If the party of Adenauer and Erhart, with 45 per cent of the vote, approaches the party of Willy Brandt, which won 36 per cent, the result would be a stiffening of the old resolve.

If a party has gained more direct mandates in a Land than it is entitled to according to the results of the second vote, it does not forfeit these mandates because all directly elected candidates are guaranteed a seat in the Bundestag.

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

If a second party from a region wants to join the first party needs to agree, these two parties will then form a common delegation with one vote.

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 you love God, he tells us, then it's your duty to vote this healthcare bill in ...

If individual participants recognize the value of their own vote, they are motivated to trade.

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 president then vetoed the new legislation, Congress could override the veto by its ordinary means, a two-thirds vote in both houses.

If a government cannot get its appropriation ( budget ) legislation passed by the House of Representatives, or the house passes a vote of " no confidence " in the government, the prime minister is bound by convention to resign immediately.

If the candidate receives less than 5 % of the vote, the government funds € 800, 000 to the party (€ 150, 000 paid in advance ) Advertising on TV is forbidden but official time is given to candidates on public TV.

While he was speaking in Williamstown, Victoria, in 1954, a heckler shouted, " I wouldn ’ t vote for you if you were the Archangel Gabriel " to which Menzies coolly replied " If I were the Archangel Gabriel, I ’ m afraid you wouldn't be in my constituency.

If the voters determine their preferences before the election and always vote directly consistent to them, they will emulate the Contingent vote and get the same results as if they were to use that system.

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 at least two-thirds of the National Assembly cannot agree to vote for one presidential candidate, a People's Assembly is formed from all National Assembly delegates and regional and municipal representatives who were elected by popular vote in the most recent national election.

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 they voted for a tied player, they have the option of sticking with their vote or changing it.

If a delegation were evenly divided, no vote counted towards the nine-count requirement.

If the declaration is done by the Vice President and Cabinet, the Amendment permits the President to take control back, unless the Vice President and Cabinet challenge the President and two-thirds of both Houses vote to sustain the findings of the Vice President and Cabinet.

If no one received a majority of votes, then the House of Representatives would choose among the five highest vote-getters, with each state getting one vote.

He told President Truman in May 1948, " If you ( recognize the state of Israel ) and if I were to vote in the election, I would vote against you.

If the winner of the seat is determined purely by the candidate with the most votes, as occurs in the plurality vote and the alternative vote, the plurality system has several characteristics that can serve to discourage the development of third parties and reward the two major parties.

If life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.

If a child watched its progress he whispered, `` Hay, hay, load of hay -- make a wish and turn away '', and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses' feet returned no more.

If there's no suitable academy in your own neighborhood, there's always New England.

If he condemns the recent or the present, he condemns the past with no less force.

If you cut down these horrible buildings you'll have no more traffic jams.

If they do as well as they did in 1960 there can be no complaint.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If either one ever started making promises, there is no telling where the promises would end.

If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.

If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.

If nothing is produced, there is no obligation to repay.

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

If we return to them today, we have no difficulty spotting their weaknesses but we find them still pleasing.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

If you travel over the vast U.S.A. you will, no doubt, discover that feeding is an expensive business.

If no specific organization plan exists limiting the number of scientists at each salary level, the result is a department top-heavy with high-level, high-salaried personnel ''.

If of the founders of glottochronology Swadesh has escaped our steady plodding, and Lees has repudiated his own share in the founding, that is no reason why we should swerve.

If the transferor has substantial assets other than the claim, it seems reasonable to assume no corporation would be willing to acquire all of its properties in the dim hope of collecting a claim for refund of taxes.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

If, at any time during the assignment pass, the compiler finds that there are no more index words available for assignment, the warning message `` No More Index Words Available '' will be placed in the object program listing, the table will be altered to show that index words 1 through 96 are available, and the assignment will continue as before.

If the compiler finds that there are no more electronic switches available for assignment, the warning message `` No More Electronic Switches Available '' will be placed in the object program listing, the table will be altered to show that electronic switches 1 through 30 are available, and assignment will continue as before.

If a child does lose his first teeth prematurely because of decay -- and if no preventive steps are taken -- the other teeth may shift out of position, become overcrowded and malformed.

A retired professional killer If he was just a nut, no harm was done.

If one asks about this play, what it is that comes upon this community and works within it with such terrible power, there is no better answer to give than `` spirit ''.

If the content of faith is to be presented today in a form that can be `` understanded of the people '' -- and this, it must not be forgotten, is one of the goals of the perennial theological task -- there is no other choice but to abandon completely a mythological manner of representation.