been pursued.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place.

If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

If he had had a son, he would tell him, `` Gather ye rosebuds while ye may This same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying ''.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

If he had income other than wages subject to withholding, he may be required to file Form 1040.

If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.