Whereas monks live in a self-sufficient community, friars work among laypeople and are supported by donations or other charitable support.

Whereas Greek monks will tend to lean in their stalls during the services, Russian monks usually stand upright.

Whereas Sihala is attested for the first time in present day Andhra Pradesh to refer to a Buddhist temple meant for monks from Sri Lanka in the 3rd century CE.

Whereas many ordinary Chinese monks go out to perform rituals for events such as weddings or funerals, none of these monks do so.

Whereas proverbs in English are typically multi-worded phrases (" kill two birds with one stone "), Japanese borrowed from Chinese compactly conveys the concept in one word.

Whereas Kant declares limits to knowledge (" we can never know the thing in itself "), in his epistemological work, Rudolf Steiner sees ideas as " objects of experience " which the mind apprehends, much as the eye apprehends light.

) Whereas Paul acknowledged that the Law of Moses and its observance were good when used correctly (" the law is good, if one uses it lawfully ", ), the Epistle of Barnabas condemns most Jewish practices, claiming that Jews had grossly misunderstood and misapplied the Law of Moses.

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 Patriarch of Constantinople is now considered first among the Orthodox patriarchs, the Orthodox Church considers the Bishop of Rome ( regarded as the " Patriarch of the West ") the " first among equals " in the Pentarchy of the Patriarchal Sees according to the ancient, first millennial order ( or " taxis " in Greek ) of Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem after Constantinople became the eastern capital of the Roman / Byzantine Empire.

Whereas they include no butterflies, micros do also include a surprising number of day-flying groups, and the advent of online identification resources in many countries ( e. g. " UK moths ") combined with the widespread use of digital macrophotography, is making them much easier to identify.

Whereas the written Torah has a fixed form, the Oral Torah is a living tradition that includes not only specific supplements to the written Torah ( for instance, what is the proper manner of shechita and what is meant by " Frontlets " in the Shema ), but also procedures for understanding and talking about the written Torah ( thus, the Oral Torah revealed at Sinai includes debates among rabbis who lived long after Moses ).

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 Bultmann's `` center '' position is structurally inconsistent and is therefore indefensible on formal grounds alone, the general position of the `` right '', as represented, say, by Karl Barth, involves the rejection or at least qualification of the demand for demythologization and so is invalidated on the material grounds we have just considered.

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 treaties require advice and consent by two-thirds of the Senate, sole executive agreements may be executed by the President acting alone.

Whereas the count of Toulouse Raymond VI received absolution, the Count of Carcassonne confronted the army alone.

Whereas humility can be sought alone as a means to de-emphasise the ego, humiliation must involve other person ( s ), though not necessarily directly or willingly.

Whereas one might expect only the strongly stimulated synapse to undergo LTP ( since weak stimulation alone is insufficient to induce LTP at either synapse ), both synapses will in fact undergo LTP.

Whereas other militant organisations made some compromise with the tenets of Sikhism during the militancy period, Babbar Khalsa stood alone in its insistence on the strict compliance of the rules of the Khalsa brotherhood.

Whereas the federal act states that, in the case of a referendum about the secession of a Canadian province, the House of Commons has the power to determine afterwards whether the question was clear enough and whether the obtained majority was large enough for the result to be accepted, the provincial one stipulates that Quebecers determine alone the manner in which to exercise their right to choose their political regime, and that the winning option in a referendum is whichever obtains 50 % of the votes plus one.

Whereas most of the other Churches had patron nations, such as France for the Catholics and Russia for the Orthodox, the Armenians now found themselves alone among Christian giants.

Whereas most of the other games in the series tend to be stand alone, only building on where the previous games left off, with most characters appearing in the single game alone ;

Whereas nearby Ulva belonged to the MacQuarries from the 10th century, Gometra was a possession of the Iona monastery prior to passing into the hands of the Duke of Argyll.

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 vocoder analyzes speech, transforms it into electronically transmitted information, and recreates it, The Voder ( from Voice Operating Demonstrator ) generates synthesized speech by means of a console with fifteen touch-sensitive keys and a pedal, basically consisting of the " second half " of the vocoder, but with manual filter controls, needing a highly trained operator.

The Spectator announced that " Whereas Mr Abraham Jordan, senior and junior, have, with their own hands, joinery excepted, made and erected a very large organ in St Magnus ' Church, at the foot of London Bridge, consisting of four sets of keys, one of which is adapted to the art of emitting sounds by swelling notes, which never was in any organ before ; this instrument will be publicly opened on Sunday next February 1712, the performance by Mr John Robinson.

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

Whereas however Stesichorus developed graphic images in his poetry that subsequently became established in vase painting, Bacchylides merely employed images already current in his own day.

Whereas a philosophical skeptic may deny the very existence of knowledge, an empirical skeptic merely seeks likely proof before accepting that knowledge.

Whereas the labor theory of value has been used to condemn profit as exploitation, the subjective theory of value rebuts that condemnation: a buyer in a free market who offers to pay a price lower than that which is commensurate with the amount of labor used to produce the good merely communicates information to the seller about the value the good might create for the buyer.

Whereas apes can merely touch the mark on themselves with their fingers, dolphins show less definitive behavior of self-awareness, twisting and turning themselves to observe the mark.

Whereas in Fine Fare's Scottish and Teesside heartland, Yellow Packs had merely been a successful product launch, they acquired a semi-iconic status in Ireland, and were extended throughout Quinnsworth's affiliate chains within the Power supermarket group ( such as Stewarts and Crazy Prices in Northern Ireland and Crazy Prices in the Republic ).

Whereas Kuhn's paradigm is an all-encompassing collection of beliefs and assumptions that result in the organization of scientific worldviews and practices, Foucault's episteme is not merely confined to science but to a wider range of discourse ( all of science itself would fall under the episteme of the epoch ).

Whereas the previous four novels had featured self-contained plots ( O ' Brian wrote Master and Commander as a stand-alone novel, and the following three titles merely acted as sequels whose story arcs integrated only loosely with any of the other novels in the saga ), in Desolation Island, O ' Brian now begins an arc that will continue through the entirety of Fortune of War before concluding in The Surgeon's Mate.

Whereas the settlers hunt for sport and overkill the amount of pigeons needed, he merely shoots one for his meal.

Whereas some subdivisions comprise exclusive gated communities, others are merely demarcations denoting a specific neighborhood.

Whereas the majority of server-side languages such as PHP and ASP are user driven, IPN gives the developer more power over their script by making any events associated with IPN event driven ; this is not an allusion to a different sort of programming architecture, but merely due to the simple HTTP POST interaction that occurs whenever the seller receives a payment.

Whereas it preserved some of the past urban structure and many of the architectural monuments, it was completely deprived of its leading role, and is currently merely a tourist attraction.

Whereas the bats in Texas are forced to migrate in winter, Attenborough visits a cave in Canada where they stay all year round and go into deepest hibernation when the cold weather arrives.

Whereas peptidoglycan is a standard component of all bacterial cell walls, all archaeal cell walls lack peptidoglycan, with the exception of one group of methanogens.

Whereas free glucose can easily diffuse in and out of the cell, the phosphorylated form ( glucose-6-phosphate ) is locked in the cell, a mechanism by which intracellular glucose levels are controlled by cells.

Whereas fungal cell walls are made primarily of chitin, stramenopile cell walls are constructed mostly of cellulose.

Whereas handle decompositions are the analogue for manifolds what cell decompositions are to topological spaces, handle presentations of cobordisms are to manifolds with boundary what relative cell decompositions are for pairs of spaces.

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Whereas archegonia in the Jungermanniales develop directly from the apical cell at the tip of a fertile branch, archegonia in the Metzgeriales develop from a cell that is behind the apical cell.