Whether historically a fact or not, the legend has a certain symbolic value.

Whether or not a certain cycloaddition would proceed depends on the electronic orbitals of the participating species, as only orbitals with the same sign of wave function will overlap and interact constructively to form new bonds.

( Whether the downsides versus the upsides justifies a complex design or not is food for a never-ending debate in certain circles.

Whether Eridu at one time also played an important political role in Sumerian affairs is not certain, though not improbable.

Whether persecutions after World War II were more aimed at certain sections of society over and above detractors is a disputed point.

Whether food is prepared with precision in a fine dining restaurant, picked from a dumpster, plucked, devoured, or even consumed by a wild animal, meaning can always be extracted from the way a certain food has been prepared and the context in which it is served.

Whether or not acute trauma progresses to long-term effects probably depends on multiple factors that include the shock wave dose ( i. e., the number of shock waves delivered, rate of delivery, power setting, acoustic characteristics of the particular lithotriptor, and frequency of retreatment ), as well as certain intrinsic predisposing pathophysiologic risk factors.

Whether Otto II released him from prison or if he escape is not known for certain.

Whether dingoes bark or bark-howl less frequently in general is not certain.

Whether the horizontal bar terminates at or crosses the right vertical bar is insignificant in the West, but to be distinguished from certain Chinese characters it must cross.

Whether the police officer was simply saying that to cause fear, or whether that was their actual intention, has never been known for certain.

Whether this Ímar is to be identified with Ivar the Boneless, the leader of the Great Heathen Army, is rather less certain, although at the same time not unlikely.

Whether a particular disability is " visible " or " invisible " can vary on both individual and contextual bases ; a wheelchair user may only use the wheelchair under certain circumstances and move apparently normally under others, a prosthetic limb may or may not be apparent, depending on clothing.

Whether to do certain operations in the database or outside may involve a trade-off.

Whether coincidence or not, his new name resembled that of Hank Sturgis, the fictional hero of E. Howard Hunt's 1949 novel, Bimini Run, whose life parallels Frank Sturgis ' life from 1942 to 1949 in certain salient respects.

" Whether a society has a legal system depends on the presence of certain structures of governance, not on the extent to which it satisfies ideals of justice, democracy, or the rule of law.

Whether this account of his death be true or not, it is certain that he died in the utmost poverty, and was buried on 16 April 1685 in the churchyard of St. Clement Danes.

Whether Tobias had an affair with Claire is not certain ; however, his infidelity is.

Whether the historical romances of Conscience will retain the enormous popularity they enjoyed is less certain.

Whether Catherine and Potemkin married is " almost certain ", writes Simon Sebag Montefiore ; biographer of Catherine, Virginia Rounding, is more doubtful.

Whether the player chooses to race solo or against computer-assisted riders, they race against a certain time limit.

Whether one approves or disapproves his introduction of a number of Arabic words into Hebrew, and the fact that, by analogy with the Arabic, he gives to certain Hebrew words meanings different from the accepted ones, the magnitude of his work can not be questioned.

So influential was this notion that 300 years later Bancroft in his monumental Native Races began his discussion of circumcision by writing: " Whether the custom of circumcision, which has been the great prop of argument in favor of the Jewish origin of the Aztecs, really obtained among these people, has been doubted by numerous authors ," concluding that it probably existed in a " certain form among some tribes " ( p278 ).

Whether Hitler had met Hanussen at all is not certain.

In May 2010, the Washington State Supreme Court provided an opinion after it was asked to certify a question referred by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington: “ Whether a public library, consistent with Article I, § 5 of the Washington Constitution, may filter Internet access for all patrons without disabling Web sites containing constitutionally-protected speech upon the request of an adult library patron .” The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that NCRL ’ s internet filtering policy did not violate Article I, Section 5 of the Washington State Constitution.

In the United States, variances in the insanity defense between states, and in the federal court system, are attributable to differences with respect to three key issues: ( 1 ) Whether to provide the insanity defense, ( 2 ) how to define " insanity ," and ( 3 ) the burden of proof.

Whether an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament may expressly apply to the Island as regards matters of self-government, or whether this historic power is now in abeyance, is a matter of legal debate.

Concluding quickly that since a writ of mandamus, by definition, was the correct judicial means to order an official of the United States ( in this case, the Secretary of State ) to do something required of him ( in this case, deliver a commission ), Marshall devotes the remainder of his inquiry at the second part of the question: " Whether it writ can issue from this court.

After Chinese radio broadcasts claimed to quote him admitting to participating in germ warfare, United Nations commander Gen. Mark W. Clark denounced said: " Whether these statements ever passed the lips of these unfortunate men is doubtful.

In December 1991, Powell claimed that " Whether Yugoslavia dissolves into two states or half a dozen states or does not dissolve at all makes no difference to the safety and well being of the United Kingdom ".

Whether MAD was the officially accepted doctrine of the United States military during the Cold War is largely a matter of interpretation.

Whether or not it did, it has come to symbolize all of the bells throughout the United States which proclaimed Independence.

Whether or not assault weapons should be legally restricted more than other firearms and the definition and value of the " assault weapon " classification is part of gun politics in the United States.

Whether the site is currently used for this purpose is unknown, as great secrecy surrounds the United States ’ siting of nuclear arms bases ; but on December 12, 1999, U. S. Under Secretary for Defense Policy Walter Slocombe told The New York Times, “ Our position is that there have been no violations of our obligations under the security treaty and related arrangements .”

803, a Resolution Authorizing and Directing the Committee on the Judiciary to Investigate Whether Sufficient Grounds Exist for the House of Representatives to Exercise its Constitutional Power to Impeach Richard M. Nixon, President of the United States of America, Book VIII, Internal Revenue Service, May-June 1974 via The Internet Archive

* Whether or not they were inspired by the radio show, there are numerous bars across the United States today that call themselves Duffy's Tavern — from Wickford, Rhode Island, to Monterey, California.

Whether the domestic courts of the Member States would be consistent in applying those letters is speculative.

Whether the Reform can be considered successful depends on how its goals are defined ; today, many scholars believe that the Reform was not really aimed at producing a modern state ( in which it would be considered a failure ), but rather attempted to consolidate and distribute power between the Empire and the States by consensus, an aim in which it did succeed.

Whether Empress Dowager Dou favored Emperor Jing's policies of reducing principality sizes — which eventually led to the Rebellion of the Seven States in 154 BC — is unknown.

Whether hand laid or built in a mould, FRP boats usually have an outer coating of gelcoat which is a thin solid colored layer of polyester resin that adds no structural strength, but does create a smooth surface which can be buffed to a high shine and also acts as a protective layer against sunlight.

Whether his beard was reddish, or any other colour I cannot say, for the razor had passed over it very closely and left a surface smoother than chalk ... His blue eyes indicated both a high spirit and dignity ; and his nose and nostrils breathed in the air freely ; his chest corresponded to his nostrils and by his nostrils ... the breadth of his chest.

Whether in a scanning or a stationary optical system, combinations of lenses and mirrors are used to project the original image on the platen ( scanning surface ) onto the photoconductor.

Whether pervious concrete, porous asphalt, paving stones or concrete or plastic-based pavers, all these pervious materials allow stormwater to percolate and infiltrate the surface areas, traditionally impervious to the soil below.

Whether or not this is a serious road hazard is dependent on many parameters, including the speed of the vehicle, the tires fitted to the vehicle, the road surface, and the driver's ability to predict and correct for situations that may result in a rollover.

As Bob Bows observes in his review of the 2008 Germinal Stage Denver production, whereas at first " ' The Birthday Party ' appears to be a straightforward story of a former working pianist now holed up in a decrepit boarding house ," in this play as in his other plays, " behind the surface symbolism ... in the silence between the characters and their words, Pinter opens the door to another world, cogent and familiar: the part we hide from ourselves "; ultimately, " Whether we take Goldberg and McCann to be the devil and his agent or simply their earthly emissaries, the puppeteers of the church-state apparatus, or some variation thereof, Pinter's metaphor of a bizarre party bookended by birth and death is a compelling take on this blink-of-an-eye we call life.