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

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

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 this is a sufficient basis for anthroposophy to be considered a spiritual science has been a matter of controversy.

Whether or not a concealment of such an asset should also be considered for prosecution as fraud and / or perjury would then be at the discretion of the judge and / or U. S. Trustee.

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 ).

In May 2010, the Washington State Supreme Court provided an opinion after it was asked to certify a question referred by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington: “ Whether a public library, consistent with Article I, § 5 of the Washington Constitution, may filter Internet access for all patrons without disabling Web sites containing constitutionally-protected speech upon the request of an adult library patron .” The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that NCRL ’ s internet filtering policy did not violate Article I, Section 5 of the Washington State Constitution.

Whether a class action is superior to individual litigation depends on the case, and is determined by the judge's ruling on a motion for class certification.

( Whether the downsides versus the upsides justifies a complex design or not is food for a never-ending debate in certain circles.

Whether someone's belief is true is not a prerequisite for ( its ) belief.

Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal

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 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 this eroticism is for the viewer or an accurate representation of life is unknown.

Whether the relationship included any genital component was not a matter for public discourse, but women could form strong and exclusive bonds with each other and still be considered virtuous, innocent, and chaste ; a similar relationship with a man would have destroyed a woman's reputation.

Whether it be the cross section of a skull, the structure of a weed, or a study of muscles, he, with his feeling for line and for light and shade, forever transmuted it into life-communicating values.

Whether I'm writing solo stuff, electronic stuff or material for Mötley, I just write to write.

Whether the general mammoth population died out for climatic reasons or due to overhunting by humans is controversial.

As Freda Easton explained in her study of Waldorf schools, " Whether one accepts anthroposophy as a science depends upon whether one accepts Steiner's interpretation of a science that extends the consciousness and capacity of human beings to experience their inner spiritual world.

" Whether the ceremony is legal, or a private spiritual commitment, is up to the couple.

Whether the lingam symbolizes the physical body of the god or something purely spiritual is the topic of many a century-old debate within Hinduism.

Whether the protagonist's starving is seen as spiritual or artistic, the panther is regarded as the hunger artist's antithesis: satisfied and contented, the animal's corporeality stands in marked contrast to the hunger artist's ethereality.

Whether it is thought to be a material quality or spiritual one.

Richard Fuchs, author of An Unerring Fire, concludes, “ The affair at Fort Pillow was simply an orgy of death, a mass lynching to satisfy the basest of conduct – intentional murder – for the vilest of reasons – racism and personal enmity .” Andrew Ward downplays the controversy, “ Whether the massacre was premeditated or spontaneous does not address the more fundamental question of whether a massacre took place ... it certainly did, in every dictionary sense of the word .” John Cimprich states, “ The new paradigm in social attitudes and the fuller use of available evidence has favored a massacre interpretation ...

Whether for reasons of appearance or reputation, grenadiers tended to be the showpiece troops of their respective armies.

Whether this is because it makes little practical difference or for other reasons is at present difficult to say.

Sebastian Castellio ( 1515 – 1563 ) was a French Protestant theologian who in 1554 published under a pseudonym the pamphlet Whether heretics should be persecuted ( De haereticis, an sint persequendi ) criticizing John Calvin's execution of Michael Servetus: " When Servetus fought with reasons and writings, he should have been repulsed by reasons and writings.

Whether it does this for philosophical or practical reasons, it points to considerable degree of sophistication.

Recent histories agree that a massacre occurred: Richard Fuchs, author of An Unerring Fire, concludes, “ The affair at Fort Pillow was simply an orgy of death, a mass lynching to satisfy the basest of conduct – intentional murder – for the vilest of reasons – racism and personal enmity .” Ward states, “ Whether the massacre was premeditated or spontaneous does not address the more fundamental question of whether a massacre took place ... it certainly did, in every dictionary sense of the word .” John Cimprich states, “ The new paradigm in social attitudes and the fuller use of available evidence has favored a massacre interpretation ...

* Towns on Route: Whether for promotional reasons, civic pride, or some other reason, many companies in the early 20th Century named locomotives after the towns that they served.

Whether born in the manor or not, it seems substantially correct that West Tilbury is the legitimate placing for him, for the following reasons.

Whether such self-anointing in hedgehogs and tenrecs is involved in defense, scent-camouflage, to appeal to the opposite sex, or a combination of these or other reasons is a debated topic.

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 this increase in ' status ' is real, or just a by-product of increasingly complex material assemblages remains to be convincingly validated.

Whether through necessity or simply to collect material, he undertook menial jobs like dishwashing in a fashionable hotel on the rue de Rivoli, which he later described in Down and Out in Paris and London.

Whether a material is an insulator depends on its band gap, the energy needed by an electron to make it a conduction electron so it can move freely.

Whether a material is liquid or solid depends primarily on the connectivity between its elementary building blocks so that solids are characterised by a high degree of connectivity where as fluids occur at lower connectivity of the structural blocks.

" Whether through necessity or just to collect material, he undertook casual work as a dishwasher in restaurants.

Whether downloaded or by CD-ROM, the source material is available in all the formats Baen supports, which includes some for e-book readers.

Whether or not a material is polar is determined solely by its crystal structure.

Whether the publishers of BitTorrent metafiles violate copyrights by linking to copyrighted material without the authorization of copyright holders is controversial.

Whether literal or figurative the translation is a misnomer, as the material is, in actuality, a coral formed by skeletons of living organisms.

Whether or not this means the armor in the comics is also made of the material is unknown.

Whether the Marmotini dispersed between North America and Eurasia via " island-hopping " across the Bering Straits or the Greenland region — which both at that time were temperate habitat — and from which continent they dispersed to which, or if both continents brought forth distinct subtribes which then spread to the other, is not known and would probably require more fossil material to be resolved.

Whether it be disposal or destruction of material objects or information, this needs to be considered since it may not be free from ramifications.

Whether the family originated in Oligocene or already in the Eocene ( or perhaps even in the Paleocene ) cannot be said until more fossil material is recovered, either to answer this question directly or to provide calibration for molecular phylogenetic studies.

In addition, the FCC said that a station's popularity does not reflect acceptance of the broadcast material by the local community ; " Whether particular material is actionably indecent does not turn on whether the station that broadcast it the program happens to be popular in its particular market.

# Whether the end products are to be used as human food is based on the type of raw material and the processing methods.

) Whether the eroded material is a ice-rich dust or friable volcanic ash is still uncertain.

Whether it is fish from her native Calcutta or her special vegetable cutting blade, she clings to the material possessions that she is accustomed to, while firmly rejecting new experiences such as canned fish or even something as mundane as driving a car.

Whether a case is successfully distinguished often looks to whether the distinguished facts are material to the matter.