Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

Lionel Curtis, writing in the imperialist journal The Round Table, wrote: " If the British Commonwealth can only be preserved by such means, it would become a negation of the principle for which it has stood ".

If Germany were to occupy oil-rich Romania, this would undercut all of the British strategic assumptions based on Germany's need to import oil from the Americas.

If the territory included all the tributaries of the Mississippi on its western bank, the northern reaches of the Purchase extended into the equally ill-defined British possession — Rupert's Land of British North America, now part of Canada.

If British losses became severe, the RAF could simply have withdrawn northward and regrouped.

If the remains are confirmed to be those of Richard, British historian and MP Chris Skidmore has called for the late King to be reburied with a full state funeral.

Zahi Hawass, the former chief of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, asked that the stele be repatriated to Egypt, urging in comments to reporters: " If the British want to be remembered, if they want to restore their reputation, they should volunteer to return the Rosetta Stone because it is the icon of our Egyptian identity ".

If, for instance the British Prime Minister wished to dissolve parliament in order for a general election to take place, the Prime Minister is constitutionally bound to request permission from the sovereign in order to attain such a wish.

If the French had abandoned the island in 1671 ( as the British claimed ), then under the 1686 Treaty, St. Croix would be peaceably in British possession.

" which Hergé translates as " Qui s ' y frotte s ' y pique " " Who rubs himself there gets stung " ( in fact, the motto of Nancy, from the Latin non inultus premor, referring to its emblem, the thistle ; in the British edition, the translators rendered the motto " If you gather Thistles, expect Prickles ").

A further 15 percent were in favor with qualifications such as: " If it doesn't get us into war ," or " If the British can give us some security for what we give them.

If a comparison can be made, the differences between both dialects are probably larger than those between standard American and standard British English, similar to the differences between Brazilian Portuguese and that of Portugal, but far less than those between standard German and Swiss German.

* In the episode Major Star of the British sitcom Blackadder, Captain Blackadder parodies the poem " The Soldier ", warning George ' If I should die, think only this of me, ' I'll be back to get you!

If ... is a sharp and cynical satirisation of British politics and current affairs from a left wing perspective.

If ... occasionally utilises wordplay and coarse humour-Bell is fond of using the pejorative British word " wanker " and its euphemistic variants, for example.

In November 2010, the song " If U C Kate " written by Dallas Austin, Taio Cruz, Alan Nglish, and Chasez was featured on the British band McFly's album, Above the Noise.

The climactic scene of the 1965 British film Catch Us If You Can ( film ) ( featuring The Dave Clark Five ) takes place at the island.

If defined as Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest has four US National Parks: Crater Lake in Oregon, and Olympic, Mount Rainier, and North Cascades in Washington.

Also in 2000, Lauper co-wrote a song, " If You Believe ", with Faye Tozer of the British pop group Steps.

If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is, and some new Chartist agitation might be born and might quickly gather momentum.

If the trial could demonstrate the misrule of British India by Hastings and the East India Company more widely, then Fox ’ s India Bill of 1784 – the point on which the Fox-North Coalition had been dismissed by the King – would be vindicated.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

If he failed to reach the riverbank in five minutes, say, then the skiffs would pull away and leave him groping in the mud.

If, however, the figure to be discerned were complicated, composed of several interlocking subfigures, and so on, even the tracing process failed him, and he could not focus even relatively simple shapes among its parts.

If it failed on occasion to elect its candidates for general state offices by majorities, the failure was due to a lingering remnant of the Know-Nothing party, which called itself the American Republican party.

If, however, a layer of paper remains stuck to the surface, the adhesive has not failed.

If a rebellion failed to quickly seize the capital and control of the military for itself, it was normally doomed to a quick destruction.

If a dive is performed which is as submitted but not as ( incorrectly ) announced, it is declared failed and scores zero according to a strict reading of the FINA law.

If Matthew's prime concern was to preserve the Jewish character of the church, he failed: Christianity became a Gentile religion, and Christianity and Judaism came to view each other as opposites.

If he claimed the throne, he would throw the country into yet another series of wars, and if he failed, he would be sacrificing everyone and everything he knew.

If all else failed, a besieger could claim the booty of his conquest undamaged, and retain his men and equipment intact, for the price of a well-placed bribe to a disgruntled gate-keeper.

If the number of dies — the integrated circuits that will eventually become chips — etched on a wafer exceeds a failure threshold ( i. e. too many failed dies on one wafer ), the wafer is scrapped rather than investing in further processing.

If the CSM failed, the spacecraft and Saturn IB for the next Skylab mission would have been launched with two astronauts to retrieve the crew ; given Skylab's ample supplies, its residents would have been able to wait up to several weeks for the rescue mission.

If the crew had failed to repair Skylab in time, the plastic insulation inside the station would have melted, releasing poisonous gas and making Skylab completely uninhabitable.

One of Edison's famous quotations about his attempts to make the light globe suggest that perhaps Tesla was right about Edison's methods of working: " If I find 10, 000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed.

If his plans failed, it was almost always out of luck on behalf of the other characters.

Albert Shaw, editor of The Review of Reviews, stated that after Bryan's nomination, many easterners professed not to have heard of him but: " If, indeed, they had not heard of Mr. Bryan before, they had failed to follow closely the course of American politics in the past eight years.

If those boards failed to agree then there was a central board.

In an interview conducted by Nick Spark, George Nichols, another engineer who was present, stated that Murphy blamed the failure on his assistant after the failed test, saying, " If that guy has any way of making a mistake, he will.

If they failed to live up to their obligations, the Admiralty Courts could and did revoke the Letter of Marque, refuse to award prize money, forfeit bonds, even award tort ( personal injury ) damages against the privateer's officers and crew.

If they failed, the provincial government could carry out the necessary measures and charge the costs to the landowner or municipality.

If the champion failed to start the car, it was not eliminated from the round, but was available again if the champion returned the next day.

If the crop failed, payment was deferred, and no interest could be charged for that year.

If the adopted child failed to carry out the filial duty, the contract was annulled in the law courts.