Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.

Whatever professionalism there was tended to disguise itself ; it was possible to pay for the services of a speechwriter ( logographos ) but this was not advertised in court ( except as something your opponent had to resort to ), and even politically prominent litigants made some show of disowning special expertise.

Whatever the target, there are multiple ways of preventing penetration by unwanted or unauthorised persons.

Whatever the cause or causes of forgetting over the short-term may be, there is consensus that it severely limits the amount of new information that we can retain over brief periods of time.

The very citadel of spoils politics, the hitherto impregnable fortress that had existed unshaken since it was erected on the foundation laid by Andrew Jackson, was tottering to its fall under the assaults of this audacious and irrepressible young man .... Whatever may have been the feelings of the ( fellow Republican party ) President ( Harrison ) — and there is little doubt that he had no idea when he appointed Roosevelt that he would prove to be so veritable a bull in a china shop — he refused to remove him and stood by him firmly till the end of his term.

Whatever the choices of points, there is an affine transformation T of the plane taking A to A ′, and each vertex similarly.

Whatever the cause, there are treatments available, some of them medical and some psychological.

Though the arrangement of the theme music stayed the same throughout the entire series run ( although there are subtle differences between the themes in various seasons-especially the closing themes-and Whatever Turns You On used a completely different theme song ), the opening animation itself changed in different ways.

Whatever the truth of its claim, the pub is certainly diminutive, there being very little room for more than ten or fifteen customers to drink at any one time.

The idea that there was a ‘ Celtic Church ’ in something of a post-Reformation sense is still maddeningly ineradicable from the minds of students .” Whatever might be the facts, to supporters, the symbology of a Celtic Church has importance post-Reformation.

Whatever his denomination, he sympathized with the Separatists, supporting and defending Plymouth Colony for much of his life, although there is no evidence as to whether he joined their church.

Bowra later told Cyril Connolly, " Whatever you hear about the war, remember it was far worse: inconceivably bloody – nobody who wasn't there can imagine what it was like.

Whatever proportion of truth or of tradition there may be in the tale, the steep dividing " pinnacle " was known to the people in the area as " Matrimony Hill.

Whatever view of science and the sociology of scientific knowledge is correct, it is a fact that in the history of science there have been many instances of new theories ( e. g., germ theory of disease, finitude of the speed of light, radioactivity ) being ridiculed and shunned by the greater scientific community when first proposed or discovered, only later to be adopted as more probably accurate.

Whatever the case, there is a long-standing tradition that George attended the University of Oxford when he was not in attendance at Court, although he does not appear in any of the university's record — a relatively frequent occurrence in the period before the English Civil War, when few of the aristocrats who attended either technically matriculated or graduated.

Whatever initial misgivings Louis Philippe's government may have had about occupying Algeria, the geopolitical realities of the situation created by the 1830 intervention argued strongly for reinforcing the French presence there.

Following the rejection of the appeal, the human rights group Amnesty International declared Khodorkovsky and Lebedev as " prisoners of conscience ," remarking in a statement that " Whatever the rights and wrongs of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev's first convictions there can no longer be any doubt that their second trial was deeply flawed and politically motivated.

Whatever the frame of reference for the choice of the subject of the case study ( key, outlier, local knowledge ), there is a distinction to be made between the subject and the object of the case study.

Whatever may have been the case, after his death there was a power struggle.

Whatever his motivations, Kane Hodder believes there is a limit to what he will do.

Whatever discord there may have been at the time of production, Brosnan and Zimbalist speak fondly of one another in more recent interviews, and are occasionally in touch.

Whatever evidence there was against the Lieutenant or his family was contained in a manila envelope not shared with Radulovich or his attorney.

Whatever misgivings or fears Muir may have had for his safety at the hands of his Spanish jailers, there was one danger which had not occurred to him-that of confrontation with an English fleet.

Whatever its status as a " movement ", there are a variety of religious organizations, think tanks, conferences, workshops, and publications in the US and internationally that use the term integral.

Whatever justice there might have been to the Polish claim upon Teschen, its seizure in 1938 was an enormous mistake in terms of the damage done to Poland's reputation among the democratic powers of the world.

Whatever learning they may have had in their order doesn't disturb them now.

*" Whatever may not properly be done in public is forbidden even in the most secret chamber " ( Shabbat 64b ).

Whatever may be the date of the institution of the office of abbreviator, it is certain that it became of greater importance and more highly privileged upon its erection into a college of prelates.

Whatever the situation may have been, Gongshan was considered an upright man who continued to defend the state of Lu, even after he was forced to flee.

To argue that the cogito is not a syllogism, one may call it self-evident that " Whatever has the property of thinking, exists ".

Whatever the intention may have been originally, the Mongolian " Dalai ", which does not have any meaning as a Tibetan term, came to be understood commonly as a title.

He said, " Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Whatever language may have been spoken on the peninsula soon gave way to Latin, except for Basque, protected by the Pyrenees

" Whatever may prove to be the nature of the German-Soviet Agreement, it cannot alter Great Britain's obligation to Poland which His Majesty's Government have stated in public repeatedly and plainly and which they are determined to fulfil.

Whatever his sources may have been, the immense popularity of Geoffrey's Historia Regum Britanniae cannot be denied.

Whatever the fortunes of the rites in the meantime, in the last decade of the 5th century they prompted Pope Gelasius I's taunt to the senators who were intent on preserving them: " If you assert that this rite has salutary force, celebrate it yourselves in the ancestral fashion ; run nude yourselves that you may properly carry out the mockery.

Whatever criticisms may be made of Grace for making money for himself out of cricket, he was " punctilious in his aid when ( professional players ) were the beneficiaries ".

Whatever houses I may visit, I will come for the benefit of the sick, remaining free of all intentional injustice, of all mischief and in particular of sexual relations with both female and male persons, be they free or slaves.

Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England ; and therefore the black must be discharged.

Whatever deal may have been struck remains unknown, at least to the public.

Whatever your responsibilities may be to Government, to society, or to individuals meet them like men.

Whatever the precise mechanisms, thyroid hormones clearly influence adult brain functioning, and may interact with mood regulation via targets in specific brain circuits.

' Whatever we may say something ' is ' obviously is not the ' something ' on the silent levels.

Whatever may have been the precise locality of that battlefield, Laon was fortified by the Romans, and successively checked the invasions of the Franks, Burgundians, Vandals, Alans and Huns.

Whatever may be thought of the contradictory accounts of Acca Laurentia, it seems clear that she was of Etruscan origin, and connected with the worship of the Lares, from which her name may or may not be derived.