`` 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 the film industry was becoming a director's medium, Woolfson felt the music business might well become a producer's medium.

According to Oxfam, " If developed nations eliminated subsidy programs, the export value of agriculture in lesser developed nations would increase by 24 %, plus a further 5. 5 % from tariff equilibrium.

If the motivation for this tax was simply the first dividend, environmental improvement, then all firms, whether or not they export, would be taxed.

If export restrictions were made or sanction prohibited businesses in the imposing country from doing business with the target country, the imposing country could lose markets and investment opportunities to competing countries.

If a U. S. export authorization is silent as to access by Dual and Third Country National employees of a foreign party, the authorization has the effect of limiting access to employees who are nationals only of the country of their employer.

If, however, the same person emigrated to Canada, obtained Canadian citizenship and commenced employment with a Canadian company, they would be treated as a Canadian-UK Dual National for the purposes of any U. S. export authorization to which their employer was a party.

If that person did not obtain Canadian citizenship but instead became a temporary or permanent Canadian resident, they would be treated as a UK Third Country National for the purposes of any U. S. export authorization to which their employer was a party.

If a line of table that corresponds to the country contains an X in the reason for control column, the export of a controlled item requires a license, unless an exception can be applied.

If output exceeds domestic spending, we export the difference: net exports are positive.

If growth is heavily export biased it might lead to a fall in the terms of trade of the exporting country.

If goods exported are elastic to price, their quantity demanded will increase proportionately more than the decrease in price, and total export revenue will increase.

If those artists could create a strong regional profile, it would be possible to " export " them to Zomba International for broader exposure.

If the old fool argues about the price, tell him I shall order my husband not to treat him as a patient any longer.

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 you have a higher-quality product, how can you make it stand out -- justify its premium price -- without the spoken word??

If a concessionaire runs the cafeteria, keep an eye out for quality and price.

If not, how long to order and what is the price ''??

If the assets used are not identical ( so a price divergence makes the trade temporarily lose money ), or the margin treatment is not identical, and the trader is accordingly required to post margin ( faces a margin call ), the trader may run out of capital ( if they run out of cash and cannot borrow more ) and go bankrupt even though the trades may be expected to ultimately make money.

If the creditworthiness of the issuer deteriorates ( e. g. rating downgrade ) and its credit spread widens, the bond price tends to move lower, but, in many cases, the call option part of the convertible bond moves higher ( since credit spread correlates with volatility ).

If Wisda's Landscaping breaks the contract, and Neal Townsend is forced to hire another service for $ 60 an hour, expectation ( direct ) damages paid to Neal Townsend would equal $ 100 ($ 10 an hour, the difference in price between the original contract and the new contract ).

If results were left unadjusted for factors such as race, gender, and free or reduced price lunch program eligibility, private schools performed significantly better than public schools.

If the intrinsic value is higher than the market price it is recommended to buy the share.

If it is equal to market price hold the share and if it is less than the market price sell the shares.

If a commodity's value is not the same as its price, and therefore the magnitudes of each likely differ, then what is the relation between the two, if any?

* If the price is between average total cost and average variable cost at the profit-maximizing output, then the firm is said to be in a loss-minimizing condition.

* If the price is below average variable cost at the profit-maximizing output, the firm should go into shutdown.

If no minimum wage is in place, workers and employers will continue to adjust the quantity of labor supplied according to price until the quantity of labor demanded is equal to the quantity of labor supplied, reaching equilibrium price, where the supply and demand curves intersect.

* P-Max quantity, price and profit: If a monopolist obtains control of a formerly perfectly competitive industry, the monopolist would increase prices, reduce production, and realise positive economic profits.

If a company increases prices too much, then others may enter the market if they are able to provide the same good, or a substitute, at a lesser price.

If a PC company attempted to increase prices above the market level all its customers would abandon the company and purchase at the market price from other companies.

If the monopoly were permitted to charge individualised prices ( this is termed third degree price discrimination ), the quantity produced, and the price charged to the marginal customer, would be identical to that of a competitive company, thus eliminating the deadweight loss ; however, all gains from trade ( social welfare ) would accrue to the monopolist and none to the consumer.

If the monopolist practiced price discrimination he would sell the first unit for $ 50 the second unit for $ 40 and so on.

If the firm lowers price P < MC then it will be losing money on every unit sold.

If a customer offers a top quality, brand-name valuable at too low a price the pawnbroker may turn down the offer, because this suggests that the item may either be counterfeit or stolen.