Whereas a person ’ s Gattungswesen ( human nature ) does not exist independent of specific, historically-conditioned activities, the essential nature of a human being is actualized when a man — within his given historical circumstance — is free to sub-ordinate his will to the external demands he has imposed upon himself, by his imagination, and not the external demands imposed upon him by other people.

Whereas philately is concerned with the study of the stamps per se, including the technical aspects of stamp production and distribution, philatelic postal history refers to stamps as historical documents ; similarly re postmarks, postcards, envelopes and the letters they contain.

Whereas the number marks it out as one of the largest libraries in normal universities throughout China, the library is famed internationally for its very impressive collections of ancient texts, rare books, rubbings of engraved tablets, photographs, calligraphic works and paintings, Fujian ’ s local cultural and historical documents, early editions of foreign language publications, and major newspapers published during the historic period known as the May Fourth Movement.

Whereas the UNPO advocates change to benefit the minorities at risk and is quite small in terms of information for the public to view, MAR provides accurate information on more than 284 groups, ( the MAR database and codebook as well as detailed historical chronologies ) available to educate researchers, public officials, journalists, students, activists, and anyone interested.

Whereas traditionally we group languages according to historical language families ( e. g. Indo-European languages, Uralic languages ), a more modern way is to look at grammatical features from a synchronic point of view.

Whereas secrecy is the historical norm in many fields of business, start-up companies often thrive on publicity and open sharing of information.

Whereas purely normative morals became " out of shot ", in a way marked with an historical seal, however every ethics implies henceforth the reference to conceptual philosophical systems, connecting the anthropological aspect with the rational one, as much as a form of empiricism with the basis of intuitionism.

Whereas consequentialist theories posit that consequences of action should be the primary focus of our thinking about ethics, virtue ethics insists that it is the character rather than the consequences of actions that should be the focal point.

Whereas certain religions focus on individuals, like Christianity focuses on Jesus, Islam focuses solely on Allah.

Whereas gay / lesbian studies focused its inquiries into " natural " and " unnatural " behaviour with respect to homosexual behaviour, queer theory expands its focus to encompass any kind of sexual activity or identity that falls into normative and deviant categories.

Whereas the Kanto region is symbolic of standardization throughout Japan, the Kansai region displays many more idiosyncrasies: the culture in Kyoto, the mercantilism of Osaka, the history of Nara, or the cosmopolitanism of Kobe, and represents the focus of counterculture in Japan.

Whereas Jon Meacham looked to make the focus solely on politics and world affairs, Brown has brought the focus back on to all of current events, not just politics, business, and world affairs ( although these issues are still the focus of the magazine ).

Whereas, SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California is famous for its focus on innovation and research.

Whereas the focus there is on philosophy and integration with the theories created within knowledge management – a holistic approach – the focus of PIM research is on collecting statistically relevant data to support the core hypothesis of PIM ( see for example the work of Steve Whittaker ), and on creating and validating tools for PIM ( see works by William Jones or David Karger ).

Whereas the traditional Punisher stories remained within the United States and involved antagonists and settings of conventional domestic crime, stories of the MAX Punisher often focus on current events, ranging from corporate fraud to sexual slavery and the War on Terror.

Whereas the Northern lake had a religious focus, the shores of Central and Southern lakes were dotted with a number of palaces.

Whereas Chichester College has always been focused towards vocational qualifications, the University of Chichester has a more academic focus ( mainly in the arts ).

Whereas the eponymous concept album's lyrics focus on human struggle and astronomical themes, A Beautiful Lie < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s lyrics are more personal and the music introduces intense screaming vocals and synth effects.

Whereas the Lacey Act dealt with game animal management and market commerce species, a major shift in focus occurred by 1963 to habitat preservation instead of take regulations.

Whereas Wicked Lester's original sound was rooted in varied musical styles, including folk and pop, when Simmons and Stanley decided to recruit new members, they made the decision to focus on a more aggressive and simple style of rock and roll.

Whereas formalism's focus was the aesthetic experience, structuralists played down response in favor of communication.

Whereas a travel agent company, whose business is more concerned with people and event-timing, could find it beneficial to focus their documentation efforts on Who and When columns.

Whereas the latter primarily focus on the constitution and stabilisation of knowledge on the level of interaction, Foucaults perspective concentrates on institutional contexts of the production and integration of knowledge, where the subject mainly appears to be determined by knowledge and power.

Whereas Luxembourg's English service was always centred on light entertainment and popular music, RTL in French is a mixed station: about 50 % of its output is speech-based, with a strong focus on news and current affairs and a large team of respected journalists.

Whereas domestic moot court competitions tend to focus on municipal law, regional and international moot competitions tend to focus on subjects such as public international law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international commercial arbitration.

Whereas the European practice of the art certainly saw performers attempting to swallow larger numbers of swords, there seemed to be an undue focus on the novel and bizarre in the American practice.

Whereas much of biology tends to focus on a single exemplar organism or a small subset of model organisms, comparative biology is a cross-lineage approach to understanding the phylogenetic history and interactions among individuals or higher taxa.

Whereas the maintenance rotary fund had in the past sustained losses considerably beyond expectations, the introduction of the cost-billing system plus other control refinements has resulted in keeping the fund on a proper working basis.

Whereas the eighteenth century had been a time in which man sought justice, the nineteenth and twentieth have been centuries in which men are satisfied with law.

Whereas philosophers merely had views about things, he taught the Noble Eightfold Path which liberates from suffering.

Whereas in the past, the National and American leagues had separate administrative organizations ( which, for example, allowed for the introduction of different rules such as the designated hitter ), under Selig, Major League Baseball consolidated the administrative functions of both leagues into the Commissioner's Office in 2000.

Whereas up until this point the Dutch presence had been simply as traders, that was sometimes treaty-based, the Banda conquest marked the start of the first overt colonial rule in Indonesia albeit under the auspices of the VOC.

Whereas 20, 000 freshmen had matriculated in one CUNY institution or another in 1969, more than 35, 000 showed up for registration in the fall of 1970.

Whereas his father and brother had concentrated consular power largely in the hands of the Flavian family, Domitian admitted a surprisingly large number of provincials and potential opponents to the consulship, allowing them to head the official calendar by opening the year as an ordinary consul.

Whereas Lang was worried about the advent of the Nazi regime, partly because of his Jewish heritage, his wife and screen writer Thea von Harbou had started to sympathize with the Nazis in the early 1930s and joined the NSDAP in 1932.

Whereas Infocom's games had benefited significantly from the portability offered by running on top of a virtual machine, this strategy did not prove to be a significant advantage for Cornerstone ; in fact, the virtual machine significantly slowed the database's execution speed.

Whereas his Gymnasium senior thesis argued that religion had as its primary social aim the promotion of solidarity, here Marx sees the social function of religion in terms of highlighting / preserving political and economic status quo and inequality.

Whereas the central Maoist leaders encouraged the masses to criticize reactionary " ideas " and " habits " among the alleged 5 % of bad cadres, giving them a chance to " turn over a new leaf " after they had undergone " thought reform ," the Ultra-Left argued that " cultural revolution " had to give way to " political revolution " – " in which one class overthrows another class ".

Whereas previously the OUP had thought London too far from Oxford, after 1925 Craigie worked on the dictionary in Chicago, where he was a professor.

Whereas previous rulers had been influenced by Persian culture ( Suleiman's father, Selim I, wrote poetry in Persian ), Suleiman's patronage of the arts had seen the Ottoman Empire assert its own artistic legacy.

Whereas engineers were used to thinking of air flowing smoothly around the body of the aircraft, at high speeds it simply did not have time to " get out of the way ", and instead started to flow as if it were rigid pipes of flow, a concept Busemann referred to as " streampipes ", as opposed to streamlines, and jokingly suggested that engineers had to consider themselves " pipefitters ".

Whereas the stewards of X since 1988 ( including the prior X. Org ) had been vendor organizations, the Foundation was led by software developers and used community development based on the bazaar model, which relies on outside involvement.

Whereas an expurgated version of Lady Chatterley's Lover had actually once been published, no expurgated version of Fanny Hill had ever been.

Whereas most Protestants do not believe in Purgatory, John's idea would be difficult to say the least had it stood the test of time.

Whereas RS / 6000 used a mix of early POWER and PowerPC processors, when pSeries came along this had evolved into RS64-III and POWER3 across the board — POWER3 for its excellent floating-point performance and RS64 for its scalability, throughput, and integer performance.

Whereas the reign of Marcus Aurelius had been marked by almost continuous warfare, that of Commodus was comparatively peaceful in the military sense but was marked by political strife and the increasingly arbitrary and capricious behaviour of the emperor himself.

Whereas previously the commons had been expected simply to assent to decisions already made by the magnates, it was now proclaimed that they should meet with the full authority ( plena potestas ) of their communities, to give assent to decisions made in Parliament.

Whereas Henry III had only collected four of these in his reign, Edward I collected nine.

Whereas the king had only levied three lay subsidies until 1294, four such taxes were granted in the years 1294 – 97, raising over £ 200, 000.