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If a child watched its progress he whispered, `` Hay, hay, load of hay -- make a wish and turn away '', and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses' feet returned no more.
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 ''.
If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.
If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.
If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.
If you do use a cold frame be sure that its ventilation is adequate.
If the temperature is controlled properly, the avocado will delay its ripening until needed.
If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.
If you can't see your way clear to have summer cooling included when building, by all means make provision for its easy adding later.
If a nation wished to get a head start in physical fitness over all other nations, it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large number of the problems that plague American schools.
If you have a higher-quality product, how can you make it stand out -- justify its premium price -- without the spoken word??
If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.
If the transferor has substantial assets other than the claim, it seems reasonable to assume no corporation would be willing to acquire all of its properties in the dim hope of collecting a claim for refund of taxes.
If this threefold division of costs were to have its counterpart in the actual rates of charge for service, as it actually does have in some rates, there would result a three-part rate for any one class of service.
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 T is the total `` length '' of the process, its feed state may be denoted by a vector p(T) and the product state by p(Q).
If anti-Semitism was on trial in Jerusalem, why was it not identified, and with enough emphasis to capture the notice of the world press, in its connection with the activities of Eichmann's Department of Jewish Affairs, as exemplified by the betrayal and murder of Jews by non-police and non-party anti-Semites in Germany, as well as in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary??
If, as a home movie maker, you shoot the inevitable footage of your child taking its first steps, you have merely recorded an historical event.
If death receives more than its share of attention from the theologian and if sin receives less than its share, the gift of the life eternal through Christ begins to look like the divinely appointed means of rescue from temporal, i.e., created, existence.
The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).
If a man totally ignorant of America were to judge our land and its civilization based on Hollywood alone, what conclusions do you think he might come to??

If and parents
If the candidate relies on sponsors, the celebrant asks them if they will raise the child in " the Christian faith and life " ( ECUSA BCP ), and will raise the child through " prayers and witness to grow into the full stature of Christ " to which the parents will state to each, " I will, with God's help.
If a person has one or both parents who are citizens of a given state, then the person is normally a citizen of that state as well.
If a Turk says that he is in love ( Aşık ) with somebody, it is not a love that a person can feel for his or her parents ; it is just for one person, and it indicates a huge infatuation.
If there is insufficient assurance, " it will be prudent to delay baptism ", while keeping contact with the parents in the hope of securing the required conditions for celebrating the sacrament.
If a family had genetic hearing impairment caused by a recessive gene it will not always be apparent as it will have to be passed onto offspring from both parents.
If both parents are identified as carriers, prenatal genetic testing can determine whether the fetus has inherited a defective gene copy from both parents.
If both parents of a child have achondroplasia, and both parents pass on the mutant gene, then it is very unlikely that the homozygous child will live past a few months of its life.
If an adopted child rejected his foster parents, claiming they were not his mother and father, his tongue was torn out.
If a child inherits the gene from both parents, the child may develop Wilson's disease.
If Coraline wins, she, her parents and the ghost children may go free.
* If the believer is one of the rare exceptions who follows a different religion from his parents, the explanation may be cultural transmission from a charismatic individual.
If the dog's parents are not registered with the AKC or the litter is not registered, special registry research by the AKC is necessary for the AKC to determine if the dog is eligible for AKC registration.
If there are too few young, the resulting adult beetles will be large but the parents could have produced more of them.
If an egg fails to hatch or the chick dies early, the parents will likely lay another egg the following year.
#*" If one of the parents is Muslim Malay / Orang Asli as stated in Article 160 ( 2 ) Federal Constitution of Malaysia ; thus the child is considered as a Bumiputra "
#*" If one of the parents is a Muslim Malay or indigenous native of Sabah as stated in Article 160A ( 6 )( a ) Federal Constitution of Malaysia ; thus his child is considered as a Bumiputra "
If born with another child and kept, parents must pay a large fine for every day he / she is alive.
If n is the goal state, backtrace path to n ( through recorded parents ) and return path.
Reflecting an attitude which prevails in many developing countries, a judge from Honduras said, on condition of anonymity: " If the victim child prostitute is older than 12, if he or she refuses to file a complaint and if the parents clearly profit from their child's commerce, we tend to look the other way ".
If both parents possess health coverage, the child may be added to the more beneficial plan, or use one to supplement the other.
If this happens to be true, the doctor will view the result as a three-way partition: children where both parents participate, children where one parent participates, children where neither parent participates.

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