If the Byzantines adopted the crescent and star as a symbol of their city after the events of the mid 4th century BC, one is forced to wonder why they waited several hundred years before putting the symbol on only some of their coins.

If you come up with an innovation that serves, that resonates with customers, the Internet will allow that innovation to spread dramatically faster than any other technology has enabled a new innovation to be adopted in the history of mankind.

When asked by reporters at the end of a televised press conference to list one of Nixon's policy ideas he had adopted, Eisenhower joked, " If you give me a week, I might think of one.

* In an issue of the What If series, Cannonball's brother Josh ( who would, in normal continuity, later become Icarus ) found and " adopted " a Sentinel.

If an organization that has adopted " Robert's Rules of Order " does not wish RONR to be considered its reference authority, it should adopt another version explicitly, as RONR is generally considered by parliamentarians to be the definitive source on the subject.

If this is for an adopted pet, typically the victim is expected to pay some fee such as insurance, food or shipping.

If the adopted child failed to carry out the filial duty, the contract was annulled in the law courts.

If an adopted child rejected his foster parents, claiming they were not his mother and father, his tongue was torn out.

If the third meaning is adopted, it can be said that the so-called Middle Men of Middle-earth ( the Rohirrim, Men of Dale, etc.

If adopted, the two higher-placed clubs in the play-offs would have enjoyed first-round byes and home advantage in the semi-finals.

If, however, the measurements are uncorrelated but have different uncertainties, a modified approach might be adopted.

If rejected, the school board must continue to propose alternatives until a budget is adopted by both the county school board and the county legislative body.

William Searle Holdsworth, one of Blackstone's successors as Vinerian Professor, argued that " If the Commentaries had not been written when they were written, I think it very doubtful that United States, and other English speaking countries would have so universally adopted the common law.

If the latter is adopted, the bulk of the Asian species would be retained in Carpodacus or placed in the genus Rubicilla.

They have adopted the attitude that dressing to compliment body shape is important, on which subject Wodall has commented " If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet — you need to wear the right stuff.

If SFA systems aren ’ t adopted and properly integrated to all departments, there might be a lack of communication which could result in different departments contacting the same customer for the same purpose.

If this ratio is adopted, 1, 240, 000 ha land is required to sustain the present population ; however, the total land available, excluding the reserve forest, is 928, 000 ha.

“ If widely adopted, rooftop gardens could reduce the urban heat island, which would decrease smog episodes, problems associated with heat stress and further lower energy consumption .”

Over a dozen members of the conservative wing of the RNC submitted a new resolution, to be eventually voted on by the entire RNC, that would call on the Democratic party to rename itself the “ Democrat Socialist Party .” If the RNC adopted this resolution, the RNC ’ s official view would become that Democrats are socialists.

If resistance is made to the execution of the laws of Rhode-Island, by such force as the civil peace shall be unable to overcome, it will be the duty of this Government to enforce the constitutional guarantee — a guarantee given and adopted mutually by all the original States.

If no related family member is willing or able to adopt, the next preference is for the child to be adopted by the foster parents or by someone else involved in the child's life ( such as a teacher or coach ).

If neither above option are available, the child may be adopted by someone who is a stranger to the child.

If the report is adopted, the bill is voted upon for final passage in each house.

If a two-thirds majority could not be obtained, a constitutional text could be adopted by a simple majority and then put to a national referendum in which sixty per cent support would be required for it to pass.

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 `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

If they give him advice when he asks it, or if they perform specified duties under his direction, the nature of the U. N. will not of necessity change.

If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.

If Af is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T, and **yr is the density of the fluid, then the total potential energy of the system above the reference height is Af.

If one assumes that the average flux did not change between measurements, a mass-distribution curve is obtained which relates the flux of particles larger than a given radius to the inverse 7/2 power of the radius.

If, for instance, such a change is produced by one or a few insulin comas or electroshocks, previously inhibited conditioned reactions reappear.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

If the puppets are of uniform size, you can change them in accord with your child's whims.

If the steel is cooled slowly, the iron will gradually change into its low temperature allotrope.

* Continuity: If a certain mass of fluid enters a volume, it must either exit the volume or change the mass inside the volume.

If a let is called, the rally is stopped and replayed with no change to the score.

If an opponent tries to anticipate the stroke, he may move in the wrong direction and may be unable to change his body momentum in time to reach the shuttlecock.

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 a dynamic equilibrium is disturbed by changing the conditions, the position of equilibrium moves to partially reverse the change.

If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls the world.

If a catalyst does change the equilibrium, then it must be consumed as the reaction proceeds, and thus it is also a reactant.

If there is one particular coordinate change that leads to a decrease in the total energy in both directions, the stationary point is a transition structure and the coordinate is the reaction coordinate.

If conditions change, so that the pope judges it safe to make the appointment public, he may do so at any time.

If a user added more than one drive to a system the user had to open the case and cut a trace in the circuit board to permanently change the drive's number, or hand-wire an external switch to allow it to be changed externally.

If the function f is not linear ( i. e. its graph is not a straight line ), however, then the change in y divided by the change in x varies: differentiation is a method to find an exact value for this rate of change at any given value of x.

If the diver pauses during his or her hurdle to ask for a change of dive, it will be declared a balk and the change of dive will not be permitted.