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Even and while
Even while suffering the trip to his home, Cook swore to Moore and Lane that he would kill the Indian.
Even while it was busy servicing a print job from one client, a PAP server could continue to respond to status requests from any number of other clients.
Even while under enemy fire, he " mutters propositions in physics ".
Even smaller amounts of boron may have been produced in the Big Bang, since it has been observed in some very old stars, while carbon has not.
Even in cases of real crimes, the positive laws frequently punish only the particular offence, while in public opinion the offender, even after he has undergone punishment, is still incapacitated for certain honours and distinctions which are granted only to persons of unblemished character.
Even though Hall enjoyed helping people in her work, she found it difficult to separate her feelings while being a caseworker.
Even while the PDP-9 was being introduced, its replacement was being designed, and was introduced as 1969's PDP-15, which re-implemented the PDP-9 using integrated circuits in place of modules.
Even while the country enjoyed a degree of prosperity when compared to the famines of France and Germany in this period, the Visigoths felt little reason to contribute to the welfare, permanency, and infrastructure of their people and state.
Even rarer, Shatner and Spader each won a second consecutive Emmy while playing the same character in two different series.
" Even the lyrics, while occasionally demented, were usually too inchoate to be anything but curiously passionate love songs.
Even while Madagascar's conservation crisis remains high, its economic crisis remains still higher.
Even while the Marshall Plan was being implemented, the dismantling of German industry continued, and in 1949 Konrad Adenauer wrote to the Allies requesting that it end, citing the inherent contradiction between encouraging industrial growth and removing factories and also the unpopularity of the policy.
Even though the battery compartment was designed to allow the two 9-volt batteries to be inserted with proper polarity of positive and negative terminals, when a battery was forcefully improperly oriented, while the other battery was properly oriented, the two batteries would be shorted and they would overheat.
Even at equilibrium molecules are constantly in motion and, once in a while, a molecule in the liquid phase gains enough kinetic energy to break away from the liquid phase and enter the gas phase.
Even though, read in the light of later research, much of the first volume must necessarily be relegated to the region of the mythical, nonetheless, the historian was a laborious and accomplished reader and investigator of all available authorities, as well manuscript as printed ; while the roll of names of those who aided him includes every man of note in Scotland at the time, from Sir Thomas Craig and Sir George Mackenzie to Alexander Nisbet and Thomas Ruddiman.
Even a small, female Pteranodon could have reached a depth of at least with its long bill and neck while floating on the surface, and they may have reached even greater depths by plunge-diving into the water from the air like some modern long-winged seabirds.
Even with the defining postulates of both Einstein's theory of general relativity and quantum theory being indisputably supported by rigorous and repeated empirical evidence and while they do not directly contradict each other theoretically ( at least with regard to their primary claims ), they have proven extremely difficult to incorporate into one consistent, cohesive model.
Even Montana's backup, quarterback Steve Young, had a great year, throwing for 1, 001 yards and 8 touchdowns with only 3 interceptions, while also rushing for 126 yards and 2 touchdowns.
Even the team's third wide receiver, Az-Zahir Hakim, was a big contributor by catching 36 passes for 677 yards and 8 touchdowns, while also returning punts for 461 yards and another touchdown.
Even more unusually, however, many of the solo songs on Maxinquaye featured little of Tricky's own voice: his then-lover, Martina Topley-Bird, sang them, including her reimagining of Public Enemy's militant 1988 rap " Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos ", while other songs were male-female duets dealing with sex and love in oblique ways, over beds of sometimes dissonant samples.
Even while they were waiting for the bulls, Cranmer continued to work on the annulment proceedings, which required greater urgency after Anne announced her pregnancy.
Even in shorter documents styles can save a lot of time while formatting.
" He also said " Even before Monday's crash, Dominicans had developed a complex love-hate relationship with American Airlines, complaining about high prices and baggage restrictions even while favoring the carrier over other airlines that used to travel the same route.
Even though considerable investments have been made on roads inherited from communism, some still lack road side barriers and signage while others are gradually deteriorating.
" Even while a Captain, Rickover did not conceal his opinions, and many of the officers he regarded as dumb eventually rose in rank to be admirals and were assigned to the Pentagon.

Even and praising
Even in the 20th century, Ezra Pound considered this still to be the best Aeneid translation, praising the " richness and fervour " of its language and its hallmark fidelity to the original.
Even the slightly delayed review from the New York Times ( most newspapers reviewed the book in April while the Times reviewed it in August ) was just short of entirely positive, with the reviewer praising the novel with the reservation that "... I reached page 569 convinced that an essential element was absent ".
Even Jack acknowledges this when he calls her " pirate " in an almost admiring tone, as if praising her cleverness and heralding her passage into his realm.
' Even Abbey's new friend Edward Hoagland -- who had first written to him on March 19, 1970 praising Desert Solitaire -- lamented in the New York Times Book Review that Black Sun was " not a masterpiece " like Desert Solitaire, complaining that " he does not always finish his books but publishes next-to-last drafts.
Even Madonna's daughter was a fan, Madonna inviting Papaya over to meet her child and praising Papaya on her songwriting skills.

Even and attractive
Even between two nations or societies that have similar material standards of living, quality of life factors may in fact make one of these places more attractive to a given individual or group.
Even though the van der Waals interaction is attractive, as the adsorbed atom moves closer to the surface the wavefunction of electron starts to overlap with that of the surface atoms.
Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 48 % based on reviews from 77 critics, or an average score of 5. 3 / 10, with the site's consensus stating ; " Even in a slick package and an attractive cast, the movie succumbs to bad acting and a bad script.
Even this pitiful dole, with no obligation to work, proved attractive, and all over France workmen threw up their jobs and streamed to Paris, where they swelled the ranks of the army under the red flag.
Even when some of the reports are just rumors without solidity, they still appear on the cover if they are attractive and sensational enough.
Even though Isabella was far beyond the common age of marriage for women of her day, she was attractive to Philip as a potential consort: she was well-bred, shrewd and accomplished ; perfectly capable of offering sound political advice and maintaining diplomatic discretion ; and of fertile family stock without any history of poor health.
Even today the hill is rendered attractive by means of the sacred trees of the Father God ( Patrios Theos ) of Antioch, pine trees.
Even though Citibank's temporary presence, with 550 jobs, eventually folded – despite massive local subsidies – the location is still quite attractive for service businesses.
Even the cribs exhibit a distance-decay pattern in that the younger more attractive prostitutes occupy cribs on the central lane ( Cleopatra Street ), whereas older, or less attractive women rent cribs on the south most lane or in the back near the transvestite bars.
Even with the successes and attractive features of native chemical ligation, there are still some drawbacks in the utilization of this technique.
" Even askmen. com admitted that while " incredibly attractive " women " flaunt that fact " in the film, " that's all there is ".
Even the early cottage garden flowers typically had their practical use — violets were spread on the floor ( for their pleasant scent and keeping out vermin ); calendulas and primroses were both attractive and used in cooking.
Harold Clurman wrote: " Though the show offers a number of attractive features, only a few of them are actually congruent with its theme ... There are ... a few charming numbers: one of them is called ' Enterprise ' derisive of our national fetish ... The Swados music is utilitarian rather than lyrically or dramatically expressive-it is employed, as in the Japanese or Chinese theatres, as sound to call attention to signal moments ... Even if I had liked more of the numbers than I did, I would still have thought ' too much show!
: Even at those hours when the gray Petersburg sky is completely overcast and the whole population of clerks have dined and eaten their fill, each as best he can, according to the salary he receives and his personal tastes ; when they are all resting after the scratching of pens and bustle of the office, their own necessary work and other people's, and all the tasks that an overzealous man voluntarily sets himself even beyond what is necessary ; when the clerks are hastening to devote what is left of their time to pleasure ; some more enterprising are flying to the theater, others to the street to spend their leisure staring at women's hats, some to spend the evening paying compliments to some attractive girl, the star of a little official circle, while some — and this is the most frequent of all — go simply to a fellow clerk's apartment on the third or fourth story, two little rooms with a hall or a kitchen, with some pretensions to style, with a lamp or some such article that has cost many sacrifices of dinners and excursions — at the time when all the clerks are scattered about the apartments of their friends, playing a stormy game of whist, sipping tea out of glasses, eating cheap biscuits, sucking in smoke from long pipes, telling, as the cards are dealt, some scandal that has floated down from higher circles, a pleasure which the Russian do never by any possibility deny himself, or, when there is nothing better to talk about, repeating the everlasting anecdote of the commanding officer who was told that the tail had been cut off the horse on the Falconet monument — in short, even when everyone, was eagerly seeking entertainment, Akaky Akakievich did not indulge in any amusement.

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