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 he failed to reach the riverbank in five minutes, say, then the skiffs would pull away and leave him groping in the mud.

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 Christ is in full humanity and in full divinity, then He is separate in two persons as the Nestorians teach.

If you wish to honor them in some way, recite fifteen Our Fathers and fifteen Hail Marys with the following Prayers, which I Myself shall teach you, for an entire year.

If the Boy Scouts wishes Scout leaders to avoid questions of sexuality and teach only by example, this fact does not negate the sincerity of its belief discussed above.

If a trained dog is introduced to a puppy that doesn't know not to eliminate in a house, it cannot teach it not to do so.

Two weeks later, one day after the Cowboys ' 27-17 loss to the Detroit Lions, a team that had come into the game tied with the Chiefs, Giants and Rams for the worst record in the NFL, Schramm said on his radio show " There's an old saying, " If the teacher doesn't teach, the student doesn't learn ".

If parkour becomes a sport, it will be hard to seriously teach and spread parkour as a non-competitive activity.

In 2000, Mahathir was quoted as saying: " If Australia wants to be a friend to Asia, it should stop behaving as if it is there to teach us how to run our country.

In the words of critic Peter Hellman, " If could recite Budweiser jingles from TV, why not give them a program that would teach the ABCs and simple number concepts?

" Once, during a bomb threat, he remarked " If I die, who will teach the children about Bo Diddley?

If a person befriends a leshy, the latter will teach them the secrets of magic.

* It is said that, when told that it was religiously permissible to say what pleases his persecuters without believing in it at the time of mihna, Ahmad said " If I remained silent and you remained silent, then who will teach the ignorant?

If properly approached, he will teach a musician to play so adeptly " that the trees dance and waterfalls stop at his music.

If you brought the nøkken a treat of three drops of blood, a black animal, some brännvin ( Scandinavian vodka ) or snus ( wet snuff ) dropped into the water, he would teach you his enchanting form of music.

If the Tomte is ignored or maltreated or the farm is not cared for, he can sabotage a lot of the work on the farm to teach the farmer a lesson or two.

The miracles served the purpose of setting an example to the reader, and Bede explicitly states that his goal is to teach morality through history, saying " If history records good things of good men, the thoughtful reader is encouraged to imitate what is good ; if it records evil of wicked men, the devout reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and perverse.

If the role of a teacher is to teach, the role of a student must be to learn.

: If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn ; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Shawe quotes Zinzendorf's remark that The Apostles say: ' We believe we have salvation through the grace of Jesus Christ ....' If I can only teach a person that catechism I have made him a divinity scholar for all time ( Shawe, 1977, p. 9 ).

Anne was quoted as having said of Catherine, " If master admiral ( Thomas Seymour ) teach his wife no better manners, I am she that will ".

The jinn asked him, " Can you drop me down ?, If you do so then I will teach you such an Ayat that if you recite it upon entering your home, Satan will not enter.

If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science.

Geller says, " If you were blind and a man appeared who could teach you to see with mind power, you would revere him as a guru.

When Bart is asked what Edna would like to teach the world, he pretends to be illiterate, until Skinner guiltily tells the truth, adding Edna should be Teacher of the Year because " If she can teach me to love, she can teach anyone anything.