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If the decision goes wrong, it may be -- as Mr. Stevenson fears -- `` the first step on the slippery path downhill '' to a U.N. without operational responsibilities and without effective meaning.
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If communications work, his decision would be instantly known in all command posts that would originate the actual go order.
If we have not thought and made a decision entirely in these terms, then we need to submit ourselves to the following `` simple test '': `` Have we decided how we are to kill the other members of our household in the event of our being less injured than they are ''??
If she chose, and in that final decision discarded, what, above all, all of us value, life itself, must she not have risen to her fullest height, and transcending her murky self, felt at last the passion of a great moral decision??
If the appellate court does find a legal defect in the decision " below " ( i. e., in the lower court ), it may " modify " the ruling to correct the defect, or it may nullify (" reverse " or " vacate ") the whole decision or any part of it.
* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.
If a similar dispute has been resolved in the past, the court is bound to follow the reasoning used in the prior decision ( this principle is known as stare decisis ).
If it is negative, that means that the investment decision would actually lose money even if it appears to generate a nominal profit.
If a decision must be reached in a particular match ( e. g., in a tournament ) and it ends in a draw after regular time, there are at maximum two overtimes of 2 × 5 minutes with a 1-minute break each.
:" If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord's will, I am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never had been made.
If a judge acts against precedent and the case is not appealed, the decision will stand.
If there is no decision on point from the highest court of a state, the federal courts must attempt to predict how the state courts would resolve the issue, by looking at decisions from state appellate courts at all levels.
If a serious error embodied in a decision of this House has distorted the law, the sooner it is corrected the better.
If the lex loci arbitri has been ignored, but there was no real and substantial connection between the place of arbitration and the agreement made by the parties, a court in which enforcement is sought may well accept the tribunal's decision.
" If a firm has market power, so its decision of how much output to provide to the market influences the market price, then the firm is not " faced with " any price, and the question is meaningless.
" If a buyer has market power, so its decision of how much to buy influences the market price, then the buyer is not " faced with " any price, and the question is meaningless.
If, however, the referee is on the court during play, the referee may overrule the umpire's decision ( This would only happen in Davis Cup or Fed Cup matches, not at the World Group level, when a chair umpire from a non-neutral country is in the chair ).
If all herders make this individually rational economic decision, the common will be depleted or even destroyed, to the detriment of all.
If the old city of Utrecht offers both medieval and contemporary surroundings, the reputation of the university is a growing factor in the decision of its students to enroll.
If the decision is not properly discussed, men and women may view moving in together in different ways.
If the accused does not accept the NJP, the NJP hearing is terminated and the commander must make the decision of whether to process the service member for court-martial.
If the emperor rejected a court conference decision, he risked alienating his high ministers.
If that is the position, the decision you have to reach, on all the evidence, is whether you are sure that it was the Defendant who left that stain or whether it is possible that it was one of that other small group of men who share the same DNA characteristics.
If and goes
Without preliminaries, Esther asked him, `` If you are a world citizen, will you take Garry Davis' place in his tent while he goes to the hospital ''??
If more than one player selects a tile in that row, then the player whose tile is in the leftmost column ( closest to 1 ) goes first.
If the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.
If she goes her time out, she herself cuts the navel-string with a shell, which she boils along with the secondine, and eats them both.
If a kicked ball goes out of bounds, or the kicking team scores a single or field goal as a result of the kick, the other team likewise gets possession.
If a fumbled ball goes out of bounds, the team whose player last touched it is awarded possession at the spot where it went out of bounds.
If something goes wrong, ed is sometimes the only editor available.
If the Commons have impeached a peer, the Lords take custody of the accused, otherwise custody goes to Black Rod.
If truly irreducible systems are found, the argument goes, then intelligent design must be the correct explanation for their existence.
If one is ill, one goes to a doctor rather than a psychologist, because the doctor is expert in the subject of health.
If a fighter loses consciousness (" goes limp ") as a result of legal strikes, or does not immediately defend himself after a knockdown, he is declared knocked out.
If the net excitation received by a neuron over a short period of time is large enough, the neuron generates a brief pulse called an action potential, which originates at the soma and propagates rapidly along the axon, activating synapses onto other neurons as it goes.
If that judgment goes to appeal, the appellate court will have the opportunity to review both the precedent and the case under appeal, perhaps overruling the previous case law by setting a new precedent of higher authority.
If his reasoning is valid, he goes on to argue, either it is not very immoral to value small luxuries over saving many lives, or such affluent people are very immoral.
If both vaulters miss, the bar goes down by a small increment, and if both clear, the bar goes up by a small increment.
If the ball goes wide of the goal, the defending team is allowed a free ' knock-in ' from the place where the ball crossed the goal line, thus getting the ball back into play.
If this goes unnoticed by a player, the opponent can fill in the empty space, completing the tessera.
If a player goes outside the path, they next start where their pencil left the track.
If the project goes ahead, feeder ships would take containers from the port of Oswego on Lake Ontario in upstate New York to Melford International Terminal in Nova Scotia for transfer to larger ocean-going ships.
If and when the airport eventually goes ahead, the Royal Mail ship will cease operations when flights begin.
If a person occupies land for the required period of time as set out in provincial limitation acts and, during that time, no legal action is taken to evict or in trespass, the ownership in the land goes from the legal owner to the squatter.
If mating goes on for too long, the female may eventually lose interest, breaking off the process.
If the set goes to a tie-break, players are given one additional opportunity to challenge the call.
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