Sentence examples for lay whether from inspiring English sources

The debate involved the issue not so much of centralization versus provincialism as where the leadership of the republic properly lay, whether in the house of Orange or in the province of Holland and notably its greatest city, Amsterdam.

Richard didn't know whether to lie, whether parents had some complicated moral arithmetic about these things.

As well as weighing waste, the system helps businesses identify where the waste problem lies – whether in ordering, portion sizes or other standard kitchen routines.

"The issue was lying, whether the people caught up in this told the truth or not," said the lawyer, who insisted on anonymity because grand jury proceedings are secret.

That way safety lies, whether the knowledge is conscious or not.

The truth about lying, whether in older kids and in adults, is that it comes from a place of fear.

should not have shouted "You lie!" (whether or not it was a lie) at the president during his healthcare address to Congress.

Because the Republicans continue to just lie, whether it's about process (see reconciliation) or the CBO reports on the existing plan.

They also allowed women to indirectly 'test' themselves, to see where their ultimate allegiance lie whether to the normative ideological imperative that they avoid pregnancy at all costs or to the everyday social imperative that they demonstrate fecundity.

Such a value alone, however, is of little help in determining if one surgical procedure is superior to the other, because we have no information on where the true difference lies, whether this difference of 10 could have been observed by chance only, and whether real differences are clinically meaningful.

If the manager believes you are lying whether with evidence of the worker's abuse or not, you may get banned.