( If a dragon or a sea monster came along, didn't he have a red Swiss hunting knife on his belt -- ten blades and a corkscrew??

If a team fails to gain ten yards in two downs they usually punt the ball on third down or try to kick a field goal ( see below ), depending on their position on the field.

* If the offence fails to make ten yards in three plays, the defence takes over on downs.

Among the forefathers of the new journalism movement, Thompson said in the February 15th, 1973 issue of Rolling Stone, " If I'd written the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people — including me — would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today.

* If a thief steals a cow, a sheep, a donkey, a pig, or a goat, he will pay ten times what it is worth.

If by then two physicians, or one physician and one psychologist then decide that the patient meets the Maryland criteria for an involuntary psychiatric admission, then he or she may be kept inpatient involuntarily for up to ten days.

In the 1990s after a Motörhead show at Hultsfred, Sweden a radio reporter asked Lemmy " If you were to play here again in ten years, how do you think you would sound?

If a chip design with five design flaws results in a mask with ten flaws in total, there is no point in making another mask because it will have the same five design flaws plus some other set of five copying flaws.

If two numbers differ by one order of magnitude, one is about ten times larger than the other.

If a Day or Teen tile is used with an eight, the pair is worth ten instead of the usual zero.

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 ).

On 11 June 1304, with both of them having witnessed the heroic efforts of their countrymen during King Edward's siege of Stirling Castle, Bruce and William Lamberton made a pact that bound them, each to the other, in “ friendship and alliance against all men .” If one should break the secret pact, he would forfeit to the other the sum of ten thousand pounds.

If ten of these shells are fired successfully into the enemy camp, the whole place will be set ablaze ...

If yellow fever is suspected, the virus cannot be confirmed until six to ten days after the illness.

Constantly seeking to produce better work, he apparently exclaimed on his deathbed, " If only Heaven will give me just another ten years ... Just another five more years, then I could become a real painter.

If all we care about is average happiness, we are forced to conclude that an extremely small population, say ten people, over the course of human history is the best outcome if we assume that these ten people ( Adam and Eve et al.

) If the result had fewer than ten digits, it was obtained faster.

If a trail is being made to be accessible to off-road wheelchairs, the grade should be no more than one in ten.

If five will get you ten, ten will get you twenty.

If a user has searched, DC ++ will respond with ten search results when the user is in active mode, or five, when the user is in passive mode.

If there are fewer than ten days left in the session before Congress adjourns, and if Congress does so adjourn before the ten days have expired in which the President might sign the bill, then the bill fails to become law.

If the court felt that it had the power to review legislation under the Commerce clause, Lessig argued, then the Copyright clause deserved similar treatment, or at very least a " principled reason " must be stated for according such treatment to only one of the enumerated powers.

If this is so, it is not because those rights are enumerated in the first eight Amendments, but because they are of such a nature that they are included in the conception of due process of law.

# If so, was the differential treatment based on enumerated or analogous grounds?

If twenty-four secondary types are enumerated, then the following fifteen are added to the first nine of the above ten:

If the railroads, for example, regularly slaughtered 25,000 passengers each year, the high priests of the cult would have cause to tremble for their personal safety, for such a holocaust would excite demands for the hanging of every railroad president in the United States.

If the demands of these two sovereigns upon his duty of allegiance come into conflict, those of the United States have the paramount authority in American law ; likewise, those of the foreign land have paramount authority in their legal system.

If the hijackers ' demands are deemed too great and the perpetrators show no inclination to surrender, authorities sometimes employ armed special forces to attempt a rescue of the hostages ( notably Operation Entebbe ).

If this is a true observation, it may be expected that the audience which both demands and consumes this emphasis itself is more receptive to personalized, dramatic accounts of social phenomena.

If, supposing it turns out that the original Ship of Theseus, S1, was actually stolen property, and the rightful owner demands its return, should the police give him S2 or S3?

If the demands of an organization with which psychologists are affiliated or for whom they are working are in conflict with this Ethics Code, psychologists clarify the nature of the conflict, make known their commitment to the Ethics Code, and take reasonable steps to resolve the conflict consistent with the General Principles and Ethical Standards of the Ethics Code.

If redemption demands exhausted their gold or silver reserves, these banks could rediscount the Real Bills to obtain gold or silver.

For a particle which has equal amplitude to move left and right, the Hermitian matrix H is zero except for nearest neighbors, where it has the value c. If the coefficient is everywhere constant, the condition that H is Hermitian demands that the amplitude to move to the left is the complex conjugate of the amplitude to move to the right.

When Achilles demands that " If you accept A and B and C, you must accept Z ," the Tortoise remarks that that's another hypothetical proposition, and suggests even if it accepts C, it could still fail to conclude Z if it did not see the truth of:

If the power demands are not high, then the energy storage element isn't needed.

If one demands that on-shell scattering diagrams be reproduced to all orders in the string coupling, one must also include additional vertices arising from higher genus ( and hence higher order in ) as well.

If the situation so demands, the blockading nation can request that the ship divert to a known place or harbour for inspection.

And if the success of the revolution demands a temporary limitation on the working of this or that democratic principle, then it would be criminal to refrain from such a limitation ... The revolutionary proletariat might limit the political rights of the higher classes ... If in a burst of revolutionary enthusiasm the people chose a very fine parliament ... then we would make of it a long parliament ; and if the elections turned out unsuccessfully then we would have to try to disperse it.

If it affected the oxygen and glucose supply to the brain, the metabolic demands of exercise could therefore quickly disrupt its functioning.

If Henlein's demands were granted, the Sudetenland would then be able to align itself with Nazi Germany.

If that is not burned into the Palestinian and Arab consciousness, there will be no end to their demands of us.

If it conforms only to stage demands, it would undoubtedly turn into classical dance.

If the crime is murder and the unborn child's life ends, justice demands a full accounting under the law.

If we do not postulate it, we will be led to either soften the demands of morality in order to make them achievable here and now or we will make the absurd demand on ourselves that we must achieve the holy will now.

If armed conflict is avoided at the price of diplomatic concessions to the maximum demands of the potential attacking nation under the threat of war, then it cannot be claimed that deterrence has succeeded.

If the demands were not met, the army would " exercise its constitutional duty " and take over power itself.

If the warnings were not heeded local farmworkers would gather, often in groups of 200 – 400, and would threaten the local oligarchs with dire consequences if their demands were not met.

If demands are not met, the 50-megaton bomb will detonate, destroying all of Los Angeles County.