If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.

If two players tie for majority, they will share both shareholder bonuses.

If instead Betty and Carla both owned 7 shares, then Alex would keep the majority bonus for herself, while Betty and Carla would split the minority bonus.

If so, the mere fact that an incidental result ( even if it was a desired consequence ) was that a shareholder lost his majority, or a takeover bid was defeated, this would not itself make the share issue improper.

If the deficit is not financed through a loan it is enough with a simple majority to approve the budget ( 50 % of the votes plus 1 ).

If any candidate in the first round gains a majority of votes, then there is no second round.

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 inhabitants of Palestine were ready for independence under a Class “ A ” mandate, then the Palestinian Arabs that made up the majority of the inhabitants of Palestine in 1922 ( 589. 177 Arabs vs. 83. 790 Jews ) could then logically claim that they were the intended beneficiaries of the “ Mandate for Palestine ” – provided one never reads the actual wording of the document:

If analyses of comets are representative of the whole, the vast majority of Oort-cloud objects consist of various ices such as water, methane, ethane, carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide.

If the constituency is in a jurisdiction using list PR in its multimember districts ( MMDs ) the winning candidate needs a relative majority of the votes to win, so that the election in the SMD is by first-past-the-post.

If the constituency is in a jurisdiction using PR-STV in its MMDs, an absolute majority of 50 % plus 1 will likely be the minimum required for victory ( depending on which quota is used ) so that the election in the SMD is by the alternative vote.

If the distribution of income within a country is skewed, a small wealthy class can increase per capita income far above that of the majority of the population.

If no candidates achieve a majority of the votes, there is a runoff election between the two candidates with most votes.

If, however, an opposition party wins a majority of seats in the House of Commons, the prime minister may resign or be dismissed by the governor general.

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 no candidate has an absolute majority of votes ( i. e. more than half ) in the first round, then the two candidates with the most votes proceed to a second round, from which all others are excluded.

If no candidate receives an absolute majority in the first round then the candidate ( s ) with the fewest number of votes is eliminated and excluded from further ballots.

If no single candidate has an absolute majority of votes then only the two highest polling candidates progress to the second count all other candidates are excluded and their votes redistributed according to the recorded preferences for continuing candidates.

If the Congress grants him confidence by absolute majority, the King then nominates him formally as " president of the Government "; if he or she fails to obtain absolute majority, the Congress waits 48 hours to vote again, in which case, a simple majority suffices.

If that person is able to gather 50, 000 signatures against the law within 100 days, a national vote has to be scheduled where voters decide by a simple majority of the voters whether to accept or reject the law.

If the star temperature has been determined by a majority of absorption lines, unusual absences or strengths of lines for a certain element may indicate an unusual chemical composition of the photosphere.

If any candidate should declare himself pope without receiving the required majority, he and his supporters were to be excommunicated.

If there was more than one individual who received the same number of votes, and such number equaled a majority of the electors, the House of Representatives would choose one of them to be President.

He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.

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

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

If communications work, his decision would be instantly known in all command posts that would originate the actual go order.

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 there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

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

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 one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

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 once they become inattentive to the public affairs '', Jefferson said, `` you and I, and Congress and assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves ''.

If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.

If the President of the United States really feels he won himself a `` lousy job '', then heaven help us all.

If we go all gooey over this newest Castro ( until he proves he isn't ) we've got rocks in our heads.

`` 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 we grasp this orientation as a key, our national conduct in all of the events here mentioned becomes intelligible.

If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.

If Joe doesn't show up, we'll all be back here at 0600 hours.

If we could use all the small airfields we have in this country, we could disperse our strategic aircraft by a factor of 10 or more.

If the points aren't thrown all the way, the Turnout cannot be locked, and in turn, the signal cannot be cleared.

If you have a 6- to 8-inch drain pipe, you may easily wash out all the debris when the grate is out.