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" If one believes that the trust fund assets are worthless ," argued former Representative Bill Archer, then similar reasoning implies that “ Americans who have bought EE savings bonds should go home and burn them because they ’ re worthless because the money has already been spent .” At a Senate hearing in July 2001, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was asked whether the trust fund investments are “ real ” or merely an accounting device.
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If one dancer slaps another, the victim may do a pirouette, sit down, or offer his assailant a fork and spoon.
If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.
If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.
If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.
If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.
If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.
If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.
If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.
If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.
If they do meet and recognize one another, slap backs and embrace, the moment soon is done.
If either one ever started making promises, there is no telling where the promises would end.
If one follows the reports of the Congress, one finds that there still seems considerable uncertainty in the minds of the leaders themselves about what exactly to do in this matter.
Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.
If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.
`` If I catch you one more time down here without stockings '' --
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If you don't own a planer and don't want to buy one, it's well worth renting.
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If you have a full-time doctor now, can he be replaced with a part-time doctor or one who serves on a fee-per-case basis only??
If you use one of the new year-round cooling system fluids such as `` Dowguard '' be sure to check it.
If you run into excess plug fouling on one truck, check to be sure that the rig has a thermostat.
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If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.
If the individual believes that there were just reasons for the harm inflicted, collective guilt is likely to be reduced.
If the reason is self-defence, one must demonstrate why he / she believes his / her life is in danger ;
If Alice knows the true distribution p ( x ), while Bob believes ( has a prior ) that the distribution is q ( x ), then Bob will be more surprised than Alice, on average, upon seeing the value of X.
If, after a few thousand generations, the bacteria evolved the bacterial flagellum, then Behe believes that this would refute his theory.
If the court believes that developments or trends in legal reasoning render the precedent unhelpful, and wishes to evade it and help the law evolve, it may either hold that the precedent is inconsistent with subsequent authority, or that it should be distinguished by some material difference between the facts of the cases.
If a player has two small pairs, and he believes that it will be necessary for him to make a full house to win, then he has four outs: the two remaining cards of each rank that he holds.
If the pawnshop owner believes that there are " too many used TVs around these days in town ", they may fear that they will only get $ 100 for the TV if they have to unload it to a wholesaler.
“ If, as the writer believes Schiller, various private cases of action were available in satisfying commercial needs, the state was acting in exactly the same fashion as it does at the present day .”
If one or both networks believes that there is no longer a mutual benefit, they may decide to cease peering: this is known as depeering.
If the suicide succeeds, the legal issue is whether the assistants actively facilitated the death, or as doctors, nurses or carers, omitted to prevent natural death in circumstances where society believes they have no legal duty to take that preventive action.
Nimoy also played the Mermelstein role and believes: " If every project brought me the same sense of fulfillment that Never Forget did, I would truly be in paradise.
If one believes that spin measurements are indeed measuring the spin of a particle that existed prior to the measurement, then one does reach contradictions.
If one believes dismemberment stopped the possibility of resurrection of an intact body on judgement day, then a posthumous execution is an effective way of punishing a criminal.
If the fielding side believes a batsman is out, the fielding side must appeal, by asking " How's that?
The basic events are the same as in the real case, but the characterizations are fully imagined ... If an audience believes that something's based on a real event, it gives you permission to do things they might otherwise not accept.
If you told someone who purports to be a sage of Israel that the Deity sends an angel who enters a woman's womb and there forms an embryo, he would think this a miracle and accept it as a mark of the majesty and power of the Deity, despite the fact that he believes an angel to be a body of fire one third the size of the entire world.
On 7 November 2010: Lord Taverne asked at question time in the House of Lords: " If the Government believes in evidence-based policy, is it not obvious in light of this Nutt's report and many other reports that make similar conclusions that the present classification of Ecstasy in class A and cannabis in class B is not in any way based on evidence of the physical or the social impact?
If this happens, he believes that China would be secure enough on the mainland to give added attention to shaping events to its favour in far flung areas.
( At least one Number Two believes that it would: in " The Chimes of Big Ben ", Number Two states, " If he will answer one simple question, the rest will follow: Why did he resign?
If this book had been written by our Shaykh Zakariyya, or by anyone who believes awliyâ ’, it would have been copied with gold because, as a matter of fact, it has no equal: for ( Of the bounties of thy Lord We bestow freely on all, these as well as those: the bounties of thy Lord are not closed to anyone ) ( 17: 20 ).
If he believes the movement will succeed without him, he can avoid participation in the movement, save his resources, and still reap the benefits-this is free-riding.
If an agent is influenced by want of an object or fame or revenge, or for any other reason, Kant believes that he is not free: he is beholden to these outside influences, which state Kant labels heteronomy.
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