If the latter knows nothing about the absent sitter except his name ( given by the experimenter ), he cannot possibly give any clues, conscious or unconscious, far less ask leading questions.

If only the latter were true.

`` If asked to choose between a terrible probability and a more terrible possibility, most men will choose the latter ''.

If the latter, Amaryllis would be the correct name for the genus Hippeastrum, and a different name would have to be used for the genus discussed here.

If we are told that at least one of two statements is true ; and also told that it is not the former that is true ; we can infer that it has to be the latter that is true.

If a physical object statement is to be translatable into a sense-data statement, the former must be at least deducible from the latter.

# If the borrowed word rhymes with one or more native words, the latter tend to dictate gender.

If the latter, then Hannibal and his brothers also bore the name ' Barca '.

If the former, then justice is arbitrary ; if the latter, then morality exists on a higher order than God, who becomes little more than a passer-on of moral knowledge.

If she did the latter, then it is very possible that, after the judgment, she danced naked in front of the audience as well, accompanied by the chorus.

If the former, the stitch is denoted as a knit stitch or a plain stitch ; if the latter, as a purl stitch.

If the latter is followed, the lysogenic state is established and maintained.

#* Proof: Then so Thus However, is prime, so or In the former case, hence ( which is a contradiction, as neither 1 nor 0 is prime ) or In the latter case, or If however, which is not prime.

If readers and viewers have a priori views on the current state of affairs and are uncertain about the quality of the information about it being provided by media outlets, then the latter have an incentive to slant stories towards their customers ' prior beliefs, in order to build and keep a reputation for high-quality journalism.

If the latter subgroup cools slowly from a melt, it forms exsolution lamellae because the two components — orthoclase and albite — are unstable in solid solution.

If the latter scaling is used, an interval of proper time,, defined by

If the latter option were to win, a separate referendum would be held where Puerto Ricans would have been given the option of being admitted as a US State " on equal footing with the other states ", or becoming a " sovereign nation, either fully independent from or in free association with the United States.

If however the reverse waist lock is set from the back of the opponent, then the latter would face away from the athlete in the inverted position.

If the latter occurs, ( Alice measures 1 ) then Bob's measurement will return 0 with certainty.

If, however, a statute which did not itself contain any limitation is to be governed by another which is temporary only, the former will also be temporary and dependent upon the existence of the latter.

If an observation inductively supports the former but not the latter, then " inductively support " must refer to something other than changes in the probabilities of propositions.

If a short vowel does not precede the sound, the latter spelling is used, as in took, barge, and launch.

If the latter is the case, then as a consumer decreases consumption of one good in successive units, successively larger doses of the other good are required to keep satisfaction unchanged.

If the latter is too hard, the roots will not penetrate it readily and, as a result, the plant will be pushed up and out of the earth during the process of growth.

If we use NC reductions, that is, reductions which can operate in polylogarithmic time on a parallel computer with a polynomial number of processors, then all P-complete problems lie outside NC and so cannot be effectively parallelized, under the unproven assumption that NC ≠ P. If we use the weaker log-space reduction, this remains true, but additionally we learn that all P-complete problems lie outside L under the weaker unproven assumption that L ≠ P. In this latter case the set P-complete may be smaller.

If she did, he could stand it better in the light.

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.

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 it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.

If they do as well as they did in 1960 there can be no complaint.

If, in the trustee's judgment, `` reasonable market conditions '' did not prevail during any given year, he was to be allowed to petition the court for an extension of time within the ten-year period.

If one assumes that the average flux did not change between measurements, a mass-distribution curve is obtained which relates the flux of particles larger than a given radius to the inverse 7/2 power of the radius.

If the bottom name in each column did not have a responsible executive identified, the next name above which identified such a responsible executive was substituted.

If we did not mean to say this, why should we be so relieved on finding that the suffering had not occurred??

If so, are you saying, `` Where did the last few years go??

If not, he was willing to accede to William's wishes in any way that did not block his ultimate aim.

If Bridget did get any bundles of cash, the last person who would have rewarded her for services rendered would have been Lizzie Borden.

If that's all the Romans did, it's a surprise to me that Rome fell.

If laying ties on a railroad track, which he once did for $1 an hour, paid more than playing right field for the Yankees, Maris would lay ties on a railroad track.

If working in a zinc mine, which he once did for 87-1/2 cents an hour, paid more than playing center field for the Yankees, Mantle would work in a zinc mine.

If this is true, then the universe today looks just as it did millions of years ago and as it will look millions of years hence, even though the universe is expanding.

a Portago could say, as he did say to me, `` If I die tomorrow, still I have had twenty-eight wonderful years ; ;

If he died before she did, she would never be unable to resist opening it.

If he ever did such a thing again she'd die of shame.

If the authorities remarked on her curious avocation, they did so among themselves.

If a defendant has been convicted and can prove that his lawyer did not adequately handle his case and that there is a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different had the lawyer given competent representation, he is entitled to a new trial.

If that did not work, then Abd al-Rahman would have to be killed.