In the Confessing Church we didn't want to represent any political resistance per se, but we wanted to determine for the Church that that was not right, and that it should not become right in the Church, that's why already in ' 33, when we created the minister emergency federation ( Pfarrernotbund ), we put as the 4th point in the founding charter: If an offensive is made against ministers and they are simply ousted as ministers, because they are of Jewish lineage ( Judenstämmlinge ) or something like that, then we can only say as a Church: No. And that was then the 4th point in the obligation, and that was probably the first anti-antisemitic pronouncement coming from the Protestant Church.

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 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 such an extraordinary event had actually taken place ... could the king have withstood the attitude of the native nobles, who would hardly have looked upon such an occurrence without offering armed resistance to their feeble and capricious sovereign?

If it be accepted, as can hardly be denied, that the answers of the judges to the questions asked by the House of Lords in 1843 are to be read in the light of the then existing case-law and not as novel pronouncements of a legislative character, then the High Court's analysis in Stapleton's Case is compelling.

If they had been ordered to invent a new word for traitor ... they could hardly have hit upon a more brilliant combination of letters.

If this was sectarian it was hardly, in any useful contemporary sense, polemically Whig ; it is more like the sectarianism of English respectability.

If you're one of her subjects, you hardly know your guard is down and your secret recorded until it's too late.

If only adiabatic processes were of interest, and heat could be ignored, the concept of internal energy would hardly arise or be needed.

If you have the sort of mind that takes a pleasure in dates, lists, catalogues, concrete details, descriptions of processes, junk-shop windows and back numbers of the Exchange and Mart, the sort of mind that likes knowing exactly how a medieval catapult worked or just what objects a prison cell of the eighteen-forties contained, then you can hardly help enjoying Reade.

" If people wish to do business in, or indeed travel to, or live in, or utilize the infrastructure of different countries, they can hardly expect to be absolved from compliance with the laws of those countries.

Nehru went so far as to say: " If these principles were recognized in the mutual relations of all countries, then indeed there would hardly be any conflict and certainly no war.

If I tried to sell a steer tomorrow I'd probably hardly get enough to pay the freight.

If I tried to sell a steer tomorrow I'd probably hardly get enough to pay the freight.

If Mr. Elliott had therefore only had the prudence to wait where the excursion train stopped near the top of the bank and to send back one of the guards to protect his train, with instructions to ask the driver of the ordinary train to help the excursion train up the short remaining distance, he would hardly have lost time and would, besides, have avoided the risk inseparable from the delicate operation he unwisely determined to carry out and which should have been resorted to under only most exceptional circumstances and not, as in the present case, where there was so easy a solution of the difficulty.

If muon-catalyzed d-t nuclear fusion were able to be realized practically, it would be a much cheaper way of generating power than conventional nuclear fission reactors because muon-catalyzed d-t nuclear fusion ( like most other types of nuclear fusion ), produces far fewer harmful ( and far less long-lived ) radioactive wastes, and hardly any greenhouse gases.

If Carrington were correct, there would hardly be such a high incidence of the particular misspelling Carington.

If you were to read the mainstream press, you'd hardly become aware that such organizations existed, that businessmen worked together to pursue their own interests.

If, however, the afterburner is to be hardly used, a low specific thrust ( low fan pressure ratio / high bypass ratio ) cycle will be favored.

If any still doubt its genuineness, they will hardly do so after reading the volume now published.

If a commodity is sold in whole units, and these are substantial for a consumer, then the individual demand curve can hardly be approximated by a continuous curve.

If the police officer was looking for scars and could see the color of Everest's eyes and hair, he could hardly miss evidence of castration.

If the trees are allowed to mature then hardly any colouring substance remains.

If done smoothly, hardly any beer will be lost.

Later that day, Bethmann sent a message to the German ambassador to Vienna increasing pressure to accept the halt-in-Belgrade proposal, saying that: “ If Vienna … refuses … to give way at all, it will hardly be possible to place the blame on Russia for the outbreak of the European conflagration.

If they fail to do so, they can hardly complain if their acts prove unlawful, no matter how transiently they may be within the jurisdiction.