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 Parliament consists of the Dewan Negara ( Upper House / House of Senate ) and Dewan Rakyat ( Lower House / House of Representatives ).

Whereas the TTAPS paper described a 3000 MT counterforce attack on ICBM sites, Michael Altfed of the Michigan State University and Political Scientist Stephen Cimbala of Pennsylvania State University maintained that with the trend towards smaller more accurate warheads in the United States and Soviet Nuclear Arsenals the same counterforce attack could be conducted with 1 / 1000th of that yield.

Whereas Corwin of the first series was a product of the late 1960s and 1970s and was more of a cross between a hardboiled detective in the vein of Raymond Chandler and a Highlander-like immortal with centuries of experience fighting his way through the stories, Merlin ( a product of the late 1980s and early 1990s when computers had become commonplace ) is a youthful hacker / magician finding himself in increasingly complex situations in the vein of modern hacker protagonists.

Whereas emerge used to operate in a similar way to other ports collections, by entering a directory in the tree and using emerge ( instead of make ) to perform package management operations, it now reads variables from the file / etc / make. conf ( again similar to ports ) to determine where the Portage tree is kept.

The Ravanahatha was played on one string which was 22 inches long encompassing the 3 Octaves. Whereas the Violin encompasses the 3 octaves on 4 strings with a finger board which is 5 1 / 4th inches long. This 5 1 / 4th when multiplied by 4 is 21 inches which was the size of the Ravan Hatta. Both are played with a bow.

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 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 many other industries have used online sources of continuing education and professional practices for many years, traditionally educators have turned solely to internal professional development departments, local education agencies ( LEAs ), and local colleges and universities to acquire the necessary education to meet the required hours / units for renewal of their state teaching licenses.

Whereas the Herfindahl index ranges from 1 / N to one, the normalized Herfindahl index ranges from 0 to 1.

Whereas modern interframe video formats, such as MPEG1, MPEG2 and H. 264 / MPEG-4 AVC, achieve real-world compression-ratios of 1: 50 or better, M-JPEG's lack of interframe prediction limits its efficiency to 1: 20 or lower, depending on the tolerance to spatial artifacting in the compressed output.

Whereas the tram in the initial proposal would go through Steenstraat / 3e Binnenvestgracht Stationsweg to the station, it will now go through the Lammermarkt and Schuttersveld.

Whereas I / O on 704 was a programmed function of the central processor-data words were transferred to or from the I / O register, one at a time, using a " copy " instruction-the 709 came with the IBM-766 Data Synchronizer, which provided two independently " programmed " I / O channels.

Whereas Libranet sold their distribution, and then gave free extensive support, many distributors chose to give away their distribution and sell support, and / or sell proprietary software enhancements to the distribution.

Whereas the aurantiirostris-fuscater / mexicanus-dryas group indeed forms a distinct lineage – probably living close to the genus ' center of origin – the Russet Nightingale-Thrush is closest to the Hermit Thrush.

* Lorwyn: Whereas most blocks consist of three sets, it was decided to turn the 2007 / 08 block into two mini blocks of two sets each.

Whereas the less obvious choice of Brett Anderson ( singer / songwriter in the indie band Suede ) rumoured as playing the role of wizard Howl.

Whereas its derivative forms ( described below under the headings of Creeking, Slalom, Playboating and Squirt boating ) have evolved in response to the challenges posed by riverrunning such as pushing the levels of difficulty and / or competing within its environs, riverrunning, of its own right, is more about combining one's paddling abilities and knowledge of navigation with the movements and environments of rivers themselves.

Whereas Big Band / Swing music placed the primary emphasis on the orchestration, post-war / early 50 ’ s era Pop focused on the song ’ s story and / or the emotion being expressed.

Whereas Travis's right hand used his index finger for the melody and thumb for bass notes, Atkins expanded his right hand style to include picking with his first three fingers, with the thumb on bass.

Whereas, throughout its history, the South has relished its grits, making them a symbol of its diet, its customs, its humor, and its hospitality, and whereas, every community in the State of South Carolina used to be the site of a grits mill and every local economy in the State used to be dependent on its product ; and whereas, grits has been a part of the life of every South Carolinian of whatever race, background, gender, and income ; and whereas, grits could very well play a vital role in the future of not only this State, but also the world, if as Charleston's The Post and Courier proclaimed in 1952, " An inexpensive, simple, and thoroughly digestible food, should be made popular throughout the world.

Whereas 200 or so workers might have been used for a similar building in the US, the Fragrant Hill project employed over 3, 000 workers.

Whereas the physical quantity indicated by any physical constant does not depend on the unit system used to express the quantity, the numerical values of dimensional physical constants do depend on the unit used.

Whereas the team used to occupy a stadium that was a throwback to the era of suburban, multi-purpose, concrete " cookie-cutter " stadiums that so many teams moved to during the 1960s and 1970s, their new home is regarded as one of the better venues in all of professional sports.

Whereas act utilitarianism requires us to choose our actions by calculating which action will maximise utility and rule utilitarianism requires us to implement rules which will, on the whole, maximise utility, motive utilitarianism “ has the utility calculus being used to select motives and dispositions according to their general felicific effects, and those motives and dispositions then dictate our choices of actions .”

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 " Main Street " conjures up images of locally owned businesses and banks, the phrase " Wall Street " is commonly used interchangeably with the phrase " Corporate America ".

Whereas a snowplough might safely be used directly down the fall line of a given hill, a Christie on the same hill would result in higher speeds, and skiing this technique normally requires the skier to turn across the fall line almost constantly.

Whereas data compaction reduces the amount of data used to represent a given amount of information, data compression does not.

Whereas the Capital markets are used for the raising of long term finance, such as the purchase of shares, or for loans that are not expected to be fully paid back for at least a year.

Whereas prior to the 1950s most cooking started out with raw ingredients and a meal had to be prepared from scratch, the advent of frozen meals and pre-prepared convenience food changed the cooking habits of many people, who consequently used the kitchen less and less.

Whereas a vernacular language is used as a native language in a single speaker community, a lingua franca goes beyond the boundaries of its original community, and is used as a second language for communication between communities.

Whereas Alberti and Trithemius used a fixed pattern of substitutions, Bellaso's scheme meant the pattern of substitutions could be easy changed simply by selecting a new key.

Whereas, if some form of argumentation were given, it would result in absurdity, because inference was being used disprove its own efficacy as evidence.

Whereas, " Sister Suzy sewing socks for soldiers " is a particular form of alliteration called sibilance, because it repeats the letter s. Both are commonly used in poetry.

Whereas the earlier Wright designs used levers for pitch and roll control, the Antoinette used two wheels mounted left and right of the pilot, one for pitch and one for roll.

Whereas conventional spreadsheets used on-screen cells to store all data, formulas and notes, Improv separated these concepts apart and used the cells only for input and output data.

Whereas early French hip hop was seen as mimicking American hip hop in terms of aesthetic appeal, later French rappers added their own cultural and racial identities to the mix.

Whereas oil and water normally do not mix, the addition of soap allows oils to disperse in water and be rinsed away.

Whereas the original Amiga trackers only provided four tracks, the hardware limit, modern trackers can mix a virtually unlimited number of channels into one sound stream through software mixing.