If tanking was indeed their strategy, it worked, as the Clippers easily won their first round series.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

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 he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place.

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

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 you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

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

If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

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

If he had had a son, he would tell him, `` Gather ye rosebuds while ye may This same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying ''.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

If he had income other than wages subject to withholding, he may be required to file Form 1040.

If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.

If a stitch in a finished crocheted item breaks, the stitches above and below remain intact, and because of the complex looping of each stitch, the stitches on either side are unlikely to come loose unless heavily stressed.

If Fascism triumphs I am finished as a writer – that is to say, finished in my only effective capacity.

If so, we have nothing to do: finished

If there were two large programs ready to run, one would have to wait until the other finished and vacated the large partition.

If an event is sent on two channels at once, the event on the higher-numbered channel cannot transmit until the first one is finished, and so is delayed by 1ms.

If you've finished admiring its exterior ( there's nothing of note inside ), continue walking west to the Grote Markt ( Great Market ) on the north side of which is a sixteenth-century weighing hall that now serves as a restaurant.

If two or more vaulters have finished with the same height, the tie is broken by the number of misses at the final height.

In 2002, psychologist Richard Wiseman and colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, finished a year-long LaughLab experiment, concluding that of all animals, ducks attract the most humor and silliness ; he said, " If you're going to tell a joke involving an animal, make it a duck.

If meat, chicken, or fish is sautéed, the sauté is often finished by deglazing the pan's residue to make a sauce.

If the first two teams finished on equal points then goal average would decide who was placed first and second.

He finished his explanation by saying " If you become President yourself someday, Mr. Vice President, you can be sure that I will guard your interests as closely as I did President Johnson's tonight ".

On its mantelpiece is the motto of Thomas Bohier-" S ' il vient à point, me souviendra " ( If the building is finished, it will preserve the memory of the man who built it )-which echoes his coat of arms above the door.

" Even seeing of the first page of the second act is enough to draw the reader in: " If I had not caught a glimpse of the opening words in the second act I should never have finished it [...]" (" The Repairer of Reputations ").

In 2011 Incubus finished their 7th studio album If Not Now, When ?, which was released on July 12, 2011, followed then by a tour.

If the effect of the other function is to advance a particular computation one step, or to do nothing if the computation is finished, then the fixed point will be a function that advances the same computation by as many steps as required to complete it.

" If the game is finished in Hard Mode, the game goes back to the title screen and allows the player to choose which stage to start in, allowing for replay of any particular stage.

end: ; If we didn't loop then we must have finished,

end: ; If we didn't loop then we must have finished,

If finished, the castle would have been able to host two substantial households and their followers, for example the king and queen, or the king, queen and a prince and his own wife.

If all objectives are met, the Product Release Milestone is reached and the development cycle is finished.

If the sheer power of a swing did not fell the horse or its rider, the bill's hook was excellent at finding a chink in the plate armour of cavalrymen at the time, dragging the unlucky horseman off his mount to be finished off with either a sword, spear or the bill itself.

When the applicant had finished, Glazunov said, " If I'm not mistaken, you applied a few years ago.

If the house was never finished, no ghost could settle into it.

If necessary, the game could be finished in the morning or afternoon on Wednesday.