While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

While scholars wanting to learn Greek used to employ learned Greeks to teach them directly, the Aldine editions, edited by Greek scholars, allowed many scholars across Europe to study Greek.

While the Scandinavian branch emphasizes pantheist spirituality rooted in medieval and contemporary Scandinavian folklore, the American branch postulates a " native religion of the peoples of Northern Europe " reaching back into the paleolithic.

While this was OK for Europe, it meant that GSM could not cover large, sparsely populated rural areas of Australia cost effectively.

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

While initiated in England, competitive men's badminton in Europe has traditionally been dominated by Denmark.

While the Sheldon Scale is universally acknowledged, coin experts in Europe and elsewhere often shun the numerical system, preferring to rate specimens on a purely descriptive, or adjectival, scale.

While never reaching the level of accuracy of a modern timepiece, the water clock was the most accurate and commonly used timekeeping device for millennia, until it was replaced by the more accurate pendulum clock in 17th century Europe.

While Maritimers are predominantly of west European heritage ( Scottish, Irish, English, and Acadian ), immigration to Industrial Cape Breton during the heyday of coal mining and steel manufacturing brought people from eastern Europe as well as from Newfoundland.

While Doreen Valiente writes that in Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches full moon rites were known as Esbats in the rest of Europe, she later finds it necessary to specify " full moon Esbat ," to distinguish it from other esbat occasions.

While touring Europe, Coppola was introduced to alternative filmmaking equipment and inspired by the bohemian spirit of Lanterna Film.

While most of the nations of Western Europe had adopted bicameral parliaments by the end of the 19th century, in 1906 the Finns adopted a unicameral parliamentary system, and female citizens were included in universal suffrage.

While Germany and most of contiguous Europe use standard gauge ( 1435 mm ), differences in signalling, rules and regulations, electrification voltages, etc.

While the rest of Europe was cooling, the area around Gibraltar back then resembled a European Serengeti.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

While the use of linen has been shown in archaeological evidence, the use of cotton-and cotton-based canvas-is disputed since the access to large amounts of cotton cloth was not widely available in northern Europe at this time.

While tensions remain ( for example, with Muslim immigrants and in the Basque region ), modern Spain has seen the development of a robust, modern democracy as a constitutional monarchy with popular King Juan Carlos, one of the fastest-growing standards of living in Europe, entry into the European Community, and the 1992 Summer Olympics.

While Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights does not prohibit criminal laws against revisionism such as denial or minimization of genocides or crimes against humanity, as interpreted by the European Court of Human Rights, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe went further and recommended to member governments to combat hate speech under its Recommendation R ( 97 ) 20.

While empirical investigations of the natural world have been described since classical antiquity ( for example, by Thales, Aristotle, and others ), and scientific methods have been employed since the Middle Ages ( for example, by Ibn al-Haytham, Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī and Roger Bacon ), the dawn of modern science is generally traced back to the early modern period, during what is known as the Scientific Revolution that took place in 16th and 17th century Europe.

While Paris inspected them, each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite, who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras ), offered the world's most beautiful woman ( Euripides, Andromache, l. 284, Helena l. 676 ).

While Jamiroquai was growing in popularity in the UK, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, they remained relatively unknown to U. S and other international audiences.

While Pasteur was not the first to propose germ theory ( Girolamo Fracastoro, Agostino Bassi, Friedrich Henle and others had suggested it earlier ), he developed it and conducted experiments that clearly indicated its correctness and managed to convince most of Europe it was true.

While returning in 1929 from South America to Europe, Le Corbusier met entertainer and actress Josephine Baker on board the ocean liner Lutétia.

* Andrew Cohen, While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World

* While the Passengers Slept

While Europe Slept was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for 2006 in the criticism category, a circumstance that led to controversy.

Far Right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, cited Bawer's While Europe Slept in his manifesto.

* While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, Random House Digital, Inc., 2006, ISBN 978-0-385-51472-9

* While Reagan Slept ( Fawcett 1983 )

* While Reagan Slept ( Fawcett 1983 )

Its title was an allusion to Winston Churchill's 1938 book While England Slept, which also examined the buildup of German power.

* While You Slept: Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It ( 1953 )

*" While You Slept " ( 1997 ) with Andy Stochansky

* While the Patient Slept ( 1935 )

In 2006 Patsy wrote While Justice Slept: The True Story of Nicky Kelly and the Sallins Train Robbery.

* Liffey Press product detail for While Justice Slept: The True Story of Nicky Kelly and the Sallins Train Robbery

In The Encylopedia of Protestantism, JG Melton writes: " While often associated with Evangelical Christianity, the again phenomenon is common across the entire spectrum of Protestant churches.

While he was " slender and mild-mannered ", she had dark good looks that " must have seemed to him exotic ", writes Easton.

Prof. Spiegelberg writes, " While outward religious practice never entered his life any more than it did that of most academic scholars of the time, his mind remained open for the religious phenomenon as for any other genuine experience.

* 1493 – While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter ( widely distributed upon his return to Portugal ) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.

While Mike is usually portrayed as simply dumb ( for example, in A Man of His Convictions in series 2 he writes a letter to media commentator Stuart Littlemore full of basic spelling and grammatical errors ) he occasionally surprises his colleagues with his sneakiness: in Give ' em Enough Rope ( series 2 ) he traps the network owner into admitting to contravening the Broadcasting Act in a live interview, after first getting the owner to publicly commit to allowing him to ask difficult questions without threat to his job.

While this theory, first propounded by Ernst von Dobschütz and Rudolf Bultmann, is not universally accepted, Amos Wilder writes that, " it is at least clear that there are considerable and sometimes continuous elements in the epistle whose style distinguishes them from that of the author both with respect to poetic structure and syntactic usage.

While he admits the existence of caste-based discrimination, he writes that " Every social group cannot be regarded as a race simply because we want to protect it against prejudice and discrimination ".

** While waiting at a bus stop, Ralph Baer an inventor with Sanders Associates, writes a four-page document which lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multi billion dollar industry.

* While in debtor's prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill ( Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure ).

* 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.

Historian and Forrest biographer Brian Steel Wills writes, “ While there is no doubt that Forrest joined the Klan, there is some question as to whether he actually was the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan .” The KKK ( the Klan ) was formed by veterans of the Confederate Army in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866 and soon expanded throughout the state and beyond.

While he is away, Reri writes a farewell note, and leaves with Hitu.

While Fred searches frantically, Susan, by now a firm believer in Kris, writes him a letter to cheer him up, which Doris also signs.

While he is theoretically responsible to Hacker personally, it is Sir Humphrey who writes his performance reviews and influences Bernard's Civil Service career.

While it may not be possible to positively ascertain which is the original or " more correct " story, Harold Courlander writes, at least in Oraibi ( the oldest of the Hopi villages ), little children are often told the story of the sipapu, and the story of an ocean voyage is related to them when they are older.

While this approach may have been helpful for Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov writes, it was not so helpful for individuals completely different in nature from Balakirev or who matured as composers " at different intervals and in a different manner ".

While expanding the form to a unified cycle of symphonic poems, Smetana created what Macdonald terms " one of the monuments of Czech music " and, Clapham writes, " extended the scope and purpose of the symphonic poem beyond the aims of any later composer ".

Differences between the gospels suggest that Luke is referring to a different episode from Mark and Matthew, and Klyne Snodgrass writes that " While one cannot exclude that Luke has joined two originally separate narratives, evidence for this is not convincing.

While Magruder, in the Scottish Law Review, writes that Coke's " fair fame was tarnished and outraged " by his part in the trial, Boyer notes that Coke was, above all, loyal.

His biographer writes that he " became sick in body, but his mental wretchedness was too great to allow of his retiring, and he would walk the floor till nearly morning, and sometimes the agony of his mind was so terrible that he would wring his hands and weep like a child ..." While his wife Vilate had trials " grievous to bear " as a result of her acceptance of plural marriage, she supported her husband in his religious duties, and taught her children that " she could not doubt the plural order of marriage was of God, for the Lord had revealed it to her in answer to prayer.

While recovering, Smith writes her fifth book of poetry, Babel.

While in hiding, he writes one letter to Starling wishing her well, and another to Chilton swearing gruesome revenge.

While historians have thus tended to view Bonifacio's concept of the Philippine nation as restricted to the Tagalog regions of Luzon, as compared to Aguinaldo's view of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao ( comprising the modern Philippines ), Guerrero writes that Bonifacio and the Katipunan in fact already had an all-encompassing view.

While procrastinating over the bar exam, he writes stories for newspapers and dreams about being a successful writer so he can move to Europe.