If no resolution is reached in a battle, it can result in a stalemate.

Hood replied that he would take careful soundings as he advanced to test the depth of the water, and that " If you will allow the honour of leading you into battle, I will keep the lead going.

If the man wearing a gold ring is fighting a battle on land the mention of the sea will have no relevance to his situation at all and does not contribute to the picture of the battle being described ” ( Faulkes ( 1997 ), pp. 8 – 9 ).

One contemporary writer critical of the scuttling of the Terrible wrote that " she made no more water than she did before battle ", and, more acidly, " If an able officer had been at the head of the fleet, the Terrible would not have been destroyed.

If he died in battle, he would have been the only Prince of Wales ever to do so.

If one of the players has no more cards in a battle that player wins that battle.

" However, Hindenburg countered by saying, " If the battle had gone badly, the name ' Hindenburg ' would have been reviled from one end of Germany to the other.

If the awful trail of battle stretches vividly through the scenes of the narrative, it is in the hope that a shocked and appalled world may henceforth devote itself more earnestly in the cause of peace.

If a battle Thrawn planned could not be won, Thrawn preferred not to waste troops and equipment in futile displays of power ; he would withdraw and adjust his plans.

If someone died in battle, he would exist like a shadow in the gloomy space of the underworld.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld remarked thus in 2006, in a statement taken to reflect his view of the Doctrine's efficacy: " If I were rating, I would say we probably deserve a D or D + as a country as how well we're doing in the battle of ideas that's taking place.

If so this information may have led to the Northern rout in that battle.

If the player dies during the battle with the final boss, The Entity acquires the complete Sigil, leading to the worst ending in which humanity is extinct.

If you are coming for battle, come, but you shall not return to the land of the Great King!

If a specific type of enemy is defeated, there is a chance that the character will receive an item after the battle.

If a warship goes into battle, large versions of naval ensigns ( called battle ensigns ) are used.

If a player lands on a battle space, a battle mini game begins.

Ali Pasha is supposed to have told his Christian galley-slaves: " If I win the battle, I promise you your liberty.

If the Vikings were expelled from Ireland in 1014, or at least the looting and raiding stopped after that, then whoever the Irish were fighting had to be either another race of people coming into Ireland, just as the Vikings did, or the Irish were having yet another domestic or civil battle.

If General Greene's estimate of the total American loss was accurate, then they had between 1, 160 and 1, 260 killed, wounded or deserted during the battle.

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 the gentry refused to collect the King's taxes, the Crown would lack any practical means with which to compel them.

If the king had joined, its resolutions would have received the sanction of the law ; but he refused, and approached the newly formed Roman Catholic League of lords, whose members pledged themselves to support the king, the Catholic Church, and the Council.

If they are certainly absent, the sacrament should even be refused.

If the officer has reasonable grounds that the traveller is or might have been infected with a communicable disease or refused to provider answers, a quarantine officer ( QO ) must be called and the person is to be isolated.

If a person refused to be isolated, any peace officer may arrest without warrant.

If this helps keep them safe from harm this is considered to be a good thing, but there have been cases where hostages have tried to shield the captors during an assault or refused to co-operate with the authorities in bringing prosecutions.

Waits has steadfastly refused to allow the use of his songs in commercials and has joked about other artists who do ( commenting " If Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn't he just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it ?").

If he never repeated the international success of Cavalleria, it was probably because he refused to copy himself.

If they refused, they died in prison.

She refused to have the surgery, saying " If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

When informed that the film was to be made in Africa, Davis refused the part, telling Jack Warner, " If you can't shoot the picture in a boat on the back lot, then I'm not interested.

If he had refused, he could have been punished, but he was clever enough not to refuse.

Röhm refused and stated " If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself.

If a written application is refused, the applicant may ask for an oral hearing to discuss the refusal.

If the offender win the point he marks nothing ; if he win the vole he marks only one ; if he win the point when his adversary has played without proposing, or has refused the first proposal, he marks only one.

If the offender win the point he marks nothing ; if he win the vole, he marks only one ; if he win the point when his adversary has played without proposing, or has refused the first proposal, he marks only one.

He refused to accept unjust cases, and always tried to be on the " right " side of any case ; John Campbell wrote that " If he saw that a cause was unjust, he for a great while would not meddle further in it but to give his advice that it was so ; if the parties after that would go on, they were to seek another counsellor, for he would assist none in acts of injustice ".

If both refused, a suitable monarch would be searched for among the various European royal houses.

If the King of Spain ever refused in conscience to grant Royal Assent to a Bill a procedure similar to the one that was used in Belgium to handle King Baudouin's objection would not be possible under the current Constitution: in Spain, if the King were ever declared incapable of discharging the royal authority, his powers would not be transferred to the Cabinet pending the parliamentary appointment of a Regency.

If permission is refused on the papers, the party may renew his application for an order for reconsideration to the High Court or Court of Session.

If Mannerheim had not also firmly refused to let his troops participate in the Siege of Leningrad, they would have ended up becoming an integral part of the siege.

But Parnell, a proud and passionate man, refused, saying, " If I go, I go forever ".

According to this story, ( the accuracy of which has never been verified ), in 1936 Hitler requested that Spare travel to Berlin to produce a portrait of the Nazi leader, but that Spare refused, remarking that " If you are a superman, let me be forever animal.