`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

If the Department of State is to take primary responsibility for foreign policy in Washington, it follows that the ambassador is expected to take charge overseas.

If the demands of these two sovereigns upon his duty of allegiance come into conflict, those of the United States have the paramount authority in American law ; likewise, those of the foreign land have paramount authority in their legal system.

If foreign objects are not the cause, a doctor will incise and drain the abscess and prescribe painkillers and possibly antibiotics.

If one of the intervening states was a superpower, a civil war is extended a further 72 %; a conflict such as the Angolan Civil War, in which there is two-sided foreign intervention, including by a superpower ( actually, two superpowers in the case of Angola ), would be 538 % longer on average than a civil war without any international intervention.

If the political situation stabilizes, high crime levels wane, and new investment increases, tourism could take its place next to export-oriented manufacturing ( the assembly sector ) as a potential source of foreign exchange.

If the addressee is within the same country, there is no need for an IRC because a self-addressed stamped envelope ( SASE ) or return postcard will suffice ; but if the addressee is in another country an IRC removes the necessity of acquiring foreign postage or sending appropriate currency.

If the dominant country's influence is felt in social and cultural circles, such as " foreign " music being popular with young people, it may be described as cultural imperialism.

If a country's exchange rate is too high, its exports will become uncompetitive as buyers in foreign countries require more of their own currency to pay for them.

If a loan word is too foreign sounding inflection or derivation rules may not be able to transform it.

If the local court is actually giving extraterritorial effect to a foreign law, it is less than sovereign and so acting in a way that is potentially unconstitutional.

If the US had continued down this path, the dollar would have become a less attractive foreign exchange reserve asset: it would not have had the necessary liquidity to serve this function.

If a ferromagnetic foreign body is present in human tissue, an external magnetic field interacting with it can pose a serious safety risk .< ref >

If the insulin is an injected form and not made internally, the body may see the insulin as an outside or " foreign " substance.

Arthur L. Little, in agitative fashion, suggests that the desire to overcome the queen has a corporeal connotation: " If a black — read foreign — man raping a white woman encapsulates an iconographic truth ... of the dominant society's sexual, racial, national, and imperial fears, a white man raping a black woman becomes the evidentiary playing out of its self-assured and cool stranglehold over these representative foreign bodies ".

* If the foreign audience is near the broadcaster, high-power longwave and mediumwave stations can provide reliable coverage.

* If the foreign audience is more than 1, 000 kilometers away from the broadcaster, shortwave radio is reliable, but subject to interruption by adverse solar / geomagnetic conditions.

If an airline loses its national identity by merging to a large extent with a foreign company, existing agreements may be declared void by a country which objects to the merger.

" If one looks up in a Chinese-English dictionary the two dozen or so partly generic words used for various foreign peoples throughout Chinese history, one will find most of them defined in English as, in effect, ' a kind of barbarian '.

If the interest and capital requirements are too large, a nation may default on its debts, usually to foreign creditors.

If the body is exposed to foreign antigens, as by getting a tissue graft, it attacks the foreign material unless it is histocompatible.

:" If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of Congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations and among the several states is vested in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the Constitution of the United States.

If such forms represent a Welsh version of Bernicia, it is unclear why Welsh would need to borrow a ' foreign ' name for the area, so the former hypothesis is usually accepted, although no etymological analysis has produced a consensus.

If an antibody is developed to stabilize a molecule that's similar to an unstable intermediate of another ( potentially unrelated ) reaction, the developed antibody will enzymatically bind to and stabilize the intermediate state, thus catalyzing the reaction.

If a diatomic molecule consists of two atoms of the same element, such as H < sub > 2 </ sub > and O < sub > 2 </ sub >, then it is said to be homonuclear, but otherwise it is heteronuclear.

If the ether is part of a more complex molecule, it is described as an alkoxy substituent, so-OCH < sub > 3 </ sub > would be considered a " methoxy -" group.

If an explosive molecule contains just enough oxygen to convert all of its carbon to carbon dioxide, all of its hydrogen to water, and all of its metal to metal oxide with no excess, the molecule is said to have a zero oxygen balance.

If the molecule is symmetrical, e. g. N < sub > 2 </ sub >, the band is not observed in the IR spectrum, but only in the Raman spectrum.

If inversion through the center of symmetry in a molecule results in the same phases for the molecular orbital, then the MO is said to have gerade, g, symmetry.

If inversion through the center of symmetry in a molecule results in a phase change for the molecular orbital, then the MO is said to have ungerade, u, symmetry.

* If the molecule has some symmetry, the degenerate atomic orbitals ( with the same atomic energy ) are grouped in linear combinations ( called symmetry-adapted atomic orbitals ( SO )), which belong to the representation of the symmetry group, so the wave functions that describe the group are known as symmetry-adapted linear combinations ( SALC ).

If the carbonyl is at position 1 ( that is, n or m is zero ), the molecule begins with an formyl group H ( C = O )-, and is technically an aldehyde.

If the molecule can be rotated in space so that the directions of those four groups match those of the analog groups in-glyceraldehyde's C2, then the isomer receives the '-' prefix.

If the biologically active molecule chosen for PET is FDG, an analogue of glucose, the concentrations of tracer imaged then give tissue metabolic activity, in terms of regional glucose uptake.

If the struck molecule is DNA it can show a spontaneous mutation.

If the potential energy is set to zero at infinite distance from the atomic nucleus or molecule, the usual convention, then bound electron states have negative potential energy.

If an atom, ion, or molecule is at the lowest possible energy level, it and its electrons are said to be in the ground state.

If the final vibrational state of the molecule is more energetic than the initial state, then the emitted photon will be shifted to a lower frequency in order for the total energy of the system to remain balanced.

If we define the exobase as the height at which upward traveling molecules experience one collision on average, then at this position the mean free path of a molecule is equal to one pressure scale height.

If the adsorbate has a unity sticking coefficient, so that every molecule which reaches the surface sticks to it without re-evaporating, then the monolayer time is very roughly:

If some force is acting on the elastic cantilever ( for example because some molecule is being stretched between the surface and the tip ), this will deflect upward ( repulsive force ) or downward ( attractive force ).

If the union is between atoms or groups of the same molecule, the reaction is termed intramolecular condensation, and in many cases leads to ring formation.

If an inducer molecule is present, it binds to the repressor and changes its conformation so that it is unable to bind to the operator.

If the adsorbate molecule in the precursor state is in close proximity to an adsorbate molecule which has already formed on the surface, it has a sticking probability reflected by the size of the S < sub > E </ sub > constant and will either be adsorbed from the precursor state at a rate of k < sub > EC </ sub > or will desorb into the gaseous phase at a rate of k < sub > ES </ sub >.

If an adsorbate molecule enters the precursor state at a location that is remote from any other previously adsorbed adsorbate molecules, the sticking probability is reflected by the size of the S < sub > D </ sub > constant.

If the TCR is specific for that antigen, it binds to the complex of the Class I MHC molecule and the antigen and the T cell destroys the cell.