`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

If the Department of State is to take primary responsibility for foreign policy in Washington, it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas.

If the demands of these two sovereigns upon his duty of allegiance come into conflict, those of the United States have the paramount authority in American law ; likewise, those of the foreign land have paramount authority in their legal system.

If foreign objects are not the cause, a doctor will incise and drain the abscess and prescribe painkillers and possibly antibiotics.

If one of the intervening states was a superpower, a civil war is extended a further 72 %; a conflict such as the Angolan Civil War, in which there is two-sided foreign intervention, including by a superpower ( actually, two superpowers in the case of Angola ), would be 538 % longer on average than a civil war without any international intervention.

If the political situation stabilizes, high crime levels wane, and new investment increases, tourism could take its place next to export-oriented manufacturing ( the assembly sector ) as a potential source of foreign exchange.

If the addressee is within the same country, there is no need for an IRC because a self-addressed stamped envelope ( SASE ) or return postcard will suffice ; but if the addressee is in another country an IRC removes the necessity of acquiring foreign postage or sending appropriate currency.

If the dominant country's influence is felt in social and cultural circles, such as " foreign " music being popular with young people, it may be described as cultural imperialism.

If a country's exchange rate is too high, its exports will become uncompetitive as buyers in foreign countries require more of their own currency to pay for them.

If a loan word is too foreign sounding inflection or derivation rules may not be able to transform it.

If the local court is actually giving extraterritorial effect to a foreign law, it is less than sovereign and so acting in a way that is potentially unconstitutional.

If the US had continued down this path, the dollar would have become a less attractive foreign exchange reserve asset: it would not have had the necessary liquidity to serve this function.

If a ferromagnetic foreign body is present in human tissue, an external magnetic field interacting with it can pose a serious safety risk .< ref >

If the insulin is an injected form and not made internally, the body may see the insulin as an outside or " foreign " substance.

Arthur L. Little, in agitative fashion, suggests that the desire to overcome the queen has a corporeal connotation: " If a black — read foreign — man raping a white woman encapsulates an iconographic truth ... of the dominant society's sexual, racial, national, and imperial fears, a white man raping a black woman becomes the evidentiary playing out of its self-assured and cool stranglehold over these representative foreign bodies ".

* If the foreign audience is near the broadcaster, high-power longwave and mediumwave stations can provide reliable coverage.

* If the foreign audience is more than 1, 000 kilometers away from the broadcaster, shortwave radio is reliable, but subject to interruption by adverse solar / geomagnetic conditions.

If an airline loses its national identity by merging to a large extent with a foreign company, existing agreements may be declared void by a country which objects to the merger.

" If one looks up in a Chinese-English dictionary the two dozen or so partly generic words used for various foreign peoples throughout Chinese history, one will find most of them defined in English as, in effect, ' a kind of barbarian '.

If the interest and capital requirements are too large, a nation may default on its debts, usually to foreign creditors.

If the body is exposed to foreign antigens, as by getting a tissue graft, it attacks the foreign material unless it is histocompatible.

:" If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of Congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations and among the several states is vested in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the Constitution of the United States.

If such forms represent a Welsh version of Bernicia, it is unclear why Welsh would need to borrow a ' foreign ' name for the area, so the former hypothesis is usually accepted, although no etymological analysis has produced a consensus.

If the defendant files an appeal arguing that he should not have to pay any money, then the plaintiff might file a cross-appeal arguing that the defendant should have to pay $ 200, 000 instead of $ 50, 000.

If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.

If the defendant pleads guilty, an evidentiary hearing usually follows.

If the defendant pleads not guilty, a date is set for a preliminary hearing or a trial.

If no excuse can be found or produced, the silence of the books is an authority against the defendant, and the plaintiff must have judgment.

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 a defendant could not reasonably have foreseen that someone might be hurt by their actions, there may be no liability.

If Parliament is not in session, then the trial is conducted by a " Court of the Lord High Steward " instead of the House of Lords ( even if the defendant is not a peer ).

If there is no charge for which a two-thirds majority of the senators present vote " guilty ", the defendant is acquitted and no punishment is imposed.

If the plaintiff brings onlyclaims which are equitable, but the defendant asserts counterclaims which are of law, then the court will grant a trial by jury.

If the defendant waives a jury trial, a bench trial is held.

If the defendant asserts his right to remain silent all interrogation must immediately stop and the police may not resume the interrogation unless the police have " scrupulously honored " the defendant ’ s assertion and obtain a valid waiver before resuming the interrogation.

If the defendant does reinitiate contact, a valid waiver must be obtained before interrogation may resume.

If the defendant meets the procedural requirement, the motion will normally be considered by the judge outside the presence of the jury.

# Before any custodial interrogation began did the government agents properly advise the defendant of her Miranda rights? If “ Yes ” go to 6 ; If “ No ”, go to 18 ..

# Did the defendant waive her rights? If “ Yes ” go to 7 ; If “ No ”, go to 18.

# Did the defendant assert either or both of her rights? If “ Yes ” go to 10 ; If “ No ”, go to 18.

# Did the defendant assert her right to remain silent? f “ Yes ” go to 11 ; If “ No ”, go to 13.

# Did the defendant assert her right to counsel? If “ Yes ” go to 14 ; If “ No ”, go to 18.