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If and player
If more than one player selects a tile in that row, then the player whose tile is in the leftmost column ( closest to 1 ) goes first.
If, however, there are no shares left when the chain is founded, then the founding player does not receive the free share.
If a tile is placed between two hotel chains of the same size, the individual player who places the tile decides which hotel chain remains on the board and which is acquired.
If a player holds onto his stock, he runs the risk that the acquired chain may not reemerge before the game ends.
If the opponents win the rally and their new score is even, the player in the right service court serves ; if odd, the player in the left service court serves.
If a player does not lift, his only remaining option is to push the shuttlecock softly back to the net: in the forecourt this is called a netshot ; in the midcourt or rearcourt, it is often called a push or block.
If the player and dealer have the same point total, this is called a " push " and the player typically doesn't win or lose money on that hand.
If the dealer busts, all remaining player hands win.
* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.
If the dealer's upcard is an ace, the player is offered the option of taking " insurance " before the dealer checks the hole card.
If a player wins two sets, or gets a win and a tie, that player wins the game.
If each player wins a set, or both sets end tied, there is a 3-end tiebreaker to determine a winner.
If the chains are long enough then the player will certainly win.
If the other player also knows to offer sacrifices, the expert also has to manipulate the number of available sacrifices through earlier play.
If a player rolls two of the same number, called doubles, that player must play each die twice.
If one player has not borne off any checkers by the time that player's opponent has borne off all fifteen, then the player has lost a gammon, which counts for double a normal loss.
If the losing player has not borne off any checkers and still has checkers on the bar or in the opponent's home board, then the player has lost a backgammon, which counts for triple a normal loss.
" If both opponents roll the same opening number, the doubling cube is incremented on each occasion yet remains in the middle of the board, available to either player.

If and is
If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.
If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.
If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??
If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.
If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.
If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;
If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.
If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
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 he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.
If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If and one
If you take the one, you'd better take both ''.
`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.
If one dancer slaps another, the victim may do a pirouette, sit down, or offer his assailant a fork and spoon.
If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.
If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.
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 within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.
If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.
If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.
If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.
If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.
If they do meet and recognize one another, slap backs and embrace, the moment soon is done.
If either one ever started making promises, there is no telling where the promises would end.
If one follows the reports of the Congress, one finds that there still seems considerable uncertainty in the minds of the leaders themselves about what exactly to do in this matter.
Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.
If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.
`` If I catch you one more time down here without stockings '' --
If, for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 12 or 15 to one.
If you don't own a planer and don't want to buy one, it's well worth renting.
Note: If 1/2-inch panel board is used inside and out, or 5/8-inch one side and 3/8-inch the other, and 1/8-inch glass is used, stock lumber in Af, Af, and Af can be used in making the glass panels.
If you have a full-time doctor now, can he be replaced with a part-time doctor or one who serves on a fee-per-case basis only??
If you use one of the new year-round cooling system fluids such as `` Dowguard '' be sure to check it.
If you run into excess plug fouling on one truck, check to be sure that the rig has a thermostat.

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