Surely, even conditional on your expectations of the Bush administration, things have turned out much worse than imagined.
"Your seeing the movie was conditional on your honoring the embargo, which you agreed to do.
Booker said completion of the deal was conditional on the approval of the Competition and Markets Authority.
Its launch will be conditional on the approval of Chinese officials and will therefore comply with stringent censorship requirements.
OM said its offer was conditional on 90percentt approval by London exchange shareholders -- a threshold that might prove difficult to reach, according to traders in London and Frankfurt.
But since BHP's takeover would be conditional on antitrust approval, which could take months, Chinalco has a number of options in the meantime.
HMV said that the sale is conditional on shareholder approval and also from the pension trustee, the pensions regulator as well as HMV's banks "including a renegotiation of the group's lending facilities".
"His description of China took it as a given that China is a leading global power and a central member of the international system," Mr. Kennedy wrote of Mr. Hu, "and such standing is not conditional on U.S. approval".
Delphi and Mr. Rosenkranz, it seems, were attempting to get around this provision in this deal by amending the company's charter to eliminate these requirements and making the sale conditional on shareholder approval of this amendment.
A White House statement said: "We are reviewing our force presence in Europe in the light of the new security challenges on the continent". Obama's billion-dollar "European Reassurance Initiative", conditional on congressional approval, was aimed at calming east European angst about Russia.
The sale, which is conditional on Civil Aviation Authority approval, is expected to be completed within two weeks.
