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If and enemy's
If we fail to develop the means to hunt down and destroy the enemy's military force with extreme care and precision, and if war comes in spite of our most ardent desires for peace, our choice of alternatives will be truly frightening.
If the attacking pincers link up in the enemy's rear, the enemy is encircled.
Referring to the enemy's power supplies he wrote ( as Axiom 3 ): " If their destruction or paralysis can be accomplished they offer a means of rendering the enemy utterly incapable of continuing to prosecute the war ".
If it shoots an enemy the enemy is removed but the archer need not move into the enemy's space.
If the player times the guard button right, their character can not only defend against an enemy's punch, they can also put certain enemies in an arm grab, leaving the enemy vulnerable to successive attacks.
If the lock-on is red, then the player strangles, punches, and snaps the enemy's neck while the enemy groans in pain and suffers from lack of oxygen.
* If he kills Fulgore but spares Orchid, his enjoyment of his enemy's demises is only sweetened by the discovery that Orchid is his older sister.
If there is an aura around an enemy's coin pouch, they are carrying an expensive item ( i. e. Ruby, diamond, gold watch, etc .).
If Kirby touches an enemy or is hit by an enemy's attack, Kirby will lose one bar of health ( out of six total health points ).
If the object of war is to destroy the enemy's ability to resist politically, this may be achieved by other, less expensive, methods.
If an enemy's Disc is destroyed, the replacement is always a regular Disc.

If and army
If this trade should be resumed, the habitants who had come to be farmers or artisans, and soldiers discharged from the army, must be hardened to the severe life of coureurs de bois.
If internal frictions arose, they could be handled by the 25,000-man Congolese army, the Force Publique, which had been trained and was still officered by white Belgians.
If this entailed transforming the West Saxon fyrd from a sporadic levy of king's men and their retinues into a mounted standing army, so be it.
If his kingdom lacked strongpoints to impede the progress of an enemy army, he would build them.
If he intended an attack along the Moselle the Duke must now turn west, but, instead, the following day the army crossed to the right bank of the Rhine, ( pausing to add 5, 000 waiting Hanoverians and Prussians ).
If Holstein-Beck's Dutch column were destroyed, the Allied army would be split in two: Eugene's wing would be isolated from Marlborough's, passing the initiative to the Franco-Bavarian forces now engaged across the whole plain.
An army officer was quoted in the New York Times of 18 July 1982 as telling an audience of indigenous Guatemalans in Cunén that: " If you are with us, we'll feed you ; if not, we'll kill you.
In response, the deputy army chief, Antonio Ndjai, said: " If the people continue to go out into the streets to show their support for Carlos Gomes Junior, then I will kill Carlos Gomes Junior ... or I will send someone to kill him.
If they turned to illegality it was due to the fact that honest toil only benefited the employers and often entailed a complete loss of dignity, while any complaints resulted in the sack ; to avoid starvation through lack of work it was necessary to beg or steal, and to avoid conscription into the army many of them had to go on the run.
In a June 1918 leaflet entitled " Appeal for Enlistment ", Gandhi wrote " To bring about such a state of things we should have the ability to defend ourselves, that is, the ability to bear arms and to use them ... If we want to learn the use of arms with the greatest possible despatch, it is our duty to enlist ourselves in the army.
If they did not comply the besieging army would surround the town with temporary fortifications to stop sallies from the stronghold or relief getting in.
If a player runs out of army pieces during the game, another color may be used to substitute, or another symbolic token to help keep track of armies.
If the Alamanni tried to flee, Valentinian would be waiting for them with his army.
If this political location could be overthrown, the army would have enough power to " veto anyone else's control of the state, negotiate for Cuernavaca or attack it directly, and maintain independent access to Mexico City as well as escape routes to the southern hills.
Baron Riedesel, commanding the Hessians in Carleton's army, noted that, " If we could have begun our expedition four weeks earlier, I am satisfied that everything could have ended this year.
If he cannot raise a formidable army, but must rely on defense, he must fortify his city.
On January 10, Lincoln met with top generals ( McClellan did not attend ) and directed them to formulate a plan of attack, expressing his exasperation with General McClellan with the following remark: " If General McClellan does not want to use the army, I would like to borrow it for a time.
) If England could have sent an army, and although we all know how admirable that army is on the peace establishment, we must acknowledge that we have no means of sending out a force at all equal to cope with the 300, 000 or 400, 000 men whom the 30, 000, 000 or 40, 000, 000 of Germany could have pitted against us, and that such an attempt would only have insured a disgraceful discomfiture — not to the army, indeed, but to the Government which sent out an inferior force and expected it to cope successfully with a force so vastly superior.
If the person in question expected a certain sentence from the court, having been found guilty on the grounds of his own evidence, and it could only be prison death, we had to sentence him to expulsion from the army.
If the generals would offer him a share of the command, he claimed, he would use this army to assist the Athenians.
If a general entered Italy whilst exercising command of an army, both the general and his soldiers became outlaws and were automatically condemned to death.
If there was no antisemitism in the army, the unbearable call to duty would be almost easy.
If they had indeed disappeared, then it is possible that they were revived once again during the Komnenian restoration, a period of thorough financial, territorial and military reform that changed the Byzantine army of previous ages, which is referred to separately as the Komnenian army after the 12th century.

If and is
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.

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