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 we examine only funds that have survived to the present, we will overestimate past returns because many of the worst-performing funds have not survived, and the observed association between fund youth and fund performance suggests that this bias may be substantial.

If the child survived it was brought before the Gerousia by the child's father.

If the prose sketch which Wagner mentions in Mein Leben was accurately dated ( and most of Wagner ’ s surviving papers are dated ), it could settle the issue once and for all, but unfortunately it has not survived.

" If the half-life of a nuclide is comparable to, or greater than, the Earth's age ( 4. 5 billion years ), a significant amount will have survived since the formation of the Solar System, and then is said to be primordial.

If this title had survived the fall of LMIII Crete, then it could have evolved into * Terasias in Doric Greek and, possibly, * Teresias in Ionic.

If Euripides ' tragedy, Protesilaos, had survived, his name would be more familiar today.

For a while If was hard to find on the news stands, but it survived.

If this is true, the text is important because Perpetua is one of the first Christian female writers before the fourth century whose works have survived.

If the letter was kept, the stamp survived.

If the Tsar survived the explosion, Zhelyabov was to kill him with a dagger.

If Leeds really did resume cylinder production in 1905, the cylinders would have to have been molded black waxes or they would not have survived on the market if they were brown.

According to British historian A. J. P. Taylor: " If the treaty of San Stefano had been maintained, both the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary might have survived to the present day.

If he had not, Esoteric Buddhism might not have survived because 35 years after Huiguo's death in the year 840, the infamous Emperor Wuzong of Tang assumed the throne.

If the crew of the Venus had indeed been captured then none of the 25 survived.

At the inquest it was stated by toxicologist Professor John Henry, who had previously warned the public of the danger of MDMA causing death by dehydration, " If Leah had taken the drug alone she might well have survived.

If she had drunk the amount of water alone she would have survived.

If so, it evidently survived that disaster as a functioning unit, and avoided the subsequent pit-falls of over-identification with the rebellion of the Macrianii and Palmyra's bid for autonomy under Zenobia.

If that were true, its progenitor would have to have survived in mainland South America at least until the Settlement of the Americas.

If Selfridge had been wearing a helmet of some sort, he most likely would have survived the crash.

" According to A. J. P. Taylor, writing in 1954: " If the treaty of San Stefano had been maintained, both the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary might have survived to the present day.

According to British historian A. J. P. Taylor, " If the treaty of San Stefano had been maintained, both the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary might have survived to the present day.

As one reviewer noted in relation to the album, " If you subscribe to the theory that the ' 60s actually survived a couple of years into the 1970s, then this is a prime slice of 1960s garage punk.

If properly treated, these pots should last for decades and a few special ones have survived for centuries.