Whether in the past it was clear that the Bolivian president, Evo Morales, was following the Chavista blueprint in domestic politics by initiating a constitutional assembly and by promoting a revolutionary socialist regime, it was not at all clear as to what kind of foreign policy he would pursue.
You'll remember the question of whether the deficit in the past year was lower - or higher - than in 2011-12 was one of the great statistical excitements of this year's Budget.
At NASA, Hubbard's goals included understanding Mars as a system, looking for potentially habitable environments, examining whether the planet was habitable in the past and preparing to return samples from Mars to Earth.
Don Foster said that this begs the questions as to whether judgements were reached in the past without "sufficient evidence".
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Last year, Rep. Miller and I asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate problems with government regulation and enforcement of pension statutes, including whether the PBGC currently, or in the past, employs any consultants the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has identified as having potential conflicts of interest.
Overall, the homeless shelter system has grown 61% during Mr. Bloomberg's three terms, raising questions about whether the city's remarkable turnaround in the past two decades has benefited the poorest New Yorkers.
Some Conservative MPs have suggested the prime minister is pursuing the wrong strategy while one, Philip Hollobone, said No 10 had been "in chaos" over the issue in the past few days amid open divisions in the party about whether the UK should remain in the EU or leave.
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So whether you were sick in the past or a genetic test shows you may get sick in the future, you will never again have to worry about finding affordable coverage.
One never knows, unless highlighted in a feature article in the Wall Street Journal as has happened in the past, whether or not he is getting margin calls at any given moment in time for a divorce or other cash needs like a new airplane or boat.
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For all the familiar signs of British economic frailty that are now making headlines, such as demand driven by consumption rather than investment, the biggest long-term worry is a different one: whether productivity growth, troublingly weak in the past few years, can revive.
The rover's mission is to try to determine whether Gale has ever had the environments in the past that were capable of supporting bacterial life.
The party had data about supporters' birthdays, income and whether other household members had donated money in the past.
Michigan's Department of Environmental Quality looked last year at whether the companies at Zug started up any new machinery in the past two years that might be causing the noise and found nothing.
And with Wal-Mart's stock price stuck in neutral for the past five years, some shareholders are asking whether it's time to throw in the towel by settling most of these suits and getting back to minding the stores.
Over the next year we are reviewing every aspect of our economic policy, not because we were wrong in the past, but because whether in tax and spending, regulation, planning, enterprise, the question is not about our competitiveness in the last 10 years, but in the next 10.
Fleming said the IAEA, which is based in Vienna, Austria, did not know whether some of the explosives may have been used in past attacks.
Markets will be watching to see whether he appears less dovish than in the past, which would be seen as a tilt toward more aggressive monetary accommodation.
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He also criticised another part of the deal which he said gave any member of BAE Systems "blanket immunity for all offences committed in the past, whether disclosed or not".
He said there had been talks in the past about whether Epsom's services should be moved to St Helier Hospital in south London - Epsom Hospital is currently part of Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust.
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But there have been many other times when I have found myself drawn into long and often interesting arguments about what conservatism can now mean, what it has meant in the past, whether it means the same thing in Britain and America, and whether it now encompasses so many ideas and factions that it can barely be described at all.
"Very few banks have the ability to determine whether the cost basis provided by a client has been correctly adjusted in the past, " assert the bankers in their comments.
The second explores the question of whether anyone can properly revisit the past, even if just in their own memory.
Checking the seller's history can also reveal whether he or she has sold toys to satisfied customers in the past.
Academics are divided about whether such schemes have made much difference in the past.
For this reason, the major investment decisions in the past have been whether you should invest in American stocks or American bonds.
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We've spent most of the the past two years wondering whether the roof was going to cave in on the global economy, as it did in 2008.
The multi-billion dollar question is whether this positive trend will continue as we have seen slowdowns in the past only to see the curve explode upwards after a pause.
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Apart from anything else, if the Fed's and the Bank of England's policies of keeping money cheaper than it has ever been hasn't returned the US and UK to better-than-anaemic growth in the past three years, it is questionable whether it will be a sufficient condition for proper recovery in the next two years.
Speaking at a CBI dinner on Thursday, he said the "whole argument about whether we are cutting too far and too fast" was "in the past".
Sensing the winds of change in the region, the Obama administration has been engaged in a robust debate over the past few months about whether to elevate the issue of reform.
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