Whereas The Globe and Mail crime critic Derrick Murdoch believed Icebreaker was Gardner's best Bond novel thus far.

According to film critic Grant Tracey, the film turns the role of the femme fatale on its head: " Whereas many noirs contain the tradition of the femme-fatale, the deadly spiderwoman who destroys her man and his family and career, The Big Heat inverts this narrative paradigm, making Ford Bannion the indirect agent of fatal destruction.

Whereas in Friedrich's work a woman dressed for the windy weather sits idly watching five fishing boats sailing past, in Dahl's picture, there seems to be a more personal note, with echoes of his own upbringing in a seafaring community, as the mother and small child eagerly await the return of the little ship from the sea .” The same critic has written about one of his paintings of Dresden: “ Dahl also commemorated the magnificent Baroque buildings of his adopted city, and a version of his ' View of Dresden by Moonlight ' ( 1838 ) has travelled from the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo.

Whereas Damrosch ’ s approach remains tied to the close reading of individual works, a very different view was taken by the Stanford critic Franco Moretti in a pair of articles offering “ Conjectures on World Literature .” Moretti argued that the scale of world literature far exceeds what can be grasped by traditional methods of close reading, and he advocated instead a mode of “ distant reading ” that would look at large-scale patterns as discerned from publication records and national literary histories, enabling one to trace the global sweep of forms such as the novel or film.

`` Whereas, a Bridge over Merrimack River, from the Land of Hon'ble Jonathan Greenleaf, Esquire, in Newbery, to Deer Island, and from said Island to Salisbury, would be of very extensive utility, by affording a safe Conveyance to Carriages, Teams and Travellers at all seasons of the year, and at all Times of Tide.

Whereas if a journalist writes exactly the same set of words, intending them as shorthand notes to help him write a longer article later, these would not be a poem.

Whereas a biotic stress would include such living disturbances as fungi or harmful insects, abiotic stress factors, or stressors, are naturally occurring, often intangible, factors such as intense sunlight or wind that may cause harm to the plants and animals in the area affected.

Whereas Sergei Eisenstein viewed his montage of attractions as a propaganda tool through which the film-viewing masses could be subjected to “ emotional and psychological influence ” and therefore able to perceive “ the ideological aspect ” of the films they were being shown, Vertov believed the Kino-Eye would influence the actual evolution of man, “ from a bumbling citizen through the poetry of the machine to the perfect electric man .”

Whereas most computer games of the era would achieve initial success and then suffer a significant drop-off in sales, Infocom titles continued to sell for years and years.

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.

Whereas the origin of the name norn is uncertain, it may derive from a word meaning " to twine " and which would refer to their twining the thread of fate.

Whereas legal positivism would say that a law can be unjust without it being any less a law, a natural law jurisprudence would say that there is something legally deficient about an unjust law.

Whereas the Sex Pistols would proudly display bad manners and opportunism in their dealings with ' the establishment ,' the anarcho-punks kept clear of ' the establishment ' altogether ".

Whereas other game engines would have to modify the shape of the altered object to create a similar effect, GeoMod creates special objects which represent empty space.

Whereas reusable SSTOs would reduce per launch costs by making a reusable high-tech vehicle that launches frequently with low maintenance, the " mass production " approach views the technical advances as a source of the cost problem in the first place.

Whereas the incoming administration or Congress would have both the time, and a fresh electoral mandate, to examine and address the problems that the nation faced.

Whereas the golden rule states that " One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself ", Kant asks us analyze whether an act can be performed simultaneously by everyone without exception.

Whereas the STAR would read and process the same memory five times to apply five vector operations on a set of data, it would be much faster to read the data into the CPU's registers once, and then apply the five operations.

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 a tokamak would generally work to contain singly ionized deuterium or tritium with a mass of two or three daltons, the uranium vapour would be at most triply ionized with a mass of 235 dalton ( unit ).

Whereas a detailed list of such significant contributions would certainly be desirable, below just a few innovations are listed as examples of breakthroughs that have played a critical role in the advancement of integrated circuit technology by more than six orders of magnitude in less than five decades:

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 before warships had tried to grapple with each other so that soldiers could board the enemy ship, now they stood off and fired broadsides that would sink the enemy vessel.

Whereas a nuclear weapon will usually create mass casualties immediately following the blast, a dirty bomb scenario would initially cause only minimal casualties from the conventional explosion.

Whereas low spatial frequencies ( the ' fuzzier ' parts ) are attenuated, higher spatial frequencies ( an image's fine details ) which would otherwise be blurred out by the eye movement remain unaffected.

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 a manufacturer may use technology, simplification, and other techniques to lower the cost of goods sold, the service provider often faces an unrelenting pattern of increasing costs.

Whereas MacNeill intended to use force only to resist the imposition of conscription on Ireland, or to prevent the use of force to disarm of the Volunteers, the IRB men intended to launch an armed rebellion in pursuit of Irish independence.

Whereas " private property " grants an individual exclusive control over a thing whether it is in use or not, and regardless of its productive capacity, " possession " grants no rights to things that are not in use.

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 most video games use monocular cues to achieve the illusion of three dimensions on a two-dimensional screen, The Virtual Boy creates an illusion of depth through the effect known as parallax.

Whereas in the past printmakers put their plates in and out of acid baths with their bare hands, today printmakers use rubber gloves.

Whereas standard French uses the verbs " monter " and " descendre " to get in and out of an automobile, Québécois tend to use " embarquer " and " débarquer ", relics from their navigational heritage.

Whereas these cities are dense, with major downtown populations and significant rail and transit systems, much of Southern California is famous for its large, spread-out, suburban communities and use of automobiles and highways.

Whereas mechanical movements can typically be off by several seconds a day, an inexpensive quartz movement in a child's wristwatch may still be accurate to within half a second per day — ten times better than a mechanical movement .< ref > Quartz mechanisms usually have a resonant frequency of 32768 Hz, chosen for ease of use ( being 2 < sup > 15 </ sup >).

Whereas Nixies typically require 180 volts to illuminate, VFDs only require relatively low voltages to operate, making them easier and cheaper to use.

Whereas a planar data store could use 2 bitplanes, providing for a 4 colour display:

:" Whereas we use ' hypothesis ' to denote a tentative theory which is still to be verified, Ptolemy usually means by ύπόθεσις something more like ' model ', ' system of explanation ', often indeed referring to ' the hypotheses which we have demonstrated '.

Whereas a conventional side electrode will ( admittedly, rarely ) come adrift in use and potentially cause engine damage, this is impossible with a surface discharge plug, as there is nothing to break off.

Whereas Dolby B was already in widespread use in the 1970s, prerecorded cassettes were duplicated onto rather poor quality tape stock at ( often ) high speed and did not compare in fidelity to high-grade LPs.

Whereas the first phase of shōen development in the early Heian period had seen the opening of new lands and the granting of the use of lands to aristocrats and religious institutions, the second phase saw the growth of patrimonial " house governments ," as in the old clan system.

Whereas the undiscovered country referred to in Hamlet ( and its intended meaning in The Wrath of Khan ) refers to death, Star Trek VIs use of the phrase refers to a future where Klingons and humans coexist in peace.

Whereas in the general case, there is often no appropriate singular gender-neutral replacement ( e. g. the third person singular pronoun he ) ( although the use of singular they is increasingly common ), there are gender-neutral versions of nearly all job titles.

Whereas in the past it had never been used formally, Campbell-Bannerman was the first First Lord of the Treasury to be given official use of the title " Prime Minister ", a standard that continues to the present day.

Whereas SQL retrieves data sets from a relational database ( RDBMS ), with dBase one can more easily manipulate, format, analyze and perform calculations on individual records, strings, numbers, and so on in a step-by-step imperative ( procedural ) way instead of trying to figure out how to use SQL's declarative operations.

Whereas most forms of skywave propagation use the normal and cyclic ionization properties of the ionosphere's F region to refract ( or " bend ") radio signals back toward the Earth's surface, sporadic E propagation bounces signals off smaller " clouds " of unusually ionized atmospheric gas in the lower E region ( located at altitudes of approx.

Whereas the Montreal Protocol has severely restricted the use of bromomethane internationally, the United States has successfully lobbied for critical-use exemptions.

* Whereas the original U. S. Constitution did not use the word slavery or the term " Negro Slaves ", but " Person held to Service or Labour " which included whites in indentured servitude, the Confederate Constitution addresses the legality of slavery directly and by name.

Whereas willpower is the strength and ability to carryout a certain task, self-discipline is the ability to use it routinely and even automatically ( as if through reflex ).