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 presented in this spirit, the response and the results will be immeasurably better.

If the response variable is expected to follow a parametric family of probability distributions, then the statistician may specify ( in the protocol for the experiment or observational study ) that the responses be transformed to stabilize the variance.

In response to a neighbor's complaint that his target shooting endangered her children, he replied, " If that should ever happen, ma-da-me, we should ourselves be happy to get new ones with you " ( though he was not at all inclined to engage with females in the manner implied ).

* If the Venerable was not a martyr – all non-martyrs are " confessors " as they " confessed " or bore witness to their faith by how they lived their lives – it must be proven that a miracle has taken place by his or her intercession: that is, that God has shown a sign that the person is enjoying the Beatific Vision by God performing a miracle in response to the Blessed's prayers.

In response to Lord Chalfont's claim in that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £ 100 million a year, Bruce Kent said, " If they were, it was certainly not getting to our grotty little office in Finsbury Park.

If a simply stable system response neither decays nor grows over time, and has no oscillations, it is marginally stable: in this case the system transfer function has non-repeated poles at complex plane origin ( i. e. their real and complex component is zero in the continuous time case ).

If a system in question has an impulse response of

If an organism ( such as bacteria ) attaches to a valve surface and forms a vegetation, the host immune response is blunted.

In response, the deputy army chief, Antonio Ndjai, said: " If the people continue to go out into the streets to show their support for Carlos Gomes Junior, then I will kill Carlos Gomes Junior ... or I will send someone to kill him.

After receiving angry letters to the magazine, Hefner wrote a response to criticism where he said, " If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.

If a pathogen breaches these barriers, the innate immune system provides an immediate, but non-specific response.

If pathogens successfully evade the innate response, vertebrates possess a second layer of protection, the adaptive immune system, which is activated by the innate response.

If the field is small, the response of the magnetization in a diamagnet or paramagnet is approximately linear:

If plasma is pushed hard enough, it generates electric fields which allow it to move in response to the push, often ( not always ) deforming the magnetic field in the process.

" If, in turn, the speaker responds positively to the idea of giving to the poor, then some aspect of that idea must have inspired a positive response ; one could argue that that aspect is also the basis of its goodness.

If the feedback network is made of components with relatively constant, stable values, the variability of the op-amp's open loop response does not seriously affect the circuit's performance.

:# If a general medical condition or another mental disorder is present, the fear in Criterion A ( Exposure to the social or performance situation almost invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response ) is unrelated to it, e. g., the fear is not of Stuttering, trembling in Parkinson's disease, or exhibiting abnormal eating behavior in Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa.

If they cannot, its claim may be dismissed without any need for a response by other parties.

If the scan time was too long, the response of the PLC to process conditions would be too slow to be useful.

If the server does not use the request URI, the response should be 201 and contain an entity which describes the states of the request and refers to the new resource, and a Location header.

If different subpopulations have different properties, the properties and response of the overall population can often be better understood if it is first separated into distinct subpopulations.

If the notrump opener responds to the 2 ( 3 ) response with 2 ( 3 ) to deny a four-card major, the responder bids three of the four-card major.

In response he devised his own anti-razor: " If three things are not enough to verify an affirmative proposition about things, a fourth must be added, and so on.

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.