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If and failed
If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.
If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.
If he failed to reach the riverbank in five minutes, say, then the skiffs would pull away and leave him groping in the mud.
If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.
If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.
If, however, a layer of paper remains stuck to the surface, the adhesive has not failed.
If a rebellion failed to quickly seize the capital and control of the military for itself, it was normally doomed to a quick destruction.
If a dive is performed which is as submitted but not as ( incorrectly ) announced, it is declared failed and scores zero according to a strict reading of the FINA law.
If Matthew's prime concern was to preserve the Jewish character of the church, he failed: Christianity became a Gentile religion, and Christianity and Judaism came to view each other as opposites.
If the British failed to meet the deadline, the Congress would call upon all Indians to fight for complete independence.
If he claimed the throne, he would throw the country into yet another series of wars, and if he failed, he would be sacrificing everyone and everything he knew.
If all else failed, a besieger could claim the booty of his conquest undamaged, and retain his men and equipment intact, for the price of a well-placed bribe to a disgruntled gate-keeper.
If the number of dies — the integrated circuits that will eventually become chips — etched on a wafer exceeds a failure threshold ( i. e. too many failed dies on one wafer ), the wafer is scrapped rather than investing in further processing.
If the CSM failed, the spacecraft and Saturn IB for the next Skylab mission would have been launched with two astronauts to retrieve the crew ; given Skylab's ample supplies, its residents would have been able to wait up to several weeks for the rescue mission.
If the crew had failed to repair Skylab in time, the plastic insulation inside the station would have melted, releasing poisonous gas and making Skylab completely uninhabitable.
One of Edison's famous quotations about his attempts to make the light globe suggest that perhaps Tesla was right about Edison's methods of working: " If I find 10, 000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed.
If his plans failed, it was almost always out of luck on behalf of the other characters.
Albert Shaw, editor of The Review of Reviews, stated that after Bryan's nomination, many easterners professed not to have heard of him but: " If, indeed, they had not heard of Mr. Bryan before, they had failed to follow closely the course of American politics in the past eight years.
If those boards failed to agree then there was a central board.
In an interview conducted by Nick Spark, George Nichols, another engineer who was present, stated that Murphy blamed the failure on his assistant after the failed test, saying, " If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will.
If they failed to live up to their obligations, the Admiralty Courts could and did revoke the Letter of Marque, refuse to award prize money, forfeit bonds, even award tort ( personal injury ) damages against the privateer's officers and crew.
If they failed, the provincial government could carry out the necessary measures and charge the costs to the landowner or municipality.
If the champion failed to start the car, it was not eliminated from the round, but was available again if the champion returned the next day.
If the crop failed, payment was deferred, and no interest could be charged for that year.
If the adopted child failed to carry out the filial duty, the contract was annulled in the law courts.

If and would
If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.
If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.
If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.
If the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.
If he spun out now, he would join his opponent on the ground.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
Fruit compote: `` If you think I would understand it '' ; ;
`` 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 communications work, his decision would be instantly known in all command posts that would originate the actual go order.
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 any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place.
If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.
If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.
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.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.
If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.

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