If a party has gained more direct mandates in a Land than it is entitled to according to the results of the second vote, it does not forfeit these mandates because all directly elected candidates are guaranteed a seat in the Bundestag.

( If the Dean is elected pope, the Vice Dean performs this task.

The conclave that elected him had lasted for six months, and he is reported to have said to the cardinals: " If you wish to elect a saint, choose Gotti ; a statesman, Aldrovandi ; an honest man, me ".

If a person elected prime minister is neither a member of the Lok Sabha nor Rajya Sabha, then he must become a member of the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha within six months.

* If the pope finds that the king who has been elected by the princes is unworthy of the imperial dignity, the princes must elect a new king or, if they refuse, the pope will confer the imperial dignity upon another king ; for the Church stands in need of a patron and defender.

If the congregation does not have an installed pastor, the Presbytery appoints a minister member or elected member of the presbytery as moderator with the concurrence of the local church session.

If at least two-thirds of the National Assembly cannot agree to vote for one presidential candidate, a People's Assembly is formed from all National Assembly delegates and regional and municipal representatives who were elected by popular vote in the most recent national election.

If more than half of elected parliamentarians belong to the same political party, then the person appointed is typically the head of that party.

Cowles claimed she later told him, " If Wendell could be elected, then he and I would rule the world.

If they were elected it would pose the dilemma of which House was truly representative of the electorate.

If no router is DR or BDR on a given subnet, the DR is first elected, and then a second election is held if there is more than one BDR.

If a foreman is elected at the beginning, he or she will chair the discussions.

If a coalition wins more than 55 % of the vote, only 6 candidates from the " regional list " will be elected and the number of those elected in provincial constituencies will be 53.

If the nominee of the President is not elected, the Bundestag may elect its own nominee within fourteen days.

If no-one is elected within this period, the Bundestag will attempt an election.

If, after two votes, no single candidate has received this level of support, in the third and final vote the candidate endorsed by a plurality of votes cast is elected.

If the Bundestag rejects a motion of confidence, but neither a new chancellor is elected nor the Bundestag is dissolved, the president may, by request of the cabinet, declare a " legislative state of emergency ", which is quite different from a conventional state of emergency: If it is declared, during a limited period of time, bills proposed by the cabinet and designated as " urgent ", but rejected by the Bundestag, become law nonetheless, if the Bundesrat does pass them.

If the president is outside of the country, or the position is vacant, the President of the Bundesrat ( a position that is rotated among the state premiers on an annual basis ) temporarily assumes the powers of the president until a successor is elected without assuming the office of president as such.

If the president dies, resigns or is otherwise removed from office, a successor is to be elected within thirty days.

If white smoke appears, created by burning the ballots of the election, a new Pope has been elected.

Zinn regularly included it in his lists of recommended readings, and after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, Zinn wrote, " If Richard Hofstadter were adding to his book The American Political Tradition, in which he found both ' conservative ' and ' liberal ' presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, maintaining for dear life the two critical characteristics of the American system, nationalism and capitalism, Obama would fit the pattern.

If a presidential vacancy should occur, a successor must be elected within sixty days, during which time presidential duties are to be performed by the prime minister or other senior cabinet members in the order of priority as determined by law.

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

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

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

If he spun out now, he would join his opponent on the ground.

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 ; ;

Fruit compote: `` If you think I would understand it '' ; ;

`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.

If he showed signs of collecting his rifle and going back with his deputy to the ranch he would be shot down instantly.

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

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

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 life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place.

If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

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

If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.