Had Louis XVI had him as a music instructor earlier in his life instead of, as biographers suggest, a musical mediocrity who chilled his interest in the violin, he might have become a royal composer like Frederick the Great of Prussia.

Had the recomposed version of Rachmaninoff's First Piano Concerto been better known at that time — the last major work the composer had finished before leaving Russia and one that some critics have suggested should be considered the actual Third Concerto, with its occasional brusqueness and abrupt transitions — listeners would have been better prepared for what to expect.

Had they been truly ruthless, the Belgians might have exploited the Congolese without compassion.

Had this game been more action oriented, with more enemies and much faster gameplay, it would have truly lived up to the Sonic name " Entertainment Weekly was harder on the Saturn version of the game than the Genesis version, claiming that " while 3D Blast is super by 16-bit standards, it falls flat on Saturn, where 32-bit games with far more sophisticated 3-D graphics and gameplay are the norm.

Had he been truly unaware he was over ocean, it seems likely he would have descended at this point ; instead, he claimed to have increased the engine speed by almost 20 % in the hope of decreasing his flight time.

This opposition must be put in context with the second option offered by the majority opinion, which allowed that the defendant had the option of remaining silent, saying: " Had he wanted to remain silent, he could have said nothing in response or unambiguously invoked his Miranda rights, ending the interrogation ".

Chief astronaut Deke Slayton wrote that he wanted one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts to be the first on the moon and, " Had Gus been alive, as a Mercury astronaut he would have taken the step ... My first choice would have been Gus, which both Chris Kraft and Bob Gilruth seconded.

Had he continued with the book, Murray wanted the main character from the first year, Ed Marks, to come back to Vietnam as a reporter and deal with the subject of Agent Orange.

Had our business sense been there in the beginning and things gone right, I think Bomer wouldn ’ t have wanted to bag it.

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

Signing a contract with A & M Records, Terrell had finished a solo recording, I Had to Fall in Love, in 1978 but supposedly due to her Jehovah's Witness beliefs conflicting with promoting the recording in a specific way the record label wanted, she semi-retired.

Had the U. S. wanted to preserve its key assets from attack, it would almost certainly have focused on protecting battleships.

Had I known what he wanted, I would have cooperated.

Had the skulls still been at the scene of the crime they could have been used by the undertaker to determine any blunt force trauma to the head, but the bodies were not recovered until the middle of the following day, February 5, leaving the corpses open to looters who wanted mementoes of the night ’ s events and so stole the skulls from the bodies.

Had there been another `` brain '' ship at the Base at the moment, Helva would have been guided to make the first move.

'" To this R. Abbahu replied, " Had the Bible said ' for joy ', it would mean as thou sayest, but since it says ' with joy ', it means that we shall make bottles of thy hide and fill them with water " ( Suk.

Had he lived longer, perhaps Winfield Scott Hammond would have realized his ambitious plans to reorganize state government by minimizing bureaucracy and eliminating waste to make Minnesota's wheels turn more efficiently.

Had Hugo hit Savannah, it would have been the first major hurricane to make landfall in Georgia since Hurricane Seven of the 1898 season.

While he didn't campaign for induction, he did make the statement that " Had I been elected after my death, I had made arrangements that my name never be placed in the Hall of Fame.

However, despite its being one of the favourites to go on to win the contest, her song If I Had Your Love did not make it to the final.

:" Had the interstate commerce commission jurisdictional power to make the order hereinbefore set forth ; all proceedings preceding said order being due and regular, so far as procedure is concerned?

Of her first performance in the Top 12 ( Dionne Warwick's " Anyone Who Had a Heart ," February 28, 2005 ), judge Simon Cowell said Solomon needed to do something memorable to make it far in the competition.

Had to make a pair of mittens, from the bunny rabbit's fur.

Had the Dodgers lost, the Giants would have been ½ game out and would have had to fly to Cincinnati to make up a game that had been rained out earlier in the season.

The pair came third in the competition, failing to attract enough votes to make the final after their performance of " Never Had a Dream Come True ".

Had that tall dark boy, carrying trays too heavy for him, found what he might have considered adulation of a man he probably hated more than he could bear??

Had it done so, the blot on its escutcheon would have remained indelible, nor could the Harvard Divinity School assemble today to honor Parker's insurgence other than by getting down on its collective knees and crying `` peccavi ''.

" Had he been a trapeze artist in a strolling circus, Coleman could have dispensed with the trapeze.

He states: " Had the Huns been unable to forge their swords and cast their arrow-heads, they never could have crossed the Don.

Had he become a warrior, he thinks perhaps he could have saved his father's life.

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 '.

As one historian later concluded, " Had the Germans been given a free hand to devise a replacement system ..., one that would do the Americans the most harm and the least good, they could not have done a better job.

Had the move been successful, this could have threatened to undermine the fledgling Freeview service, since at the time most digital terrestrial receivers were former ONdigital and ITV Digital units.

Had he not been banned from baseball, Rose's name could have been on the writers ' ballot beginning in 1992 and ending in 2006.

Had that been true, as head of the army, in a position given to him by Hatshepsut ( who was clearly not worried about her co-regent's loyalty ), he surely could have led a successful coup, but he made no attempt to challenge her authority during her reign and, her accomplishments and images remained featured on all of the public buildings she built for twenty years after her death.

Had the battle started earlier that day when Napoleon had fresher troops and more time, Lützen could well have become a second Austerlitz.

Had he completed his crossing this far north, it is possible he could have found Lake Tahoe and the Humboldt River in Nevada, the vital route across the Great Basin later used by California immigrants.

Had the Council chosen to follow the smooth evolution path from SIS 1 + to SIS II, the SIS II would already be operational and the new member states could connect their systems whenever they are ready.

:: Rebuttal: Had it always been considered correct, we could still use ethical reasons to start condemning it now.

Had they been a European car maker, this would have meant nothing ; they could have continued to offer the classic shape not so different from the later Rolls Royce with its vertical grill.

Had we been called upon by the Staff to do so, we could have furnished valuable information as to the movements of submarines, minefields, mine-sweeping, etc.

Had he known, he could have brought his own battlecruisers to sea faster and consolidated his fleet, possibly preventing the German losses and instead inflicting some on the departing British ships.

Had he chosen instead to send out the mounted troopers he had available they could have arrived on the scene in time to prevent some of the deaths.

Had he barely undertaken to perpetuate the tradition on which he received the sacred text he would have done as much as could be required of him, and more than sufficient to put to shame the puny efforts of those who have vainly labored to improve upon his design.

* Had ye been there – for what could that have done?

Had they been so, punishments up to and including execution by firing squad could have been imposed on those responsible.

Had the Māori Tribes been united, the subsequent history of New Zealand could have been different.

Had he lived today, you'd find that he would be employing everything he could get his hands on, and I mean acoustic guitar, synthesizers, orchestras, voices, anything he could get his hands on he'd use!