Each evening, it gets turned off as if it were a garden fountain.

Wittgenstein replied, Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?

There was tension in the lines of his mouth. His speech was clipped, as if under continuous rigorous control.

The reason for this is that it appears as a provision of a punitive character.

Official media, as if to counter support showed on social media, have been attacking him.

This electric hush, as if they could sense what was about to happen.

And to their amazement, after it was over, he began speaking like he was perfectly well.

But it would not have changed the course of history for the worse if President Bush had not responded as he did.

Imagine if a team of surgeons could fly into the brain, as though it was a world, and see tissues as landscapes, and hear blood density levels as music.

And it is equally unlikely that, had she had her way, the eurozone would be the camel a horse designed by committee that it is today.

When announcements were made that prisoners were to be transferred , as if to other prisons, people came to understand they were going to be executed.

Then suddenly, as if by magic, bang! We're all in there and it's complete bedlam. You can't hear anything.

A brave young Myanmar intellectual, Thant Myint U (the grandson of former United Nations Secretary General U Thant) asks, What outside pressure can bring about democratic change?

I was crushed, as if by a trash compactor.

Austria, in general, was treated as though it had been originally invaded by Germany and liberated by the Allies.

Had they really been gods they would not have entered it They will all abide in it for ever .

Had these been Gods they would not go into hell and they have to remain in it .

If those had been gods , they would never have gone down to it yet every one of them shall therein abide forever '

Had these been gods , they would not have gone down thereunto and all of them therein shall be abiders .

Had these ( idols , etc . ) been aliha ( gods ) , they would not have entered there ( Hell ) , and all of them will abide therein .

Had these been gods , they would not have descended into it . All will abide in it .

Had these indeed been gods they would not have gone there . But ( as it is ) , all of you shall ever abide in it .

If these had been gods they would not have come thither , but all will abide therein .

Had they been gods , they would not have entered it , and they will all remain in it forever .

If those had been gods , they would never have gone down to it , but in it they shall live for ever .

Had these false deities been actual gods , they would not have come to it , but all are eternal therein .

Had the idols been true lords , they would not have gone to hell . All of you will live therein forever .

Had these been gods , they would not have come to it and all shall abide therein .

if those had really been deities , they would not have been led there but there they will remain forever .

If these had been gods , they would not have got there ! but each one will abide therein .

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?

If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

I think we would have gotten there a lot earlier if we could see what happens in the ocean like we can see what happens on land.

He was looked upon as a Robin Hood , for the doling out of money he extorted from Mekong shipping.

Had the children been formal plaintiffs, they would still have been represented by their parents and the factual context would have been the same as in this case.

So Robert Wright I don't know, I felt like if there was anyone that Helen needed to give antidepressants to, it might have been him.

If you look at management theory these days, it used to be that our ideal leader sounded something like General Patton, right?

In this respect, no position should be embraced as if it were a dogma, for the status quo is not in our collective interest.

If there were terrorists in Mexico.

If Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction, as Bush believed, Hussein s departure would have left such weapons in the hands of whom exactly?

It's like, One more word!

You can t treat your customers as badly as the United States has done lately if they can go elsewhere.

After 1660, all legal documents were dated as if he had succeeded his father as king in 1649.

The What If? of 1989

Then, when everyone was piled in, it moved as if walking on eggs. That s what we say in Syria about slow things.