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If and prisoners
If the prisoners were in the custody of a person, then the responsibility was on the individual.
If the number of times the game will be played is known, the finite aspect of the game means that ( by backward induction ) the two prisoners will betray each other repeatedly.
If captured, the crew was entitled to honorable treatment as prisoners of war, while without the license they were deemed mere pirates " at war with all the world ," criminals who were properly hanged.
If the fire was large ( for instance, when a number of prisoners were executed at the same time ), death often came from carbon monoxide poisoning before flames actually caused harm to the body.
It is stated by a US Navy officer in a first-season episode that " If you weren't one of their prisoners, you'd be one of ours ", due to his less-than-legal methods of accomplishing his goals.
If a camp did not have a gas chamber of its own, the so-called Muselmänner, or prisoners who were too sick to work, were often killed or transferred to other concentration camps for extermination.
Another of Searle's fellow prisoners later recounted, " If you can imagine something that weighs six stone or so, is on the point of death and has no qualities of the human condition that aren ’ t revolting, calmly lying there with a pencil and a scrap of paper, drawing, you have some idea of the difference of temperament that this man had from the ordinary human being.
" If the criteria were changed to recognize all members held as prisoners, hostages, detainees and internees ," he said, " the recognition originally intended for actual prisoners of war will be lost.
If they could not make prisoners confess, they would transfer them to the hot unit.
" You might just as well call this slave labor ", the article continues, explaining that U. S. prison work is not volunteer work since inmates get time deducted off their sentences for working in the prison: " If prisoners don't work, they serve longer sentences, lose privileges, and risk solitary confinement.
De Villefort has renounced his father, a staunch Bonapartist, and destroyed the letter to protect himself, not Edmond ; to further protect his name, de Villefort sentences Edmond to imprisonment in the dreaded Chateau d ' If, an island fortress from which no prisoner had ever escaped, and to which the most dangerous political prisoners are sent.
In the case In re: Parson, the United States Supreme Court wrote: " If the orders be regarded merely as directions in the administration of judicial affairs in respect of the immediate possession of property or custody of prisoners, we cannot be properly called to, by reason of anything appearing on these records, in the exercise of appellate jurisdiction in this manner, to direct them to be set aside.
If any prisoner can figure out and say to the jailer what colour hat he has on his head all four prisoners go free.
If any prisoner suggests an incorrect answer, all four prisoners are executed.
If the crew resisted, the red flag would then be displayed to indicate that the offer of amnesty had been withdrawn ; no prisoners would be taken ( see also Jolly Roger / Pirate flag below ).
If Sir Edward Walker's statement is correct, that 6, 000 prisoners were taken and 5, 000 of them were marched south, then 2, 000 captives perished on the way to Durham.
If most of the prisoners are to be believed, the officers had no compunction about beating them around their backs and heads ; nor were they averse to kicking them when they were on the ground.
If this case is successful, it will result in Bieber and all other such prisoners having their cases recalled to court for a new minimum term to be decided.
If Italian officers were prosecuted by the ( British controlled ) court at all, they were accused only of the death of the British prisoners of war, but not of the death of the civil population in occupied territories.
If the progress of the former prisoners was judged unsatisfactory during this period, they could be fired from their jobs, put under surveillance for another six months to a year, or sent back to the reeducation camps.
If they should, perchance, take the city, they shall have it and hold it until it has been searched and despoiled, both of prisoners for ransom and of everything else.
If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my fellow prisoners.
# If I become a prisoner of war, I will keep faith with my fellow prisoners.

If and refused
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 the gentry refused to collect the King's taxes, the Crown would lack any practical means with which to compel them.
If battle was refused by the defender, they would generally retreat to their city, in which case the attackers generally had to content themselves with ravaging the surrounding countryside, since siegecraft was not efficient, at least until the 5th century BC.
If the king had joined, its resolutions would have received the sanction of the law ; but he refused, and approached the newly formed Roman Catholic League of lords, whose members pledged themselves to support the king, the Catholic Church, and the Council.
If they are certainly absent, the sacrament should even be refused.
If the officer has reasonable grounds that the traveller is or might have been infected with a communicable disease or refused to provider answers, a quarantine officer ( QO ) must be called and the person is to be isolated.
If a person refused to be isolated, any peace officer may arrest without warrant.
If this helps keep them safe from harm this is considered to be a good thing, but there have been cases where hostages have tried to shield the captors during an assault or refused to co-operate with the authorities in bringing prosecutions.
Waits has steadfastly refused to allow the use of his songs in commercials and has joked about other artists who do ( commenting " If Michael Jackson wants to work for Pepsi, why doesn't he just get himself a suit and an office in their headquarters and be done with it ?").
If he never repeated the international success of Cavalleria, it was probably because he refused to copy himself.
If they refused, they died in prison.
She refused to have the surgery, saying " If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.
When informed that the film was to be made in Africa, Davis refused the part, telling Jack Warner, " If you can't shoot the picture in a boat on the back lot, then I'm not interested.
If he had refused, he could have been punished, but he was clever enough not to refuse.
Röhm refused and stated " If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself.
If a written application is refused, the applicant may ask for an oral hearing to discuss the refusal.
If the offender win the point he marks nothing ; if he win the vole he marks only one ; if he win the point when his adversary has played without proposing, or has refused the first proposal, he marks only one.
If the offender win the point he marks nothing ; if he win the vole, he marks only one ; if he win the point when his adversary has played without proposing, or has refused the first proposal, he marks only one.
He refused to accept unjust cases, and always tried to be on the " right " side of any case ; John Campbell wrote that " If he saw that a cause was unjust, he for a great while would not meddle further in it but to give his advice that it was so ; if the parties after that would go on, they were to seek another counsellor, for he would assist none in acts of injustice ".
If both refused, a suitable monarch would be searched for among the various European royal houses.
If the King of Spain ever refused in conscience to grant Royal Assent to a Bill a procedure similar to the one that was used in Belgium to handle King Baudouin's objection would not be possible under the current Constitution: in Spain, if the King were ever declared incapable of discharging the royal authority, his powers would not be transferred to the Cabinet pending the parliamentary appointment of a Regency.
If permission is refused on the papers, the party may renew his application for an order for reconsideration to the High Court or Court of Session.
If Mannerheim had not also firmly refused to let his troops participate in the Siege of Leningrad, they would have ended up becoming an integral part of the siege.
But Parnell, a proud and passionate man, refused, saying, " If I go, I go forever ".
According to this story, ( the accuracy of which has never been verified ), in 1936 Hitler requested that Spare travel to Berlin to produce a portrait of the Nazi leader, but that Spare refused, remarking that " If you are a superman, let me be forever animal.

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