If the ruler lacks rén, Confucianism holds, it will be difficult if not impossible for his subjects to behave humanely.

If an officer were incapable, even if he were a close relative of the ruler, he ought to be demoted, even if it meant poverty.

If they do not designate a new ruler after three days, then they open a letter left to them by the deceased Sultan, containing a recommendation for a new Sultan.

If such a ruler could establish and maintain authority over a portion of these tuatha, he was sometimes granted the title of High King ( see High King of Ireland ).

If these are ruled out, then the earliest Set-animal appears on a mace head of the Scorpion King, a protodynastic ruler.

If so, he must have been sorely disappointed ; while the entire Province of Ulster and most of the Province of Connacht failed to provide the High King with troops, they did not, with the exception of a single ruler in Ulster, provide support for Máel Morda either.

If it has equally spaced markings along its length it is usually called a ruler.

If the measurement is 30mm on a ruler ( it can vary — ensure that the same scale is used throughout the rest of the process ).

If however a secular ruler controls the religious hierarchy, he can use it to legitimate his own authority.

If a commander conspired against the ruler, it was often not possible to deal with the conspiracy without causing unrest among the nobility.

If the law is successfully enforced, even a weak ruler will be strong.

If Tervel had survived this long, he would have been the Bulgarian ruler who concluded a new treaty ( confirming the annual tribute paid by the Byzantines to Bulgaria, the territorial concessions in Thrace, regulating commercial relations and the treating of political refugees ) with Emperor Theodosius III in 716.

Ebert favoured retaining the monarchy under a different ruler (" If the Kaiser does not abdicate, the social revolution is inevitable.

Xunzi ends the chapter with, "' If you do not know a man, look at his friends ; if you do not know a ruler, look at his attendants.

If you can defeat King Thorax, you will become ruler of Bugdom.

If this, indeed, is what Berossos presumed, he made a mistake that would cost him interested Greek readers who were accustomed to a much more varied and lively historical narrative where there could be no doubt who was an evil ruler and who was not.

If one were to measure a stretch of coastline with a yardstick, one would get a shorter result than if the same stretch were measured with a 30cm ( one-foot ) ruler.

Boxer is a loyal supporter of Napoleon ; he listens to everything the self-appointed ruler of the farm says and assumes, sometimes with doubt, that everything Napoleon tells the farm animals is true: " If Napoleon says it, it must be right.

If a government is imposed on people, on the other hand, they not only have the right to defend themselves by revolting against it, they are entitled to kill the tyrannical ruler.

If it is a public sector union then the Minister refers the disputed matter to the Industrial Court only with the consent of the Agong ( King ) or the state ruler, if it is a state body in question.

If Richard was unpopular in Aquitaine, Philip II was equally unliked by his contemporaries with comments describing him as: astute, manipulative, calculating, penurious and ungallant ruler.

If a ruler can create just laws, and if the warriors can carry out the orders of the rulers, and if the producers can obey this authority, then a society will be just.

* If, for example, the second house cusp is 0 degrees Taurus and the third house cusp is 5 degrees Gemini then the house will have Venus as its primary ruler and Mercury as its secondary ruler.

If Columbanus's abbey at Bobbio in Italy became a citadel of faith and learning, Luxeuil in France became the nursery of saints and apostles.

If he had been in exile, Constantine may have returned to Pictland where his cousin Donald II became king.

In 1997 Enya released her greatest hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, again a top five smash in the UK and Germany, which featured two new songs: " Paint the Sky with Stars " and " Only If ..."; " Only If ..." later became a single.

If this letter were to Ephesus, one would expect it to have more of the warmth evidenced in Philippians ... We may safely assume the letter was a general letter to Gentile believers in southwestern Asia Minor and that it became identified with Ephesus as the most important city between Rome and Antioch.

If Matthew's prime concern was to preserve the Jewish character of the church, he failed: Christianity became a Gentile religion, and Christianity and Judaism came to view each other as opposites.

If so, these huge stars would have quickly consumed their supply of fuel and became supernovae, releasing heavy elements into the interstellar medium.

If Daniel's Vita is trustworthy ( and there is nothing against which to judge its accuracy ), then John came to the Vatos Monastery at Mount Sinai, now Saint Catherine's Monastery, and became a novice when he was about 16 years old.

From this album, the song " If I Ruled the World " became a Top 5 hit on Billboards R & B chart.

The person from Porlock later became a word to describe interrupted genius, and the literary critic Walter Jackson Bate recounted that while John Livingston Lowes taught the poem, he told his students " If there is any man in the history of literature who should be hanged, drawn, and quartered, it is the man on business from Porlock.

In his book, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question ?, Lederman writes that, although he was a chemistry major, he became fascinated with physics, because of the clarity of the logic and the unambiguous results from experimentation.

If British losses became severe, the RAF could simply have withdrawn northward and regrouped.

If the trend continues, more than half the forest that existed when Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia in 1975 will be gone by 2021.

The debut single, " If It Makes You Happy ," became a radio success and netted her two Grammy awards for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Album.

* If someone's shoes had encrusted mud on them, then they are likely to have been worn by him in the rain, when it is likely he became very wet.

If the frequencies were too far apart the heterodyne became ultrasonic and hence no longer audible.

If Yahweh was not a Canaanite god, this raises the question of where he originated and how he became the national god of Israel and Judah in Iron Age II ( 1000-586 ).

If Claude Héméré ( 1574 – 1650, librarian of the Sorbonne ) saw in the project the conception of a powerful intellect, " Hoc primus in lycaeo Parisiensi vidit Robertus ", its realization became a model college for others.

" ( which also became the state Oklahoma's state song ), " If I Loved You ", " You'll Never Walk Alone ", " It Might as Well Be Spring ", " Some Enchanted Evening ", " Getting to Know You ", " My Favorite Things ", " The Sound of Music ", " Sixteen Going on Seventeen ", " Climb Ev ' ry Mountain ", " Do-Re-Mi ", and " Edelweiss ", Hammerstein's last song.

If a wife became a chronic invalid, the husband was bound to maintain her in the home they had made together, unless she preferred to take her dowry and return to her father's house ; but he was free to remarry.

If such is the case, the premium may have ended when global oil storage capacity became exhausted ; the contango would have deepened as the lack of storage supply to soak up excess oil supply would have put further pressure on prompt prices.

If the quality of rule became questionable because of repeated natural disasters such as flood or famine, or for other reasons, then rebellion was justified.

" Her unexpected response, " If you knew the trouble I had getting rid of mine ..." charmed her listeners and displayed the wit that later became famous.