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If ever one is in a position in which they are unable to refute a theory, Pyrrhonists reply " Just as, before the birth of the founder of the School to which you belong, the theory it holds was not as yet apparent as a sound theory, although it was really in existence, so likewise it is possible that the opposite theory to that which you now propound is already really existent, though not yet apparent to us, so that we ought not as yet to yield assent to this theory which at the moment seems to be valid.
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If and ever
If you ever try anything without my orders I'll kill you ''.
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.
If either one ever started making promises, there is no telling where the promises would end.
`` 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 he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.
If ever a rifle met the needs of the whitetail hunter, this is it.
If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.
If William wished to continue operations for a year, why not simply leave the Negroes undisturbed and pay them `` as high wages to remain there as are ever paid the labor of persons of their sex & age.
If Palfrey ever had any doubts about the wickedness of slavery, they were put aside after he received an inventory of the slave property he had inherited.
If it ever got behind me, the beep turned to a buzz.
If it was designed to put me on the spot, it would have to have been written before Peralta ever called me in on the case ''.
If the administration ever had any ideas that it could find an acceptable alternative to Prince Souvanna Phouma, whom it felt was too trusting of Communists, it gradually had to relinquish them.
If he ever did such a thing again she'd die of shame.
If I ever committed suicide, she thought, I would dive straight down from here -- and no one would find me for days.
In response to a neighbor's complaint that his target shooting endangered her children, he replied, " If that should ever happen, ma-da-me, we should ourselves be happy to get new ones with you " ( though he was not at all inclined to engage with females in the manner implied ).
If ever a work of art merited comparison with epic poetry, " The Battle of Issus " is it.
According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.
" That rich island ," he wrote on 1 December 1881, " the key to the Gulf of Mexico, is, though in the hands of Spain, a part of the American commercial system … If ever ceasing to be Spanish, Cuba must necessarily become American and not fall under any other European domination.
If a state is not controllable, then no signal will ever be able to control the state.
If Diocletian ever did enter Rome shortly after his accession, he did not stay long ; he is attested back in the Balkans by 2 November 285, on campaign against the Sarmatians.
If found to not ever become competent for trial, they will be evaluated via a Jackson hearing for possible continued commitment to protect the public.
If Mental Balance ever reaches + 500 /- 500, the character Awakens and either becomes a divine creature or transforms into a demon.
If he would have been any good, there was no way the City of Ayutthaya would ever have fallen.
If a bull moose is castrated, either by accidental or chemical means, he will quickly shed his current set of antlers and then immediately begin to grow a new set of misshapen and deformed antlers that he will wear the rest of his life without ever shedding again.
If and one
If you take the one, you'd better take both ''.
`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.
If one dancer slaps another, the victim may do a pirouette, sit down, or offer his assailant a fork and spoon.
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 we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.
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.
If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.
If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.
If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.
If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.
If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.
If they do meet and recognize one another, slap backs and embrace, the moment soon is done.
If one follows the reports of the Congress, one finds that there still seems considerable uncertainty in the minds of the leaders themselves about what exactly to do in this matter.
Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.
If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.
`` If I catch you one more time down here without stockings '' --
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 you don't own a planer and don't want to buy one, it's well worth renting.
Note: If 1/2-inch panel board is used inside and out, or 5/8-inch one side and 3/8-inch the other, and 1/8-inch glass is used, stock lumber in Af, Af, and Af can be used in making the glass panels.
If you have a full-time doctor now, can he be replaced with a part-time doctor or one who serves on a fee-per-case basis only??
If you use one of the new year-round cooling system fluids such as `` Dowguard '' be sure to check it.
If you run into excess plug fouling on one truck, check to be sure that the rig has a thermostat.
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