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Whether five, seven, or eight, none proved sufficient to sever the man's head from his suffering body, and Ketch pulled a butcher's knife from the sheath on his hip, which he drew across the last cords of sinew and flesh that prevented the head from dropping to the scaffold floor.
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Whether and five
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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.
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Whether and seven
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Whether and eight
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Whether and none
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Whether and proved
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Whether and sufficient
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Whether the gold standard provids a government sufficient bona fides when it seeks to borrow abroad is debated.
* Whether representatives have sufficient authority to be acting on behalf of a person
Whether this treatment is necessary or sufficient, is not stated.
Whether by biological or technological means, night vision is made possible by a combination of two approaches: sufficient spectral range, and sufficient intensity range.
Whether this is sufficient to prove that the marks have not been abandoned has yet to be decided in court.
Whether reducing oxidative damage below normal levels is sufficient to extend lifespan remains an open and controversial question.
Whether Black has sufficient compensation is a matter of opinion.
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# Whether there was any longer sufficient transparency of independence from the executive and the legislature to give assurance of the independence of the judiciary.
Whether and man's
Whether a particular unit's attack succeeded or failed depended not so much on the infantry tactics but on how well the wire had been cut, the intensity of the German defensive barrage in no man's land and whether or not the defenders could swiftly bring their machine guns into action.
Whether and head
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Whether consciously or not, this builds on the Roman Law principle of dominium where any attack on the members of the family or the property it owned was a personal attack on the pater familias the male head of the household, sole owner of all property belonging to the household, and endowed by law with dominion over all his descendants through the male line no matter their age.
Whether Iraq actually had weapons of mass destruction or not was being investigated by Hans Blix, head of the Commission, and Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Whether the plan had ever been to have Clarke as a symbolic head of state and Pearse as head of government, or was simply that Pearse was always to be central but with statements ambiguously describing his title, remains a mystery about which historians still speculate.
Whether in haste after the greenhouse incident or not, Robinson left for Dublin in 1861, where the influence of David Moore, head of the botanical garden at Glasnevin, a family friend, helped him find work at the Botanical Gardens of Regent's Park, London, where he was given responsibility for the hardy herbaceous plants, specializing in British wildflowers.
" Whether in jail or freed, Budanov will remain a person who has committed a grave crime, which took the life of an innocent girl ," Taus Dzhabrailov, the head of Chechnya's parliament, told Interfax.
Whether plain or resplendent, many hairnets were edged with ruchings of ribbon that would serve to adorn the crown of the wearer's head.
Whether you cry, or bang your head later!
Whether this be so or not, Lee took part in preparing for the divorce proceedings against Catherine of Aragon, and in January 1534 he was elected Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, or Chester as the see was often called, taking at his consecration the new oath to the king as head of the English Church and not seeking confirmation from the pope.
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Whether and from
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 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 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.
Whether true or not, Athena still had cause to be indignant, as Ajax had dragged a supplicant from her temple.
Whether evaporated from the material itself, or ionised from the gas, the ions that are evaporated are accelerated by electrostatic force, acquiring most of their energy within a few tip-radii of the sample.
Whether Teach had any involvement in this decision is unknown, but Hornigold quickly retired from piracy.
In addition, works published before 1964 that did not have their copyrights renewed 28 years after first publication year also are in the public domain, except that books originally published outside the US by non-Americans are exempt from this requirement, if they are still under copyright in their home country ( see How Can I Tell Whether a Copyright Was Renewed for more details ).
Whether the large or small calorie is intended often must be inferred from context.
Whether or not this incident is true, Adomnan's text specifically states that the monster was swimming in the River Ness-the river flowing from the loch-rather than in Loch Ness itself.
Whether we take the signified or the signifier, language has neither ideas nor sounds that existed before the linguistic system, but only conceptual and phonic differences that have issued from the system.
Whether a statement is meant to be an identity or an equation can usually be determined from its context.
Whether the corpse of such a gladiator could be redeemed from further ignominy by friends or familia is not known.
Whether Shakespeare took these from Belleforest directly or through the Ur-Hamlet remains unclear.
Whether facing native spear or European bullet, impis largely fought as they had since the days of Shaka, from Zululand to Zimbabwe, and from Mozambique to Tanzania.
Whether the issue arises from domestic problems or breaches of the norms of public conduct, individual interests are expressed in terms of kinship.
Whether primary or secondary, lymphedema develops in stages, from mild to severe.
Whether the dualism of the Paulicians, Bogomils, and Cathars and their belief that the world was created by a Satanic demiurge were due to influence from Manichaeism is impossible to determine.
Concluding quickly that since a writ of mandamus, by definition, was the correct judicial means to order an official of the United States ( in this case, the Secretary of State ) to do something required of him ( in this case, deliver a commission ), Marshall devotes the remainder of his inquiry at the second part of the question: " Whether it writ can issue from this court.
Whether this occurred immediately after Sæberht's death or later is impossible to determine from Bede's chronology, which has both events in the same chapter but gives neither an exact time frame nor the elapsed time between the two events.
Whether Mellitus received a pallium, the symbol of an archbishop's authority, from the pope is unknown.
* Whether there was a revolutionary change of thought or merely a gradual development and change of emphasis from their predecessors
Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength!
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