Whether ethnicity is a fixed perception is not crucial in the instrumentalist accounts.

Whether owned or rented, the full cost of using the fixed asset in production is thus measured by the actual or imputed rental on the asset, and not by depreciation alone.

Whether the predicted effect is beneficial or destructive depends on the condition of these planets, whilst the type of manifestation is judged by the zodiac signs, fixed stars and constellations involved.

Whether the selections were ad libitum or according to a fixed table of lessons we are not informed.

Whether Thackeray intended this shift in tone when he began writing, or whether it developed over the course of the work's composition, is a question that cannot be settled.

" Whether, at common law, an author of any book or literary composition, had the sole right of first printing and publishing the same for sale, and might bring an action against any person who printed, published, and sold the same, without his consent? According to Burrow's report of the case, eight of the Judges answered affirmatively, three negatively.

" Whether the author of any literary composition, and his assigns, had the sole right of printing and publishing the same, in perpetuity, by the common law?

Whether or not Merrill was making a serious song pitch, Champion and Stewart's response to Merrill's impromptu composition was so positive as to demand its development into a full show tune for Carnival !, the result being " Love Makes the World Go ' Round ".

Whether the family name or the estate name is used for the shortened form depends on a variety of factors: how people feel bearing a particule ( people may for instance dislike the connotations of nobility that the particule entails ; on the other hand, they may enjoy the impression of nobility ), tradition, etc.

Whether a concept analogous to the principle of internal responsibility operates in a nation's external relations is less obvious and more difficult to establish.

( Whether historical nationalism helped the peoples of the remainder of the world, and whether today's nationalism in the former colonial areas has equally beneficial aspects, are other questions.

Lincoln saw that the act of secession made the issue for the Union a vital one: Whether it was a Union of sovereign citizens that should continue to live, or an association of sovereign states that must fall prey either to `` anarchy or despotism ''.

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 historically a fact or not, the legend has a certain symbolic value.

Whether in prose or poetry, all of Heidenstam's later work was concerned with Sweden.

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 or not Danchin is correct in suggesting that Thompson's resumption of the opium habit also dates from this period is, of course, a matter of conjecture.

Whether this, or overt action, was the cause of the crash must be promptly determined.

Whether it could be as disastrous for American labor as, say, Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters, is a matter of conjecture.

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 or not this is done out of enlightened self-preservation, I don't know.

Whether the compromises -- on both sides -- that made possible the interim appointment can then be repeated remains to be seen.

Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.

Whether there were too few automobiles in 1940 or too many now is problematical.

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

Whether the check is certified or uncertified, the tax is not paid until the check is paid.

Whether considered alone or in relation to other editions, COLH 40 is a document of prime importance.

Whether electricity and public water and sewers are available or not, check the local customs in the use of bottled or L-P gas ( we give you alternatives later on ).

Whether the pair of Sudanese ivory carvings you lifted really possess the juju to turn your livers to lead, as a dealer in Khartoum assured me, I am not competent to say.

Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.

Whether or not it is in the industry's interest to allow the basic wage rate to rise obviously depends upon the extent to which the public-limit price rises in response to a basic wage increase, and the relation of this response to the increase in costs accompanying the wage increase.

Whether or not Plato's tale of the lost continent of Atlantis is true, skeptics concede that the myth may have some foundation in a great tsunami of ancient times.

Whether he sang well or badly had nothing to do with it.

Whether fan of the Pagnol films or stage show, whether partial to music or not, you can't help but derive joy from this picture if you have a sense of humor and a heart.

The thickness, molecular composition, and metabolic behavior of a membrane are not fixed, they may be modified several times during the membrane's life.

In this sense, a fugue is a style of composition, rather than a fixed structure.

The difficulties in electing the king eventually led to the emergence of a fixed college of Prince-electors ( Kurfürsten ), whose composition and procedures were set forth in the Golden Bull of 1356.

Some of those who argue that the Homeric poems developed gradually over a long period of time give an even later date for the composition of the poems ; according to Gregory Nagy for example, they only became fixed texts in the 6th century BC.

Under William Randolph Hearst's will, a common board of thirteen trustees ( its composition fixed at five family members and eight outsiders ) administers the Hearst Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, and the trust that owns ( and selects the 18-member board of ) the Hearst Corporation.

By studying their abundances in open cluster stars, variables such as age and chemical composition are fixed.

Though dates of composition vary, these works were fixed around 800 BC or after.

* 1686 – Isaac Newton uses a fixed length pendulum with weights of varying composition to test the weak equivalence principle to 1 part in 1000

Minerals must have a fixed chemical composition in a repeating arrangement, such as a crystal matrix.

Robert E. Van Voorst states that the literary origins of Toledot Yeshu can not be traced with any certainty, and its medieval composition without a fixed form, it is " most unlikely " to have reliable historical information.

Thus the final collection contained several other poems written at that time ; with these poems, Ginsberg continued the experimentation with long lines and a fixed base he'd discovered with the composition of " Howl " and these poems have likewise become some of Ginsberg's most famous: " America ", " Sunflower Sutra ," " A Supermarket in California ", etc.

Tala refers to a fixed time cycle or metre, set for a particular composition, which is built from groupings of beats.

Programs in the original CSP were written as a parallel composition of a fixed number of sequential processes communicating with each other strictly through synchronous message-passing.

A single seed number is run through a fixed algorithm the appropriate number of times and creates a sequence of numbers determining each planet's complete composition ( position in the galaxy, prices of commodities, and even name and local details — text strings are chosen numerically from a lookup table and assembled to produce unique descriptions for each planet ).

This system may be described by a boiling-point diagram which shows the composition ( mole fraction ) of the two phases in equilibrium as functions of temperature ( at a fixed pressure ).

* Isaac Newton uses a fixed length pendulum with weights of varying composition to test the weak equivalence principle to 1 part in 1000.

Certain aspects of the composition are traditional: the Virgin's head is located along the vertical axis, which crosses her right eye, fixed upon the beholder.

If the mix of inputs is held constant, then output would be expressed relative to inputs of a fixed composition, and the function would indicate long run economies of scale.

Although the Earth constantly receives energy from the sun, its chemical composition is essentially fixed, as additional matter is only occasionally added by meteorites.

As explained above each global rotation matrix can be interpreted as a composition of intrinsic rotations, that is around the axes of the moving body ( the moving reference system ), or as a composition of extrinsic rotations around the fixed world axes.

In feudal society, the formal class system was reflected in the composition of the state's ' representative ' assembly ( The States (" Landstände ")), regardless of its name well described as estates: it was not intended as an elected reflection of public opinion, but a fixed expression of established power as recognized in formal privileges, including the right to be seated in person ( granted to many aristocrats and prelates, as well as certain cities ) or to be represented as elector in a college that is entitled to one or more seats.

According to the majority view, the poem is a composition of the late 12th century, perhaps composed orally and fixed in written form at some point during the 13th century.

The gas panel may be operated by the diving supervisor if the breathing gas is air or a fixed ratio premix, but if the composition must be controlled or monitored during the dive it is usual for a dedicated gas panel operator, or " gas man " to do this work.

* Bandish or Gat: a fixed, melodic composition set in a specific raga, performed with rhythmic accompaniment by a tabla or pakhavaj.