If the lever is pulled to clear a signal or move a switch, the tappet moves a short distance lengthwise at the same time.

If you draw the short straw I'll lend you some bread, like fifty bucks, before I take off to visit my sister in Frisco.

If it does, ocean levels would rise by a few metres in a very short period of time.

If the delay is too short, it will destructively interfere with the un-delayed signal and create a flanging effect.

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.

If the sets are short to medium length the caller will often try to run the dance until each couple has danced with every other couple both as a 1 and a 2 and returned to where they started.

If the fibers are first aligned by combing them and then the spinner uses a worsted type drafting method such as the short forward draw, the yarn is smoother and called a worsted ; by contrast, if the fibers are carded but not combed and the spinner uses a woolen drafting method such as the long backward draw, the yarn is fuzzier and called woolen-spun.

If the frame contains areas where nothing has moved, the system simply issues a short command that copies that part of the previous frame, bit-for-bit, into the next one.

He is still seeking greater autonomy from China, although Dolma Gyari, deputy speaker of the parliament-in-exile has stated " If the middle path fails in the short term, we will be forced to opt for complete independence or selfdetermination as per the UN charter ".

According to Bruce Campbell's autobiography, If Chins Could Kill, Richard acquired his stage name by combining his short name with his roommates ' names, Hal and Del.

In short: " If Christ was sacrificed for your sake, be like him and be in submission to one another.

If the rate of spontaneous emission, or any of the other rates are fast, the lifetime is short.

If water is evaporated too quickly, the membrane dries, resistance across it increases, and eventually it will crack, creating a gas " short circuit " where hydrogen and oxygen combine directly, generating heat that will damage the fuel cell.

If the blood sugar level falls too low the liver converts a storage of glycogen into glucose and releases it into the bloodstream, to prevent the person going into a diabetic coma, for a short period of time.

If the target is a hard and heavy object, or if it is resting on some sort of anvil, the head can travel only a very short distance d before stopping.

If the stud attempts to mate with her and she lies down for him within a fairly short period of time, she is not pregnant.

If the net excitation received by a neuron over a short period of time is large enough, the neuron generates a brief pulse called an action potential, which originates at the soma and propagates rapidly along the axon, activating synapses onto other neurons as it goes.

If the exposure to antibiotics is short, these individuals will survive the treatment.

* Nehemiah Scudder, the fictional antagonist in Robert A. Heinlein's short novel If This Goes On —

If you think Terayama's poem uses a child's game to express in hyperbolic metaphor how, in retrospect, life is short, and nothing more, then this would indeed work as a senryū.

French-Canadian band Harmonium had a short career in the mid ' 70s during which their most notable release was Si on avait besoin d ' une cinquième saison ( If We Needed A Fifth Season ) ( 1975 ).

If M is a module which has a non-zero proper submodule N, then there is a short exact sequence

If immediate treatment is successful, the patient may improve ( although this may be temporary ) and this improvement may allow the patient to be categorized to a lower priority in the short term.

If each mode received an equal partition of energy, the short wavelength modes would consume all the energy.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

If, in the trustee's judgment, `` reasonable market conditions '' did not prevail during any given year, he was to be allowed to petition the court for an extension of time within the ten-year period.

If the next data item is not available when it is needed, the codec has no choice but to produce silence or guess — and if the data is late, it is useless, because the time period when it should have been converted to a signal has already passed.

If the book of Zephaniah was largely composed during the monarchic period, the author of the book of Zephaniah attempts to accomplish this change in behaviour through the threat of future calamity for “ those who have turned back from following the Lord, / who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him ” ( 1: 6 ).

If the bankrupt fails to lodge the document within a certain period of time, he or she can be prosecuted and fined.

If a DBMS system responses users ' request in a given time period, it can be regarded as a real time database.

If this were generalized to the US population as a whole, it would make deism the fastest-growing religious classification in the US for that period, with the reported total of 49, 000 self-identified adherents representing about 0. 02 % of the US population at the time.

Top-twenty singles during this period included " The Right Combination ", " Burning the Midnight Oil " ( both duets with Porter Wagoner, 1971 ), " Lost Forever in Your Kiss " ( with Wagoner ), " Touch Your Woman ( 1972 ), " If Teardrops Were Pennies " ( with Wagoner ), " My Tennessee Mountain Home " and " Travelin ' Man " ( 1973 ).

If the expression that defines the DFT is evaluated for all integers k instead of just for, then the resulting infinite sequence is a periodic extension of the DFT, periodic with period N.

If Seimu did exist, there is no evidence to suggest that the title tennō was used during the time period to which his reign has been assigned.

If Chūai did exist, there is no evidence to suggest that the title tennō was used during the time period to which his reign has been assigned.

:" If a period fixed by weeks, months, and years does not commence from the beginning of a week, month, or year, it ends with the ending of the day which proceeds the day of the last week, month, or year which corresponds to that on which it began to commence.

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.

: e ) If requested by the franchisee, copies of franchisor's balance sheets for the previous three years, or since start-up if that period is shorter.

If a hellbender ends up in an area of slowly moving water, not enough water will pass over its skin in a given time period, making it difficult to garner enough oxygen to support necessary respiratory functions.

If the person is detained in the hospital, they usually must be seen by an authorized psychiatrist within a set period of time.

The historian Kelly DeVries describes the period preceding her appearance in the following terms: " If anything could have discouraged her, the state of France in 1429 should have.

If an electric field of one particular polarity is applied for a long period of time, this ionic material is attracted to the surfaces and degrades the device performance.

If you harvest products you must get a period of 24 hours off after working up to 72 hours in a seven-day period.

If the offer is for a longer period courts will limit the offer period to 90 days.