Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

Whether it was Sidney next challenged Oxford to a duel or the other way around, Oxford did not take it further, and the Queen personally took Sidney to task for not recognizing the difference between his status and Oxford's.

Whether a particular piece of art is a false document, or is using false documentary techniques in a central way, is arguable.

Whether food is prepared with precision in a fine dining restaurant, picked from a dumpster, plucked, devoured, or even consumed by a wild animal, meaning can always be extracted from the way a certain food has been prepared and the context in which it is served.

* Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable state law,

Under the section entitled " Whether the hen or the egg came first ", the discussion is introduced in such a way suggesting that the origin of the dilemma was even older:

It is thus now possible again to reason about sets in a non-axiomatic fashion without running afoul of Russell's paradox, namely by reasoning about the elements of V. Whether it is appropriate to think of sets in this way is a point of contention among the rival points of view on the philosophy of mathematics.

Whether he actually died in this way remains a mystery and is much debated.

Whether there was also an order not to teach those ideas in any way has been a matter for controversy.

Whether or not his brothers ( all dignified members of the British foreign service ) actually considered young William the " black sheep of the family " for having become an actor, Karloff himself apparently worried they did feel that way.

Whether in Augustan Rome or modern Europe, democracy all too easily gave way to totalitarianism, technology was as readily used for battle as for comfort, and immense wealth lay alongside abysmal poverty.

Lowry's lengthy reply, dated 2 January 1946, was a passionate defense of the book in which he sensed he had created a work of lasting greatness: " Whether it sells or not seems to me either way a risk.

Whether a system is open or closed dictates the way candidates run their campaigns.

" Whether or not these raucous Liverpool teens ever make it big or not, it sounds like they'll have fun along the way.

Whether all have become public I do not know, but I seriously suggest to the Government that the best way of clearing our honour in this matter is officially to publish the whole of the engagements relating to the matter, which we entered into during the war.

However, Morrison's wife later recalled, " Whether he thought of it that way or not, I think having Emily with him was a final and great comfort to Norman ... he was a powerful symbol of the children we were killing with our bombs and napalm -- who didn't have parents to hold them in their arms.

" Whether it goes one round or three rounds or 10 rounds, it will be a fight and a fight all the way.

Whether the contestants in the five weeks prior to Stempel's choreographed October 17 appearance unwittingly received the answers in " practice sessions " the way Richard Jackman described, or were openly coached the same way Stempel was, is unclear.

) However, Williamson's work may point to a quite general way to modify traditional evidentialism to make it better able to meet the challenges it faces: Whether or not one goes so far as to accept that E = K, broadening one's view of what comprises our evidence may provide a way to address many of the objections to evidentialism, especially to those disinclined to swallow skeptical consequences of a view.

Whether " Big Ed " died from his plunge over the Falls, or drowned on the way to the Falls is uncertain.

Whether or not she was just in complete denial or she really truly believed that there was a way to sleep with Mussolini and not be held accountable, I don't know.

Whether, and in what way, the distinctions between the attributes and the metaphysical essence, and among the attributes themselves have an ontological basis in the Divine nature itself was subject, which divided Nominalists and Realists, Thomists and Scotists, in the age of Scholasticism ( cf.

Whether a congregation supports the " sponsoring church " custom is one way to distinguish between the " non-institutional " and " mainstream " congregations.

Whether any of us remain in it long will depend on what happens as a result of the technological and economic revolutions now going on in the countries of Asia and Africa, and also of course on how long the cold war remains cold.

Whether it is or not, the propaganda impact on the free world of the document scheduled to be adopted at this meeting will be far less than had been originally anticipated.

Whether it will strike home for you or not will be for you to determine.

Whether or not this led to complete electrical failure will never be known.

Whether or not a certain cycloaddition would proceed depends on the electronic orbitals of the participating species, as only orbitals with the same sign of wave function will overlap and interact constructively to form new bonds.

Whether and under what conditions this final aim can in fact be stably achieved is a difficult question, and it will be considered in the section devoted to the effects of coercion.

Whether these ultra-light weapons will be widely adopted has yet to be seen.

Whether or not such a polyhedron is also geometrically self-dual will depend on the particular geometrical duality being considered.

Whether we like to talk to them or we don't like to talk to them, they will continue to fight.

Whether these initiatives will have the desired effect of curbing such activities has yet to be seen ; although a number of hawala networks have been closed down and a number of hawaladars have been successfully prosecuted for money laundering, there is little sign that these actions have brought the authorities any closer to identifying and arresting a significant number of terrorists or drug smugglers.

Whether the judge will make an order is discretionary and will be determined in accordance with the overriding objective, and in the context of the questions asked.

" Whether the respondent answers yes or no, he will admit to having a wife, and having beaten her at some time in the past.

Whether in fact a person's actions promote and fulfill his own life or not is a question of fact, as it is with all other organisms, but whether a person will act to promote his well-being is up to him, not hard-wired into his physiology.

Whether omniscience, particularly regarding the choices that a human will make, is compatible with free will has been debated by theists and philosophers.

Whether the delay is reasonable or not, will depend on the complexity of the trial and the attitude of the suspect.

Whether in the old town or the new town, party-goers will often find themselves following their tapas by dancing the night away.

Whether a reaction actually will go in the arbitrarily-selected forward direction or not depends on the amounts of the substances present at any given time, which determines the kinetics and thermodynamics, i. e., whether equilibrium lies to the right or the left.

Whether treated or not, many patients will be told to avoid activities that involve straining.

Whether a person " leaves " a society does not change anything to the fact that this society will still contain suicides.

Whether Magnus managed to defeat him in war or not, " you can never be called king in England, and you will never be granted any allegiance there before you put an end to my life.

Whether they chose to issue bonds or shares, companies will typically enlist the services of an investment bank to mediate between themselves and the market.

Whether these negotiations and compromises will yield a comprehensive biosecurity protocol is doubtful.