Whether spoken out loud or unspoken, words are frequently used to access or guide magical power.

Whether there even is an objectively correct interpretation is not important for the purposes of helping guide individuals ' behavior.

Whether they had actually trained the dogs to attack and fight remained unclear.

Whether its dealing with flatulent dogs, having frozen men in freezers in the front room, or even stumbling across Shirley Bassey's warehouse, it seems like anything is possible in the Porter's world.

Whether he received formal military training is not recorded, but according to Suetonius, he displayed considerable marksmanship with the bow and arrow.

Whether or not its inhabitants were evangelised at the beginning of the fourth century by Martin of Vertou and Saint Hilaire, Irish monks from Bangor dedicated their monastery on the Île d ' Yeu to Hilaire ; Saint Amand, from Poitou received early training there, but it was destroyed by Viking raiders in the ninth century.

Whether as a result of his Furyan heritage or simple training, Riddick is stronger, faster, more agile, tougher, more resistant to damage and injury, possessing more acute senses, immense stamina, and superior healing when compared to most humans ; he is shown on more than one occasion dislocating his limbs for brief moments with only slight signs of discomfort.

Whether miserable or radiantly happy, couples said what they thought about an issue, and " they got angry or sad, but their partner's response was never anything like what we were training people to do in the listener / speaker exercise, not even close.

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 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 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 two or more persons have been confused in this account of Hippolytus

Whether the democratic failures should be seen as systemic, or as a product of the extreme conditions of the Peloponnesian war, there does seem to have been a move toward correction.

Whether hand laid or built in a mould, FRP boats usually have an outer coating of gelcoat which is a thin solid colored layer of polyester resin that adds no structural strength, but does create a smooth surface which can be buffed to a high shine and also acts as a protective layer against sunlight.

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 extinction occurred gradually or very suddenly is debatable, as both views have support in the fossil record.

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 any of these ideas have been significantly implemented in practice, however, remains a controversial question.

Whether this plan could have worked is perhaps debatable.

Whether it was the king's intention to have his son executed as well ( as Voltaire claims ) is not clear.

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 any of these ideas have been significantly implemented in practice, however, remains a controversial question.

Whether the information Fuchs passed relating to the hydrogen bomb would have been useful is still somewhat in debate.

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 a king de jure, and out of possession, can have treason committed against him?

Whether Buckland would not have applied this same denigration of Memex equally to the WWW as it flourished in its early years is unclear.

Whether Ptolemy would have had Pytheas ' real latitudes at that time is a much debated issue.

Whether it was because of the money he had ( most of which was from when he stole part of the ecclesiastic treasury ) or due to Greek influence that wanted to keep him in power for their own gains ( or perhaps a combination of them both ), it is clear that he must have had the support of an influential group to have stayed in power for as long as he did.

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 they need to be run on the same machine as the program that has the vulnerability ( local ) or can be run on one machine to attack a program running on another machine ( remote ).

Whether the rule base has 10 rules or 10 000, the engine operation is the same.

Whether a gemstone is a natural stone or a lab-created ( synthetic ) stone, the characteristics of each are the same.

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 the two works, the Yoga Sutras and the Mahābhāṣya, are by the same author has been the subject of considerable debate.

Whether this article refers to an early version of the contemporary dance by the same name is still a matter of debate, as some historians claim that Carolina Shag is a descendant of Carolina Jitterbug, and its predecessor, Little Apple ( whose origins can supposedly be traced to Columbia, S. C. in 1937 ).

Whether a game is solved is not necessarily the same as whether it remains interesting for humans to play.

( Whether this was the same Deino elsewhere named as one of the Graeae, or another, is not said.

Whether it is to be considered a part of the Doric Group or the latter a part of it or the two subgroups of West Greek: the dialects and their grouping remain the same.

Whether the object to be sewn is made of leather, fabric, paper, or plastic, the basic components of sewing are the same: stitches and seams.

Whether Burns would have recognised the same principles at work in the Soviet State at its most repressive is moot.

Whether the Davises had the small town of the same name in Wales in mind or just thought the melodic-sounding Welsh phrase fit the town is not known.

Whether Parsha ( ta ) tar, known from another Nuzi inscription, is the same as Barattarna, or a different king, is debated.

Whether this Ímar is to be identified with Ivar the Boneless, the leader of the Great Heathen Army, is rather less certain, although at the same time not unlikely.

Whether he was directly influenced by the teaching of Robert Browne, a graduate of the same college, is uncertain ; in any case he held strong Puritan opinions, which ultimately led him to Separatism of the most rigid type.

Whether Germain, Howe, and Burgoyne had the same expectations about the degree to which Howe was supposed to support the invasion from Quebec is also unclear.

Whether or not these secondary fires will in turn themselves be snuffed out as modern noncombustible brick and concrete buildings collapse in on themselves from the same blast wave is uncertain, as the masking effect of modern city landscapes on thermal and blast transmission is continually examined.

Whether he was prisoner to a satrap, grossly insulted and even spit upon by a tyrant, enjoying the pleasures of a banquet or reviled for faithlessness to Socrates by his fellow-pupils, he maintained the same calm temper.

Whether all three ( as well as other names such as Baal ) are considered the same being or different depends on opinion.

Whether we consider it as contemporary with, or preceding the productions of the same class by Shakespeare, it is a relic of high interest, and nearly all the sylvan portions of the play, in which Robin Hood and his " merry men " are engaged, are of no ordinary beauty.

Some have thought Sir Isaac Newton was intended, but such a reading is disproved by this passage, which appears toward the end of the book: " Query 58: Whether it be really an effect of Thinking, that the same Men admire the great author for his Fluxions, and deride him for his Religion?

Whether the cars are the same is unknown.