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If the Labours precede the events in Roger Ackroyd, then the Roger Ackroyd case must have taken place around twenty years later than it was published, and so must any of the cases that refer to it.
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If a short vowel does not precede the sound, the latter spelling is used, as in took, barge, and launch.
If one authority is considerably more helpful or authoritative than the others cited within a signal, it should precede others.
If they are instead in succession, then the cause must precede the effect as an effect cannot precede its cause, and therefore there must be a space of time when the cause is actually not effective, meaning that it is essentially not itself.
If a transaction ( T < sub > i </ sub >) wants to write to an object, and if there is another transaction ( T < sub > k </ sub >), the timestamp of T < sub > i </ sub > must precede the timestamp of T < sub > k </ sub > ( i. e., TS ( T < sub > i </ sub >) < TS ( T < sub > k </ sub >)) for the object write operation to succeed.
If I affirm what is false, I clearly err, and, if I stumble onto the truth, I'm still blameworthy since the light of nature reveals that a perception of the understanding should always precede a decision of the will.
If the formula is in prenex normal form, are the variables that are universally quantified and whose quantifiers precede that of.
If Abbevillian did not necessarily precede Acheulian and both traditions had flakes and bifaces, how was the difference to be defined?
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 two such officers are of the same rank, the precedence of the offices ( reflected by the order in which they are mentioned above ) is taken into account: if the Lord Great Chamberlain and Earl Marshal were both marquesses, for example, then the Great Chamberlain would precede the Earl Marshal, as the former office precedes the latter.
If the air mass is unstable, and the warm front is an anafront, thunderstorms may precede and follow the front and temperature changes will be larger.
# misremembering the German title: If Nibelungen were plural, the genitive plural article der would immediately precede Nibelungen ( rather than the genitive singular des ); Google results suggest that about 10 % of pages using the German title make this error.
If two processes attempt to update the same registry value at the same time, one process's change will precede the others and the overall consistency of the data will be maintained.
If another rite immediately precedes Mass, such as the Palm Sunday procession or the various ceremonies that precede Mass at the Easter Vigil, Mass begins with the collect ; there is no Entrance at that point and so no Entrance chant.
If an already existent matter must precede everything coming into existence, clearly nothing, including matter, can come into existence ex nihilo, that is, from absolute nothingness.
The lines " If I only could take all the love that you give, and escape to a world crystal clear " precede the lines " Well I hear the music, close my eyes, feel the rhythm ".
If and events
If we grasp this orientation as a key, our national conduct in all of the events here mentioned becomes intelligible.
If the Byzantines adopted the crescent and star as a symbol of their city after the events of the mid 4th century BC, one is forced to wonder why they waited several hundred years before putting the symbol on only some of their coins.
" If this refers to Mordecai, he would have had to live over a century to have witnessed the events described in the Book of Esther.
If a cabal can be implicated in a sequence of events, there is always the hope, however tenuous, of being able to break the cabal's power – or joining it and exercising some of that power oneself.
If the chronicles deal with events year by year, they are often called annals.
If this view is correct, the epistle should be dated somewhere around 47, depending on other difficult to date events, such as Paul's conversion.
If one follows Polybius, the course of events was the following: Despite the Carthaginian pre-war naval advantage, the Roman landing was virtually unopposed.
If this is not due to chronological confusion of the events of the siege, it may suggest that Kallinikos merely introduced an improved version of an established weapon.
If the individual is concerned with events preceding written history, the individual is a historian of prehistory.
However, despite aligning with the Maoists, Sartre said after the May events: " If one rereads all my books, one will realize that I have not changed profoundly, and that I have always remained an anarchist.
If the chain of events leading up to the person having something meets this criterion, they are entitled to it: that they possess it is just, and what anyone else does or doesn't have or need is irrelevant.
If an individual coin toss or the roll of dice is considered to be a random event, then if repeated many times the sequence of random events will exhibit certain patterns, which can be studied and predicted.
If God in some sense knows ahead of time what will happen, then events in the universe are effectively predetermined from God's point of view.
If a collection of atoms are in the excited state, spontaneous decay events to the ground state will occur at a rate proportional to N < sub > 2 </ sub >, the number of atoms in the excited state.
While Spock makes it clear that the events during the period of Surak are well documented (" The Savage Curtain "), he is completely uncertain in regard to the origin of the Romulans: " If the Romulans are an offshoot of my Vulcan blood -- and I think this likely -- then attack becomes even more imperative.
If two events A and B are independent, then the conditional probability of A given B is the same as the unconditional ( or marginal ) probability of A, that is,
If one of the two events represents the sending of a signal from one location and the second event represents the reception of the same signal at another location, then as long as the signal is moving at the speed of light or slower, the mathematics of simultaneity ensures that all reference frames agree that the transmission-event happened before the reception-event.
If I was George Michael right about now, I'd be shitting myself ") or current events ( a 2000 issue remarked " The Government spent £ 850 million on the Millennium Bug, and the only thing that crashes is Q < nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki > out of the Bond films ").
If the theory were to be true, the individual events of suspension would appear to be highly selective.
" Sports Illustrated considered the activity a sport in 1987, describing the Drum Corps International World Championships “ one of the biggest sporting events of the summer .” In the same article, Sports Illustrated quoted basketball coach Bobby Knight, " If a basketball team trained as hard as these kids do, it would be unbelievable.
If the main controller fails, sub-controllers change to degraded mode in which doors are either completely locked or unlocked and no events are recorded.
If events should deviate significantly, the story may then fall under the genre of alternate history, which is known for speculating on what could have happened if a significant historical event had occurred differently.
If the outcome is the element of the elementary event of two pips on the first die and five on the second, then both of the events of " 7 pips " and " odd number of pips " have also happened.
If crossover occurs once, then on average ( 4²² ) ² = 309x10 < sup > 24 </ sup > genetically different zygotes are possible for every couple, not considering that crossover events can take place at most points along each chromosome.
If and Roger
If Wycliffe was in philosophy the superior of his contemporaries and had no equal in scholastic discipline, he belongs with the series of great scholastic philosophers and theologians in which England in the Middle Ages was so rich – with Alexander of Hales, Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham ( Occam ), and Thomas Bradwardine.
If nothing else, Roger Williams had gathered and resigned from the Providence church before the town of Newport was even founded.
On one occasion, as related by Roger of Wendover, when King Henry met with papal prelates, he said, " If prelates knew how much I, in my reverence of God, am afraid of them and how unwilling I am to offend them, they would trample on me as on an old and worn-out shoe.
Roger Bacon wrote " If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.
" In a later review, Roger Ebert solidified the status of the film, " If I were asked to name the single scene in all of romantic comedy that was sexiest and funniest at the same time, I would advise beginning at six seconds past the 20-minute mark in Preston Sturges's " The Lady Eve '.
Roger Ebert wrote, " The DJ who was hosting the radio station's free preview of Cool World leaped onto the stage and promised the audience: ' If you liked Roger Rabbit, you'll love Cool World!
If it was Roger who began construction, the structure would have been built of timber, probably incorporating the earthworks of the Roman fort into its defences.
In 1976, he told a Libertarian activist that ' If I were a voting man, I'd vote for MacBride ' — LP nominee Roger MacBride, that is.
Entries came in from writers who were later to become well-known, including Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, and Andrew J. Offutt, whose story " And Gone Tomorrow ", about a man unexpectedly sent a hundred years into the future, won first prize and appeared in the December 1954 issue of If.
Influential film critic Roger Ebert gave the film a positive review, but was measured in his praise :" If you are attentive to the style, if you think about what Wong is doing, Chungking Express works.
If a ship then decided to resist, the Jolly Roger was taken down and a red flag was flown, indicating that the pirates intended to take the ship by force and without mercy.
Roger Waters contributes a folk ballad called " If ", playing acoustic guitar.
* Roger Waters – bass guitar, acoustic guitar and vocals on " If ", tape effects, tape collages
The poem's line, " If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same " is written on the wall of the Centre Court players ' entrance at the British tennis tournament, Wimbledon, and a part of the poem was read in a promotional video for the Wimbledon 2008 gentleman's final by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.
This cut went to number one, as did If You See Hers next two singles: " How Long Gone " and a cover of Roger Miller's " Husbands and Wives ", which also became the duo's first top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
If the crew resisted, the red flag would then be displayed to indicate that the offer of amnesty had been withdrawn ; no prisoners would be taken ( see also Jolly Roger / Pirate flag below ).
Her first American film was If Looks Could Kill, in which she played the daughter of a murdered British Agent ( played by Roger Daltrey ).
Roger Sale, in his history of children's literature sums it up: " If L. Frank Baum has a successor, it is Brooks.
#" If Everyone Was Listening " – 4: 35 – Lead vocals by Roger Hodgson
* Littlejohn's House of Fun: Thirteen Years of ( Labour ) Madness-Publisher: Hutchinson ( 1 April 2010 ) ISBN 978-0-09-193168-1-Reviewing for The Daily Telegraph Roger Lewis said: " If you prize free expression, this book is essential reading.
Roger Ebert gave it one star out of four and wrote that it was " not a film that could be understood ", and that " If I were to see it again and again, I might be able to extract an underlying logic from it, but the problem is, when a movie's not worth seeing twice, it had better get the job done the first time through ".
" Roger Greenspun of the New York Times saw it differently: " If it were an ordinary bad movie ( and it is a very bad movie ), WUSA might, in spite of the distinguished names, and less distinguished presence, of its leading actors, be dismissed with no more than a nod to the tension between Rosenberg's ponderously emphatic direction, and Robert Stone's ponderously allusive screenplay.
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