If your side has two aces and a void, then you are not at risk of losing the first two tricks, so long as ( a ) your void is useful ( i. e., does not duplicate the function of an ace that your side holds ) and ( b ) you are not vulnerable to the loss of the first two tricks in the fourth suit ( because, for instance, one of the partnership hands holds a singleton in that suit or the protected king, giving your side second round control ).

If the player to move has no legal moves, the game is over ; it is either a checkmate — if the king is under attack — or a stalemate — if the king is not.

If the compromise was a rebuke to the most radical vision of the liberty of the Church, on at least one point its implication was firm and unmistakable: The king, even an emperor, was a layman.

If he had been in exile, Constantine may have returned to Pictland where his cousin Donald II became king.

If such an extraordinary event had actually taken place ... could the king have withstood the attitude of the native nobles, who would hardly have looked upon such an occurrence without offering armed resistance to their feeble and capricious sovereign?

If the occupant was a king, it was probably either Saebert or Sigeberht ( murdered AD 653 ).

If the king had joined, its resolutions would have received the sanction of the law ; but he refused, and approached the newly formed Roman Catholic League of lords, whose members pledged themselves to support the king, the Catholic Church, and the Council.

If the clergy misuses ecclesiastical property, it must be taken away ; if the king does not do this, he is remiss.

If one of the clergy neglects his office, he is a traitor to the king who calls him to answer for it.

If the clergy relies on papal pronouncements, it must be subjected to obedience to the king.

* If the pope finds that the king who has been elected by the princes is unworthy of the imperial dignity, the princes must elect a new king or, if they refuse, the pope will confer the imperial dignity upon another king ; for the Church stands in need of a patron and defender.

If found worthy of the kingship, the augur announced that the gods had given favorable tokens, thus confirming the king ’ s priestly character.

If one were attacked, the king would come to his aid.

If the votes pass, the king keeps the government and king how it is, if they don't, then everything changes.

If the nations were tools of Yahweh, then the new king who would come to redeem Israel might not be a Judean as taught in older literature ( e. g. Psalm 2 ).

If the defendant could not produce a royal licence to prove the grant of the liberty, then it was the crown's opinionbased on the writings of the influential thirteenth-century legal scholar Bractonthat the liberty should revert to the king.

If a player's king is threatened with capture, it is said to be in check, and the player must remove the threat of capture on the next move.

If this cannot be done, the king is said to be in checkmate.

If a player's move places the opponent's king under attack, that king is said to be in check, and the player in check is required to immediately remedy the situation.

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.

If you are an income beneficiary of property held in trust or an heir, legatee, or devisee, you may deduct allowable depreciation and depletion, if not deductible by the estate or trust.

If these things be so, then the evidence of the senses must be held in slight esteem.

If a flame is held before the lips while these words are spoken, it flickers more during aspirated nitrate than during unaspirated night rate.

If the celebration takes place outside of Mass, it can be held in the home, in a hospital or institution, or in church.

If the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.

If x is held fixed, then the Bessel functions are entire functions of α.

If a coalition collapses, a confidence vote is held or a motion of no confidence is taken.

If the pawl were held away from the sleeve the clutch would continue to drive the load without slipping.

If a rotating frame is chosen so that just the angular position of an object is held fixed, more complicated motion, such as elliptical and open orbits, appears because the centripetal and centrifugal forces will not balance.

He felt differently about the Muslim leader Muhammed Ali Jinnah, but was aware of his power, stating " If it could be said that any single man held the future of India in the palm of his hand in 1947, that man was Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

If liberty is taken to mean " the ability to exercise one's rights as provided for by the law and nature " then this is true, but if it means " the state when one is not held to nor required to perform anything against their will " then this is clearly false.

If the frequency deviation is held constant and the modulation frequency increased, the spacing between spectra increases.

If the detention is held to be unlawful, the prisoner can usually then be released or bailed by order of the court without having to be produced before it.

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

If they voted " yes ", then an ostracism would be held two months later.

If the inverting input is held at ground ( 0 V ) directly or by a resistor, and the input voltage V < sub > in </ sub > applied to the non-inverting input is positive, the output will be maximum positive ; if V < sub > in </ sub > is negative, the output will be maximum negative.

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 the former option were to win, the referendum would have been held again every 8 years.

If the latter option were to win, a separate referendum would be held where Puerto Ricans would have been given the option of being admitted as a US State " on equal footing with the other states ", or becoming a " sovereign nation, either fully independent from or in free association with the United States.

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 requested to do so by a petition signed by a majority of the membership of the Seanad, and one-third of the membership of the Dáil, the President may, after consultation with the Council of State, decline to sign into law a bill ( other than a bill to amend the constitution ) he / she considers to be of great " national importance " until it has been approved by either the people in an ordinary referendum or the Dáil reassembling after a general election, held within eight months.

If he swore to cease hostilities against the nation who held him captive, he could be repatriated or exchanged but could not serve against his former captors in a military capacity.