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If I could believe them honorable and truthful men, I could yield much — but I suspect that your policy of surrender to them will only place more power in their hands to war with greater effect against the unity of the 3 Kingdoms with no increase of good to the Irish people.
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If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!
I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
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Fruit compote: `` If you think I would understand it '' ; ;
`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.
`` If I don't come out within half an hour ride back to town and bring out a posse ''.
If the old fool argues about the price, tell him I shall order my husband not to treat him as a patient any longer.
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If I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.
If and could
If she did, he could stand it better in the light.
If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;
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If the crummy bastard could write!!
If only Simms Purdew could do that, whatever the thing he remembered and told.
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If we could use all the small airfields we have in this country, we could disperse our strategic aircraft by a factor of 10 or more.
If notched for the battens, they would require more work, be weakened and limber holes would have to be bored so that bilge water could flow through.
`` If I could only think of something at the studio, near me, to absorb his boundless energy '', I said.
If only state funds were used to pay for the vocational education, it could be argued that the state should not have to bear the cost of vocational training which would benefit employers in other states.
If it could be shown that judgments of good and bad were not judgments at all, that they asserted nothing true or false, but merely expressed emotions like `` Hurrah '' or `` Fiddlesticks '', then these wayward judgments would cease from troubling and weary heads could be at rest.
If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.
If they opted for illusion, it could only be illusion per se -- an illusion of depth, and of relief, so general and abstracted as to exclude the representation of individual objects.
If you look at a reading meant for someone else, you will probably see that many of the items could be considered as applicable to you, even when you were not in the picture at all!!
If and believe
If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.
If students believe that concepts are being forced upon them, they might become uncomfortable and fearful.
If anything, the research has shown the situation is even more complex than initially imagined, and we believe not enough is known to structure the classification of psychiatric disorders according to etiology.
If his son were guilty, he would still believe him innocent, on the basis of faith in his son ; this would violate the third subjunctive condition.
If Emperor Keitai began a new dynasty as some historians believe, then Buretsu is the last emperor of the first recorded dynasty of Japan.
If Emperor Keitai began a new dynasty as some historians believe, then Emperor Buretsu would have been the last monarch of the first recorded dynasty of Japan.
If we believe in this mental component and call it God, then we can say that we are small pieces of God's mental apparatus " ( p. 297 ).
His last words to his followers were, " If I did not so fully believe, that the Lord has designated me to place our society before His presence in the land of Canaan, I would consider this my last ".
Islamists have asked the question, " If Islam is a way of life, how can we say that those who want to live by its principles in legal, social, political, economic, and political spheres of life are not Muslims, but Islamists and believe in Islamism, not Islam?
If this type of information is obtained ( directly or indirectly ) and there is reason to believe it is non-public, there is a duty to disclose it or abstain from trading.
Put another way, " If you believe A ( set of facts ), you must find X ( verdict ).
If you believe B ( set of facts ), you must find Y ( verdict ).
In Christ stilling the Storm he wrote: " If a man believe in Christ, and make a point of his belief, then the promise that God hath made to come into the land of light shall be given by virtue of Christ, to all men that make this the chief matter.
In the Doctor Who serial The Green Death ( 1973 ), The Doctor temporarily stumps BOSS by asking it " If I were to tell you that the next thing I say would be true, but the last thing I said was a lie, would you believe me?
If the person was lucid, they often believe that they are no longer dreaming and begin their morning routine.
If they believe in determinism, they will therefore believe free will to be an illusion, a position known as Hard Determinism.
Saints All-Pro quarterback Drew Brees made a controversial tweet on June 20, 2012 stating, " If NFL fans were told there were " weapons of mass destruction " enough times, they'd believe it.
If B is true, then God ( or any other person ) does not believe that B is true and thus doesn't know that B is true.
If a judge determines that there is sufficient evidence to believe that the defendant committed the crime, it is said that the defendant is " held to answer " or " bound over " ( in U. S. jurisdictions ).
If these tournament rounds were held in one competition, up to 512 contestants would participate in the tournament, which is difficult to believe for a single contest.
" If as Oneness believe, that God the Father was incarnate in Christ, which Jesus confessed (" it is the Father in me that doeth the work "), the Father was in Christ during all of the sufferings and being nailed to the cross.
The evil demon problem originally motivated skepticism, but can be resuited to object to reliabilist accounts as follows: If our experiences are controlled by an evil demon, it may be the case that we believe ourselves to be doing things that we are not doing.
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