If we grasp this orientation as a key, our national conduct in all of the events here mentioned becomes intelligible.

If the Labours precede the events in Roger Ackroyd, then the Roger Ackroyd case must have taken place around twenty years later than it was published, and so must any of the cases that refer to it.

If the Byzantines adopted the crescent and star as a symbol of their city after the events of the mid 4th century BC, one is forced to wonder why they waited several hundred years before putting the symbol on only some of their coins.

" If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther.

If a cabal can be implicated in a sequence of events, there is always the hope, however tenuous, of being able to break the cabal's power – or joining it and exercising some of that power oneself.

If the chronicles deal with events year by year, they are often called annals.

If this view is correct, the epistle should be dated somewhere around 47, depending on other difficult to date events, such as Paul's conversion.

If one follows Polybius, the course of events was the following: Despite the Carthaginian pre-war naval advantage, the Roman landing was virtually unopposed.

If this is not due to chronological confusion of the events of the siege, it may suggest that Kallinikos merely introduced an improved version of an established weapon.

If the individual is concerned with events preceding written history, the individual is a historian of prehistory.

However, despite aligning with the Maoists, Sartre said after the May events: " If one rereads all my books, one will realize that I have not changed profoundly, and that I have always remained an anarchist.

If the chain of events leading up to the person having something meets this criterion, they are entitled to it: that they possess it is just, and what anyone else does or doesn't have or need is irrelevant.

If an individual coin toss or the roll of dice is considered to be a random event, then if repeated many times the sequence of random events will exhibit certain patterns, which can be studied and predicted.

If God in some sense knows ahead of time what will happen, then events in the universe are effectively predetermined from God's point of view.

If a collection of atoms are in the excited state, spontaneous decay events to the ground state will occur at a rate proportional to N < sub > 2 </ sub >, the number of atoms in the excited state.

While Spock makes it clear that the events during the period of Surak are well documented (" The Savage Curtain "), he is completely uncertain in regard to the origin of the Romulans: " If the Romulans are an offshoot of my Vulcan blood -- and I think this likely -- then attack becomes even more imperative.

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,

If one of the two events represents the sending of a signal from one location and the second event represents the reception of the same signal at another location, then as long as the signal is moving at the speed of light or slower, the mathematics of simultaneity ensures that all reference frames agree that the transmission-event happened before the reception-event.

If I was George Michael right about now, I'd be shitting myself ") or current events ( a 2000 issue remarked " The Government spent £ 850 million on the Millennium Bug, and the only thing that crashes is Q < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > out of the Bond films ").

If the theory were to be true, the individual events of suspension would appear to be highly selective.

" Sports Illustrated considered the activity a sport in 1987, describing the Drum Corps International World Championships “ one of the biggest sporting events of the summer .” In the same article, Sports Illustrated quoted basketball coach Bobby Knight, " If a basketball team trained as hard as these kids do, it would be unbelievable.

If the main controller fails, sub-controllers change to degraded mode in which doors are either completely locked or unlocked and no events are recorded.

If the outcome is the element of the elementary event of two pips on the first die and five on the second, then both of the events of " 7 pips " and " odd number of pips " have also happened.

If crossover occurs once, then on average ( 4²² ) ² = 309x10 < sup > 24 </ sup > genetically different zygotes are possible for every couple, not considering that crossover events can take place at most points along each chromosome.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

If he can't play with Mommy's magazines, he should have some old numbers of his own.

If the German people favor such a settlement we should not oppose Germany following the example of Austria.

`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.

`` If William agrees, we should insist on a public debate '', he said at length.

If they are used, the walls and roof should be 10 inches thick to give the same protection as the 8-inch solid concrete blocks.

-- If there are outside windows in the basement corner where you build a shelter, they should be shielded as shown in the Appendix, page 29.

If we sit here reading editorials and looking at public-opinion polls and other reports that cross our desks, we should realize that this is raw, undigested opinion expressed in the absence of leadership.

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If, for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 12 or 15 to one.

If the site is on a reservoir, the level of the water at various seasons as it affects recreation should be studied.

If it is possible for an enemy to put an atomic bomb on a city, it should be equally possible to put a cloud of biological agent over that city.

If adjectival meanings show relatively low retentiveness of stems, as I am confident will prove to be the case in most languages of the world, why should our basic lists include 15 per cent of these unstable forms, but only 8 per cent of animals and plants which replace much more slowly??

If of the founders of glottochronology Swadesh has escaped our steady plodding, and Lees has repudiated his own share in the founding, that is no reason why we should swerve.

If only state funds were used to pay for the vocational education, it could be argued that the state should not have to bear the cost of vocational training which would benefit employers in other states.

If people don't want to provide public education, should they be forced to do so??