Whether historically a fact or not, the legend has a certain symbolic value.

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

Whether Eridu at one time also played an important political role in Sumerian affairs is not certain, though not improbable.

Whether persecutions after World War II were more aimed at certain sections of society over and above detractors is a disputed point.

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 or not acute trauma progresses to long-term effects probably depends on multiple factors that include the shock wave dose ( i. e., the number of shock waves delivered, rate of delivery, power setting, acoustic characteristics of the particular lithotriptor, and frequency of retreatment ), as well as certain intrinsic predisposing pathophysiologic risk factors.

Whether Otto II released him from prison or if he escape is not known for certain.

Whether dingoes bark or bark-howl less frequently in general is not certain.

Whether the horizontal bar terminates at or crosses the right vertical bar is insignificant in the West, but to be distinguished from certain Chinese characters it must cross.

Whether the police officer was simply saying that to cause fear, or whether that was their actual intention, has never been known for certain.

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 a particular disability is " visible " or " invisible " can vary on both individual and contextual bases ; a wheelchair user may only use the wheelchair under certain circumstances and move apparently normally under others, a prosthetic limb may or may not be apparent, depending on clothing.

Whether to do certain operations in the database or outside may involve a trade-off.

Whether coincidence or not, his new name resembled that of Hank Sturgis, the fictional hero of E. Howard Hunt's 1949 novel, Bimini Run, whose life parallels Frank Sturgis ' life from 1942 to 1949 in certain salient respects.

" Whether a society has a legal system depends on the presence of certain structures of governance, not on the extent to which it satisfies ideals of justice, democracy, or the rule of law.

Whether this account of his death be true or not, it is certain that he died in the utmost poverty, and was buried on 16 April 1685 in the churchyard of St. Clement Danes.

Whether Tobias had an affair with Claire is not certain ; however, his infidelity is.

Whether the historical romances of Conscience will retain the enormous popularity they enjoyed is less certain.

Whether Catherine and Potemkin married is " almost certain ", writes Simon Sebag Montefiore ; biographer of Catherine, Virginia Rounding, is more doubtful.

Whether the player chooses to race solo or against computer-assisted riders, they race against a certain time limit.

* Whether certain United States Navy surface ships, such as destroyers, carry nuclear weapons.

Whether one approves or disapproves his introduction of a number of Arabic words into Hebrew, and the fact that, by analogy with the Arabic, he gives to certain Hebrew words meanings different from the accepted ones, the magnitude of his work can not be questioned.

So influential was this notion that 300 years later Bancroft in his monumental Native Races began his discussion of circumcision by writing: " Whether the custom of circumcision, which has been the great prop of argument in favor of the Jewish origin of the Aztecs, really obtained among these people, has been doubted by numerous authors ," concluding that it probably existed in a " certain form among some tribes " ( p278 ).

Whether Hitler had met Hanussen at all is not certain.

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 it applies to humorous use or references to oneself is open to interpretation, since this would not be a fallacious attack against a debate opponent.

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 the interest in these limited resources would diminish with the advent of virtual reality, where they could be easily substituted, is yet unclear.

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 the adoption of the classical Alexander for the future Alexander I of Scotland ( either for Pope Alexander II or for Alexander the Great ) and the biblical David for the future David I of Scotland represented a recognition that William of Normandy would not be easily removed, or was due to the repetition of Anglo-Saxon Royal name — another Edmund had preceded Edgar — is not known.

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

Whether this was intended as a drug reference was unclear, but the line would enter rock music when the song was a hit for the Byrds later in the year.

Whether the domestic courts of the Member States would be consistent in applying those letters is speculative.

Whether these poems are meant to be autobiographical is not known, although elements of other parts of Sappho's life do make appearances in her work, and it would be compatible with her style to have these intimate encounters expressed poetically, as well.

* Whether " the average person, applying contemporary community standards ", would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest,

Whether the perception is fair or not, it would later plague Barker's acceptance and reputation.

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.

Whether it would produce this effect, or would be an idle threat, depended not so much on Gregory as on Henry's subjects, and, above all, on the German princes.

Whether or not capitalists are disenfranchised would depend upon the particular circumstances of a nation.

Whether the Gigantomachy was interpreted in ancient times as a kind of indirect " revenge of the Titans " upon the Olympians — as the Giants ' reign would have been in some fashion a restoration of the age of the Titans — is not attested in any of the few literary references.

Whether or not the story is apocryphal, it would only demonstrate the mathematical equivalence of a rotating earth to rotating spheres, as was well known to Khayyam's immediate predecessors, e. g. al-Biruni, and says nothing about heliocentrism, as a spinning earth can be made entirely consistent with geocentric models.

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

Whether temporarily dented or not by the Credit crunch, the trend would seem likely to continue upwards, with global figures echoing American leadership.

Whether real or imagined, one party would demand satisfaction from the offender.

Whether hundreds of millions died or " merely " a few major cities were destroyed, Kahn argued, life would in fact go on, as it had for instance after the " Black Death " of the 14th century in Europe, or in Japan after a limited nuclear attack in 1945, contrary to the conventional, prevailing doomsday scenarios.

Whether a clock would actually receive continued care and maintenance for such a long time is debatable.