Whatever the merits of Hartmann's theory about the Santa Clara County case, in numerous cases since the Court has reiterated that corporations are protected in many activities by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Whatever the merits of the scheme, or of Dr. Browne, MacBride concluded in a Cabinet memorandum:

Whatever the merits of a new system, it is unlikely to displace Hanyu Pinyin at this level.

Whatever may have been the merits of the question it would appear that in this matter Parkes put convictions before policy.

Whatever interest Gutzkow's novel might have attracted from its own merits was enhanced by the action of the German federal diet, which condemned Gutzkow to three months ' imprisonment, decreed the suppression of all he had written or might yet write, and prohibited him from exercising the functions of editor within the German confederation.

' Whatever the merits and qualifications of these leaders, no one can seriously believe that these assets were paid for out of their salaries ', alleges the lawsuit brought by the Sherpa association of jurists, which promotes corporate social responsibility.

Whatever may be the merits or defects of Alfieri, he may be considered as the founder of a new school in the Italian drama.

Whatever the merits of either case, both schools agreed that the landlord and the state both played a vital role in the development ( if not the origin of ) the mir.

Whatever the general merits of the view that war silences law or modulates its voice, that view has no place in the interpretation and application of a Constitution designed precisely to confront war and, in a manner that accords with democratic principles, to accommodate it.

Whatever the group's merits, The Godz went unappreciated by elite rock critics ; the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide described them as a " Miserable hard-rock quartet from Columbus, Ohio, epitomiz the most wretched excesses of Seventies rock.

Whatever the merits of the arguments, in the post-Independence period the Land Issue assumed enormous symbolic importance to all concerned.

Whatever the merits of the Colenso case, the implied action of a British court in constraining matters of faith and discipline in a church outside the United Kingdom was instrumental in the decision to summon the first Lambeth Conference in 1867.

Whatever the psychological truth in the Oedipus myth, an Oedipus who is drawn to his fate by irresistible external forces can carry the symbol of humanity and its archaic crime, and the incest that is unknowing renews the mystery of the eternal dream of childhood and absorbs us in the secret.

) Whatever philosophy is conceived to be, its rationalist, logistic attitude to evidence should make it clear that it is something other than science.

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 its origin, the fire spread rapidly though the ship's rigging, unchecked by the fire pumps aboard which had been smashed by British shot.

Whatever its intent, it is a remarkable conversation, representing an era that held the art of conversation in the highest regard.

Whatever its secular contents, the primary aim of Origen and Pamphilus ' school was to promote sacred learning.

Whatever its relation to the physical body it is generally agreed that mind is that which enables a being to have subjective awareness and intentionality towards their environment, to perceive and respond to stimuli with some kind of agency, and to have a consciousness, including thinking and feeling.

Whatever the cryptographic assurance of the protocols themselves, the association between a public key and its owner is ultimately a matter of subjective judgment on the part of the trusted third party, since the key is a mathematical entity, while the owner-and the connection between owner and key-are not.

Whatever religious, mystical or spiritual elements were central to Stonehenge, its design includes a celestial observatory function, which might have allowed prediction of eclipse, solstice, equinox and other celestial events important to a contemporary religion.

Whatever the motivations, the bill was passed on 5 April 1710, and is commonly known simply as the Statute of Anne due its passage during the reign of Queen Anne.

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.

While the name provides a lot of this, the sponsorship of Newcastle United, the depiction of the River Tyne in the blue star and mentioning in programmes such as Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads have helped ensure its association.

Critic W. S. Di Piero noted " Whatever the occasion, childhood, farm life, politics and culture in Northern Ireland, other poets past and present, Heaney strikes time and again at the taproot of language, examining its genetic structures, trying to discover how it has served, in all its changes, as a culture bearer, a world to contain imaginations, at once a rhetorical weapon and nutriment of spirit.

Whatever its origins were, the nunchaku were not a popular weapon, evidenced by the fact that no known traditional nunchaku kata exist.

Whatever its source, later generations lent credence to the narrative.

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.

Whatever its motivation, the fact remains that the tactic did represent an innovation and was undoubtedly highly effective.

Whatever the origins of the story, its utility was obvious: the murder could be presented not as a political act but as a cause passionelle-a lover's quarrel, in which the German diplomat could be judged incidentally as having seduced a minor.

Whatever its influences, the legend began in earnest in the early 12th century with two reports of visits of an Archbishop of India to Constantinople and of a Patriarch of India to Rome at the time of Pope Callixtus II ( 1119 – 1124 ).

Whatever its other causes, the Cultural Revolution, declared in 1966, was overtly pro-Maoist, and gave Mao the power and influence to purge the Party of his political enemies at the highest levels of government.

Whatever its form, the aumakua is one specific shark, owl, etc.

Whatever its location, this results in a divergence, with denser, nutrient-rich water being upwelled from below, and results in the remarkable fact that the equatorial region in the Pacific can be detected from space as a broad line of high phytoplankton concentration.

Whatever high-level patronage the foundation may have received, it was not enough to sustain its fortunes for very long.

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 the original intent of the double chancel, the eastern chancel came to serve as the location for the mass and the western chancel was reserved for the bishop and pontiffs.

Ruth himself has changed his version a couple of times ... Whatever the intent of the gesture, the result was, as they say in Hollywood, slightly colossal.

Whatever the source of Rangoni's power, Marina is his captive now ; ;

Whatever projection one makes, the striking fact about congregational and parochial life is the extent to which it is a vehicle of the social identity of middle-class people.

Whatever the long-range impact of integration, the owners of Negro-appeal radio stations these days know they have an audience and that it is loyal.

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

Whatever can be predicated of all things is universal-like but not universal, category-like but not a category.

Whatever difference which might part us, something hovers over them, it is the great images of national unity, which we all desire, for which we would all stand, willing to die if necessary.

" The contention is that this is a syllogistic inference, for it appears to require the extra premise: " Whatever has the property of thinking, exists ", a premise Descartes did not justify.

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

* Superman is real, Clark Kent the mask: Pre-Crisis interpretations of Superman assumed that Clark Kent was the " mask " and Kal-El the person ( in the classic story Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow ?, when Superman's dual life is revealed, he completely abandons his Clark Kent persona ).

Whatever specific ethnicity is involved, ethnic nationalism always includes some element of descent from previous generations and the implied claim of ethnic essentialism, i. e. the understanding of ethnicity as an essence that remains unchanged over time.

Whatever the mechanism, blood meant for the pulmonary system is not ventilated and so no gas exchange occurs ( the ventilation / perfusion ratio is decreased ).

Whatever the original plan might have been, the larger, historical account is often merely a background to a broad range of inquiries and, as Herodotus himself observes, " Digressions are part of my plan.

Whatever strategy is used ( simple or mutual ), the level of protection strongly depends on the correctness of the implementation of the web browser and the server software and the actual cryptographic algorithms supported.

Whatever the precise nature of Hecate's transition into folklore in late Antiquity, she is now firmly established as a figure in Neopaganism, which draws heavily on folkloric traditions associating Hecate with ' The Wild Hunt ', witches, hedges and ' hedge-riding ', and other themes that parallel, but are not explicitly attested in, Classical sources.