If not for the last second deviation, which compromised his autorotative descent, he might have landed safely.

If a daimyo unified Japan, and was not of Minamoto descent, then he would be given the title of " regent ".

If a society is divided into exactly two descent groups, each is called a moiety, after the French word for half.

If they did not, Grundy says, the question of explaining the relationship between Freyja and Óðr becomes central, which has been one of the strongest points made in favor of the descent of Frigg and Freyja from a common goddess.

If Alfonso XII and his heirs are discounted, the heir to the Spanish throne under the carloctavista succession rules with descent only through equal marriages is Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, the current pretender to the throne of Portugal.

If serious sickness is encountered, descent to a lower elevation is considered to be mandatory unless other circumstances present greater danger.

If the given sequence is found to be related by common descent to a protein sequence of known structure ( called a template ), comparative protein modeling may be used to predict the tertiary structure.

If a diver's mask is not equalized during descent the relative negative pressure can produce petechial hemorrhages in the area covered by the mask along with subconjunctival hemorrhages.

As Roland appropriately stated in his article, “ the importance of Tarle ’ s books lies not in Tarle himself, or in his descent into falsification of history, it lies in the light it throws on Stalinism .” If this was the case accepted by the historians and by Marxists, it can be said that the high degree of the criticism faced by Tarle is nonsense.

If there is an '" altruism gene "' ( or complex of genes ) that influences an organism's behavior to be helpful and protective of relatives and their offspring, this behavior also increases the proportion of the altruism gene in the population, because relatives are likely to share genes with the altruist due to common descent.

If the climber falls, then he will free-fall the distance of the slack or unprotected rope before friction applied by the belayer will start to slow his descent.

If the form of the contradiction is that we can derive a further counterexample D, and that D is smaller than C in the sense of the working hypothesis of minimality, then this technique is traditionally called infinite descent.

Regarding Safiyya's Jewish descent, Muhammad once said to his wife, " If they discriminate you again, tell them that your husband is Muhammad, your father was the prophet Aaron and your uncle was prophet Musa.

If descent from male children does not exist ( ever or any longer ), a female and her heirs succeed.

If Hart's suggestion that Ælfgifu was of royal Mercian descent and related to the latter family is correct, it might have been hoped that the marriage would give Eadwig some political advantage in exercising West-Saxon control over Mercia.

If this action takes place relatively close to the target ( e. g. another bunch ahead, or the finish ), the ride over flatter terrain after the descent is not long enough to let the drafting effect ( which is then working at full power again ) make the bunch catch up, making the escape successful.

If featured record number of films: a total of 51, including 13 features submitted by filmmakers of Vietnamese descent from around the world.

If the same proportion would be found in all territory, this would mean about 8, 400, 000 Brazilians of Spanish descent, but such extrapolation is problematic, and quite certainly results in an overestimate, due to the issues pointed above.

If a glass of water is placed so that the beak dips into it on its descent, the bird will continue to absorb water and the cycle will continue as long as there is enough water in the glass to keep the head wet.

If the line of descent is the Imperial Crown line, the line is colored red, otherwise it is blue.

If a religious group cannot prove its descent from one of the recognised traditions, it risks being dismissed as illegitimate .’

If the child of a New Zealand citizen by descent born or adopted overseas does not qualify to register as a New Zealand citizen, he / she can be brought to live in New Zealand and subsequently granted New Zealand citizenship ( see below ).

If his point of descent is not high enough to deploy the parachute, or not low enough that he can safely hit the snow, the character ( in the form of a dot ) will bounce from the mountain and roll all the way back to the beach.

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.