Meanwhile the French mouaire had mutated into a verb, moirer, meaning ' to produce a watered textile by weaving or pressing ', which by 1823 had spawned the adjective moiré.

Meanwhile, McKinsey also reorganized the company's vertically integrated operations, notably by merging the company's varied textile operations under the Fieldcrest name.

Meanwhile, Hermann Preysing, the general manager of a failing textile mill, hears that the merger with a Boston company is off, spelling financial ruin, but tries not to lie to his stockholders.

Meanwhile, international delegates proposed three additional clauses, which were adopted: One or more days for weekly rest ; equality of laws for foreign workers ; and regular and frequent inspection of factory conditions.

Meanwhile Fenland agricultural workers became masters of speed skating.

Meanwhile, Yemen needs to export thousands of its workers each year to the Gulf in order to alleviate economic burdens at home.

Meanwhile in the Aosta Valley, a forced programme of Italianization included population transfers of Valdostans into Piedmont and Italian-speaking workers into Aosta, fostering movements towards separatism.

Meanwhile, Joh has learned of mysterious plans being shared amongst the workers.

Meanwhile, even with severe restrictions on Asian immigration, tensions between unskilled workers and wealthy landowners persisted up to and through the Great Depression.

Meanwhile, the Belize Estate and Produce Company drove Mayan villagers from their homes in San Jose and Yalbac in the northwest and treated workers in mahogany camps almost like slaves.

Meanwhile, the minimum wage remains well below that on the U. S. mainland, and abuses of vulnerable workers are commonplace.

Meanwhile, the conventional method of rattan production is threatening the plant's long-term supply, and the income of workers.

Meanwhile, workers in Bath built a 315-ton replacement.

Meanwhile, the international workers ' movement also reorganized itself and reinforced pan-European, class-based identities among the classes whose labor supported the Belle Époque.

Meanwhile, Wyler and Susan shelter at a hut owned by a pair of spinsters ( Eileen Way and Sheila Steafel ) who repair slave workers ' clothes in return for freedom and food.

Meanwhile, five rocket-propelled grenades hit a newly built South Korean military base in Parwan Province, northern Afghanistan, which housed hundreds of members of Korea ’ s provincial reconstruction team and civilian aid workers.

Meanwhile, starting from the Contracts of Employment Act 1963, workers gained a growing list of minimum statutory rights, such as the right to reasonable notice before a fair dismissal and a redundancy payment.

Meanwhile, some of the most extreme co-operation is demonstrated by the underground naked mole rat, whose 80-strong clusters are divided into workers ( who tunnel perpetually ), soldiers ( who only act when danger threatens ), and a single queen for breeding.

Meanwhile, at the Mulholland Dam, two workers begin a routine inspection of the structure in response to the tremor.

Meanwhile beginning in 2004, local workers began creating a retreat on Long Island. A helicopter carried heavy equipment including a tent for workers to live in during the construction ( since they could not practically travel daily to and from the island ).

Meanwhile, the promises held out to the Greek masses by the Constantinists in the course of their electoral campaign, for the early cessation of hostilities and of mobilizations, the reduction of taxation, and the regulation of the labor question on lines proposed by the Socialist Party, which supported the anti-Venizelist campaign, not having been redeemed, internal unrest among the urban proletariat began to manifest itself in a series of industrial strikes ( gas, electric light, tramway and electric railway workers ) in Athens, and threatened to develop into a general stoppage of work all over the country ( February 12 ).

Meanwhile other workers succeeded in isolating the same compound and its parent steroid bufotalin from the Japanese toad ( Bufo japonicus ).

Meanwhile, recently unemployed factory workers turn to Mack MacKenzie for help in suing Sumner for wrongful termination.

Meanwhile, to the northeast, across the Himalayan mountains, about 350, 000 Chinese workers toiled to build four staging bases in western China near Chengtu.

Meanwhile, Burns is nearing the completion of his giant robotic laborer, whom he hopes will eventually replace weak-bodied human workers.

Meanwhile, 1, 000 miles to the northeast, across the Himalayan mountains, about 350, 000 Chinese workers toiled to build four staging bases in western China near Chengtu.

Meanwhile, I reloaded my gun, as the other men were doing.

Meanwhile, three great terrible forces were coagulating and crystallizing.

Meanwhile, with the independence of Brazil in 1822, the slave trade was abolished in 1836, and in 1844 Angola's ports were opened to foreign shipping.

Meanwhile, in 1913, physicist Niels Bohr suggested that the electrons were confined into clearly defined, quantized orbits, and could jump between these, but could not freely spiral inward or outward in intermediate states.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

Meanwhile, the Tampa Bay Rays were putting the finishing touches on their eight run comeback against the New York Yankees.

:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.

Meanwhile, the increasing number ( albeit still pitifully few ) of radiocarbon dates for the primary use of brochs ( as opposed to their later, secondary use ) still suggests that most of the towers were built in the 1st centuries BC and AD.

" Meanwhile, Nicosians crew were cheering wildly from the lifeboats.

Meanwhile deep ocean temperatures were as much as 15 to 20 ° C ( 27 to 36 ° F ) higher than today's.

Meanwhile, German tanks were continuously upgraded with better main guns, in addition to other improvements.

Meanwhile Baltimore Clippers still continued to be built, and were built specifically for the China opium trade running opium between India and China, a trade that only became unprofitable for American shipowners in 1849.

Meanwhile, other dissident movements were making headway throughout Ethiopia.

Meanwhile, Newson ’ s malting business expanded and five more children were born, Alice ( 1842 ), Millicent ( 1847 ), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam ( 1850 ), Josephine ( 1853 ) and George ( 1854 ).

Meanwhile the parties in the ED subgroup were growing restless and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech Civic Democratic Party and United Kingdom Conservatives formed their own European Conservatives and Reformists group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the ED subgroup from that date.

Meanwhile, Kammu's armies were pushing back the boundaries of his empire.

Meanwhile the South Africans had by late morning taken Tel el Makh Khad and were in covering positions.

Meanwhile, Hermeticism and the Kabbalah would influence the creation of a mystical philosophy known as Rosicrucianism, which first appeared in the early 17th century when two pamphlets detailing the existence of the mysterious Rosicrucian group were published in Germany.

Meanwhile, several Germanic tribes were converted to Arian Christianity by the missionary Wulfila, who devised an alphabet to translate the Bible into the Gothic language.

Meanwhile, the Goths were converted from paganism to Arian Christianity by the Gothic missionary Wulfila, who devised the Gothic alphabet to translate the Bible.

Meanwhile, the remaining local population of Cappadocians were left in control of the towns and most of the land, paying tithes to their new overlords, who formed a military aristocracy and kept aloof in fortified farmsteads, surrounded by their bands.

Meanwhile, the mercantile scripts of Punjab known as the were normally not used for literary purposes.

Meanwhile the English captured Jamaica in 1655 and soon were seeking allies on the coast, and hit upon the Miskito, whose king Jeremy visited Jamaica in 1687.

Meanwhile, ghosts were a dominant theme in Japanese horror, or ' J-horror ', in such films as Kwaidan, Onibaba ( both 1964 ) and Kuroneko ( 1968 ).