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 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 the turn was too tight, a barrel roll would bring them out.

If the ball socket were too tight, the ink did not reach the paper.

If the market is " tight " ( i. e. not enough staff for the jobs ), employers must compete for employees by offering financial rewards, community investment, etc.

If a curve keeps close to the same direction, the unit tangent vector changes very little and the curvature is small ; where the curve undergoes a tight turn, the curvature is large.

If all instances are running at the same frame rate consistently, it is possible to get tight synchronization between displays.

If this fails, the tight edematous band of tissue can be relieved surgically with a dorsal slit or circumcision.

If the operator did not assemble enough characters, the line will not justify correctly: even with the spacebands expanded all the way, the matrices are not tight.

If such a cord is pulled extremely tight the wrists and arms will have very little freedom of movement and the hands will be firmly forced in contact with the butt, particularly when combined with Elbow Bondage.

If a separate bra and skirt are worn, a belt is rarely used and any embellishment is embroidered directly on the tight, sleek lycra skirt.

If the tuning is too loose, the bass and slap tones will sound " flabby "; too tight, and the drums will sound unnatural and " pinched ".

If a wide receiver is present in a formation, but outside the tight end, the wide receiver must be positioned behind the line of scrimmage ( see figure to right ).

If two tight ends are on the same side of the line of scrimmage, the outside tight end must be behind the line of scrimmage.

If a lead climber, starting from the ground, approaches twice the height of the last piece of protection, there is danger of a ground fall ( more commonly referred to as " decking ") in which the falling climber hits the ground before the rope goes tight.

If the line was ' tight ' or too long, the elevator carrying the matrices and space bands would not seat properly in front of the mold slot.

IGN gave the game 7. 6 / 10, noting, " The action is intense, the control is fluid and tight, and the gameplay is diverse and well balanced ," but also noting, " If only some of the more technical flaws and lack of polish had been smoothed out before the game shipped.

If the reconstructed pinna framework were as structurally delicate as the cartilage framework of a natural pinna, its anatomic verisimilitude as an ear would gradually be eroded by a combination of the pressure of the tight skin-envelope in the temporal region of the head, and of the pressure of the progressive contracture of the surgical scar ( s ).

If we consider the Hamiltonian without the contribution of the second term, we are simply left with the tight binding formula from regular band theory.

If the collar is too tight, it may dig too deeply into the skin or the strap around the muzzle may push into the dog's eyes.

If this raphe is too tight at birth, movement of the tongue is restricted and the child is said to be " tongue tied ".

If adjusted so the horse can't open its jaw at all when the crank is tight, the horse also cannot relax its jaw.

If used with a loose curb chain, it allows the shanks to rotate more before the curb chain is tight enough to act as a fulcrum and exert pressure.

If used with a loose curb chain, it allows the shanks to rotate more before the curb chain is tight enough to act as a fulcrum and exert pressure.

If used with a very tight curb chain, the bit immediately exerts leverage and increased pressure on the bars as soon as pressure is applied to the reins.