If Daniel's Vita is trustworthy ( and there is nothing against which to judge its accuracy ), then John came to the Vatos Monastery at Mount Sinai, now Saint Catherine's Monastery, and became a novice when he was about 16 years old.

If a novice chooses to leave during the period of the novitiate, no penalty is incurred.

" Robe-bearer "— If the novice continues on to become a monk, he is clothed in the first degree of monasticism at a formal service known as the Tonsure.

If the postulant and the community agree that the postulant should become a monk, the man is received as a novice, at which time he is given his religious habit, and begins to participate more fully in the life of the monastery.

If used inappropriately, even novice listeners can often detect that nonsense is being spouted forth.

If the members approve of the postulant, a fully indoctrinated member may act as a sponsor and the postulant is promoted to a novice.

If three-fourths of the order agrees, the novice is promoted to a full member of the group.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

If one chooses an infinite number of distinct points in the unit interval, then there must be some accumulation point in that interval.

If he / she chooses not to put the detectors there, then the interference pattern will become reality ; if he / she does put the detectors there, then the beam path will become reality.

If one chooses a critical value of the test statistic D < sub > α </ sub > such that P ( D < sub > n </ sub > > D < sub > α </ sub >)

Rand summarizes: If chooses to live, a rational ethics will tell him what principles of action are required to implement his choice.

If the Prime Minister dies in office, the Cabinet chooses an Interim Prime Minister, to run the government until a new government is placed in power.

If either the 2nd player chooses to move to the square diagonal to the first player or the first player's 2nd move is not to this square given the choice, then a starting position before flipping moves commence that differs from the standard Othello position arises.

The passers-by spit in his face, and sometimes beat him … unmercifully … If a Jew enters a shop for anything, he is forbidden to inspect the goods … Should his hand incautiously touch the goods, he must take them at any price the seller chooses to ask for them ...

If it chooses the former, the telephone company will face less regulation but will also have to comply with FCC regulations requiring what the Act refers to as " open video systems.

If it chooses shares, it avoids increasing its debt, and in some cases the new shareholders may also provide non monetary help, such as expertise or useful contacts.

If the medium becomes idle, the sender transmits a frame with a probability p. If the station chooses not to transmit ( the probability of this event is 1-p ), the sender waits until the next available time slot and transmits again with the same probability p. This process repeats until the frame is sent or some other sender starts transmitting.

If you must move your opponent's pawn to promotion, then your opponent chooses to what piece it promotes.

If a word has more than one definition listed, the Picker privately chooses which one to use, but in such a case must specify, " X, when it does not mean so-and-so.

If a plan chooses to pay less than Medicare for some benefits, like skilled nursing facility care, the savings may be passed along to consumers by offering lower co-payments for doctor visits.

If the contestant chooses to play, a lighted " spinner " begins moving around the board, while the individual squares on the board cycle through a series of items.

If no bidder chooses to utilize the buyout option before the end of bidding the highest bidder wins and pays their bid.

If the individual chooses that outcome which has the maximum chance of being satisfactory, then this individual's behavior is theoretically indistinguishable from that of an optimizing individual under certain conditions

If a second player chooses to play a higher card of the same suit or any trump, that player wins the trick.

Following his conversion to Christianity, C. S. Lewis believed that the resurrection of Jesus belonged in this category of myths, with the additional property of having actually happened: " If God chooses to be mythopoeic — and is not the sky itself a myth — shall we refuse to be mythopathic?

If the player chooses the Bad Ending, Klogg is punched out by a transformed Klaymen.

If the Player chooses the Good Ending, Klogg tries to kill the awakened Hoborg but steps on the remote for his cannon and is blasted clean off the Neverhood.

If the re-vote does not resolve the tie, the tied players are granted immunity and the non-tied players ( except anyone who has won individual immunity ) are forced to choose rocks out of a bag without looking ; the player who chooses the differently colored rock is eliminated.

If the Elder chooses to take fewer than the maximum, she may then look at the remainder from the five ( which are the first ones that the Younger will take ).

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

`` If he would only leave the East '', said Mary.

If he failed to reach the riverbank in five minutes, say, then the skiffs would pull away and leave him groping in the mud.

If you plan to visit any of these countries, you can obtain your International Driving Permit before you leave at a nominal fee -- around $3.00.

If a red Bordeaux of a good name and year is bitter or acid, or cloying and muddy-tasting, leave it alone for a while.

If William wished to continue operations for a year, why not simply leave the Negroes undisturbed and pay them `` as high wages to remain there as are ever paid the labor of persons of their sex & age.

If you just leave me to hell alone, Lieutenant.

`` If you go broke '', she said, smiling up at him, `` I'll leave you ''.

If needed, an applet can leave the dedicated area and run as a separate window.

If they do not, the party has to leave the government and loses executive powers.

:: If patients fail to experience the healing power of Christian Science, and think they can be benefited by certain ordinary physical methods of medical treatment, then the Mind-physician should give up such cases, and leave invalids free to resort to whatever other systems they fancy will afford relief.

If the candidate was to leave the party, through either resignation, retirement or defeat at election, the candidate's supporters would often depart.

If needed, an applet can leave the dedicated area and run as a separate window.

If brass is used after this ring appears, it risks a crack, or worse, a complete head separation, which will leave the forward portion of the brass lodged in the chamber of the gun.

If I manage to leave for the U. S., then I will be over there.

If, however ,... potential suicide murderers ... will refrain from killing out of fear that their mothers will become homeless, it would be immoral to leave the Palestinian mothers untouched in their homes while Israeli children die on their school buses.

# If move leaves no heap of size 2 or larger, leave an odd ( misère ) or even ( normal ) number of heaps of size 1

On the day of the general election, The Sun ran an " infamous " front page featuring Kinnock ( headline: ' If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ') that he blamed in his resignation speech for losing Labour the election.

Not wanting to leave his mission, his first action as Pope was to send out appeals for aid to the Crusaders, and at his final sermon at Acre just before leaving to sail for Italy, he famously remarked, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning " ( a quote from Psalm 137 ).

In some cases, they is used even when both the number and gender of the subject are known, but the identity of the person is generic, e. g. " If some guy beat me up, I'd leave them.

If Knox did not leave, he could stay in Edinburgh, but only if he remained captive in the castle.

The first stage of boot loaders located on fixed disks and removable drives must fit into the first 446 bytes of the Master Boot Record in order to leave room for the default 64-byte partition table with four partition entries and the two-byte boot signature, which the BIOS requires for a proper boot loader — or even less, when additional features like more than four partition entries ( up to 16 with 16 bytes each ), a disk signature ( 6 bytes ), a disk timestamp ( 6 bytes ), an Advanced Active Partition ( 18 bytes ) or special multi-boot loaders If an active partition is found, the MBR code loads the boot sector code from that partition, known as Volume Boot Record ( VBR ), and executes it.

If these holes are left in the emulsion, the ink will continue through and leave unwanted marks.

If the sound editor wants to communicate that a driver is in a hurry to leave, he will cut the sound of tires squealing when the car accelerates from a stop ; even if the car is on a dirt road, the effect will work if the audience is dramatically engaged.

If destroyed, they leave behind power-ups.