11.   However, both Carnevale and Evans said the process could start only if an appeal by Woodward fails to win a retrial or release.

12.   If his appeals fail, Megrahi is expected to serve his sentence in Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow.

13.   If the appeal fails, the department will likely pay the awards, the police department has said.

14.   If the appeal fails, the government must take the case to the Supreme Federal Tribunal, which recently overturned two previous injunctions brought by the bank employees union.

15.   If that appeal fails, perhaps a simple buyout would work.

16.   If that appeal fails, the company can appeal to a U.S. federal court and later to the U.S. Supreme Court.

17.   If his appeal fails, he plans to slip into continental Europe illegally.

18.   If planned appeals fail, Ms. Frank would serve out her eight months of home confinement in her Park Avenue brownstone.

19.   If the appeal fails, he may seek a new trial.

20.   If this appeal fails, as others have, he may pursue yet another, seeking DNA tests on the few shreds of physical evidence that supported his conviction.