He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

If communications work, his decision would be instantly known in all command posts that would originate the actual go order.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

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 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 to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

`` If once they become inattentive to the public affairs '', Jefferson said, `` you and I, and Congress and assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves ''.

If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.

If the President of the United States really feels he won himself a `` lousy job '', then heaven help us all.

If we go all gooey over this newest Castro ( until he proves he isn't ) we've got rocks in our heads.

`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

If we grasp this orientation as a key, our national conduct in all of the events here mentioned becomes intelligible.

If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.

If Joe doesn't show up, we'll all be back here at 0600 hours.

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 the points aren't thrown all the way, the Turnout cannot be locked, and in turn, the signal cannot be cleared.

If you have a 6- to 8-inch drain pipe, you may easily wash out all the debris when the grate is out.

Without preliminaries, Esther asked him, `` If you are a world citizen, will you take Garry Davis' place in his tent while he goes to the hospital ''??

If the decision goes wrong, it may be -- as Mr. Stevenson fears -- `` the first step on the slippery path downhill '' to a U.N. without operational responsibilities and without effective meaning.

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 the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.

If she goes her time out, she herself cuts the navel-string with a shell, which she boils along with the secondine, and eats them both.

If a kicked ball goes out of bounds, or the kicking team scores a single or field goal as a result of the kick, the other team likewise gets possession.

If a fumbled ball goes out of bounds, the team whose player last touched it is awarded possession at the spot where it went out of bounds.

If something goes wrong, ed is sometimes the only editor available.

If the Commons have impeached a peer, the Lords take custody of the accused, otherwise custody goes to Black Rod.

If truly irreducible systems are found, the argument goes, then intelligent design must be the correct explanation for their existence.

If one is ill, one goes to a doctor rather than a psychologist, because the doctor is expert in the subject of health.

If a fighter loses consciousness (" goes limp ") as a result of legal strikes, or does not immediately defend himself after a knockdown, he is declared knocked out.

If the net excitation received by a neuron over a short period of time is large enough, the neuron generates a brief pulse called an action potential, which originates at the soma and propagates rapidly along the axon, activating synapses onto other neurons as it goes.

If that judgment goes to appeal, the appellate court will have the opportunity to review both the precedent and the case under appeal, perhaps overruling the previous case law by setting a new precedent of higher authority.

If his reasoning is valid, he goes on to argue, either it is not very immoral to value small luxuries over saving many lives, or such affluent people are very immoral.

If both vaulters miss, the bar goes down by a small increment, and if both clear, the bar goes up by a small increment.

If the ball goes wide of the goal, the defending team is allowed a free ' knock-in ' from the place where the ball crossed the goal line, thus getting the ball back into play.

If this goes unnoticed by a player, the opponent can fill in the empty space, completing the tessera.

If a player goes outside the path, they next start where their pencil left the track.

If the project goes ahead, feeder ships would take containers from the port of Oswego on Lake Ontario in upstate New York to Melford International Terminal in Nova Scotia for transfer to larger ocean-going ships.

If and when the airport eventually goes ahead, the Royal Mail ship will cease operations when flights begin.

If a person occupies land for the required period of time as set out in provincial limitation acts and, during that time, no legal action is taken to evict or in trespass, the ownership in the land goes from the legal owner to the squatter.

If mating goes on for too long, the female may eventually lose interest, breaking off the process.

If the set goes to a tie-break, players are given one additional opportunity to challenge the call.