If Scottish mine owners had hoped to remove a potential labour agitator from their midst by blacklisting Hardie from work in the mines, their action proved to be a major miscalculation.

If Swift hoped that the Tale of a Tub would win him a living, he would have been disappointed.

If successful, Yung Wing was slated to head a coalition government of revolutionary forces while Lea and his fellow conspirators hoped to receive wide-ranging economic concessions from the new government.

If Xerxes could destroy the Allied navy, he would be in a strong position to force an Allied surrender ; conversely by avoiding destruction, or as Themistocles hoped, by destroying the Persian fleet, the Allies could prevent conquest from being completed.

He said that he hoped his faith was apparent to others: " If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

If the killed whale was pleased to ( during its being a guest for a half year ), then it can be hoped that it will return later, too: thus, also the future whale hunts will succeed.

If Norquay hoped to silence the strongest opposition voice by this tactic, he was unsuccessful: Greenway won the riding by 330 votes to 244.

If awarded a FIT contract, WindShare hoped to be looking for investors by the summer of 2010.

If no candidates had been put forward to oppose Turia, she would have been declared the winner without a vote-this initially appeared possible, and given the cost of a by-election ( estimated at almost NZ $ 500, 000 ), many hoped that a vote could be avoided.

If one was caught, the other, it was hoped, would get through.

Cali Ruchala, the co-founder, editor, and columnist of the periodical, said, " If there's anything I've tried to illustrate with Sobaka, anything I've hoped to hammer into the heads of everyone within a mile radius of our paper abode, it's to believe nothing you don't see with your own two eyes – and to make an effort to see as much as possible.

If you should be so fortunate as to execute this business successfully in Virginia you are then to proceed immediately to the southward and make yourself master of such forces as the enemy may have both in North and South Carolina ... Notwithstanding these particular orders, which it is hoped you will be able to execute, if bad winds, or stormy weather, or any other unforeseen accident or disaster disenable you so to do, you are then to follow such courses as your best Judgment shall suggest to you as most useful to the American cause and to distress the Enemy by all means in your power.

Ultimately, De Geer hoped his studies of varves would explain the fundamental cause of Ice Ages-" If the last glaciation everywhere should show to be synchronous and the origin of the last Ice Age thus to be of a general nature, the assumption of a cosmic cause would scarcely be avoidable.

If this mission is successful, it is hoped that the LISA mission will be launched a few years later, current estimates are around 2018.

If the Confederacy had hoped before this that they could sap Northern determination and quietly slip away from the Union with a minor military investment, their victory at Bull Run, ironically, destroyed those hopes.

By doing so the OUN-B hoped to eventually overwhelm the German occupation authorities (" If there were fifty policemen to five Germans, who would hold power then ?").

If Hart's suggestion that Ælfgifu was of royal Mercian descent and related to the latter family is correct, it might have been hoped that the marriage would give Eadwig some political advantage in exercising West-Saxon control over Mercia.

Khayyam also wrote that he hoped to give a full description of the algebraic solution of cubic equations in a later work: ' If the opportunity arises and I can succeed, I shall give all these fourteen forms with all their branches and cases, and how to distinguish whatever is possible or impossible so that a paper, containing elements which are greatly useful in this art will be prepared.

" Gordon also hoped for a happy ever after type ending for the two characters if they were to ever leave the serial commenting: " If I had it my way, and I got to write the scripts then I'd make it happily ever after, Martha and Jack riding off into the sunset.

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

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

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 Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

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 living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

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

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

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 we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

`` If you become a Baptist, I will not '', Ann informed her husband, but sweeping her threat aside Adoniram continued to search for an answer to the personal dilemma in which he found himself.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

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

If she wanted to borrow any sum of money in expecting the arrangements of Congress, it would not become a stranger, unknown to her, to offer himself for that purpose.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

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.