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Whereas the term peninsula technically refers to the entire geographical San Franciscan Peninsula, in local jargon, " The Peninsula " does not include the city of San Francisco.
Whereas encryption usually refers to operations carried out in the digital domain, scrambling usually refers to operations carried out in the analog domain.
Whereas the term chess puzzle refers broadly to any puzzle involving aspects of chess, a chess problem is an orthodox puzzle ( see below ) in which one must play and win or draw a game, starting with a certain composition of pieces on the chess board, and playing within the standard rules of chess.
Whereas atman refers to the self, jiva refers to the living being, the exact comprehension of which varies throughout the philosophical schools.
Whereas, however, these are typically nonmagnetic, here the " glass property " refers essentially to the magnetic properties only, i. e. to the spin structure only.
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 ' economies of scale ' for a firm primarily refers to reductions in average cost ( cost per unit ) associated with increasing the scale of production for a single product type, ' economies of scope ' refers to lowering average cost for a firm in producing two or more products.
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se, including the technical aspects of stamp production and distribution, philatelic postal history refers to stamps as historical documents ; similarly re postmarks, postcards, envelopes and the letters they contain.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 intelligence quotient sees intelligence as being a single measurable characteristic affecting all mental ability, aptitude refers to one of many different characteristics which can be independent of each other, such as aptitude for military flight, air traffic control, or computer programming.
Whereas animism tends to view life as taking the form of discrete spirits, and panpsychism tends to refer to strictly philosophical views like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, hylozoism refers largely to views such as those of the earliest Greek philosophers ( 6th and 5th centuries BC ), who treated the magnet as alive because of its attractive powers ( Thales ), or air as divine ( Anaximenes ), perhaps because of its apparently spontaneous power of movement, or because of its role as essential for life in animals.
Whereas Revenue Management involves predicting consumer behavior by segmenting markets, forecasting demand, and optimizing prices for several different types of products, Yield Management refers specifically to maximizing revenue through inventory control.
Whereas formerly the trivial name " mycoplasma " has commonly denoted any member of the class Mollicutes, nowadays it refers exclusively to a member of the genus Mycoplasma.
Whereas statistical randomness refers to the process that produces the string ( e. g. flipping a coin to produce each bit will randomly produce a string ), algorithmic randomness refers to the string itself.
Whereas capability refers to the real options that someone has in order to pursue his subjective functionings who prefers most.
Whereas the original wording made reference to rights acquired " by way of land claim settlement ," the current version refers to rights that " now exist by way of land claims agreements or may be so acquired.

Whereas and use
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 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 ).

Whereas and words
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 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 some text search engines require users to enter two or three words separated by white space, other search engines may enable users to specify entire documents, pictures, sounds, and various forms of natural language.
Whereas uniformity in the spelling of words is one of the features of a standard language in modern times, and official languages usually prescribe standard spelling, minority languages and regional languages often lack this trait.
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 traditional theory can only mirror and explain reality as it presently is, critical theory's purpose is to change it ; in Horkheimer's words the goal of critical theory is " the emancipation of human beings from the circumstances that enslave them ".
Whereas words like " sufficient " and " average " suggest some degree of abstinence, scarcity, or failure, lagom carries the connotation of optimality, although not necessarily absolute perfection.
Whereas Egypt's first President Muhammad Naguib exhibited a preference for using Standard Arabic in his public speeches, his successor Gamal Abdel Nasser was renowned for using the vernacular, and punctuating his speeches with traditional Egyptian words, and expressions.
Whereas contestants on Des Chiffres Et Des Lettres use computer touch-screens to registers their words / number solutions, Countdown contestants use pen and paper.
Whereas in some Iranian dialects such as Luri and Bakhtiari ( also based in and around Khuzestan ), the sound " h " is sometimes used for pronouncing Kh, the words oo, hoo and Khuz have in the process of time been added to the suffix-estan, and the word oojestan has gradually changed to Hujestan, forming the word Khuzestan.
In the middle of this S-shape between the Bayudah Desert to the south and the Nubian Desert to the north, the Nile is forced by the topography to split up into a multitude of tributaries forming a fertile river oasis of small rocky islands described by the traveller GRAY ( 1949: 120 ) with the following words: " Whereas usually in the Nile Valley is confined to the belt on two banks on which the river has deposited silt, in this cataract area, where islands are scattered like a flock of goats, the number of silt-covered river banks in any given 10 kilometres may be up to a dozen ".
Whereas Ellet embellished his proposals with fanciful words and deeds, Roebling presented papers filled with meticulous calculations and drawings.
Whereas Hameed's sense of humor is more mature, Qasim's is the opposite: in other words, simplistic, childish, and spontaneous.

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