Whose

In the conjoint relation plain whose is always used, as in “whose hat is that? ❋ Henry Louis (1921)

The horse in the light of an useful beast, fit for the plough, the road, the draft; in every social useful light, the horse has nothing sublime; but is it thus that we are affected with him, _whose neck is clothed with thunder, the glory of whose nostrils is terrible, who swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage, neither believeth that it is the sound of the trumpet_? ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)

A nation whose ships are shut out from every port, and whose* envoys are exel uded from every Cabinet! — a StatQ which has lost all political influence, which has not a single ally, which is, in short, reduced to carry on a smuggling trade with great squa - drons, as the only means which remains for enabling its merchants to get rid of a part of their merchandizes! ❋ Maurice Montgaillard , Comte De Maurice Montgaillard (1812)

Money is trickling back to the labels: A label whose videos rack up 10 million streams on Vevo could collect around $70,000. ❋ John Jurgensen (2011)

No oracular revelations, though I did enjoy his definition of merchant banking, a term whose meaning had always eluded me. ❋ Alan C. Greenberg (2010)

It was oversized and it was utilitarian as you would expect from Acne - after all this is a label whose heart lies in the wearable and thus the covetable. ❋ By ALISON S. COHN (2011)

A label whose status rested on the genius of a designer who died in 2010 has been transformed, in a few days, into the house that owns event-dressing in 2011. ❋ Jess Cartner-Morley (2011)

If there's anyone you'd want running a radio station then it's Domino Records, the label whose roster boasts everyone from Austra and Arctic Monkeys to Tricky and Robert Wyatt. ❋ Guardian.co.uk/music (2011)

There are, it seems, still women prepared to pay €3,000 (£2,600) for a fox-trimmed suede skirt or €75 (£65) for a small milk jug, even from a label whose lustre could do with a polish. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Or another version of the word whose roots go back to the Indo-European for “animal hide” and whose worldwide storytelling future is assured in Global English. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

I don't know what really old age—a phrase whose definition keeps shifting—holds for me and my husband: Will I be the caregiver, the one who needs care, or neither? ❋ Robbie Shell (2011)

Those not on duty came into work to show solidarity with a title whose future is uncertain after the arrest of the 10 journalists on suspicion of making corrupt payments to public officials. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The result is that IN&M is freed of some £15m of annual losses, and a title whose ownership by the company had become an obsession for some, not least O'Brien who repeatedly demanded its sale as the parent company ran into trouble. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He was brought down to the riverbed by a laborer while still a puppy, frequented the worksite as a cherished companion to the workers for nearly a decade, and acquired a name whose spectacular impropriety would not register in the public ear for another half-century. ❋ Michael Hiltzik (2010)

Consider This: A negative image hurts Geraldo, a name whose pronunciation may work best with Latino family names. ❋ Bruce Lansky (2008)

The bottom blood pressure number is referred to as diastolic, a word whose meaning is unknown even to trained physicians. ❋ Martha Bolton (2007)