If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

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 he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If one lives near a subway or an express parkway, the solution is to have one's wines stored with a dealer and brought home a few at a time.

If liberty is taken to mean " the ability to exercise one's rights as provided for by the law and nature " then this is true, but if it means " the state when one is not held to nor required to perform anything against their will " then this is clearly false.

If one looks in a mirror, one's image reverses ( e. g., if one raises one's right hand, his left hand will appear to go up in the mirror ).

If neither player had won by the tenth turn, subsequent turns consisted of moving one of one's own tokens to the remaining empty hole, with the constraint that this move could only be from an adjacent hole.

If one finds a stranded whale corpse, one is in charge of holding the funeral for the " Lord " as if it was one's own parent.

If, instead of slapping a feeding mosquito, one stretches one's skin so that it grips the proboscis and the mosquito cannot withdraw it, the pressure will distend the gut until it breaks and the mosquito dies.

If it goes somewhere else, the Newtonians argue, one must question one's measurements of the original position of the object, the exact direction of the striking object, gravitational or other fields that were inadvertently ignored, etc.

If air is moved away from one's body with a natural breeze or a fan, sweat will evaporate faster, making perspiration more effective at cooling the body.

If the time of observation is not 12: 00 noon local mean time, then depending on one's geographical latitude, this loop will be inclined at different angles.

* If the current play results in having every square of the opposing camp occupied by one's own pieces, the acting player wins.

If one's actions, deeds, faith or anything initiated by him are worth nil in the eyes of God and if the human being cannot influence his eventual final depository in any manner by himself, then what is the point of repentance and living according to God's will?

If the dissonance is not reduced by changing one's belief, the dissonance can result in misperception or rejection or refutation of the information, seeking support from others who share the beliefs, and attempting to persuade others to restore consonance.

If, due to the car's motion, the track is ' escaping ' to one's left, a left-going saccade will try to ' catch up ' with the track's motion.

If you plot them as a function of time, you find that one is a little bit bigger than Millikan's, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, and the next one's a little bit bigger than that, until finally they settle down to a number which is higher.

* If one is traveling but one must make up any days missed upon arriving at one's destination.

If one hopes to attain order in the state, he must first bring his own family and personal life into order through self-cultivation and the expansion of one's knowledge and the " investigation of things.

If one's monetary income stays the same, but the price level increases, the purchasing power of that income falls.

If one wishes to be autonomous, one must not be compelled to act by external influences but instead by one's own mind and rational thoughts.

If, by contrast, one's behaviour is governed by rational thought, and is thus not contradictory, it is permissible.

If the hostile action is in one's own country, or in a friendly one with cooperating police, the hostile agents may be arrested, or, if diplomats, declared persona non grata.

If the player selects the unshaken can, the hero is shown smiling and a message reads " This Bud's For You " ( on the Budweiser version ) or " This one's for you " ( on Root Beer Tapper ), and the player is rewarded with extra points.

If, for instance, the meaning of human life and human desires is bound up with ancestral human biology (" to spread one's genes "), then what meaning do lives and desires have, and what serves as the basis of values when biology no longer forms a part of life?

If there is more than one allograph of a unit of writing, and the choice between them depends on context or on the preference of the author, they now have to be treated as separate glyphs, because mechanical arrangements have to be available to differentiate between them and to print whichever of them is required.

Wimsey does not object, but Bunter strongly does: " If I may state my own preference, sir, it would be to wait upon you and his lordship in the usual manner ".

If both are accepted, one has to additionally signal a preference.

* If the word or compound already includes a possessive apostrophe, a double possessive results: Tom's sisters ' careers ; the head of marketing's husband's preference ; the master of foxhounds ' best dog's death.

If there is more than one MX record with the same preference number, all of those must be tried before moving on to lower-priority entries.

* If every voter's preference between X and Y remains unchanged, then the group's preference between X and Y will also remain unchanged ( even if voters ' preferences between other pairs like X and Z, Y and Z, or Z and W change ).

; Positive association of social and individual values: ( or monotonicity ) If any individual modifies his or her preference order by promoting a certain option, then the societal preference order should respond only by promoting that same option or not changing, never by placing it lower than before.

; Pareto efficiency: ( or unanimity ) If every individual prefers a certain option to another, then so must the resulting societal preference order.

If no single candidate has 50 % or more votes then the candidate with the least votes is excluded and their votes redistributed according to the voters nominated order of preference.

" If I were again to be an Indian Agent, and had my choice, I would take charge of 10, 000 armed Sioux in preference to a like number of disarmed ones ; and furthermore agree to handle that number, or the whole Sioux nation, without a white soldier.

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.

If new code does not rapidly satisfy a new test, or other tests fail unexpectedly, the programmer should undo or revert in preference to excessive debugging.

If no related family member is willing or able to adopt, the next preference is for the child to be adopted by the foster parents or by someone else involved in the child's life ( such as a teacher or coach ).

If offered either € 50 or a 50 % chance of each of € 100 and nothing, a risk neutral person would have no preference between the two options.

If no candidate receives such a majority, the candidate with the fewest number of first preference votes is eliminated, with each of his votes being redistributed according to the second preference marked on the ballot ( see Instant-runoff voting ).

" For example, in one of his zoological works, he satirized the preference for longer human penis size, writing: " If the length of the penis were a sign of honor, then the mule would belong to the ( honorable tribe of ) Quraysh ".

If the company issues more than one issue of preference preferred, the issues are ranked by seniority.

If the garcinol is successful at inhibiting the non-homologous end joining, a DNA repair mechanism that shows preference in fixing double-strand breaks, then it may serve as a radiosensitizer, a molecule that increases the sensitivity of cells to radiation damage.

If a candidate has at least 25 % of the quota then he can precede other candidates who stand higher on the list but received fewer preference votes.

If there is no candidate and the number of first preference votes secured by each candidate is ascertained.