If, however, the court finds that the current dispute is fundamentally distinct from all previous cases ( called a " matter of first impression "), judges have the authority and duty to make law by creating precedent.

Such was Catherine's impression on people, that even her enemy, Thomas Cromwell, said of her " If not for her sex, she could have defied all the heroes of History.

Contrary to popular impression, Eisenhower never seriously considered removing Patton from duty in the ETO: " If this thing ever gets out, they'll be howling for Patton's scalp, and that will be the end of Georgie's service in this war.

He was asked to put it in writing, which he did, in English, while making the joke: ' If your guns are not better pointed than your pens, then you will make little impression on Copenhagen '.

If the union of impression and faculty be sufficiently strong, consciousness ( not self-consciousness ) arises, and definite sensations and perceptions begin to be formed.

If considered closer to the woodcreepers, they form a separate tribe and may give a good impression of how the ancestors of the woodcreepers must have looked like.

" If the Hindenburg interview had been passed by Pershing's censors at the time, it would have been headlined in every country civilized enough to have newspapers and undoubtedly would have made an impression on millions of people and became an important page in history ," wrote Seldes.

* If it succeeds, it creates the impression that the government is not in control of the state.

If an animated character looks more human than its movement, this gives a negative impression.

If the incident light is other than white, our visual mechanisms are able to compensate well, but not perfectly, often giving a flawed impression of the " true " color of the surface.

If a third one is partaking in the process the spectra typically intersect at varying wavelengths as concentrations change, creating the impression that the isosbestic point is ' out of focus ', or that it will shift as conditions change.

If a principal creates the impression that an agent is authorized but there is no actual authority, third parties are protected so long as they have acted reasonably.

He concluded, " If something as soft as water could carve a hole in solid rock, then how much more so can Torah — which is compared to fire — make an indelible impression on my heart.

If a particular people or culture favoured a distinctive dress style this could easily create the impression of uniformly dressed warriors.

Conclusion: If one did not make a good impression on the audience before, chances are slim that one will not recover with a smashing conclusion.

If the Earth were to rotate a thousand times faster ( making each day only ~ 86 seconds long ), people could easily get the impression that such fictitious forces are pulling on them, as on a spinning carousel.

Candee Jay made a moderate impression in the United States with " If I Were You " and " Back For Me.

If the author of Matthew was referring to Gaza he was creating something of a false impression.

If the preceding discussion gives the impression that CSC problems are extraordinarily hard to solve, that's correct.

If anyone was to mistakenly get this impression then that is not our intention and we will do everything we can to clarify the misunderstanding.

If the impression is agreeable, then it will be virtue ; if it is uneasy, then it will be a vice.

‘ If I could sum up the art in a sentence it would be that caricature should be a comic impression with a kindly touch, and always devoid of vulgarity ’.

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.

If we have to we'll take him apart and see what he's made of ''!!

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 you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.

If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.

If this choice is less exciting than New York Democrats may wish, it nevertheless must be made.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

For example: If your bodily injury claims start payment after the first $250, a 25% premium saving is often made.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

If the symbolic name or actual address of an index word or electronic switch appears or is included in the operand of an XRELEASE or SRELEASE statement ( see page 101 ), the specified index word or electronic switch will again be made available, regardless of the method by which it was reserved.

If it continues indefinitely it is nearly a statistical certainty that a mistake will be made and that the devastation will begin ''.

If we have not thought and made a decision entirely in these terms, then we need to submit ourselves to the following `` simple test '': `` Have we decided how we are to kill the other members of our household in the event of our being less injured than they are ''??

If the death of Epaminondas in 362 BC freed Athens from fear of Thebes, it appears at the same time to have exposed it to further aggression from Alexander of Pherae, who made a piratical raid on Tinos and other cities of the Cyclades, plundering them, and making slaves of the inhabitants.

If the assembly broke the law, the only thing that might happen is that it would punish those who had made the proposal that it had agreed to.

If a mistake had been made, from the assembly's viewpoint it could only be because it had been misled.

If administrative appeal is available, no appeal to the judicial system may be made.

If the auction is passed out, i. e. no bids are made and only four passes are called, the hands are abandoned and the turn to deal passes in rotation.

If one die is unable to be moved, but such a move is made possible by the moving of the other die, that move is compulsory.

If F. tularensis were used as a weapon, the bacteria would likely be made airborne for exposure by inhalation.

If the two totals do not agree, an error has been made either in the journals or during the posting process.

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

If the first theory is correct ( see above ), then the absence of cavalry removed the main Athenian tactical disadvantage, and the threat of being outflanked made it imperative to attack.

If, in England, the wine sold for 70 francs ( or the pound equivalent ), which he then used to buy coal, which he imported into France, and was found to be worth 90 francs in France, he would have made a profit of 40 francs.