If threatened with a nuclear strike, this presents their owners with the ' use them or lose them ' predicament.

If one follows the reports of the Congress, one finds that there still seems considerable uncertainty in the minds of the leaders themselves about what exactly to do in this matter.

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

If the transferor has substantial assets other than the claim, it seems reasonable to assume no corporation would be willing to acquire all of its properties in the dim hope of collecting a claim for refund of taxes.

If anything may be predicted in the quicksilver world of retailing, it seems likely that the suburban branch will come to dominate children's clothing ( taking the kid downtown is too much of a production ), household gadgetry and the discount business in big-ticket items.

If the change, at first sight, seems minor, we may recall that it took the Italian painters about two hundred years to make an analogous change, and the Italian painters, by universal consent, were the most brilliant group of geniuses any art has seen.

If this aspect of death as punishment is not distinguished from the idea of death as natural termination, the conclusion seems inevitable that temporal existence itself is a form of punishment rather than the state into which man is put by the will of the Creator.

" 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 he sometimes seems to approach the symbolic view, at other times he comes very close to a strong realistic doctrine.

If this does not simply reflect Gregory ’ s ignorance of Kentish affairs, which seems unlikely given the close ties between Kent and the Franks, then some assert that Æthelberht ’ s reign cannot have begun before 589.

If, as seems likely from the name, these people were the continental remnants of the Jutish invaders of Kent, then it may be that the marriage was intended as a unifying political move, reconnecting different branches of the same people.

If a subject after submitting to the hypnotic procedure shows no genuine increase in susceptibility to any suggestions whatever, there seems no point in calling him hypnotised, regardless of how fully and readily he may respond to suggestions of lid-closure and other superficial sleeping behaviour.

Clark L. Hull, probably the first major empirical researcher in the field, wrote If a subject after submitting to the hypnotic procedure shows no genuine increase in susceptibility to any suggestions whatever, there seems no point in calling him hypnotised ...

If we should say that no one could possibly know whether water exists a priori, it seems either we cannot know content externalism to be true on the basis of thought experiments or we cannot know what we are thinking without first looking into the world to see what it is like.

If this pronouncement seems hardly justified, now that Wycliffe's writings are in print, it must be borne in mind that not all his philosophical works are extant.

If seen to fruition, which seems likely, the new laws will reduce tourism in the Netherlands dramatically and cost the exchequer millions in lost revenue and well-established business are forecast to go bankrupt.

If that is the case, it seems that not all evils can be dismissed as illusory.

If the only way to come by any approximately coherent conception of God is via a mystical experience, then it seems as though this formulation of God hasn't got enough objectivity to get it off the ground.

If it be the fact, as is asserted by a contemporary, that Benedict validly acquiesced in his deposition, and if, as seems certain, no further protest was made against Leo's position, he may well be regarded as a true pope from July 964, to his death in 965, about the month of March.

If, as seems likely, he died before his fifteenth birthday, he is the shortest-lived monarch in English history ( his great-nephew Edward VI died in his sixteenth year ).

If the micrometer is in good condition, then they are all so near to zero that the instrument seems to read essentially " dead-on " all along its range ; no noticeable error is seen at any locale.

If civil society, then, is taken to be synonymous with the third sector then the question it seems is not ' how important is social capital to the production of a civil society?

He concluded by saying his family are highest priority and, " If I see somewhere that seems safer, happier and will give them a better life than the UK, I ’ ll take them there if I possibly can.

" If he could lift the rock, then it seems that the being could cease to be omnipotent, as the rock was not heavy enough ; if he could not, it seems that the being was not omnipotent to begin with.

If the being can create a stone that it cannot lift, then it seems that it can cease to be omnipotent.

If is a constant, the solution is particularly simple, and describes, e. g., if, the exponential decay of radioactive material at the macroscopic level.

If a story is found to be untrue, it is disqualified, but particularly amusing ones are placed in the urban legend section of the archives.

If the hack was particularly good, then the program might be posted on a board somewhere near one of the computers.

If a learning object is reusable in many contexts, it isn ’ t particularly useful in any.

If the male is an Abdi Dalem royal servant, courtier or particularly " peko-peko " ( taken directly from Japanese to mean obsequious ) or even a highly formal individual, he will retreat face and head downcast, never show his side or back to his superior, and retreat backwards in the following posture: left-arm crossed against the chest, right-arm hanging and walking stooped.

If the pages containing these pointers or the code that they invoke were pageable, interrupt-handling would become far more complex and time-consuming, particularly in the case of page fault interrupts.

If such content is in a film, particularly violence in a plot development context ( i. e. separate from kids violence ), it is often edited out prior to submission to the OFLC to avoid being " Refused Classification " ( effectively banning the film ).

If the nest is small, or one of the hens is particularly determined, this may result in chickens trying to lay on top of each other.

If it was true, this would be a step towards the reunification of Poland, and Henry IV, who was denigrated particularly in the earlier literature, was really a conscious promoter of Poland interests and a true patriot ( apart from the merits of raising the awareness of the problems of ethnic and linguistic diversity in the Middle Ages ).

If steps are taken to decrease potential risks, ECT is generally accepted to be relatively safe during all trimesters of pregnancy, particularly when compared to pharmacological treatments.

He is particularly worried by the construction of a large new governmental complex by the PA. Hatem Abdel Kader, a Jerusalem resident, Fatah legislator and former Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, complained that “ If they are building a new government compound here, that means they have no plans to be based in Jerusalem ...

However, Ravel did criticize Debussy sometimes, particularly regarding his orchestration, and he once said, " If I had the time, I would reorchestrate La mer.

If surprised or cornered, a boar ( particularly a sow with piglets ) can and will defend itself and its young with intense vigour.

If, in any particular term, a pupil makes a particularly good effort in any subject, he may be " Commended for Good Effort " to the Head Master ( or Lower Master ).

If one accepts the validity of the idea of social reality, scientifically, it must be amenable to measurement, something which has been explored particularly in relation to trust.

If was undoubtedly no small task to drill the performers, particularly since the stage arrangements were still very primitive.

If a show runs for a particularly long time then the LD may come in periodically to check the focus of each lighting instrument and if they are retaining their color ( some gel, especially saturated gel, loses its richness and can fade or ' burn out ' over time ).

If the cannula is not sited correctly, or the vein is particularly fragile and ruptures, blood may leak into the surrounding tissues, this situation is known as a " tissuing " or a " blown vein ".

If the defendant who claimed benefit of clergy was particularly deserving of death, courts occasionally would ask him to read a different passage from the Bible ; if, like most defendants, he was illiterate and simply had memorized Psalm 51, he would be unable to establish the defence and would be put to death.

If the stamps is particularly rare ( the Inverted Jenny or the missionary stamps of Hawaii ), the book may actually include a census of every single copy known to exist.

If the burbot does still survive in the UK, the counties of Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire ( particularly the River Derwent or River Ouse ) seem to be the strongest candidates for areas in which the species might yet continue to survive.

If food is scarce, parents may desert unhatched eggs, or allow the smallest chicks to starve, although the latter strategy appears not to be particularly efficient in protecting the older chicks.

If the sample is oriented so that one particular plane is only slightly tilted away from the strongest diffracting angle ( known as the Bragg Angle ), any distortion of the crystal plane that locally tilts the plane to the Bragg angle will produce particularly strong contrast variations.

Concerned with social change and, more particularly, with effective, permanent social change, Lewin believed that the motivation to change was strongly related to action: If people are active in decisions affecting them, they are more likely to adopt new ways.

Concerned with social change and, more particularly, with effective, permanent social change, Lewin believed that the motivation to change was strongly related to action: If people are active in decisions affecting them, they are more likely to adopt new ways.