While we, as American artists, believe deeply in the universal character of all intellectual activity, we would be less than honest with you, or ourselves, if we failed to state a specific attitude toward our own society as well as the international community as a whole.

While there, Space Ghost tried ( and failed ) to show he was " hip " to rap, saying his favorite rapper was M. C. Escher.

While generally praised for its fast gameplay and unique mechanics, it ultimately failed to gain a very large market presence.

While the reliability of this mechanism has not yet been studied for all relevant crop species, recent results in tobacco plants are promising, showing a failed containment rate of transplastomic plants at 3 in 1, 000, 000.

While listing the Coral Court Motel near St. Louis, Missouri, on the National Register of Historic Places failed to prevent a 1995 demolition, one of the cabins survives as part of an exhibit at the Museum of Transportation after being painstakingly dismantled by volunteers for relocation.

While the Swedes made only one failed foray into western Estonia in 1220, the Danish Fleet headed by King Valdemar II of Denmark had landed at the Estonian town of Lindanisse ( present-day Tallinn ) in 1219.

While courts have specifically made clear certain instances which have succeeded or failed to meet the nebulous threshold for materiality, the topic remains unresolved in large part, except in certain legal areas where intent manifests itself in an abundantly clear fashion, such as with the so-called perjury trap, a specific situation in which a prosecutor calls a person to testify before a grand jury with the intent of drawing a perjurious statement from the person being questioned.

While certainly worthy causes for advocacy, they failed to stir up enough interest among most of the women ’ s fringe groups of society.

While both parties failed to unite at the most critical time in the 1940s, the sisters made a valiant effort in financing and assisting in all national activities.

While generally Banach was a diligent student he did on occasion receive low grades ( he failed Greek during his first semester at the gymnasium ) and would later speak critically of the school's math teachers.

While the idea was popular with Michigan residents, the effort failed: the judges held a midnight court before quickly retreating south of the Maumee River, where Ohio forces were positioned.

" While Utah suffered from deadlocks in 1897 and 1899, they became " a good teaching experience ," and Utah never again failed to elect senators.

While on assignment out west and in an effort to supplement a military salary inadequate to support his family, Grant, assuming his work as quartermaster so equipped him, attempted but failed at several business ventures.

While IBM's attempt at producing a successor to ISA with the Micro Channel Architecture was a technically viable option, it failed in the market due to its proprietary nature and imposed licensing fees.

While early efforts to employ these viruses in the therapy of cancer failed, there have been reports in 2005 and 2006 of encouraging preliminary results.

While a British invasion of Martinique failed, they captured Guadeloupe shortly afterwards.

While the report was critical of the overall situation, the committee noted that subordinates had failed to pass on important information to their superiors, including Marshall.

While Patton has a reputation today as a senior general who was both impatient and impulsive, with little tolerance for officers who had failed to succeed on the battlefield, the truth is somewhat different.

While he assembled the accounts of many Western travelers, the author failed to explain the etymology of the term Assassin.

While Bell had hoped his new Photophone could be used by ships at sea and to also displace the plethora of telephone lines that were blooming along busy city boulevards, his design failed to protect its transmissions from outdoor interferences such as clouds, fog, rain, snow and such, that could easily disrupt the transmission of light.

While it ultimately failed, it further persuaded the British policy makers of the dangers of sending significant forces to the Americas which might be needed at home.

While providing redundancy for negative-g maneuvers ( which lift the pilot out of the seat ), they also require the pilot to un-latch two harnesses if it is necessary to parachute from a failed aircraft.

While Mulan outgrossed the two Disney films which preceded it, The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1996 film ) and Hercules, its box office returns failed to match those of the Disney films of the early 1990s such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King.

While all went well for the recording used to produce the album, the debut tour performance at the same venue ground to a halt as the power failed, just as Emerson arrived at the Hammond organ to open the next part of the piece.

While developments looked positive for a while, an IMF staff team visiting Buenos Aires in August 1983 discovered a variety of problems, particularly a loss of control over wages affecting both the budget and external competitiveness, and the programme failed.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

While he was at Everton, they reached the FA Cup final for the third year in a row but they lost 3 – 1 to Liverpool, despite Lineker giving them an early lead when he outpaced Alan Hansen to score.

While it is now easy to say that Nixon in Chinas influential score spawned a new interest in opera, it was not always met with such laudatory and generous review.

While critics have frequently dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot — musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a " shabby little shocker "— the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged.

While Ford's original cut of the film has not survived, a " pre-release " cut – dating from a few months after the preview screening – survives with some of Ford's additional footage and alternative score intact.

While IQ tests do give an overall IQ score, they now also give scores for many more narrow abilities.

While writing the score for The Last Samurai, Zimmer felt that his knowledge of Japanese music was extremely limited.

While the film was in early production Eidelman worked on electronic drafts of the final score, to placate executives who were unsure about using a relatively unknown composer.

While in Copenhagen, Dexter Gordon and Kenny Drew's trio appeared onscreen in Ole Ege's theatrically released hardcore pornographic film Pornografi ( 1971 ), for which they composed and performed the score.

While the first version of the score ( currently available from Dover Publications ) included slapstick and tambourine, these were removed over the course of Mahler's extensive revisions.

While the printed score has the second movement as Giuoco delle coppie ( Game of the couples ), Bartók's manuscript had no title at all for this movement at the time the engraving-copy blueprint was made for the publisher.

While some critics viewed it as a good piece of nostalgia, many others criticized the lack of improvements and the game's more noticeable age, with IGN giving it a score of 3. 5 out of 10, calling it " so fundamentally flawed that it borders on unplayable ", making it the lowest scored Sonic game on the site since Sonic and the Black Knight.

While she was working on the score to Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars the following year, she was asked to join Noriko Matsueda on the music to the futuristic strategy RPG Front Mission.

While its use is widespread, the NYHA score is not very reproducible and doesn't reliably predict the walking distance or exercise tolerance on formal testing.

While he had previous Hitchcock experience on 1943's Shadow of a Doubt and would go on to score two more consecutive Hitch films, director and composer " simply never developed much of a kinship " and " the Hitchcock films are not Tiomkin's best.

While discussing proposed healthcare reform on the December 17, 2009, edition of Hardball, Matthews stated, " The Republicans will know they have lost .... Let them keep score and it's easy.

While labeled a recitative in the score, it is more appropriately described as a recitative ( from Genesis 1: 21 – 22 ) followed by a very brief aria, the latter a verse paraphrase on the biblical words ( Gen. 1: 22 ) " Be fruitful and multiply.

While at Firestone she achieved a perfect SAT score, the sole female to do so that year.

Review website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 51 % based on 121 reviews, and an average rating of 5. 4 / 10, with the consensus: " While surprisingly sweeter and warm-hearted than previous Farrelly outings, Shallow Hal is also less funny and more bland.

While Sima Yong and Sima Ying had overwhelming force, their forces could not score a conclusive victory against Sima Ai.

While scoring is much more sophisticated with IRT, for most tests, the ( linear ) correlation between the theta estimate and a traditional score is very high ; often it is. 95 or more.

While all of this was happening, the Blades played Wigan Athletic at Bramall Lane and needed only 1-point to stay up, however, with the score at 1 – 1, a penalty was awarded to Wigan in injury time at the end of the first half.

While all credit inquiries are recorded and displayed on personal credit reports for two years ( their effect decreases at the six-month and one-year mark ; they have no real effect after the first year ), credit inquiries that were made by the consumer ( such as pulling a credit report for personal use ), by an employer ( for employee verification ) or by companies initiating pre-screened offers of credit or insurance do not have any impact on a credit score: these are called " soft inquiries " or " soft pulls ", and do not appear on a credit report used by lenders, only on personal reports.

While many people object to this ( particularly those who score well in states with high minimums ), this is used instead of a national minimum to ensure an even geographical distribution of Semifinalists.

While the controls are arcade-style ( character movement, few action commands ) there is an ultimate goal beyond a high score.