If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

If the Republicans and Southern Democrats join to defeat medical care for the old under the Social Security program, they will thereby erect still another barrier to GOP hopes in the cities.

If one follows the reports of the Congress, one finds that there still seems considerable uncertainty in the minds of the leaders themselves about what exactly to do in this matter.

If we return to them today, we have no difficulty spotting their weaknesses but we find them still pleasing.

If the house you plan to buy or build won't have big overhangs, you can still do a fair job of keeping the sun off walls and windows with properly designed trellises, fences and awnings.

If the coating becomes still thicker, a peeling type failure finally can occur.

If he does, it's still better than an even chance he won't notice the transposition of the numbers, and if he should notice it, the thing can be passed off as an honest mistake.

If Felix was still wearing the hat and carrying the horn because he'd forgotten about them, he now remembered.

If Elaine's uncle had stuck to this desire for aloneness, he probably would still be alive.

If internal frictions arose, they could be handled by the 25,000-man Congolese army, the Force Publique, which had been trained and was still officered by white Belgians.

If the voice is just a shade less glorious than it used to be, it is still a beautiful instrument, controlled and flexible.

a Portago could say, as he did say to me, `` If I die tomorrow, still I have had twenty-eight wonderful years ; ;

( If the condition is thought to be cellulitis rather than abscess, consideration should be given to possibility of strep species as cause that are still sensitive to traditional anti-staphylococcus agents such as dicloxacillin or cephalexin in patients able to tolerate penicillin ).

In the biography, Paul Allen wrote, regarding a suggestion in Cosmopolitan that his plays were becoming autobiographical: " If we take that to mean that his plays tell his own life story, he still hasn't started.

If the fletching is not arranged to induce rotation, it will still improve accuracy by causing a restoring drag any time the arrow tilts away from its intended direction of travel.

If an otherwise perfect wavefront is " aberrated " by piston and tilt, it will still form a perfect, aberration-free image, only shifted to a different position.

If the fielder bobbles the ball, the runner may still tag up, even before the fielder has full control of the ball ( before the fielder is credited with a putout ).

If a polynomial time algorithm calls as a subroutine polynomially many polynomial time algorithms, the resulting algorithm is still polynomial time.

If the losing player has not borne off any checkers and still has checkers on the bar or in the opponent's home board, then the player has lost a backgammon, which counts for triple a normal loss.

If the score is still tied after extra time, the game will be replayed.

If emission in some directions is blocked by an opaque barrier, the emission would still be approximately one candela in the directions that are not obscured.

If the Council still does not approve the Parliament's position, then the text is taken to a " Conciliation Committee " composed of the Council members plus an equal number of MEPs.

If the player dies, they are still put on the list, but are categorized as " Dead ", with their experience point total listed as at the final killing blow.

If there is still a tie, each atom in each of the two lists is replaced with a sub-list of the other atoms bonded to it ( at distance 3 from the stereocenter ), the sub-lists are arranged in decreasing order of atomic number, and the entire structure is again compared atom by atom.

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

If private brand competition hasn't been felt in your product field as yet, have you thought how you will cope with it if and when it does appear??

If the administration ever had any ideas that it could find an acceptable alternative to Prince Souvanna Phouma, whom it felt was too trusting of Communists, it gradually had to relinquish them.

If Adelia had felt about someone as Henrietta felt about Charles, would she have run away with him??

If a man was good, if he was going to be governor, you felt it and you wanted him to go on forever.

If she chose, and in that final decision discarded, what, above all, all of us value, life itself, must she not have risen to her fullest height, and transcending her murky self, felt at last the passion of a great moral decision??

If the film industry was becoming a director's medium, Woolfson felt the music business might well become a producer's medium.

If anything, her poems suggest the opposite – they speak of quietly experienced but intensely felt emotions, hidden from others, without any indication of being requited.

If he felt out of ideas on what to do with the story, he would often take a break from the shoot that could last for days, while keeping the studio ready for when he felt inspired again.

If a governor of senatorial rank himself felt these pressures, one can imagine the difficulties faced by a mere praeses.

He felt differently about the Muslim leader Muhammed Ali Jinnah, but was aware of his power, stating " If it could be said that any single man held the future of India in the palm of his hand in 1947, that man was Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

" If the irreal story can be considered an allegory, then, it would be an allegory that is " so many pointers to an unknown meaning ," in which the meaning is felt more than it is articulated or systematically analyzed.

If the dominant country's influence is felt in social and cultural circles, such as " foreign " music being popular with young people, it may be described as cultural imperialism.

If acceleration can be felt by a body as the force ( hence pressure ) exerted by the object bringing about the acceleration on the body, jerk can be felt as the change in this pressure.

If the editors felt that the Dictionary would have to grow larger, it would ; it was an important work, and worth the time and money to properly finish.

If there is a negative externality associated with a good, meaning that it has negative effects not felt by the consumer, then a free market will trade too much of that good.

Horkheimer's reaction to the manuscript was wholly positive: " If I have ever in the whole of my life felt enthusiasm about anything, then I did on this occasion ," he wrote after reading the manuscript.

If the court felt that it had the power to review legislation under the Commerce clause, Lessig argued, then the Copyright clause deserved similar treatment, or at very least a " principled reason " must be stated for according such treatment to only one of the enumerated powers.

If the stone is positioned near a bone ( usually a rib in the case of kidney stones ), this treatment may be more uncomfortable because the shock waves can cause a mild resonance in the bone which can be felt by the patient.

If this condition is present in the body, discomfort will be felt in the chest that is similar to a heavy weight being placed on the body.

* If a person wears a baseball cap for a long period of time and then takes it off, it may still be felt.

If we consider the moral ramifications of potential policies in person-affecting terms, we will have no reason to prefer a sound policy over an unsound one provided that its effects are not felt for a few generations.