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 the drug and non-drug, cultivated and wild types of Cannabis constitute a single, highly variable species, or the genus is polytypic with more than one species, has been a subject of debate for well over two centuries.

Whether it truly became extinct in England is unknown ; it has been speculated that it may have survived wild long enough for trees used in cultivation in England to derive from native ( rather than imported ) sources.

Whether a tourer is looking for winter powder or spring corn, the emphasis is on being self reliant in the mountains and skiing wild snow.

The Druidical Circle, represented in the accompanying plate, is to be found on the summit of a bold and commanding eminence called Castle-Rigg, about a mile and a half on the old road, leading from Keswick, over the hills to Penrith ,— a situation so wild, vast, and beautiful, that one cannot, perhaps, find better terms to convey an idea of it than by adopting the language of a celebrated female writer, ( Mrs. Radclifle ,) who, travelling over the same ground years ago, thus described the scene: " Whether our judgment ," she says, " was influenced by the authority of a Druid's choice, or that the place itself commanded the opinion, we thought this situation the most severely grand of any hitherto passed.

* Ob Dirndl oder Lederhose-gejodelt wird ganz wild drauflos ( Whether Dirndl or Lederhosen, the yodeling goes on and on )

Whether through reforestation, recycling, or pollution control, environmental conservation sustains the natural quality of life.

Whether this epithet refers to Don Alvarado's red hair, some esoteric quality attributed to him, or both, is disputed.

Whether isolated or used in combination with nonfigural ornamentation or figural representation, geometric patterns are popularly associated with Islamic art, largely due to their aniconic quality.

Whether programming in a language that is more abstract than mainstream 3GL languages will result in systems of better quality, cheaper cost or faster delivery, is a question that has yet to be adequately answered.

Whether they accepted or refused the offer, he'd proceed to give a performance of terrible quality and, however they reacted, hold out a hand in expectation of a tip.

Whether one street is preferable to another depends not only on the quality of the road, but also on the density of the flow.

Whether it is thought to be a material quality or spiritual one.

Whether a monopole indicates a wine of unusual quality or not is a matter of debate.

Whether it was Rick Sims telling the story of a one-legged drug dealer who stored his stash in his peg leg in " Lone Lone Ranger " (" just touch my leg / and Santa Claus'll get you high "), offering a put down in " Evel Knievel " (" it takes a better woman than you baby / to call me a slut ") or the pearls of wisdom dripping from " Sweet Sweet Satan " (" c ' mon let me tell you my recipe / it takes 10 tons of bullshit / for 10 ounces of glory "), the album is a cackling joyride.

( Whether historical nationalism helped the peoples of the remainder of the world, and whether today's nationalism in the former colonial areas has equally beneficial aspects, are other questions.

Whether electricity and public water and sewers are available or not, check the local customs in the use of bottled or L-P gas ( we give you alternatives later on ).

Whether evaporated from the material itself, or ionised from the gas, the ions that are evaporated are accelerated by electrostatic force, acquiring most of their energy within a few tip-radii of the sample.

Whether or not green biotechnology products such as this are ultimately more environmentally friendly is a topic of considerable debate.

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 or not we find what we are seeking

:: Whether rich or poor, are equal in death.

Whether a particular consequentialist theory focuses on a single good or many, conflicts and tensions between different good states of affairs are to be expected and must be adjudicated.

Whether programs like Eddie Eagle are effective has not been conclusively determined.

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

Whether IQ tests are an accurate measure of intelligence is debated.

In the United States, variances in the insanity defense between states, and in the federal court system, are attributable to differences with respect to three key issues: ( 1 ) Whether to provide the insanity defense, ( 2 ) how to define " insanity ," and ( 3 ) the burden of proof.

Whether or not there is any force in that allegation, His Majesty's Government are resolved that on this occasion there shall be no such tragic misunderstanding.

Whether the issue arises from domestic problems or breaches of the norms of public conduct, individual interests are expressed in terms of kinship.

Whether probability theory and statistics are of theoretical nature, applied nature, or both, is quite controversial among mathematicians.

" 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 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.

Whether or not the neutrino and its corresponding antineutrino are identical particles has not yet been resolved, even though the antineutrino has an opposite chirality to the neutrino.

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

Whether through individuals, corporations or advocacy groups, such donations are often believed to engender a cronyist or patronage system via which major contributors are rewarded on a more or less quid pro quo basis.

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

Whether in the form of a subscriber attempting to defraud the telephone company, the telephone company attempting to defraud a subscriber, or a third party attempting to defraud either of them, fraud has been a part of the telephone system almost from the beginning.

Whether or not Hamilton's rule always applies, studies have demonstrated that relatedness is often important for human altruism in that humans are inclined to behave more altruistically toward kin than toward unrelated individuals.

Whether the woman you are addressing is married or unmarried, has changed her name or not, Ms. is always correct.

Whether appearing individually or all together, they are always hidden in the shadows and their true names are never mentioned in the show.

Whether the Japanese form manga, which has had a much longer history of both novel-like publishing and production of comics for adult audiences, should be included in the term is not always agreed upon.

Whether Vasari is correct in saying he learned it from Leonardo's works is unclear — he is always keen to ascribe all advances to Florentine sources.

Whether he became world champion against Thomas or against Mike Sullivan has always been up to debate, but the fact remains that it is Mike Sullivan and not Thomas who is historically remembered as a world champion.

He always asserts the substantive reality of the soul ; and in the opening words of his, " Whether we rise to heaven, or descend to the abyss, we never get outside ourselves -- it is always our own thoughts that we perceive ," we have the subjectivist principle that forms the starting-point of Berkeley.

Whether the Lukka people always resided in southern Anatolia or whether they always spoke Luwian are different topics.

Whether Pope had really understood the tendency of his own work has always been doubtful, but there is no question that he was glad of an apologist, and that Warburton's jeu d ' esprit in the long run helped more than all his erudition.

Whether the author intended to step over the boundaries of the standard rhyme scheme will always be in question.

Whether one chooses to call it " pragmatism " or " pragmaticism "— and Peirce himself was not always consistent about it even after the notorious renaming — his conception of pragmatic philosophy is based on one or another version of the so-called " pragmatic maxim ".

Whether Lewis always intended to split the AFL over this issue is debatable ; at the outset, the CIO presented itself as only a group of unions within the AFL gathered to support industrial unionism, rather than a group opposed to the AFL itself.

Whether rated or not, fire protection is always a design consideration.

Whether the plan had ever been to have Clarke as a symbolic head of state and Pearse as head of government, or was simply that Pearse was always to be central but with statements ambiguously describing his title, remains a mystery about which historians still speculate.

Whether it be a mere association of ideas, or of feeling, expressed through assonance or through the faintest nuance of a thought, it is nearly always traceable " ( Sim, page 12 ).

Whether it was signing autographs for fans by the players entrance or who came up to him on the street Roenick always tried to have a good rapport with the fans and reach out to them each day.

Whether the sibyl in question was the Etruscan Sibyl of Tibur or the Greek Sibyl of Cumæ is not always clear.

Whether the activity is completed successfully or not, the turn always ends after one card.

Whether or not Plato intends that the tethering of true beliefs with reasoned explanations must always involve anamnesis is explored in later interpretations of the text.

If the team successfully completes the card they have chosen, the die is then rolled to determine what space the team moves to. Whether the activity is completed successfully or not, the turn always ends after one card.

Whether these stemmed from the Rhine Counts ( Rheingrafen ), as one always reads, has yet to be confirmed.