If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

If a poet writes down several lines, intending them as a poem, the very procedure by which it is written makes it a poem.

If the assets used are not identical ( so a price divergence makes the trade temporarily lose money ), or the margin treatment is not identical, and the trader is accordingly required to post margin ( faces a margin call ), the trader may run out of capital ( if they run out of cash and cannot borrow more ) and go bankrupt even though the trades may be expected to ultimately make money.

If the defense makes no attempt to put the baserunner out ( for example, if the catcher doesn't even look his way ), the play is scored as defensive indifference ( also called fielder's indifference ), and no stolen base is credited to the runner.

If the netshot is tight and tumbling, then the opponent's lift will not reach the back of the court, which makes the subsequent smash much harder to return.

If the norm of a Banach space satisfies this identity, the associated inner product which makes it into a Hilbert space is given by the polarization identity.

* Overrunning clutch or freewheel: If some external force makes the driven member rotate faster than the driver, the clutch effectively disengages.

If the limit exists, meaning that there is a way of choosing a value for Q ( 0 ) that makes the graph of Q a continuous function, then the function f is differentiable at a, and its derivative at a equals Q ( 0 ).

If there is a graph requiring 5 colors, then there is a minimal such graph, where removing any vertex makes it four-colorable.

If E / F is a Galois extension, then Gal ( E / F ) can be given a topology, called the Krull topology, that makes it into a profinite group.

If an arithmetic mean was used instead of a geometric mean, the financial viability is given more weight because its numeric range is larger-so a small percentage change in the financial rating ( e. g. going from 80 to 90 ) makes a much larger difference in the arithmetic mean than a large percentage change in environmental sustainability ( e. g. going from 2 to 5 ).

If any one of the sides makes the bung reach that end of the churchyard it is victorious .” The actual word hockey was mentioned centuries before, in 1363, when King Edward III of England issued a declaration banning a list of games: " moreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing ; handball, football, or hockey ; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games.

If a person makes the statement " Hello, my name is John Doe " they are making a claim of who they are.

If he does teshuva ( repentance ), i. e. he ceases his forbidden actions, regrets what he has done, apologizes to God, and makes a binding resolution never to repeat those actions, he is seen to be forgiven by God.

[...] If I'm watching my favorite boxer and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world and he retires it kind of makes the guy a legend.

If each of the features makes an independent contribution to the output, then algorithms based on linear functions ( e. g., linear regression, logistic regression, Support Vector Machines, naive Bayes ) and distance functions ( e. g., nearest neighbor methods, support vector machines with Gaussian kernels ) generally perform well.

If every user makes uploads then the servers would be flooded ; thus it is acceptable and often encouraged for users to just leech.

If the key signature indicates G-sharp, a local flat before a G makes it G-flat ( not G natural ), though often this type of rare accidental is expressed as a natural, followed by a flat () to make this clear.

If the input voltages change in the same direction, the negative feedback makes Q3 / Q4 base voltage follow ( with 2V < sub > BE </ sub > below ) the input voltage variations.

If the bidder makes more or fewer tricks than were bid, he / she loses 10 points for the first over or under trick + 15 points for each additional over or under trick.

If the negated query can be refuted, i. e., an instantiation for all free variables is found that makes the union of clauses and the singleton set consisting of the negated query false, it follows that the original query, with the found instantiation applied, is a logical consequence of the program.

* If a player can play a straight or a flush or both, he should play whichever straight-or-better five-card hand makes the best two-card hand.

If any one of them is missing, he makes inquiry at once, as he knows by the marks from what quarter the tablet has not returned, and whoever is responsible for the stoppage meets with the punishment he merits.

If in the entangled state given above Alice makes a measurement in the eigenbasis of A, there are two possible outcomes, occurring with equal probability:

He said: `` If it's all right with you, Mr. Morgan, I'll sleep out here on the couch.

If, when this was all over, she found the words to tell him about it, she wondered if he would ever understand.

If I hadn't got Nate stopped when I did, my duds'd all be shot plumb to hell!!

`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.

If communications work, his decision would be instantly known in all command posts that would originate the actual go order.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

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 in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

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

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 one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

`` 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 it will simply delay the debates until the qualifications are closed next spring, and then carry all the candidates on a tour of debates, it can provide a service to the state.

If the President of the United States really feels he won himself a `` lousy job '', then heaven help us all.

If we go all gooey over this newest Castro ( until he proves he isn't ) we've got rocks in our heads.

`` If the day should ever come that foreign invaders swarm ashore along the Gulf Coast '', the account reads, `` they can count on heavy opposition from a group of commando-trained telephone employees -- all girls.

If we grasp this orientation as a key, our national conduct in all of the events here mentioned becomes intelligible.

If it is not enough that all of our internationalist One Worlders are advocating that we join this market, I refer you to an article in the New York Times' magazine section ( Nov. 12, 1961 ), by Mr. Eric Johnston, entitled `` We Must Join The Common Market ''.

If Joe doesn't show up, we'll all be back here at 0600 hours.

If we could use all the small airfields we have in this country, we could disperse our strategic aircraft by a factor of 10 or more.

If the points aren't thrown all the way, the Turnout cannot be locked, and in turn, the signal cannot be cleared.

If you have a 6- to 8-inch drain pipe, you may easily wash out all the debris when the grate is out.