`` If you become a Baptist, I will not '', Ann informed her husband, but sweeping her threat aside Adoniram continued to search for an answer to the personal dilemma in which he found himself.

If the book of Zephaniah was largely composed during the monarchic period, the author of the book of Zephaniah attempts to accomplish this change in behaviour through the threat of future calamity for “ those who have turned back from following the Lord, / who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him ” ( 1: 6 ).

If the first theory is correct ( see above ), then the absence of cavalry removed the main Athenian tactical disadvantage, and the threat of being outflanked made it imperative to attack.

If the subject could so judge his own superior, then all lawful superior authority could lawfully be overthrown by the arbitrary judgement of an inferior, and thus all law was under constant threat.

If anything, continued uprisings against the government and the threat of a renewed Central America conflict made the situation even worse.

McVeigh argued that " imminent " does not mean " immediate ": " If a comet is hurtling toward the earth, and it's out past the orbit of Pluto, it's not an immediate threat to Earth, but it is an imminent threat.

If confronted by a potential threat, a rabbit may freeze and observe then warn others in the warren with powerful thumps on the ground.

# If the damage cannot be repaired, the cell should initiate apoptosis ( programmed cell death ) to remove the threat it poses for the greater good of the organism.

If the hospital fears a patient may be a threat to others, the hospital may delay care only as necessary to protect others.

If both states have nuclear weapons, the form of nuclear blackmail becomes a threat of escalation.

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.

The report included much of the same tone and opinions held in the Washington Society address, except that, uncharacteristically for its chief architect, it alluded to the threat of secession saying, " If a separation of the states shall ever take place, it will be, on some occasion, when one portion of the country undertakes to control, to regulate, and to sacrifice the interest of another.

If the Opposition were to allow supply to pass, Whitlam would not advise a half-Senate election until May or June 1976, and the Senate would not convene until 1 July, thus obviating the threat of a possible temporary Labor majority.

If this becomes a reality, then we are faced with an unprecedented threat to our nationhood.

If there was a threat to " public order and security " he could legislate by decree and suspend civil rights.

If threatened, the baby will open its mouth and quietly hiss until the threat is gone.

If this was the case, the reason Joab killed Abner may have been that he became a threat to his rank of general, since Abner had switched to the side of David and granted him control over the tribe of Benjamin.

At one such conference in the late 1950s, the issue of inclusivity came up, which led linguist Ken Pike to comment, “ If we had a black person as a member, they could not stay here overnight .” Sulphur Springs was a known “ sundown town ,” a place where African Americans were forbidden from living, usually through the threat of violence.

If parking services tow away or disable the car, then the bodyguard cannot use the car to escape with the client in case there is a security threat while the client is at his or her meeting.

If cornered by a threat, the Green Iguana will extend and display the dewlap under its neck, stiffen and puff up its body, hiss, and bob its head at the aggressor.

If threat persists the Iguana can lash with its tail, bite and use its claws in defense.

If there is no threat, the sentry meerkat stops signaling and the others feel safe to emerge.

If the sentinel detects a predator, it gives a loud alarm to warn the troop and indicate whether the threat comes from the air or the ground: if from the air, the meerkats rush to the nearest hole ; if from the ground, the troop flees.

If the threat is another bird, however, the pelicans do not abandon the nest and may fight off the interloper by jabbing at them with their considerable bills.

If internal frictions arose, they could be handled by the 25,000-man Congolese army, the Force Publique, which had been trained and was still officered by white Belgians.

But at the first lecture Adorno's attempt to open up the lecture and invite questions whenever they arose degenerated into a disruption from which he quickly fled: after a student wrote on the blackboard " If Adorno is left in peace, capitalism will never cease ," three women students approached the lectern, bared their breasts and scattered flower petals over his head.

If a dispute arose, the judges dealt first with the contract.

The well-known slogan " If you want to get ahead, get a hat " arose in Denton and, needless to say, anyone attending for a job interview not wearing a hat was quickly shown the door.

If the ship were existing as something which arose due to an intrinsic relationship between itself and the parts which composed that self, then therefore it would cease to exist as soon as it lost even one of its original parts.

If occasion arose the proctor could arrest a suspected woman and have her taken to the Spinning House ( for which Thomas Hobson the carrier had left an endowment ); the next day the woman was brought before the vice-chancellor, who had power to commit her to the Spinning House ; as a general rule the sentence was not for a longer period than three weeks.

If no scholar was deemed suitable and a vacancy arose, then the next scholar selected would receive the standard yearly rate, along with any rents acquired during the vacancy.

If there are still unutilised Case I losses that arose in that period, a company may elect to carry these back against its taxable profits of the last 12 months < sup > 3 </ sup >.

If I remember the sunflower forest it is because from its hidden reaches man arose.

If the future arose from a call to then a blocking wait ( without a timeout ) may cause synchronous invocation of the function to compute the result on the waiting thread.

If a matter of inquiry arose, the local Beth din was consulted.

If a controversy arose, the amendment called for the creation of a special committee consisting of various Cabinet level members and at least one member from the affected state where the project in question was located.

If you declare that the raw material arose naturally you fall into another fallacy, for the whole universe might thus have been its own creator, and have risen equally naturally.

If she did, he could stand it better in the light.

If I could make myself feel the same way

If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

If Woodruff could not furnish a strong explanation, the governor insisted that he lower his prices in accord with the scale printed in The Advocate.

If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.

If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

If the crummy bastard could write!!

If only Simms Purdew could do that, whatever the thing he remembered and told.

If there is time after the warning, the basement shielding could be improved substantially by blocking windows with bricks, dirt, books, magazines, or other heavy material.

If launched in a careful but determined way within the next few weeks, the Peace Corps could have several hundred persons in training this summer for placement next fall.

If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear weapons.

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 notched for the battens, they would require more work, be weakened and limber holes would have to be bored so that bilge water could flow through.

`` If I could only think of something at the studio, near me, to absorb his boundless energy '', I said.

If only state funds were used to pay for the vocational education, it could be argued that the state should not have to bear the cost of vocational training which would benefit employers in other states.

If it could be shown that judgments of good and bad were not judgments at all, that they asserted nothing true or false, but merely expressed emotions like `` Hurrah '' or `` Fiddlesticks '', then these wayward judgments would cease from troubling and weary heads could be at rest.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

If they opted for illusion, it could only be illusion per se -- an illusion of depth, and of relief, so general and abstracted as to exclude the representation of individual objects.

If you look at a reading meant for someone else, you will probably see that many of the items could be considered as applicable to you, even when you were not in the picture at all!!