If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

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 he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

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

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 he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

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 you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

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

If he had had a son, he would tell him, `` Gather ye rosebuds while ye may This same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying ''.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

If he had income other than wages subject to withholding, he may be required to file Form 1040.

If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.

If anyone thought of the John Harvey, it was to observe that she was straddled by a pair of ships heavily laden with high explosive and if they were hit the John Harvey would likely be blown up with her own ammo and whatever else it was that she carried.

If A-Z could buy Ticonderoga cheaply and use their presses and dies and other equipment, if William could hit precisely the right promotion note, if the money hurdle was not insurmountable.

If the batter gets a base hit, which would have scored the runner anyway, the run now becomes earned.

If a batter reaches first base because of offensive interference by a preceding runner ( including if a preceding runner is hit by a batted ball ), he is also credited with a hit.

If a pair cannot hit downwards, they will use flat strokes in an attempt to gain the attack.

Captain Manning was heard to scream, " If any of those bastard Huns come up, lads, hit ' em with an oar!

If requested data is contained in the cache ( cache hit ), this request can be served by simply reading the cache, which is comparatively faster.

If the player concentrates on hearing the ma between each hit, in addition to the hits themselves, he or she will create a much more effective and satisfying sound.

If both fencers hit at the same time, the referee uses the rules of " right of way " to determine which fencer gets the point.

If the hydrofoils hit something the boat will fall off the foils and this often creates a perception of increased danger.

If the bolus were infused 20 minutes before eating, then the pre-bolused insulin would hit the bloodstream simultaneously with the digested sugars to control the magnitude of the spike.

From this album, the song " If I Ruled the World " became a Top 5 hit on Billboards R & B chart.

* In the second verse of the hit song " Rocket Man " ( 1972 ), Elton John sings " Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids / In fact it's cold as hell / And there's no one there to raise them / If you did ".

This form is often used as a parody of metaphor itself: " If we can hit that bull's-eye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards ...

If they had been ordered to invent a new word for traitor ... they could hardly have hit upon a more brilliant combination of letters.

If the lob is not hit deeply enough into the other court, however, an opponent near the net may then hit an overhead smash, a hard, serve-like shot, to try to end the point.

But they soon had another US No. 2 hit with a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's " A Hazy Shade of Winter " from the soundtrack of the film Less Than Zero, and the melancholic " If She Knew What She Wants ", written by Jules Shear, reached the U. S. Top 30 and the German Top 20.

The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God in 1988 ( with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl " Fairytale of New York ", which was voted " the best Christmas song ever " in VH1 UK polls in 2004 ) and 1989's Peace and Love.

If the ball is hit around, above, or through the block, the defensive players arranged in the rest of the court attempt to control the ball with a dig ( usually a fore-arm pass of a hard-driven ball ).

If a worm is hit with a weapon, the amount of damage dealt to the worm will be removed from the worm's initial amount of health.

If the impact causes the head to move, the injury may be worsened, because the brain may ricochet inside the skull causing additional impacts, or the brain may stay relatively still ( due to inertia ) but be hit by the moving skull ( both are contrecoup injuries ).

If the player faults on the first serve, they will usually hit a defensive serve.

If the defensive player is in the backcourt but unable to position himself for a non-defensive shot, he may need to hit the ball off of the back wall.