While many have shared Burckhardt's assessment, particularly with reference to the Life of Constantine, others, while not pretending to extol his merits, have acknowledged the irreplaceable value of his works which may principally reside in the copious quotations that they contain from other sources, often lost.

While serving as ambassador to Russia in February 1834, Ahmed Pasha presented Tsar Nicholas with a number of gifts, including a jewel-encrusted sword supposedly taken from Constantine XI's corpse.

While stopping in transit in Naples, Constantine crossed paths with Exarch of Ravenna John III Rizocopo, then on his way to Rome to execute four high-ranking papal officials by cutting their throats.

While Constantine made concessions regarding the economia, he did not give ground on the vast majority of the Roman grievances.

While Constantine and his sons had been strong military figures, they had also re-established the practice of hereditary succession, adopted by Valentinian I.

While studying under John Mauropus, he met the later Patriarchs Constantine Leichoudes and John Xiphilinos, and the later emperor Constantine X Doukas.

While Constantine III of Scotland ( reigned 995-997 ) did manage to rise to the throne, he was the last known descendant of Áed.

While sometimes striving for the good of mankind, Constantine is often manipulative and a dangerous person to have as a friend, as the lives and souls of those around him become perilously involved in his misadventures.

While Constantine fled to Amorion, Artabasdus seized Constantinople amid popular support and was crowned emperor.

While Constantine was distracted by this, the Slavs unsuccessfully attacked Thessalonika.

While Constantine now received the support of the Anatolic and Thracesian themes, Artabasdos secured that of the themes of Thrace and Opsikion, in addition to his own Armeniac soldiers.

While What Not to Wear was taken over by Lisa Butcher and Mica Paris, Woodall and Constantine began their new television show, Trinny & Susannah Undress ..., on 3 October 2006.

While in Europe after his 1870 trip, Train met with the Grand Duke Constantine.

While traditional sources disagree as to why this happened so late, modern historiography concludes that Constantine chose religious tolerance as an instrument to bolster his reign.

While at one end of the spectrum students at Constantine could be as young as 15, also publicised in its Prospectus were degree courses validated by the University of London.

While there, she charms the local gentry, especially Cosmo Constantine, while her press attaché Kenneth Gibson falls in love with Princess Maria.

While these do not all necessarily refer to the same person, at least some of them appear to reflect back to Gildas ' Constantine.

While there were many places the pious visited during their travels, the one most cherished was the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, first constructed by Constantine the Great in the fourth century AD.

While Lindsay wins, the Arena leaves both him and Constantine catatonic.

While living and playing cricket in Nelson before the war, Constantine had made plans for a future legal career.

While in government, Constantine assisted in the development of the West Indies Federation, as a step towards the independence of the islands, and his fame and familiarity with Britain played some part in the negotiations which led to Trinidad's independence in 1962.

While working on a second book, Alcott and Peabody had a falling out and Conversations with Children on the Gospels was prepared with help from Peabody's sister Sophia, published at the end of December 1836.

While government authorities prepared lists of aliens for deportation, many aliens fled the country during the debate over the Alien and Sedition Acts, and Adams never signed a deportation order.

While the court was prepared to accept Mary's fiancé as king, the majority of the nobility was opposed to the idea of a female monarch and regarded her closest agnate, King Charles III of Naples, as the legitimate heir.

While he was prepared to become head of state he made it known that it would not necessarily be as monarch: " I will accept the responsibility of head of state if that is what the Loya Jirga demands of me, but I have no intention to restore the monarchy.

While Aurelian and Probus were prepared to accompany their armies thousands of miles between war regions, this was not an ideal solution.

While demanding and goal oriented he was also criticized for being unwilling to countenance alternate viewpoints and for detaching himself from day-to-day affairs when the ground war ceased and he prepared for retirement.

While the members of that first expedition of the Mariposa Battalion had heard rumours of what could be found up the Merced River, none were prepared for what they saw March 27, 1851 from what is now called Old Inspiration Point ( close to the better visited Tunnel View ).

While the SI's member count had been steadily falling for the preceding several years, the ones that remained were able to fill revolutionary roles for which they had patiently anticipated and prepared for.

While travelling in Europe he prepared a thesis entitled John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, which won him a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted in plays including the Cambridge Greek Play.

While Zhang Qian did not succeed in this mission, his reports of the west provided even greater incentive to counter the Xiongnu hold on westward routes out of China, and the Chinese prepared to mount a large scale attack using the Northern Silk Road to move men and material.

While the Electra was being repaired Earhart and Putnam secured additional funds and prepared for a second attempt.

While Appleby is outwardly deferential towards the new minister, he is prepared to defend the status quo at all costs.

While the parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was initially prepared to authorise lines built to the broad gauge of 7 ft 0¼ in.

While traveling back to Persia, Khosrau took ransoms from multiple Byzantine towns at which point Justinian called off his truce and prepared to send his great commander Belisarius to move against the Sassanians.

While at the railway, the Duke travelled on a specially prepared " Royal Train ", consisting of tank locomotive 41241, an LMS Class 2MT, pulling a single carriage, The Old Gentleman's Saloon, as featured in The Railway Children, which is a former North Eastern Railway directors Saloon.

While in the early 18th century Peru production of wine exceeded that of pisco by 1764 90 % of the grape beverages prepared in Peru were pisco.

While his strong position allowed him to set boundaries to the church's political influence, he was on the other hand prepared to give the church much autonomy in internal affairs and relations with the rural society.

While the Airlanding Brigade moved into defensive positions around the landing zones, the 1st Parachute Brigade prepared to head east toward the bridges, with Lathbury and his HQ Company following Frost on Lion route.

While the aircraft was being prepared for its return to Edmonton, a maintenance worker decided to investigate the problem with the faulty FQIS.

While Fischer and Kern prepared their plot, former chancellor Philipp Scheidemann barely survived an attempt on his life by O. C. assassins on June 4th, 1922.

While agedashi tofu is the best-known agedashi dish, some other dishes may be prepared with similar techniques.

While Nim did learn 125 signs, Terrace concluded that he had not acquired anything the researchers were prepared to designate worthy of the name " language " ( as defined by Noam Chomsky ) although he had learned to repeat his trainers ' signs in appropriate contexts.

While Asano bore all this stoically, Kamei became enraged, and prepared to kill Kira to avenge the insults.

While the vessels were being prepared for the voyage to Toulon all the hostages in the castles were liberated save four ; but on 24 June 1799 Nelson arrived with his fleet, and on hearing of the capitulation he refused to recognise it except insofar as it concerned the French.