We would actually lower risk if we had either all male or all female trading floors and boardrooms.
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We would never even have got to Hampshire planning if we had not fulfilled all of our obligations under health and safety and Environment Agency legislation.
We would have been worse off if we had tried to produce all our refined products from our own crude oil.
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If we had all the money in the world, we'd still want a toy in the garage, a sort of stealth sports car we could knock about in fast and hard--then park it on the street without fear.
If we already had all the solutions, no one would suffer ill health, would they?
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If we all had to grow our own crops, make our own clothes, and manufacture our own medicines, we would never enjoy the standards of living we now enjoy.
This experience led me to wonder how much difference it would make to energy use more generally if we all had more day-to-day, real time knowledge about how much energy we consume as we go about household activities.
As for the billions of dollars, the US insisted we pay it all back, despite the fact that if we had not held out, alone, as long as we did, and were you to face Japan and Germany alone, it could well have been a different story.
We would work all night if we had to, and fix the problem.
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Maybe if we hadn't had all this attention paid to us, we could have kept it together, but there were too many balls we were trying to keep in the air.
If all else fails, we had better be prepared to use military force.
If we had chosen a pale shade, all the joyful parts of the design would have faded to something barely noticeable.
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"You did wonder that if we had played until 10pm that for all the chances we had we wouldn't have scored, " admitted Bruce.
And if we had been a little later, when all the public frenzy started, we might have succeeded.
Right now all of us would benefit if we had a cleaner, more efficient energy policy in this country.
" On the victory podium standing with Mario Andretti, the only living American F1 world champion, Hamilton called the event "probably one of the best, if not the best Grand Prix we've had all year.
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It was a great, vibrant start to the dive, but it looked to me as if we had missed the Torrey Canyon completely, as after all she is said to be well broken up over 2 sq km of the seabed.
So what I said before about a willingness for a couple of days if we had an agreement and needed to, because of all the procedural things you need to go through in Congress to get something done, that that potential remains.
"If we had stopped the industry operating then we might have seen all kinds of animal welfare issues as well as possible illegal slaughter and the trade going underground, " Mr Rhodes added.
Similarly, if Vimeo grew too quickly, we would have had to sacrifice all of the positive cash flow we were generating elsewhere to fund the storage and bandwidth requirements of this very high risk new venture.
Put more simply, if we had never let inventors profit from their inventions, we would all still be living in the dark ages.
"I recall on one occasion, reading Mike's analysis about one of our policies which we were getting a bit confused and commenting that he had made sense of if all for me!"
And if we had come together on a bipartisan basis, we could have avoided all this drama over the last two and half months.
" It's wise to consider breaking up the company from time to time, he says, but if Dow had done it in 2006, "we would have lost all that joint venture cash.
But even beyond that issue, I believe that Biggio, Bagwell, Piazza, Clemens and Bonds would all deserve a place in the Hall of Fame even if we had definitive proof that they used steroids.
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"We estimate that all these improvements would not have happened for another three years if it had not been for the Euro 2012 event, " he says.
If we had a truly independent Federal Reserve (one that was not willing to buy all the excess government debt) these larger deficits would make much more of an immediate and discernable impact on the financial markets and the economy.
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If we had adopted these Google tools, we would have lost our dialogues with millions of customers all over the world.
If Medicare were self-financing that is, if seniors on average had prepaid for all the benefits they expect to receive we would face no fiscal tsunami.
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