Whereas consequentialist theories posit that consequences of action should be the primary focus of our thinking about ethics, virtue ethics insists that it is the character rather than the consequences of actions that should be the focal point.

Whereas certain religions focus on individuals, like Christianity focuses on Jesus, Islam focuses solely on Allah.

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 the Kanto region is symbolic of standardization throughout Japan, the Kansai region displays many more idiosyncrasies: the culture in Kyoto, the mercantilism of Osaka, the history of Nara, or the cosmopolitanism of Kobe, and represents the focus of counterculture in Japan.

Whereas Jon Meacham looked to make the focus solely on politics and world affairs, Brown has brought the focus back on to all of current events, not just politics, business, and world affairs ( although these issues are still the focus of the magazine ).

Whereas, SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California is famous for its focus on innovation and research.

Whereas the traditional Punisher stories remained within the United States and involved antagonists and settings of conventional domestic crime, stories of the MAX Punisher often focus on current events, ranging from corporate fraud to sexual slavery and the War on Terror.

Whereas the Northern lake had a religious focus, the shores of Central and Southern lakes were dotted with a number of palaces.

Whereas Chichester College has always been focused towards vocational qualifications, the University of Chichester has a more academic focus ( mainly in the arts ).

Whereas CA's historical focus had been on system utilities including those for the VM / CMS ( z / VM today ) mainframe platform, the company also sought via its 1986 acquisition of Software International to compete in the applications arena against Dun & Bradstreet's former market leaders Management Science America ( MSA ) and McCormack & Dodge ( M & D ).

Whereas the eponymous concept album's lyrics focus on human struggle and astronomical themes, A Beautiful Lie < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s lyrics are more personal and the music introduces intense screaming vocals and synth effects.

Whereas the Lacey Act dealt with game animal management and market commerce species, a major shift in focus occurred by 1963 to habitat preservation instead of take regulations.

Whereas Wicked Lester's original sound was rooted in varied musical styles, including folk and pop, when Simmons and Stanley decided to recruit new members, they made the decision to focus on a more aggressive and simple style of rock and roll.

Whereas formalism's focus was the aesthetic experience, structuralists played down response in favor of communication.

Whereas a travel agent company, whose business is more concerned with people and event-timing, could find it beneficial to focus their documentation efforts on Who and When columns.

Whereas the latter primarily focus on the constitution and stabilisation of knowledge on the level of interaction, Foucaults perspective concentrates on institutional contexts of the production and integration of knowledge, where the subject mainly appears to be determined by knowledge and power.

Whereas Luxembourg's English service was always centred on light entertainment and popular music, RTL in French is a mixed station: about 50 % of its output is speech-based, with a strong focus on news and current affairs and a large team of respected journalists.

Whereas domestic moot court competitions tend to focus on municipal law, regional and international moot competitions tend to focus on subjects such as public international law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international commercial arbitration.

Whereas the European practice of the art certainly saw performers attempting to swallow larger numbers of swords, there seemed to be an undue focus on the novel and bizarre in the American practice.

Whereas much of biology tends to focus on a single exemplar organism or a small subset of model organisms, comparative biology is a cross-lineage approach to understanding the phylogenetic history and interactions among individuals or higher taxa.

Whereas if a plan were there to be followed, a single area of code is expected to be written once.

Whereas Skyrme's example involved pion physics, there is a much more familiar example in quantum electrodynamics with a magnetic monopole.

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 internalism about justification is a widely endorsed view, there is debate about knowledge internalism, due to Edmund Gettier and his Gettier-examples.

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 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 large-scale producers of niobium are in Brazil and Canada, the ore there also yields a small percentage of tantalum.

Whereas there is inconclusive evidence for these techniques ' efficacy, there is extensive evidence that human activity such as agriculture and industry results in inadvertent weather modification:

Whereas common-channel signaling systems are out-of-band by definition, and in-band signaling systems are also necessarily channel-associated, the above metering pulse example demonstrates that there exist channel-associated signaling systems which are out-of-band.

Whereas on other weekdays of Great Lent, no celebration of the Divine Liturgy is permitted, there is a Liturgy ( usually the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom ) celebrated on Annunciation — even if it falls on Good Friday.

Whereas there are perhaps other examples of such a status for other disputed or dependent territories, this arrangement is certainly unique within the French Republic.

Whereas the bonding between adjacent atoms in a chain is covalent, there is evidence of a weak metallic interaction between the neighbouring atoms of different chains.

Whereas in Upper Egypt, it was the lotus and crocodiles which were more present in the Nile, thus these were the symbols of the region, and those associated with Hapi there.

" Whereas, there is a certaine parcel of land situated on the West side of Delaware Bay the which hath been certified by the Court at the Horekill and laide out for William Burton the saide Land being called the Long Neck lying on the South side of Rehoboth Bay and on the North side of the Greate River beginning at a point of woods and running West up the Greate River one thousand perches to a White Oak at the head of a small creek called Indian Cabin Creek and from thence North three hundred and fifty perches to a White Oak standing by a creek side called Middle Creek with a line of marked trees and from thence bounder upon the aforesaid Bay to the first bounded point Southeast one thousand perches containing One Thousand Acres of Land.

" The act begins: Whereas the town of Newbury is very large, and the inhabitants of that part of it who dwell by the water-side there, as it is commonly called, are mostly merchants, traders and artificers, and the inhabitants of the other parts of the town are chiefly husbandmen ; by means whereof many difficulties and disputes have arisen in managing their public affairs-Be it enacted ... That that part of the said town of Newbury ... be and hereby are constituted and made a separate and distinct town ....

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 realism deals mainly with security and material power, and liberalism looks primarily at economic interdependence and domestic-level factors, constructivism most concerns itself with the role of ideas in shaping the international system ( indeed it is possible there is some overlap between constructivism and realism or liberalism, but they remain separate schools of thought ).

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 a participant director is an individual participant or an officer, managing member or partner of a participant firm. 12 directors are divided into three equal classes ; each class serves a three-year term and there is one STP participant director in each class.

Whereas British buyers rued the absence of a saloon version of the Sierra, in New Zealand, it was the absence of an estate ( a " station wagon " there ) that customers missed, when Ford New Zealand replaced the Cortina with the Ford Telstar range.

Whereas Britain and France still faced a Germany which had kept about 80 percent of its industrial and economic potential and thus could attempt a revanche in a matter of years, Italy had definitively rid itself of its century-old enemy: instead of the Austro-Hungarian Empire there were now a number of smaller states, none of which could pose a credible threat, and some of them could even fall within the Italian sphere of influence.

Whereas, there is a need for dividing the present province into smaller units which can be more effectively administered and developed ”.