If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

If the master of scops who was most responsible for the poem ever used kennings that were traditional, he was at least partly deprived of free will and not inclined towards shrewd and sophisticated misuse of speech elements.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).

( If the condition is thought to be cellulitis rather than abscess, consideration should be given to possibility of strep species as cause that are still sensitive to traditional anti-staphylococcus agents such as dicloxacillin or cephalexin in patients able to tolerate penicillin ).

If a distinction is to be made between divination and fortune-telling, divination has a formal or ritual and often social character, usually in a religious context, as seen in traditional African medicine ; while fortune-telling is a more everyday practice for personal purposes.

Unlike more traditional views of the Last Supper, he depicts Heaven opening up into the room, and the angels looking on in awe, per the old Catholic maxim that " If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy the Eucharist.

If a COX-2 inhibitor is taken, one should not use a traditional NSAID ( prescription or over-the-counter ) concomitantly.

If one has anything like a traditional Jewish or Christian belief, for example then in fact one does have some conception of what God is: God is an eternally existent spiritual being who created the world, and so forth.

If holder of the Dukedom of York, the traditional title for the monarch's second son, becomes Heir Apparent on the death of an older brother, he is entitled to retain that title.

If PID and other traditional control systems are so well-developed, why bother with fuzzy control?

If made in the traditional way, this may be tolerable, but most modern brands add milk solids.

If the objective is to raise as much money as possible for the issuer, a traditional IPO, priced near the top end of the underwriter's range, would likely achieve that objective.

If the factor i were absent, the H matrix would be antihermitian and would have purely imaginary eigenvalues, which is not the traditional way quantum mechanics represents observable quantities like the energy.

If instead the objects are groups not known to be abelian, then multiplicative rather than additive notation is traditional, and the identity element -- as well as the trivial group -- is often written as " 1 " instead of " 0 ".

If, however, the award was presented posthumously, an image of the Disney Legends statue is engraved instead of the traditional hand prints and signature.

If they have been elevated to the cardinalate by the Pope, they use the traditional " His Eminence " like other cardinals ( more properly and formally, " His Beatitude and Eminence ").

Like William Ernest Henley's poem Invictus that has inspired such people as Nelson Mandela when he was incarcerated, If — is a memorable evocation of Victorian stoicism, regarded as a traditional British virtue.

If semiconductor devices can be fabricated in this way on large substrates, many devices could be fabricated at a fraction of the cost of traditional semiconductor manufacturing methods.

The lack of respect for traditional, " bourgeois ," " repressive " forms of authority and ritual, countered by irony and humour, was typified by Fritz Teufel's reply when told to stand for the judge at a trial: " If it helps the search for the truth " ( Wenn's der Wahrheitsfindung dient ).

If considered separate from couples without children, single-parent families, or unmarried couples with children, in the United States traditional nuclear families appear to constitute a minority of households with rising prevalence of other family arrangements.

If it's considered formal communications as they occur in traditional military organizations, messages have a " one-way " directional characteristic.

A traditional, short song about Victoria Day went as follows: " The twenty-fourth of May / Is the Queen's birthday ; / If they don't give us a holiday / We'll all run away!

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty once commented, " If navel-showing is obscenity, then our traditional Indian outfitthe traditional sarishould be banned in the first place.

If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.

If the net force on some body is directed always toward some fixed point, the center, then there is no torque on the body with respect to the center, and so the angular momentum of the body about the center is constant.

If x is held fixed, then the Bessel functions are entire functions of α.

If A is a fixed element of a ring ℜ, the first additional relation can also be interpreted as a Leibniz rule for the map given by B ↦.

If G is a group, and g is a fixed element of G, then the conjugation map

If a rotating frame is chosen so that just the angular position of an object is held fixed, more complicated motion, such as elliptical and open orbits, appears because the centripetal and centrifugal forces will not balance.

If each pixel on the display actually contains three rectangular subpixels of red, green, and blue, in that fixed order, then things on the screen that are smaller than one full pixel in size can be rendered by lighting only one or two of the subpixels.

If a display does not have the type of fixed pixels that ClearType expects, text rendered with ClearType enabled actually looks worse than type rendered without it.

If someone sees something completely different than another, our language prevents us from acknowledging the other's point of view by limiting our perception to fixed states.

:" If a period fixed by weeks, months, and years does not commence from the beginning of a week, month, or year, it ends with the ending of the day which proceeds the day of the last week, month, or year which corresponds to that on which it began to commence.

Tensor products: If C denotes the category of vector spaces over a fixed field, with linear maps as morphisms, then the tensor product defines a functor C × C → C which is covariant in both arguments.

If an equation can be put into the form f ( x ) = x, and a solution x is an attractive fixed point of the function f, then one may begin with a point x < sub > 1 </ sub > in the basin of attraction of x, and let x < sub > n + 1 </ sub > = f ( x < sub > n </ sub >) for n ≥ 1, and the sequence

( If great wealth is not diluted, the positions in society tend to be much more fixed and opportunities to make an individual success are lower.

# If G is any group acting smoothly on the manifold M, then it acts on the vector fields, and the vector space of vector fields fixed by the group is closed under the Lie bracket and therefore also forms a Lie algebra.

If two elements form more than one compound between them, then the ratios of the masses of the second element which combine with a fixed mass of the first element will be ratios of small whole numbers.

If the meteoroid maintains a fixed orientation for some time, without tumbling, it may develop a conical " nose cone " or " heat shield " shape.

If the revenue the firm is receiving is greater than its total variable cost ( R > VC ) then the firm is covering all variable cost plus there is additional revenue (" contribution "), which can be applied to fixed costs.

If the arity of the operators is fixed, the result is a syntax lacking parentheses or other brackets that can still be parsed without ambiguity.

If the SEM is equipped with a cold stage for cryo-microscopy, cryofixation may be used and low-temperature scanning electron microscopy performed on the cryogenically fixed specimens.

At least two assumptions are necessary for the validity of the standard model: first, that supply and demand are independent ; and second, that supply is " constrained by a fixed resource "; If these conditions do not hold, then the Marshallian model cannot be sustained.

If a traveling wave has a fixed shape that repeats in space or in time, it is a periodic wave.

If an inconsistency is encountered, the program can immediately halt, so that the bug can be located and fixed.

If the management ethos is to reward the number of bugs fixed, then some developers may quickly write sloppy code knowing they can fix the bugs later and be rewarded for it, whereas careful, perhaps " slower " developers do not get rewarded for the bugs that were never there.

If the waveform is a pure sine wave, the relationships between peak-to-peak, peak, mean, and RMS amplitudes are fixed and known, as they are for any continuous periodic wave.

If there is a fixed point, we can take that as the origin, and the affine transformation reduces to a linear transformation.