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 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 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.

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.

Had he been able to escape this long siege of invalidism, I'm convinced, Papa would have left a sizable estate.

Had Churchill been returned to office in 1945, it is just possible that Britain, instead of standing fearfully aloof, would have led Europe toward union.

Had I been granted the floor on a point of personal privilege, the matter she raised would have been clarified.

Had it been bestowed while the Secretary General of the United Nations was living, unquestionably he would have been greatly encouraged in pursuing a difficult and, in many ways, thankless task.

Had I been in an all-married section I would have missed this, and I believe that this single aspect has been of great personal value to me ''.

Had Hoijer substituted for his 15 adjectival slots 15 good animal and plant items, his rate of stem replacement would have been lower and the age of Athabascan language separation smaller.

Had I been there, I, too, in the eyes of most Americans, would have been merely a pawn in the hands of the Communists.

Had Faith Constable's explanation of her confidence, so uninvited, been a little thin??

Had it not been for such private enterprise, diocesan authorities might of course have been goaded into establishing institutions subsidized by diocesan funds and parish collections and staffed by religious as paid employees.

`` Had a world war not been in progress, there would never, under any conceivable stretch of the imagination, have been an Allied intervention in North Russia ''.

Had she been in such a turmoil that this had slipped her mind??

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

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 the composer truly wanted to make concessions, he could have written a work closer in specifics to socialist realism, such as a programme symphony or a " song symphony.

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.

Had she lived, she would have become Queen of the United Kingdom on the death of her father, and Leopold presumably would have assumed the role later taken by his nephew, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, as Prince Consort of the United Kingdom, and never been chosen to reign as King of the Belgians.

Had Krim gone farther from New York than Chapel Hill, he might have discovered that large numbers of American Jews do not find his New York version of the Jews' lot remotely recognizable.

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 Alexander, who was a strong monarch, lived, things might have worked out differently.

In February 1705, Queen Anne, who had made Marlborough a Duke in 1702, granted him the Park of Woodstock and promised a sum of £ 240, 000 to build a suitable house as a gift from a grateful crown in recognition of his victory – a victory which British historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy considered one of the pivotal battles in history, writing – " Had it not been for Blenheim, all Europe might at this day suffer under the effect of French conquests resembling those of Alexander in extent and those of the Romans in durability.

Had the Luftwaffe focused on naval aviation, Germany might well have been in a position to win the Battle of the Atlantic.

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Had the ship continued on her course at night, the ship might have been wrecked.

Had Cocks ' work been publicly known, a patent in the US might not have been possible, either.

Had the movie been filmed in the West, costs might have been as much as three times this.

Had it not been for his death from illness in 1530, he might have been executed for treason.

Had he lived longer, Howard believes, his character might have enabled him to become a successful king like his father.

Had its original author, Michael Collins, survived, he might have been able to clarify its actual meaning, but with his assassination in 1922, no major negotiator to the Oath's creation on the Irish side was still alive, available or pro-Treaty.

Had the bulk of commercially important software been of this nature, low-level hardware compatibility might not have mattered.

Had Fauconberg succeeded in capturing the city, he might also have captured Edward's Queen Elizabeth and their children and released King Henry from the Tower.

Had there been a production limit, the deflation might have been helped somewhat.

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

Had the WFL come into existence a few years later, the league might have succeeded, but the league predated the vast expansion of cable television and sports networks spearheaded by the birth of ESPN in 1979.

Had von Braun's team been allowed to orbit a satellite in 1956, the Space Race might have been over before it gained sufficient momentum to yield real benefits.

Had Frémont continued up the Arkansas, he might have succeeded.

Had the Allied commander realised that Luxembourg had split his army in two, he might have overwhelmed the isolated French left before the right came into position, but he did not.

Had Kollowrat moved forward himself, protecting Klenau's left flank, the Austrian VI Korps might have envisaged the continuation of its action, but, as things were, Kollowrat had not yet moved from his position between Süssenbrunn and Breintlee.