Following independence in 1971, Bahrain continued to dispute Qatari sovereignty over Al Zubarah until ' Zubarah question ' was settled in Qatar's favour with a ruling by the International Court of Justice in 2001.

Instead, he constantly became lost in parts and components of them, confused some of their details with those of neighboring objects, and so on, unless he allowed time to `` trace '' the object in question through minute movements of the head and hands and in this way to discover its contours.

When Angelo Cardinal Roncalli was elected and became Pope John, there was some confusion as to whether he would be John XXIII or John XXIV ; he then declared that he was John XXIII to put this question to rest.

Abd al-Rahman must have sensed that time was against him as food and water became scarce, and his troops morale likely came into question.

The question eventually became the focal point for a philosophical issue ( the theory of possible worlds ) and a theological topic on the distinction between God's absolute power ( potentia absoluta ) and His ordained power ( potentia ordinata ).

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

In this connection, the question whether Barnabas was an apostle became important, and was often discussed during the Middle Ages.

This raises the question of why four space-time dimensions became large and the rest became unobservably small.

Whether or not Eadbald became a joint king with Æthelberht, there is no question that Æthelberht had authority throughout the kingdom.

: The job operating or using a computer was actually beyond the electronic technology of the day, and, as a result, the question of how to get and keep the physical equipment more or less in working condition became in the early days the all-overriding concern.

Later in the year, following Elizabeth's illness with smallpox, the succession question became a heated issue in Parliament.

In 1922, Himmler became more interested in the ' Jewish question ', with his diary entries containing an increasing number of antisemitic remarks and recording a number of discussions about Jews with his classmates.

In 1777 the question became moot when the Elector Palatine inherited Bavaria.

The question as to why this area did not remain at the forefront of technological and social development lies in the subsequent history of its geographical location – at the end of the mostly peaceful Neolithic period, this area became a highway for invaders from the east moving into Europe.

The Zinj question ultimately became part of the Australopithecus / Paranthropus question ( which only applied to the robust Australopithecines ).

In psychology, the subject of imagination was again explored more extensively since Whitehead, and the question of feasibility or " eternal objects " of thought became central to the impaired theory of mind explorations that framed postmodern cognitive science.

This question of the professionalism of ancient Olympic athletes is a subject of debate amongst scholars, with Young and others arguing that the athletes were professional throughout the history of the ancient Games, while other scholars led by Pleket argue that the earliest Olympic athletes were in fact amateur, and that the Games only became professionalised after about 480 BCE.

The concept of an inherited cultural patrimony from a common origin rapidly became central to a divisive question within romantic nationalism: specifically, is a nation unified because it comes from the same genetic source, that is because of race, or is the participation in the organic nature of the " folk " culture self-fulfilling?

Whorf's writings became the focus of empirical studies in psychology in the mid 20th century, and this strand of research often referred to the question as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, or sometimes the Whorfian hypothesis.

In contrast, the second question turned out to be much more difficult, and the question became a famous open problem in formal language theory for over two decades.

As of 2010, Skype became unblocked, but the call connection time is unusually long and the call quality remains irregular, raising the question of whether the related IP traffic is being filtered or monitored.

This theory also claims there can be only one rightful sovereign ruling all under heaven at a time but throughout Chinese history there have been many contentious and long periods of disunity where the question of legitimacy is moot ; see also Imperial Seal of China.

According to Lakoff, even mathematics is subjective to the human species and its cultures: thus " any question of math's being inherent in physical reality is moot, since there is no way to know whether or not it is.

This meant that a champion who had only answered one question could be ahead of a challenger who had played both questions, rendering the final question moot.

" The question of whether minstrelsy was white or black music was moot.

But while it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all, it would be singular to admit a natural and even an hereditary right to inventors.

It is another moot question of some importance whether our poet should be identified with the Albius of Horace ( Od.

The cost versus benefit question is moot in the U. S. because ocean dumping of sludge is banned, but international treaty ( London Dumping Convention ) allows the practice so, on a global basis, as more and more sewage is treated, every sludge management option deserves practical consideration.

Many extinct groups are known only from sclerites, leaving moot the question of what their gross anatomy might have looked like.

The court was to hear Manitoba MLA Joe Borowski later that week with that very question as the central issue, but the case was rendered moot by the decision in Morgentaler, which struck down the provisions that were to be challenged.

Any question of his rivaling the non-family executives who constituted a majority of the trustees of his father's will, however, was rendered moot by his untimely death.

The eruption of the Great War in August 1914 made the question of unification of the British socialist movement largely moot.

Technically the territory was open to slavery under the Dred Scott Decision of 1857, but the question was rendered moot by the impending American Civil War and the majority pro-Union sentiment in the territory.

However, the relativistic effects of interstellar travel render moot the question of how old she is in comparison to Ender or Peter.

The question was rendered moot when the constitution was superseded by the Treaty of Lisbon, which Parliament ratified in 2008 without holding a referendum.

This question became moot with the ratification of the Twenty-sixth Amendment the next year, which lowered the voting age to 18 for all elections in all states.

It is evident that the question of replevin becomes moot should the item in question no longer exist as an entity, i. e. if it is destroyed, or in the case of a bag of money, for instance, if the money has been spent.

renders moot the question of the original particle's location.

Fitzwilliam conceded that such a scheme would improve the system, as he wrote to Lord Grey on 22 March, " but ninety other plans would do as much, and with me the question is, is it for the advantage of the country, and for the good of the public to moot the subject at all — where are you to limit alterations, at what point are they to stop?

In 1802 William Paley formulated the first known teleological argument depicting machines producing other machines, suggesting that the question of who originally made a watch was rendered moot if it were demonstrated that the watch was able to manufacture a copy of itself.

* The question must be neither unripe nor moot.

** A moot question is one for which the potential for an injury to occur has ceased to exist, or where the injury has been removed.