Whose in sentence

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But the idea is that once it's got the person's attention, it's no longer interested, and it looks for the next person whose attention to get.

He was a tinkerer and a statesman whose conception of citizenship was always predicated on action.

And when you get to language, you see that it becomes a word whose look, the way it looks and the way it sounds, has absolutely nothing to do with what it started with, or what it represents, which is the bowl of soup.

But whose interests is this all serving?

He said that the surest way for a couple to start fighting is for them to go out to dinner with another couple whose division of labor is ever so slightly different from theirs, because the conversation in the car on the way home goes something like this: "So, did you catch that Dave is the one who walks them to school every morning?"

So he realized he had a set whose number of elements was larger than infinity.

There’s been research into ternary computers, with circuits in three possible states, and even quantum computers, whose circuits can be in multiple states simultaneously.

Then I started to think about the people in the Himalayas whose cataracts would be helped, and I realized that I went from this kind of narcissistic self-focus to altruistic joy, to feeling good for the people that were being helped.

In the mid-16th century, Italians were captivated by a type of male singer whose incredible range contained notes previously thought impossible for adult men.

This growth is especially dramatic in many males, whose high testosterone levels lead first to voice cracks, and then to deeper, more booming voices, and laryngeal protrusions called Adam’s apples.

The late, great Christopher Hitchens wrote a book called "God Is Not Great" whose subtitle was, "Religion Poisons Everything." (Laughter) But last month, in Time magazine, Rabbi David Wolpe, who I gather is referred to as America's rabbi, said, to balance that against that negative characterization, that no important form of social change can be brought about except through organized religion.

I felt unworthy of stepping across the gates of the university, because I wasn't like Einstein or Newton or any other scientist whose results I had learned about, because in science, we just learn about the results, not the process.

It does this by damaging the cilia, tiny hairlike structures whose job it is to keep the airways clean.

Every day we face issues like climate change or the safety of vaccines where we have to answer questions whose answers rely heavily on scientific information.

The world’s geographical knowledge was compiled in The Book of Roger, whose maps of the known world would remain the most accurate available for 300 years.

So now let me introduce you to four people whose stories I had the great honor of telling.

When I was singing a lot of jazz, I worked a lot with a pianist whose name was Steve.

At 19, I helped a friend whose parents had forcefully married her to an older man escape an abusive marriage.

This is a huge problem right now, because it leads them to this next question, which is, whose responsibility is it?

It comes from our personal investment in knowing that our lives matter, the context of where we live and where we work, eat, and sleep, matter, and that what we do for ourselves, we also should do for those whose living and working conditions again, can be hard, if not harsh.

He was a puckish widower whose wife and children were dead and whose grandchildren lived far away.

I have a dear colleague in India, whose name is Suprabha Seshan, and she has a motto.

And there are 1.1 billion people whose toilets are the streets or river banks or open spaces, and again, the technical term for that is open defecation, but that is really simply shitting in the open.

She's an amazing woman whose daughter went missing about 10 years ago, and since then, she has been looking for her daughter.

So what if I told you that the person whose hands you just shook actually didn't wash their hands when they were coming out of the toilet?

Humanity takes center stage at TED, but I would like to add a voice for the animals, whose bodies and minds and spirits shaped us.

[This talk contains mature language Viewer discretion is advised] If we traveled back to the year 800 BC, in Greece, we would see that merchants whose businesses failed were forced to sit in the marketplace with a basket over their heads.

I had had a friend whose 80-year-old father had ALS.

I'm a dupe of the lawns, whose goal in life is to outcompete the trees, who they compete with for sunlight."

Because it turns out, some of the best and most humanistic medicine is being practiced by doctors whose patients aren't human.

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