If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

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 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.

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

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 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 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 ''.

* Difficulty in storing wealth: If a society relies exclusively on perishable goods, storing wealth for the future may be impractical.

If a pixel-by-pixel ( image order ) approach to rendering is impractical or too slow for some task, then a primitive-by-primitive ( object order ) approach to rendering may prove useful.

If this takes too long, is too costly, or is otherwise impractical, the second stage is mitigation.

If this is impractical, it may be placed in the ( left ) pocket, but should not be hung around the neck or suspended from the belt.

If a bulk piece of glass were to be defect free, then it would be equally as strong as glass fibers ; however, it is generally impractical to produce bulk material in a defect-free state outside of laboratory conditions.

If this was impractical due to lack of sunlight or other reasons, he decided the flowers may be boiled.

Milton ’ s point is that licensing books cannot possibly prevent societal corruption ( it is “ far insufficient to the end which it intends "), so there is no viable stopping point: “ If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes ...” Finally, Milton also points out that if there are even licensers fit for making these judgments, then the possibility of error in licensing books is still great, and the amount of time the job would take is impractical.

If this lawsuit had been decided the other way, claims based on trademark, or even based on moral rights such as attribution of authorship, could have been used to make it impractical for anyone to use works in the public domain as intended by Article One of the United States Constitution.

If it is impractical to implement a true nonce, a strong cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator and cryptographic hash function can generate challenges that are highly unlikely to occur more than once.

If a government feels it is impractical to have a competitive market, it will sometimes try to regulate the monopoly by controlling the price the monopoly charges for its product.

If the number of tasks is very large, then creating a thread for each one may be impractical.

If a territorial police force ( or one of its constables ) asks for assistance, or if police action is required and it would be impractical to wait for an officer of the local territorial force to arrive, then constables of special police forces can exercise their " extended jurisdiction " giving them powers to deal with the situation.

If the Cold War had continued, then many of these systems could have seen deployment: the United States got as far as developing working railguns, and a laser that could destroy missiles at range, though the power requirements of both were phenomenal, and the ranges and firing cycles utterly impractical.

If large numbers of features are available, this is impractical.

If a research team wants to know how 300 million people feel about a certain topic, it would be impractical to ask all of them.

If a biometric system is applied to a large number of users-perhaps all of the customers of a bank-the error rate may make the system impractical to use.

If unconditional guarantees of security are needed, and if it is impractical for the communicating parties to arrange to share a secret that can be used in a Carter – Wegman MAC, this technique might one day be faster than classical techniques given a quantum computer with 5 to 10 qubits.