If the reserve components are to serve effectively in time of war, their basic organization and objectives must conform to the changing character and missions of the active forces.

If our national interest lies in being able to fight and win a war rather than committing national suicide, then we must take a much more penetrating look at ballistic missiles.

If we fail to develop the means to hunt down and destroy the enemy's military force with extreme care and precision, and if war comes in spite of our most ardent desires for peace, our choice of alternatives will be truly frightening.

`` If Philip Toynbee is claiming that the choice lies between capitulation and the risk of nuclear war, I think he is right.

* If a person not native to England comes to the throne, England will not wage war for " any dominions or territories which do not belong to the Crown of England, without the consent of Parliament.

If plague and famine threaten, a libation is poured to the idol Thor ; if war, to Wotan ; if marriages are to be celebrated, to Frikko.

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.

Thus the view from Whitehall early in 1916: If defeat was not imminent, neither was victory ; and the outcome of the war of attrition on the Western Front could not be predicted.

If one of the intervening states was a superpower, a civil war is extended a further 72 %; a conflict such as the Angolan Civil War, in which there is two-sided foreign intervention, including by a superpower ( actually, two superpowers in the case of Angola ), would be 538 % longer on average than a civil war without any international intervention.

If the late queen would have believed her men of war as she did her scribes, we had in her time beaten that great empire in pieces and made their kings of figs and oranges as in old times.

If addressed, it may be through diplomacy and the consequences upon an offending state's reputation, submission to international judicial determination, arbitration, sanctions or force including war.

If the two nations went to war, Adams predicted the president of the United States would use his war powers to abolish slavery.

If international finance Jewry in and outside Europe should succeed in thrusting the nations once again into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevisation of the earth and with it the victory of Jewry, but the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe.

If the territory was already on a war footing, the whole society alert and inflamed, then why not direct all this ramped up energy toward something useful?

If Lebanon has in part recovered over the past decade from the catastrophic damage to infrastructure of its long civil war, the social and political divisions that gave rise to and sustained that conflict remain largely unresolved.

If the former German and Ottoman territories had been ceded to the victorious powers directly, their economic value would have been credited to offset the Allies ' claims for war reparations.

If royal succession in Minoan Crete descended matrilinearly — from the queen to her firstborn daughter — the queen's husband would have become the Minos, or war chief.

If they separated or the man was killed at war, the woman had her family to assist her.

If comrade Molotov can manage to postpone the war for two or three months that will be our good fortune, but you yourselves must go off and take measures to raise the combat readiness of our forces ".

President Hugo Chávez has repeatedly expressed his disapproval of the practice of kidnapping stating on 14 April that, " If I were a guerrilla, I wouldn't have the need to hold a woman, a man who aren't soldiers ... Free the civilians who don't have anything to do with the war.

" Additionally, in book II, Biarco mentions Odin and Sleipnir: " If I may look on the awful husband of Frigg, howsoever he be covered in his white shield, and guide his tall steed, he shall in no way go safe out of Leire ; it is lawful to lay low in war the war-waging god.

If States abused their power, they should be judged against international conventions dealing with war crimes, international human rights and international humanitarian law.

`` If you go broke '', she said, smiling up at him, `` I'll leave you ''.

If the assembly broke the law, the only thing that might happen is that it would punish those who had made the proposal that it had agreed to.

In response to a fight that broke out at one of his seminal Storm Raves in New York City, Bones got on the microphone and yelled “ If you don ’ t start showing some peace, love, and unity, I ’ ll break your faces .”

If it came to the sudden-death tie-breaker, only the final question ( the one that ultimately broke the tie ) was kept and aired.

If someone broke his boundaries, thus getting more than his ordained part, then he would be punished by law.

The song involves Marvin describing his views on life (" I'd feel a little better if they broke me up for spares ", " If I had my time again, I'd rather be a lemming "), to a synthesiser backing.

Although Burke ultimately won the chart war, Burke broke rank and supported his rival: “ I would go to the radio stations and say, ‘ Hi, I ’ m Solomon Burke, and I ’ m here promoting the new record “ If You Need Me ”… by Wilson Pickett .’” Despite his efforts, Burke's version jockeyed with Pickett's for position in the Hot 100, before " beating Pickett to the punch " because of " Solomon ’ s popularity and Atlantic ’ s distribution.

" If it ain't broke don't fix it.

If one belt broke, the vehicle could still be driven.

If we filled the house at 100 percent at half price, we'd go broke and I haven't seen any surge of tourist business yet this season.

If any member territory broke the NWA's rules, it faced expulsion, and thus risked missing out on having nationally-known wrestlers appear on their local shows.

* If fire broke out, how long did it last and what damage did it cause?

" If the pot broke, the soldier was exposed to attack from snakes or spiders, hence the name " spider hole ".

Lord Vetinari's genius political thinking and his running of the city can be summed up by his belief that what people wish for most is not good government, or even justice, but merely for things to stay the same ; the Vetinari family motto is, after all, Si non confectus, non reficiat (" If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

") His family motto is Si non confectus, non reficiat ( If it ain't broke, don't fix it ).

In 2004 Hardie Boys announced his opposition to New Zealand becoming a republic stating in an interview: " If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

If a big name such as Jeff Beck was playing, UFO broke even, but the club usually lost money.

If the spring broke, the reverse recoil of the barrel, instead of being passed on to the gear train, would simply unscrew the pinion.

If a western train broke down in East Berlin territory, then passengers would need to wait for Eastern border police to appear and escort them out.

If individuals speaking a single language migrated to the region of present-day Mali and then broke off into small groups that had little connection, it would be expected that the languages would develop different characteristics over time.

If the marriage broke up after the end of seven years, the woman was entitled to half the common pool.

* Pragmatic monarchists who maintained that, whatever the argued weaknesses of the current system, it also had many strengths ; following the motto of " If it ain't broke, don't fix it ".

If I proposed that anybody trying to knife or pistol another person should walk away and resume his daily amusements if the knife broke or the pistol missed fire, they would certainly ask me if I had contemplated the possibility of encouraging the employment of knives and pistols.

* If the mainspring broke and had to be replaced, a frequent occurrence with early mainsprings, the fusee had to be readjusted to the new spring.