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 one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.

If only there was a clock for him to crawl against.

If you file a Form 1040, you should indicate in the place provided that there is an overpayment of tax and the amount you want refunded and the amount you want credited against your estimated tax.

If clay is slightly out of shape, square straight sides with guide sticks or rulers pressed against opposite sides, or smooth round pieces with damp fingers.

If you are up against private brand competition, have you formulated a long-term program for researching and strengthening your market position??

If the force required to remove the coatings is plotted against film thickness, a graph as illustrated schematically in Fig. 5 may characteristically result.

If the cutting force, Af, is plotted against film thickness, a straight line should result passing through the origin and having slope Af.

If he backed against the fence, one of the cars would brush him as it passed, and he would be cruelly lacerated by the wire.

If laborers are merely commodities competing against each other in a market place like so many bags of wheat and corn ( unsupported, by the way, by any agricultural subsidy ), then they may be pardoned for reacting with complete antagonism to a system that imposes such status upon them.

If God be for us, who can be against us??

If these allegiances come into conflict, he or she may be guilty of treason against one or both.

In the summer of 1862 he said, " If you persist in forcing the issue of slavery against the government, I say in the face of heaven: Give me my government and let the negroes go.

Litigation for the purpose of profit is referred to as “ Ambulance chasing ”: If for the purpose of harassment, for example to silence critics, it is known as a strategic lawsuit against public participation ( SLAPP ).

If some of you might have scruples against the first 14 July, they certainly hold none against the second.

If a pair is forced to lift or clear the shuttlecock, then they must defend: they will adopt a side-by-side position in the rear midcourt, to cover the full width of their court against the opponents ' smashes.

If so, according to, this incident resulted that the Bi officials inadvertently revolted against their own lord through Confucius ' doing, thus forcing Viscount Ji Huan's hand in having to dismantle the walls of Bi ( as it could have harbored such rebels ) or confess to instigating the event by going against proper conduct and righteousness as an official.

If no excuse can be found or produced, the silence of the books is an authority against the defendant, and the plaintiff must have judgment.

If a team places high enough at selected USASF / IASF sanctioned national competitions, they could be included in the Cheerleading Worlds and compete against teams from all over the world, as well as receive money for placing.

If the core becomes sufficiently dense, electron degeneracy pressure will play a significant part in stabilizing it against gravitational collapse.

Dosage of chemotherapy can be difficult: If the dose is too low, it will be ineffective against the tumor, whereas, at excessive doses, the toxicity ( side-effects, neutropenia ) will be intolerable to the patient.

If at least one class of creditors votes against the plan and thus objects, the plan may nonetheless be confirmed if the requirements of cramdown are met.

:" If I had stated ... the possibility of the introduction or origination of fresh species being a natural, in contradistinction to a miraculous process, I should have raised a host of prejudices against me, which are unfortunately opposed at every step to any philosopher who attempts to address the public on these mysterious subjects ".