That test, as President Kennedy forthrightly depicted it in his State of the Union message, will determine `` whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure ''.

One way to determine whether we have so dangerous a technology would be to check the strength of our society's organs to see if their functioning is as healthy as before.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.

His arm had been giving him some trouble and Rector was not enough of a medical expert to determine whether it had healed improperly or whether Hino was simply rebelling against the tedious work in the print shop, using the stiffness in his arm as an excuse.

We must determine whether missiles can win a war all by themselves.

Hence, when the address Af is computed from Af, the cell Af and all Y-cells in its chain must be inspected to determine whether Af is already in the form list or whether it should be added to the form list and the chain.

The first step in processing was to analyze the returns from Questions 1, 2, and 3 to determine whether the respondents were large businesses or small businesses, in accordance with the definitions contained in ASPR Section 1-701.

The second step in processing was to compare the responses from companies on the AIA list with those from companies on the TR list in order to determine whether it would be appropriate to merge the responses for the purposes of the study.

Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

The random-effects model would determine whether important

Inevitably, the surviving evidence is not complete enough to determine whether one should interpret, with older scholars, that he wisely curtailed the activities of the Roman Empire to a careful minimum, or perhaps that he was uninterested in events away from Rome and Italy and his inaction contributed to the pressing troubles that faced not only Marcus Aurelius but also the emperors of the third century.

Diagram of basic procedure to determine whether two sounds are allophones

The Apple II disk operating system, known simply as DOS, thus intercepted all input typed at the BASIC command prompt to determine whether it was a DOS command.

The characterization of the caspases allowed the development of caspase inhibitors which can be used to determine whether a cellular process involves active caspases.

The degree of the numerator and degree of the denominator determine whether or not there are any horizontal or oblique asymptotes.

Research is being conducted at this time to determine whether brass, copper, and other copper alloys can help to reduce cross contamination in public facilities and reduce the incidence of nosocomial infections ( hospital acquired infections ) in healthcare facilities.

* Bar examination, an examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction

In order to determine whether two proteins are related, or in other words to decide whether they are homologous or not, scientists use sequence-comparison methods.

The players collect points that determine whether they can play in Super Series Final held at the year end.

MacPhail added much needed discipline to the scouting staff by establishing cross-checkers who thoroughly evaluated young hopefuls to determine whether they were worthy of being tendered a contract.

If such a marker was run on one lane in the gel parallel to the unknown samples, the bands observed can be compared to those of the unknown in order to determine their size.

Shows will tend to start rerunning episodes after November sweeps week and usually show only reruns from mid-December until mid January or even February sweeps ( where a show will return to new episodes in order to spike their ratings which will determine the cost of a commercial run during that time slot ).

The easiest way to determine the platform that a version of HP-UX 9. x would run on was by the last digit.

While most infinite loops can be found by close inspection of the code, there is no general method to determine whether a given program will ever halt or will run forever ; this is the undecidability of the halting problem.

He achieved this by conducting thorough, careful, sensitive, and yet transformational readings of philosophical and literary texts, to determine what aspects of those texts run counter to their apparent systematicity ( structural unity ) or intended sense ( authorial genesis ).

Therefore, for the purposes of locating and fixing bugs, it is vitally important to be able to retrieve and run different versions of the software to determine in which version ( s ) the problem occurs.

After Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th home run on August 7, 2007, fashion designer and enterpreneur Marc Ecko purchased the home run ball from the fan who caught it, and ran a poll on his Web site to determine its fate.

that a majority may not deprive a minority of its constitutional right, the answer must be made that while this is sound in theory, in the long run it is the majority who will determine what the constitutional rights of the minorities are.

Thus while the process is indeed deterministic, there is no better way to determine the being's will than to essentially run the experiment and let the being exercise it.

If standards of a known size are run previously, then a calibration curve can be created to determine the sizes of polymer molecules of interest in the solvent chosen for analysis ( often THF ).

It is common to run molecular weight size markers of known molecular weight in a separate lane in the gel, in order to calibrate the gel and determine the approximate molecular mass of unknown proteins by comparing the distance travelled relative to the marker.

Network mapping often attempts to determine the servers and operating systems run on networks.

The solution was to incorporate an ' event handler ' for the hardware detected condition (' data exception )' that would intercept the occasional errant data field and either ' report, correct and continue ' or, more usually, abort the run with a core dump to try to determine the reason for the bad data.

In what is perhaps his most complete articulation of his political philosophy, a foreword he wrote for Canadian Idealism and the Philosophy of Freedom, he explains that, " The idealist current holds that human society has the potential to achieve liberty when people work together to form a society in which equality means more than negative liberty, the absolute and protected right to run races against each other to determine winners.

Hobson plans to run tests to see if he can determine the nature of the Effect and the reason why he and Api survived.

FCA also can help communities with publicly run operations determine whether their costs are competitive with the private sector.

#* Produce an initial run of the product and sell it in a test market area to determine customer acceptance

The second is to run the path MTU discovery algorithm, described in RFC 1191, to determine the path MTU between two IP hosts, so that IP fragmentation can be avoided.

* Economic batch quantity, a measure used to determine the quantity of units that can be produced at minimum average costs in a given batch or production run

The bails are used to determine when the wicket is broken, which in turn is one of the critical factors in determining whether a batsman is out bowled, stumped, run out or hit wicket.

Jim Bolder, a space pilot on the run from creditors, accepts an assignment from the Qax through a human intermediary to determine just what the Xeelee are constructing at the center of the local supercluster.

Two-way ANOVA analyses were run based on data provided by the World Bank and the World Trade Organization and compared in terms of bilateral trade between the United States and the bloc or all countries encompassed in the agreement from 1999 – 2012, comparing annual averages in each category to determine if there have been statistically significant changes in from pre-CAFTA-DR years, 1999 – 2005, and again from 2006-2012.

One of the first system calls made by the C standard I / O library is in an isatty () call used to determine if the program is being run interactively by a human ( in which case isatty () will succeed and the library will write its output a line at a time so the user sees a regular flow of text ) or as part of a pipeline ( in which case it writes a block at a time for efficiency ).