`` What would you have done in Montero's moccasins??

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

An hour before, with the children asleep and nothing but the strange darkness, he would have appreciated company.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;

His presence would have interfered with her duty.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

An inch lower and it would have knocked him out.

Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.

Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

Johnson never would have believed she had a son that age.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

Without money or property, what would you have had at Baton Rouge ''??

Now we peered anxiously for any speck of land in the Pacific, for this interminable bailing would have to stop soon.

With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.

The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.

He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.

Whenever he saw someone lying in the dirt, Ramey wondered what the person had been thinking and he would try out thoughts in his own mind.

And he would have enjoyed it just as much if he had been a Nazi.

Had Dandy been older or wiser, instinct might have warned him that he would be well advised to flee from the Lalauries' tender care if he valued his life.

and if a poll had been taken immediately following the dispatch of troops to Little Rock I believe the majority would have been for the Old South.

Poor where they had once been rich, humbled where they had been arrogant, having no longer any hope of sharing in the leadership of the nation, the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother country.

Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.

They believe that if the South had been let alone it would have produced a civilization superior to that of modern America.

And Hamilton, who felt it `` a religious duty '' to oppose Aaron Burr's political ambitions, would have been a better actuarial risk had he shown more literary restraint.

Without the decay of a sense of objective reference ( except as the imitation of mystery ), the stress on subjective invention would never have been stimulated into being.

In my own company, in effect a partnership, although legally a corporation, I have been able to do many things for my employees which `` normal '' corporations of comparable size and nature would have been unable to do.

Also, I am convinced that if my company were a sole proprietorship instead of a partnership, I would have been even abler to solve long-range problems for myself and my fellow-employees.

It would have been unwise policy, for instance, to apply the pound-of-flesh characterization to the thrifty Scotchman.

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

Consequently, Plato realized that a method for obtaining conclusions would be most beneficial.

A form of reciprocity where some individuals seem to spend more resources on cooperating and punishing than would be most beneficial as predicted by several established theories of altruism.

This need not imply that on average 50 % or more of altruistic acts were beneficial for the altruist in the ancestral environment ; if the benefits from helping the right person were very high it would be beneficial to err on the side of caution and usually be altruistic even if in most cases there were no benefits.

He is immediately at a loss, and knows not what to answer ... a Pyrrhonian cannot expect, that his philosophy will have any constant influence on the mind: or if it had, that its influence would be beneficial to society.

The considerable distance between the Descartes site and previous Apollo landing sites would be beneficial for the network of geophysical instruments, portions of which were deployed on each Apollo expedition beginning with Apollo 12.

For example, while concluding meaningful trade agreements with developed countries ( such as the United States and the European Union ) would probably be beneficial to Brazil's long-term economic self-interest, the Brazilian government has instead prioritized its leadership role within Mercosul and expanded trade ties with countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Global labor arbitrage, a phenomenon described by economist Stephen S. Roach, where one country exploits the cheap labor of another, would be a case of absolute advantage that is not mutually beneficial.

Charles I ’ s haste to make peace with France on the terms most beneficial to him meant that the new North American gains would be bargained away in the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye ( 1632 ).

Adam Smith wrote in Wealth of Nations that Britain should liberate all of its colonies and also noted that it would be economically beneficial for British people in the average, although the merchants having mercantilist privileges would lose out.

Noticing the improved ability to move logistics throughout the country, he thought an Interstate Highway System in the U. S. would not only be beneficial for military operations, but provide a measure of continued economic growth.

Second, there are many cases in which the use of a single computer would be possible in principle, but the use of a distributed system is beneficial for practical reasons.

This was considered beneficial in that it would promote structured programming, by making it impossible to use the notorious < CODE > GO TO </ CODE > statement as before.

In 1751, Washington travelled to Barbados with Lawrence, who was suffering from tuberculosis, with the hope that the climate would be beneficial to Lawrence's health.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau would argue, however, that his concept of " general will " in the " social contract " is not the simple collection of individual wills and precisely furthers the interests of the individual ( the constraint of law itself would be beneficial for the individual, as the lack of respect for the law necessarily entails, in Rousseau's eyes, a form of ignorance and submission to one's passions instead of the preferred autonomy of reason ).

and it is our hope that the existing mutually beneficial relationship would be

Goebbels ' letter informed Chuikov of Hitler's death and requested a ceasefire, hinting that the establishment of a National Socialist government hostile to Western plutocracy would be beneficial to the Soviet Union, as the betrayal of Himmler and Göring indicated that otherwise anti-Soviet National Socialist elements might align themselves with the West.

It has been noted that many Pagans argue that the adoption of a polytheistic worldview would be beneficial for western society, replacing the dominant monotheism that they believe is by its very nature politically and socially repressive.

The MTA unanimously voted to sell the land to the Jets for approximately $ 210 million as the committee agreed that having the stadium would be beneficial in the long run.

Thus education would play an important role in creating a balance through rigorous exercise of beneficial organs while repressing baser ones.

The authors suggest that studies of pair programming suffer from publication bias whereby studies that would not show that pair programming is beneficial were either not undertaken, not submitted for publication, or not accepted for publication.