If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.

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 a player bets 1 unit on red, his chance of winning 1 unit is therefore 18 / 38 and his chance of losing 1 unit ( or winning-1 ) is 20 / 38.

On the day of the general election, The Sun ran an " infamous " front page featuring Kinnock ( headline: ' If Kinnock wins today will the last person to leave Britain please turn out the lights ') that he blamed in his resignation speech for losing Labour the election.

If the firm lowers price P < MC then it will be losing money on every unit sold.

If a player reaches a losing condition one time, the game does not end ; instead, a life is lost.

If a chattel slave refuses to work, a number of punishments are also available ; from beatings to food deprivation – although economically rational slave owners practiced positive reinforcement to achieve best results and before losing their investment ( or even friendship ) by killing an expensive slave.

If rage is accepted as a pre-verbal, pre-cognitive phenomenon ( and sufferers describe it colloquially as " losing the plot ") then it follows that cognitive strategies, eliciting commitments to behave differently or educational programs ( the most common forms of interventions in the UK presently ) are contra-indicated.

If West is holding the king ( it is " onside "), North-South will win two tricks, for a gain of one trick without losing a trick.

If no candidate receives a majority of votes, then there is a system by which losing candidates are eliminated from the contest and their votes are transferred to other candidates, until one gains a majority.

If you intentionally throw away a winning hand, a " magician " appears and replaces the losing result with a hand that pays the predetermined amount.

If an Urmonotheismus did exist, Eliade adds, it probably differed in many ways from the conceptions of God in many modern monotheistic faiths: for instance, the primordial High God could manifest himself as an animal without losing his status as a celestial Supreme Being.

If a whole blocksize of ciphertext is lost both CBC and CFB will synchronize, but losing only a single byte or bit will permanently throw off decryption.

* In the October 1963 issue of MAD Magazine, the " For the Birds " parody of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds reveals that their unexplained attacks were orchestrated by Burt Lancaster, as revenge for losing the Oscar: " If you think we terrorized your house ... You should see what we've got lined up for Gregory Peck!

If Sir George Grey or Sir William Somerville would like to read our correspondence, we make him welcome for the present — only let the letters be forwarded without losing a post.

His losing streak was broken when he received the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2001, for the Monsters, Inc. song " If I Didn't Have You ", beating Sting, Enya and Paul McCartney.

If this happens in the middle of a performance, the guitar is not going to be of much use to a guitarist who would like to sound " in-tune ", which is perhaps most users of the Floyd-Rose ( since the main advantage of the system is to achieve pitch-bends without losing intonation when the whammy bar returns to its stationary position ).

Upon losing Rouen, Talbot exclaims, " France, thou shalt rue this treason with thy tears / If Talbot but survive thy treachery " ( 3. 2. 35 – 36 ).

If Wario takes damage from an opponent or obstacle, he will shrink, losing his shoulder charge move, and will remain small until he collects a clove of Garlic, another helmet or reaches the end of the level.

: If someone would be greatly helped by something belonging to someone else, and the seller not similarly harmed by losing it, the seller must not sell for a higher price: because the usefulness that goes to the buyer comes not from the seller, but from the buyer's needy condition: no one ought to sell something that doesn't belong to him.

If the two navies fought, the German Navy would inflict enough damage on the British that the latter ran a risk of losing their naval dominance.

If the stirrup is too far forward, on the toes, the rider risks losing if he pushes with too much pressure ( forcing it off the foot ) or too little ( allowing it to simply slide off ).

For networks, they are minimizing most of their risk, but they risk losing out on most profit. If the network orders enough episodes of a show, the studio can then sell the series to other markets.

If the gambler can bet arbitrarily small amounts at arbitrarily long odds ( but still with the same expected loss of 2 / 38 of the stake at each bet ), and can only place one bet at each spin, then there are strategies with above 98 % chance of attaining his goal, and these use very timid play unless the gambler is close to losing all his capital, in which case he does switch to extremely bold play.

If more than one player selects a tile in that row, then the player whose tile is in the leftmost column ( closest to 1 ) goes first.

If, however, there are no shares left when the chain is founded, then the founding player does not receive the free share.

If a tile is placed between two hotel chains of the same size, the individual player who places the tile decides which hotel chain remains on the board and which is acquired.

If a player holds onto his stock, he runs the risk that the acquired chain may not reemerge before the game ends.

If the opponents win the rally and their new score is even, the player in the right service court serves ; if odd, the player in the left service court serves.

If a player does not lift, his only remaining option is to push the shuttlecock softly back to the net: in the forecourt this is called a netshot ; in the midcourt or rearcourt, it is often called a push or block.

If the player and dealer have the same point total, this is called a " push " and the player typically doesn't win or lose money on that hand.

If the dealer busts, all remaining player hands win.

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.

If the dealer's upcard is an ace, the player is offered the option of taking " insurance " before the dealer checks the hole card.

If a player wins two sets, or gets a win and a tie, that player wins the game.

If each player wins a set, or both sets end tied, there is a 3-end tiebreaker to determine a winner.

If the chains are long enough then the player will certainly win.

If the other player also knows to offer sacrifices, the expert also has to manipulate the number of available sacrifices through earlier play.

If a player rolls two of the same number, called doubles, that player must play each die twice.

If one player has not borne off any checkers by the time that player's opponent has borne off all fifteen, then the player has lost a gammon, which counts for double a normal loss.

" If both opponents roll the same opening number, the doubling cube is incremented on each occasion yet remains in the middle of the board, available to either player.