If selected, an odalık trained as a concubine would serve the sultan sexually, and only after such sexual contact would she change in status, becoming thenceforth a concubine.

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

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

If we was both armed, you wouldn't talk so tough ''.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

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 she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

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 Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

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

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If such an extraordinary event had actually taken place ... could the king have withstood the attitude of the native nobles, who would hardly have looked upon such an occurrence without offering armed resistance to their feeble and capricious sovereign?

If it is deemed necessary, the governor may also convene extraordinary sessions of the state legislature ; and he may convene them anywhere in the state, if Madison, the state capital, is deemed unfit for the purpose due to invasion or contagious disease.

Written by 30-year music-industry veteran, Isaias Gamboa, the book is the product of three years of exhaustive research and demonstrates in extraordinary detail that We Shall Overcome was in fact derived from a popular copyrighted Baptist hymn entitled, " If My Jesus Wills "-written in 1942 by an African American Baptist choir director named Louise Shropshire.

If there are unexpected calamities in the kingdom, such as frequent extraordinary winds or rains, he is unceremoniously rejected and replaced.

If one defines a homology theory axiomatically ( via the Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms ), and then relaxes one of the axioms ( the dimension axiom ), one obtains a generalized theory, called an extraordinary homology theory.

If the proposed action is not included in the description provided in the CE established by the agency, or there are extraordinary circumstances, the agency must prepare an EA or an EIS, or develop a new proposal that may qualify for application of a CE.

If, however, we search the portfolios of art collections on the European continent, we sometimes stumble upon miniatures on vellum, drawn with great talent and coloured with extraordinary brilliancy.

If an officer of unit " A " does give orders directly to a lower-ranked member of unit " B ", it would be considered highly unusual ( a faux pas, or extraordinary circumstances, such as a lack of time or inability to confer with the officer in command of unit " B ") as officer " A " would be seen as subverting the authority of the officer of unit " B ".

If the U. S. response to September 11 had been framed as a criminal proceeding, the Rockridge Institute and others argued, such extraordinary measures would never have garnered sufficient political support.

If there are unexpected calamities in the kingdom, such as frequent extraordinary winds or rains, he is unceremoniously rejected and replaced.

If we could reach a stage in which any official would be tried according to the same rules that apply to you and me, to any other ordinary human being, we would not need all these extraordinary concepts because common law is quite enough.

" If there is usually present a sufficient number of sacred ministers for the distribution of Holy Communion, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion may not be appointed.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

If you drive greater distances than that, you'll just be skimming the surface and will never discover the enchantment, fascination and beauty which lured you in the first place to explore the hinterlands.

The case of " beauty " is different from mere " agreeableness " because, " If he proclaims something to be beautiful, then he requires the same liking from others ; he then judges not just for himself but for everyone, and speaks of beauty as if it were a property of things.

If ' beauty ' is defined as ' aesthetically successful ', one must continue to break down and define the following definition.

If he occupies himself with dthikr, He ( God ) will unveil to the secrets of the vegetable world, then the secrets of the animal world, then the infusion of the world of life-force into lives, then the " surface sign " ( the light of the Divine Names, according to Abdul-Karim al-Jeeli, the book's translator ), then the degrees of speculative sciences, then the world of formation and adornment and beauty, then the degrees of the qutb ( the soul or pivot of the universe-see # 16 ) ( 59 ) Then he will be given the divine wisdom and the power of symbols and authority over the veil and the unveiling.

If you must have a moustache, let it be a real moustache, a thing of beauty such as mine.

If your purpose in hiking is to enjoy the peace, quiet, and beauty of nature, you probably want to be heading down by that time.

( According to Hou Han Shu, while much younger, when Liu Xiu was visiting the capital Chang ' an, he became impressed with the mayor of the capital ( zhijinwu, 執金吾 ) and, already impressed by Yin's beauty, he made the remarks: " If I were to be an official, I want to be zhijinwu ; if I were to marry, I want to marry Yin Lihua ".

If we except Catullus and Simonides, it might be hard to match and it would be impossible to overmatch the flawless and blameless yet living and breathing beauty of his most perfect elegies, epigrams or epitaphs.

“ Dazzling light, colors never seen, harmonies of ecstasies and of hell, unheard-of sounds, a new beauty that is mine … If my damaging sorrows are due to labor in childbirth, I am pregnant with an immense, new world !”

If you want to reach the top of the hill and enjoy the beauty of water lilies, you have to climb 100 steps up the hill.

From the up-tempo Latin groove of “ Evanly ” with its vocal out chorus ; the mid tempo swing of “ No Way LA ” & “ Ten Minutes To Twelve ”; the Lunceford-like band vocals on “ Stompin ’ @ The Savoy ” & “ It Don ’ t Mean a Thing ( If It Ain ’ t Got that Swing )”; to Hamilton ’ s vocalizing on “ Every Time I Smile ”; the pastoral melodic beauty of “ You ’ re Note Alone ”; the up-tempo funk of “ Black Eyed Peas ”; and the bossa funkiness of “ Foot Prints in the Sand ” with its starkly beautiful vocal out chorus-every track is like turning a page in a book that ’ s holding you on the edge of your seat, your rapt attention dying to know what ’ s next to be revealed.

If a dervish should become too enraptured, another Sufi, who is in charge of the orderly performance, will gently touch his frock in order to curb his movement, The dance of the dervishes is one of the most impressive features of the mystical life in Islam, and the music accompanying it is of exquisite beauty, beginning with the great hymn in honor of the Prophet ( na't-i sharif, written by Jalaluddin himself ) and ending with short, enthusiastic songs, some things sung in Turkish.

If we fail to act now, if we fail to share with our young Jews the beauty and meaningfulness of Jewish life and Jewish heritage, there will be few Jews left in the next generation who will even know that there ever was a Holocaust of European Jews.

If one wants to be, in one's own person, ' chosen of God ' ... then every other principle of selection, for example on the basis of integrity, manliness and pride, beauty and liberality of heart, is simply ' world ' — evil as such .."

If members of overpopulous species, such as deer, ought to be “ culled ” or “ harvested ,” in the name of preserving the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community, and if staggeringly overpopulous Homo sapiens is also but “ a plain member and citizen ” of the biotic community, then why should culling and harvesting humans be any less obligatory?

If you want to see the beauty of Godavari then visit Lohigram.

If the tower, in the words of the Manchester Guardian, is not ' a specimen of architectural beauty ', it does provide a conspicuous landmark, and it also has a viewing platform from which to look across the surrounding countryside.

Howard, reflecting upon their work after the construction was complete, said: We have sought to secure beauty not by easy masquerade and putting on of architectural stuff, but by organic composition, working from within out, and letting the heart of the thing speak ... If the expression be true, no matter how strange it may seem at first, in the end it must be seen to be inevitable.

If you can see in this person the manifestations of truth, the manifestations of beauty, the manifestations of goodness — to that extent you are moving towards fulfillment.

“ If it ’ s run right — with precision, with good, honest effort — it ’ s a thing of beauty.

He says ; Who knows of the quality of things more than Radha ?</ br > If anyone has any knowledge at all, it is by her grace .</ br > None knows the beauty of raga, tala and dance as Radha does .</ br >

# Liebst du um Schönheit ( If you love for beauty, August 1902 )