If a king held sway over a large kingdom, such as when the Mercians dominated the East Anglians, the relationship would have been more equal than in the case the Mercian dominance of the Hwicce, which was a comparatively small kingdom.

If your side has two aces and a void, then you are not at risk of losing the first two tricks, so long as ( a ) your void is useful ( i. e., does not duplicate the function of an ace that your side holds ) and ( b ) you are not vulnerable to the loss of the first two tricks in the fourth suit ( because, for instance, one of the partnership hands holds a singleton in that suit or the protected king, giving your side second round control ).

If the player to move has no legal moves, the game is over ; it is either a checkmate — if the king is under attack — or a stalemate — if the king is not.

If the compromise was a rebuke to the most radical vision of the liberty of the Church, on at least one point its implication was firm and unmistakable: The king, even an emperor, was a layman.

If he had been in exile, Constantine may have returned to Pictland where his cousin Donald II became king.

If such an extraordinary event had actually taken place ... could the king have withstood the attitude of the native nobles, who would hardly have looked upon such an occurrence without offering armed resistance to their feeble and capricious sovereign?

If the occupant was a king, it was probably either Saebert or Sigeberht ( murdered AD 653 ).

If the clergy misuses ecclesiastical property, it must be taken away ; if the king does not do this, he is remiss.

If one of the clergy neglects his office, he is a traitor to the king who calls him to answer for it.

If the clergy relies on papal pronouncements, it must be subjected to obedience to the king.

* If the pope finds that the king who has been elected by the princes is unworthy of the imperial dignity, the princes must elect a new king or, if they refuse, the pope will confer the imperial dignity upon another king ; for the Church stands in need of a patron and defender.

If found worthy of the kingship, the augur announced that the gods had given favorable tokens, thus confirming the king ’ s priestly character.

If one were attacked, the king would come to his aid.

If the votes pass, the king keeps the government and king how it is, if they don't, then everything changes.

If the nations were tools of Yahweh, then the new king who would come to redeem Israel might not be a Judean as taught in older literature ( e. g. Psalm 2 ).

If the defendant could not produce a royal licence to prove the grant of the liberty, then it was the crown's opinionbased on the writings of the influential thirteenth-century legal scholar Bractonthat the liberty should revert to the king.

If a player's king is threatened with capture, it is said to be in check, and the player must remove the threat of capture on the next move.

If this cannot be done, the king is said to be in checkmate.

If a player's move places the opponent's king under attack, that king is said to be in check, and the player in check is required to immediately remedy the situation.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place.

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 he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

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

If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

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

If he had had a son, he would tell him, `` Gather ye rosebuds while ye may This same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying ''.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

If he had income other than wages subject to withholding, he may be required to file Form 1040.

If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.

If many relations are joined, it may be prohibitively slow.

If the two loose ends of an overhand knot are joined together ( without creating additional crossings ), this becomes equivalent to the trefoil knot of mathematical knot theory.

If they were married before joining the society, their marriages essentially ended when they joined.

In an interview in 2000, Hogarth expressed regret about the band retaining their name after he joined: " If we had known when I joined Marillion what we know now, we'd have changed the name and been a new band.

* 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 this reaction applies to milk, the specific linkage between the hydrophobic ( para-casein ) and hydrophilic ( acidic glycopeptide ) group of casein inside milk would be broken, since they are joined by phenylalanine and methionine.

If Talhah joined the committee within this period, he was to take part in the deliberations, but if he did not return to Medina within this period, the other members of the committee could proceed with the decision.

* If the twins are joined at any part of the body-called conjoined twins, delivery is mostly by caesarean section.

If the remaining high schools were to have joined, an additional $ 200, 000 in matching grants would have been recurred.

If the child exited with a zero return code, sh would look for a then clause ( a separate statement, but often written joined on the same line with a semicolon ) and run that nested block.

If any of you know cause or just impediment why these persons should not be joined together in Holy Matrimony, ye are to declare it.

If the Russian fleet joined with the Swedish and Dano-Norwegian fleets, the combined fleets would form a formidable force of up to 123 ships-of-the-line.

If the shutter was slow in closing, overexposure resulted where the part-fields joined and the " shutter bar " took the form of a white line.

Gladys Knight & the Pips joined the Motown roster in 1966, and, although regarded as a second-string act, scored several hit singles, including " I Heard It Through the Grapevine ", ( recorded later by Marvin Gaye ), " Friendship Train " ( 1969 ), " If I Were Your Woman " ( 1970 ), " I Don't Want To Do Wrong " ( 1971 ), the Grammy Award winning " Neither One of Us ( Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye )" ( 1972 ), and " Daddy Could Swear ( I Declare )" ( 1973 ).

Schenker himself, in an interview with KNAC radio, claims he was the one to say " no " to Ozzy: " If I would have joined Ozzy Osbourne, I would have screwed up my life.

If it was indeed he who joined Ashley's Hundred, Fink died in the Rocky Mountains in 1823 during the course of Ashley's expedition.

When royalist troops deployed to stop the march of Napoleon's force at Lyon, Napoleon stepped out in front of them, ripped open his coat and said “ If any of you will shoot your Emperor, shoot him now .” The men all joined his cause.

If the strands twist an odd number of times around one another in completing the DNA loop, then they are covalently joined into a single molecule.

If these tissues fail to meet, a gap appears where the tissues should have joined ( fused ).

If claimed earlier year of birth and the subsequent service record are correct George Fruits joined the militia belonging to Captain George Miars ( of Washington County, Pennsylvania ) as a private on November 2, 1781, aged 19.

If the supply isn't interrupted, and the spit isn't breached by the sea ( or, if across an estuary, the river ) the spit may become a bar, with both ends joined to land, and form a lagoon behind the bar.

If they were party members, they had to say when they joined the revolution and describe their work assignments in DK.

If it has more than one stroke before ' ter ' et al., or has a hook at the end ( tender ), or a joined diphthong ( pewter ), then doubling principle is employed.