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If they encountered an enemy troop or vehicle concentration, they would assume a defensive posture, lay down as much covering fire as they could, designate the targets for requested air and artillery assets.
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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 ''.
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If the photographically realistic continuity of dreams, however bizarre their combinations, denies that it is purely a composition of the brain, it must be compounded from views of diverse realities, although some of them may never be encountered in what we are pleased to call the real life.
If the mark is encountered again and the painter is traveling in the same direction, then the painter knows that it is safe to paint the square with the mark and to continue in the same direction.
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If God lacks any one of these qualities, the existence of evil is explicable, and so the problem of evil will not be encountered.
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If there were sharp contradictions in Cuban society under the Autenticos, the circumstances differed only in degree from the complexities and dynamics encountered in free societies everywhere ( how often did Cubans compare Havana with Chicago?
If encountered anywhere in such a text stream, U + FEFF is to be interpreted as a " zero width no-break space ".
If the largest integer to be encountered can be accommodated by the ' faster ' data type, defining the variables as that type will result in faster execution-since even a non-optimizing compiler will, in-effect, be ' forced ' to choose appropriate instructions that will execute faster than would have been the case with data types associated with ' slower ' instructions.
* If we encountered a gcd ( v, n ) at some stage that was neither 1 nor n, then we are done: it is a non-trivial factor of n.
If a female thus encountered finds a male to her liking, she will visit to see whether they get along well and inspect the nesting sites he can offer.
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If the word " district " is encountered in the context of ancient Chinese history, then the word is a translation for xian, another type of administrative division in China.
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If the squire encountered any of his tenants on the road with sheep or cattle, his coachman had orders not to stop or slow down ; if people did not hurry out of his path they were mown down.
If the account is even historical, Saint Thomas may have encountered one of the later kings who bore the same title.
If flying under instrument flight rules ( IFR ) conditions, and VFR conditions exist or are encountered after the failure, the flight should be continued in VFR conditions and the pilot shall land as soon as practicable.
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