If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place.

If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

If he had had a son, he would tell him, `` Gather ye rosebuds while ye may This same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying ''.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

If he had income other than wages subject to withholding, he may be required to file Form 1040.

If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.

If the ball is dead on the pitch run on, such as from a foul ball ( except caught fly-out ), the steal is not allowed and the runner returns to his time-of-pitch base.

If a forward pass is caught near a sideline or endline it is a complete pass ( or an interception ) only if a receiver catches the ball in bounds.

If caught with a gun anywhere else severe penalties are in force, including arrest.

If a rider is thrown from a horse but has a foot caught in the stirrup, they could be dragged if the horse runs away.

* If a robber is caught breaking a hole into the house so that he can get in and steal, he will be put to death in front of that hole.

If caught early enough in an infestation, the cases from the previous year can be picked off by hand before the end of May.

If practising live release, it is recommended to call the fish " caught " when it is alongside a boat.

If caught out in the open, agamas are able to run quickly on their hind legs to reach shelter.

" Even seeing of the first page of the second act is enough to draw the reader in: " If I had not caught a glimpse of the opening words in the second act I should never have finished it [...]" (" The Repairer of Reputations ").

If he is caught clean shaven without his badge he may be arrested by the Posse, a group of men dressed in western garb, sporting pistols and rifles filled with blanks and, of course, facial hair.

If someone's license plate is caught by a traffic camera for speeding and they receive a speeding ticket in the mail a week later, this consequence will not be very effective against speeding.

If the killers were caught, the mob would hire the best lawyers for their defense.

* High siding – If a raft is caught in a hydraulic it will often quickly go sideways.

If caught, " wipers " are generally called out of the game, and in recreational paintball may be ejected from the field for multiple instances of wiping.

If the Bill passes, this is also likely to be felt by small-time distributors who are not linked to the ring of organized crime, and who usually face no more than a fine if caught.

If the player is caught by the IRS agent, he is audited, and always loses the audit, which takes 50 % of his income.

His performance in If .... caught the attention of Stanley Kubrick, who cast McDowell as the lead in A Clockwork Orange, adapted from the novel of the same name by Anthony Burgess.

If the Soviet Union launched a sneak attack and the US did not respond immediately, the majority of their missiles and strategic bombers might be caught on the ground.

If a player catches a ball thrown by the opposing team on the full, then the player who threw the ball is eliminated, and the team that caught the ball can reinstate the player that has been out the longest ( or the player ( s ) whom the thrower eliminated ).

If a dodgeball hits an opposing player but gets caught by one of the hit player's teammates, the thrower is out, a player gets reinstated, and the player who got hit stays in.

If that ball however is caught on the full, the opposition can reinstate the player that has been out the longest from their team.

If I had not heard long ago from other people that you were a fool, I might now have known it of myself, since you thought I was sitting in an empty jug, and went to cover it up with your hand, as if you had me caught.

* If I am careful and smart, I will not get caught.

If caught early, the process can sometimes be reversed by vascular surgery.

If property was stolen, for instance, " the king should have any thieves caught in connection with its disappearance executed by an elephant.