If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

If a poet writes down several lines, intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which it is written makes it a poem.

If the assets used are not identical ( so a price divergence makes the trade temporarily lose money ), or the margin treatment is not identical, and the trader is accordingly required to post margin ( faces a margin call ), the trader may run out of capital ( if they run out of cash and cannot borrow more ) and go bankrupt even though the trades may be expected to ultimately make money.

If the defense makes no attempt to put the baserunner out ( for example, if the catcher doesn't even look his way ), the play is scored as defensive indifference ( also called fielder's indifference ), and no stolen base is credited to the runner.

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 the norm of a Banach space satisfies this identity, the associated inner product which makes it into a Hilbert space is given by the polarization identity.

* Overrunning clutch or freewheel: If some external force makes the driven member rotate faster than the driver, the clutch effectively disengages.

If the limit exists, meaning that there is a way of choosing a value for Q ( 0 ) that makes the graph of Q a continuous function, then the function f is differentiable at a, and its derivative at a equals Q ( 0 ).

If there is a graph requiring 5 colors, then there is a minimal such graph, where removing any vertex makes it four-colorable.

If E / F is a Galois extension, then Gal ( E / F ) can be given a topology, called the Krull topology, that makes it into a profinite group.

If an arithmetic mean was used instead of a geometric mean, the financial viability is given more weight because its numeric range is larger-so a small percentage change in the financial rating ( e. g. going from 80 to 90 ) makes a much larger difference in the arithmetic mean than a large percentage change in environmental sustainability ( e. g. going from 2 to 5 ).

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 a person makes the statement " Hello, my name is John Doe " they are making a claim of who they are.

If he does teshuva ( repentance ), i. e. he ceases his forbidden actions, regrets what he has done, apologizes to God, and makes a binding resolution never to repeat those actions, he is seen to be forgiven by God.

[...] If I'm watching my favorite boxer and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world and he retires it kind of makes the guy a legend.

If each of the features makes an independent contribution to the output, then algorithms based on linear functions ( e. g., linear regression, logistic regression, Support Vector Machines, naive Bayes ) and distance functions ( e. g., nearest neighbor methods, support vector machines with Gaussian kernels ) generally perform well.

If every user makes uploads then the servers would be flooded ; thus it is acceptable and often encouraged for users to just leech.

If this makes all the heaps of size zero ( in misère play ), the winning move is to take k objects from one of the heaps.

If the key signature indicates G-sharp, a local flat before a G makes it G-flat ( not G natural ), though often this type of rare accidental is expressed as a natural, followed by a flat () to make this clear.

If the input voltages change in the same direction, the negative feedback makes Q3 / Q4 base voltage follow ( with 2V < sub > BE </ sub > below ) the input voltage variations.

If the bidder makes more or fewer tricks than were bid, he / she loses 10 points for the first over or under trick + 15 points for each additional over or under trick.

If the negated query can be refuted, i. e., an instantiation for all free variables is found that makes the union of clauses and the singleton set consisting of the negated query false, it follows that the original query, with the found instantiation applied, is a logical consequence of the program.

* If a player can play a straight or a flush or both, he should play whichever straight-or-better five-card hand makes the best two-card hand.

If any one of them is missing, he makes inquiry at once, as he knows by the marks from what quarter the tablet has not returned, and whoever is responsible for the stoppage meets with the punishment he merits.

If in the entangled state given above Alice makes a measurement in the eigenbasis of A, there are two possible outcomes, occurring with equal probability:

If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

If during the 14 – 15th centuries armour seldom weighed more than 15 kg, then by the late 16th century it weighed 25 kg.

If a heterozygote mates with another heterozygote, there is 75 % chance passing the gene on and only a 25 % chance that the gene will be displayed.

If a person is suffering such severe effects of hypoglycemia that they cannot ( due to combativeness ) or should not ( due to seizures or unconsciousness ) be given anything by mouth, medical personnel such as EMTs and paramedics, or in-hospital personnel can establish IV access and give intravenous dextrose, concentrations varying depending on age ( infants are given 2 ml / kg dextrose 10 %, children are given dextrose 25 %, and adults are given dextrose 50 %).

If all of these plans will be approved, the 1, 500 kilometres of track may take until 2030 to complete at a cost of around 25 billion dirhams ($ 3. 37 billion ).

If we denote by the number of occurrences of an event < font style =" vertical-align: 25 %;"></ font > in trials, then if we say that

If the vehicle continued at that speed for half an hour, it would cover half that distance ( 25 km ).

If the children are under 18, or under some other age mentioned in the will ( 21 and 25 are common ), a trust must come into existence until the contingency age is reached.

If three are playing, each player counts out 35 infantry ; four players, 30 infantry ; five players, 25 infantry ; six players, 20 infantry.

If the observed helium abundance is much different from 25 %, then this would pose a serious challenge to the theory.

If, then the probability of seeing two heads is 0. 25.

If the error ranges from-1 to + 1, with the analog-to-digital converter used having a resolution of 0. 25, then the input variable's fuzzy set ( which, in this case, also applies to the output variable ) can be described very simply as a table, with the error / delta / output values in the top row and the truth values for each membership function arranged in rows beneath:

The Simpsons episode " Catch ' Em If You Can ", aired 25 April 2004, alluded to the snob appeal of The Economist in an exchange between Homer and Marge Simpson while they are travelling first-class aboard an airplane:

If current trends of soil degradation continue in Africa, the continent might be able to feed just 25 % of its population by 2025, according to UNU's Ghana-based Institute for Natural Resources in Africa.

If all 10 or 11 cards in a player's hand fit into melds and thereby the player has no deadwood, he or she can choose to go Gin in which case the round ends and the player going Gin receives a Gin bonus of 25 points ( or another established amount ) plus any deadwood points in the opponent's hand.

If one assumes 25 verses per page, that would equal 20, 000 pages of text.

If Easter Sunday or Easter Monday falls on 25 April, the Greater Litanies, which in the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite are on that day, are transferred to the following Tuesday.

If the odds are 1 / 4 ( read " one-to-four ", or " four-to-one on "), the bettor will make £ 25 on a £ 100 stake.

This strategy also results in unanticipated, or " windfall " profits: If the contract is purchased forward twelve months at $ 100 and the actual price is $ 150, the refiner will take delivery of one barrel of oil at $ 100 and the other at a spot price of $ 150, or $ 125 averaged for two barrels: a gain of $ 25 relative to spot prices.

If this contains more than 1600 μg ( 25 μmol ), it is a reliable indicator of Wilson's disease.

If the winning book is a translation, the prize is divided between the author and the translator, with the author receiving € 75, 000 and the translator € 25, 000.

If the interest is credited once, at the end of the year, the value is $ 2. 00 ; but if the interest is computed and added twice in the year, the $ 1 is multiplied by 1. 5 twice, yielding $ 1. 00 × 1. 5² = $ 2. 25.

If these minutes expire before he has made 25 more moves, he loses.