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.

He exclaimed " Had I been in Kelm, I would have gotten an hour mussar shmuze ( Jewish ethics and self-improvement lecture )".

Had Snider gotten that now-blank fifth place vote, the final vote would have favored Snider 227-226.

Had he been killed by entering the boathouse, the police would have closed the case ; both suspects would have been found dead, and " Matty " would have gotten away clean with the money, which was never recovered.

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 ''.

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The very dark hair on its head fell to just below the shoulder-blades or even almost to the waist ... Had it been standing, its arms would have reached to a little above its knees ; they were therefore long, but its legs seemed to me rather short.

Had he been a few more metres away from me I would have not reacted like I did or at the most I would have given him a bit of lip as I walked past.

Charlemagne replied famously: " Had you chosen me, you would have had both of us.

" 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 it been permitted to me to have gratified them Catholics in the little they looked for, Ireland would not have been what it now is, a millstone upon the neck of England ".

Judge Schoettler wrote a letter to Chief Bernard Parks stating, " Had the matter been submitted to me for a determination, I would have found in favor of the City of Los Angeles.

Had I framed my story on this model, I should have done no more than have attempted to restore the lost drama of Æschylus ; an ambition which, if my preference to this mode of treating the subject had incited me to cherish, the recollection of the high comparison such an attempt would challenge might well abate.

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Had he been victorious, he might have pardoned me.

Had it not been for the exhibition nothing could have kept me from hurrying home by the first train, such was my longing to see my babies.

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.

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Had Agnew remained as Vice President when Nixon resigned just 10 months later, Agnew himself would have become the 38th President, as well as a strong candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, both of which instead went to Ford.

Had the convention been held in the spring, when the economic downturn led to a string of Whig victories, Clay would have had much greater support.

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

The effects of the group's charity single, " Never Had a Dream Come True ", were felt when the group handed over £ 200, 000 to Children in Need, from the sales of the CD after the release of " Don't Stop Movin '" in April 2001.

She also starred in the final segment of the anthology film If I Had a Million ( 1932 ) as a rest home resident who gets a new lease on life when she is given a $ 1, 000, 000 check by a dying business tycoon.

Had he remained in office, he would have cultivated the British alliance and cooperated with Britain in Egypt ; and when the succeeding Freycinet government shrank from that enterprise only to see it undertaken with signal success by Britain alone, Gambetta's foresight was quickly justified.

" Had I been younger, I would probably have resigned when the Americans ditched the Vance-Owen Peace Plan " Hour p157-8.

Had he lived a few more years, he would have seen his fortunes restored when Bethlehem Steel was flooded with orders for war material.

The lead single, " You Had Me ", became her biggest hit to date when it rose to number nine in the UK.

Many anachronisms are incorporated into the film for comedic effect, such as the " Hollywood "- styled sign upon Robin Hood's arrival in England, a rental horse, Ye Olde Port-o-Privy, an " EXIT " sign appearing when Robin escapes from the castle, an impression of Winston Churchill's " We shall fight on the beaches " speech ( immediately followed by an impression of Malcolm X's " You've Been Had " speech ), a pneumatic jackhammer, a handheld semi-automatic crossbow, a remote-control portcullis, a man sounding like Lou Costello yelling " Hey, Abbot!

Had Riyad had his way, Urabi and his associates would have been executed forthwith ; so when the British insisted that clemency should be extended to the leaders of the revolt, Riyad refused to remain in office as interior minister, resigning in December 1882.

This was particularly true in later years when Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer invented the characters of Hamish and Dougal, two rural Scotsmen who featured regularly in the sketches, and later were given their own series, You'll Have Had Your Tea.

Had this channel launched when initially licenced, it would have been the first Irish general-purpose channel specifically for closed-access systems, although City Channel has beaten it to this.

Had he been a semi-Graecus, like Ennius and Pacuvius, or of humble origin, like Plautus, Terence or Accius, he would scarcely have ventured, at a time when the senatorial power was strongly in the ascendant, to revive the rôle which had proved disastrous to Naevius ; nor would he have had the intimate knowledge of the political and social life of his day which fitted him to be its painter.

These princesses are often a vital source of information to their rescuers, telling them how to perform tasks that the captor sets to them, or how to kill the monster, and when she does not know, as in The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body, she frequently can pry the information from the giant.

Had his own ' jingle ' sung by Steve and his Posse when the interview had ended (" Fillet of Fish, Fillet of Fish.

Miranda also challenges her father when she begs for the life of those on the ship, telling him: " Had I been any great god of power, I would have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere the good ship so have swallowed, and the fraughting souls within her!

( Had absence been dominant, presence might have most naturally been seen as what you get when you take away an absence.

Had he lived to fight at Waterloo in a square, when the sole requirement was dogged bravery, he would have been a most successful commander.

It has been reported that when Muhammad once saw a person offering Salaah, as well as playing with his beard, he remarked: " Had he khushu in his heart, his body would have manifested it.

The play's failure nearly derailed Miller's career, and it remained one of his least known works until 1990, when the Bristol Old Vic staged The Man Who Had All The Luck with Iain Glen in the lead role.