If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If there be a disinterested patriot in America, 'tis General Washington, and his bravery, none can question ''.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

If there were more such cases, it would be easier to answer the question whether the policy-makers favor their own social classes.

( One big question: If Colmer was to be purged, what should the House do about the other three senior Mississippians who supported the maverick electors??

`` If you substitute ' atom ' for ' angel ', the problem is not insoluble, given the metallic content of the pin in question ''.

If the second theory is correct, this raises the further question of why the Persians, having hesitated for several days, then attacked.

If so, the next question is whether the patient can respond in a meaningful way to questions and commands.

If one asks the question, " Why are there any contingent beings at all?

If a system in question has an impulse response of

A more specific question could be: " If someone else can make better out of his / her life than I can, is it then moral to sacrifice myself for them if needed?

If the species concerned were short-lived ( in geological terms, lasting a few hundred thousand years ), then it is certain that the sediments in question were deposited within that narrow time period.

If the governor withholds the Queen's assent, the sovereign may within two years disallow the bill, thereby annulling the law in question.

Islamists have asked the question, " If Islam is a way of life, how can we say that those who want to live by its principles in legal, social, political, economic, and political spheres of life are not Muslims, but Islamists and believe in Islamism, not Islam?

If A attempts to support his position with an argument that shows that the law ought to allow him to do the thing in question, then he is guilty of ignoratio elenchi.

If the suspect responds " no " to the first question, the officer is required to re-read the Miranda warning, while saying " no " to the second question invokes the right at that moment ; in either case the interviewing officer or officers cannot question the suspect until the rights are waived.

If truth is understood according to correspondence theory, the question of the truth or falsity of sentences not contingent upon external phenomena cannot be tested ( see tautologies ).

If the first-countability axiom were imposed on the topological spaces in question, the two above conditions would be equivalent.

If there is, such as in some denominations of Wicca, it is a particular of the denomination in question, and not a universal practice.

If the objects are indeterminate until one of them is measured, then the question becomes, " How can one account for something that was at one point indefinite with regard to its spin ( or whatever is in this case the subject of investigation ) suddenly becoming definite in that regard even though no physical interaction with the second object occurred, and, if the two objects are sufficiently far separated, could not even have had the time needed for such an interaction to proceed from the first to the second object?

If they had any significant level of non-organic parts then something as simple as an x-ray scan would show them not to be human ( unless their creators designed the non-organic parts to have almost exactly the same structure and density as the organic components they were replacing, which would be both infeasible and highly improbable but not completely out of the question ).

This is because each point on the supply curve is the answer to the question " If this firm is faced with this potential price, how much output will it be able to and willing to sell?

" If a firm has market power, so its decision of how much output to provide to the market influences the market price, then the firm is not " faced with " any price, and the question is meaningless.

If the reserve components are to serve effectively in time of war, their basic organization and objectives must conform to the changing character and missions of the active forces.

If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.

If we fail to develop the means to hunt down and destroy the enemy's military force with extreme care and precision, and if war comes in spite of our most ardent desires for peace, our choice of alternatives will be truly frightening.

`` If Philip Toynbee is claiming that the choice lies between capitulation and the risk of nuclear war, I think he is right.

* If a person not native to England comes to the throne, England will not wage war for " any dominions or territories which do not belong to the Crown of England, without the consent of Parliament.

If plague and famine threaten, a libation is poured to the idol Thor ; if war, to Wotan ; if marriages are to be celebrated, to Frikko.

Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.

Thus the view from Whitehall early in 1916: If defeat was not imminent, neither was victory ; and the outcome of the war of attrition on the Western Front could not be predicted.

If one of the intervening states was a superpower, a civil war is extended a further 72 %; a conflict such as the Angolan Civil War, in which there is two-sided foreign intervention, including by a superpower ( actually, two superpowers in the case of Angola ), would be 538 % longer on average than a civil war without any international intervention.

If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times.

If addressed, it may be through diplomacy and the consequences upon an offending state's reputation, submission to international judicial determination, arbitration, sanctions or force including war.

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

If international finance Jewry in and outside Europe should succeed in thrusting the nations once again into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth and with it the victory of Jewry, but the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe.

If the territory was already on a war footing, the whole society alert and inflamed, then why not direct all this ramped up energy toward something useful?

If Lebanon has in part recovered over the past decade from the catastrophic damage to infrastructure of its long civil war, the social and political divisions that gave rise to and sustained that conflict remain largely unresolved.

If the former German and Ottoman territories had been ceded to the victorious powers directly, their economic value would have been credited to offset the Allies ' claims for war reparations.

If royal succession in Minoan Crete descended matrilinearly — from the queen to her firstborn daughter — the queen's husband would have become the Minos, or war chief.

If they separated or the man was killed at war, the woman had her family to assist her.

If comrade Molotov can manage to postpone the war for two or three months that will be our good fortune, but you yourselves must go off and take measures to raise the combat readiness of our forces ".

President Hugo Chávez has repeatedly expressed his disapproval of the practice of kidnapping stating on 14 April that, " If I were a guerrilla, I wouldn't have the need to hold a woman, a man who aren't soldiers ... Free the civilians who don't have anything to do with the war.

" Additionally, in book II, Biarco mentions Odin and Sleipnir: " If I may look on the awful husband of Frigg, howsoever he be covered in his white shield, and guide his tall steed, he shall in no way go safe out of Leire ; it is lawful to lay low in war the war-waging god.

If States abused their power, they should be judged against international conventions dealing with war crimes, international human rights and international humanitarian law.