If I'd been careful it never woulda '' -- he stopped abruptly.

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 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 we wait until children are in junior high or high school, we will never manage it.

If you drive greater distances than that, you'll just be skimming the surface and will never discover the enchantment, fascination and beauty which lured you in the first place to explore the hinterlands.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

If the photographically realistic continuity of dreams, however bizarre their combinations, denies that it is purely a composition of the brain, it must be compounded from views of diverse realities, although some of them may never be encountered in what we are pleased to call the real life.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

If the mettle which Ellen exhibits has a bit of theatrical dross in it, never mind ; ;

If he died before she did, she would never be unable to resist opening it.

If we try to choose an element from each set, then, because X is infinite, our choice procedure will never come to an end, and consequently, we will never be able to produce a choice function for all of X.

If there was realism in the theater, there would never be a third act.

If he told others about it, her reputation would be ruined, as was his after a similar " indiscretion ," even though he was never prosecuted.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

If the program hasn't halted yet, then it never will, since its contribution to the halting probability would affect the first N bits.

If the possibility of adding the empty string to a language is added to the strings recognized by the noncontracting grammars ( which can never include the empty string ) then the languages in these two definitions are identical.

If a state is not observable, the controller will never be able to determine the behaviour of an unobservable state and hence cannot use it to stabilize the system.

:” If we observe the totality of Pissarro ’ s work, we find there, despite fluctuations, not only an extreme artistic will, never belied, but also an essentially intuitive, purebred art.

" Screwattack. com listed the Duck Hunt dog as the " Biggest Douchebag in gaming " and said that " If you've never played Duck Hunt, you just don't understand.

If Alice collaborates with Paul Erdős on one paper, and with Bob on another, but Bob never collaborates with Erdős himself, then Bob is given an Erdős number of 2, as he is two steps from Erdős.

If anyone at my funeral has a long face, I'll never speak to him again.

If implemented using remainders of Euclidean division rather than subtractions, Euclid's algorithm computes the GCD of large numbers efficiently: it never requires more division steps than five times the number of digits ( base 10 ) of the smaller integer.

If you have never seen this movie, I highly recommend it.

Furthermore, the Mohist philosophical canon of the Mojing, compiled by the followers of Mozi ( c. 470-c. 390 BC ), provides the earliest known attempt to describe inertia: " The cessation of motion is due to the opposing force ... If there is no opposing force ... the motion will never stop.

If this new Bible does not increase in significance by repeated readings throughout the years, it will not survive the ages as has the King James Version.

If this process is repeated fast enough, the goat will appear to move smoothly to the left.

If the numbers describing the position of the pyramid were changed and this process repeated, the pyramid would appear to move.

If repeated impulses are administered ( two per second or 2 Hz ), it is normal for CMAP amplitudes to become smaller as the acetylcholine in the motor end plate is depleted.

Second round: If no candidate has won the required number of votes in the first round, the voting will be repeated in 14 days ( 1 of November, 1998 ).

If repeated application of the input pulse maintains the circuit in the unstable state, it is called a retriggerable monostable.

If an individual coin toss or the roll of dice is considered to be a random event, then if repeated many times the sequence of random events will exhibit certain patterns, which can be studied and predicted.

If this disc was removed from the machine and put on a similar machine provided with a contact point, the embossed record would cause the signals to be repeated into another wire.

If the action were repeated, the likelihood of the harm would correspondingly increase.

If at any point a test fails, the last small change is undone and repeated in a different way.

If necessary using the first artillery fire for cover this process would be repeated until guns were close enough to be laid accurately to make a breach in the fortifications.

If N has a non-zero proper submodule, then this process can be repeated.

If the original string had several substrings that occurred often, then the transformed string will have several places where a single character is repeated multiple times in a row.

If chances of meeting another reciprocal altruist are high enough or the game is repeated for a long enough amount of time, this form of altruism can evolve within a population.

If results are abnormal, and depending on the nature of the abnormality, the test may need to be repeated in six to twelve months.

If the translator does not check the translation against the source, a mistake in the previous translation will be repeated.

If the scattered photon still has enough energy left, the process may be repeated.

If dehydration is so severe as to cause shock ( severely decreased blood pressure with insufficient blood supply to the body's organs ), or a depressed level of consciousness, rapid infusion of saline ( 1 liter for adults, 10 ml / kg in repeated doses for children ) is recommended to restore circulating volume.

If done in the spring, cutting off vines must be repeated as regrowth appears to exhaust the plant's stored carbohydrate reserves.

If the quality of rule became questionable because of repeated natural disasters such as flood or famine, or for other reasons, then rebellion was justified.

If they are not equal for every good and service the IFB revises the set of indicative prices and the process is repeated through successive rounds until a consistent set of production and consumption proposals is arrived at.

If all the prime factors of a number are repeated it is called a powerful number.

If none of its prime factors are repeated, it is called squarefree.

If a song was too long, I might edit some measures or repeated sections to make it a little less repetitious, or maybe move some bits around.