Whenever we talk about a percentage, it is important to specify what it is relative to, i. e. what is the total that corresponds to 100 %.

For instance, the eminent Yoruba author James Johnson wrote in one of the most detailed early descriptions of Ifa that " Whenever this should be the case, a woman would receive from a Babalawo only one Ikin or Consecrated Palm nut called Eko, which she would carry about her body for her protection, and whenever divination should recommend and prescribe to her sacrifice to Ifa, she would, for the time being, hand over her Eko either to her husband or to her brother, or any other male relative according to prescription, who would include it in his own Ikins for the purpose of the worship and sacrifice in which she would participate.

Whenever he undergoes one of his visions, Johnny has shown to be capable of manipulating the time localized around the vision, allowing him to stop, slow, reverse, or forward the time relative to himself within the vision, leaving him as the only one aware of his temporal alterations within it and thus allowing him to further examine the details from the past, future, and occasionally the present.

Whenever any type of energy is removed from a system, the mass associated with the energy is also removed, and the system therefore loses mass.

Whenever supersymmetry is broken in supergravity theories, it acquires a mass which is determined by the scale at which supersymmetry is broken.

Whenever a confusion between the two kinds of definitions might arise it can be avoided by referring to the more general definition and by reintroducing the erased parameter: writing B < sub > m </ sub >( 0 ) in the first case and B < sub > m </ sub >( 1 ) in the second will unambiguously denote the value in question.

Whenever a pixel is drawn, it updates the z buffer with its depth value.

Whenever there will be uncertainties in both timing and amount of the cash flows, the expected present value approach will often be the appropriate technique.

Whenever a business is established, it either explicitly or implicitly employs a particular business model that describes the architecture of the value creation, delivery, and capture mechanisms employed by the business enterprise.

Whenever the card is swiped at a turnstile, the value of the card is read, the new value is written, the customer is let through, and then the central database is updated with the new transaction as soon as possible.

Whenever the output voltage is below the desired value, the SCR is triggered, allowing electricity to flow into the load until the AC mains voltage passes through zero ( ending the half cycle ).

Whenever a page is accessed, it gains a value equal to the counter at the time of page access.

Whenever the system property represented by the gauge is outside of that range, the value of the gauge itself will vary no further than the respective maximum or minimum, as specified in RFC 2578.

Whenever a card is placed on top of a pile, put a back-pointer to the top card in the previous pile ( that, by assumption, has a lower value than the new card has ).

Whenever a bomb is used or the player loses a life, MAXIMUM mode ends until bomb overstocking occurs again, which will cause multiplier to resume at the last multiplier value.

Whenever a relationship within or between data items can be expressed as a statistical model with parameters to be estimated from a sample, the Wald test can be used to test the true value of the parameter based on the sample estimate.

Whenever the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Comptroller General of the United States, as the case may be, shall find that any person is entitled to any such payment, after such payment shall have been received by such person, it shall be an absolute bar to recovery by any other person against the United States, its officers, agents, or employees with respect to such payment.

Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Whenever one is incorporated into him by grace through faith, one comes to share in Jesus ' special status as chosen of God.

Whenever the observer's learning process ( which may be a predictive neural network-see also Neuroesthetics ) leads to improved data compression such that the observation sequence can be described by fewer bits than before, the temporary interestingness of the data corresponds to the number of saved bits.

Whenever the book was written and whatever the historicity of the events recounted in it, clearly by the time it was written the term " Yehudim " ( יהודים-Jews ) already gained a meaning quite close to what it means up to the present — i. e. an ethnic-religious group, scattered in many countries, organised in autonomous communities and a target of hatred.

Whenever this happens, the above expression is undefined because it involves division by zero.

* John D. Caputo attempts to explain deconstruction in a nutshell by stating that: " Whenever deconstruction finds a nutshell — a secure axiom or a pithy maxim — the very idea is to crack it open and disturb this tranquility.

Whenever the executives refused to give into his demands, Gumby would assert his star status by saying “ I ’ m Gumby, Dammit .”

Whenever Alti stares at Xena, Xena often feels the pain of when her legs were broken, her back snapped by her Chakram, and multiple barrages of attacks from some of her mortal enemies.

Whenever this does happen, it must be in writing and authorized by a manager with the technical assistance of a calibration technician.

Whenever she received a letter soliciting money, a cheque would be sent by the next post, regardless of the authenticity of the mendicant and without having the case investigated.

Whenever they needed a bass player, they were joined by another Blues Brother, Donald " Duck " Dunn.

* Article 2: Whenever the Law imposes the death penalty, irrespective of the nature of the offence, the punishment shall be the same: decapitation, effected by means of a simple mechanism.

Whenever a script was rejected by one program, he would resubmit it to another, eventually finding a home for many in either radio or television.

Whenever possible, the Quays prefer to work with pre-recorded music, though Gary Tarn's score for The Phantom Museum had to be added afterwards when it proved impossible to licence music by the Czech composer Zdeněk Liška.

Whenever someone is accused of infidelity, Don Francisco puts that person on a lie detector test, conducted by Joe Harper, a Miami-based polygraphist.

Whenever a society accepts this Divine will to be expressed on earth, as by a religious authority, that opens the way for a theocratic legitimation.

Whenever there is need to consecrate more chrysm it will be done on this day by the heads of the various autocephalous churches.

Whenever a State authority has a hit on a SIS record, the SIRENE exchange, by its own communication network, sends notification forms of the discovery and further information which, although essential to the good continuation of the investigations and procedures in progress, cannot appear in the SIS records themselves.

Whenever two or more standard broadcast stations operate simultaneously on the same or closely adjacent frequencies, each interferes to some extent with reception of the other.

Whenever a player can create a new word using a word that has already been formed, plus one or more tiles from the pool, the player calls out the word.

" Whenever a spontaneous process is too slow or too inefficient a protein will evolve to speed it up or make it more efficient.

Whenever one of the two most ancient branch lines dies out, the MRCA will move to a more recent female ancestor, always the most recent mother to have more than one daughter with living maternal line descendants alive today.

Whenever there is a team of more than two characters, the term sidekick is generally reserved for another team member of the same sex.

Whenever food is presented, rats handle the lever, regardless if lever pressing leads to more food.

Whenever there are more than three characters on stage, at least one of those characters tends to fall silent.

Whenever Vimes is angry, doors of some of the houses open ( the more angry he is, the more numbers of doors will open ).

Whenever an electron simply " appears " in such a chamber as a new free particle suddenly moving with kinetic energy, and moves in the direction of the neutrinos as the apparent result of a new impulse, and this behavior happens more often when the neutrino beam is present, it is inferred to be a result of a neutrino interacting directly with the electron.

Whenever the dorsal area was active, fewer errors were committed providing more evidence that the ACC is involved with effortful performance.

:" Whenever the summit of the mountains ... shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit ... shall be formed by a line parallel to the winding of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance of ten marine leagues therefrom.

Whenever he reappears in a strip, it's usually to re-authorize her termination for some perfectly senseless reason, although he's often side-tracked by the appearance of Drusilla or some other, more intimidating presence.

Whenever he did do an interview, he discussed the character in such a way as to add more mystery.

Whenever the British and French seemed intent on enlarging at Liberia's expense the neighboring territories they already controlled, periodic appearances by U. S. warships helped discourage encroachment, even though successive American administrations rejected appeals from Monrovia for more forceful support.

Whenever an attempt is made to use more than cells, reject.

Whenever a vote of more than a majority is required to take an action, control is taken from the majority and given to the minority.

Whenever he tried to involve himself in the activities of his peers ( also anthropomorphic ducklings ) he would often inadvertently cause more problems, and as a result they would drive him away through trickery ( and into tears ).

* Whenever there are 3 or more syllables in a bar containing two minims, a dot (·) or hyphen is used, even if the change of note is on the final syllable.

Whenever the British and French seemed intent on enlarging at Liberia's expense the neighboring territories they already controlled, periodic appearances by U. S. warships helped discourage encroachment, even though successive American administrations rejected appeals from Monrovia for more forceful support.