If a fighter is knocked down during the fight, determined by whether the boxer touches the canvas floor of the ring with any part of their body other than the feet as a result of the opponent's punch and not a slip, as determined by the referee, the referee begins counting until the fighter returns to his or her feet and can continue.

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 this occurs, the referee separates the opponents and orders them to continue boxing.

If the ball has left the field along the sidelines, the referee must decide which team touched the ball last, and award a restart stroke to the opposing team, just like football's throw-in.

If both fencers hit at the same time, the referee uses the rules of " right of way " to determine which fencer gets the point.

If all the active wrestlers in a match are down inside the ring at the same time, the referee will begin a count ( usually ten seconds, twenty in Japan ).

If the opponent in the hold begins to tap out at the same time a referee counts to three for pinning the opponent delivering the hold, both opponents have legally achieved scoring conditions simultaneously.

If a boxer trails by more than 20 points, the referee stops the fight and the boxer that is leading automatically wins ; bouts which end this way may be noted as " RSC " ( referee stopped contest ) with notations for an outclassed opponent ( RSCO ), outscored opponent ( RSCOS ), injury ( RSCI ) or head injury ( RSCH ).

If, however, the referee is on the court during play, the referee may overrule the umpire's decision ( This would only happen in Davis Cup or Fed Cup matches, not at the World Group level, when a chair umpire from a non-neutral country is in the chair ).

If the lifter should use an offset or unequal grip on the bar, whereby one hand is placed outside the marking or tape, it is the lifters responsibility to explain this to the head referee, and allow inspection of the intended grip prior to making an attempt.

* If the two competing clubs cannot agree to a referee, the trustees will appoint one, and the two teams shall cover the expenses equally.

If the two competing clubs cannot agree on other officials, the referee will appoint them, and the two clubs shall also pay the expenses equally

If an athlete is unhappy with track conditions after the " on your marks " command is given, the athlete must raise a hand before the " set " command and provide the Start referee with a reason.

* If a player does not retreat the entire distance the referee marked, they are considered offside.

* If the Half takes too long to retrieve the ball the referee can call play on and defenders are allowed to move forward before the Half has touched the ball.

If these fall out during competition the gyoji ( or referee ) will throw them from the ring at the first opportunity.

If either of the " Inside " players throws the ball before the referee calls the score, it must be re-thrown and a warning will be given to the thrower.

If one man fails to come to the scratch in the 10 seconds allowed, it shall be in the power of the referee to give his award in favour of the other man.

* If both fighters are on the verge of falling out of the ring or become entangled in the ropes, the referee would stop the action.

If an off-target hit is made with priority, the play is halted, the fencers are put back on guard by the referee, and play resumes.

If, in a certain part of the range, it starts life 1 foot longer than do any of the other ( relatively large ) giants, and reaches maturity at, let us guess, 18 inches longer than the others, a quadrupling of the maturity length would result in a maximum of ( nearly ) 40 feet.

If a batter reaches first base because of offensive interference by a preceding runner ( including if a preceding runner is hit by a batted ball ), he is also credited with a hit.

If the score reaches 20-all, then the game continues until one side gains a two point lead ( such as 24 – 22 ), up to a maximum of 30 points ( 30 – 29 is a winning score ).

If any part of the ball reaches any part of the imaginary vertical plane transected by this line while in-bounds and in possession of a player whose team is striving toward that end of the field, this is considered a touchdown and scores six points for the team whose player has advanced the ball to, or recovered the ball in, this position.

If Mental Balance ever reaches + 500 /- 500, the character Awakens and either becomes a divine creature or transforms into a demon.

If the territory included all the tributaries of the Mississippi on its western bank, the northern reaches of the Purchase extended into the equally ill-defined British possession — Rupert's Land of British North America, now part of Canada.

If countN reaches 100, reads from the corresponding channel will be disabled.

If the base current to the transistor is assumed to be zero, the negative feedback forces the transistor to increase its collector-emitter voltage up to 1 V until its base-emitter voltage reaches 0. 625 V ( a typical value for a BJT in the active region ).

If an object's reference count reaches zero, the object has become inaccessible, and can be destroyed.

If the stress on the tubes reaches a certain limit, they curl up like a rubber band and puncture the Sun's surface.

If a player reaches a losing condition one time, the game does not end ; instead, a life is lost.

If the shutter is part of a lens assembly some other mechanism is required to ensure that no light reaches the film between exposures.

If the determination made by a lower body is overturned, it may be renewed de novo in the review process ( this is usually before it reaches the court system ).

If one waits for equilibrium, osmotic pressure reaches potential osmotic pressure.

If the TTL field reaches zero before the datagram arrives at its destination, then the datagram is discarded and an ICMP error datagram ( 11-Time Exceeded ) is sent back to the sender.

If this food reaches temperatures of 3 ° C to 43 ° C ( 38 ° F to 110 ° F ) it should be assumed to contain Clostridium botulinum multiplying and producing deadly botulin toxin.

If the aging for one of these types of whiskey reaches two years or beyond, the whiskey is then additionally designated as " straight " e. g., " straight rye whiskey ".

If termination is missing, or if there is a break in the cable, the AC signal on the bus is reflected, rather than dissipated when it reaches the end.

If the reference is not explicitly stated then it is normally assumed to be water at 4 ° C ( or, more precisely, 3. 98 ° C, which is the temperature at which water reaches its maximum density ).

If the ball contacts the front wall so low as to bounce twice before it reaches the service line it is called a " kill " shot.

If a message is intended for a computer partway down the line, each system bounces it along in sequence until it reaches the destination.

If correctly selected, it reaches terminal velocity, which can be measured by the time it takes to pass two marks on the tube.

If the temperature reaches the extremely high level of hyperpyrexia, aggressive cooling is required.

If he uses thirty seconds to move, the difference between the clocks reaches one minute, and the time flag falls to indicate that he loses by time.