If clay is slightly out of shape, square straight sides with guide sticks or rulers pressed against opposite sides, or smooth round pieces with damp fingers.

If a boy struck his father they would cut off the boy's hand or fingers ( translations vary ).

If the index finger of the right hand is pointed forward, the middle finger bent inward at a right angle to it, and the thumb placed at a right angle to both, the three fingers indicate the relative directions of the x -, y -, and z-axes in a right-handed system.

( If one of the basic hand-shape glyphs is used, such as the simple square or circle, this band breaks it in two ; however, if there are lines for fingers extended from the base, then they become detached from the base, but the base itself remains intact.

* If two people join their opposite hands and one slides his index and thumb over two joined fingers he will feel the other finger like it was one of his.

If the March was to be but a short Composition, the Ground must be of So many fingers ; for Bars they had no notion of ; if a Gathering, commonly of Such a Number, If a Lament, If a March, & c. according to the Occasion it must Consist of Such a Number.

If he stole the seed, rations or fodder, the Code stipulated that his fingers be cut off.

If one of the batsman turns to complete runs after the first without grounding his person or equipment behind the popping crease, then a short run is signalled by the umpire tapping his near shoulder with his fingers and the short runs are not scored.

If the fingers of the right hand are curled around the coil in the direction of current flow ( conventional current, flow of positive charge ) through the windings, the thumb points in the direction of the field inside the coil.

If you draw your fingers through them they are lodged and struggle with a shock of wet heads ; the long stalks rub and click and flatten to a fan on one another like your fingers themselves would when you passed the palms hard across one another, making a brittle rub and jostle like the noise of a hurdle strained by leaning against ; then there is the faint honey smell and in the mouth the sweet gum when you bite them.

The same quality was observed by director and screenwriter Hobart Henley: " If something that read well in conference turns out not so good on the screen, I go to him and, like that — Henley snaps his fingers — he has a remedy.

He had discovered his method of songwriting, which he described later: " You don't write melodies, you find them … If you find the beginning of a good song, and if your fingers do not stray, the melody should come out of hiding in a short time.

If we wrap our right hand around a wire with the thumb pointing in the direction of the current, the curl of the fingers shows how the field behaves.

If you grip the imaginary axis of rotation of the rotational force so that your fingers point in the direction of the force, then the extended thumb points in the direction of the torque vector.

If a technician uses ferrous tools, ( which are ferromagnetic ), and comes too close to the intense magnetic fields that contain the electron beam, such a tool can be pulled into the unit by the intense magnetic force, smashing fingers, injuring the technician, or damaging the unit.

If Deinonychus had feathered fingers and wings, the feathers would have limited the range of motion of the forelimbs to some degree.

If the trader wants to sell five contracts at a price of eight, they would yell " 5 at 8 ", stating quantity before price, and show one hand with palm facing outward, showing 5 fingers.

Law 40. 2, which deals with the specifications for wicketkeepers ' gloves, states that: If ,.... the wicket-keeper wears gloves, they shall have no webbing between the fingers except joining index finger and thumb, where webbing may be inserted as a means of support.

If one or more fingers are used to penetrate an orifice, it is called digital penetration.

If a player makes a mistake, then they suffer a small to moderate drinking penalty ( e. g. 2 fingers of drink ) and then restart the game from 1.

If one places the fingers on the voice box ( i. e. the location of the Adam's apple in the upper throat ), one can feel a vibration when one pronounces zzzz, but not when one pronounces ssss.

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 I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??

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 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 to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

If Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.

If they are right, they will prevail of and by themselves.

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 we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.

If we break the minister to our bit, we are buying back our own sins.

If the record buyer's tastes are somewhat eclectic or even the slightest bit esoteric, he will find them satisfied on educational records.

If Daddy's books are out of bounds his own picture books are not.

If it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.

If they are to be commended for foresight in their planning, what then is the judgment of a town council that compounds this problem during the planning stage??

If the Communists are sincere in wanting a united, neutral and disarmed Germany, it might well be advantageous for the German people in this nuclear age.

If only this could be done more often -- with such heartening results -- many of the earth's `` big problems '' would shrink to the insignificances they really are.

If any are left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically prohibiting the feeding of them too.

If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia.

If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.

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