In conversations, whether with government ministers, UN officials or tribal chiefs, we posed the question: Is domestic violence a priority?
Manufacturers, whether with only one or two production facilities or with all of their production outsourced overseas, are finding that, when all costs are considered, cheaper labor is often not enough for a dramatic savings.
There is no free lunch whether with coal mining or deep-water drilling, or for those who are honest, in the enormous underlying mining and chemical infrastructure needed to build vast arrays of wind and solar farms.
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As much as Wall Street does its best to take advantage of the public, banking, whether with a national bank, community bank, or credit union, is still better than the alternative: storefront check cashing and payday loans.
Until now, battery power has been seen as primarily a way to reduce emissions and improve fuel economy, whether with relatively conventional hybrids, like the Toyota Prius, with plug-ins, such as the new Chevrolet Volt, or with pure battery-electric vehicles, like the Nissan Leaf.
The fundamental question for the advanced industrial countries is not, as many suppose, whether democracy is compatible with globalisation, but whether democracy is compatible with liberty.
The serious divisions in India are not over whether peace with Pakistan is desirable, but whether it is possible.
He might have been given out on nought after a Siddle bouncer brushed his wrist, but umpire Asad Rauf correctly gave him the benefit of the doubt, with several replays unable to determine whether contact with the glove was made.
Now the question in Louisiana is whether compliance with the law will be enforced and disclosures verified.
First, it is ethically-questionable whether users with public streams should be retweeting private tweets without express consent.
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Whether clashing with poachers or confronting wildlife, danger seems to always lurk for these guardians of the forest.
CNN: Rangers risk their lives to save African forest elephant
After that, Vollmer struggled with whether she even wanted to continue with swimming.
Whether communicating with loved-ones or keeping up with celebrity gossip, we love the infinite possibilities endemic to the human experience.
Lib Dem MP John Pugh has questioned whether someone with such a "colourful history" was suitable for a key role.
At the time, his critics questioned whether someone with this record of tax avoidance should oversee the Internal Revenue Service.
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ImClone is now waiting for more data from this study to look at whether patient with normal kras also lived longer.
Elsewhere, cardiologists are testing whether patients with inflamed vessels might benefit from existing cholesterol medications, which also may have anti-inflammatory effects.
There even seem to be conflicting views among staff, the board and others as to whether compliance with the policy is mandatory.
Money managers and pension advisers, whether registered with the SEC or not, frequently misrepresent to pensions material information about their business practices.
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He stressed that "we should have some sense by the end of the year" on whether talks with Iran were bearing fruit.
But Mr Cable's department has issued a call for evidence to see whether firms with fewer than 10 employees would favour the no-fault dismissal rule.
The final study looked at whether patients with a particular form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma should have regular CT scans to detect relapses after they finish treatment.
King understood that for African-Americans, full equality had nothing to do with whether his children could hold hands with white kids or go to an amusement park.
It remains to be seen whether those with the energy to game the admissions system are up for the bigger challenge of running a school of their own.
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There is also that nagging question of whether suburbanites with easy access to cars will really forego their local super market to shop their cheese gourmand and local baker online.
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Whether built with delicate sensitivity to materials or dull adherence to principles, the glass box became an icon of Cold War capitalism, a symbol of modernist cosmopolitanism befitting a global superpower in the making.
What it was about was brilliant writing, preferably witty, and avoiding the pomposity that Mr Astor had objected to at Oxford, whether dealing with politics, books and arts, fashion, gossip or the generally unpredictable.
Whether couples with children, singles in their 30s or early retirees having to return to work, life was simply too short and too rich with possibility to justify a job that didn't challenge, delight or pay.
Concerns have also been raised about how membership of select committees would work for job-sharers, how much time each MP would get to speak in the House and whether constituencies with two MPs would get an advantage by having more representation than those with only a single MP.
BBC: Political double acts: Should MPs be allowed to job-share?
Yet the Jones lawyers persisted in their somewhat strange course -- strange unless one asks whether armed with Ms. Tripp's intelligence, they purposely sought in some fashion to present the independent counsel a record that would permit just the sort of dark interpretation both he and the managers have (OFF-MIKE).
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