Had they not gotten me to the hospital when they did, perhaps I would not be here to commend them at this time.

Had More's writings been wholly limited to such exercises, they would be almost as dimly remembered as those of a dozen or so other authors living in his time, whose works tenuously survive in the minds of the few hundred scholars who each decade in pursuit of their very specialized occasions read those works.

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

Had she forgotten she had signed the car away, that whatever they mutually owned had been divided among the children??

Had this happened, they would undoubtedly have introduced changes in policies and procedures, and even equipment.

Had it not been for the strike that ended the season, they may have broken their own season attendance record, as they were on a pace to do just that.

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.

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

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.

In Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America, historian Ellen Schrecker calls the FBI " the single most important component of the anti-communist crusade " and writes: " Had observers known in the 1950s what they have learned since the 1970s, when the Freedom of Information Act opened the Bureau's files, ' McCarthyism ' would probably be called ' Hooverism.

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Had they not carried letters of marque, such behavior might well have qualified as piracy.

Had they attacked earlier they would have faced only a dozen Germans.

Had the route been charted, they should have sailed around the peninsula and made port on its eastern coast ; instead, they landed on the west and made a gruelling trip from the settlement of Bolsheretsk in the South-West, north to the Upper Kamchatka Post and then east along the Kamchatka River to the Lower Kamchatka Post.

Had they managed to do this, the battle would have ended indecisively and with the Spanish fleet running for Cádiz.

Had the Nazgûl not captured Gríma, they would instead have pursued Gandalf into Rohan, and possibly not found the Shire until much later, giving the Hobbits and then the Fellowship a considerable head start.

Had they won the Atlantic Division title, they would have had home-ice advantage in the first round.

Waage has written that, " Had the missing documents been accessible, there seems no doubt they would have shown the extent to which the Oslo process was conducted on Israel's premises, with Norway acting as Israel's helpful errand boy.

Had the Bulls won the toss, they would have selected the great Magic Johnson ; instead, they selected David Greenwood with the second pick.

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

Medley also had solo success: In 1984, he scored country hits with " Till Your Memory's Gone " and " I Still Do " ( which crossed over to the adult contemporary charts and later became a " cult " hit with the Carolina Beach / Shag dance club circuit ); and in late 1987, his duet with Jennifer Warnes — "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life ", which appeared on the soundtrack for Dirty Dancing — topped the Billboard Hot 100 and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for a Motion Picture ( for the three songwriters, which did not include Medley ) as well as a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals ( which, of course, did ).

Michael appeared gullible and naive ; a friend of Natalia's said he " trusted everybody ... Had his wife not watched over him constantly, he would have been deceived at every step.

Had Tunisia gone ahead they would have appeared fourth on stage.

After starring on Broadway in I Had a Ball, Hackett appeared opposite Robert Preston in the 1962 film adaptation of The Music Man.

Had Star Trek: Enterprise not been canceled, the Kzinti would have appeared in the fifth season.

Had the arrangement of names been alphabetical, Éamonn Ceannt would have appeared on top.

Leaving some to feel that it was released too late in the system's life and if it " Had appeared earlier ... it would have been a bigger hit.

His first book of photographs, Pictures I Had to Take, was published in 2003 ; its follow-up, Looking Hard at Unexpected Things, appeared in the Fall of 2006.

He has appeared in a number of music videos, including Jennifer Lopez's 1999 video, " If You Had My Love ", Busta Rhymes ' " Respect My Conglomerate ", Lionel Richie's " I Call It Love ", opposite Nicole Richie, Melanie Fiona's " It Kills Me ", 50 Cent's " Many Men ", alongside Rory Cochrane, and Wisin & Yandel's No Dejemos Que Se Apague.

The Second-hand Smoke version of this song was recorded in 1989, along with the other unreleased tracks " Had a Dat " and " Slow Ride " ( which also appeared on the band's 1991 demo tape Jah Won't Pay the Bills ).

She also appeared in regional theatre productions including Plaza Suite, It Had To be You, The Owl and the Pussycat, Goodbye Charlie and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

The sole exception to this is the short story " I Had a Date with Lady Janet ", which first appeared in the collection Pieces of Modesty.

*" Jack the Ripper ", " Christian Dior ", " Mexico ", " Noise is the Best Revenge ", " The Public Image ", " The Slum Mums " and " You've Had Her " are tracks that appeared on B-sides of Morrissey singles.

He appeared with Leigh Francis ' alter ego Keith Lemon on Let's Dance for Comic Relief dancing to "( I've Had ) The Time of My Life ".

Since leaving Days, Björlin has appeared in the independent feature film If I Had Known I Was a Genius, starring Markus Redmond, Whoopi Goldberg, Sharon Stone, and Tara Reid.

Had the book been submitted to a peer-reviewed journal and this comment had appeared, the review provided by Shapiro would have forced the conclusions regarding intelligent design to be changed or removed.

She also appeared onstage, mostly as a singer and dancer, in I Had a Ball, Bassa Moona, Marching with Jimmy, Janie, Decision, Three's a Family, Destry Rides Again, and the Off Broadway Double Entry ( two one-act musicals showcasing Lenoire: " The Bible Salesman ," with a pre-SNL Garrett Morris, and " The Oldest Trick in the World " with Jane Connell ).

He is a charter member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and authored the book I Had the Right to Remain Silent But I Didn't Have the Ability ( Dutton 2006, ISBN 978-0-525-94961-9 ), which appeared on the New York Times best seller list.

Had there been a delay in the response, the reaction might have appeared more revenge than self-defense.

Most recently he appeared in The Man Who Had All the Luck at the Donmar Warehouse as ' Gus ', the enigmatic Austrian mechanic in search of the American dream.

Ramini also appeared in the Desperate Housewives episode " Mama Spent Money When She Had None " as Yaniv.