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if and break
But what if somebody decides to break it??
Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.
I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.
In many cases that statement -- `` We break even on our downtown operation and make money on our branches '' -- would be turned around if the cost analysis were recalculated on terms less prejudicial to the old store.
if they should bite before I wake, I pray the Lord their jaws to break ''.
And then he heard a car coming from the east, and he felt as if he would break down and weep.
Thus, if people are accustomed to using a particular machine name to access a particular service, their access will break when the service is moved to a different machine.
May God and my brothers in this organisation be my judges if at any time I should wittingly fail or break this oath.
First would be to film all the shots for a particular scene together, and all shots of consecutive scenes together ( if the scenes take place together, with no break between them in the film's timeline ).
While it may seem like a break time or a dance, the chamada is actually both a trap and a test, as the caller is just watching to see if the opponent will let his guard down so she can perform a takedown or a strike.
In the CFL, if the game is tied at the end of regulation play, then each team is given an equal number of chances to break the tie.
Since the physical behavior of singularities is unknown, if singularities can be observed from the rest of spacetime, causality may break down, and physics may lose its predictive power.
Dislocations can move if the atoms from one of the surrounding planes break their bonds and rebond with the atoms at the terminating edge.
Hexameters also have a primary caesura — a break in sense, much like the function of a comma in prose — at one of several normal positions: After the first syllable in the third foot ( the " masculine " caesura ); after the second syllable in the third foot if the third foot is a dactyl ( the " feminine " caesura ); after the first syllable of the fourth foot ; or after the first syllable of the second foot ( the latter two often occur together in a line, breaking it into three separate units ).
The Æsir said Fenrir would quickly tear apart a thin silken strip, noting that Fenrir earlier broke great iron binds, and added that if Fenrir wasn't able to break slender Gleipnir then Fenrir is nothing for the gods to fear, and as a result would be freed.
Mobilization of the public and private sectors, the involvement of civil society and the pooling of collective and individual resources are all needed if people are to break out of the vicious circle of chronic hunger and undernourishment.
< Dictionary. com http :// dictionary. reference. com / browse / humus >.</ ref >) refers to any organic matter that has reached a point of stability, where it will break down no further and might, if conditions do not change, remain as it is for centuries, if not millennia.
A jump is considered a fail if the bar is dislodged by the action of the jumper whilst jumping or the jumper touches the ground or break the plane of the near edge of the bar before clearance.
He had vowed to friends that if he won, his speech would break the convention of thanking everyone in sight.
Not only do they break easily, but, being attached to a bit in the horse's sensitive mouth, a great deal of pain can be inflicted if a bridled horse sets back against being tied.
Supervised Community Treatment orders means people can be discharged to the community on a conditional basis, remaining liable to recall to hospital if they break the conditions of the community treatment order.
He predicted that if a civil war were to break out, the president could abolish slavery by using his war powers.
Having served as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce, he also knew that the South lacked the military and naval resources necessary to defend itself if war were to break out.

if and silence
The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.
He is still heir to the rare gifts of space and silence, if he chooses to be.
If the next data item is not available when it is needed, the codec has no choice but to produce silence or guess — and if the data is late, it is useless, because the time period when it should have been converted to a signal has already passed.
Her silence, however, strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup ; she remembered that the way " a second person, as I have been " had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary.
However, neither the Fifth Amendment nor Miranda extend to prearrest silence, so if a defendant takes the stand at trial ( thereby waiving his Fifth Amendment rights ), the prosecutor can attack his credibility with his prearrest silence ( where he failed to turn himself in and confess immediately ).
For in the Epistle which he wrote to the priests of Gaul, charging them with connivance with error, in that by their silence they failed in their duty to the ancient faith, and allowed profane novelties to spring up, he says: " We are deservedly to blame if we encourage error by silence.
There would be complete silence from John Squire, witty banter from Reni, and Mani spouting off if he let his guard drop.
As Bryan spoke his final sentence, recalling the Crucifixion of Jesus, he placed his hands to his temples, fingers extended ; with the final words, he extended his arms to his sides straight out to his body and held that pose for about five seconds as if offering himself as sacrifice for the cause, as the audience watched in dead silence.
* In From Hell ( film ), set in Victorian London, Queen Victoria herself ( Liz Moscrop ) is implicated in ordering lobotomies for several characters in order to " silence " them if they knew too much information.
They won't silence the outskirts of Parliament House, even if the inside has been silenced for a few weeks ...
Conyers expressed concern that this silence was due to the CIA's connections to these military officers dating back to the creation of the Haitian Intelligence service known as SIN, as Alan Nairn's research has shown: " We have turned a very deaf ear to what is obviously a moving force ... it leads you to wonder if our silence is because we knew this was going on and of our complicity in drug activity ..." Nairn in particular alleged that the CIA's connections to these drug traffickers in the junta not only dated to the creation of SIN, but were ongoing during and after the coup.
I yearn over you, but I yearn in vain ; & your long silence really breaks my heart, mystifies, depresses, almost alarms me, to the point even of making me wonder if poor unconscious & doting old Célimare pet name for James has " done " anything, in some dark somnambulism of the spirit, which has ... given you a bad moment, or a wrong impression, or a " colourable pretext " ...
He warned that if Venezuela were allowed to silence its press without repercussions, this would encourage similar repression in the rest of Latin America, because " hen one voice is silenced, we all become mute.
Of this the poet's last written work, it was said "... after a long silence, as if the presentiment of death might have urged him, he wrote in a few months the Poemas humanos.
During the commotion, Jay and Silent Bob locate Banky Edwards and demand their money ; after Banky refuses, Silent Bob breaks his silence and explains why Banky can be sued if he does not acquiesce to their demands.
For instance, Geogaddis development allegedly involved the creation of 400 song fragments and 64 complete songs, of which 22 were selected ( possibly 23, if the final track of complete silence is included ).
Applying these general principles of liberty to freedom of expression, Mill states that if we silence an opinion, we may silence the truth.
In early 2009 Wallingford's then Mayor asked the European Municipalities and Regions ( CEMR ), which co-ordinates twinned town schemes in Europe, if it was possible to " de-twin " Wallingford with Luxeuil-les-Bains after what was described as being " fed up with more than a decade of silence ".
Brown states that, even if the silence of Paul is taken to indicate ignorance of the virgin birth, it does not disprove it, for a family tradition about it could have circulated among relatively few in the years 30-60, before becoming known to the communities for whom Matthew and Luke wrote.
“ n the London production, variations were introduced: a weakening of light and voices in the first repeat, and more so in the second ; an abridged second opening ; increasing breathlessness ; changes in the order of the opening words .” The purpose of this is to suggest a gradual winding down of the action for he writes of “ the impression of falling off which this would give, with the suggestion of a conceivable dark and silence in the end, or of an indefinite approximating towards it .” At the end of this second repeat, the play appears as if it is about to start again for a third time ( as in Act Without Words II ), but does not get more than a few seconds into it before it suddenly stops.

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