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 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 Booth managed to flee the country, his hope had been to seek asylum in Mexico.

Had the landing at Y Beach been properly managed, the outcome of the Gallipoli campaign could have been significantly different.

Had the Coalition managed to push through with more vigour in the days following the Battle of Leipzig, the already disorganised French army would have probably been destroyed, but Coalition armies had themselves suffered such high losses at Leipzig that they were in no position to launch an effective pursuit.

Had he managed another 27, the Bannermans would be the only brothers both to score Test centuries on debut.

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 Prometheus not provoked Zeus's wrath ( 44 – 47 ), " you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working ; soon would you put away your rudder over the smoke, and the fields worked by ox and sturdy mule would run to waste.

"( I've Had ) The Time of My Life " is now seen and heard ubiquitously on TV and radio commercials — covered by singers other than Medley and Warnes — usually connected with vacation, cruise, resort, and other such holiday-themed advertisers aimed at those looking at what to do with their dream holiday excursions.

Had I anything to do with the negro, I would confine them by strict law to their own species, and put them on a national equalization.

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 not believed that preaching was a higher calling, he might have run for office himself as he was occasionally encouraged to do.

" Had my father known what I was going to do ," the younger McMahon told Sports Illustrated in 1991, " he never would have sold his stock to me.

" Had he failed to do so, the Saved would themselves have to be operated upon in Paradise so as not to be more perfect than their Saviour.

One of Halleck's staff officers privately explained to Grant that the problem lay with the excessive scope of the order: " Had the word ' pedlar ' been inserted after Jew I do not suppose any exception would have been taken to the order.

Butters use to do the ' The Official Top Ten ' which he asked listeners to text in for things like " The Official Top Ten Bills You Didn't Know You Had To Pay Until A Brown Envelope Turned Up This Week Saying You Had To ".

Had Cunningham declined to resign, his role in Congress would have been very limited, as House rules do not allow members convicted of felonies to vote or participate in committee work pending an investigation by the Ethics Committee.

Had they succeeded, Bessie would have been the first documented woman in history to do so.

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.

The album did not feature any folk music elements, and brought songs " Bitanga i princeza ", " Ala je glupo zaboraviz njen broj ", " Na zadnjem sjedištu mog auta " (" On the Back Seat of My Car "), " A koliko si ih imala do sad " (" How Many of Them Have You Had Till Now "), and emotional ballads " Ipak poželim neko pismo " (" Still, I Wish for a Letter "), " Kad zaboraviš juli " (" When You Forget July ") and " Sve će to, mila moja, prekriti ruzmarin, snjegovi i šaš ", all becoming hits.

:... Had we desired to disregard the interests of such workers of the land as are dependent, directly or indirectly, upon lands of the landlords, we could have acquired large and unlimited areas, but in the course of our conversation I have pointed out to you that this has not been our policy and that, when acquiring lands, it is our ardent wish not to prejudice or do harm to the interests of anybody.

Had browser makers not been persuaded to do so, the Web would likely have fractured into pockets of incompatible content, with various websites available only to people who possessed the right browser.

Had the battle actually taken place in the true month of August, when the harvest was becoming ripe, Pompey's strategy of starving Caesar would not be plausible.

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

Fontaines was killed in the battle ; the duke of Enghien is reported to have said, " Had I not won the day I wish I had died like him.

However, Had the battle gone in Germany's favour ... there is every reason to believe that the advance would have petered out.

Had the British followed the retreating Americans they might have come across their baggage and supply wagons, which had been left where the Americans had camped on the west of the Salisbury road prior to the battle.

Had solid shot been used against the Monitor, the result of the battle might have been different.

Had Antioch and Edessa not been fighting amongst themselves after the battle, Baldwin may have been able to attack Aleppo ; however, Aleppo and Mosul were soon united under Zengi in 1128.

Had the 20th Maine retreated from the hill, the entire Union line would have been flanked, and would have most likely lost the battle of Gettysburg, although there is much debate on the subject.

Had Nobunaga decided on a frontal assault, the battle would have been deceptively easy to predict ; his army was outnumbered ten to one by the Imagawa forces.

Had he lost the battle he would most likely not be in politics today.

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 the Canadians not retreated, short on ammunition and inexperienced, they might have faced a heavier defeat by the Civil War veterans of the main Fenian army ( which was so well-supplied with ammunition that they dumped thousands of rounds into Black Creek on the eve of the battle in order to lighten their load ).

Had Admiral Stark remained in command at the time of the Yellow Sea battle, Admirals Togo and Stark would have met on equal terms, both retaining about equal combat experience in battleship fleet actions.

Had a ( rare for the time ) face versus face battle with Pete Sanchez on an MSG undercard.

Had he stayed with the pack train where he was assigned, Boston Custer might have survived the battle.