If the reserve components are to serve effectively in time of war, their basic organization and objectives must conform to the changing character and missions of the active forces.

If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.

If we fail to develop the means to hunt down and destroy the enemy's military force with extreme care and precision, and if war comes in spite of our most ardent desires for peace, our choice of alternatives will be truly frightening.

`` If Philip Toynbee is claiming that the choice lies between capitulation and the risk of nuclear war, I think he is right.

* If a person not native to England comes to the throne, England will not wage war for " any dominions or territories which do not belong to the Crown of England, without the consent of Parliament.

If plague and famine threaten, a libation is poured to the idol Thor ; if war, to Wotan ; if marriages are to be celebrated, to Frikko.

Pasternak later said, " If, in a bad dream, we had seen all of the horrors in store for us after the war, we should have been sorry not to see Stalin go down together with Hitler: an end to the war in favour of our allies, civilized countries with democratic traditions, would have meant a hundred times less suffering for our people than that which Stalin again inflicted on it after his victory.

Thus the view from Whitehall early in 1916: If defeat was not imminent, neither was victory ; and the outcome of the war of attrition on the Western Front could not be predicted.

If one of the intervening states was a superpower, a civil war is extended a further 72 %; a conflict such as the Angolan Civil War, in which there is two-sided foreign intervention, including by a superpower ( actually, two superpowers in the case of Angola ), would be 538 % longer on average than a civil war without any international intervention.

If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times.

If addressed, it may be through diplomacy and the consequences upon an offending state's reputation, submission to international judicial determination, arbitration, sanctions or force including war.

If the two nations went to war, Adams predicted the president of the United States would use his war powers to abolish slavery.

If international finance Jewry in and outside Europe should succeed in thrusting the nations once again into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth and with it the victory of Jewry, but the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe.

If the territory was already on a war footing, the whole society alert and inflamed, then why not direct all this ramped up energy toward something useful?

If Lebanon has in part recovered over the past decade from the catastrophic damage to infrastructure of its long civil war, the social and political divisions that gave rise to and sustained that conflict remain largely unresolved.

If the former German and Ottoman territories had been ceded to the victorious powers directly, their economic value would have been credited to offset the Allies ' claims for war reparations.

If royal succession in Minoan Crete descended matrilinearly — from the queen to her firstborn daughter — the queen's husband would have become the Minos, or war chief.

If they separated or the man was killed at war, the woman had her family to assist her.

If comrade Molotov can manage to postpone the war for two or three months that will be our good fortune, but you yourselves must go off and take measures to raise the combat readiness of our forces ".

President Hugo Chávez has repeatedly expressed his disapproval of the practice of kidnapping stating on 14 April that, " If I were a guerrilla, I wouldn't have the need to hold a woman, a man who aren't soldiers ... Free the civilians who don't have anything to do with the war.

" Additionally, in book II, Biarco mentions Odin and Sleipnir: " If I may look on the awful husband of Frigg, howsoever he be covered in his white shield, and guide his tall steed, he shall in no way go safe out of Leire ; it is lawful to lay low in war the war-waging god.

If States abused their power, they should be judged against international conventions dealing with war crimes, international human rights and international humanitarian law.

If it ever got behind me, the beep turned to a buzz.

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 ).

According to Ivinskaya, " If ever the conversation turned to Mandelstam, Leonidovich would always hark back to the same thing: that he was not to blame for his misfortunes, and that if he had not written to Bukharin and in general made a great fuss about his arrest, then perhaps Mandelstam would not even have had the respite, brief as it was, which was granted to him -- with the result that the Voronezh Notebooks might never have been written.

* If the button has been turned to " Off ", then the table is in the come-out round.

Police Commissioner Bob Hauk ( Lee Van Cleef ) offers a deal to special forces soldier turned criminal " Snake " Plissken ( Kurt Russell ): If he rescues the president and retrieves a secret cassette tape within 24 hours, Hauk will give him a full pardon.

If it's not found, the key's hash is turned into another number in the same range, and the request is routed to the node whose location is closest to the key.

If the depletion region expands to completely close the channel, the resistance of the channel from source to drain becomes large, and the FET is effectively turned off like a switch.

If the illiquid assets subsequently turned out to be worth less than expected, the remaining investors would bear the full loss while the redeemed investor would have borne none.

If they turned to illegality it was due to the fact that honest toil only benefited the employers and often entailed a complete loss of dignity, while any complaints resulted in the sack ; to avoid starvation through lack of work it was necessary to beg or steal, and to avoid conscription into the army many of them had to go on the run.

However this did not make Reynolds happy, as he wrote to Boswell: " If I had known what a shabby miserable place it is, I would not have asked for it ; besides as things have turned out I think a certain person is not worth speaking to, nor speaking of ", presumably meaning the King.

If dark decided to put a piece in the topmost location ( all choices are strategically equivalent at this time ), one piece gets turned over, so that the board appears thus:

If I cut him open, there wasn't metal, he was grown ... and then within twenty years you get the first bill not passed in the Senate where they applied for replication of animals, sheep and goats and cattle and animals and they turned it down, but if you can do that, then you can do human beings.

If weather helm builds further, it can limit the ability of the helmsman to steer the boat, which can be turned towards but not effectively away from the wind.

If on the march, arms shall be swung and the head turned to the left or right as required.

If police were spotted, regular white lights were turned on, signaling that everyone should stop dancing or touching.

If the handle is turned ninety degrees between operating positions, the valve is called a quarter-turn valve.

Gagarin stated, " If all these people have turned out to welcome me and can stand in the rain, so can I.

If is close to zero, will be very close to one after a single observation of an object which turned out to have the predicate, while if is much larger than, will be very close to regardless of the fraction of observed objects which had the predicate.

If the eggs aren't turned, the embryo inside may stick to the shell and may hatch with physical defects.

If low level wind shear is strong enough, the rotation can be turned vertically or diagonally and make contact with the ground.

If the bezel could be turned the other way this could suggest to a diver that the elapsed time was shorter than the truth, thus giving a falsely low elapsed time reading and therefore an assumed falsely low air consumption reading and falsely high remaining air reading, all of which could be highly dangerous.

In 2006, in an interview about The L Word she said more than once that she was " turned on " by the woman-woman sex scenes: " If you look at what we know about men, women and our sexuality, a great majority of people are bisexual.

If the persecuted person " turned the other cheek ," the discipliner was faced with a dilemma.

If he let the flock feed on a field of crops, he had to pay damages fourfold ; if he turned them into standing crops when they ought to have been folded, he paid twelvefold.

If the First Army turned to the southwest instead of advancing directly westward toward Königsberg, they would appear on the Eighth Army's extreme left flank, allowing for either a counterattack against the Eighth, or alternately turn north toward Königsberg from the undefended south.