U.S.air travelers this busy holiday season appear divided over whether they would want to submit to body scanning.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

"The high-pitched partisan debate over whether to invest in missile defense is no longer with us."

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Government officials and opposition supporters have publicly sparred in recent days over whether the protests are unnecessarily distracting Pakistan from its battle against militants.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

The development community is divided over whether non-profits should give away or sell technology and services as diverse as solar lighting, water filtration,healthcare and education.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen made clear that despite an intensifying insurgency and uncertainty over whether U.S.President Barack Obama will send more troops, NATO will remain in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Clinton acknowledged that the lingering election dispute has been one of the factors delaying a decision by President Barack Obama in his administration's policy review over whether to commit more U.S.troops to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Lynn was referring to decades of controversy over whether it was possible to develop a missile that could hit and destroy an incoming missile in flight, and to do so at a reasonable and sustainable cost.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Speaking to reporters Friday, Secretary Gates would not be drawn publicly into the debate over whether the troop-intensive counterinsurgency strategy is best or whether a more limited commitment involving air strikes and Special Forces operations would be better.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Mister Miller says that what matters most is not whether the rank of cities changes over the years.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

But she says the research does show the need to study whether or not there are long-lasting effects of repeated exposure over several years.

VOA: special.2011.03.02

But many non-scientists are unsure about whether humans evolved over millions of years.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

More recent research suggested that those gains are the same whether you exercise for short periods over five days or longer sessions over two or three days.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

The debate comes amid controversy over banning minarets in neighboring Switzerland and as the French government considers whether to ban Muslim women from wearing a face-covering veil in public.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

So just as no-smoking zones have expanded over the years, she suggests that city planners, for example,should consider whether their decisions might promote or hinder the development of personal relationships.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

Kelly said the results of the inspection of the Qom plant, and Tehran's final decision on the uranium export plan, will figure heavily in big-power discussions on whether to seek further punitive action against Iran over its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.10.24

Speaking via Skype,she says no. "I think further studies will be necessary to show whether the differences we've demonstrated depending on delivery mode of babies when they first emerge into the world actually carry over time, and whether those differences might contribute to health outcomes."

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

You are reading these things and this kind of dark mood sets over you and again, whether you are for or against the death penalty, that is not my point it is that sifting through enough of that sort of puts that mood on you,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

But some Pakistani political factions and the country's powerful military have been bitterly critical of provisions in the legislation which,among other things, requires the Obama administration to report to Congress every six months on whether Pakistan's newly-democratic government is exercising effective civilian control over the military.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates. "There is a general feeling I could say that with all these additional troops and all these additional efforts that everybody is making to get to the elections in Afghanistan, to have a free and fair election and then see over the next months whether we can begin to shift the momentum,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.11