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 laying ties on a railroad track, which he once did for $1 an hour, paid more than playing right field for the Yankees, Maris would lay ties on a railroad track.

If two groups differ only in isotopes, atomic masses are used at each step to break ties in atomic number.

If this does not simply reflect Gregory ’ s ignorance of Kentish affairs, which seems unlikely given the close ties between Kent and the Franks, then some assert that Æthelberht ’ s reign cannot have begun before 589.

If the rules specify that ties are not acceptable, then a swing player must clearly win both directions: even a tie in one direction means he wins nothing.

If only one of his hands beats the banker then he pushes ( ties ) in which case neither he nor the banker wins the bet.

* If splitting a pot because of tied hands, award the odd chip to the hand that contains the highest-ranking single card, using suits to break ties if necessary ( clubs ranking the lowest, followed by diamonds, hearts, and spades as in bridge ).

* If a company purchases excessive quantities of an item, money is wasted-the excess quantity ties up cash while it remains as stock and may never even be used at all.

If a woman decides to keep the child the father may choose not to by severing all ties legally.

If it is not possible to use a safe number of ties rakers can be used.

Zhuge Liang met Sun Quan in Chaisang and proposed two solutions to Sun, " If you can use the forces of Wuyue to resist the Middle Kingdom, why not break ties ( with Cao Cao ) in advance?

If the Council vote ties, then the President of Tynwald casts the deciding vote in line with the majority vote of the Keys.

If the game's built-in 15-minute time limit is exhausted, the winner is decided by the team who controls the most POCs at the end, with ties going to the defenders.

If the player has more wins than the computer ( i. e. three wins against two, with no ties ), they will win one extra life.

If a sarong has ties, they may be used to hold it in place.

If this is true, then whoever can establish ties with the aliens first could reap unimaginable rewards ; humans have made contact with only one other intelligent ( but non-technological ) alien species in millennia of travel through the stars.

If one cuts the Borromean rings, one obtains one iteration of the standard braid ; conversely, if one ties together the ends of ( one iteration of ) a standard braid, one obtains the Borromean rings.

If there are slurs or ties and also fingering symbols, then the fingering symbols are written above the slurs or ties.

If the fit is not snug enough, the core can be secured with cable ties, or if the center is large enough, have the cabling looped through one or more times.

* If none of the players from above had a majority of any particular figurine ( again, ties do NOT constitute a majority ) the winner is decided by total number of figurines.

* If more than one person ties for the most tricks, this is a split pot.

If the Geek cannot come up with more answers, the contestant wins the challenge ( ties are broken in the contestant's favor ).

If the trackbed becomes uneven, it is necessary to pack ballast underneath sunk ties to level the track out again.