Whether the news of Harken's unexpectedly large loss hurt the company's investors unfairly was quickly discarded after the SEC examined Harken Energy's share price just before and just after news of the loss was made public.

... Whether they had lived in Alabama for decades before the Civil War or had settled there after the war, these " carpetbaggers " were apparently not to be regarded as models for Northern investors or settlers in the early years of the twentieth century.

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

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.

Whether the correct spectrum of density fluctuations can be produced, and whether the universe can successfully navigate the Big Bang / Big Crunch transition, remains a topic of controversy and current research.

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 a statement is meant to be an identity or an equation can usually be determined from its context.

* 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 or not particular forms of " work " can be called child labour depends on the child's age, the type and hours of work performed, the conditions under which it is performed and the objectives pursued by individual countries.

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 constructed languages can be copyrighted was tested in court in the example of Loglan and its derivative Lojban.

Whether understood purely declaratively or both declaratively and procedurally, the programmer can use the declarative reading of programs to ensure their correctness.

Whether the collective body of the Parliament can be impeached of high treason?

Whether any person, acting by authority of Parliament, can ( so long as he acting by that authority ) commit treason?

Whether matters, acted by that authority, can be called in question in an inferior court?

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

Whether these works can be accurately called " murals " is a subject of some controversy in the art world, but the technique has been in common use since the late 19th century.

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 by coagulation or radiation pressure, once the particles are at this lower atmospheric level cloud seeding can begin, permitting precipitation to wash the smoke aerosol out of the atmosphere by the wet deposition mechanism.

Whether nominalism can truly account for all of the relevant phenomena is often debated.

Whether the battle can be considered true siege warfare is debatable.

Whether they are looking for speed or test depth, they can use combinatorial test design methods to build structured variation into their test cases.

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 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 expressed in a sit-in at lunch counters, a freedom ride into Mississippi, a peaceful protest in Albany, Georgia, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, these are outgrowths of Thoreau's insistence that evil must be resisted and that no moral man can patiently adjust to injustice.

Whether smart growth ( or the ' Compact City ') does or can reduce problems of automobile dependency associated with urban sprawl have been fiercely contested issues over several decades.

Whether we like it or not, people expect us to beat America, and there is definitely more intensity about this game because of our performance in the last one.

Whether a work is poetry or visual art or music or programming is sometimes not clear, but we expect an intense engagement with language in poetical works.

Whether the native population can expect gains or losses from immigration depends, among other

Whether by new mutation or inherited mutation, the aforementioned second hit still needs to occur in order for a tumor to appear.

Whether the rider retakes A or not, a subsequent refusal at B is a second refusal and so on.

Michael Rice wrote in his Egypt's Legacy, " Whether or not the ancients knew of the mechanics of the Precession before its definition by Hipparchos the Bithynian in the second century BC is uncertain, but as dedicated watchers of the night sky they could not fail to be aware of its effects.

Whether Palladio's work inspired Chiswick or not, the Renaissance architect exerted an important influence on Lord Burlington through his plans and reconstructions of lost Roman buildings ; many of these unpublished and little known, were purchased by Burlington on his second Grand Tour and housed in the Blue Velvet Room, which served as his study.

Whether he was aware of this second part is in dispute.

Whether or not the group members plan to release a second Masters of Illusion LP is currently unknown.

Whether they succeeded is an open question ; while at least one comparison exists which used implementations from the second quarter of 2008 – it shows x264 scoring higher than Dirac – it is now somewhat out of date, and is in any case of questionable scientific merit.

Whether in one ’ s native language or a second language, the acquisition of new vocabulary is a continual process.

* A Treatise Tending Vnto a Declaration Whether a Man be in the Estate of Damnation or in the Estate of Grace: And If he be in the First, How he may in Time Come out of it: if in the second, how he maie discerne it, and perseuere in the same to the end.

Whether by design or coincidence, they also shared the same first and second baptismal names ; and they shared the same birthday, January 27 ( fifty years apart ).

Whether because they had no wish to fight, or because they could not support a second messiah in addition to Jesus, or because of their harsh treatment by Bar Kochba during his brief reign, these Christians also left the Jewish community around this time.

Whether Rose slid hard into second attempting to break up the double play or if Harrelson was overly sensitive due to the warning he received is a matter of debate.

Whether the first or the second meaning is implied is usually dictated by a person's family background.

Whether written or spoken, most, if not all, newspaper professionals understand the first figure is the column width and the second figure is the inch height.

Whether a second mix was made after the event or Vaughan was in fact given a stereo mix which was not logged in Abbey Road ’ s records is unspecified.