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 the president is not present, dies, resigns, or is otherwise unable to fulfill his or her duties, the vice president will generally serve as president.

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 the assets used are not identical ( so a price divergence makes the trade temporarily lose money ), or the margin treatment is not identical, and the trader is accordingly required to post margin ( faces a margin call ), the trader may run out of capital ( if they run out of cash and cannot borrow more ) and go bankrupt even though the trades may be expected to ultimately make money.

In the Doctor Who serial The Green Death ( 1973 ), The Doctor temporarily stumps BOSS by asking it " If I were to tell you that the next thing I say would be true, but the last thing I said was a lie, would you believe me?

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 the constricted object ( such as a temporarily whipped rope ) ends very close to where a constrictor binds it, a boa knot may prove a more stable solution.

If the transmission is temporarily interrupted, or a bit slip event occurs, the receiver must re-synchronize.

If the president is outside of the country, or the position is vacant, the President of the Bundesrat ( a position that is rotated among the state premiers on an annual basis ) temporarily assumes the powers of the president until a successor is elected without assuming the office of president as such.

If this urge is not acted upon, the material in the rectum is often returned to the colon by reverse peristalsis where more water is absorbed, thus temporarily reducing pressure and stretching within the rectum.

If a word is not on the list but appears in an educational text, its meaning only needs to be understood temporarily in the context in which it was found, and then summarily discarded from memory.

If a law is declared contrary to certain sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, parliament or the provincial legislatures may make that particular law temporarily valid again against by using the " override power " of the notwithstanding clause.

If glucose is still denied at this point, muscle wasting is prevented by temporarily switching to fat as the primary fuel source, with glucose made as a byproduct during ketosis.

If an attacker is sprayed in the face he will be temporarily blinded by the foam.

If the number of vacancies on the parish council is such that there is no longer a quorum, the district council may temporarily appoint persons to bring the council up to strength in the interval prior to an election.

If the aircraft rolls too steeply — while performing aerobatics, for example — the attitude indicator can " tumble " ( or " topple ") and become temporarily unusable.

If no emergency provisions are made for the government's budget, a budget crisis may develop into a government shutdown in which the government temporarily suspends non-essential services until a budget is passed.

If a Game Boy Advance is connected without a GBA game inserted, a version of the Tiny Chao Garden can be copied temporarily into the Game Boy Advance's memory.

He currently presents If You Like That, You'll Like This and The New CD Show on Classic FM, and is a regular contributor on LBC Radio, often in conversation with former London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, as well as occasionally hosting his own show on the station-in March – May 2012, he was temporarily joined on air by former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who replaced Ken Livingstone when he took up the campaign to again become London Mayor.

If necessary, they could be temporarily abandoned and stuffed full of smouldering turf to prevent an enemy ( such as a government army ) destroying them with gunpowder.

If the change in gene expression is caused by an oligonucleotide binding to an mRNA or temporarily binding to a gene, this results in a temporary change in gene expression without modification of the chromosomal DNA and is referred to as a " transient knockdown ".

If there is strong investor demand for an ETF, its share price will ( temporarily ) rise above its net asset value per share, giving arbitrageurs an incentive to purchase additional creation units from the ETF and sell the component ETF shares in the open market.

If the squatter abandons the property for a period, or if the rightful owner effectively removes the squatter's access even temporarily during the statutory period, or gives his permission, the " clock " usually stops.

If not desired, such leaks can be temporarily remedied by sealing the seams with light-proof tape after loading the film.

If a player hits an oil slick and then hits a wall while spinning, the player's car is temporarily destroyed, which loses time.

If the wheel inertia is large enough, the wheel may be temporarily separated from the road surface before it has descended back into contact with the road surface.

If the player presses the fire button at the right moment, Dexter transforms temporarily into Ace and can fight them, whereas if the player chooses to stay as Dexter the robots ' drill attacks must be dodged instead.