If this trade should be resumed, the habitants who had come to be farmers or artisans, and soldiers discharged from the army, must be hardened to the severe life of coureurs de bois.

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.

If this entailed transforming the West Saxon fyrd from a sporadic levy of king's men and their retinues into a mounted standing army, so be it.

If his kingdom lacked strongpoints to impede the progress of an enemy army, he would build them.

If he intended an attack along the Moselle the Duke must now turn west, but, instead, the following day the army crossed to the right bank of the Rhine, ( pausing to add 5, 000 waiting Hanoverians and Prussians ).

If Holstein-Beck's Dutch column were destroyed, the Allied army would be split in two: Eugene's wing would be isolated from Marlborough's, passing the initiative to the Franco-Bavarian forces now engaged across the whole plain.

An army officer was quoted in the New York Times of 18 July 1982 as telling an audience of indigenous Guatemalans in Cunén that: " If you are with us, we'll feed you ; if not, we'll kill you.

In response, the deputy army chief, Antonio Ndjai, said: " If the people continue to go out into the streets to show their support for Carlos Gomes Junior, then I will kill Carlos Gomes Junior ... or I will send someone to kill him.

If they turned to illegality it was due to the fact that honest toil only benefited the employers and often entailed a complete loss of dignity, while any complaints resulted in the sack ; to avoid starvation through lack of work it was necessary to beg or steal, and to avoid conscription into the army many of them had to go on the run.

In a June 1918 leaflet entitled " Appeal for Enlistment ", Gandhi wrote " To bring about such a state of things we should have the ability to defend ourselves, that is, the ability to bear arms and to use them ... If we want to learn the use of arms with the greatest possible despatch, it is our duty to enlist ourselves in the army.

If they did not comply the besieging army would surround the town with temporary fortifications to stop sallies from the stronghold or relief getting in.

If a player runs out of army pieces during the game, another color may be used to substitute, or another symbolic token to help keep track of armies.

If the Alamanni tried to flee, Valentinian would be waiting for them with his army.

If this political location could be overthrown, the army would have enough power to " veto anyone else's control of the state, negotiate for Cuernavaca or attack it directly, and maintain independent access to Mexico City as well as escape routes to the southern hills.

Baron Riedesel, commanding the Hessians in Carleton's army, noted that, " If we could have begun our expedition four weeks earlier, I am satisfied that everything could have ended this year.

If he cannot raise a formidable army, but must rely on defense, he must fortify his city.

On January 10, Lincoln met with top generals ( McClellan did not attend ) and directed them to formulate a plan of attack, expressing his exasperation with General McClellan with the following remark: " If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time.

) If England could have sent an army, and although we all know how admirable that army is on the peace establishment, we must acknowledge that we have no means of sending out a force at all equal to cope with the 300, 000 or 400, 000 men whom the 30, 000, 000 or 40, 000, 000 of Germany could have pitted against us, and that such an attempt would only have insured a disgraceful discomfiture — not to the army, indeed, but to the Government which sent out an inferior force and expected it to cope successfully with a force so vastly superior.

If the person in question expected a certain sentence from the court, having been found guilty on the grounds of his own evidence, and it could only be prison death, we had to sentence him to expulsion from the army.

If the generals would offer him a share of the command, he claimed, he would use this army to assist the Athenians.

If a general entered Italy whilst exercising command of an army, both the general and his soldiers became outlaws and were automatically condemned to death.

If there was no antisemitism in the army, the unbearable call to duty would be almost easy.

If they had indeed disappeared, then it is possible that they were revived once again during the Komnenian restoration, a period of thorough financial, territorial and military reform that changed the Byzantine army of previous ages, which is referred to separately as the Komnenian army after the 12th century.

If, as she walked, her steps fumbled from time to time, she chose to ignore that omen.

If she chose, and in that final decision discarded, what, above all, all of us value, life itself, must she not have risen to her fullest height, and transcending her murky self, felt at last the passion of a great moral decision??

If the Politburo indeed chose the Central Committee membership, various factions would have arisen.

If the expert was correct, 78 % of the participants chose the expert's opinion again, as opposed to 57 % doing so when the expert was wrong.

If the producers chose to reformat the entire show for the 16: 9 ratio, live-action footage would have to be recropped, widening the frame to the full width of the 35 mm negatives while reducing its height.

If the Champion were to grow disinterested in his pursuits and chose not to continue them, he could potentially die as a result, although since Death decreed no Elder could ever enter its realm, this may no longer be true.

If he chose to, he could turn his original nomen into an additional cognomen that followed his newly gained names.

If this difference, D, is positive then chose otherwise.

In a 1968 article, Garner explained why he chose to set The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in a real landscape rather than in a fictional realm, remarking that " If we are in Eldorado, and we find a mandrake, then OK, so it's a mandrake: in Eldorado anything goes.

If the half bet rule were being used, then that raise would count as a genuine raise and the first player would be entitled to re-raise if he chose to ( creating a side pot for the amount of his re-raise and the third player's call, if any ).

If they chose the blue book, it was their own choice and he could feel reasonably secure he was not offending anyone.

If the Party chose, all its people could live in luxury, but they instead choose to lower the quality of living: It is important that the lower classes remain stupefied by poverty and the struggle for mere survival ; if they were to become too comfortable, they might learn to think for themselves and rebel against the Party.

If sites chose to carry the group, which most did, all of Serdar Argic's messages were removed from all newsgroups.

* If Northern Ireland chose to withdraw, a Boundary Commission would be constituted to draw the boundary between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.

If the player chose the dark path, the game ends with Katarn becoming the new Emperor ; if the player chose the light side, the game concludes with Katarn being reunited with Ors and carving a monument to his dead father.

If families chose their home school as their first choice, they were guaranteed that school ; otherwise they were entered into a lottery that gave available spaces in overenrolled schools.

If bacteria that had overcome their own inability to consume lactose passed on this " learned " trait to future generations, it could be argued as a form of Lamarckism ; though Cairns later chose to distance himself from such a position.

If they chose to respond in kind and attack the remaining Soviet missile fleet, there would be little to respond with if the Soviets immediately launched against US cities.

And if the success of the revolution demands a temporary limitation on the working of this or that democratic principle, then it would be criminal to refrain from such a limitation ... The revolutionary proletariat might limit the political rights of the higher classes ... If in a burst of revolutionary enthusiasm the people chose a very fine parliament ... then we would make of it a long parliament ; and if the elections turned out unsuccessfully then we would have to try to disperse it.

If a woman chose to forgo nursing her own child she could visit the Columna Lactaria (" Milk Column "), where poor parents could obtain milk for their infants as charity from wet nurses, and those who could afford it could choose to hire a wet nurse.

If the contribution to the IRA was nondeductible or the IRA owner chose not to claim a deduction for the contribution, distributions of those nondeductible amounts are tax and penalty free.

If Daigorō chose the ball, his father would kill him, sending Daigorō to be with his mother ; however, the child crawls toward the sword and reaches for its hilt.

If James chose a straight mate, James would win nothing and the mate would win $ 25, 000.

If an individual chose to do so, they were invited to mail their sigils to a central location where the magical energy in them could be used to enhance each other.