If there was no nuclear force, all nuclei with two or more protons would fly apart because of the electromagnetic repulsion.

If the skateboarder falls, the skateboard may roll or fly into another person.

If such sources are removed from residential areas, almost the only mosquitoes able to attack people are those that fly in or are blown in from where they have bred.

If they arrive at the corpse before any fly eggs hatch into maggots, the first eggs are eaten and maggot development is delayed.

" If only I were a fly on the wall ..." is a phrase used when one wishes they could have observed a scene in an omniscient point of view.

If a runner leaves the base before a fly ball, pop fly, or line drive is touched or contacts the ground, the defense can throw the ball to that base, and if the base is tagged before the runner returns, the runner is out as well, resulting in a double play.

If there are less than two batters out and runners on 1st and 2nd bases and the batter hits a pop fly in the infield, the batter is automatically out to prevent unfair play by the fielders.

If the spacecraft's purpose is only to fly by the inner planet, then there is typically no need to slow the spacecraft.

Using words like those of Leander in the seventeenth of Ovid ’ s Epistles he said: ' If only I had the wings of a dove / to fly back to you at will / Many and many a time I would come '.

For looping the Golden Gate Bridge, for flying at low level down Market Street in San Francisco and for blowing the clothes off of an Oakland woman's clothesline, Bong was reprimanded by General George C. Kenney, commanding officer of the Fourth Air Force, who told him, " If you didn't want to fly down Market Street, I wouldn't have you in my Air Force, but you are not to do it any more and I mean what I say.

If it attempts to fly while its wings are wet, it has great difficulty getting off the water and takes off by flapping vigorously while " running " on the water.

If the chest is dug up and opened, the hare will bolt away ; if it is killed, the duck will emerge and try to fly off.

If the birds fly, the most tell-tale sign is the white secondary remiges, whereas in the Greater Scaup the white extends on the primary remiges also, i. e. far towards the wingtip.

If a batted ball were hit on the fly into foul territory, with the batting team having no runner ( s ) on base, and a fielder misplayed such ball for an error, it is possible for a team on the winning side of a perfect game to commit at least one error, yet still qualify as a perfect game.

If it can not, and there is a high risk of collateral damage, it will fly to a crash point instead of risking inaccuracy.

If for some reason the pilot decides not to land, he can simply fly back up to circuit height, and complete another circuit.

Bond responded with the prophetic response " If only I had the strength, how the fitters would fly ; My poor country Newfoundland, the last stage ".

If a departure does occur the females have been noted to fly away, hissing at the intruder or to perform a disturbance display.

If the pilot keeps the flight path vector alongside the trajectory symbol, the craft will fly the optimum path.

If the spinnaker is mounted to a special bowsprit, it is often possible to fly the spinnaker and the jib at the same time ; if not, then the spinnaker will be shadowed by the jib, and the jib should be furled when the spinnaker is in use.

If the player miscalculates the module's landing, the module will either fly off into space or crash hard against the moon's surface or the mountain over which the lander first passed.

If " infield fly " is called and the fly ball is caught, it is treated exactly as an ordinary fly ball ; the batter is out, there is no force, and the runners must tag up.

If it's true that contented cows give more milk, why shouldn't happy ball players produce more base hits??

If a batter reaches first base because of offensive interference by a preceding runner ( including if a preceding runner is hit by a batted ball ), he is also credited with a hit.

If the fielder bobbles the ball, the runner may still tag up, even before the fielder has full control of the ball ( before the fielder is credited with a putout ).

If the ball is dead on the pitch run on, such as from a foul ball ( except caught fly-out ), the steal is not allowed and the runner returns to his time-of-pitch base.

* If the third baseman fields a ball and throws it to first, it is recorded as a 5 – 3 out.

* Corollary If X is a Banach space, then X is reflexive if and only if X ′ is reflexive, which is the case if and only if its unit ball is compact in the weak topology.

If the ball has left the field along the sidelines, the referee must decide which team touched the ball last, and award a restart stroke to the opposing team, just like football's throw-in.

If the ball socket were too tight, the ink did not reach the paper.

If the ball has a rough surface, the fluid flowing past it will make it rotate.

If the player either hits the ball through the correct hoop (" runs " the hoop ), or hits another ball ( a " roquet "), the turn continues.

If a non-poison ball roquets a poison ball, the standard roqueting options apply, but if a poison ball travels through a wicket or hits a stake for any reason, it forfeits and is eliminated from the game.

If the hoop is the hoop in order for the striker ’ s ball, the striker earns a bonus stroke.

If a team fails to gain ten yards in two downs they usually punt the ball on third down or try to kick a field goal ( see below ), depending on their position on the field.

* If the defence scores on a safety ( bringing the ball down in the offence's own end zone ), they have the right to claim possession.

* If one team kicks the ball ; the other team has the right to recover the ball and attempt a return.

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 the offence attempts a forward pass and it is intercepted by the defence ; the defence takes possession immediately ( and may try to advance the ball on the play ).

* If the offence fumbles ( a ball carrier drops the football, or has it dislodged by an opponent, or if the intended player fails to catch a lateral pass or a snap from centre, or a kick attempt is blocked by an opponent ), the ball may be recovered ( and advanced ) by either team.

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.