Whether he sang well or badly had nothing to do with it.

" Grammer later told Maxim, " Whether or not you ’ re a celebrity — even if you ’ re just an old slob with a video camera — you don ’ t realize you shouldn ’ t do it.

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 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.

" adding that " Whether they are predictable or not, we do not cause our causes.

Whether or not I love him, I do not know, but it seems to me that I do .” She married Gumilev in Kiev in April 1910 ; however, none of Akhmatova ’ s family attended the wedding.

Whether or not universities actually do conform to such statutory obligations, and if, for example, the code of practice of the NUS ( National Union of Students ) is followed when determining the make-up of such bodies is a hotly contested and ambiguous matter.

Whether VGKC antibodies play a pathogenic role in the encephalopathy as they do in the peripheral nervous system is as yet unclear.

Whether father or mother, one must create, do something positive in their life, as the Supreme Good is a " generative power ".

Whether all of these orders represent relatives of the Passeriformes is uncertain, but not well-supported by more recent data ; however the bulk of evidence supports the hypothesis that most do indeed form a clade that also includes the Passeriformes.

Whether these are set, and what they are set to do, is up to the person who controls the computer running Squid.

Whether or not a radio source is expanding supersonically, it must do work against the external medium in expanding, and so it puts energy into heating and lifting the external plasma.

Whether he did this because he was afraid to test his power or because he refused to do anything which would have given the Senate pretext to initiate violence remains unknown.

Whether all have become public I do not know, but I seriously suggest to the Government that the best way of clearing our honour in this matter is officially to publish the whole of the engagements relating to the matter, which we entered into during the war.

Whether they have any extant function or not, they have lost their former function and in that sense they do fit the definition of vestigiality.

Whether they do or not, by the end of their larval development all that remain are the pericardial, renal, and gonadal cavities of the adults.

O ' Brien later wrote: " Whether Home Rule is to have a future will depend upon the extent to which the Nationalists in combination with Ulster Covenanters, do their part in the firing line on the fields of France ".

Whether it is a local plumber or a government plumber the job is very difficult to accomplish and when they finally do come around to fixing the pipes it could potentially end up causing more issues such as more flooding, traffic around the area of construction, and a long wait for the resident to go with out water.

Whether this makes good or bad historiography is another matter, and one I do not propose to investigate here.

Whether writing for himself and Jane or for another performer, Ace's rating system of how well a script would do was based on the number of cigars he smoked while writing it.

Whether these diet restrictions are beneficial is uncertain ; recent studies have stated that nuts and popcorn do not contribute positively or negatively to patients with diverticulosis or diverticular complications.

Whether I shall finish it and whether it will come out successfully I do not know, but I would like very much to bring what I have begun to a successful conclusion ...

Whether politics and religion had something to do with it I don't know, but they behaved like animals.

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

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 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 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.