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 this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.

If, however, a layer of paper remains stuck to the surface, the adhesive has not failed.

If a rebellion failed to quickly seize the capital and control of the military for itself, it was normally doomed to a quick destruction.

If a dive is performed which is as submitted but not as ( incorrectly ) announced, it is declared failed and scores zero according to a strict reading of the FINA law.

If Matthew's prime concern was to preserve the Jewish character of the church, he failed: Christianity became a Gentile religion, and Christianity and Judaism came to view each other as opposites.

If the British failed to meet the deadline, the Congress would call upon all Indians to fight for complete independence.

If he claimed the throne, he would throw the country into yet another series of wars, and if he failed, he would be sacrificing everyone and everything he knew.

If all else failed, a besieger could claim the booty of his conquest undamaged, and retain his men and equipment intact, for the price of a well-placed bribe to a disgruntled gate-keeper.

If the number of dies — the integrated circuits that will eventually become chips — etched on a wafer exceeds a failure threshold ( i. e. too many failed dies on one wafer ), the wafer is scrapped rather than investing in further processing.

If the CSM failed, the spacecraft and Saturn IB for the next Skylab mission would have been launched with two astronauts to retrieve the crew ; given Skylab's ample supplies, its residents would have been able to wait up to several weeks for the rescue mission.

If the crew had failed to repair Skylab in time, the plastic insulation inside the station would have melted, releasing poisonous gas and making Skylab completely uninhabitable.

One of Edison's famous quotations about his attempts to make the light globe suggest that perhaps Tesla was right about Edison's methods of working: " If I find 10, 000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed.

If his plans failed, it was almost always out of luck on behalf of the other characters.

Albert Shaw, editor of The Review of Reviews, stated that after Bryan's nomination, many easterners professed not to have heard of him but: " If, indeed, they had not heard of Mr. Bryan before, they had failed to follow closely the course of American politics in the past eight years.

If those boards failed to agree then there was a central board.

In an interview conducted by Nick Spark, George Nichols, another engineer who was present, stated that Murphy blamed the failure on his assistant after the failed test, saying, " If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will.

If they failed to live up to their obligations, the Admiralty Courts could and did revoke the Letter of Marque, refuse to award prize money, forfeit bonds, even award tort ( personal injury ) damages against the privateer's officers and crew.

If they failed, the provincial government could carry out the necessary measures and charge the costs to the landowner or municipality.

If the champion failed to start the car, it was not eliminated from the round, but was available again if the champion returned the next day.

If the crop failed, payment was deferred, and no interest could be charged for that year.

If the adopted child failed to carry out the filial duty, the contract was annulled in the law courts.

If you mail A return or tax payment, you must place it in the mails in ample time to reach the district director on or before the due date.

If the pitcher allows no runners to reach base, the no-hitter is a perfect game.

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 an opponent tries to anticipate the stroke, he may move in the wrong direction and may be unable to change his body momentum in time to reach the shuttlecock.

If the ball socket were too tight, the ink did not reach the paper.

If we take the simple valence bond structure and mix in all possible covalent and ionic structures arising from a particular set of atomic orbitals, we reach what is called the full configuration interaction wave function.

If we take the simple molecular orbital description of the ground state and combine that function with the functions describing all possible excited states using unoccupied orbitals arising from the same set of atomic orbitals, we also reach the full configuration interaction wavefunction.

" It cannot be done " and he adds: " If a patient places himself in autohypnosis and regresses himself in an effort to reach illness or birth or prenatals, the only thing he will get is ill ".

If empirical data reach significance under the appropriate statistical formula, the research hypothesis is supported.

* If the two parties do not reach a satisfactory arrangement, a set of standard principles set out in the Annex to the Directive becomes applicable.

" If interstellar travel is possible, even the " slow " kind nearly within the reach of Earth technology, then it would only take from 5 million to 50 million years to colonize the galaxy.

Orbán responded " If we don ’ t reach an agreement, we ’ ll still stand on our own feet.

If all contracts awarded reach their stated target plateau production then this will increase Iraqi production from today's 2. 5 mb / d by 9. 4 mb / d to a total of 11. 9 mb / d, comparable to current Saudi declared capacity of 12. 5 mb / d.

If any one of the sides makes the bung reach that end of the churchyard it is victorious .” The actual word hockey was mentioned centuries before, in 1363, when King Edward III of England issued a declaration banning a list of games: " moreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

If the Norge expedition was actually the first to the North Pole, Amundsen and Oscar Wisting would therefore be the first persons to reach each geographical pole, by ground or by air, as the case may be.

If enough EPSPs overlap, the summated EPSP can reach the threshold for initiating an action potential.

If the target is thin on an atomic scale the collision cascade can reach the back side of the target and atoms can escape the surface binding energy ` in transmission '.

If they reach the top and overflow, the game is over.

If the player cannot reach the needed score — or if the timer runs out — the game ends, and the player receives a final score.

( If he bent to drink the water, it drained below the level he could reach, and if he reached for the fruit, the branches moved out of his grasp.

If the first part of a tsunami to reach land is a trough — called a drawback — rather than a wave crest, the water along the shoreline recedes dramatically, exposing normally submerged areas.

If the magic packet can be made to reach a computer, it can originate anywhere ( e. g., from the Internet ).

The conditional statement " If I reach Thursday afternoon alive then Friday will be the latest possible day for the hanging " does little to reassure the condemned man.

If that is the position, the decision you have to reach, on all the evidence, is whether you are sure that it was the Defendant who left that stain or whether it is possible that it was one of that other small group of men who share the same DNA characteristics.