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If on the count of primary or first preference votes ( votes marked with the number ' 1 '), no candidate achieves more than 50 % of the vote, the candidate with the fewest votes is excluded and their votes distributed according to the next available preferences, their 2nd or third choice candidate.
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If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.
If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.
If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.
If the decision goes wrong, it may be -- as Mr. Stevenson fears -- `` the first step on the slippery path downhill '' to a U.N. without operational responsibilities and without effective meaning.
If you're lyin' out in the hammock at night, and it gets kinda cool -- you know -- you just take these sides with the fringe on -- see -- and wrap 'em right over you.
If the record buyer's tastes are somewhat eclectic or even the slightest bit esoteric, he will find them satisfied on educational records.
If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.
Mr. Richard Preston, executive director of the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, in his remarks to the Governors Conference on Industrial Development at Providence on October 8, 1960, warned against the fallacy of attempting to attract industry solely to reduce the tax rate or to underwrite municipal services such as schools when he said: `` If this is the fundamental reason for a community's interest or if this is the basic approach, success if any will be difficult to obtain ''.
`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.
If we make it established custom that whenever butchery on the highways grows excessive, say beyond 25,000 per annum, then somebody is going to hang, it follows that the more eminent the victim, the more impressive the lesson.
If it comes down too hard on the potential dangers of fallout, it will box the President on resuming atmospheric tests.
If there is anything which we can do in the executive branch of the Government to speed up the processes by which we come to decisions on matters on which we must act promptly, that in itself would be a major contribution to the conduct of our affairs.
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If we neglect the possibility of overlapping states, which is valid if the temperature is high, then the number of times we count each state is approximately N < nowiki >!</ nowiki >.
* Timer: If playing a poker tournament, a timer is used to count down periods in which the blinds are at certain levels.
If rotations are also considered distinct, then the pentominoes from the first category count eightfold, the ones from the next three categories ( T, U, V, W, Z ) count fourfold, I counts twice, and X counts only once.
If any part of either wrestler is in contact with the ropes or has otherwise broken the plane of ropes all grappling contact between the wrestlers must be broken within a five count or else the attacking wrestler may be subject to disqualification.
If a wrestler's shoulders are down ( both shoulders touching the mat ) and any part of the opponent's body is lying over the wrestler, it is completely legal to start a three count.
If the referee reaches the count of five, and the wrestler still does not break the hold, he is disqualified.
If all the active wrestlers in a match are down inside the ring at the same time, the referee will begin a count ( usually ten seconds, twenty in Japan ).
If a wrestler has secured a rope break from a submission hold, and the offending wrestler does not break the hold on the count of five, causing the offending wrestler to lose automatically, it is still considered a disqualification ( which is kept distinct from countouts in most major promotions ), even though the automatic loss was procured through counting.
If no single candidate has an absolute majority of votes then only the two highest polling candidates progress to the second count all other candidates are excluded and their votes redistributed according to the recorded preferences for continuing candidates.
If an object's reference count reaches zero, the object has become inaccessible, and can be destroyed.
If the change of a sequence of fricatives such that one becomes a stop is dissimilation, then such changes as Proto-Germanic * χs to ( spelled x ) in English would count as a regular sound law: PGmc.
If cutters cannot get open, the handlers swing the disc side to side in an attempt to reset the stall count while also getting the defense out of position.
If the input buffer is empty ( because no characters have been typed since the last end-of-line or end-of-file ), a program reading from the terminal reads a count of zero bytes.
If, instead, we had chosen to characterize count nouns as quantized nouns, and mass nouns as non-quantized ones, then we would ( incorrectly ) be led to expect committee to be a mass noun.
* If a patient has been awarded monetary damages against the hospital or any related or affiliated services by a court of law, or has settled out of court on damages, the hospital and related / affiliated services may not withhold monies due to lack of payment, or count the money toward the bill in lieu of making payment to the patient.
" I do not refer to real estate, or to personal property or to cold cash, but rather to that in life which tends to make these tangible substances count for most in the daily lives of people, namely, goodwill, fellowship, mutual sympathy and social intercourse among a group of individuals and families who make up a social unit … If he may come into contact with his neighbor, and they with other neighbors, there will be an accumulation of social capital, which may immediately satisfy his social needs and which may bear a social potentiality sufficient to the substantial improvement of living conditions in the whole community.
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