While scholars suggest the marriage metaphor presented in Hosea describes the relationship between Israel and Yahweh, the metaphor itself remains controversial in its meaning and interpretation in modernity.

While literal square wheels exist, a more common use is as a metaphor meaning stereotypically bad or naïve engineering ( see reinventing the wheel ).

While in Sweden, Khamsing began again working on his novel ˈMɛɛw (), which is a metaphor for Thailand itself.

While on the road, they discuss language, literature, American expansion, the Oregon Trail, etc., and their trip becomes a metaphor for the history of the French exploration of North America.

While users frequently explain the symbol as a rebuke against Creationism, Lessl suggests that the emblem represents a metaphor for cultural progress.

While coming to terms with who he was, Mather read Robert Boyle ’ s book “ The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy .” Mather read Boyle ’ s work closely throughout the 1680s and his early works on science and religion borrowed greatly from it.

While numerous theories and principles are related to the Fermi paradox, the most closely related is the Drake equation.

While it may well be the case that the people of the western stream spoke a language belonging to a wider Eastern Bantu division, it is a puzzle which remains to be resolved that they spoke a language most closely related to the languages just mentioned, all of which are today spoken in southeastern Africa.

While studying in Shanghai, he had closely examined the catalogs for various institutions of higher learning around the world.

While the jaguar closely resembles the leopard, it is sturdier and heavier, and the two animals can be distinguished by their rosettes: the rosettes on a jaguar's coat are larger, fewer in number, usually darker, and have thicker lines and small spots in the middle that the leopard lacks.

While hyperlinks have come into widespread use, the closely related semantic link is not yet widely used.

While each state has its own rules of evidence, many states model their rules on the Federal Rules of Evidence, which themselves relate closely to the common-law mode of examination.

While the constitution guarantees the protection of human rights, in practice there are severe limits on freedom of expression, and the government supervises the lives of the people closely.

While Shakespeare closely followed Cinthio's tale in composing Othello, he departed from it in some details.

While inexperienced in foreign affairs, Truman had closely followed the allied progress of the war.

While the Eisenhower administration approved of the strategy in general, LeMay continued to increase SAC ’ s independence by refusing to submit SAC war plans for review, believing that operational plans should be closely guarded, a view the Joint Chiefs of Staff eventually came to accept.

While in the service of Elizabeth of Valois, Anguissola worked closely with Alonso Sanchez Coello.

While the standard Tube map mostly avoided representing mainline rail services, a new variant of the map issued in 1973, the ' London's Railways ' map, was the first to depict Tube and surface rail services in a diagrammatic style closely matched to Beck's designs.

While there has been some debate as to whether all three lineages are monophyletic, i. e. descended from a single ancestor, or diphyletic, recent genetic evidence suggests all three descended from a caniform ancestor most closely related to modern bears.

While modern flares can have an IR signature that is closely matched to the launching aircraft's engine exhaust, there is a readily distinguishable difference in UV signature between flares and jet engines.

While all the Eastern Catholic Churches recognize the authority of the Pope, some of them who having originally been part of the Orthodox Church or Oriental Orthodox Church closely follow the traditions of Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy, including the tradition of allowing married men to become priests.

* While a great many superhero costumes do not feature capes, the garment is still closely associated with them, likely because two of the most widely-recognized superheroes, Batman and Superman, wear capes.

While the two fields are closely related, ' urban design ' differs from ' urban planning ' in its focus on the proactive design of urban areas, whereas the latter tends, in practice, to focus on the management of private development through established regulatory planning methods and programs, and other statutory development controls.

While the creation of Narnia closely echoes the creation of the Earth in the Book of Genesis, there are a number of important differences.

While geodesy and geophysics are separate fields, the two are so closely connected that many scientific organizations such as the American Geophysical Union, the Canadian Geophysical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics encompass both.

While females move between satellite territories of different males, they appear to remain within the same territories for most of their lives, mating with the same or closely related males over the course of their life span.

While sea lions are generally larger than fur seals and lack the dense underfur of the latter, the long-standing division into subfamilies ( Arctocephalinae and Otariinae for fur seals and sea lions, respectively ) is unjustified in light of genetic evidence suggesting several fur seal species are more closely related to some sea lions than other fur seals.

While Bhutan sees its destiny as being closely linked with that of India, for which reason it strives to promote excellent relations with it, it has also quietly striven to assert its sovereignty at the same time.

While team colors have changed somewhat over the years, with emphasis alternating between blue, white, red, and even black and gold, the 76ers have always been closely identified with the logo featuring the number 76 with 13 stars arranged in a circle above the number 7 to represent the original 13 American colonies.

While simulated annealing generates only one mutated solution, tabu search generates many mutated solutions and moves to the solution with the lowest energy of those generated.

* While a growing number of humans believe that their computers and the simulated personalities they interact with are intelligent to the point of human-level consciousness, experts dismiss the possibility that any could pass the Turing Test.

While the current version is not quite a true simulated world ( lacking details such as weather ), it is very complex and contains a large persistent world.

While computer graphics software provides a variety of alternatives to screentone, its appearance is still frequently simulated, to achieve consistency with earlier work or avoid the appearance of computer-generated images.

While simulated annealing generates only one mutated solution, tabu search generates many mutated solutions and moves to the solution with the lowest fitness of those generated.

While scenario planning can benefit from computer simulations, scenario planning is less formalized, and can be used to make plans for qualitative patterns that show up in a wide variety of simulated events.

While the Pokémon games are traditionally collection-based role-playing video games, Monster Rancher games tend to be simulated animal breeding games.

While the downhill / slalom events are reasonably simulated and playable ( one can play downhill in first person view, and at easier levels missing a gate in the slalom does not disqualify the player ), in ski jump and bobsleigh results are generally hard to predict or control.

While several rats were shown actually breathing Fluorinert ( this scene was cut in the United Kingdom as it was seen as animal cruelty ), scenes depicting actor Ed Harris using the fluid-breathing apparatus were simulated.

While resistance to wear is a legitimate goal of this technique, some employ it in order to make diamond simulants more difficult to detect through conventional means, which may be fraudulent if they are attempting to represent a simulated diamond as real.

While many of the features on the replica are simulated, some of the model's core parts, including the Michelin tires used on the landing gear, are authentic to the Space Shuttle Program.

While experiencing a simulated emotional state, the patient may reflect on past experiences which should have caused that emotion, but where the emotion has not been fully resolved.

While similar sounds coming from multiple sources can occur naturally ( as in the case of a choir or string orchestra ), it can also be simulated using an electronic effects unit or signal processing device.

While he served the suspension, Hernandez was allowed to pitch simulated games and in the minors.

While WNUF broadcasted in stereo, since much of the Big Band music it played was recorded before the advent of stereo, many of the recordings were actually a form of " simulated " stereo or electronically re-recorded to simulate stereo.