While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.

While Wilson and Smith credited their sobriety to working with alcoholics under the auspices of the Oxford Group, a Group associate pastor sermonized against Wilson and his alcoholic Groupers for forming a " secret, ashamed sub-group " engaged in " divergent works ".

While completing his doctoral work, he engaged in child study.

While capital ship engagements were scarce in World War I, destroyer units were almost continually engaged in raiding and patrol actions.

While not featuring the censoring mosaics of the original Japanese version, the US release of La Blue Girl was edited during the initial VHS release and all scenes featuring Miko's companion Nin-Nin engaged in a sexual act were removed, probably to avoid the charge of pedophilia, in spite of the fact that the character is not a minor but a dwarf ninja.

While criticized as backward by British officials and white settlers, African farming proved resilient, and Kikuyu farmers engaged in widespread resistance to the colonial state's agrarian reforms.

While there he engaged in very few duels ; one would occur in 1634 at the arrangement of Lord Ogasawara, in which Musashi defeated a lance specialist by the name of Takada Matabei.

While singers are emotionally engaged with the lyrics, often intensely so, they remain cool, relaxed, and in control.

While its original use in the 1970s was to prosecute the Mafia as well as others who were actively engaged in organized crime, its later application has been more widespread.

* While serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party

While the couple may or may not be widely known to be engaged prior to the elopement, the wedding itself is generally a surprise to those who are later informed of its occurrence.

While the council was engaged in planning a crusade and in considering the reform of the clergy, a new crisis occurred between the pope and the new king of France, Francis I, an enthusiastic young prince, dominated by the ambition of recovering Milan and the Kingdom of Naples.

While at Eclectic, he was most interested in the study of Greek and Latin, and he was also engaged to teach.

* While engaged in a war with the Mongols, the Song Chinese official Li Zengbo writes in his Kozhai Zagao, Xugaohou that the city of Qingzhou is manufacturing one to two thousand strong iron-cased gunpowder bomb shells a month, dispatching to Xiangyang and Yingzhou about ten to twenty thousand such bombs at a time.

While in southern Africa, he engaged in a broad variety of scientific pursuits free from a sense of strong obligations to a larger scientific community.

While the United States was engaged in World War II and allied with the Soviet Union, the issue of anti-communism was largely muted.

While the French army under General MacMahon engaged the German 3rd Army at the Battle of Wörth, the German 1st Army under Steinmetz finished their advance west from Saarbrücken.

While waiting for the other bishops to arrive, they engaged in informal discussions which James Craigie Robertson characterizes as tending to " exasperate rather than heal their differences ".

While engaged in a war with the Mongols, in 1259 the official Li Zengbo wrote in his Kezhai Zagao, Xugaohou that the city of Qingzhou was manufacturing one to two thousand strong iron-cased bomb shells a month, dispatching to Xiangyang and Yingzhou about ten to twenty thousand such bombs at a time.

While still engaged in legal proceedings over " peta. org ", PETA themselves registered the domains " ringlingbrothers. com " and " voguemagazine. com ", using the sites to accuse Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and Vogue of animal cruelty.

While Xuan Thuy led the official negotiating team representing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at the talks in Paris, Thọ and U. S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger since February 1970 engaged in secret talks that eventually led to a cease-fire in the Paris Peace Accords of January 23, 1973.

While the storylistener is engaged, they are able to imagine new perspectives, inviting a transformative and empathetic experience.

While to a reader today it might seem that Earhart was engaged in flying " stunts ," she was, with other female flyers, crucial to making the American public " air minded " and convincing them that " aviation was no longer just for daredevils and supermen.

While there, he became engaged to Helen Trott.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

While most Anabaptists adhered to a literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount which precluded taking oaths, participating in military actions, and participating in civil government, some who practiced re-baptism felt contrariwise.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

While containment of biological warfare transmission is less of a concern for certain criminal or terrorist organizations, it remains a significant concern for the military and civilian populations of virtually all nations.

While visiting Beijing in 1970 Sihanouk was ousted by a military coup led by Prime Minister General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak in the early hours of March 18, 1970.

While Clausewitz was intensely aware of the value of intelligence at all levels, he was also very skeptical of the accuracy of much military intelligence: " Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory ; even more are false, and most are uncertain ....

While serving in the military, Brubeck met Paul Desmond in early 1944.

While Titus received a court education in the company of Britannicus, Vespasian pursued a successful political and military career.

While the vassal performed military service in exchange for the fief, the peasant performed physical labour in return for protection.

While Hannibal is mentioned in the company of history's greatest generals, military professionals have bestowed Fabius ' name on an entire strategic doctrine known as " Fabian strategy ", and George Washington has been called " the American Fabius.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

While there were wide needs for accurate navigation in military and civilian sectors, almost none of those were seen as justification for the billions of dollars it would cost in research, development, deployment, and operation for a constellation of navigation satellites.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

While on 5 June, several major politicians ( Baciro Dabo, Faustino Imbali and Helder Proenca ) were shot dead, officially to counter a planned coup d ' État against the temporary military leadership.

While the states issued their own decorations, and some had their own armies, the military forces of the smaller ones were put under Prussian control.

While the military effectiveness of these " Afghan Arabs " was marginal, Azzam's group is said to have organized paramilitary training for more than 20, 000 Muslim recruits, from about 20 countries around the world.

While playing football at PJC, Robinson suffered a fractured ankle, complications from which would eventually delay his deployment status while in the military.

While military efforts were directed to the East, the situation in Italy took a turn for the worse.

While bound to the stretcher his picture was taken by American military personnel.

While the sale of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went largely unnoticed, fear of an eventual French invasion spread nationwide when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to secure New Orleans.

While monetary and military Libyan support for the Sahrawi cause dwindled in the mid-1980s, after a rapprochement with Morocco, the enemy of Polisario, some Sahrawi refugee students are still able to apply for higher education in Libya.