If the Dominican Republic achieves free, democratic government, it will be due in large part to the U.S. show of force that enabled President Balaguer to prevent a threatened restoration of Trujillo dictatorship.

Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

If some supporters articulate that they agree to the independence of Taiwan, they may either be referring to the notion of formally creating an independent Republic of Taiwan, or to the notion that Taiwan is synonymous with the current Republic of China and already is independent, which is against the People's Republic of China's claim.

If ranked today, the United Arab Republic would be the 25th largest nation on the planet ( Egypt is 30th and Syria is 88th ).

Iran, however, has made the following reservation “ If the text of the Convention is or becomes incompatible with the domestic laws and Islamic standards at any time or in any case, the Government of the Islamic Republic shall not abide by it .” Iran has also signed the both optional protocols which relate to the special protection of children against involvement in armed conflict and the sale of children and sexual exploitation.

If the latter argument is accepted, then the Republic of China may have ceased to be a state post-1971 as a matter of international law (" de jure "), yet continued to otherwise function as the state that it previously was recognised as (" de facto ").

* If the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister are not from the same party, foreign affairs and defense are conducted by the President.

* If the president of the National Assembly, the president of the Senate or 60 deputies or 60 senators claim that a just-voted statute is unconstitutional, the President of the Republic does not sign the law and instead waits for a petition to be sent to the Constitutional Council.

* If the country merged into an existing country, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of this country is used ( e. g., the German Democratic Republic merged into Germany, whose alpha-2 code is < tt > DE </ tt >).

* If the country was divided into several parts, the special code < tt > HH </ tt > is used to indicate that there is no single successor country ( e. g., Czechoslovakia was divided into the Czech Republic and Slovakia ), with the exception of Serbia and Montenegro, for which < tt > XX </ tt > is used to avoid duplicate use of the same ISO 3166-3 code, as the alpha-2 code < tt > CS </ tt > had twice been deleted from ISO 3166-1, the first time due to the split of Czechoslovakia and the second time due to the split of Serbia and Montenegro.

If you know of works set in the Early Republic, please expand this section.

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If so, this group may be the original so-called knights equo privato, a rank that is attested throughout the history of the Republic ( in contrast to knights equo publico ).

If the Republic had been in danger, they would have been called up by the General Staff, supplied with arms, and allotted to their places.

If the chairman was from the Czech Socialist Republic, the vice chairman must have been from the Slovak Socialist Republic, and vice versa.

" If the US attacked Iran, despite all my problems with the Islamic Republic, I'd go back and fight these bastards ...

If once again the required majority is not attained, voting is repeated after five days, the person receiving the votes of a three-fifths majority of the total number of Members of Parliament shall be elected President of the Republic.

If the inhabitants would rise against Spain, the Southern Netherlands would be afforded independence on the model of the Cantons of Switzerland, however with the Flemish seacoast, Namur and Thionville annexed by France, and Breda, Geldern and Hulst going to the Republic.

If the inhabitants resisted, the country would be partitioned outright, with the Francophone provinces and western Flanders going to France, and the remainder to the Republic.

*" If one admits that the Iraqis are delighted with Saddam Hussein's end, one must also think about the possibility that maybe, the Iranians would celebrate at the end of the Islamic Republic as well.

If the Assembly is in crisis, The President of the Republic may dissolve the National Assembly, upon an elaborated proposal of the government.

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

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 the detective insists upon retaining his personal standards, he must now do so in conscious defiance of his society.

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

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 art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

If this choice is less exciting than New York Democrats may wish, it nevertheless must be made.

If the less developed countries are to be persuaded to adopt a long-term approach, the United States, as the principal supplier of external aid, must be prepared to give long-term commitments.

If these services are to be maintained, the New York Central must have the revenues to make them possible ''.

If the resulting difference for the particular State is less or more than these extremes, the State's allotment percentage must be raised or lowered to the appropriate extreme.

If the resulting difference for the particular State is less or more than these extremes, the State's Federal share must be raised or lowered to the appropriate extreme.

If there is anything which we can do in the executive branch of the Government to speed up the processes by which we come to decisions on matters on which we must act promptly, that in itself would be a major contribution to the conduct of our affairs.

If the reserve components are to serve effectively in time of war, their basic organization and objectives must conform to the changing character and missions of the active forces.

If you mail A return or tax payment, you must place it in the mails in ample time to reach the district director on or before the due date.

If A taxpayer dies, the executor, administrator, or legal representative must file the final return for the decedent on or before the 15th day of the 4th month following the close of the deceased taxpayer's normal tax year.

If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

If the dance teachers of America make it their business to prepare their young charges for the gymnastics that must come some day if our schools are really responsible, we will be that much ahead.

If a litigant chooses to enforce a Federal right in a State court, he cannot be heard to object if he is treated exactly as are plaintiffs who press like claims arising under State law with regard to the form in which the claim must be stated -- the particularity, for instance, with which a cause of action must be described.

If the photographically realistic continuity of dreams, however bizarre their combinations, denies that it is purely a composition of the brain, it must be compounded from views of diverse realities, although some of them may never be encountered in what we are pleased to call the real life.

If the farm is rented, the rent must be paid.

If it is owned, taxes must be paid, and if the place is not free of mortgage, there will be interest and payments on the principal to take care of.

If you are going to farm for extra cash income on a part-time basis you must keep in mind the needed machinery investments when you choose among farm enterprises.