: If there's lords in the Lowlands, there's chiefs in the North ;

If the " clan mothers " did not agree with any major decisions made by the chiefs, they could eventually depose them.

If she ’ d Bassett have seen as many native chiefs ' wives as I have, she wouldn ’ t want to make such an ass of herself.

If Theodore then read his ecthesis, the anathema with which that ends might have been represented outside the council as a synodical condemnation of the Pelagian chiefs.

Julius Caesar offered a similar opinion over a century earlier :" No disgrace attaches to armed robbery, provided it is committed outside the frontiers of the tribe .... When one of the chiefs announces at an assembly that he is going to lead a raid, and calls for volunteers, ... those who agree with the raid and approve of the men proposing it stand up .... If any of those men then fail to go with him, they are regarded as deserters and traitors and no one ever trusts them again in anything.

" If you honourable chiefs agree that those involved in the coup be forgiven, it will prove that we support the wrong and will be at odds with the integrity of God ," he declared.

As for Chief Powhatan, Gates was told “ If you finde it not best to make him your prisoner yet you must make him your tributary, and all the other his weroances chiefs about him first to acknowledge no other Lord but King James ”.

If you were a man '' --

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

If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.

If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??

If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.

If anything, the conservative Democrats were more opposed to Hearst than the Republicans.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

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 there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.

If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??

If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

If the “ scandal of the cross ” diminished the sect's chances of dominating Judaism, the

If fashionable women could be dissuaded from wearing furs that look like friends ' pets, the diminished demand would result in less poaching of wild species.

If their extinction was due to a bolide strike, plankton around the globe could have been severely diminished, thereby dooming ammonite reproduction during its planktonic stage.

If a large heap ( indisputably described as a heap ) is slowly diminished, it preserves its " heap status " to a point, even as the actual amount of sand is reduced to a smaller number of grains.

If Hannibal had another 50, 000 in reserve, his capabilities would not have been seriously diminished.

If the depicted colours did not match those of the birds, the value of the finished product was diminished.

If the guess is wrong, the signal will destructively interfere, resulting in a diminished output signal, but the correct guess will result in the signal amplification described above.

If, on one hand, the reform diminished corruption and electoral fraud, allowing the Brazilian parliamentary system to work better, it also had negative effects, as the illiterate were no longer allowed to vote.

If he was ever more than an obscure villain, Maleagant's role seems to have diminished as Mordred became more popular ; however, Maleagant appears in most accounts of Guinevere's kidnapping.

If the melody note is considered a passing tone, the harmony is created either by a diminished chord or a chromatically shifted chord.

If either the consistency or the flow rate diminished, squeezing would diminish until it was inadequate for proper moisture removal.

If regression is defined strictly to require loss of language, it is less common ; if defined more broadly, to include cases where language is preserved but social interaction is diminished, it is more common.

* If the sisters are under emotional distress, its power to protect itself from evil is diminished.

If a target does not wish to die, or can at the brink of death find a strong will to live, Deathurge's powers have a diminished or even negligible effect.