If the event that Zhao failed to gain Chen's approval, Zhao would then normally attempt to fall back on the favor of Deng Xiaoping in order to promote reforms.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

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 the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.

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 you are unable to sign the request, because of illness or other good cause, another person who stands in close personal or business relationship to you may sign the request on your behalf, stating the reason why you are unable to sign.

If he died before she did, she would never be unable to resist opening it.

If an opponent tries to anticipate the stroke, he may move in the wrong direction and may be unable to change his body momentum in time to reach the shuttlecock.

If one die is unable to be moved, but such a move is made possible by the moving of the other die, that move is compulsory.

If it was instead hilly, wooded, marshy, or urban, armour would be vulnerable to infantry in close-quarters combat and unable to break out at full speed.

If he had been a bit more trustworthy, if his character was somewhat better, the CCP would have been unable to beat him ".

If the user is unable to identify what is being demonstrated in a reasonable fashion, the map may be regarded as useless.

If enough magma is ejected, the emptied chamber is unable to support the weight of the volcanic edifice above it.

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

" If you bind me so that I am unable to release myself, then you will be standing by in such a way that I should have to wait a long time before I got any help from you.

If the algorithm is unable to reduce A to triangular form, then A is not invertible.

If for any reason there are complications, the village midwife will forward the ‘ patient ’ to the ‘ nurse ’, and if she is unable to help then they are forwarded to the Primary Health Center.

If the photon energy is too low, the electron is unable to escape the material.

If there is no covering fire, the tank may be destroyed easily as it unable to move to protect itself.

# If a vessel on port tack is unable to determine the tack of the other boat, she should be prepared to give way ( Rule 12 )

If the mass of the core exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit, electron degeneracy pressure will be unable to support its weight against the force of gravity, and the core will undergo sudden, catastrophic collapse to form a neutron star or ( in the case of cores that exceed the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit ), a black hole.

If the government has a large majority, then they are very unlikely to lose enough votes to be unable to pass legislation.

If the embalmer is unable to do so, or if the family requests otherwise, the funeral home can perform a closed casket service.

** If the router was unable to establish a successful TCP session, then it ends up in the Active state.

If the defensive player is in the backcourt but unable to position himself for a non-defensive shot, he may need to hit the ball off of the back wall.

If a user thread or a fiber performs a system call that blocks, the other user threads and fibers in the process are unable to run until the system call returns.

If a conference committee is unable to reach an agreement, it may be discharged, and a new conference committee may be appointed.

If the president is not present, dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to fulfill his or her duties, the vice president will generally serve as president.

If however both tubes were completely blocked, so that sperm and egg were physically unable to meet, then fertilization of the egg would naturally be impossible, and neither normal pregnancy nor ectopic pregnancy could occur.