If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

If a second party from a region wants to join the first party needs to agree, these two parties will then form a common delegation with one vote.

* If the two parties do not reach a satisfactory arrangement, a set of standard principles set out in the Annex to the Directive becomes applicable.

If the Supreme Court grants certiorari and accepts the case, it will receive written briefs from each side ( and any amici curiae or friends of the court — usually interested third parties with some expertise to bear on the subject ) and schedule oral arguments.

If a party represents more than 4 states then such parties are considered as national parties.

If the case has been submitted to arbitration rather than a national court, say because of a forum selection clause, an arbitrator may decide not to apply local mandatory policies in the face of a choice of law by the parties if this would defeat their commercial objectives.

If the lex loci arbitri has been ignored, but there was no real and substantial connection between the place of arbitration and the agreement made by the parties, a court in which enforcement is sought may well accept the tribunal's decision.

If they cannot, its claim may be dismissed without any need for a response by other parties.

If one merchant sends a writing sufficient to satisfy the statute of frauds to another merchant and the receiving merchant has reason to know of the contents of the sent confirmation and does not object to the confirmation within 10 days, the confirmation is good to satisfy the statute as to both parties.

If the state accepts them ( or fails to act at all ), both the reserving state and the accepting state are relieved of the reserved legal obligation as concerns their legal obligations to each other ( accepting the reservation does not change the accepting state's legal obligations as concerns other parties to the treaty ).

If a party has materially violated or breached its treaty obligations, the other parties may invoke this breach as grounds for temporarily suspending their obligations to that party under the treaty.

If, instead of incorporating Einstein's clock synchronization ( lattice of clocks ), the astronaut ( outgoing and incoming ) and the Earth-based party regularly update each other on the status of their clocks by way of sending radio signals ( which travel at light speed ), then all parties will note an incremental build up of asymmetry in time-keeping, beginning at the " turn around " point.

If the winner of the seat is determined purely by the candidate with the most votes, as occurs in the plurality vote and the alternative vote, the plurality system has several characteristics that can serve to discourage the development of third parties and reward the two major parties.

If the two parties cannot come to an agreement, they may ask the court to decide how to split property and deal with the custody of their children.

If several anonymous parties are referenced, they may simply be labelled John Doe # 1, John Doe # 2, etc.

If an entangled pair of objects is shared between two parties, anyone intercepting either object alters the overall system, revealing the presence of the third party ( and the amount of information they have gained ).

If the parties themselves could agree to the terms, the Code as a rule left them free to make contracts.

If all the issues are decided between the parties they may agree to submit the papers to the court for approval ; this is known as an uncontested divorce.

# If the parties were married outside of New York and have never lived together as husband and wife in the state and the grounds for divorce did not occur in New York then, one spouse must presently be a resident of New York and have resided continuously in the state for at least two years prior to filing an action for divorce.

If custody is not decided upon by consent ( with the court and a court appointed law guardian representing the child ) then a hearing takes place at which both parties present evidence to determine who should have custody in the best interests of the child ( or children ).

If all of these conditions apply, the private parties can bargain to solve the problem of externalities.

If properly done, this precludes undesired third-parties from forcing a key choice on the agreeing parties.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

`` If you hadn't I'd have killed you ''.

If we have to we'll take him apart and see what he's made of ''!!

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.

If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??

If we want respect from ourselves or others, we will have to earn it.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

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 you cut down these horrible buildings you'll have no more traffic jams.

If I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

If we grasp this opportunity to build an age of productive partnership between the less fortunate nations and those that have already achieved a high state of economic advancement, we will make brighter the outlook for a world order based upon security and freedom.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If only for this modest masterpiece of military history, Blenheim is likely to be read and reread long after newer interpretations have perhaps altered our picture of the Marlborough wars.

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

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

`` If you can firmly make the good knight sure to pleasure our Corporation '', Sturley wrote, `` besides that ordinary allowance for your diet you shall have 20 for recompence ''.

If he borrowed money from Shakespeare or with his help, he would now have been able to repay the loan.

If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.

If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If he can't play with Mommy's magazines, he should have some old numbers of his own.

If they also defeat the school bill, the GOP task force won't have much research to do.