Had the two " non-Han " imperial families not thought themselves as continuing the " Mandate of Heaven " of the Middle Kingdom — the cosmological center of their known world — it would be hard to explain why they retained the costly tradition.

* His collection of short stories, " Worlds Enough & Time ", takes its name from the first line of the poem To His Coy Mistress by British poet Andrew Marvell: ' Had we but world enough, and time ,'.

Few could disagree with McGonagall's closing judgement: ' I must now conclude my lay / By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay / That your central girders would not have given way ,/ At least many sensible men do say ,/ Had they been supported on each side with buttresses ,/ At least many sensible men confesses ,/ For the stronger we our houses do build ,/ The less chance we have of being killed '.

Had the project been completed, it would have created the largest man-made reservoir in the world.

Had this bridge not existed at that time, the fauna of the world would be very different.

" Had they paid the money for Shergar's release, they reasoned, every racehorse in the world would have become a target for theft.

Had she won the final, she would have immediately regained the world no.

Had been a dreamer, but begins to wisen up as the world changes and she grows older.

Rather, the poem ’ s opening lines —“ Had we but world enough, and time / This coyness, Lady, were no crime ”— seems to suggest quite a whimsical tone of regret.

Had a trustworthy tradition that the world was created out of nothing been known to Aristotle, he would have supported it by at least as strong arguments as those advanced by him to prove the eternity of matter.

Other phrases such as, " there will be time " and " there is time " are reminiscent of the opening line of that poem: " Had we but world enough and time ".

Had our legislation been of the kind which was needed for giving effect to the Declaration of Independence, that great hill region of the South, one of the richest, if not absolutely the richest in the world, would long since have been filled with furnaces and factories, the laborers in which would have been free men, women, and children, white and black, and the several portions of the Union would have been linked together by hooks of steel that would have set at defiance every effort of the ‘ wealthy capitalists ’ of England for bringing about a separation.

Had this stadium been completed it would remain the largest in the world today by a considerable margin.

Had the referee ruled that the cut was produced by a punch, Sutcliffe would have been declared winner and world champion by a seventh round knockout instead.

Had it not been for the publication of KR's strikingly candid diaries long after his death, the world would have never known that this most prolific of Grand Dukes, the father of nine children, was bisexual.

Had the movie been filmed, it would have provided a sense of closure on Jayce, with his Lightning League meeting with the original Lightning League and being trained on the home world of the Guardians.

The Hour comes and tells of a change: " Soon as the sound had ceased whose thunder filled / The abysses of the sky and the wide earth ,/ There was a change: the impalpable thing air / And the all-circling sunlight were transformed ,/ As if the sense of love dissolved in them / Had folded itself round the sphered world.

It was her second album, If My Heart Had Windows, released on January 25, 1988, was the one that got Loveless noticed in the country music world.

Had the women, having been led to expect an imminent end of the world, begun to abandon their “ wifely duties ”?

" The US administration could have publicly revealed these plans to the world and warned Solidarity ," Urban said, " Had it done so, the implementation of martial law would have been impossible.

Had the 1997 El Niño lasted twice as long, the rain forests of the Amazon basin and Southeast Asia could have quickly added much additional carbon dioxide to the air from burning and rotting, with heat waves and extreme weather quickly felt around the world ( The " Burn Locally, Crash Globally " scenario.

Had it been built, it would have been the tallest building in the world by far, being more than four times the height of the then tallest building in the world, the Empire State Building, and it would be nearly twice as tall as the world's current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.

Had been an artillery man in the first world war and was put in charge of artillery section of 60 men

Had U.S. warships not appeared off the Dominican coast, there is every possibility that the country would now be wracked by civil war.

Had he played in another era uninterrupted by war, it has often been said that Greenberg would have hit between 500 and 600 home runs and driven in 1800 to 2000 runs.

Senator Henry S. Foote of Mississippi, who had suggested the creation of the Committee of Thirteen, later said, " Had there been one such man in the Congress of the United States as Henry Clay in 1860 –' 61 there would, I feel sure, have been no civil war.

Had Johnson been accurately informed about the Herrick message, he might have demanded fuller information before proceeding with a broadening of the war.

Had such a picture as ' Civilization ' been shown to the people of Europe before the war started there would have been no war.

Had All-Ireland home rule evolved earlier, there would most likely have been no Easter Rising, no Anglo-Irish War, no independent twenty-six county Free State and no ensuing civil war.

Had Bridgend been bombed it would have likely been a massive blow to munitions supplies to the allies and could have changed the course of the war in the Axis ' favour.

Had he lived a few more years, he would have seen his fortunes restored when Bethlehem Steel was flooded with orders for war material.

: Had the 20th of July bomb plot against Hitler succeeded there would have been strikes and civil war within Germany ...

Had the Ustaše done nothing other than blowing up our martyr church in Jasenovac as they did several days ago, it would be reason enough to declare war on them, both as a nation and as a state.

In the view of James Campbell, had Æthelwold not been killed at the Holme he might have united England in a manner which involved much less warfare than ultimately proved to be the case: " Had it not been for the chances of battle and war Æthelwold might very well have been regarded as one of the greatest figures in our island's story.

... Had I wanted war, I would not be here now.

Had the movement become successful, the face of Europe would have changed, avoiding the excesses of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation and perhaps changing the political and social reasons leading to the Thirty Years war.

Had this really been a " Civil " War, rather than a secession, they would and could have easily seized Washington after Manassas and hanged our first Communist President and the other war criminals.

Had the Soviet Union joined the Anglo-French blockade, the German war economy would have soon collapsed.

Had certain battles or policies during the war been different, Sweden's ability to attain a successful policy of neutrality might very well not have succeeded.

Had the war continued for a longer period of time, Germany or the Allies might have had no choice but to invade Sweden in order to thwart enemy advances.

Had the Reich been interested in improved relations with France before August 1914, the opportunity was available, but the leadership of the Reich lacked such interests, and preferred a policy of war to destroy France.

Had the plan been brought to fruition, the Habsburgs would have augmented their core domains with a large contiguous German-speaking territory while at the same time getting rid of far-away provinces that has proven to be difficult and costly to defend whenever Austria had been at war with France and / or Prussia.

Former president Theodore Roosevelt denounced Wilson's foreign policy, charging, ' Had it not been for Wilson's pusillanimity, the war would have been over by the summer of 1916.

Speaking of how the film drew on his own childhood experience of the war, Klimov said, " As a young boy, I had been in hell ... Had I included everything I knew and shown the whole truth, even I could not have watched it.