If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination, the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator.

** If the set A is infinite, then there exists an injection from the natural numbers N to A ( see Dedekind infinite ).

If the partnership's preceding call is a natural bid in notrump, then 4NT is also natural.

* Indicative conditional, a conditional in the form of " If A then B " in natural languages

If F and G are ( covariant ) functors between the categories C and D, then a natural transformation η from F to G associates to every object X in C a morphism in D such that for every morphism in C, we have ; this means that the following diagram is commutative:

" 9: 2 If the passage in Isaiah is interpreted literally, a return to the vegetarian diet of Eden seems to be a natural conclusion. Gen 1: 29-30

If a 12 is rolled, it is a push ( this is to reverse the natural house advantage: because the don't come bet puts the player in the position of the house, it would otherwise favour the player ).

If not " true " crannogs, small occupied islets ( often at least partially artificial in nature ) may be referred to as island duns, although rather confusingly, 22 islet-based sites are classified as ' proper ' crannogs due to the different interpretations of the inspectors or excavators who drew up field reports Canmore search for crannog in the Western Isles Hebridean island dwellings or crannogs were commonly built on both natural and artificial islets, usually reached by means of a stone causeway.

:" If I had stated ... the possibility of the introduction or origination of fresh species being a natural, in contradistinction to a miraculous process, I should have raised a host of prejudices against me, which are unfortunately opposed at every step to any philosopher who attempts to address the public on these mysterious subjects ".

If X is a topological space, there is a natural way of transforming X /~ into a topological space ; see quotient space for the details.

If m and n are natural numbers and f ( x ) is a smooth ( meaning: sufficiently often differentiable ) function defined for all real numbers x in the interval, then the integral

If G = GL < sub >*</ sub >( K ), then the set of natural numbers is a proper subset of G < sub > 0 </ sub >, since for each natural number n, there is a corresponding identity matrix of dimension n. G ( m, n ) is empty unless m = n, in which case it is the set of all nxn invertible matrices.

# If the noun is animate, natural gender tends to dictate grammatical gender.

If the player ascends the first eight strings of the bass bridge, they will encounter a flatted seventh ( C natural in this case ), because this note is drawn from the G tetrachord.

If the ham has less than 20. 5 % but is at least 18. 5 % protein, it can be called " ham with natural juices ".

Since counter-clockwise may be defined in terms of up, forward, and right, this experiment unambiguously differentiates left from right using only natural elements: If they were reversed, or the atoms spun clockwise, the radiation would follow the spin axis instead of being opposite to it.

# If a and p are natural numbers such that a < sup > p </ sup > − 1 is prime, then a

If that ideal size is large enough to supply the whole market, then that market is a natural monopoly.

If ( V, ‖·‖) is a normed vector space, the norm ‖·‖ induces a metric ( a notion of distance ) and therefore a topology on V. This metric is defined in the natural way: the distance between two vectors u and v is given by ‖ u − v ‖.

Today, biologists denounce the Naturalistic Fallacy because they want to describe the natural world honestly, without people deriving morals about how we ought to behave — as in: If birds and beasts engage in adultery, infanticide, cannibalism, it must be OK ).

If the key signature indicates G-sharp, a local flat before a G makes it G-flat ( not G natural ), though often this type of rare accidental is expressed as a natural, followed by a flat () to make this clear.

If these Pyrenean provinces are included inside Gascony, then 35. 4 % of Midi-Pyrénées is Gascony, outweighing Languedoc and its 23. 4 %.

If it passes, though, Shepherd's re-election is presumed by his staff to be a shoo-in, and Shepherd resolves to announce the bill, and the Congressional support to pass it, by the State of the Union.

If this is true, it would have necessitated a spacewalk, likely performed by Ross and Shepherd.

If captured Maj. Shepherd and his team would have been executed as spies, so Trout offered them one million dollars if they were successful.

If the situation demanded, Shepherd could be very firm, notably when initially warning the Pakistan captain, Waqar Younis, in the 2003 World Cup against Australia for bowling fast ' beamers ' ( a full toss that reaches the batsman between waist and head height, being dangerous as it is extremely hard to detect for the batsman-akin to a Beanball in baseball ).

Shepherd Book, who knows a lot about crime lords for a Shepherd, states that, " If Niska finds out is being held, and may speak as to who hired him-I think we're better off being a little late.

If The Good Shepherd proved to be a commercial success then their follow-up would be De Niro's pitch.

If that's the standard, then anyone with historical sense is going to dislike the liberties The Good Shepherd takes.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

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 Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

If the historian was convinced of his own correctness, then he should not allow his vision to become fogged by disturbing facts.

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

If the German people favor such a settlement we should not oppose Germany following the example of Austria.

`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

If this practice should take root and spread, the man who submits a manuscript to a publisher will find himself reviewed before he is accepted and publication will become a sort of post-mortem formality.

`` If William agrees, we should insist on a public debate '', he said at length.

If they are used, the walls and roof should be 10 inches thick to give the same protection as the 8-inch solid concrete blocks.

-- If there are outside windows in the basement corner where you build a shelter, they should be shielded as shown in the Appendix, page 29.

If we sit here reading editorials and looking at public-opinion polls and other reports that cross our desks, we should realize that this is raw, undigested opinion expressed in the absence of leadership.

If you elect to use the Standard Deduction or the Tax Table, and later find you should have itemized your deductions, you may do so by filing an amended return within the time prescribed for filing a claim for refund.

If your computation on Form 1040 or Form 1040A shows you owe additional tax, it should be remitted with your return unless you owe less than $1, in which case it is forgiven.

If payment is by cash, you should ask for a receipt.

If you file a Form 1040, you should indicate in the place provided that there is an overpayment of tax and the amount you want refunded and the amount you want credited against your estimated tax.

If you have neither a legal residence nor a principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district, your return should be filed with the District Director of Internal Revenue, Baltimore 2, Md..

If your principal place of abode for the tax year is outside the United States ( including Alaska and Hawaii ), Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands and you have no legal residence or principal place of business in any Internal Revenue district in the United States, you should file your return with the Office of International Operations, Internal Revenue Service, Washington 25, D.C..

If, for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 12 or 15 to one.

If the site is on a reservoir, the level of the water at various seasons as it affects recreation should be studied.

If it is possible for an enemy to put an atomic bomb on a city, it should be equally possible to put a cloud of biological agent over that city.

If adjectival meanings show relatively low retentiveness of stems, as I am confident will prove to be the case in most languages of the world, why should our basic lists include 15 per cent of these unstable forms, but only 8 per cent of animals and plants which replace much more slowly??

If of the founders of glottochronology Swadesh has escaped our steady plodding, and Lees has repudiated his own share in the founding, that is no reason why we should swerve.

If only state funds were used to pay for the vocational education, it could be argued that the state should not have to bear the cost of vocational training which would benefit employers in other states.

If people don't want to provide public education, should they be forced to do so??