If Greek citizenship was an " emancipation from the world of things ", the Roman sense increasingly reflected the fact that citizens could act upon material things as well as other citizens, in the sense of buying or selling property, possessions, titles, goods.

If there is another functional group at a carbon, it may be named with the Greek letter, e. g., the gamma-amine in gamma-aminobutanoic acid is on the third carbon of the carbon chain attached to the carboxylic acid group.

If the " doratismos " ( Greek for spear combat ) was not decisive, then the lines would close and swords would be drawn.

If there were a tsade ( צ ) in the original Semitic form, as in the later Hebrew forms, it would normally have been transcribed in Greek with a sigma instead of a zeta.

If he was reading an early source, the cubit may have been the Cyrenaic cubit, an early Greek cubit, of 463. 1 mm, in which case the distance was.

If a pectoral cross has been awarded it is usually worn with street clothes in the Russian tradition, but not so often in the Greek tradition.

If aspirated, * Qhera-would have become " Thera -" in later Greek.

If the Ionians came from Achaea, they departed during or after the change from East Greek to West Greek there.

If Byzantine literature is the expression of the intellectual life of the Byzantine Greeks during the Christian Middle Ages, then it is a multiform organism, combining Greek and Christian civilization on the common foundation of the Roman political system, set in the intellectual and ethnographic atmosphere of the Near East.

If Rhea is indeed Greek, most ancient etymologists derive Rhea (' Ρέα ) by metathesis from έρα " ground ", but a tradition embodied in Plato and in Chrysippus connected the word with " ῥέω " ( rheo ), " flow ", " discharge ", which is what LSJ supports.

If Herodotus is indeed correct then Milo was probably not a member of Croton's nobility for such an arrangement with a wage-earning physician would have been beneath the dignity of a Greek noble.

If this title had survived the fall of LMIII Crete, then it could have evolved into * Terasias in Doric Greek and, possibly, * Teresias in Ionic.

If the men did not get to Troy to defeat the Trojans then all the Greek women would be raped and possibly killed.

If the Greek letter μ is not available, the notation uF is often used as a substitute for μF in electronics literature.

If it had been borrowed early, Greek métoikos would become Latin metoecus and English metecous or the like.

If Africa was lost and the control over Western provinces was shaky, Anthemius ' power over Italy was threatened by internal opposition ; he was of Greek origin, had been chosen by the Eastern Emperor from among members of the Eastern court, and was suspected of being a pagan.

If, as many historians believe, the Persian and Carthaginian armies were in contact with each other, a defeat at Himera for Gelo could have led to a two pronged attack on the Greek mainland by the Persian and the Carthaginians, and perhaps to the eventual demise of Greek civilisation.

He told Time, " If the Greek people decide that they want a republic, they are entitled to have that and should be left in peace to enjoy it ".

If it is tempting to see the Greek revival as the expression of Regency authoritarianism, then the changing conditions of life in Britain made Doric the loser of the Battle of the Styles, dramatically symbolized by the selection of Barry's Gothic design for the Palace of Westminster in 1836.

If Neoclassical painting suffered from a lack of ancient models, Neoclassical sculpture tended to suffer from an excess of them, although examples of actual Greek sculpture of the " classical period " beginning in about 500 BC were then very few ; the most highly regarded works were mostly Roman copies.

On 27 April 2012, Special Advisor of the Secretary-General Alexander Downer said " If the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Leaders cannot agree with each other on a model for a united Cyprus, then United Nations cannot make them ".

If Slayton had flown MA-7, his spacecraft would have been named Delta 7, as this would have been the fourth manned flight and Delta ( Δ ) is the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet.

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

If the relative priorities of these substituents need to be established, R takes priority over S. When this happens, the descriptor of the stereocenter is a lowercase letter ( r or s ) instead of the uppercase letter normally used.

If the user pressed keys 1 + 2 = 3 simultaneously the letter " c " appeared.

If several planets in the same system are discovered at the same time, the closest one to the star gets the next letter, followed by the other planets in order of orbital size.

If a planet orbits one member of a binary star system, then an uppercase letter for the star will be followed by a lowercase letter for the planet.

If this letter were to Ephesus, one would expect it to have more of the warmth evidenced in Philippians ... We may safely assume the letter was a general letter to Gentile believers in southwestern Asia Minor and that it became identified with Ephesus as the most important city between Rome and Antioch.

If Paul was the author of the letter, then it was probably written from Rome during Paul's first imprisonment (; ; ), and probably soon after his arrival there in the year 62, four years after he had parted with the Ephesian elders at Miletus.

If the letter is not considered to be an authentic part of the Pauline corpus it might be dated during the late 1st century, possibly as late as 80 AD.

If the letter to the Colossians is authentically Pauline, then Philemon must live in Colossae.

If Luke was only a sometime companion of Paul who idealized him long after his death, that could explain the differences between Acts and Paul's letter.

If we attempt to apply his rules to Palestrina's own music, we will find ample instances in which they have been followed to the letter, as well as many where they are freely broken.

If he or she is also chief executive, he or she can thus politically control the necessary executive measures without which a proclaimed law can remain dead letter, sometimes for years or even forever.

If the guessing player suggests a letter which occurs in the word, the other player writes it in all its correct positions.

If the suggested letter does not occur in the word, the other player draws one element of the hangman diagram as a tally mark.

If they do not designate a new ruler after three days, then they open a letter left to them by the deceased Sultan, containing a recommendation for a new Sultan.

If absent the crew is open age ( the letter ' O ' is sometimes used ).

Klement returned his bicycle to the manufacturers, Seidel and Naumann, with a letter, in Czech, asking them to carry out repairs, only to receive a reply, in German, stating: " If you would like an answer to your inquiry, you should try writing in a language we can understand ".

If this letter is authentic, then it might have been written soon after Paul's first letter to this community — or possibly years later.

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.