While in Fort Worth, Wills added the " rowdy city blues " of Bessie Smith and Emmett Miller to a repertoire of mainly waltzes and breakdowns he had learned from his father, and patterned his vocal style after that of Miller and other performers such as Al Bernard.

While losing All-Stars Carl Pavano and Armando Benitez in the off-season, the Marlins signed P Al Leiter and 1B Carlos Delgado.

While in San Diego, witnesses told the FBI he and Hazmi had a close relationship with Anwar Al Awlaki, an imam who served as their spiritual advisor.

While in San Diego, witnesses told the FBI he and Mindhar had a close relationship with Anwar Al Awlaki, an imam who served as their spiritual advisor.

While Captain Kangaroo was still in planning stages, CBS executives had the idea of hiring Al Lewis, a kids ' show host in Cincinnati ( ABC was running Lewis's show at that time ), to host their show, but Lewis's managers refused to release him from his contract.

While Bahrain's liberals have sought to use the opening of civil society to campaign against the domination of Islamic parties in politics, with a campaign to protect personal freedoms, We Have A Right, led by the civic group, Al Muntada.

While serving in the Army, Al Gore was stationed at Fort Rucker before his five-month deployment in the Vietnam War.

While observing Ramadan, he decided to attack Riyadh and retake it from the Al Rashidi.

While Skeeter appears as air-headed and clumsy, it is revealed that Skeeter is highly intelligent, later gaining the respect of geeky twin brothers Al and Moo.

While Burns attempted to link Schweitzer with presidential candidate Al Gore, whom Schweitzer never met, Schweitzer " effectively portrayed himself as nonpolitical ".

While Dirk may be considered the hero of the two, Al Giordino is the man behind him.

While the relocation of the U. S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma still remains unresolved as of April 2012, the United States of America and Japan reached in April 2012 a troop redeployment agreement which might make room for a new Futenma agreement according to Al Jazeera's Asia-Pacific correspondent Harry Fawcett.

While working for Yale, Adonis briefly met future Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone, who was also working for Yale.

While he was in exile in London from 1979 until 2003, Al Rubaie embarked on a successful career in both the UK public and private sectors.

While Ma ' alim fi-l-Tariq معالم في الطريق ( Milestones ) was Qutb's manifesto, other elements of Qutbism are found in his works Al -' adala al-Ijtima ' iyya fi-l-Islamالعدالة الاجتماعية في الاسلام ( Social Justice in Islam ), and his Quranic commentary Fi Zilal al-Qur ' an في ظلال القرآن ( In the shade of the Qur ' an ).

While the city is being developed, it is also the scene of occasional deadly suicide bombings and explosions carried out by the Haqqani network, Taliban's Quetta Shura, Hezb-i Islami, Al Qaeda, and other anti-government elements who are allegedly supported and guided by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ) spy network.

While the AlDossary families led by Sheikh Ahmed Ibn Abdullah ibn Hassan Al Dossary migrated from Bahrain and were given the chance to choose a land where to settle by HRM the late King Abdul Aziz.

While signed to Columbia by Dr. George Butler, she released an influential CD " Trust the Universe " which was unique in featuring a jazz A side with Charnette Moffett and Al Foster and an electric jazz B side with Lenny White and Victor Bailey.

While in ECW, Al Snow began referring to jobbing on-screen as part of his gimmick.

While the 34th Bomb Squadron deployed to Diego Garcia as the B-1 component of the 28th Air Expeditionary Wing, the wing sent a Base Operations Support package to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, to transform the bare base into a fully functional airfield for large-scale combat operations.

While in Detroit, he played left field, because Al Kaline was established in right field.

While Charles served almost exclusively in administration, it was Al Christie who made the films.

While Frankie Yale is somewhat overlooked in crime histories ( he's remembered chiefly because of his association with Al Capone ), he was one of New York's leading gangsters in the 1920s.

While the Al Rasheed rallied the majority of other tribes to their side the effort proved futile, and by 1921 Ha ' il was captured and given to Ibn Saud's army by the British command.

While Mr. Carrión was President of Banco Popular, Popular completed the acquisition of various financial institutions, including Banco de Ponce, Banco Roig, Seminole Bank, First State Bank of Southern California, Gore Bronson Bancorp in Chicago and Aurora National Bank.

While Gore won, Kuykendall held him to only 53 percent of the vote -- a margin that would have almost certainly been closer if not for Johnson's massive landslide victory in that year's presidential election.

While Burns attempted to link Schweitzer with presidential candidate Al Gore, whom Schweitzer never met, Schweitzer " effectively portrayed himself as nonpolitical ".

While collaborating with Zimmer, Badelt contributed to the Oscar-nominated scores for The Thin Red Line and The Prince of Egypt, as well as writing music for many well known directors including Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Terrence Mallick, John Woo, Kathryn Bigelow, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Werner Herzog, Sean Penn, Gore Verbinski, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg.

While many contemporary Democratic party leaders and Green Party leaders have at times called themselves " progressives ," the term is usually self-applied by those on or to the left of the Democratic party, Bernie Sanders, Russ Feingold, Al Franken, Debbie Stabenow, Dennis Kucinich, Alan Grayson, Mike Gravel, Cynthia McKinney ( The Green Party candidate for President in 2008 ), John Edwards, Sherrod Brown, Kathleen Sebelius, David McReynolds, Ralph Nader ( The Green Party presidential candidate in 2000 ), Howard Dean, Peter Camejo, Al Gore, and the late Paul Wellstone and Ted Kennedy.

While Bill Clinton carried the district twice in three-way races, Al Gore just narrowly won the district in 2000 with 51 % of the vote.

While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.

While Fine Gael was responsible for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the office of President.

While The Sorcerer won critical acclaim, it did not duplicate the success of Trial by Jury.

While at the university, he was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams and was a part of the inaugural Big Game versus rival University of California ( Stanford won ).

While Smith won extra support among Catholics in the big cities Smith was the target of intense anti-Catholicism from some Protestant communities, especially as Southern Baptists and German Lutherans.

While in Baltimore the team advanced to the postseason ten times and won three NFL Championship games in 1958, 1959 and 1968.

While the Hungarians had the best won – loss record of the tournament as a team and lost only a single game of the 56 they played, they had won most of their matches by 2½ – 1½ scores, while the Russian team won gold as they piled up the points.

While many probably expected the Jaguars to just be happy to be there, the Jaguars won 30 – 27, and knocked Buffalo QB Jim Kelly out of what would turn out to be the last game of his career.

While he was in his late twenties, Tureaud won two tough-man competitions consecutively.

While on Sado, he won many devoted converts and wrote two of his most important doctrinal treatises, the Kaimoku Shō ( 開目抄: " On the Opening of the Eyes " ) and the Kanjin no Honzon Shō ( 観心本尊抄: " The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind ") as well as numerous letters and minor treatises whose content containing critical components of his teaching.

While it achieved minimal support in western Germany, it regularly won 15 % to 25 % of the vote in eastern Germany, entering coalition governments ( with the Social Democratic Party ) in the federal states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Berlin.

While many reforms made during the Putin presidency have been generally criticized by Western nations as un-democratic, Putin's leadership over the return of order, stability, and progress has won him widespread popularity in Russia.

While the patent was initially rejected by the patent office as being a purely mathematical invention, following 12 years of appeals, Pardo and Landau won a landmark court case at the CCPA ( Predecessor Court of the Federal Circuit ) overturning the Patent Office in 1983 — establishing that " something does not cease to become patentable merely because the point of novelty is in an algorithm.

While the Metropolitans were initially the more successful club, Day and Mutrie began moving star players to the Gothams and the team won its first National League pennant in 1888, as well as a victory over the St. Louis Browns in an early incarnation of the World Series.

While the Giants have more wins in franchise history, both National League West teams are tied for the most National League pennants with 21, and both teams have each won six World Series titles.

While Harding won the war of words and made the Marion Daily Star one of the most popular newspapers in the county, the battle took a toll on his health.

While Luther scattered the sparks among the people, Melanchthon by his humanistic studies won the sympathy of educated people and scholars for the Reformation.

While Sigismund won this initial vote, Jobst of Moravia won the support of a majority of electors in an election in October 1410 and himself claimed the imperial throne.

While teaching he also played amateur football for local teams and was soon signed up to Manchester United as a professional, playing his first game in 1936 and being part of the team that won promotion to the First Division in 1938.

While Theodore was in exile, the leadership of the Studite congregation was assumed by the Abbot Leontios, who for a time adopted the iconoclast position and won over many individuals monks to his party.

While Mozilla Organization ( the forerunner of the Mozilla Foundation ) initially continued to use the NGLayout name ( Gecko was a Netscape trademark ), eventually the Gecko branding won out.

While the Green's vote share was down from 2002, it won a fourth seat in Nantes where François de Rugy defeated a conservative UMP incumbent.