If local governments and private organizations are to carry out decentralized functions effectively, they must have an adequate level of revenues, either raised locally or transferred from the central government, as well as the authority to make decisions about expenditures.

If the legislative were allowed to delegate its powers to the government or to lower decentralized bodies, this would threaten democratic legitimacy and the constitutional protection of the citizen ( as citizens have no recourse to a Constitutional Court ).

If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ – who I think was the first socialist – only socialism can really create a genuine society.

Shafarevich goes on to note that Marx ' most important postulates are contradicted by reality: " If a socialist state comes into being only under the conditions created by the development of capitalism, if, as Lenin wrote, " socialism originates in capitalism, develops historically from capitalism, and results from the action of a social force that is engendered by capitalism ," then whence did it come and as a result of what social force did it develop in the Inca empire or the states of the ancient Orient?

If public sociology is to have a progressive impact it will have to hold itself continuously accountable to some such vision of democratic socialism.

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

If the points aren't thrown all the way, the Turnout cannot be locked, and in turn, the signal cannot be cleared.

`` If we cannot tell evil, horror, and insanity from nonsense, what is the future of humor and comedy ''??

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

If the latter knows nothing about the absent sitter except his name ( given by the experimenter ), he cannot possibly give any clues, conscious or unconscious, far less ask leading questions.

If a union cannot perform this function, then collective bargaining is being palmed off by organizers as a gigantic fraud.

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

If there is an overabundance of food hunted, the arctic fox will bury what the family cannot eat.

If the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.

If the assets used are not identical ( so a price divergence makes the trade temporarily lose money ), or the margin treatment is not identical, and the trader is accordingly required to post margin ( faces a margin call ), the trader may run out of capital ( if they run out of cash and cannot borrow more ) and go bankrupt even though the trades may be expected to ultimately make money.

If nature cannot err, then there are no paradoxes in it ; to Hobbes, the paradox is a form of the absurd, which is inconsistency: " Natural sense and imagination, are not subject to absurdity " and " For error is but a deception ...

If we cannot stay here alive, then we will stay here dead.

If a pair cannot hit downwards, they will use flat strokes in an attempt to gain the attack.

But this destruction, coupled with a protracted siege of Rain ( 9 – 16 July ), caused Prince Eugene to lament "... since the Donauwörth action I cannot admire their performances ", and later to conclude " If he has to go home without having achieved his objective, he will certainly be ruined.

* Indivisibility of certain goods: If a person wants to buy a certain amount of another's goods, but only has for payment one indivisible unit of another good which is worth more than what the person wants to obtain, a barter transaction cannot occur.

If the remaining array to be searched is reduced to zero, then the key cannot be found in the array and a special " Not found " indication is returned.

If players cannot move either die in a roll, given the position of their checkers then that turn is over and the turn passes to the opponent.

If the Crawford rule is in effect, then another option is the Holland rule, which stipulates that after the Crawford game, a player cannot double until after at least two rolls have been played by each side.

If we look at this situation from far above, so that we cannot see the supporters, we see the large balloon as a small object animated by erratic movement.

If a newer software version cannot save files that can be read by the older version, it is not backward compatible with the older version, although it may provide an irreversible upgrade capability for the old files.

If a Banach algebra has unit 1, then 1 cannot be a commutator ; i. e., for any x, y ∈ A.

If a bookmaker follows the rules of the Bayesian calculus in the construction of his odds, a Dutch book cannot be made.

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He added, `` If this doesn't work out, the three of you barricade yourself in the house and talk terms with them ''.

If communications work, his decision would be instantly known in all command posts that would originate the actual go order.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If notched for the battens, they would require more work, be weakened and limber holes would have to be bored so that bilge water could flow through.

If the artist would study his work more thoroughly and move certain units in his design, often only slightly, finer pictures would result.

If work is substituted for things ( with more exact contribution to meaning ), it will have dominant stress.

If his on-the-job problems work out, he may return to his old pattern.

If you have a year-round, full-time job you can't expect to grow much more than your family uses -- unless other members of the family do a good deal of the work or you hire help.

If an expensive and specialized piece of machinery is needed -- such as a spray rig, a combine, or a binder -- it is better to pay someone with a machine to do the work.

If one wishes to discuss a literary figure who uses folklore in his work, the first thing he must realize is that the literary figure is probably part of this ignorant American public.

If working in a zinc mine, which he once did for 87-1/2 cents an hour, paid more than playing center field for the Yankees, Mantle would work in a zinc mine.

If ever a work of art merited comparison with epic poetry, " The Battle of Issus " is it.

If that did not work, then Abd al-Rahman would have to be killed.

" If you live in a country like Sweden, with five, six months of snow, and the sun disappears totally for like two months, that would be reflected in the work of artists ," he said.

If the author wished, he could apply for a second 14 ‑ year monopoly grant, but after that the work entered the public domain, so it could be used and built upon by others.

If the author has been dead more than 70 years, the work is in the public domain in most, but not all, countries.

If software is faulty ( buggy ), it can delete a person's work, crash the computer and do other unexpected things.

In the words of Henry Chadwick, " If the Consolation contains nothing distinctively Christian, it is also relevant that it contains nothing specifically pagan either ... is a work written by a Platonist who is also a Christian, but is not a Christian work.

:” If we observe the totality of Pissarro ’ s work, we find there, despite fluctuations, not only an extreme artistic will, never belied, but also an essentially intuitive, purebred art.

" If that didn't work, Atkins would instruct Porter to turn the offending player down in the mix.

If we work hard to sell our own cars, we won ’ t be bothered by whatever the other manufacturers do.

In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.