Whereas Unix time is based on Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ) and is subject to leap seconds, PTP is based on International Atomic Time ( TAI ) and moves forward monotonically.

Whereas he was aloof and mistrustful before, he now becomes agreeable and tries hard to make friends.

Whereas the claim above suggested that Luke was writing to Rome, this view proposes that Luke may be writing to the church in order to convince the saints of his own view that Rome is not a threat to the church.

Whereas the AMD K6-III + topped out at 570 MHz due to its short pipeline, even when built on the 180 nm process, the Athlon was capable of clocking much higher.

Whereas D & D merged armor with defense, BRP treated them as separate functions: the act of parrying was a defensive skill that reduced an opponent's chance to successfully land an attack, and the purpose of armor was to absorb damage.

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 deforestation was primarily driven by subsistence activities and government-sponsored development projects like transmigration in countries like Indonesia and colonization in Latin America, India, Java, and so on, during late 19th century and the earlier half of the 20th century.

Whereas it was originally called wau, its most common appellation in classical Greek is digamma, while, as a numeral, it was called episēmon during the Byzantine era.

Whereas in the early days of the practice it was considered wrong to construct words to disguise meaning, this is now an accepted and established practice.

Whereas Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence, Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age, dying in Macedonia.

Whereas the Gospel of John was written to unbelievers, this epistle was written to those who were already believers ( 5: 13 ).

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 his references to Judah are of a general kind, Ephraim or Samaria being sometimes mentioned in the same connection or more frequently alone, the situation implied throughout and the whole tone of the addresses agree with what we know of the Northern Kingdom at the time, and his references to places and events in that kingdom are so numerous and minute as to lead to the conclusion that he not only prophesied there, but that he was a native of that part of the country.

Whereas sodomy between men, men and women, and men and animals was punishable by death in Britain, acknowledgment of sexual contact between women was nonexistent in medical and legal texts.

Whereas previously it was hazardous to guess if there would be a storm or little activity, the predictions of Asher and McNaught timed bursts in activity down to ten minutes by narrowing down the clouds of particles to individual streams from each passage of the comet, and their trajectories amended by subsequent passage near planets.

It was the difficulty in using the longbow which led various monarchs of England to issue instructions encouraging their ownership and practice, including the Assize of Arms of 1252 and King Edward III's declaration of 1363: " Whereas the people of our realm, rich and poor alike, were accustomed formerly in their games to practise archery – whence by God's help, it is well known that high honour and profit came to our realm, and no small advantage to ourselves in our warlike enterprises ... that every man in the same country, if he be able-bodied, shall, upon holidays, make use, in his games, of bows and arrows ... and so learn and practise archery.

Whereas MVC comes from the previous decade ( by work at Xerox PARC in the late 1970s and early 1980s ) and is based on observations of applications that ran on a single graphical workstation ; MVC was applied to distributed applications later in its history ( see Model 2 ).

Whereas most American Methodist worship is modeled after the Anglican Communion's Book of Common Prayer, a unique feature was the once practiced observance of the season of Kingdomtide, which encompasses the last thirteen weeks before Advent, thus dividing the long season after Pentecost into two discrete segments.

Whereas Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in his own commentary compares the Minotaur with all three sins of violence within the seventh circle: " The Minotaur, who is situated at the rim of the tripartite circle, fed, according to the poem was biting himself ( violence against oneself ) and was conceived in the ' false cow ' ( violence against nature, daughter of God ).

Whereas Nisrani is of direct Semitic origin, it is very likely that Nazzarenu was adopted via the Italian Nazzareno ( from Latin, Nazarenus, meaning Nazarene.

Whereas the " higher " law Aristotle suggested one could appeal to was emphatically natural, in contradistinction to being the result of divine positive legislation, the Stoic natural law was indifferent to the divine or natural source of the law: the Stoics asserted the existence of a rational and purposeful order to the universe ( a divine or eternal law ), and the means by which a rational being lived in accordance with this order was the natural law, which spelled out action that accorded with virtue.

Whereas the current U. S. NMD system is designed around a relatively limited and unsophisticated attack, SDI planned for a massive attack by a sophisticated opponent.

Whereas the effect was initially a novelty, today, morphing effects are most often designed to be seamless and invisible to the eye.

Whereas hollow point and soft-tipped bullets are designed to expand upon impact, full metal jacket bullets are limited in their capacity to expand.

Whereas most " simple " bus systems were easily supported with a handful of input / output chips designed to be used with that CPU in mind, with NuBus every card and computer had to convert everything in a platform-agnostic " NuBus world ".

Whereas a workstation is often targeted towards studio musicians and composers, grooveboxes are designed more to suit the needs of live performers.

Whereas the M113 would float without much preparation, the Bradley was initially designed to float by deploying a flotation curtain around the vehicle.

Whereas, in times past, the bullwhip was designed for one basic, main purpose, modern whip makers design their whips for different specific purposes and to suit different throwing styles.

Whereas a fuse starts with a low resistance and is designed to permanently break an electrically conductive path ( typically when the current through the path exceeds a specified limit ), an antifuse starts with a high resistance and is designed to permanently create an electrically conductive path ( typically when the voltage across the antifuse exceeds a certain level ).

Whereas he aimed many of his characters at a young audience, Smashie and Nicey were created for a segment of the programme designed to appeal to " older people ".

Whereas most other canal locks have culverts in the side walls to fill and empty the lock, with paddles opening and closing vertically, the locks on the Montgomeryshire were designed with a culvert in the base of the canal, with the paddle sliding horizontally over the culvert.

Whereas VoiceXML is designed to provide a Voice User Interface to a voice browser, CCXML is designed to inform the voice browser how to handle the telephony control of the voice channel.

Whereas the VT50 was developed in the era before it was common to apply computers to text, the VT78 was a product designed for that application.

Whereas the FW-i1000 used the iM-networks service ( then known as " SonicBox "), the end-to-end " Streamium " system designed by Daniel Meirsman, included a Philips owned back-end service ( the " ECD-interface ").

Whereas typical thangkas are fairly small, between about 18 and 30 inches tall or wide, there are also giant festival thangkas, usually Appliqué, and designed to be unrolled against a wall in a monastery for particular religious occasions.

Whereas the IRT els were originally equipped with cars that were 47 feet (~ 14. 3m ) long, the cars designed for the IRT subway measure 51 feet 4 inches (~ 15. 6m ) long.

Whereas ribozymes can be chemically designed to target specific genes and cleave them in a sequence specific manner.

Whereas the old stadium was a fully enclosed " cookie-cutter " facility similar to Riverfront, Veterans, Three Rivers and Atlanta-Fulton County stadiums, the new stadium is similar to the many other HOK designed " retro-classic " fields.

Whereas the G2 and G3 had been designed for competition the G4 was usable as an everyday car but still was very competitive in motor sport with numerous successes.

Whereas TPF runs as a stand-alone OS, ALCS is designed to run as an application on top of MVS / OS / 390 / z / OS.

Whereas Jackanory had been a simple 15-minute reading of a story, designed to encourage children themselves to read, the new Jackanory Playhouse would be a full-cast anthology series dramatizing traditional folk tales.