If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States.

Police Commissioner Bob Hauk ( Lee Van Cleef ) offers a deal to special forces soldier turned criminal " Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ): If he rescues the president and retrieves a secret cassette tape within 24 hours, Hauk will give him a full pardon.

If the two nations went to war, Adams predicted the president of the United States would use his war powers to abolish slavery.

If a past storyline wherein a direct depictions of a then-current president or similar is referenced in a later era, it tends to become updated accordingly, sometimes with an " in-joke " acknowledgement.

Commenting on Singer's article " Heavy Petting ," in which he argues that zoosexual activity need not be abusive, and that relationships could form which were mutually enjoyed, Ingrid Newkirk, president of the animal rights group PETA, argued that, " If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer?

If the president then vetoed the new legislation, Congress could override the veto by its ordinary means, a two-thirds vote in both houses.

If both houses cannot agree on a date of adjournment, the president may appoint a date for Congress to adjourn.

If this occurs, then the vice president will assume the presidential powers and duties as acting president ; however, the president can declare that no such inability exists and resume the discharge of the presidential powers and duties.

If the vice president and Cabinet contest this claim, it is up to Congress, which must meet within two days if not already in session, to decide the merit of the claim.

If the offices of president and vice president both are either vacant or have a disabled holder of that office, the next officer in the presidential line of succession, the Speaker of the House, becomes acting president.

If there is no acting president of the senate, the powers of the president of the republic are exercised by the " Gouvernement ", meaning the Cabinet.

If the Congress grants him confidence by absolute majority, the King then nominates him formally as " president of the Government "; if he or she fails to obtain absolute majority, the Congress waits 48 hours to vote again, in which case, a simple majority suffices.

" If as president I could have done one thing to have helped the country more ," Mr. Bush told the gathering, " it would have been to do a better job in finding a way, either through speaking out or through raising a moral standard, to strengthen the American family.

If there is a vacancy in the office of vice president, then the salary would be the same as that of the vice president, $ 221, 000.

If this occurs, the president must dismiss the chancellor and appoint the successor requested by the Bundestag.

If the Bundestag rejects a motion of confidence, but neither a new chancellor is elected nor the Bundestag is dissolved, the president may, by request of the cabinet, declare a " legislative state of emergency ", which is quite different from a conventional state of emergency: If it is declared, during a limited period of time, bills proposed by the cabinet and designated as " urgent ", but rejected by the Bundestag, become law nonetheless, if the Bundesrat does pass them.

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 life and death did not both present themselves to us, there would be no inscrutability.

If he condemns the recent or the present, he condemns the past with no less force.

If possible, he should make an appointment in order that all persons involved may be present.

If an evil which is certain and extensive and immediate may rarely be compensated for by a problematic, speculative, future good, by the same token not every present, certain, and immediate good ( or lesser evil ) that may have to be done will be outweighed by a problematic, speculative, and future evil.

If nectaries are present, they are in the septa of the ovaries rather than at the base of the tepals or stamens.

If the mutated sequence is present in the patient's genome, the probe will bind to it and flag the mutation.

If present, clue cells can be visualized under a microscope.

If more than one wavelength is present ( as is usually the case ), one must sum or integrate over the spectrum of wavelengths present to get the total luminous intensity.

If a naive rendering algorithm is used without any filtering, high frequencies in the image function will cause ugly aliasing to be present in the final image.

If such an eigenvalue is not stable, the dynamics of this eigenvalue will be present in the closed-loop system which therefore will be unstable.

If the level of an attractant remains high, the level of phosphorylation of CheA ( and therefore CheY and CheB ) will remain low, the cell will swim smoothly, and the level of methylation of the MCPs will increase ( because CheB-P is not present to demethylate ).

If multiple symmetry axes are present, they will necessarily intersect at a single point, and this is usually taken to be the center.

If flammable gas mixtures were present, the flame of the Davy lamp burned higher with a blue tinge.

# If not, the obverse and reverse will present two variants of the same design, one with the hoist on the left ( usually considered the obverse side, see flag illustrations ), the other with the hoist on the right ( usually considered the reverse side of the flag ).

If, for some reason, her husband is not present, the woman alone has full rights to do yagna.

If veins were present, they were attacked using fire-setting and the ore removed for crushing and comminution.

If a frictional force ( damping ) proportional to the velocity is also present, the harmonic oscillator is described as a damped oscillator.

If an external time dependent force is present, the harmonic oscillator is described as a driven oscillator.

If we examine only funds that have survived to the present, we will overestimate past returns because many of the worst-performing funds have not survived, and the observed association between fund youth and fund performance suggests that this bias may be substantial.

If there is no charge for which a two-thirds majority of the senators present vote " guilty ", the defendant is acquitted and no punishment is imposed.

If a philosophy of Becoming is not possible without change, then ( the potential of ) what is to become must already exist in the present object.

If present, they refuse to record the signal, just as with the earlier ACP technology.

If a child is not screened during the routine newborn screening test ( typically performed 2-7 days after birth, using samples drawn by neonatal heel prick ), the disease may present clinically with seizures, albinism ( excessively fair hair and skin ), and a " musty odor " to the baby's sweat and urine ( due to phenylacetate, one of the ketones produced ).

:# If a general medical condition or another mental disorder is present, the fear in Criterion A ( Exposure to the social or performance situation almost invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response ) is unrelated to it, e. g., the fear is not of Stuttering, trembling in Parkinson's disease, or exhibiting abnormal eating behavior in Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa.