If the number of cooperators is equal or above a given threshold value (T), then all of the individuals within the group can acquire the benefit (b) of cooperation regardless whether they cooperated or not.
"Whether we cooperated or not," she said, "they would have built it".
Whether women in the real world cooperated or not, whether they marched down the aisle or continued to regard marriage as "not for me" was of little importance.
In one of the more heated moments of the debate, Mr. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, argued that he would take the war to Osama bin Laden's cave door, whether Pakistan cooperated or not.
The suspension of payments appears to be the product of negotiation between Mr. Cuomo's office and A.I.G., but last week the attorney general raised the prospect of using New York law to recover past payments to executives whether the company cooperated or not.
While in the mental hospitals, she was given "mind-altering" drugs or restrained, depending upon whether she cooperated or not.
