If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

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

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

If Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.

If they are right, they will prevail of and by themselves.

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 we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.

If we break the minister to our bit, we are buying back our own sins.

If the record buyer's tastes are somewhat eclectic or even the slightest bit esoteric, he will find them satisfied on educational records.

If Daddy's books are out of bounds his own picture books are not.

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 they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

If the Communists are sincere in wanting a united, neutral and disarmed Germany, it might well be advantageous for the German people in this nuclear age.

If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

If any are left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically prohibiting the feeding of them too.

If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia.

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 the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.

If not, the null hypothesis is supported ( or, more correctly, not rejected ), meaning no effect of the independent variable ( s ) was observed on the dependent variable ( s ).

The evidence was compiled by W de Sitter ( 1927 ) who wrote " If we accept this hypothesis, then the ' astronomical time ', given by the earth's rotation, and used in all practical astronomical computations, differs from the ' uniform ' or ' Newtonian ' time, which is defined as the independent variable of the equations of celestial mechanics ".

If each of the features makes an independent contribution to the output, then algorithms based on linear functions ( e. g., linear regression, logistic regression, Support Vector Machines, naive Bayes ) and distance functions ( e. g., nearest neighbor methods, support vector machines with Gaussian kernels ) generally perform well.

If the trend continues, more than half the forest that existed when Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia in 1975 will be gone by 2021.

If the latter option were to win, a separate referendum would be held where Puerto Ricans would have been given the option of being admitted as a US State " on equal footing with the other states ", or becoming a " sovereign nation, either fully independent from or in free association with the United States.

* If two cards are drawn with replacement from a deck of cards, the event of drawing a red card on the first trial and that of drawing a red card on the second trial are independent.

If two events A and B are independent, then the conditional probability of A given B is the same as the unconditional ( or marginal ) probability of A, that is,

At least two assumptions are necessary for the validity of the standard model: first, that supply and demand are independent ; and second, that supply is " constrained by a fixed resource "; If these conditions do not hold, then the Marshallian model cannot be sustained.

If some supporters articulate that they agree to the independence of Taiwan, they may either be referring to the notion of formally creating an independent Republic of Taiwan, or to the notion that Taiwan is synonymous with the current Republic of China and already is independent, which is against the People's Republic of China's claim.

If the y < sub > i </ sub > are independent and identically distributed, but not necessarily normally distributed, then

If accepted Quebec would become an independent country with an economic association with Canada.

If they are describing experiments or calculations, they must supply enough details that an independent researcher could repeat the experiment or calculation to verify the results.

If there are a number of independent random samples, then the joint log-likelihood will be the sum of individual log-likelihoods, and the derivative of this sum will be a sum of derivatives of each individual log-likelihood:

If X and Y are normally distributed and independent, this implies they are " jointly normally distributed ", i. e., the pair ( X, Y ) must have multivariate normal distribution.

If the person requested to testify ( deponent ) is a party to the lawsuit or someone who works for an involved party, notice of time and place of the examination before trial can be given to the other side's attorney, but if the witness is an independent third party, a subpoena must be served on him / her if he / she is recalcitrant.

If not already part of a group medical practice, physicians may contract with an independent practice association ( IPA ), which in turn contracts with the HMO.

If too many jobs must be done by hand and there is a shortage of labour compared with independent resources that free labour could take up (" land ", although this condition is not clear in the story ), a market for slavery develops.

Another watchword: " If your mother tells you she loves you, check it out with two independent sources.

If the derivatives are either constant or depend only on the values of the independent variable, the model is linear in the parameters.

* If each cylinder was rigidly mounted to the chassis, it would provide fully independent suspension, but it is not rigidly mounted.

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.

For Frye, this kind of coherent, critical integrity involves claiming a body of knowledge for criticism that, while independent of literature, is yet constrained by it: " If criticism exists ," he declares, " it must be an examination of literature in terms of a conceptual framework derivable from an inductive survey of the literary field " itself ( Anatomy 7 ).

If it weren't for the smart-funny twist she gives to her lines — they're the best in the film — the air on that bus would have been stifling ... she emerges as a slightly softer version of the Linda Hamilton-Sigourney Weaver heroines: capable, independent, but still irresistibly vulnerable ".