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 two parties do not reach a satisfactory arrangement, a set of standard principles set out in the Annex to the Directive becomes applicable.

If the group is neither abelian nor compact, no general satisfactory theory is currently known.

If there is satisfactory assurance, i. e. " any pledge giving a well-founded hope for the Christian upbringing of the children ", then " the priest cannot refuse to celebrate the sacrament without delay, as in the case of children of Christian families ".

If the algorithm has terminated due to a maximum number of generations, a satisfactory solution may or may not have been reached.

If these results are satisfactory, the patient signs a consent form and is given a surgical clearance.

If the individual chooses that outcome which has the maximum chance of being satisfactory, then this individual's behavior is theoretically indistinguishable from that of an optimizing individual under certain conditions

If a student does not intend to proceed to tertiary education, a ' satisfactory ' result is all that is required to graduate with the VCE.

If the quality of its product is satisfactory, this will translate into higher margins and higher returns.

when there is no satisfactory way to escape the mate threat 43 ... Be5 + 44. f4 Qxf4 + 45. Kg2 Qg3 + 46. Kf1 Qf3 + 47. Kg1 Bd4 + 48. Kh2 Qf2 + 49. Kh1 Qg1 # If White gives his king a flight square on f2 with 43 ... f3, then he gets mated by 43 ... Qe1 + 44. Kg4 Qg1 + 45. Kf4 e5 + 46. Ke4 Qe3 + 47. Kd5 Qxf3 #; 43. Qxh7 + also leaves White doomed after 43 ... Kf8: for example, 44. Qh6 + Bg7 45. Qh4 Be5 + 46. f4 Qe1 + 47. Kg4 Qe2 + 48. Kg3 Bc3, and white has no defence to ... Be1 ; or 44. Qd7 Be5 + 45. f4 Bxf4 + ( more simply, something like 45 ... Qxf4 + 46. Kg2 Qxg5 + 47. Kf2 Qg3 + 48. Ke2 Qg2 + 49. Kd1 Qxa2 also wins ) 46. Kf2 Be3 + 47. Kf1 Qf3 + 48. Ke1 Qf2 + 49. Kd1 Qf1 + 50. Kc2 Qc1 + 51. Kb3 Qc4 + 52. Kb2 Bd4 + 53. Kb1 Qd3 + 54. Kc1 Be3 +, and White loses his queen ( with mate soon to follow ).

If the slope is gentle, then optical fiber has a satisfactory loss characteristic.

If this is satisfactory then a wedding date is set.

** If outcome is less than satisfactory, early surgery leaves a person wondering if she would have been better off without it.

If the roads were better maintained, the sedan would be a more satisfactory patrol vehicle.

If the teacher feels the student has indeed attained a satisfactory insight into the koan, then another is assigned.

If an algorithm succeeds in finding a satisfactory solution in an acceptable amount of time, a small investment has yielded a big payoff.

If the bullet penetrates less than their guidelines, it is inadequate, and if it penetrates more, it is still satisfactory though not optimal.

If their answer was not satisfactory, their votes would be put aside for future consideration as to whether they should be counted.

If the Board finds that the Government has failed to give satisfactory explanations, or has failed to adopt remedial measures that it has been called upon to take, the Board can call the attention of the Parties, the Council, and the Commission to the matter.

If there is a satisfactory encoding of A into B, B is considered at least as powerful ( or at least as expressive ) as A.

If the assistance provided by the experienced member was not helpful, they could contact a chairperson in their area ( a member who functioned like the physician's deputy ), and if that was still not satisfactory they could contact the physician, Dr. Low.

If the seller refuses to sell the real estate when one of the above two conditions applies, it is typically considered that the real estate agent has done his job of finding a satisfactory buyer and the seller must still pay the commission, although the details are determined by the listing contract.

If the seller does not accept a price lower than the listing price, then the broker will have to wait until a satisfactory sale to earn the commission.