If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

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 a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If you look at a reading meant for someone else, you will probably see that many of the items could be considered as applicable to you, even when you were not in the picture at all!!

If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

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.

If anything, this meant it was a more energetic variant, probably involving more kicks.

If an officer were incapable, even if he were a close relative of the ruler, he ought to be demoted, even if it meant poverty.

If this had been achieved, it would have meant the curtailing of the absolute power residing in President Kaunda.

If this meant triangles or more complicated geometric figures, well then, one accepted that too ".

* Joel Spolsky ( for Apps Hungarian ): " If you read Simonyi's paper closely, what he was getting at was the same kind of naming convention as I used in my example above where we decided that meant " unsafe string " and meant " safe string.

" If you had Jack Gould in your corner, you could not believe what it meant ," said Cooney decades later.

If he means coureloms and mammoths separately, then he is not specifically saying that mammoths existed on the American continent at that time, seeing as all the animals are meant as hypothetical examples of what the Jaredites might have brought in their barges.

* If the plural is not one that is formed by adding s, an s is added for the possessive, after the apostrophe: children's hats, women's hairdresser, some people's eyes ( but compare some peoples ' recent emergence into nationhood, where peoples is meant as the plural of the singular people ).

If the holes bored into the thwarts are indeed meant to accommodate a dummy crew, the crew seating would have been arranged with two men per bench amidships, and one man per bench fore and aft where the ship narrows so that there is only room for one man.

" He concluded, " If this book is meant for kids, I doubt that they will be pleased.

If another the ruling line should rise to ascendency, it was necessary to bestow upon the new line the most prestigious line, even if this meant borrowing a few ancestors from the preceding dynasty.

If no ill will is meant, and a strict interpretation of military courtesy is applied, a surrendering commander may be allowed to keep his side arm in order to exercise his right of command over his men.

In early 1974 Jim Baen took over from Jakobsson as editor, but increasing paper costs meant that UPD could no longer afford to publish both Galaxy and If.

If the scales balanced, this meant the deceased had led a good life.

If such footpaths are in urban environments and are meant for both pedestrians and bicyclists, they can be called shared-use paths or multi-use paths in general and official usage.

You should not say: “ If it meant this, then … and if it meant that, then …” while stating from the start “ This is kufr ”!

If the accused witch touched the victim while the victim was having a fit, and the fit then stopped, that meant the accused was the person who had afflicted the victim.

If a man was " proclaimed emperor " this normally meant he was proclaimed augustus, or ( for generals ) imperator ( from which English emperor ultimately derives ).

If he did not return by then, Li Ching was to burn the body because that meant that he had become an immortal ; but after six and a half days the student had to go home to see to his sick mother one last time before she died.

If it meant the office, then a disabled President had no legal method of returning to power.

If then any man is in Christ, he is a new creature ( literally, `` He is a new creation ), the former things have passed away ; ;

" 9: 2 If the passage in Isaiah is interpreted literally, a return to the vegetarian diet of Eden seems to be a natural conclusion. Gen 1: 29-30

If Bede is interpreted literally, the marriage would have had to take place before 567, when Charibert died.

If one wanted to assert, in Arabic, that an apple looks red, one would not literally say " the apple is red ", but " the apple red ".

* " If information is the substance, causation, necessity, and base foundation to all that exists, would an omniscient entity not literally be everything and anything in, or of existence?

# If he is Omniscient and knows infinitely everything to which is knowable, would he not know me in every infinitely knowable way to where he himself would literally be I, me, or who I am in every infinitely knowable way?

If a manager decides that his client wrestler should tap out, but cannot convince the wrestler himself to do so, he may throw in the towel ( literally taking a gym towel and hurling it into the referee's line of sight ); this is the same as a submission, as the manager is, in kayfabe, considered the wrestlers agent, and therefore, authorized to make formal decisions ( such as forfeiting a match ) on the client's behalf.

If one accepts the theory that the speech is sincere, then the final scene must be interpreted literally.

If the Senate proposed a bill that the plebeian tribune ( the magistrate who was the chief representative of the people ) did not agree with, he issued a veto, which was backed by the promise to literally "' interpose the sacrosanctity of his person '" ( or intercessio ) if the Senate did not comply.

If the behavior is diverted or frozen midway, the person literally has no mental space for this-he is stopped in the middle of unconsciously executing a behavior that hasn't got a " middle ".

If it is to be taken literally, " Lucifuge " is thus a command: " shun the light " or " flee from the light " ( or logically, " seek darkness ").

If this speech is taken literally, it would suggest that Spartans could conduct political affairs and that they collected and made use of written works such as speeches.

If these events and ages are interpreted literally throughout and the genealogies are considered closed, it is possible to build up a chronology in which many of the events of the Old Testament are dated to an estimated number of years after creation.

If you lose your lucky rabbit's foot or magic power crystal you've literally lost your luck or power.

If the file were to be mapped literally from disk to memory, the RVA would be the same as that of the offset into the file, but this is actually quite unusual.

If one wishes to vote against one's party, one must quite literally cross the floor to get to the other lobby.

If God is not literally made up of physical matter, and does not have an observable effect on the world, making a statement about God is not a matter of fact.

If you are fortunate to have the resources, these extremely expensive war machines can literally decide the outcome of the game, by destroying virtually everything in their path.

If all of the claim's elements are found in the technology, the claim is said to " read on " the technology ; if a single element from the claim is missing from the technology, the claim does not literally read on the technology and the technology does not infringe the patent with respect to that claim.

If the passage about goin " southwest " is taken literally and directly, continuing from Hälsingland across the Gulf of Bothnia Thorolf would have arrived to the southwestern tip of present-day Finland, center of Finland's Viking period population ( see map ).

" If Looks Could Kill " ( issues # 1-6 ) brings Cable and Deadpool together ( literally ).

A talk from 1970 for college students encouraging mentoring and discipleship stated: “ If you want ... there are men in government, there are senators who literally find it their pleasure to give any advice, assistance, or counsel .”

Their 1992 single " Motto Tsuyoku Dakishimeta Nara " ( literally " If I Hug You More Strongly ") reached the number-one position and was charted for 44 weeks on the Japanese Oricon charts.

If the plot is to be taken literally, devoid of subjective interpretation, then one night, out of the blue, Sumire calls ' K ' and tells him that she is back in Japan.