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 opponents win the rally and their new score is even, the player in the right service court serves ; if odd, the player in the left service court serves.

If a pair is forced to lift or clear the shuttlecock, then they must defend: they will adopt a side-by-side position in the rear midcourt, to cover the full width of their court against the opponents ' smashes.

If a " clinch " – a defensive move in which a boxer wraps his or her opponents arms and holds on to create a pause – is broken by the referee, each fighter must take a full step back before punching again ( alternatively, the referee may direct the fighters to " punch out " of the clinch ).

If this occurs, the referee separates the opponents and orders them to continue boxing.

" If both opponents roll the same opening number, the doubling cube is incremented on each occasion yet remains in the middle of the board, available to either player.

If he thinks that fewer than six opponents will call the bet, he would lose money and must simply call.

If a player is not aggressive with his weaker hands, the opponents can safely fold whenever the player does bet or raise.

If the opponent in the hold begins to tap out at the same time a referee counts to three for pinning the opponent delivering the hold, both opponents have legally achieved scoring conditions simultaneously.

If both of the contestant's opponents have the same score, the passing contestant can choose the recipient.

If the square is occupied by an opponents ' piece, it may be captured ( and removed from the game ) by jumping over it to the unoccupied square one square beyond the opponents piece.

If a player bluffs too infrequently, observant opponents will recognize that the player is betting for value and will call with very strong hands or with drawing hands only when they are receiving favorable pot odds.

If a player bluffs too frequently, observant opponents snap off his bluffs by calling or re-raising.

If a player's table image is that of an aggressive bluffer, slow playing is less important because his opponents will be more willing to call his usual bets and raises.

If John is confident that Mary is betting a high hand, then John might flat call with his low hand to fish for overcalls rather than make it more difficult for opponents to call.

If John were to raise, he and Mary would gain no profit at all if no other opponents called.

If there were multiple opponents in the hand then he would be eligible for a side pot.

If the ball is fumbled the defensive team may recover the ball and even advance it to their opponents ' goal.

If both opponents are squeezed on different tricks ( the squeeze card is then a card in the suit that was menacing the opponent squeezed first ) the double squeeze is called non-simultaneous.

If a remaining unknown card is chosen randomly, there is a 1 /( t-1-n ) chance of getting a match, but also a n /( t-1-n ) chance of providing opponents with the information needed to make a match.

If one or both teams have less than four players, the game enters " Pre-T Mode ", in which a team wins by simply having 4 more planets than their opponents.

If Kojirō can survive this, Ittōsai says, then the next time they meet will be as opponents.

If the infantry does not break, however, cavalry charges will often fail — with even trained warhorses refusing to advance into the solid ranks of opponents.

* If a player or team wins when the opponents start the round with 40 points, it is called hanging a 40.