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If they attacked Indian villages in winter, the Indians would be compelled to stand and fight for their own winter supplies, and could be decisively defeated.
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If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.
If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.
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`` If once they become inattentive to the public affairs '', Jefferson said, `` you and I, and Congress and assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves ''.
If they give him advice when he asks it, or if they perform specified duties under his direction, the nature of the U. N. will not of necessity change.
If and attacked
If the second theory is correct, this raises the further question of why the Persians, having hesitated for several days, then attacked.
On October 7, Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós spoke at the UN General Assembly: " If ... we are attacked, we will defend ourselves.
In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.
If veins were present, they were attacked using fire-setting and the ore removed for crushing and comminution.
If a Hydra is alarmed or attacked, the tentacles can be retracted to small buds, and the body column itself can be retracted to a small gelatinous sphere.
Survivor Jim McLoughlin states in One Common Enemy that Hartenstein asked him if he was in the Royal Navy, which he was, and then asked why a passenger ship was armed, stating, " If it wasn't armed, I would not have attacked.
If she / he makes an overhand set, she / he must be standing behind ( and not stepping on ) the 3-meter line ; otherwise, the ball cannot be attacked above the net in front of the 3-meter line.
If the castle was attacked, the hoarding allowed defenders to go out beyond the keep's massive walls above the heads of the attackers.
If another child wanders onto the scene, he / she may be physically attacked or pushed out of the way.
If humans approach the nest both parents may engage in a distraction display but known ground predators ( including domestic dogs ) are physically attacked almost immediately.
* If individuals are attacked for their personal characteristics ( for " being who they are "), they cannot do much with that, except to fight it off.
If they were being attacked they would have to move quickly as the enemies were just nine minutes away from Dover by plane.
If cattle are driven into, or of their own accord enter, the water, they are commonly not molested ; but if by chance some unusually big or ferocious specimen of these fearsome fishes does bite an animal — taking off part of an ear, or perhaps of a teat from the udder of a cow — the blood brings up every member of the ravenous throng which is anywhere near, and unless the attacked animal can immediately make its escape from the water it is devoured alive.
If we are attacked by Egypt ( after an Islamist revolution in Cairo ) and by Syria, and chemical and biological missiles slam into our cities, and at the same time Israeli Palestinians attack us from behind, I can see an expulsion situation.
" If Poland did not satisfy Jewish claims it would be " publicly attacked and humiliated " in the international forum, Singer said according to a Reuters report.
If the French army should be found in front of the second army, it would be attacked in front by the second army and in flank by the first or the third ( or both ).
If it should be found on or north of the line from Saarburg to Lunéville, it could still be attacked from two sides by the second and third armies in co-operation.
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