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 still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

While in the East, he traveled to the Troad to perform rites at his brother's tomb, an event recorded in a moving poem.

While the kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria were under attack, other Viking armies were active in the far north.

While the Roman Empire and its new Christian religion survived in an increasingly Hellenised form in the Byzantine Empire centered at Constantinople in the East, Western civilization suffered a collapse of literacy and organization following the fall of Rome in AD 476.

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 the previous seven ecumenical councils are recognized as ecumenical and authoritative by both East and West, many Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize the council of 879 as the Eighth Ecumenical Council, arguing that it annulled the earlier one.

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 East German propaganda was based on the benefits of the GDR's social programs and the alleged constant threat of a West German invasion, many of her citizens looked to the West for political freedoms and economic prosperity.

While military efforts were directed to the East, the situation in Italy took a turn for the worse.

While there, he studied world culture, including Islam and the Middle East.

While on the East Berlin side painting was not allowed, artists painted on the Western side of the Wall from the 80s until the fall of the Wall in 1989.

While the civil power in the East controlled the church and the bishop of Constantinople, the capital, wielded much power, in the West the Bishops of Rome were able to consolidate the influence and power they already possessed.

While the Belgian interest soon concentrated on the Congo River, the British and Germans focused on Eastern Africa and in 1886 partitioned continental East Africa between themselves ; the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now reduced to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, remained independent, for the moment.

While, the East Pakistan was established on the basis of country having the socialist system, and state secularism was proclaimed in 1954.

While it had a significant presence in the Central Asia, it did not gain any significance in China and East Asia until modern missionaries from Europe and North America arrived in the 19th century.

While not linked to measurements of skin tone variation directly, dopachrome tautomerase ( DCT or TYRP2 rs2031526 ), melanocortin 1 receptor ( MC1R ) Arg163Gln ( rs885479 ) and attractin ( ATRN ) have been indicated as potential contributors to the evolution of light skin in East Asian populations.

While proso millet is not a member of the Neolithic Near East crop assemblage, it arrived in Europe no later than the time these introductions did, and proso millet as an independent domestication could predate the arrival of the Near East grain crops.

While the Alexandrian empire did not survive its creator's death intact, the cultural implications of the spread of Hellenism across much of the Middle East and Asia were to prove long lived as Greek became the lingua franca, a position it retained even in Roman times.

While the see of Constantinople became dominant throughout the Emperor's lands, the West looked exclusively to the see of Rome, which in the East was seen as that of one of the five patriarchs of the Pentarchy, " the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees under the auspices of a single universal empire.

While Belarus National Republic faced off with Litbel, foreign powers were preparing to reclaim what they saw as their territories: Polish forces were moving from the West, and Russians from the East.

While the republican government was amenable to reparation payments or transfer of colonial territories in Africa or in South East Asia to Prussia, Jules Favre on behalf of the Government of National Defense declared on 6 September that France would not " yield an inch of its territory nor a stone of its fortresses.

While progress had been uneven, by 2000 the threat of extreme hunger has subsided for a great many of the world's people, especially in countries such as Brazil and Malaysia.

While the popular kinds of satay are usually beef and chicken satays, different regions of Malaysia have developed their own unique variations.

While the illegal pet trade takes a toll on wild populations, the principal threat to the siamang is habitat loss in both Malaysia and Sumatra.

While Terminal 1 has been demolished, Terminal 2 is currently used for the management of Malaysia Airports Holding Berhad.

While apprenticed to Sharrock, Walker won 653 races, most in New Zealand ( a record 631 wins ), but also in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore and Macau.

While there he was briefly involved with the military action against communist rebels in Malaya ( now Malaysia ).

While the Asian economy as a whole suffered from an economic crisis during 1997 and 1998, Malaysia was quick to bounce back due to successful government reforms.

While in Malaysia, it is usually a mixture between fish paste, chillies, garlic, shallots, turmeric, lemon grass and coconut milk.

While in late 1995, Stewart Racing ( like top competitor DAMS ) expressed disinterest in moving up to F1, The team had expressed interest of build a team based on Malaysia which would be based in the United Kingdom with finance from Malaysia as a promotion for the country in general.

While no longer produced for the Japanese market, it is still available in other markets around the world such as Malaysia.

While versions of it are thought to have existed in China, the contemporary version is created and popularised in the 1960s amongst the ethnic Chinese community and its consumption has been associated with Chinese New Year festivities in Malaysia and Singapore.

While the Stamford Canal area had been reserved for other uses, the plan designated an alternative site next to the existing temple-marked as ' Kling Chapel ' (' Kling ' was an old name for Indians in Singapore and Malaysia, now considered derogatory ).

While the Japanese army advanced down Peninsular Malaysia, these squadrons fought a desperate and unsuccessful defence.

While recording an album in Indonesia and Malaysia Kyla's album Private Affair was released on November 30, 2010 under EMI and PolyEast Records.

While a very large number of them come from Bosnia, Turkey, and Lebanon, there are Muslims from Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran, Fiji, Albania, Sudan, Egypt, the Palestinian territories, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, among others.

While the Singapore Alliance also supported merger within the Federation of Malaysia and was anti-Communist, it sought to extend the same model of communal politics on the mainland to Singapore.

While there is a category for skyscrapers in Malaysia, note that skyscrapers are distinctive from ( primarily communication ) towers and masts in that the former is continuously habitable.

While in Malaysia, the show had previously been aired in TV2 from 2002 to 2003.

While freely sold in Malaysia, no stringent third-party safety tests on the Arena were conducted or published publicly in the country.

While Sabah and Sarawak each has autonomy in immigration affairs ( which includes imposing immigration restrictions on Peninsular Malaysia residents ), permanent residents of Sabah and Sarawak are exempted from the immigration controls of their own states.