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 the " will route " been tried, it would have given O. T. O.

In the 21 August 2004 edition of the International Herald Tribune van Creveld wrote, " Had the Iranians not tried to build nuclear weapons, they would be crazy.

Had he not tried to score a run, he would not have been out.

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

Had it been ratified, it would have allowed the United States a lease that was to remain in force in perpetuity on a six-mile wide strip across the isthmus of Panama ( then part of Colombia ) for $ 10 million and an annual payment of $ 250, 000, both payments being in gold coin.

There are some recurring types of strip, such as " You Had to Be There " ( where the reader is not told what the characters are discussing ), " Japanese Calligraphy " ( where one of the characters transforms over four panels into a kanji ideograph, usually related to the strip in some way.

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 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??

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 I warned him about the scaffolding, tomorrow he'd be hit by a taxi.

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

Gibson invited Baez to perform with him at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, where the two sang two duets, " Virgin Mary Had One Son " and " We Are Crossing Jordan River ".

Had that been true, as head of the army, in a position given to him by Hatshepsut ( who was clearly not worried about her co-regent's loyalty ), he surely could have led a successful coup, but he made no attempt to challenge her authority during her reign and, her accomplishments and images remained featured on all of the public buildings she built for twenty years after her death.

Had he not been from the west wind, she would have swallowed him.

Had Brock lived longer, he would probably have been freed from financial worries, since under prize regulations a substantial part of the value of the captured military stores would accrue to him.

In June 1778 " By the ill conduct of his wife found it necessary to send her into Wales in order to work a reformation on her ", the cause of this appears to have been that Jane Nash " Had imposed two spurious children on him as his and her own, notwithstanding she had then never had any child " and she had contracted several debts unknown to her husband, including one for milliners ' bills of £ 300.

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.

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.

He was meant to be a puppet, as evidenced by the saying: " Had the Council demanded the stars of heaven from him, he would have ordered it.

" Rabbi Akiva asked him: " Had you known that her husband would become a great man, would you have vowed?

Had the marbles been arranged in the other order, therefore, we would take him to be referring to the other marble, yet his internal state would be identical.

Had he joined O ’ Brien ten years before and carried the Irish Party with him, it is possible that Ireland ’ s destiny would have been settled by evolution.

Had he barely undertaken to perpetuate the tradition on which he received the sacred text he would have done as much as could be required of him, and more than sufficient to put to shame the puny efforts of those who have vainly labored to improve upon his design.

Had Nixon resigned without a sitting Vice President to succeed him, Albert would have become Acting President under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, which would have forced Albert to resign from the office of Speaker as well as the House.

On 2 April 2007 Garry Cobain posted a video onto his YouTube account of him arguing with a lady at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park, London about God entitled " the GOD WARS-An Argument I Had At Speaker's Corner ".

Had a trustworthy tradition that the world was created out of nothing been known to Aristotle, he would have supported it by at least as strong arguments as those advanced by him to prove the eternity of matter.

Had the impeachment of Andrew Johnson in 1868 succeeded, he would have succeeded him as the 18th President of the United States.

* On 2 April 2007 Garry Cobain of The Future Sound of London posted a video onto his YouTube account of him arguing with a lady at Speakers Corner in London about God entitled " the GOD WARS – An Argument I Had At Speaker's Corner ".