Or more to the point, how do you know if a program will ever stop?

But that depends on whether nationalization brings about an increase in production.

Whether this becomes a systemic issue affecting the entire global economy will hinge on China.

It now remains to be seen whether this momentum can be maintained, which will depend largely on whether the EU can overcome the economic crisis (which continues to worsen in several member countries), restore growth, and curb unemployment.

The possible existence of the organization's responsibility appears to hinge on whether the organization's binding decision actually requires the wrongful act to be done, or whether the act is just one of the ways that a member State may select when implementing the decision.

The issue will turn on whether Ukraine s President, Viktor Yanukovych, fulfills one vital condition a full pardon for political prisoner and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Even if convention allows the American president to appoint the World Bank s head, the organization s success depends on the confidence of others.

At birth an individual acquired specific rights through both the mother and father, usually with an emphasis on one side or the other, depending on whether the society was matrilineal or patrilineal.

However, the Panel has clarified that whether an act or omission of a claimant constitutes failure to mitigate damage depends on the circumstances of each claim and the evidence available.

Israel needs allies, because its ultimate security depends on its legitimacy nearly as much as on its deterrence capability.

Let's go as soon as it stops raining.

For now, what will happen depends on Mousavi s perseverance.

The question is not whether China rises to great power status peacefully, but whether it intends to remain peaceful when it gets there.

Much now depends on whether the same is true of the other major outcome, which is that Yukos s principal asset Yuganskneftegaz is now in state hands, while its remaining units appear doomed to nationalization.

In Israel, the question nowadays is not whether the center will hold, but whether it matters.

That will depend in part on whether the perception of Sarkozy as a risky candidate will prove greater than the very real institutional risk represented by Bayrou.

If Morsi does not remain in power, much will depend on how he is removed.

But this source of market discipline would cease to work if the government s protective umbrella were perceived to extend to bondholders.

Solzhenitsyn himself recently suggested that Russia s national idea should be based on Ivan Petrovich Shuvalov s proposal to Empress Elizabeth 250 years ago. Every move, every law should be assessed in terms of whether it helps to preserve the people, according to Solzhenitsyn.

The wage structure appeared to be discriminatory, raising the question of whether there was an anti discrimination law and, if so, whether it was being applied.

BEIJING What is the big story of our age? It depends on the day, but if we count by centuries, then surely humanity s urbanization is a strong contender.

The question remains whether Europeans will be willing to do so.

It is also disputed whether any extra hardship was caused by the sanctions or whether this was the result of other factors.

We are still not sure whether, say, education and occupation explain the effect of intelligence on health, or whether they are, in effect, merely surrogate measures of intelligence.

But is it proportional? That depends on whether the cost to the looters of being shot so clearly outweighs the value of the stolen goods that the storeowner should do nothing, at least at the moment.

(c) Whether there has been misappropriation of the assets of one entity for the benefit of another and

No wonder that progress has come very slowly, if at all.

The fight against climate change will be waged in large part over whether Africa s energy needs are met with fossil fuels or renewable energies.

Much depends on how old you are when you start, your genes, and how much, how often, and what kind you use and, of course, on whether you get caught.

It is unclear if they affect the progression of the disease.

Within this socio cultural context, the fertility rate is largely dependent on whether a woman can make her own decision with regard to how many children she will have, and the availability and use of family planning.

And that comes back to what the future role of the United Nations, and what it can do, actually is.

Whether unemployment remains confined to countries like Spain, or eventually migrates to those like Germany, depends on whether the former remain in the euro.

It remains to be confirmed if this action represents an effect of the Yugoslav conflict on these treaties or is better categorized as an effect of State succession on treaties.

It depends on the context.

A lot depends on its results.

The question is not whether fiscal stimulus helped, or whether a larger stimulus would have helped more, but whether policymakers should rely on any model that assumes that the future follows mechanically from the past. For example, the housing market collapse that left millions of US homeowners underwater is not part of textbook models, but it made precise calculations of fiscal stimulus based on them impossible.

Global developments not just in the year ahead, but also during the next decade and beyond, will depend in large part on whether the US can better manage its domestic challenges and divisions.

Doubts have been raised about whether Megrahi is really near death.

Why, they had with them wood shields! Deadly weapons if I ever saw one!)

It was unclear if it took precedence over the Constitution and domestic laws or even if it could actually be invoked by the courts.

Construction Construction depends on the material used.

Recent history has given us graphic evidence of what would happen if we do. But any solution in Afghanistan depends on eliminating its opium.

In the 11th century, there was a debate among Muslim world chemists on whether the transmutation of substances was possible.

If something cannot go on forever, as the economist Herbert Stein famously put it, it will stop.