JW MacNaughton, the Director of Military Operations and Plans, stated that “ he considered it unlikely that peacekeepers would get used in any combat capacity, so he expected the UN would ask for military advisers and not the standby battalion Canada had readily available for UN service .” When Dag Hammarskjold received the offer to send the Canadian Brigade to the Congo he refused stating that “ If outside help was required to resolve the developing crisis, they preferred non-African states to be used as a last resort .” The United Nations did not wish to turn the Congo Crisis into a Cold War proxy war and so tried to pick peacekeepers from neutral countries.

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 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 she wanted to borrow any sum of money in expecting the arrangements of Congress, it would not become a stranger, unknown to her, to offer himself for that purpose.

If he wanted to know anything, he would end up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.

If the acting captain wanted his acting lieutenant to sit on his ass around the station all night, Killpath would just have to go out and drag Gun back by the heels once an hour ; ;

If a man was good, if he was going to be governor, you felt it and you wanted him to go on forever.

If Hal Yarrow had been killed in a crash, he must have wanted it that way.

If the defendant moves for a mistrial, there is no bar to retrial, unless the prosecutor acted in " bad faith ," i. e. goaded the defendant into moving for a mistrial because the government specifically wanted a mistrial.

If the user wanted to keep his progress then the cartridge used had to have the same type of non-volatile memory hardware.

If one wanted to assert, in Arabic, that an apple looks red, one would not literally say " the apple is red ", but " the apple red ".

If one concept is defined by another, and the other is defined by the first, this is known as circular definition, somewhat similar to a circular reasoning: neither offers us any enlightenment about what we wanted to know.

If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

If a plotter was commanded to use different colors it had to replace the pen and select the wanted color and / or width.

If we only wanted the tuples for a specific customer, we would specify this using a restriction condition.

If we wanted to retrieve all of the Orders for Customer 1234567890, we could query the database to return every row in the Order table with < u > Customer ID </ u > 1234567890 and join the Order table to the Order Line table based on < u > Order No </ u >.

If they had wanted four, one of them would have been picked out.

If the user wanted to see a font at another size, the Font Manager would find the closest match and apply a basic scaling algorithm.

If all we wanted were a definition of " God ," there are many of those available.

A government advisor who attended the screening, a friend of Meyer's, told him " If you wanted to draw blood, you did it.

* If a country wanted to devalue its currency, a gold standard would generally produce sharper changes than the smooth declines seen in fiat currencies, depending on the method of devaluation.

If a philosopher wanted to proffer a positive definition of the concept " reality ", it would be done under this heading.

If I wanted to direct, why, they'd give me a shot at it, and if it didn't come off all that well, they wouldn't be too disappointed as it was to be a very small picture.

If two people were in a room and one of them wanted to refer to a characteristic of a chair in the room he would say " this chair has four legs " instead of " a chair has four legs.

If a patron wanted blue, they were forced to pay extra.