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If she did, he could stand it better in the light.
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If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.
If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;
If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.
If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.
If Woodruff could not furnish a strong explanation, the governor insisted that he lower his prices in accord with the scale printed in The Advocate.
If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.
If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.
If the crummy bastard could write!!
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If and lift
If a player does not lift, his only remaining option is to push the shuttlecock softly back to the net: in the forecourt this is called a netshot ; in the midcourt or rearcourt, it is often called a push or block.
If the netshot is tight and tumbling, then the opponent's lift will not reach the back of the court, which makes the subsequent smash much harder to return.
If a pair is forced to lift or clear the shuttlecock, then they must defend: they will adopt a side-by-side position in the rear midcourt, to cover the full width of their court against the opponents ' smashes.
If they did so, he said he would ask the Cabinet to lift the embargo against Vanuatu kava.
* If the destination is farther away, the spaceship must lift itself " up " against the force of the Sun's gravity.
If one takes the experimentally observed flow around an airfoil as a starting point, then lift can be explained in terms of pressures using Bernoulli's principle and conservation of mass.
If the lift coefficient for a wing at a specified angle of attack is known ( or estimated using a method such as thin airfoil theory ), then the lift produced for specific flow conditions can be determined using the following equation:
If the wind shifts in your favor, called a lift, so much the better, then this tack is even more favorable.
If U. S. officials can " help clean up his image " and lift the ban on arms sales to the Panamanian Defense Force, Noriega will "' take care of ' the Sandinista leadership for us.
If two athletes lift the same total weight and have the same bodyweight, the winner is the athlete who lifted the total weight first.
If the being can create a stone that it cannot lift, then it seems that it can cease to be omnipotent.
If the being cannot create a stone which it cannot lift, then it seems it is already not omnipotent.
This is justified by observing that in order for the omnipotent agent to create such a stone, the omnipotent agent must already be more powerful than itself: such a stone is too heavy for the omnipotent agent to lift, but the omnipotent agent already can create such a stone ; If an omnipotent agent already is more powerful than itself, then it already is just that powerful.
If a being is accidentally omnipotent, then it can resolve the paradox by creating a stone which it cannot lift and thereby becoming non-omnipotent.
If God can remove His own omnipotence, then God can create an enormous stone, remove His own omnipotence, then not be able to lift the stone.
If its leading edge is raked back enough, it will escape the shock wave formed at the nose of the aircraft as transonic speeds are reached, reducing drag considerably, and the center of lift moves less than on conventionally configured aircraft, reducing trim drag.
It occurs because of inter-molecular attractive forces between the liquid and solid surrounding surfaces ; If the diameter of the tube is sufficiently small, then the combination of surface tension and forces of adhesion between the liquid and container act to lift the liquid.
If the trucker's hitch were to be used as in the pulley diagram at right, to lift a weight off the floor, the theoretical mechanical advantage would be only 2: 1.
If the personal spotter does not immediately leave the platform area and / or in any way distracts or impedes the head referees ’ responsibilities, the referees may determine that the lift is unacceptable, and be declared “ no lift ” by the referees and given three red lights.
If the angle of attack and velocity remain constant, an increase in the lift coefficient will result, which accounts for the " floating " effect.
If the thrust-to-weight ratio is greater than the local gravity strength ( expressed in gs ), then flight can occur without any forward motion or any aerodynamic lift being required.
If the thrust-to-weight ratio times the lift-to-drag ratio is greater than local gravity then takeoff using aerodynamic lift is possible.

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