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 anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

If we were asked why we thought so, we should say that these things involve great evil and are wrong, and that to take delight in what is evil or wrong is plainly unfitting.

When Dr. Wallace Buttrick, wise in his judgment of people, declined to have the Science Building named for him, he wrote Miss Tapley ( April 7, 1923 ) `` If you had asked me, I think I would have suggested that you name the building for Miss Upton.

If anyone had asked her, she would have described herself only as nervous and worried.

`` If asked to choose between a terrible probability and a more terrible possibility, most men will choose the latter ''.

If so, the patient is asked for name, current location, and current day and time.

If a die leaves the table, the shooter will usually be asked to select another die from the remaining three but can request using the same die if it passes the boxman's inspection.

When asked by reporters at the end of a televised press conference to list one of Nixon's policy ideas he had adopted, Eisenhower joked, " If you give me a week, I might think of one.

Islamists have asked the question, " If Islam is a way of life, how can we say that those who want to live by its principles in legal, social, political, economic, and political spheres of life are not Muslims, but Islamists and believe in Islamism, not Islam?

However this did not make Reynolds happy, as he wrote to Boswell: " If I had known what a shabby miserable place it is, I would not have asked for it ; besides as things have turned out I think a certain person is not worth speaking to, nor speaking of ", presumably meaning the King.

Survivor Jim McLoughlin states in One Common Enemy that Hartenstein asked him if he was in the Royal Navy, which he was, and then asked why a passenger ship was armed, stating, " If it wasn't armed, I would not have attacked.

In the 1990s after a Motörhead show at Hultsfred, Sweden a radio reporter asked Lemmy " If you were to play here again in ten years, how do you think you would sound?

If the teacher asked whether the learner might suffer permanent physical harm, the experimenter replied, " Although the shocks may be painful, there is no permanent tissue damage, so please go on ".

If it be accepted, as can hardly be denied, that the answers of the judges to the questions asked by the House of Lords in 1843 are to be read in the light of the then existing case-law and not as novel pronouncements of a legislative character, then the High Court's analysis in Stapleton's Case is compelling.

I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O ' Reilly ... If McCain had asked me to campaign for him, I would have.

When asked about her campaign, the first lady remarked, " If you can save just one child, it's worth it.

When asked by other Cyclopes why he is screaming, Polyphemus replies that " Nobody " is hurting him, so the others assume that, " If alone as you are none uses violence on you, why, there is no avoiding the sickness sent by great Zeus ; so you had better pray to your father, the lord Poseidon ".

He asks why postmodernist intellectuals do not respond like people in other fields when asked, " what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc ?... If requests can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames.

* If asked to imagine the graph of the relationship y = ax < sup > 2 </ sup >, one typically visualizes a range of values of x, but only one value of a.

Zahi Hawass, the former chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, asked that the stele be repatriated to Egypt, urging in comments to reporters: " If the British want to be remembered, if they want to restore their reputation, they should volunteer to return the Rosetta Stone because it is the icon of our Egyptian identity ".

If a protector also has fiduciary responsibilities then the courts — if asked by beneficiaries — could order him or her to act in the way the court decrees.

The show's first winner, David Bloomfield was one of the returning contestants, and was asked the question: If there have been a thousand episodes of The Weakest Link, each with nine players, how many contestants in total have appeared on the show?

If we cannot stop warfare in our own economic system, how can we expect to abolish it internationally??

If Russian pupils have to take these languages, how come American students have a choice whether or not to take a language, but have to face so many exceptions??

If private brand competition hasn't been felt in your product field as yet, have you thought how you will cope with it if and when it does appear??

If you have a higher-quality product, how can you make it stand out -- justify its premium price -- without the spoken word??

If the direct-sum decomposition ( A ) is valid, how can we get hold of the projections Af associated with the decomposition??

If not, how long to order and what is the price ''??

If they can't chalk up big business here then let's stop this noise about how hip we are, and stick to our community singing,

If we have not thought and made a decision entirely in these terms, then we need to submit ourselves to the following `` simple test '': `` Have we decided how we are to kill the other members of our household in the event of our being less injured than they are ''??

If Mr. Kennan is sometimes a little somber in his appraisals, if his analysis of how Western diplomacy met the challenge of an era of great wars and social revolutions is often critical and pessimistic -- well, the record itself is not too encouraging.

If any among the hardy hundreds who sat in the downpour are in doubt about how it comes out, let them take comfort.

`` If it ain't an idea '', she said, `` how comes it you can drink beer but not water ''??

If we cannot make explicit choices, how do we know that our set exists?

If Time Out of Mind was his death album — it wasn't, but you know how people talk — this is his immortality album.

Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

If communities are developed based on something they share in common, whether that be location or values, then one challenge for developing communities is how to incorporate individuality and differences.

* If the Venerable was not a martyr – all non-martyrs are " confessors " as they " confessed " or bore witness to their faith by how they lived their lives – it must be proven that a miracle has taken place by his or her intercession: that is, that God has shown a sign that the person is enjoying the Beatific Vision by God performing a miracle in response to the Blessed's prayers.

If so, it is unclear how much Tatian may have borrowed from this previous author in determining his own narrative sequence of Gospel elements.

Since mathematics is related to logic, he cites an example from mathematics: If we have a formula like ( a + b )( a-b )= a²-b² it does not tell us how to think mathematically.

If the firm is a perfect competitor in all input markets, and thus the per-unit prices of all its inputs are unaffected by how much of the inputs the firm purchases, then it can be shown that at a particular level of output, the firm has economies of scale if and only if it has increasing returns to scale, has diseconomies of scale if and only if it has decreasing returns to scale, and has neither economies nor diseconomies of scale if it has constant returns to scale.

If the ideological approach is concerned with broad movements and the effects of the world around the filmmaker, then the auteur theory is diametrically opposed to it, celebrating the individual, usually in the person of the filmmaker, and how his personal decisions, thoughts, and style manifest themselves in the material.

If a subject after submitting to the hypnotic procedure shows no genuine increase in susceptibility to any suggestions whatever, there seems no point in calling him hypnotised, regardless of how fully and readily he may respond to suggestions of lid-closure and other superficial sleeping behaviour.

Pei's background in architecture was seen as a considerable asset ; one member of the committee told him: " If you know how to build you should also know how to destroy.