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 only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

If each text form is marked when matched with a dictionary form, the text forms not contained in the dictionary can be identified when all dictionary forms have been read.

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

If products designed for the new standard can receive, read, view or play older standards or formats, then the product is said to be backward-compatible ; examples of such a standard include data formats and communication protocols.

If a newer software version cannot save files that can be read by the older version, it is not backward compatible with the older version, although it may provide an irreversible upgrade capability for the old files.

If a player is " easy to read " he very seldom will win large pots even when holding a very good hand.

If you have read what I have told you, you will see that I have given you the third word.

If you have read this carefully I have given a clue.

" If he did not act at once it would be too late ," the telegram read, " because would send his car to the scrap heap.

On the other hand, LDAP does not define transactions of multiple operations: If you read an entry and then modify it, another client may have updated the entry in the meantime.

If correct, the teacher would read the next word pair.

If the process pressure connection of an absolute pressure transmitter is open to the air, it will read the actual barometric pressure.

If it be accepted, as can hardly be denied, that the answers of the judges to the questions asked by the House of Lords in 1843 are to be read in the light of the then existing case-law and not as novel pronouncements of a legislative character, then the High Court's analysis in Stapleton's Case is compelling.

If a great number of attributes end up being the same as on the definition, a great amount of information can be " inherited ", and not have to be redundantly specified in the netlist, saving space, and making the design easier to read by both machines and people.

King, talking to high-school students, had said: " If you can read, you can walk into a job later on.

If a write is concurrent with the read then any value can be returned ( for example, if a variable had value 5 and was being changed to 6 during the read, the read function could return 8 ).

" If Deaf people learn to read and write in their own signing system, that increases their self-esteem ", says Dianne Parkhurst.

If any contestants are visually impaired, the host will read the question and four choices all at once, then repeat the choices after the music begins.

:" If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

If the micrometer is in good condition, then they are all so near to zero that the instrument seems to read essentially " dead-on " all along its range ; no noticeable error is seen at any locale.

* Joel Spolsky ( for Apps Hungarian ): " If you read Simonyi's paper closely, what he was getting at was the same kind of naming convention as I used in my example above where we decided that meant " unsafe string " and meant " safe string.

: If any one will piously and soberly consider the sermon which our Lord Jesus Christ spoke on the mount, as we read it in the Gospel according to Matthew, I think that he will find in it, so far as regards the highest morals, a perfect standard of the Christian life

If I could make myself feel the same way

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

If we want to preserve our sovereignty, this is the way to do it ; ;

If launched in a careful but determined way within the next few weeks, the Peace Corps could have several hundred persons in training this summer for placement next fall.

If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.

If the points aren't thrown all the way, the Turnout cannot be locked, and in turn, the signal cannot be cleared.

If you can't see your way clear to have summer cooling included when building, by all means make provision for its easy adding later.

If we look at the situation this way, we can get an idea of Khrushchev's nightmarish worries -- or, at least, of the worries he might have if his enemies were disposed to exploit their advantage.

If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.

If I could call in, they could check the story while we were on our way.

If Rose Mallory's killer acted this way, catching up with him was going to be a cinch.

On my way out I told her, `` If you should eh just happen to see your husband, get him to give himself up.

If laborers are merely commodities competing against each other in a market place like so many bags of wheat and corn ( unsupported, by the way, by any agricultural subsidy ), then they may be pardoned for reacting with complete antagonism to a system that imposes such status upon them.

If the church has followed the plan of cultivation of prospects and carried through a program of membership preparation as outlined earlier in this book, the process of assimilation and growth will be well under way.

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

If most of them weren't exactly specific -- well, that's the way it is in life, I guess.

If I get a low M. R., I do so because I want it that way or my dark self does.

If Hal Yarrow had been killed in a crash, he must have wanted it that way.

If one looks at the fields around the Deserted Village and right up the mountain, one can see the tracks in the fields of ' lazy beds ', which is the way crops like potatoes were grown.

Jarry once wrote, expressing some of the bizarre logic of ' pataphysics, " If you let a coin fall and it falls, the next time it is just by an infinite coincidence that it will fall again the same way ; hundreds of other coins on other hands will follow this pattern in an infinitely unimaginable fashion ".

If substance is the highest category and there is no substance, being, then the unity perceived in all beings by virtue of their existing must be viewed in another way.

Existence is the principle that gives reality to an essence not the same in any way as the existence: " If things having essences are real, and it is not of their essence to be, then the reality of these things must be found in some principle other than ( really distinct from ) their essence.

If the batter strikes out to end the inning, it will stay that way.

If the defense makes no attempt to put the baserunner out ( for example, if the catcher doesn't even look his way ), the play is scored as defensive indifference ( also called fielder's indifference ), and no stolen base is credited to the runner.