If a load is placed on the lithosphere, it will tend to flex in the manner of an elastic plate.

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 Af is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T, and **yr is the density of the fluid, then the total potential energy of the system above the reference height is Af.

If the slowing down of certain seismic waves caused by the damp spot helped uncover the underground ocean, the unusual temperature variation with depth measured in 241 inactive oil wells helped locate the subterranean river.

But this destruction, coupled with a protracted siege of Rain ( 9 – 16 July ), caused Prince Eugene to lament "... since the Donauwörth action I cannot admire their performances ", and later to conclude " If he has to go home without having achieved his objective, he will certainly be ruined.

If precise dates are required, the beginning may be set in 802 AD, when the founder of the Khmer Empire, Jayavarman II pronounced himself universal monarch ( chakravartin ) and declared independence from Java, and the end may be set in 1431 AD, when Thai invaders from the kingdom of Ayutthaya sacked Angkor and caused the Khmer elite to migrate to Phnom Penh.

If zeal for orthodoxy caused him to overstep the limits of discretion, his real attitude towards Rome is sufficiently clear.

If Pierre takes a second bite, it is not caused by his pleasure from the first ; If Pierre says, " That was good, so I will take another bite ", his speech act is not caused by the preceding pleasure.

If the painter encounters the mark but is going in a different direction, then some sort of loop has occurred which caused the painter to return to the mark.

If the individual or group can neglect to observe the harm caused by their actions, either consciously or unconsciously, then the individual will not feel collective guilt.

If a person does not feel that the in-group is responsible for the harm caused by actions, collective guilt will be lessened.

If the aether was dragged by mass then this experiment would have been able to detect the drag caused by the lead, but again the null result was found.

If LEMS is caused by an underlying cancer, treatment of the malignancy usually leads to resolution of the symptoms.

If the object is moving either toward or away from the transmitter, there is a slight equivalent change in the frequency of the radio waves, caused by the Doppler effect.

* If leather on the side of a shoe is scored by several parallel cuts, it was caused by someone who scraped around the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud.

If the injured party can prove that the person believed to have caused the injury acted negligently – that is, without taking reasonable care to avoid injuring others – tort law will allow compensation.

If a planet is sufficiently massive, the water on it may be solid even at high temperatures, because of the high pressure caused by gravity, as it was observed on exoplanets Gliese 436 b and GJ 1214 b.

If East Germans had enough money to procure a television set, a telephone, or a Trabant automobile, they were placed on waiting lists which caused them to wait as much as a decade for the item in question.

If there is reason to believe that none of the s is caused by y, then estimates of the coefficients are obtained.

If this caused a change in pagination — increasing the font size could change where the page breaks were — the software would update the screen quickly enough for the author to continue typing, including altering all of the cross-references that the author may have inserted ; this WYSIWYG capability was a competitive advantage for the company.

Frustration with a strap transducer which was malfunctioning due to an error in wiring the strain gage bridges caused him to remark – " If there is any way to do it wrong, he will " – referring to the technician who had wired the bridges at the Lab.

If determinism is true, then all of man's choices are caused by events and facts outside his control.

Whether or not it is all-encompassing in so doing, Newtonian mechanics deals only with caused events, e. g.: If an object begins in a known position and is hit dead on by an object with some known velocity, then it will be pushed straight toward another predictable point.

If a family had genetic hearing impairment caused by a recessive gene it will not always be apparent as it will have to be passed onto offspring from both parents.

If one animal who is lying in a battery egg farm cage could have the extra room to stretch her wing today because of something you've done, I think she would choose to have that happen.

If it is seen outside the zoo on a stretch of greensward regularly used for walking dogs, then of course it is more likely to be a dog than a lion.

If a muscle has impaired function following an upper motor neuron lesion, other changes such as increased muscle stiffness are likely to affect the feeling of resistance to passive stretch.

If laid end to end in a straight line, this cable would stretch from Whiteman AFB to beyond Los Angeles.

If these roads were placed end-to-end, they would stretch from North Huntingdon to Cleveland, Ohio.

If the two grids are synchronised this stretch of line is energised ( by either supply ) and trains run through it normally.

If the lead climber falls, they will fall twice the length of the rope from the last protection point, plus rope stretch ( typically 5 % to 8 % of the rope out ), plus slack.

If established, it would stretch from Carlingford Lough to Newcastle and Slieve Croob, creating a tourism boom and up to 2, 000 jobs.

If one were to measure a stretch of coastline with a yardstick, one would get a shorter result than if the same stretch were measured with a 30cm ( one-foot ) ruler.

If a game goes into a fifth extra inning, a similar " fourteenth-inning stretch " is celebrated ( as well as a possible “ twenty-first inning stretch ” or “ twenty-eighth inning stretch ”).

If a lot of buildings are later built along a stretch of the street, either a range of unused numbers above the current highest house number may be used, introducing confusing discontinuities, or the remainder of the street must be renumbered.

If enough coolant entered the engine, it would stretch the head bolts allowing the head gaskets to blow.

Today ’ s viewer needs constant gratification: If she ’ s not entertained or intrigued for any stretch of time, she will flip the dial '" ( Jenkins 2006: 75 ).

If the bass is too low, the player may need to bend or stretch when attempting to play notes at the higher end of the fingerboard ( although not as much as on a double bass ).

If a sudden pull or stretch occurs, the body responds by automatically increasing the muscle's tension, a reflex which helps guard against danger as well as helping to maintain balance.

If the break does not succeed and the body of cyclists comes back together, a sprinter will often win by overpowering competitors in the final stretch.

If we stretch the curve in the direction by a factor of this becomes