Rules, in this sense, are essentially if-then statements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The I.B.M. Acquisition Machine: A Seller’s Perspective - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

Those are all kind of if-then hypotheses, Childress said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Favre tells some in Vikings organization he's retiring] Reference

All that a computer language does is looping and if-then else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature's Statistical Checklist for Authors « Climate Audit] Reference

So I make a deal with myself — one of those if-then moments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tin Man] Reference

You'd think the freetards would at least understand the if-then structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Only 13 days left for Linux race car effort] Reference

Not the “if-then” clause, but rather your attaching of it to this case.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Impeach Bush” Sign Update:] Reference

Of course, not always will you use an if-then the very first time you speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference

Your brain often guesses wrong about which if-then rules will produce the best results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Haseltine: Changing Your Brain's Factory Settings] Reference

This is a valid a criticism, because an if-then proposition implies the contrapositive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff An Incredibly Tiny Subset of White People Like] Reference

Your if-then is true in some sense, but aren't you reading the text like a fundamentalist?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Review of The Lost World of Genesis One, Part Six] Reference

This is not a valid criticism, because an if-then proposition does not imply the converse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff An Incredibly Tiny Subset of White People Like] Reference

But your brain often guesses wrong about which if-then rules will produce the best results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Haseltine: Changing Your Brain's Factory Settings] Reference

So does intuition, and sometimes even leaps of "if-then" contemplation of an empirical observation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Teeth] Reference

Since both are essentially equal in their purpose, from here on we will use if-then to mean either style.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference

I just think, because these causes are so important, the if-then dynamic should be taken out of the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference

Clear-cut consequences help kids of all ages, even grown-up kids, to realize if-then connections more quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference

If the first part of an if-then clause is false, then can the then part of the statement be answered truthfully?.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Clarence Thomas wasn't ready to be a Supreme Court Justice, is Obama ready to be President?] Reference

Stopping to conceive your if-then before you talk will keep you from resorting to nagging for want of a better approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference

Without action reinforcing your words, the if-then alternative is merely another variety of useless nagging, or worse yet, of threatening.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference

Two, those "if-then" rewards often destroy creativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entrepreneurial MD] Reference

It's not a "what-if" game as much as it is an "if-then" game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pharyngula] Reference

A rule based approach is similar to multiple "if-then" statements.    From Wordnik.com.  [BeyeNETWORK Content] Reference

They are often stated as cause-and-effect, or if-then relationships.    From Wordnik.com.  [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference

It is comfortable with if-then reasoning and step-by step processes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Positive Psychology News Daily] Reference

However, this if-then, which uses ten comparisons for nice conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Code Project Latest Articles] Reference

Flow control (if-then, file loop, text loop, dataset loop, and so forth).    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

He frequently used "if-then" constructions in making nonsensical arguments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

· You can create decision rules, revealing all the if-then rules in the data.    From Wordnik.com.  [Softpedia - Windows - All] Reference

Keep the faith: Take a page from her playbook and develop your own if-then plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

Should 10 000 if-then scenarios be shown to be true, it still does not exclude explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference

It makes a lot of sense that plants can grow and develop by following a set of if-then rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference

The poem has already supplied the most fundamental narrative, that of cause & effect, if-then.    From Wordnik.com.  [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference

Those are all kind of if-then hypotheses, "Childress said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Favre tells some in Vikings organization he's retiring] Reference

Ideally, communication of if-then’s should be good-natured.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference

Of course, if-then’s can be used to promise privileges, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference

'if-then'; signifies that they're bound to each other, by blood and duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anywhen]

Open-ended if-then’s will spur more confrontation than their clear-cut counterparts.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference

Two of the best ways to talk without nagging are through if-then’s and either-or’s.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference

As distance renders nagging more pointless, proximity makes if-then’s more meaningful.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’re a Better Parent Than You Think!] Reference