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 Jews are identified as a religious body in a controversy that comes before a national or international tribunal, it is obviously compatible with the goal of human dignity to protect freedom of worship.

If the world comes to this, wouldn't it be the very time when courage and American know-how would be needed to help survivors rebuild??

If it comes down too hard on the potential dangers of fallout, it will box the President on resuming atmospheric tests.

If one characteristic distinguishes Boris Godunov, it is the consistency with which every person on the stage -- including the chorus -- comes alive in the music.

If one asks about this play, what it is that comes upon this community and works within it with such terrible power, there is no better answer to give than `` spirit ''.

If any among the hardy hundreds who sat in the downpour are in doubt about how it comes out, let them take comfort.

`` If it ain't an idea '', she said, `` how comes it you can drink beer but not water ''??

If a 7 comes instead of the point coming, the odds pay at true odds of 1-to-2 if 4 or 10 is the point, 2-to-3 if 5 or 9 is the point, 5-to-6 if 6 or 8 is the point.

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

( If one string runs out of letters to compare, then it is deemed to come first ; for example, " cart " comes before " carthorse ".

Nonetheless, the Talmud teaches that " If someone comes with the intention to murder you, then one is obligated to kill in self-defense than be killed ".

If the Omega 13 feature is selected before watching the movie however, it comes up with an " Access Denied " error.

If it is Hel she is presumably greeting the dying Baldr as he comes to her realm.

If the law comes into effect, it would prohibit " coffee shops " from selling cannabis of that potency.

If this rule change is passed, it comes into effect at the end of their round.

If indeed an answer comes, the time and place it comes is considered random.

If a ball comes in contact with the line, the ball is considered to be " in ".

If a Jew comes, however, and gives a special reward, the custodian of the cave opens unto him a gate of iron, which was constructed by our forefathers, and then he is able to descend below by means of steps, holding a lighted candle in his hand.

If we accept that " Bion introduced a new form of pedagogy in his writings ... the density and non-linearity of his prose ", it comes perhaps to a peak here in what he himself termed " a fictitious account of psychoanalysis including an artificially constructed dream ... science fiction ".

If a beverage comes from a particular fruit ( or multiple fruits ) other than exclusively grapes, or from the must of such fruit, it may be referred to as a " fruit brandy " or " fruit spirit " or using the name of a fruit, such as " peach brandy ", rather than just generically as " brandy ".

If so, the episodes of mutilation and sexual abuse would form a single story, in which Set assaults Horus and loses semen to him, Horus retaliates and impregnates Set, and Set comes into possession of Horus ' Eye when it appears on Set's head.

If instead, we take the opposite extreme, and assume all consumers come from the producers ' group, and also assume their only purchasing power comes from the wages earned in production and the product costs their whole wage, then the graph looks radically different.