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If and all
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.

If and surviving
If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.
If the soil holding the plant is healthy and biologically diverse, the plant will have a higher chance of surviving stressful conditions.
If this color change is advantageous, the chance of this butterfly surviving and producing its own offspring are a little better, and over time the number of butterflies with this mutation may form a larger percentage of the population.
If an organism lives half as long as others of its species, but has twice as many offspring surviving to adulthood, its genes will become more common in the adult population of the next generation.
If surviving Linear B clay tablets can be trusted, the name po-se-da-wo-ne (" Poseidon ") occurs with greater frequency than does di-u-ja (" Zeus ").
If cutting tools were not used, individual stamps were torn off, as evidenced by the ragged edges of surviving such examples.
If the prose sketch which Wagner mentions in Mein Leben was accurately dated ( and most of Wagner ’ s surviving papers are dated ), it could settle the issue once and for all, but unfortunately it has not survived.
If the last surviving person is a solipsist, he or she will believe that even when others were alive, there never had been another thought, experience or emotion other than his or her own.
If there are too many young, they will all be underfed and will develop less quickly, reducing their chances of surviving to adulthood.
If it survives the rigors of the desert it can live for hundreds of years with some specimens surviving up to a thousand years.
If, as seems likely, it is his only surviving play, he can no longer be ranked among the greatest playwrights.
If the cable is damaged from one telephone exchange to the customer premises most of the calls can be delivered from the surviving route to the customer.
If all concur, the share of the surviving spouse is reduced to one eighth of the estate.
If a person died after half way across the Atlantic, the surviving family members had to pay the deceased ’ s fare as well as their own.
If this is confirmed, it would mean the sea spiders are the last surviving ( and highly modified ) members of an ancient stem group of arthropods that lived in Cambrian oceans.
" If the Shakespearean identification is correct, these three pages represent the only surviving examples of Shakespeare's handwriting, aside from a few signatures on documents.
If all surviving brothers are still children, the widow must wait until one reaches halachic adulthood, at which time he can perform yibbum or halizah.
If the UFO falls into the water, the player can rescue a surviving abductee for more points.
If it dates from the first half of the second century, this fragment would be amongst the earlier surviving examples of a literary codex.
If the proposed secession were to occur, the surviving Suffolk County would have a land area of 1, 462. 001 km² ( 564. 482 sq mi ) and an adjusted 2000 census population of 1, 293, 927 inhabitants.
If a usufruct is chosen, a value is set for the usufruct interest for inheritance tax purposes and payable by the surviving spouse, on a sliding scale according to his / her age.
If the estate is not automatically devised to the surviving spouse in this manner or through a joint tenancy, and is not held within a trust, it is necessary to " probate the estate ", whether or not the decedent had a valid will.
If an estate has a value of less than £ 5, 000. 00 or if all assets are held jointly and therefore pass by survivorship, for example to a surviving spouse, a grant will not usually be required.
If such a legislative survivor were the sitting Speaker or President Pro Tempore – as for the 2005, 2006, and 2007 State of the Union addresses, in which President Pro Tempore Ted Stevens ( R-Alaska ) or Sen. Robert Byrd ( D-West Virginia ) was also a designated survivor – he or she would become the acting president rather than the surviving Cabinet member.

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