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If and statements
If the compiler does encounter such statements, a warning message will be issued.
If the affiant is a party in the case, the affiant's opponent may be successful in having the affidavit admitted as evidence, as statements by a party-opponent are admissible through an exception to the hearsay rule.
Statements such as the Banach – Tarski paradox can be rephrased as conditional statements, for example, " If AC holds, the decomposition in the Banach – Tarski paradox exists.
Naamani Tarkow has written: " If one is to make sweeping statements, one may say that, save Magna Carta ( more truly, its implications ), the Act of Settlement is probably the most significant statute in English history ".
If you can carry on an intelligent conversation with an unknown partner, does this imply your statements are understood?
If we are told that at least one of two statements is true ; and also told that it is not the former that is true ; we can infer that it has to be the latter that is true.
If we have to get the feeling that everything that we do will show up in the newspapers tomorrow, you'll get whitewashed statements.
This can be indicated by verbal statements at the beginning of a composition, for example, " Tune Low C to C flat ", or " If necessary, tune high G to G sharp ".
" If moral statements cannot be true, and if one cannot know something that is not true, noncognitivism implies that moral knowledge is impossible.
When Franz Halder, the Chief of the Army General Staff, heard of the state of the Kriegsmarine, and its plan for the invasion, he noted in his diary, on 28 July 1940, " If that plan is true, all previous statements by the navy were so much rubbish and we can throw away the whole plan of invasion ".
If M is simple, then f is either the zero homomorphism or injective because the kernel of f is a submodule of M. If N is simple, then f is either the zero homomorphism or surjective because the image of f is a submodule of N. If M = N, then f is an endomorphism of M, and if M is simple, then the prior two statements imply that f is either the zero homomorphism or an isomorphism.
If X is totally ordered under ≤, then the following statements hold for all a, b and c in X:
Similar statements apply to the dual situation of terminal morphisms from U. If such morphisms exist for every X in C one obtains a functor V: C → D which is right-adjoint to U ( so U is left-adjoint to V ).
These authors asked people to compare written statements about the relations between several variables to graphs illustrating the same or a different relation, as in the following sentence: " If the cake is from France, then it has more sugar if it is made with chocolate than if it is made with cream, but if the cake is from Italy, then it has more sugar if it is made with cream than if it is made of chocolate.
If the person has been made to stand then that person has no lap and neither of the statements " the person's lap is empty " and " there is something on the person's lap " is true.
If Pinkerton knew this, then it directly contradicts statements in his 1883 book The Spy of the Rebellion, where he professes to be an ardent Abolitionist and hater of slavery.
If G has finitely many vertices, say n of them, then the above statements are also equivalent to any of the following conditions:
If this argument holds, and facts are taken to be what true statements stand for, then we reach the counter-intuitive conclusion that there is only one fact-" the truth ".
If statements or decisions deviated from the prescribed line, reprimands and, for persons outside public attention, punishment would ensue, such as imprisonment, torture and even death.
These leaflets contained statements such as ; " Do not submit to intimidation ", " Assert your rights ", " If you do not assert and support your rights, you are helping to deny or disparage rights which it is the solemn duty of all citizens and residents of the United States to retain ," on the grounds that military conscription constituted involuntary servitude, which is prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment.
The introduction of PNAS Plus is part of gradual shift in PNAS content described in an editorial: " If PNAS Plus succeeds, we envision transitioning to a print edition of PNAS in a magazine format comprising special features, commentaries on important papers flagged by member editors and the Editorial Board, and summary statements of the online articles.
In natural languages, an indicative conditional is the logical operation given by statements of the form " If A then B ".
If the accused admits to the offence, or there are reliable witness statements, the chair will call for proposals.

If and laws
If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.
He explained that this is one of the most important analects: " If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.
If the franchisor requires purchase from his stores, it may come under anti-trust legislation or equivalent laws of other countries.
"(...) If Russia is tending to become a capitalist nation after the example of the Western European countries, and during the last years she has been taking a lot of trouble in this direction-she will not succeed without having first transformed a good part of her peasants into proletarians ; and after that, once taken to the bosom of the capitalist regime, she will experience its pitiless laws like other profane peoples.
If they further reflect, they must also recognize that an act of mutual love which impairs the capacity to transmit life which God the Creator, through specific laws, has built into it, frustrates His design which constitutes the norm of marriage, and contradicts the will of the Author of life.
If the coordinates are chosen badly, the laws of motion may be more complex than necessary.
If the laws of physics agree more accurately with observations in a model with rotation than without it, we are inclined to select the best-fit value for rotation, subject to all other pertinent experimental observations.
If, therefore, the legislature pass any laws, inconsistent with the sense the judges put upon the constitution, they will declare it void.
If there were a large ( possibly infinite ) number of universes, each with possibly different physical laws ( or different fundamental physical constants ), some of these universes, even if very few, would have the combination of laws and fundamental parameters that are suitable for the development of matter, astronomical structures, elemental diversity, stars, and planets that can exist long enough for life to emerge and evolve.
If seen to fruition, which seems likely, the new laws will reduce tourism in the Netherlands dramatically and cost the exchequer millions in lost revenue and well-established business are forecast to go bankrupt.
If the number of universes is unlimited, then the power of a certain God-like entity is also unlimited, since the laws of physics may be different in other universes, and accordingly making this entity omnipotent.
If any animal has a system of laws regulating the body politic, it is certainly the prairie dog.
If other peoples have had prophets, books, and laws, these constitute no difficulty for Islam .”
If a treaty requires implementing legislation, a state may be in default of its obligations by the failure of its legislature to pass the necessary domestic laws.
He concluded that " If Marshall were merely stupid, the laws of probability would dictate that part of his decisions would serve this country's interest.
In universal algebra, a subalgebra of an algebra A is a subset S of A that also has the structure of an algebra of the same type when the algebraic operations are restricted to S. If the axioms of a kind of algebraic structure is described by equational laws, as is typically the case in universal algebra, then the only thing that needs to be checked is that S is closed under the operations.
Iran, however, has made the following reservation “ If the text of the Convention is or becomes incompatible with the domestic laws and Islamic standards at any time or in any case, the Government of the Islamic Republic shall not abide by it .” Iran has also signed the both optional protocols which relate to the special protection of children against involvement in armed conflict and the sale of children and sexual exploitation.
* If the inferior power is in a position of self-defense ; i. e., under attack or occupation, it may be possible to use unconventional tactics, such as hit-and-run and selective battles in which the superior power is weaker, as an effective means of harassment without violating the laws of war.
* If the inferior power is in an aggressive position, however, and / or turns to tactics prohibited by the laws of war ( jus in bello ), its success depends on the superior power's refraining from like tactics.
The next citations are not found until 1955, when the May – June issue of Aviation Mechanics Bulletin included the line " Murphy's Law: If an aircraft part can be installed incorrectly, someone will install it that way ," and Lloyd Mallan's book, Men, Rockets and Space Rats, referred to: " Colonel Stapp's favorite takeoff on sober scientific laws — Murphy's Law, Stapp calls it —' Everything that can possibly go wrong will go wrong '.
If it were actually possible to have complete knowledge of physical matter and all of the laws governing that matter at any one time, then it would be theoretically possible to compute the time and place of every event that will ever occur ( Laplace's demon ).
* Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do ( ISBN 0-931580-58-7 ) is a book by Peter McWilliams criticizing the existence of laws against consensual crimes.
If this happened, Labor would have an effective 33 – 31 margin, would be able to pass supply if that was still an issue, and also could pass electoral redistribution laws ( which had been passed by the House, though twice defeated by the Senate ) that would give it an advantage at the next election.
His Slavery Discussed in Occasional Essays from 1833 to 1846 ( 1846 ) exercised considerable influence upon Abraham Lincoln, and in this book appears the sentence, which, as rephrased by Lincoln, was widely quoted: " If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong — if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong — nothing is wrong.

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