If life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.

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 there's no suitable academy in your own neighborhood, there's always New England.

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

If you cut down these horrible buildings you'll have no more traffic jams.

If they do as well as they did in 1960 there can be no complaint.

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 either one ever started making promises, there is no telling where the promises would end.

If the case is thus determined by us to be domestic, the court has no jurisdiction.

If their schedules were to synchronize, there was no point in wasting time.

If nothing is produced, there is no obligation to repay.

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 we return to them today, we have no difficulty spotting their weaknesses but we find them still pleasing.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

If you travel over the vast U.S.A. you will, no doubt, discover that feeding is an expensive business.

If no specific organization plan exists limiting the number of scientists at each salary level, the result is a department top-heavy with high-level, high-salaried personnel ''.

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 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 anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

If, at any time during the assignment pass, the compiler finds that there are no more index words available for assignment, the warning message `` No More Index Words Available '' will be placed in the object program listing, the table will be altered to show that index words 1 through 96 are available, and the assignment will continue as before.

If the compiler finds that there are no more electronic switches available for assignment, the warning message `` No More Electronic Switches Available '' will be placed in the object program listing, the table will be altered to show that electronic switches 1 through 30 are available, and assignment will continue as before.

If a child does lose his first teeth prematurely because of decay -- and if no preventive steps are taken -- the other teeth may shift out of position, become overcrowded and malformed.

A retired professional killer If he was just a nut, no harm was done.

If one asks about this play, what it is that comes upon this community and works within it with such terrible power, there is no better answer to give than `` spirit ''.

If the content of faith is to be presented today in a form that can be `` understanded of the people '' -- and this, it must not be forgotten, is one of the goals of the perennial theological task -- there is no other choice but to abandon completely a mythological manner of representation.

If the supply curve starts at < tt > S2 </ tt >, and shifts leftward to < tt > S1 </ tt >, the equilibrium price will increase and the equilibrium quantity will decrease as consumers move along the demand curve to the new higher price and associated lower quantity demanded.

If supply expands from S < sub > 0 </ sub > to S < sub > 1 </ sub >, the consumers ' surplus expands to the triangle above P < sub > 1 </ sub > and below the demand line ( still bounded by the price axis ).

If instead, we take the opposite extreme, and assume all consumers come from the producers ' group, and also assume their only purchasing power comes from the wages earned in production and the product costs their whole wage, then the graph looks radically different.

If a plan chooses to pay less than Medicare for some benefits, like skilled nursing facility care, the savings may be passed along to consumers by offering lower co-payments for doctor visits.

) If the consumers only take into account their own private cost, they will end up at price P < sub > p </ sub > and quantity Q < sub > p </ sub >, instead of the more efficient price P < sub > s </ sub > and quantity Q < sub > s </ sub >.

If consumers only take into account their own private benefits from getting vaccinations, the market will end up at price P < sub > p </ sub > and quantity Q < sub > p </ sub > as before, instead of the more efficient price P < sub > s </ sub > and quantity Q < sub > s </ sub >.

If a certain market — for example, pork bellies — had no speculators, then only producers ( hog farmers ) and consumers ( butchers, etc.

If you ask people about their purchasing behavior within the coming six or twelve months, there will be more of those who “ hope to be able to buy ”, than if consumers are asked about what they will purchase in the next three months.

If there are multiple consumers with homogeneous demand, then profit will equal n times the area ABC, where n is the number of consumers.

If too many consumers decide to ' free-ride ', private costs exceed private benefits and the incentive to provide the good or service through the market disappears.

" If the amount of a public good can be varied continuously, the optimal quantity to produce is that quantity for which the marginal cost of the last unit is just equal to the sum of the prices that all consumers would be willing to pay for that unit.

If electricity prices were to move to the levels needed to incent new merchant ( i. e., market-based ) transmission and generation, the costs to consumers would be politically difficult.

If consumers ’ food preferences are shown to be effected by their risk assessment of CWD, this will mean that in areas that have a higher prevalence of CWD, the market demand for game meat and recreational hunting would likely be reduced.

If private agents ( consumers and firms ) believe that policymakers are committed to lowering inflation, they will anticipate future prices to be lower than otherwise ( how those expectations are formed is an entirely different matter ; compare for instance rational expectations with adaptive expectations ).

* If retailers put barcodes on receipts that allowed downloading an electronic copy or encoded the entire receipt in a 2D barcode, consumers could easily import data into personal finance, property inventory, and grocery management software.

If they produce more, then they have to ship more goods to consumers.

If a price change modifies consumers ' perception of the good, they should be analysed as Veblen goods.

If teams regularly go bankrupt or change markets the same way businesses do, then the whole sport looks unstable to the sporting consumers, who may lose interest and switch their support to a more stable sport where their team and their rivals are more likely to be playing in the long term.

If import restrictions were made, the consumers in the imposing country would have fewer choices of goods.

If consumers believed they could eat more to compensate for the fat calories " saved ," olestra would not be an effective way to improve overall diet.

If a change in government policies induces changes in consumers ' behavior on the same time scale, the assumption that consumer behaviour remains unchanged while policy changes is inadmissible as a substantive isolation (→ Lucas critique ).

If it is spending a lot on advertising, then the company must be reasonably profitable which means that other consumers must be buying the product and they must be satisfied enough with its performance ; therefore, the product must be of reasonable quality.

If products of different firms are differentiated, then consumers may not switch completely to the product with lower price.