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 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 a concerted attack been carried out, with Vendôme attacking with his main body to envelop the Allied right, while Burgundy attacked with the left ( before Overkirk and the rest of Argyll's troops arrived ), the French army could have easily won.

Had the British infantry left their trenches promptly and attacked in a south easterly direction, von Kressenstein's force would have had great difficulty escaping.

Had Haile Selassie attacked on 24 March as he originally planned, things may have gone differently ; many of the Italians had only recently arrived at Maychew after the fall of Amba Aradam.

Had he maintained his resolution to accept no political nomination, the memory of his attitude from 1860 to 1865 might have quite died ; but the Democratic nomination and his speech of acceptance, in which, with surprising want of tact, he aired afresh his old hatred of the African and attacked the Southern Republicans, white and black, with a virulence which few Southern Democrats could equal … have brought it into strong prominence.

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

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.

George Martin's and Parlophone's attempts to pull off the same trick that they had succeeded at with " Anyone Who Had a Heart ", taking a strong song released by an American artist hitherto unknown to British audiences and giving it to Cilla, did not succeed in the same spectacular fashion in February 1965 as it had twelve months earlier.

Had Concorde competed against earlier designs like the Boeing 707 or de Havilland Comet, it would have been much more competitive.

Had deregulation been in place several decades earlier, it is conceivable that many Canadian branch lines would have been viable in the hands of short line operators, saving millions of dollars for taxpayers funding highways, since the railway lines had already been publicly funded in their construction.

Had Hitler not invaded Greece and Yugoslavia earlier in the year, the invasion would have proceeded at that time, and the Soviet Union might have collapsed.

Had replaced AUB president David Dodge, who was kidnapped six months earlier.

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.

Had the German ships not altered course to the west at 01: 41 to follow the line of the Greenland icepack, the British would have intercepted them much earlier than they did.

Had it not been for the Melbourne Storm salary cap breach earlier in the season, Manly would have missed the finals altogether for the first time since 2004.

Had he formulated them less aggressively, constructive actions they suggested might have been taken much earlier.

In Sadie ’ s earlier works, A New Year, Living Inside, Me and Rubyfruit, Jollies, and If Every Girl Had a Diary all use Benning ’ s isolated surroundings and herself as the main focus in her videos.

Kenneth Burke's 1951 article " Othello: An Essay to Illustrate a Method " counters a Bradleyan reading of character, as L. C. Knights had earlier done with his 1933 essay " How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?

Had this collapse taken place a few hours earlier, many hundreds of miners, newly returned from the First World War, would have died crushed under millions of tons of rock.

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.

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 he died two days earlier, Roberts would have been tried for his murder.

Ceva's theorem which is often attributed to the Italian mathematician Giovanni Ceva ( d. 1734 ) was proved much earlier by Al-Mu ' taman ibn Had.

Had the deal gone through, Washington, D. C., would have been left without a classical-music station as a result of the earlier 2005 switch of WETA to a public-radio news and talk format.

Had Rachmaninoff stayed in Russia, and the Bolsheviks ' rise to power never taken place, the Fourth Piano Concerto probably would have been premiered around 1919, eight years earlier than its actual unveiling.