if it is the case that ...
convenient; favorable; favourable; expedient; expedience
sad fate; tragic doom; ill fate
for a change; for variety's sake
ominous; sinister; unlucky; inauspicious
prediction; prophecy; prognostication
guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation
fortune-telling; divination
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
foresight; foreknowledge; divination
how long; how far; how much
one's last moment; one's death; one's end
just one person; only one
ninth day of the month; nine days
Asian hazel (Corylus heterophylla var. thunbergii); Siberian hazel
flexible; lithe; soft; pliable
unconsciousness; unconscious; involuntary; the unconscious (psychoanalysis)
one's youth; early life; one's early days; one's early years
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
discord; breaking up (e.g. friendship)
to be urgent; to be pressing; to be imminent
mirror; looking-glass; barrel head; page added at the beginning of a document mentioning its purpose, date, author, etc.; mirror-shaped mochi
practice; training; drill; (an) exercise; workout
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
great-great-grandchild; fourth-generation descendant
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
gradually; by degrees; little by little; steps; stairs; staircase
by myself; in person; by oneself
rate; ratio; profit; assignment; 10%; unit of ten percent; match
cheating; fraud; trickery; fake; bogus; quack
I, myself; one-self; by one-self; even I; even one
middle; halfway; half (of); one half; half (e.g. done, jokingly); partly
manner of speaking; verbal argument; objection; protesting a decision (esp. that of a sumo referee); rumor; rumour