President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

Some have called into question whether the Renaissance was a cultural " advance " from the Middle Ages, instead seeing it as a period of pessimism and nostalgia for the classical age, while social and economic historians of the longue durée especially have instead focused on the continuity between the two eras, linked, as Panofsky himself observed, " by a thousand ties ".

The following list is a short summary of the duration of legal residence before a national of a foreign state, without any cultural, historical, or marriage ties or connections to the state in question, can request citizenship under that state's naturalization laws.

In the 1980s he said he had no knowledge of the links that various politicians like Salvo Lima and Giulio Andreotti had with the Mafia, but in the 1990s he admitted that he knew of such ties, claiming that he had feigned ignorance during the 1980s because the politicians in question were then in power, and he had feared for his life even within the security afforded by the Witness Protection Program.

Inverted question (¿) and exclamation marks (¡) are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences ( or clauses ), respectively, in written Spanish and sometimes also in languages which have cultural ties with Spanish, such as in older standards of Galician ( now it is optional and not recommended ).

Later exposure to criticisms of Christianity from prominent socialists led him to question his faith, but it was not until the onset of the Russo-Japanese War that he fully cut his ties to the religion.

The final question to completely sever ties between the radicals and Zwingli was the question of infant baptism.

In June 2003, angered by a question from Novi Sad's TV Apolo journalist Vladimir Ješić about alleged ties of Ilić's brother Strahinja with organized crime and the construction of a tobacco factory in Čačak, Ilić stood up, kicked the open binder Ješić held in his lap, called him gay, and left the studio.

In particular, the question of whether genetic relatedness ( or ' blood ties ') must necessarily be present for social bonding and cooperation to be expressed has been the source of much confusion, partly due to thought experiments in Hamilton's early theoretical treatments ( see kin selection ).

The activities in question established between the State and the corporation sufficient contacts or ties to make it reasonable and just, and in conformity to the due process requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, for the State to enforce against the corporation an obligation arising out of such activities.

The CIA stated in the Scope Note: Our knowledge of Iraq's ties to terrorism is evolving ... This paper's conclusions-especially regarding the difficult and elusive question of the exact nature of Iraq's relations with al-Qaeda-are based on currently available information that is at times contradictory and derived from sources with varying degrees of reliability ... While our understanding of Iraq ’ s overall connections to al-Qaeda has grown considerably, our appreciation of these links is still emerging.

When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;

The voice sank back into the general tangle of sound, but the question stayed in Mr. Podger's mind.

Chewing it over with his colleagues and in his own mind, he reaches a tentative identification of the question -- tentative because it may change as he explores it further and because, if no tolerable answer can be found, it may have to be changed into one which can be answered.

Essentially, the question presented for decision in the present Daytime Skywave proceeding is whether our decision ( in 1938-1939 ) to assign stations on the basis of daytime conditions from sunrise to sunset, is sound as a basis for AM allocations, or whether, in the light of later developments and new understanding, skywave transmission is of such significance during the hours immediately before sunset and after sunrise that this condition should be taken into account, and some stations required to afford protection to other stations during these hours.

This question is an issue because it likely divides us into two camps -- those for or against pupil assignment.

It seems clear, when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in detail in connection with our second question, the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ), that he had to rely on his sense of touch much more than the usual portfolio-maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision.

In the recent political campaign two charges were leveled affecting the question of power, and I think we might begin by trying to put them into proper focus.

One question which inevitably crops up is whether such stations have a future in a nation where the Negro is moving into a fully integrated status.

The Armenian government ’ s stated efforts to strengthen and reform the military are called into question by continuing non-combat deaths and other violent incidents in the army ranks, which have come under greater public scrutiny in 2010.

As a literary game when Latin was the common property of the literate, Latin anagrams were prominent: two examples are the change of " Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum " ( Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord with you ) into " Virgo serena, pia, munda et immaculata " ( Serene virgin, pious, clean and spotless ), and the anagrammatic answer to Pilate's question, " Quid est veritas?

Yet, Nero did not marry Poppaea until 62, calling into question this motive.

At the end of the 17th century, new scientific concepts in astronomy ( such as heliocentrism ) called astrology into question, and subsequent controlled studies failed to confirm its predictive value.

Work by two researchers has called into question the link between serotonin deficiency and symptoms of depression, noting the efficacy of SSRIs as treatment does not in itself prove the link.

This traditional attribution of the Creed to Athanasius was first called into question in 1642 by Dutch Protestant theologian G. J.

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.

Their accuracy has been called into question, however ( e. g., by Chauncey Brewster Tinker in The Translations of Beowulf, a comprehensive survey of 19th-century translations and editions of Beowulf ), and the extent to which the manuscript was actually more readable in Thorkelin's time is unclear.

The status of Elihu's interrupting didactic sermon is brought further into question by his extremely sudden appearance and disappearance from the text.

So strictly is this principle adhered to that no question is allowed to be raised as to the fairness or unfairness of the contract entered into ..." ( emphasis added )

Spirits in other Shakespeare plays — notably Hamlet and Midsummer Night's Dream — exist in ambiguous forms, occasionally even calling into question their own presence.

Recently, investigative reports have been calling into question whether the modern day slot machine is addictive.

In addressing this question, ethnologists in the 19th century divided into two schools of thought.

This infuriated the elected members of the Legislative Assembly as they maintained that the Governor and the United Kingdom had put into question the Cayman Islands ' reputation as a tightly regulated offshore jurisdiction.

It is a natural question to ask: under which conditions can two categories be considered to be " essentially the same ", in the sense that theorems about one category can readily be transformed into theorems about the other category?

Since these are two very different referents, the validity of the term has been called into question.

Centuries later, the Islamic philosopher Avicenna ( c. 980 – 1037 ) inquired into the question of being, in which he distinguished between essence ( Mahiat ) and existence ( Wujud ).

Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time.

Of course the life of God is endless ; but the question is whether, in describing God as aionios, it was intended to describe the duration of his being, or whether some different and larger idea was not contemplated.

A multitude which is larger than any finite multitude, i. e., a multitude with the property that every finite set members of the kind in question is only a part of it, I will call an infinite multitude.

In the same article, Chomsky casts the theme of a larger research program in terms of the following question: " How little can be attributed to UG while still accounting for the variety of I-languages attained, relying on third factor principles?

A later study published by Killias in 2001, based on a larger sample of countries, reported that, while there was a strong correlation between gun-related homicide of women and gun-related assaults against women, this was not the case for similar crimes against men and that " interestingly, no significant correlations with total suicide or homicide rates were found, leaving open the question of possible substitution effects.

Although commonly termed " cryovolcanic ", this nitrogen plume activity is distinct from Triton's larger scale cryovolcanic eruptions, as well as volcanic processes on other worlds, which are powered by the internal heat of the body in question.

With this in mind, the real question would be, " Can God move a rock from one location in space to another that is larger than possible?

This style of question writing typically gives less information and forces teams to recall larger chunks of information all at once, and critically consider multiple options that the team may come up with ; some of which may be wrong.

If the machine in question is larger than that, we can scale to 1600 MIPS with our quad Nehalem based package, and we have been promised an 8 way Nehalem EX based machine early next year that should take us to the 3200 MIPS mark.

Payne notes that the effect of asking a question in different ways or in different contexts can be much larger than the effect of sampling bias, which is the error estimate usually given for a poll.

These two books, like the larger part of the second, treat of ethics ; the third, of virtues and vices, in pairs ; the fourth, of more general ethical and political subjects, frequently citing extracts to illustrate the pros and cons of a question in two successive chapters.

Scalingi reported arguments for and against the validity of gynocracy and said, humanists treated the question of female rule as part of the larger controversy over sexual equality.

" Is it not a sporting question ... as to which is the larger?

Other citizens welcomed the expansion, as they felt parts of the so-called " North Highline " area should have been part of the original Burien incorporation, and the area in question is part of the larger Highline area.

The only way this will happen is if the good in question is local and / or exotic and will be highly valued by those with more marks in the larger holds.

The question of how to distinguish an arrow point from a point used on a larger projectile is non-trivial.

A related issue involving members of the Islamic faith over the interpretation of the Muslim version of canon law, Shariah, regarding the promotional artwork on a dessert package in the United Kingdom raised issues of cultural sensitivity, and, with the former example, posed a larger question about the lengths that companies must go to insure the smooth operation of their businesses in the communities they serve.

Alternatively, there may be a separate short set of questions or even a single ' jackpot ' question to win the cash ; if no team gets the right answer, the money is typically rolled over, making a larger prize the next week.

The Schleswig-Holstein Question from this time onwards became merged in the larger question of the general relations of Austria and Prussia, and its later developments are a result of the war of 1866.

This resulted in a question of proprietorship of patent rights after a single rear tracked gasoline powered road engine of tricycle arrangement was built to replace the larger motor home in 1909 on account of problems with the old picturesque wooden bridges.

Puns that do not work in High German indicate that the book was written in Low German first and translated into High German in order to find a larger audience, although more recent research throws this into question.

Subsequent research on the effects of dioxin on humans and other mammals has led some experts to question whether the evacuation of the town was necessary, sometimes citing the example of Seveso, Italy, the site of a disaster in 1976 that exposed residents to larger levels of dioxin than those of Times Beach and whose subsequent cleanup allowed the city to continue to exist.

On a macroscopic scale ( one where the dimensions investigated are much, much larger than the wavelength of the photons in question ), the photons can be said to follow Snell's Law.

London forces become stronger as the atom or molecule in question becomes larger.

It thus makes sense that larger collection sizes generally lend well to better QA performance, unless the question domain is orthogonal to the collection.