If a nation continues on this path without resistance, Gini claimed the nation would enter a final decadent stage where the nation would degenerate as noted by decreasing birth rate, decreasing cultural output, and the lack of imperial conquest.

If the dominant country's influence is felt in social and cultural circles, such as " foreign " music being popular with young people, it may be described as cultural imperialism.

If the Sex Pistols ' breakup the previous year had marked the end of the original UK punk scene and its promise of cultural transformation, for many the death of Vicious signified that it had been doomed from the start.

If they are correct in this, then communitarian doctrine reduces to little more than traditionalism and cultural moral relativism.

As a contemporary biographer of John Brown put it: " If, as Alfred Kazin suggests, without John Brown there would have been no Civil War, we would add that without the Concord Transcendentalists, John Brown would have had little cultural impact.

James J Greene writes on the subject: “ If one of the seminally powerful myths in the cultural memory of our past is Aeneas ' rejection of his African queen in order to go on and found the Roman empire, than it is surely significant that Shakespeare's ... depicts precisely and quite deliberately the opposite course of action from that celebrated by Virgil.

* Tony Palmer, in The Observer, wrote shortly after the album's release: " If there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since Schubert, then ... album The Beatles ... should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making ..."

* If the believer is one of the rare exceptions who follows a different religion from his parents, the explanation may be cultural transmission from a charismatic individual.

If Ishi were descended from both of the tribes and grew up with members of both, it may help explain his adaptive abilities, as his circumstances, essentially from birth, would have been different from the cultural norm of his people.

tested the following hypothesis: “ If youth culture serves to help adolescents deal with problems of vulnerability and finiteness, then reminders of mortality should lead to increased allegiance to cultural practices and beliefs of the youth .” Their results supported their hypothesis and the results of previous studies, suggesting that youth culture is, in fact, a culture.

If legal, economic, cultural, and historical circumstances were different, the broadcasters would have been the producers of their own programs.

If people are given the economic security and leisure achievable in the context of a social credit dispensation, Douglas believed most would end their service to mammon and use their free time pursuing spiritual, intellectual, or cultural goals leading to self-development.

If a country has " power " ( as influence ) in military, diplomatic, cultural, and economic spheres, it might be called a " power " ( as status ).

" If The Yellow Book was not as " daring " as its introduction advertised, it was still a part of the vanguard of cultural debate which typified the main struggles of the " yellow ' 90s ".

If every culture had its own specific popular medicine based on its general cultural features, it would be possible to propose the existence of as many medical systems as there were cultures and, therefore, develop the comparative study of these systems.

If at all, it was the other way round and many had folk narratives, traditions, myths and legends to bolster their sense of identity and cultural uniqueness.

EA Sports ' early motto was If it's in the game, it's in the game, later changed to " It's in the game " This tag line, strategized by Don Transeth, written by Jeff Odiorne and Michael Wilde, and delivered by the voice of EA Sports, Andrew Anthony, has become a cultural rallying cry throughout the sports universe.

If the appropriate cultural tradition for curating an object is unknown, the Native staff uses their own cultural knowledge and customs to treat materials as respectfully as possible.

David Cronenberg was surprised when The Fly became embraced as a cultural metaphor for AIDS, since he originally intended the film to be a more general analogy for disease itself, terminal conditions like cancer and, more specifically, the aging process: " If you, or your lover, has AIDS, you watch that film and of course you'll see AIDS in it, but you don't have to have that experience to respond emotionally to the movie and I think that's really its power ; This is not to say that AIDS didn't have an incredible impact on everyone and of course after a certain point people were seeing AIDS stories everywhere so I don't take any offense that people see that in my movie.

If anything, it was more seen as a cultural concept ( including language, religion ( in different forms ), and already sometimes race in a vague sense ).

If the identification is admitted, the commonness of wraparound eyes in the abduction literature falls to cultural forces.

Their meaning is disguised by being spelled phonetically: ' surchmi ' in The Slippery Slope ; backwards: ' edasurc ' in The Carnivorous Carnival, and ' cigam ' in The Miserable Mill ; through cultural references: ' Matahari ', followed by a definition of ' If I stay, I can spy on them and find out.

If he's going to the St. Louis convention as a delegate we ought to know it.

If Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past, he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja vue.

If the convention B < sub > 1 </ sub >=− is used, this sequence is also known as the first Bernoulli numbers ( / in OEIS ); with the convention B < sub > 1 </ sub >=+ is known as the second Bernoulli numbers ( / in OEIS ).

If a government cannot get its appropriation ( budget ) legislation passed by the House of Representatives, or the house passes a vote of " no confidence " in the government, the prime minister is bound by convention to resign immediately.

If at least two-thirds of the legislatures of the states so request, Congress is required to call a convention for the purpose of proposing amendments.

If a Manchester encoded signal is inverted in communication, it is transformed from one convention to the other.

* Joel Spolsky ( for Apps Hungarian ): " If you read Simonyi's paper closely, what he was getting at was the same kind of naming convention as I used in my example above where we decided that meant " unsafe string " and meant " safe string.

with the element of path along the integration of electric field vector E. If the applied E field is uniform and oriented along the length of the conductor as shown in the figure, then defining the voltage V in the usual convention of being opposite in direction to the field ( see figure ), and with the understanding that the voltage V is measured differentially across the length of the conductor allowing us to drop the Δ symbol, the above vector equation reduces to the scalar equation:

If the game is instead played with the normal play convention ( player who takes the last piece wins ), the second player can always win by symmetrically mirroring the first player's moves.

# Overrides rules 1 to 3: If there is a more common convention than using posthumous, temple or era names, then use it.

If you prefer better clarification and do not want to bother with all those " names ," please refer to each dynasty, of which the specific convention is shown on top of its sovereigns.

If the potential energy is set to zero at infinite distance from the atomic nucleus or molecule, the usual convention, then bound electron states have negative potential energy.

# If the filename contains characters not allowed in an 8. 3 name ( including space which was disallowed by convention though not by the APIs ) or either part is too long, the name is stripped of invalid characters such as spaces and extra periods.

If is a closed bounded interval, we also allow the possibility ( this convention makes it possible to talk about " closed " simple curves, see below ).

In 1961, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a speech titled " If the Negro Wins, Labor Wins " to the organization's convention in Bal Harbour, Florida.

If the list contains only one number, so that we cannot multiply first by second, common convention holds that the ' product of all ' is that same number, and if the list has no numbers at all, the ' product of all ' is 1.

If not off-the-grid, sustainable homes may be linked to a grid supplied by a power plant that is using sustainable power sources, buying power as is normal convention.

If things had gone according to Mackenzie's plan, it appears that on November 29, he would have called for a provincial constitutional convention, with a provisional government headed by John Rolph administering the colony in the meantime.

If there were more than 99 numbers in a subclass, the number series extended to the next value of the third digit ; thus, since there were more than 200 locomotives in class ' 47 / 4 ', subclasses ' 47 / 5 ' and ' 47 / 6 ' did not exist, and the next valid subclass by convention was ' 47 / 7 ' starting with ' 47 701 '.

If the name did reflect a biblical-or pre-biblical-era naming convention in the Near East, this would make it ancient indeed, pre-dating both Islam and Greco-Roman civilization.

If Γ is a quiver, then a path in Γ is a sequence of arrows a < sub > n </ sub > a < sub > n-1 </ sub > ... a < sub > 3 </ sub > a < sub > 2 </ sub > a < sub > 1 </ sub > such that the head of a < sub > i + 1 </ sub > = tail of a < sub > i </ sub >, using the convention of concatenating paths from right to left.

If M does not admit a finite projective resolution, then by convention the projective dimension is said to be infinite.

" If the states collectively agreed in their declarations, there were several methods by which it might prevail, from persuading Congress to repeal the unconstitutional law, to calling a constitutional convention, as two-thirds of the states may.