While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

While The Space Merchants indicates, as Kingsley Amis has correctly observed, some of the `` impending consequences of the growth of industrial and commercial power '' and satirizes `` existing habits in the advertising profession '', its warning and analysis penetrate much deeper.

While all citizens share in blame for lax municipal ethics the Wagner regime has seen serious problems in the schools, law enforcement and fiscal policies.

While 2-year-olds are still gaining most of the attention at the track, green horses are starting to go a bit, and Jimmy Cruise has several that can really make it.

While many companies have done fine work in developing sales personnel, much of it has been product rather than sales training.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

While availability of mortgage money has been a factor in encouraging apartment construction, the generally high level of prosperity in the past few years plus rising consumer income are among the factors that have encouraged builders to concentrate in the apartment-building field.

While each scene has its own character and completeness it must fit into the general sequence to which it belongs.

While that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, " America the Beautiful " continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.

While most everyone has an experience with anxiety at some point in their lives, as it is a common reaction to real or perceived threats of all kinds, most do not develop long-term problems with anxiety.

While authors such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Marc Ferro and Jacques Le Goff continue to carry the Annales banner, today the Annales approach has been less distinctive as more and more historians do work in cultural history, political history and economic history.

While the 68000 family has a 32-bit design, the 68000 used in several early models is generally referred to as 16-bit.

While the civil market has had weather radar for a while, there are strict rules about using it to navigate the aircraft.

While AA has pamphlets that suggest meeting formats, groups have the autonomy to hold and conduct meetings as they wish " except in matters affecting other groups or A. A. as a whole ".

While the term — literally meaning " sailing the air "— originally referred solely to the science of operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.

While tanks are seen as being integral to armoured warfare, in forces with a remit of power projection deployability has always been a consideration, which conventional main battle tanks cannot provide.

While an autobiography typically focuses on the " life and times " of the writer, a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on his or her own memories, feelings and emotions.

While paracetamol is usually taken orally or rectally, an intravenous preparation introduced in 2002 has been shown to improve pain relief and reduce opioid consumption in the perioperative setting.

While the use of paracetamol, aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen and other NSAIDS concurrently with weak to mid-range opiates ( up to about the hydrocodone level ) has been said to show beneficial synergistic effects by combatting pain at multiple sites of action, several combination analgesic products have been shown to have few efficacy benefits when compared to similar doses of their individual components.

While this opinion has remained popular, other views have been expressed as well.

While not all these conclusions have been accepted, it has had an enduring influence on archaeoastronomy, especially in Europe.

While many aspects of national copyright laws have been standardized through international copyright agreements, copyright laws of most countries have some unique features.

While the text printed in paragraph form has generally been standardized to follow the Vilna edition, the text cited line by line often preserves important variants, which sometimes reflect the readings of older manuscripts.

While the violins such as those of Amati achieved their classic form before the first half of the century, the viol's form would be standardized later in the century by instrument makers in England.

While the National Assessment of Education Progress ( NAEP ) has served as an educational barometer for some thirty years by administering standardized tests on a regular basis to random schools throughout the United States, efforts over the last decade at the state and federal levels have mandated annual standardized test administration for all public schools across the country.

Many feel this ignores basic democratic principles in that control of schools ' curricula is removed from local school boards, which are the nominal curricular authority in the U. S. While some maintain that it would be preferable to simply introduce mandatory national curricula, others feel that state mandated standardized testing should stop altogether in order that schools can focus their efforts on instructing their students as they see fit.

While the curriculum in the district is fairly standardized, each of the elementary schools has a different teaching philosophy.

While opinions and speculation abound on exact reasons for standardized paper sizes, the most revealing feature of popular sizes ( such as Letter and ISO 216 sizes ) is that they conform not to some arbitrary device dimension, but that the length of the paper is chosen to be the width of the page times the square root of two (≈ 1. 414 ).

While these terms are standardized within specific fields of biology, they can differ dramatically from one discipline to another.

While ten-codes were intended to be a terse, concise, and standardized system, the proliferation of different meanings may render them useless in situations where people from different agencies and jurisdictions need to communicate.

While it is possible to use a standardized test without letting its contents determine curriculum and instruction, frequently, what is not tested is not taught, and how the subject is tested often becomes a model for how to teach the subject.

While the severity of brain trauma has been standardized for immediate " sideline " assessment, much work needs to be done to understand how to rehabilitate or accelerate the rehabilitation of athletes ' brain function following serious concussion — where consciousness is lost for a few moments or more.

While primarily contextual, the system of ligatures in use from the 13th to the 16th century is fairly standardized, if not objective.

While some early mechanical interfaces are standardized across brands, optical and electronic interfaces are often proprietary.

To accomplish this “ comprehensive regulation ”, the proposed legislation would repeal many of the provisions of the CFMA, including all of the exclusions and exemptions discussed in Sections 4 above that have been identified as the “ Enron Loophole .” While the proposed legislation would generally retain the “ legal certainty ” provisions of the CFMA, it would establish new requirements for parties dealing in non -“ standardized ” OTC derivatives and would require that “ standardized ” OTC derivatives be traded through a regulated trading facility and cleared through regulated central clearing.

While the industry primarily standardized on Boeing's competitors, many of United's aircraft were later purchased by Western Air Express at " bargain basement prices ".

While all this improvement boosted the City of New Orleans < nowiki >'</ nowiki > ridership, when the Superliner II's were delivered, the train's equipment was standardized with the rest of the Amtrak fleet.

While assembly language libraries are not new, a language that includes a large standardized library makes programmers far more likely to use such library code rather than simply writing their own library functions.

While many statistical software packages can perform various types of nonparametric and robust regression, these methods are less standardized ; different software packages implement different methods, and a method with a given name may be implemented differently in different packages.

While the examples are taken from the Qing Dynasty and therefore may have been influenced by the book ( which was written in the Ming Dynasty ), military officer tests ( which began in the Tang Dynasty ) have always involved lifting heavy stones of standardized weight and maneuvering them about, possibly contributing to the writer's decision to assign an unusual weight to Guan Yu's weapon.

While the EA, E1 and E2 were each built for a specific railroad and train, they were largely identical mechanically and were a step further away from the concept of custom-built motive power, integrated into a particular streamliner ; and towards mass-produced standardized locomotives.

While government, legal, and healthcare entities have a strong historical records management discipline, general record-keeping of corporate records has been poorly standardized and implemented.

While primitive robot toy models only execute standardized pre-programmed routines, sometimes little more than a wind-up toy could do, advancing technology allows for interaction with the user and / or other environmental stimuli ( e. g. sensor-detected obstacles ), thus somewhat resembling a live playmate, but which has no feelings and will thus always remain inferior to a pet, while more convenient as it may be ( ab ) used with impunity and has low maintenance.