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 these conventions are ratified by enough governments, they gain the status of treaties.

If supported, the appointment had to be ratified by a Central Committee plenum.

If the people do not dismiss a change, it still has to be ratified by the newly elected Parliament.

If it had been ratified, it would have declared that marriage in the United States only consists of the union of a man and a woman, and would have prohibited state and the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages and same-sex domestic partnerships.

If the amendment had been ratified, the members of state legislatures would elect members to the United States Senate, rather than the residents of the states.

If a ratified member is attacked by hostile forces, the FPE as a whole intercedes on their behalf.

If the deal is ratified, the Fort Mojave Reservation will be the first to have casinos in three states ; the reservation operates the Avi Resort & Casino in Nevada and the Spirit Mountain Casino in Arizona.

If an agreement is concluded, the accession treaty must be ratified by every EU state and be subject to a national referendum in Iceland.

If a convention did attempt to exceed its scope, none of the amendments it proposed would become part of the constitution until three-fourths of the states ratified them, which is more states than are required to call a convention in the first place.

`` If you want to see something, he's back on the other side by the trunk of the car ''.

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 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 love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

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

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If they are right, they will prevail of and by themselves.

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

If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.

If this new Bible does not increase in significance by repeated readings throughout the years, it will not survive the ages as has the King James Version.

If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.

If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.

If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??

If I hafta do this to stay alive by God I'll do it.

If he wanted to know anything, he would end up asking about it point-blank, but in this guileless manner he would probably receive more truthful answers than if he tried to get them by indirection.

If there is time after the warning, the basement shielding could be improved substantially by blocking windows with bricks, dirt, books, magazines, or other heavy material.

If there is anything which we can do in the executive branch of the Government to speed up the processes by which we come to decisions on matters on which we must act promptly, that in itself would be a major contribution to the conduct of our affairs.

If you elect to use the Standard Deduction or the Tax Table, and later find you should have itemized your deductions, you may do so by filing an amended return within the time prescribed for filing a claim for refund.

If you were required to file a declaration of estimated tax for the calendar year 1961, it is not necessary to pay the fourth installment otherwise due on January 15, 1962, if you file your income tax return Form 1040, and pay your tax in full for the calendar year 1961 by January 31, 1962.

If payment is by cash, you should ask for a receipt.

If you are an income beneficiary of property held in trust or an heir, legatee, or devisee, you may deduct allowable depreciation and depletion, if not deductible by the estate or trust.

If we could use all the small airfields we have in this country, we could disperse our strategic aircraft by a factor of 10 or more.