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 this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.

If tests are to be resumed, the argument went, it is vital that the U. S. make plain that the onus belongs to the Soviet Union.

In response to Lord Chalfont's claim in that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £ 100 million a year, Bruce Kent said, " If they were, it was certainly not getting to our grotty little office in Finsbury Park.

In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: " If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort — a common work of both our nations.

If the interceptors were placed in orbit, some of them could be positioned over the Soviet Union at all times.

:" If the second variant takes place and the imperialists invade Cuba with the aim of occupying it, the dangers of their aggressive policy are so great that after such an invasion the Soviet Union must never allow circumstances in which the imperialists could carry out a nuclear first strike against it.

If enough Union troops filled the breach quickly enough and drove into the Confederate rear area, the Confederates would not be able to muster enough force to drive them out, and Petersburg might fall.

If any State in the Union will declare that it prefers separation with the first alternative, to a continuance in union without it, I have no hesitation in saying, ' let us separate '.

Wheeler quotes Horace Greeley, " If the Declaration of Independence justifies the secession from the British Empire of three million colonists in 1776, we do not see why it would not justify the secession of five millions of southerns from the Federal Union in 1861.

From the New York Tribune, of November 9, 1860, " If the cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.

If you choose to leave the Union, leave it.

From the New York Times of December 3, Wheeler quoted Horace Greeley: " If seven or eight contiguous States shall present themselves authentically at Washington, saying: " We hate the Federal Union ; we have withdrawn from it ; we will give you the choice between acquiescing in our secession and arranging amicably all incidental questions on the one hand, and attempting to subdue us on the other ", we could not stand up for coercion, for subjugation, for we do not think it would be just.

If there are two or more flagpoles present, the Saltire may be flown in addition to the Union Flag but not in a superior position.

If the Soviet Union had captured the city of Oulu, the Finns would have had to defend the country on two fronts and an important rail link to Sweden would have been severed.

If the Soviet Union launched a sneak attack and the US did not respond immediately, the majority of their missiles and strategic bombers might be caught on the ground.

* Union: If X → Y and X → Z, then X → YZ

If it passes, though, Shepherd's re-election is presumed by his staff to be a shoo-in, and Shepherd resolves to announce the bill, and the Congressional support to pass it, by the State of the Union.

Booker also played his B-3 on the track " If It Wasn't For Bad " from the Elton John and Leon Russell collaboration album titled The Union.

If the body does contain toxins, then the marketing and sale of ocean sunfish meat is forbidden in the European Union according to Regulation ( EC ) No 853 / 2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

If the Union had lost the battle of Gettysburg the Confederate army could possibly been able to march on to Washington D. C. and end the war.

If these rivers were opened to Union military traffic, two direct invasion paths would lead into Tennessee and beyond.

If the Poles and eastern Slavs in the territories given to the Soviet Union had remained in Poland, the National Democrats would have never won an election.

# If the design is symmetrical in an axis parallel to the flag pole, obverse and reverse will be identical despite the mirror-reversal, such as the Indian Flag or Canadian Flag

( 1 ) If the Estonian Flag is raised with other flags, the Estonian flag must be at a position of superior prominence or honour.

( 4 ) If the Estonian Flag is displayed with flags of other countries or international organisations and with Estonian county, city, parish or other Estonian flags, the Estonian county, city, parish or other Estonian flag must be placed to left of the international organisation's flag when looking at the line flags from behind.

If the player successful hits the Flag Ship's core, the Flag Ship explodes in a dramatic display, the player advances to the next rank, and play continues on Mission 1, with the difficulty increased.

Some of the songs written by Flores were: " Amor Perdido " ( Lost Love ), " Bajo un Palmar " ( Under the Palm Tree ), " Borracho no Vale " ( which may translate to " Drunk Doesn't Count " or " Doesn't Count If You're Drunk "), " Linda ", " Sin Banderas " ( Without a Flag ), " Despedida " ( Farewell ) and " Perdon " ( I'm Sorry ).

Two days later, President Lincoln, still acting as Commander-in-Chief, directed Flag Officer Goldsborough: " If you have tolerable confidence that you can successfully contend with the Merrimac and the North used the ships ' former name without the help of the Galena and two accompanying gunboats, send the Galena and two gunboats up the James River at once to support General McClellan.

The presentation specifically took issue with the band's use of the Confederate Flag, the video for their song " Throat Full of Glass ", and the lyric " all you feminist cunts / you know that you want it / give head if you got it " from the song " Give Head If You Got It ".

If it had not been for Emigration, America would be people by the Indians and the wild beasts, Emigrants has built up and inriched America, I am in favor of holding up our identity as an Nation, to all Nations in the world, to Nationalize all Nations who come under the stars and stripes of the American Flag.

If the Governor of the state is unwell, or is unavailable for some reason, the Chief Minister of the state assumes the honour of unfurling the National Flag of India.

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.