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, 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, conversely, tin is used to coat steel, when a breach of the coating occurs it actually accelerates oxidation of the iron.

If a cerebral AVM is detected before a stroke occurs, usually the arteries feeding blood into the nidus can be closed off to avert the danger.

If suppuration occurs, it may need needle aspiration.

If this occurs, the referee separates the opponents and orders them to continue boxing.

If an injury occurs, one caver stays with the injured person while the other two go out for help, providing assistance to each other on their way out.

If this occurs, the oil will burn and has to be replaced.

If no bulk flow occurs in an element of length dx, the rates of diffusion of two gases A and B must be equal and opposite, that is.

If we choose the shape of the control volume such that all flow in or out occurs perpendicular to its surface, then the flow of matter into the system performs work as if it were a piston of fluid pushing mass into the system, and the system performs work on the flow of matter out as if it were driving a piston of fluid.

If deactivation occurs during the first reading, the reader does not need to undergo deactivation in the second reading.

If a seizure lasts longer than 5 minutes, or if more than one seizure occurs without regaining consciousness emergency medical services should be contacted.

* If a leap occurs, it must be small and immediately countered by stepwise motion in the opposite direction.

If a mutation occurs within a gene, the new allele may affect the trait that the gene controls, altering the phenotype of the organism.

If the guessing player suggests a letter which occurs in the word, the other player writes it in all its correct positions.

If the value being sought occurs k times in the list, and all orderings of the list are equally likely, the expected number of comparisons is

If bad weather occurs during flowering, the Merlot vine is prone to develop coulure.

If unsuccessful, nothing interesting occurs.

If surviving Linear B clay tablets can be trusted, the name po-se-da-wo-ne (" Poseidon ") occurs with greater frequency than does di-u-ja (" Zeus ").

If there is still a tie for first place, a jump-off occurs to break the tie.

If this occurs, then the vice president will assume the presidential powers and duties as acting president ; however, the president can declare that no such inability exists and resume the discharge of the presidential powers and duties.

If the former occurs, then any subsequent measurement performed by Bob, in the same basis, will always return 1.

If an interrupt occurs that makes a high priority task ready during the insertion of a low priority task, that high priority task can be inserted and run immediately before the low priority task is inserted.

If the full moon occurs on a Sunday, Easter is the following Sunday.

If the full moon occurs on a Sunday, Easter is the following Sunday.

If one throws a die once, it is difficult to predict the outcome, but if we repeat this experiment many times, we will see that the number of times each result occurs divided by the number of throws will eventually stabilize towards a specific value.