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Ms. Tweed, a former Playboy Playmate, describes her response in the new episode: "It's yes, and it's conditional" — the condition being that Mr. Simmons adhere a little more closely to the straight and narrow.
Some cash transfers are "conditional": the recipient has to meet certain conditions to receive the dosh, like ensuring their children go to school or visit a doctor regularly.
Past-tense narration easily implies previous times and extends into the misty reaches of the subjunctive, the conditional, the future; but the pretence of a continuous eyewitness account admits little relativity of times, little connection between events.
Furthermore, even if the trade of Sirotka had been conditional, the Blue Jays' first subsequent orthopedic examination of the player satisfied the Blue Jays that the player was healthy and, thus, would have removed the condition".
If conditional, the granting of amnesty occurs only if certain provisions are met.
It is striking how much more restrictive and conditional the right to withdraw is in this statement than in its later iterations and in current practice.
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Booker said completion of the deal was conditional on the approval of the Competition and Markets Authority.
The assumption is that the conditional mean and the conditional variance of the outcome variable are equal.
However, the deal is conditional on the British Steel Pension Scheme being restructured and the government providing financial support.
"We thought we had an understanding with Pakistan that their contribution to the peace process will be non-conditional," the Afghan official said.
Note the conditionals; the lack of passion; the cool, distancing clauses.
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