If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

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

If in spite of all his advice someone persisted in making idols, he would have them punished by the Patingatis ( Parava headsman ) by exile .... One day when he heard that idols had been worshipped in the house of a Christian, he ordered the hut to be burnt down as a warning to others.

If not properly acknowledged and worshipped, a common Yoruba expression warns, “ life is the bailing of waters with a sieve .”

Abu Bakr then says to him " If anyone worshipped Muhammad, then know that Muhammad is dead, but if anyone worshipped Allah, then Allah is living and does not die ", whereupon Umar calmed down.

If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States.

If all layers of an image change regularly but a large number of layer still need to be composited ( such as in distributed rendering ), the commutativity of a compositing operator can still be exploited to speed up computation through parallelism even when there is no gain from pre-computation.

If, instead of incorporating Einstein's clock synchronization ( lattice of clocks ), the astronaut ( outgoing and incoming ) and the Earth-based party regularly update each other on the status of their clocks by way of sending radio signals ( which travel at light speed ), then all parties will note an incremental build up of asymmetry in time-keeping, beginning at the " turn around " point.

If no one is regularly reviewing your logs and they are not maintained in a secure and consistent manner, they may not be admissible as evidence.

If it is seen outside the zoo on a stretch of greensward regularly used for walking dogs, then of course it is more likely to be a dog than a lion.

If kept moist, they can be stored in a cool place for a few months, but must be checked regularly for signs of germination.

If not removed regularly, plaque buildup can lead to dental cavities ( caries ) or periodontal problems such as gingivitis.

If trimmed back regularly, it can maintain a bushy habit and will not need support.

If not pruned regularly, the bush will become very ' leggy ', growing upwards until the weight of the stems is greater than their strength, at which point the stems will sag down to the ground and possibly break.

Zinn regularly included it in his lists of recommended readings, and after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, Zinn wrote, " If Richard Hofstadter were adding to his book The American Political Tradition, in which he found both ' conservative ' and ' liberal ' presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, maintaining for dear life the two critical characteristics of the American system, nationalism and capitalism, Obama would fit the pattern.

Saxophonist Evan Parker observed that Stevens had two basic rules: ( 1 ) If you can't hear another musician, you're playing too loud, and ( 2 ) if the music you're producing doesn't regularly relate to what you're hearing others create, why be in the group?

If the combatant is engaged in " armed conflict not of an international character " then under the Article 3 of the general provisions of the Geneva Conventions they should be " treated humanely ", and if tried " sentences must ... be pronounced by a regularly constituted court "

Although nothing before or after ever matched the career-defining success of " My Toot Toot ," several of his songs such as " If It's Good For The Gander ," " My Zydeco Shoes ," " Jalapeño Lena ", and " Ann Cayenne " have become zydeco staples and are played regularly by other bands.

If regularly disturbed at the nest, magpie pairs will eventually either move the eggs or abandon the clutch altogether, but in the first instance they will defend the nest aggressively.

If they attend meetings regularly and are considered to demonstrate progress toward becoming an unbaptized publisher, they may receive a copy of the monthly newsletter Our Kingdom Ministry, and may also qualify to join the congregation's Theocratic Ministry School.

If the recall campaign qualified less than 180 days prior to the next regularly scheduled election, then the recall becomes part of that regularly scheduled election.

If hedges are not maintained and trimmed regularly, gaps tend to form at the base over many years.

If teams regularly go bankrupt or change markets the same way businesses do, then the whole sport looks unstable to the sporting consumers, who may lose interest and switch their support to a more stable sport where their team and their rivals are more likely to be playing in the long term.

If five spheres are assembled in this way, they will be consistent with one of the regularly packed arrangements described above.

If the sequence of flashes is interrupted by regularly repeated eclipses of constant and long duration, the light is denoted " interrupted quick ", abbreviated " I. Q ".

Released in the United States and Canada in 1997, the single If This World Were Mine failed to chart but the video regularly appeared on The Box.

If a company or organization communicates between its different branches or firms regularly, it will most likely lease a dedicated cable line to connect each of the branches together.

* If the victim responds, leave him in the position in which he was found provided there is no further danger, try to find out what is wrong with him and get help if needed, and reassess him regularly.

If enrolled in these courses, one can expect to meet other highly motivated students, engage regularly in classroom discussions, and do more in-depth coursework.