If the components of the computer were too large or the wires interconnecting them too long, the electric signals couldn't travel fast enough through the circuit, thus making the computer too slow to be effective.

The second possible factor is that vulnerable youth may feel like, " If they couldn't cut it, neither can I ".

If you couldn't pay your bill, people such as La Rotonde's proprietor, Victor Libion, would often accept a drawing, holding it until the artist could pay.

If it wasn't for that kind of music, I couldn't do what I'm doing now.

If he had had a proper nightshirt on it couldn't have happened.

In April 2001 Hamilton said, " If I am bankrupt, he was the following month I won't be able to return to the bar but even if I was able to do so, I couldn't contain myself from saying what I thought to some of the judges.

If it wasn't for me – you couldn't have cared less about Rachman ".

Mike Maddux was well used to his younger brother's competitive spirit, saying of their youth, " If Greg couldn't win, he didn't want to play, plain and simple.

Even a line from 3 Henry VI is used in Act 3, Scene 1 (" If our King Henry had shook hands with death " ( 1. 4. 103 )), all of which seems to suggest that, as is so often the case in the bad quartos, the reporter was filling in blanks ( i. e. passages he couldn't remember ) with extracts from other plays.

If that couldn't be agreed upon, then ATC felt the school mission should be handed to TAC.

If he couldn't have Germany, he would bring it down with him.

If I die I shall have engraved on my tombstone that I died of der, die, das, not because I caught them but because I couldn't.

Prior to that the situation included remarks like " If you had Clemente, you couldn't have Aaron ," and so on.

Kiedis said of the situation: " If they couldn't accept what we were doing, we didn't need them anymore.

If the private sector couldn't or wouldn't spend, the government would have to do it.

If Congress could federalize rape and assault, it's hard to think of anything it couldn't.

It was at an early meeting of this foundation ( originally the CAB Foundation ) that he asked the members, " If television can use 30 seconds or 60 seconds to persuade people that Cadillacs or cornflakes are interesting, couldn't we also use that short piece of time to persuade Canadians that their history is interesting?

If the lord couldn't match verse for verse the singing group ( alternating verses ), then that lord would have to provide amenities.

If the murder weapon was one of a matched pair of pistols, why couldn't the other one be found in Mr. Gibson's collection?

Privately however, Macdonald rejoiced that the government couldn't risk calling a by-election telling one supporter years later, " If the truth must be told, I was sometimes afraid that they would open up a seat and deprive me of this sort of ammunition ".

If they couldn't beat the score, they were out of the competition, and the challenger took his or her place in the Winner's Circle.

He said " If we hadn't built that, we couldn't have done anything else.

If the hero is so smart, couldn't he find a better way of solving the problem than getting himself blown up?

If the organization of supermen is so good, couldn't they find a better way of solving the problem than sacrificing an agent they have just spent six months training?

If we let them go, they won't stay away, they'll find men to ride with them and they'll be back.

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

If you don't leave this country within 3 days, your life will be taken the same as Powell's was.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

`` If you will pardon, I think it would be better if not.

If he showed signs of collecting his rifle and going back with his deputy to the ranch he would be shot down instantly.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If communications work, his decision would be instantly known in all command posts that would originate the actual go order.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;

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 our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

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 to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

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 ''.