If a child watched its progress he whispered, `` Hay, hay, load of hay -- make a wish and turn away '', and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses' feet returned no more.

If Krutch is correct, tragedy may have quite the opposite effect.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If clay is slightly out of shape, square straight sides with guide sticks or rulers pressed against opposite sides, or smooth round pieces with damp fingers.

If we don't take care, the sisters will be entering the fray on opposite sides, brandishing their cudgels ''.

If anything, her poems suggest the opposite – they speak of quietly experienced but intensely felt emotions, hidden from others, without any indication of being requited.

If the patient's eyes move in a direction opposite to the direction of the rotation of the head, then the patient is said to have an intact brainstem.

If one set is used, pieces race across the field into empty, opposite corners.

If two sets are used, each player controls two differently colored sets of pieces at opposite corners of the star.

If two sets are played, the pieces can either go into the opponent's starting corners, or one of the players ' two sets can go into an opposite empty corner.

If an evacuated glass tube is equipped with two electrodes and a voltage is applied, the glass opposite of the negative electrode is observed to glow, due to electrons emitted from and travelling perpendicular to the cathode ( the electrode connected to the negative terminal of the voltage supply ).

If a neighboring atom moves to occupy the vacant site, the vacancy moves in the opposite direction to the site which used to be occupied by the moving atom.

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.

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

If the fields have components in the same direction, they constructively interfere, while opposite directions cause destructive interference.

If, as is most common, this flow is carried by electrons, they will be travelling in the opposite direction.

If the current is driven in the opposite direction by imposing an external potential, then work is done on the cell to drive electrolysis.

If the surgery is performed on very young patients ( 2 – 5 years old ), the remaining hemisphere may acquire some rudimentary motor control of the ipsilateral body ; in older patients, paralysis results on the side of the body opposite to the part of the brain that was removed.

If, during the course of play, a loose ball travels past the goal line and is recovered within the end zone, then it is a touchdown if recovered by the team striving toward that goal, or a touchback if recovered and downed by the team striving toward the goal at the opposite end of the field.

If friction arises from a weight being drawn up the inclined plane of successive asperities, why isn't it balanced then through descending the opposite slope?

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

If the dye has the opposite charge, it is attracted to and retained by this coating, while the solvent soaks into the paper.

If a sample of cobalt-60 atoms is magnetized so that they spin counterclockwise around some axis, the beta radiation resulting from their nuclear decay will be preferentially directed opposite that axis.

Since counter-clockwise may be defined in terms of up, forward, and right, this experiment unambiguously differentiates left from right using only natural elements: If they were reversed, or the atoms spun clockwise, the radiation would follow the spin axis instead of being opposite to it.

* If the two players sitting opposite are partners, the players can exchange numbers.

Statements such as the Banach – Tarski paradox can be rephrased as conditional statements, for example, " If AC holds, the decomposition in the Banach – Tarski paradox exists.

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

If the claim is unopposed, the Committee will generally award the claim, unless there is evidence of collusion, the peerage has been in abeyance for more than a century, or the petitioner holds less than one-third of the claim.

If a " clinch " – a defensive move in which a boxer wraps his or her opponents arms and holds on to create a pause – is broken by the referee, each fighter must take a full step back before punching again ( alternatively, the referee may direct the fighters to " punch out " of the clinch ).

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 the ruler lacks rén, Confucianism holds, it will be difficult if not impossible for his subjects to behave humanely.

If the collection holds guns of criminal interest, such as pistols or sub machine-guns the police may demand a very high safety level on the keeping of the guns ( such as security windows and vault doors ).

If on the other hand Theorem 2 holds and φ is valid in all structures, then ¬ φ is not satisfiable in any structure and therefore refutable ; then ¬¬ φ is provable and then so is φ, thus Theorem 1 holds.

If all the non-zero bits were counted, then the intermediate result register now holds the final result.

If the judge finds such probable cause, he or she binds, or holds over, the suspect for trial.

If the condition only holds for all singleton subsets of R, then the ring is a right Rickart ring.

The Council of Trent decreed: " If anyone shall say that a man once justified can sin no more, nor lose grace, and that therefore he who falls and sins was never truly justified ; or, on the contrary, that throughout his whole life he can avoid all sins even venial sins, except by a special privilege of God, as the Church holds in regard to the Blessed Virgin: let him be anathema.

If denotes the state of the system at any one time t, the following Schrödinger equation holds:

If the foregoing argument holds good, Mary of Bethany and the " sinner " are one and the same.

If the most commonly accepted attribution of texts ( that of Christian Lindtner ) holds, then he was clearly a Māhayānist, but his philosophy holds assiduously to the Śrāvaka canon, and while he does make explicit references to Mahāyāna texts, he is always careful to stay within the parameters set out by the Śrāvaka canon.

If a player has two small pairs, and he believes that it will be necessary for him to make a full house to win, then he has four outs: the two remaining cards of each rank that he holds.

If P were 100 % true, not-P would be 100 % false, and there is no contradiction because P and not-P no longer holds.

If this condition is fulfilled, also holds.

If, we call X self-similar if it is the only non-empty subset of Y such that the equation above holds for.

If the axiom of choice holds, the following conditions on a cardinal are equivalent:

If the officer imposing punishment holds General Court Martial authority, or if the commanding officer of the grade O-7 or greater