If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.

If ever a rifle met the needs of the whitetail hunter, this is it.

If Barnett doesn't call a special session in 1961, it will be the first year in the last decade that the Legislature has not met in regular or special session.

If Mr. Kennan is sometimes a little somber in his appraisals, if his analysis of how Western diplomacy met the challenge of an era of great wars and social revolutions is often critical and pessimistic -- well, the record itself is not too encouraging.

If at least one class of creditors votes against the plan and thus objects, the plan may nonetheless be confirmed if the requirements of cramdown are met.

If this goal is met by a DBMS, then the designers and builders of the specific database can concentrate on the application's aspects, and not deal with building and maintaining the underlying DBMS.

If the panegyric detailing the ceremony implied that the true center of the Empire was not Rome, but where the Emperor sat ("... the capital of the Empire appeared to be there, where the two emperors met "), it simply echoed what had already been stated by the historian Herodian in the early third century: " Rome is where the emperor is ".

If they had gone it alone, the IRB and the Volunteers would possibly have come to their aid ; however, the IRB leaders met with Connolly in January 1916 and convinced him to join forces with them.

If the implementation of the change should fail or, the post implementation testing fails or, other " drop dead " criteria have been met, the back out plan should be implemented.

If a government building was damaged, the cost of repair would be met from public funds because, in the long run, this was cheaper than paying insurance premiums.

If another letterboxer is met on the trail or at a meet it is attainable if requested.

If our freshness condition is not met, then we may simply alpha-rename with a suitably fresh variable.

If the interrogation was conducted by a person known by the suspect to be a law enforcement officer the state action requirement is unquestionably met.

If only the second and third conditions of the definition of measure above are met, and takes on at most one of the values, then is called a signed measure.

If the cavalry met foot soldiers, the pikemen would engage them.

If not all criteria can be met, the specification may need to be modified.

He asks why postmodernist intellectuals do not respond like people in other fields when asked, " what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc ?... If requests can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames.

If their desires are not met with on the moment, they break forth with a stream of abuse.

If this condition is met, the input electric power must equal the output power:

If the plaintiff is so determined, a bond may be required, and if the bond requirement is not met within a specified time period, a judgment of dismissal is ordered.

If they are not met, the conditions are considered instrument meteorological conditions ( IMC ), and a flight may only operate under IFR.

If Gregory granted absolution, the diet of princes in Augsburg in which he might reasonably hope to act as arbitrator would either become useless, or, if it met at all, would change completely in character.

If there can also be a statement of what constitutes the maximum allowable 95 percentile response time, then an injector configuration could be used to test whether the proposed system met that specification.

; Factoring out of invariants: If an expression is carried out both when a condition is met and is not met, it can be written just once outside of the conditional statement.

He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.

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

He added, `` If this doesn't work out, the three of you barricade yourself in the house and talk terms with them ''.

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

If Franklin was an authentic genius, then Alexander Hamilton, with his exceptional precocity, consuming energy, and high ambition, was a political prodigy.

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 we look at recent art we find it preoccupied with form.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

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 he condemns the recent or the present, he condemns the past with no less force.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.

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 it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

If Woodruff could not furnish a strong explanation, the governor insisted that he lower his prices in accord with the scale printed in The Advocate.

If he borrowed money from Shakespeare or with his help, he would now have been able to repay the loan.

If the manner of his passing moves the nations to act in the spirit of his dedication the sore issues that plague the world can yet be resolved with reason and justice.

If the party of Adenauer and Erhart, with 45 per cent of the vote, approaches the party of Willy Brandt, which won 36 per cent, the result would be a stiffening of the old resolve.

If you're lyin' out in the hammock at night, and it gets kinda cool -- you know -- you just take these sides with the fringe on -- see -- and wrap 'em right over you.

If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.

If he can't play with Mommy's magazines, he should have some old numbers of his own.

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 he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If we cluster together, the redcoats can make an advantage out of it, but there's not a blessed thing they can do with two or three of us except chase us, and we can outrun them ''.