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Whether offense is taken at hearing the word varies greatly according to listener and situation, and is related to age and social class: elderly speakers and those of ( or aspiring to ) higher socioeconomic strata tend to use it more privately and selectively than younger and more blue-collar speakers.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 this was a reflection of his age or of the fact that Christie was by now heartily sick of him it is difficult to assess.
Whether this was during one of Poirot ’ s numerous retirements or before she entered his employment is unknown.
Whether he also did in the case of the Mediterranean with the kingdom of Kaptara ( possibly Cyprus ), as claimed in later documents, is more questionable.
Whether this is public or private information should be agreed upon between players before the game begins.
Whether this temple replaced an older one, or a mere sacred precinct or altar, is not known.
Whether or not the original Artistic License is a free software license is largely unsettled.
Whether this whole process resembles animal apoptosis closely enough to warrant using the name apoptosis ( as opposed to the more general programmed cell death ) is unclear.
Whether this is a sufficient basis for anthroposophy to be considered a spiritual science has been a matter of controversy.
Whether or not an object is present in a set ; that is, exists there as a being, is based on universal experience or evidence of it.
Whether and taken
" Whether or not this amounts to misogyny, whether his polemic against women is meant to be taken literally, and the exact nature of his opinions of women, are controversial.
* Whether " the average person, applying contemporary community standards ", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest,
* Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
Whether moving into a higher or lower orbit, by Kepler's third law, the time taken to transfer between the orbits is:
Whether or not Napoléon and his generals had in advance the consideration of securing the town in order to provide the soldiers with a shelter for the freezing night, the soldiers may have taken action on their own initiative to secure such a shelter.
Whether it was on this occasion is not known, but about this time, and at the recommendation of his brother-in-law, Giovanni Florio, he was taken into favour at court, and wrote a Panegyricke Congratulatorie offered to the King at Burleigh Harrington in Rutland, in ottava rima.
Whether the doctrine should be taken literally or not is a subject of debate.
Whether the person was paraded or simply taken to the point of punishment, the process of humiliation and potential repentance was the same.
Whether the OED is the long-desired standard English Dictionary is debatable, but its authority is taken seriously by the entire English-speaking world.
Whether, however, these were taken immediately by Pope from Shaftesbury, or whether they came to him through the papers which Bolingbroke had prepared for his use, we have no means of determining.
* Whether the payment is taken as a line of credit, lump sum, or monthly payments ; see below more more discussion of the options.
Whether a drug is taken with or without food will also affect absorption, other drugs taken concurrently may alter absorption and first-pass metabolism, intestinal motility alters the dissolution of the drug and may affect the degree of chemical degradation of the drug by intestinal microflora.
" Whether this right is any way impeached, restrained, or taken away, by the statute 8th Anne?
Whether ammonites possessed a hyponome and if so what form it may have taken, is as yet not known.
Whether any of the Indians were killed, is not known ; they would have taken their dead away with them, and destroyed all evidences, if such a catastrophe had happened to them.
Whether or not his request was taken into consideration is not known.
Whether or not these were alternative lyrics sung in the British army, they were enthusiastically taken up by the Yankees themselves.
Whether any internal movement had taken place, or if so, of what character, we do not know.
Whether he is correct or not, may however be knowable only with the benefit of hindsight, long after the action occurred ; the total effect of a strategic political decision may not be known until years or even decades after it was taken.
Whether and at
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.
Whether Henry actually intended to bring about the assassination of Becket is debatable, but there is no question that at the time of the murder, the two men were embroiled in a bitter dispute regarding the power of Royal Courts to exercise jurisdiction over former clergymen.
Whether there were Viking or Norse-Gael kingdoms in the Western Isles or the Northern Isles at this time is debated.
Whether the identity at stake is their ethnicity, religion or culture, it requires a comprehensive approach that takes people ’ s needs, hopes, fears, and concerns into account.
Whether or not these records describe a truly old oral story in existence at that time, or a 16th century invented story, is not currently determined.
Whether Eridu at one time also played an important political role in Sumerian affairs is not certain, though not improbable.
Whether this was before or after somebody at Disney ordered the three commentaries available on the Season 1 DVDs is unknown.
Whether persecutions after World War II were more aimed at certain sections of society over and above detractors is a disputed point.
" Whether the respondent answers yes or no, he will admit to having a wife, and having beaten her at some time in the past.
Whether or not there was a technological revolution at the end of the 13th century therefore remains moot.
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.
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 Ptolemy would have had Pytheas ' real latitudes at that time is a much debated issue.
Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, " best-of " list, saying, " Whether they were walking ( March of the Penguins ), dancing ( Happy Feet ), or hanging ten ( Surf's Up ), these oddly adorable birds took flight at the box office all decade long.
Whether the details of the agreement with Comyn are correct or not, King Edward moved to arrest Bruce while Bruce was still at the English court.
Whether a reaction actually will go in the arbitrarily-selected forward direction or not depends on the amounts of the substances present at any given time, which determines the kinetics and thermodynamics, i. e., whether equilibrium lies to the right or the left.
Whether the Aristotelian notions of substance came to Wittgenstein via Immanuel Kant or Bertrand Russell or even arrived at intuitively, one cannot but see them.
Whether objects heavier than the Planck mass ( about the weight of a large bacterium ) have a de Broglie wavelength is theoretically unclear and experimentally unreachable ; above the Planck mass a particle's Compton wavelength would be smaller than the Planck length and its own Schwarzschild radius, a scale at which current theories of physics may break down or need to be replaced by more general ones.
In December 1991, Powell claimed that " Whether Yugoslavia dissolves into two states or half a dozen states or does not dissolve at all makes no difference to the safety and well being of the United Kingdom ".
Whether court orders have any effect at all in the absence of intensive treatment is an unanswered question.
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 this was done at the behest of Anno II, or whether it may have made by Richeza, isn't clarified.
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