If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

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.

If civil commitment proceedings follow, the evaluation is presented in a formal court hearing where testimony and other evidence may also be submitted.

If V is a formal language, then V < sub > i </ sub >, the i-th power of the set V, is a shorthand for the concatenation of set V with itself i times.

If an appropriate form of written text is made available before formal schooling begins, reading should be learned inductively, emerge naturally, and with no significant negative consequences.

If a manager decides that his client wrestler should tap out, but cannot convince the wrestler himself to do so, he may throw in the towel ( literally taking a gym towel and hurling it into the referee's line of sight ); this is the same as a submission, as the manager is, in kayfabe, considered the wrestlers agent, and therefore, authorized to make formal decisions ( such as forfeiting a match ) on the client's behalf.

If the software is safety-critical and can have negative impact on human life ( e. g., nuclear power systems, medical equipment ), more formal requirements documentation is often required.

If the male is an Abdi Dalem royal servant, courtier or particularly " peko-peko " ( taken directly from Japanese to mean obsequious ) or even a highly formal individual, he will retreat face and head downcast, never show his side or back to his superior, and retreat backwards in the following posture: left-arm crossed against the chest, right-arm hanging and walking stooped.

More precisely, if A is a finite set of generators for G then the word problem is the membership problem for the formal language of all words in A and a formal set of inverses that map to the identity under the natural map from the free monoid with involution on A to the group G. If B is another finite generating set for G, then the word problem over the generating set B is equivalent to the word problem over the generating set A.

If one spoke in the lingua or sermo Latinus one merely spoke Latin, but if one spoke latine or latinius (" more Latinish ") one spoke good Latin, and formal Latin had latinitas, the quality of good Latin, about it.

If we denote by exp ( X ) the formal power series

If I is an index set and X < sub > I </ sub > is the set of indeterminates X < sub > i </ sub > for i ∈ I, then a monomial X < sup > α </ sup > is any finite product of elements of X < sub > I </ sub > ( repetitions allowed ); a formal power series in X < sub > I </ sub > with coefficients in a ring R is determined by any mapping from the set of monomials X < sup > α </ sup > to a corresponding coefficient c < sub > α </ sub >, and is denoted.

If she accepts, she is tonsured in a formal service during which she is given the outer robe ( Exorassa ) and veil ( Epanokamelavkion ) to wear, and ( because she is now dead to the world ) receives a new name.

If Regency era is being used to describe the transition between Georgian and Victorian eras, the focus is on the pre-Victorian period from 1811, when the formal Regency began, through 1837 when Queen Victoria succeeded William IV.

* If the formal specification is in an operational semantics, the observed behavior of the concrete system can be compared with the behavior of the specification ( which itself should be executable or simulateable ).

* If the formal specification is in an axiomatic semantics, the preconditions and postconditions of the specification may become assertions in the executable code.

If implemented on a global scale, the inclusion of women in the formal workforce ( like a fortune 500 company ) can increase the economic output of a nation.

( If you're working in a formal system that doesn't allow you to introduce new symbols after proving theorems, then you will have to use relation symbols to get around this, as in the next section.

If either party takes an appeal, the lower court produces a copy with a unique seal to authenticate the formal record.

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

If the pathologic examination of the resected specimen shows incomplete resection or deep invasion by tumor, the patient would need a formal stomach resection.

If he had stipulated that the name was a formal name, governed by rules of nomenclature, then his spelling would have been an orthogonal mutation and one would simply correct the spelling in subsequent publications ( e. g. Straminopiles ).

If five or more MPs challenge the Speaker's opinion, a formal division follows.

If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.

If one assumes that the average flux did not change between measurements, a mass-distribution curve is obtained which relates the flux of particles larger than a given radius to the inverse 7/2 power of the radius.

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 a man lived a classical life, he need not fear the spirits -- for only lack of virtue gave the spirits power over him.

If unchallenged, these decisions have the power to settle more minor legal disputes once and for all.

If a party is dissatisfied with the finding of such a tribunal, one generally has the power to request a trial " de novo " by a court of record.

If the enemy struck from the sea, he would counter them with his own naval power.

If enough electric power is available, cooling can be provided by conventional air conditioning using a heat pump.

If two equivalent amplifiers are being compared, the amplifier with higher gain settings would be more sensitive as it would take less input signal to produce a given amount of power.

* If a fighter was knocked down, he had to rise within 30 seconds under his own power to be allowed to continue.

If a cabal can be implicated in a sequence of events, there is always the hope, however tenuous, of being able to break the cabal's power – or joining it and exercising some of that power oneself.

:: If patients fail to experience the healing power of Christian Science, and think they can be benefited by certain ordinary physical methods of medical treatment, then the Mind-physician should give up such cases, and leave invalids free to resort to whatever other systems they fancy will afford relief.

If the engine is running with clutch engaged and the transmission in neutral, the engine spins the input shaft of the transmission, but no power is transmitted to the wheels.

In particular, the third anathema reads: " If anyone divides in the one Christ the hypostases after the union, joining them only by a conjunction of dignity or authority or power, and not rather by a coming together in a union by nature, let him be anathema.

If the Soviet leadership had the power to appoint regional officials, they had the indirect power to elect the delegates of the Party Congresses.

If high output powers are needed from a class-A circuit, the power waste ( and the accompanying heat ) will become significant.

He felt differently about the Muslim leader Muhammed Ali Jinnah, but was aware of his power, stating " If it could be said that any single man held the future of India in the palm of his hand in 1947, that man was Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

If anyone shall dare act contrary to this and arrogate to himself the power belonging to the bishop, let him be expelled from the Church.

If power fails, all essential equipment will run off huge batteries for up to 20 minutes, during which time four one-megawatt diesel generators will take over.

* If q is a prime power, and if F

If the right size particles were chosen, however, the result was a great improvement in power.

If p is a non-zero real number, we can define the generalized mean with exponent p ( or power mean with exponent p ) of the positive real numbers as: