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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.
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If Russian pupils have to take these languages, how come American students have a choice whether or not to take a language, but have to face so many exceptions??
If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.
If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear weapons.
If there is adequate information on job opportunities for skilled jobs elsewhere, many more workers can be expected to respond.
If you got too many people investing by this method, their operations would begin to affect stock prices, and thus throw the charts off.
If we have five problems whose solution we seek in relatively united fashion, then there are twice as many issues which, I judge, sharply divide us, intergroup relations practitioners and lay people.
If you look at a reading meant for someone else, you will probably see that many of the items could be considered as applicable to you, even when you were not in the picture at all!!
If laborers are merely commodities competing against each other in a market place like so many bags of wheat and corn ( unsupported, by the way, by any agricultural subsidy ), then they may be pardoned for reacting with complete antagonism to a system that imposes such status upon them.
If the creditworthiness of the issuer deteriorates ( e. g. rating downgrade ) and its credit spread widens, the bond price tends to move lower, but, in many cases, the call option part of the convertible bond moves higher ( since credit spread correlates with volatility ).
If a polynomial time algorithm calls as a subroutine polynomially many polynomial time algorithms, the resulting algorithm is still polynomial time.
If the corporate President is not the COO ( such as Richard Parsons of Time Warner from 1995 – 2001 ), then many division heads report directly to the CEO themselves, with the President taking on special assignments from the CEO.
If the wave function is regarded as ontologically real, and collapse is entirely rejected, a many worlds theory results.
Mather began to publicize and celebrate the trials well before they were put to an end: " If in the midst of the many Dissatisfaction among us, the publication of these Trials may promote such a pious Thankfulness unto God, for Justice being so far executed among us, I shall Re-joyce that God is Glorified ..." ( Wonders of the Invisible World ).
Moore retorted, " If I am a lousy dog, you have made me so ; you have brought me to ruin and many more.
If left alone, many dachshunds will whine until they have companionship.
If many relations are joined, it may be prohibitively slow.
If a ray tracing is then made as if a light wave ( as understood in classical physics ) is wide enough to take both paths, then that ray tracing will accurately predict the appearance of maxima and minima on the detector screen when many particles pass through the apparatus and gradually " paint " the expected interference pattern.
If we insert vertices in random order, it turns out ( by a somewhat intricate proof ) that each insertion will flip, on average, only O ( 1 ) triangles – although sometimes it will flip many more.
It follows that there are also infinitely many solutions if c is a multiple of the greatest common divisor of a and b. If c is not a multiple of the greatest common divisor of a and b, then the Diophantine equation ax + by = c has no solutions.
His government has also been condemned for allegedly arming and financing the insurgency in Somalia ; the United States is considering labeling Eritrea a " State Sponsor of Terrorism ," however, many experts on the topic have shied from this assertion, stating that " If there is one country where the fighting of extremists and terrorists was a priority when it mattered, it was Eritrea.
If a human watched the dance of the elves, he would discover that even though only a few hours seemed to have passed, many years had passed in the real world.
If there is a desire to live in a more coexistent world that is benefited by communication and global assistance, then globally free software should be a position to strive for, according to many scholars who promote awareness about the free software movement.
If many men settled in the Faroes in the reign of Harald Hårfagre, people must have known about the Faroes.
If one were to look into religion, they would find that it is filled with different fears that humans have had throughout many centuries.
If and characters
If there is a substantial difference between characters ' ranks, the conflict is generally over before the weaker character can react.
If a description of s, d ( s ), is of minimal length ( i. e. it uses the fewest number of characters ), it is called a minimal description of s. Thus, the length of d ( s ) ( i. e. the number of characters in the description ) is the Kolmogorov complexity of s, written K ( s ).
If the character encoding for a web page is chosen appropriately then HTML character references are usually only required for a markup delimiting characters mentioned above, and for a few special characters ( or not at all if a native Unicode encoding like UTF-8 is used ).
If later characters are stereotypes, it's because they are from the same original mould.
If the cause of the crash is uncertain, this number is rendered as 48454C50, which stands for " HELP " in hexadecimal ASCII characters ( 48 = H, 45 = E, 4C = L, 50 = P ).
If each character is stored in 8 bits ( as in ASCII or ISO Latin 1 ), the table has only 2 < sup > 8 </ sup > = 256 entries ; in the case of Unicode characters, the table would have 17 × 2 < sup > 16 </ sup > = 1114112 entries.
# If V is a set of symbols or characters then V * is the set of all strings over symbols in V, including the empty string.
If it is desirable to encode more text than will fit in an encoded-word of 75 characters, multiple encoded-words ( separated by CRLF SPACE ) may be used.
If lexicographic ordering is used to sort variable-length integer representations, then the representations of the numbers from 1 to 10 would be output as 1, 10, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, as if the shorter keys were left-justified and padded on the right with blank characters to make the shorter keys as long as the longest key for the purpose of determining sorted order.
If the sequence does not include whitespace or punctuation characters,
If we regard typographic characters as images, then the same considerations that we have made for graphics apply even to composition of written text for printing ( typesetting ).
If his plans failed, it was almost always out of luck on behalf of the other characters.
If the input buffer is empty ( because no characters have been typed since the last end-of-line or end-of-file ), a program reading from the terminal reads a count of zero bytes.
If is typed without typing any characters first, the input stream is terminated and the program ends.
If the terminal driver is in raw mode it no longer interprets control characters, and the EOT character is sent unchanged to the program, which is free to interpret it any way it likes.
If we define control characters as non-graphic, or as having a special meaning for an output device ( e. g. printer or text terminal ) then any escape character for this device is a control one.
If instead of simply generating random characters one restricts the generator to a meaningful vocabulary and conservatively following grammar rules, like using a context-free grammar, then a random document generated this way can even fool some humans ( at least on a cursory reading ) as shown in the experiments with SCIgen, snarXiv, and the Postmodernism Generator.
If chaetognaths branched off from the protostomes before they evolved their distinctive protostome embryonic characters, they may have retained deuterostome characters inherited from early bilaterian ancestors.
# If the filename contains characters not allowed in an 8. 3 name ( including space which was disallowed by convention though not by the APIs ) or either part is too long, the name is stripped of invalid characters such as spaces and extra periods.
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