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 the wedding party lasted late, and the travel schedule means there are only a few hours before resuming the trip or making an early start, the husband may forestall tensions and uncertainties by confiding to his bride that lying in each other's arms will be bliss enough for these few hours.

If the city council fails to consider appointment of a full-time CD director, Mr. Hawksley said, then he plans to call a meeting early in September so that a civil defense organization will be developed locally.

If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom.

On a trip to Washington, with a final plea for help in East Tennessee in early 1863, he gave a speech in Indianapolis, saying: " If the institution of slavery denies the government the right of agitation, and seeks to overthrow it, then the government has a clear right to destroy it.

If a player is one point away from winning a match, that player's opponent will always want to double as early as possible in order to catch up.

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.

Paul the Apostle, an early Christian convert and missionary, wrote, " If Christ was not raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your trust in God is useless.

If the panegyric detailing the ceremony implied that the true center of the Empire was not Rome, but where the Emperor sat ("... the capital of the Empire appeared to be there, where the two emperors met "), it simply echoed what had already been stated by the historian Herodian in the early third century: " Rome is where the emperor is ".

(" Only If You Want To ", is an early version of " Only If ...".

If used, the word „ gothic “ was used to describe ( mostly early ) works of F. M. Dostoevsky.

" If Stobaeus writes correctly, Sotion in the early 1st century CE was already combining the two in the imaginative duo of weeping and laughing philosophers: " Among the wise, instead of anger, Heraclitus was overtaken by tears, Democritus by laughter.

If something becomes available rather earlier than usual, the first crop or early catch is called hashiri.

If early punk, like most rock scenes, was ultimately male-oriented, the hardcore and Oi!

If PKU is diagnosed early enough, an affected newborn can grow up with normal brain development, but only by managing and controlling Phe levels through diet, or a combination of diet and medication.

If he was reading an early source, the cubit may have been the Cyrenaic cubit, an early Greek cubit, of 463. 1 mm, in which case the distance was.

" If Pseudo-Ignatius dates as early as 140, its admonition must be considered important evidence on 2nd-century Sabbath and Lord's Day observance.

If there were any early expeditions to the site, the records were likely to have been lost during the subsequent chaotic years — World War I, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War.

If one were to go searching for very early viols with smooth-curved figure-eight bodies, like those found on the only slightly later plucked vihuelas and the modern guitar, they would be out of luck.

As early as 1892, he wrote: " If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen ever have come to exist.

If the then-established pattern of Christmas-season showings of the film had continued in 1963, the movie would have had to be shown in early December, only two weeks after the President's death.

If harvested too late or too early, the piñas, which can average around in the lowlands to in the highlands, will not have the right amount of carbohydrates for fermentation.

If the party of Adenauer and Erhart, with 45 per cent of the vote, approaches the party of Willy Brandt, which won 36 per cent, the result would be a stiffening of the old resolve.

If y is dependent on x, then it is sufficient to take the limit where only Δx approaches zero.

If Jacoby transfers are not played, there are two approaches to resolve the situation when responder has a 5-card major.

Some approaches to the paradox have sought to find other ways of interpreting " If then " and " All are " which would eliminate the perceived equivalence between " All ravens are black " and " All non-black things are non-ravens.

If a particle is travelling a velocity other than its terminal velocity it approaches the terminal velocity exponentially with an e-folding time equal to the relaxation time:

If it is desired to include, in some article, a link to a topic that is not covered by an article on the English Wikipedia but which does have a page in another language version of Wikipedia, then there are two possible approaches:

If a night owl and mortal dared to respond to the awful voice of Mala Vision with another cry, this immediately, no runs, but goes to his answering machine, if the passer again answer his cry a second time, she approaches her screaming, and if the traveler repeated a third time answering the same cry, the spirit of the evening is zigzag, devours the victim's skull with his teeth and sucks your brain, which it feeds.

If a subsystem is only 50 % reliable, one can concentrate on improving the reliability of that subsystem, design in multiple subsystems in parallel ( 5 in this case would achieve approximately 97 % reliability of that subsystem ), purchase and store spare subsystems for rapid change out, establish repair capability that would get a failed subsystem back in operation in the required amount of time, and / or choose any combination of those approaches to achieve the optimal cost vs. reliability solution.

If instead one takes steps proportional to the positive of the gradient, one approaches a local maximum of that function ; the procedure is then known as gradient ascent.

If the functions A and B are linear and AB is smaller than unity, then the overall system gain from the input to output is finite, but can be very large as AB approaches unity.

In the sixth meeting of the B committee the US representative threatened that " If WHO activities relating to drugs failed to reinforce proven drug control approaches, funds for the relevant programmes should be curtailed ".

If so, the feat was amazing, for the book is put together so deftly that I can remember no recent book of the kind, which approaches it in merit.

If the CAT IIIb runway visual range minimums on a runway end were, which is a common figure in the U. S., ILS approaches to that runway end with runway visual range below would qualify as CAT IIIc and require special taxi procedures, lighting and approval conditions to permit the landings.

It can be used to approximate the tangent to a curve, at some point P. If the secant to a curve is defined by two points, P and Q, with P fixed and Q variable, as Q approaches P along the curve, the direction of the secant approaches that of the tangent at P, ( assuming that the first-derivative of the curve is continuous at point P so that there is only one tangent ).

If the object is much denser than the fluid, then B approaches zero and the object's upward acceleration is approximately − g, i. e. it is accelerated downward due to gravity as if the fluid were not present.

The derivative part is concerned with the rate-of-change of the error with time: If the measured variable approaches the setpoint rapidly, then the actuator is backed off early to allow it to coast to the required level ; conversely if the measured value begins to move rapidly away from the setpoint, extra effort is applied — in proportion to that rapidity — to try to maintain it.

If a potential predator approaches the nest, the adult will walk away from the scrape, calling to attract the intruder and feigning a broken wing.

If the pair ( f ( x ), g ( x )) remains between two lines y = mx and y = Mx, where m and M are positive numbers, as x approaches c and f ( x ) and g ( x ) approaches 0, then the limit is always 1.

If a person starts at a low level, they may improve their status by ( for example ) working hard, getting a better job, or becoming more culturally sound, ( a value judgement expressing the dominant values of that culture ) to name a few possible approaches.

If instead all neighbouring trajectories approach it as time approaches negative infinity, it is an unstable or non-attractive limit cycle ( α-limit cycle ).

If a lead climber, starting from the ground, approaches twice the height of the last piece of protection, there is danger of a ground fall ( more commonly referred to as " decking ") in which the falling climber hits the ground before the rope goes tight.

If an alarm is set and time approaches, the Green Haro plays a tune ( not the actual song ) of Mobile Suit Gundam's OP theme, " Tobe!