Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

While Paul was on the road to Damascus, near Damascus, " suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.

While this slogan is sometimes attributed to Paul Dirac or Richard Feynman, it is in fact due to David Mermin.

Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.

While serving in the military, Brubeck met Paul Desmond in early 1944.

While masculine, feminine, and neuter genders are recognized, nouns do not normally decline for gender, though some nouns, especially Latin words and personal names, exist in multiple forms corresponding to different genders: Alumnus ( male, singular )/ Alumna ( female, singular ); Andrew / Andrea, Paul / Paula, etc.

While these epistles are traditionally attributed to Paul of Tarsus, there are a few scholars who consider them pseudepigraphical.

While extending the notion of number by means of his revolutionary concept of infinite cardinality, Cantor was paradoxically opposed to theories of infinitesimals of his contemporaries Otto Stolz and Paul du Bois-Reymond, describing them as both " an abomination " and " a cholera bacillus of mathematics ".

While J. Gordon Melton, Wouter Hanegraaff, and Paul Heelas have emphasised personal aspects, Mark Satin, Theodore Roszak, Marilyn Ferguson, and Corinne McLaughlin have described New Age as a values-based sociopolitical movement.

While in Francia, Paul was requested by Charlemagne to compile a collection of homilies.

While he was still on the embassy to the Netherlands, Paul III created him the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme on 19 December 1539.

While in Philippi, his exorcism of a demon from a slave girl caused a great uproar in the city, which led to their ( Paul and Silas ) arrest and public beating ().

While in England, he recorded his solo The Paul Simon Songbook in 1965.

While there is little doubt among scholars that Paul is the author, there is discussion over whether the Epistle was originally one letter or composed from two or more of Paul's letters.

While living in New York, Richter directed two feature films, Dreams That Money Can Buy ( 1947 ) and 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements ( 1957 ) in collaboration with Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Fernand Léger, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and others, which was partially filmed on the lawn of his summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.

While patience is not one of the traditional biblical three theological virtues nor one of the traditional cardinal virtues, it is part of the fruit of the Holy Spirit, according to the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians.

While many of the episodes originate from St. Paul, the show often travels to other cities around the U. S. and overseas for its live weekly broadcasts.

While in St. Petersburg, he discovered experimental theater and the work of such artists as Paul Gauguin.

While in America Britten wrote his first music drama, Paul Bunyan, an operetta ( to a libretto by Auden ).

The reasoning for this variance is as follows: While Titus may have been the norm in the epistles, a Gentile not converted to Judaism, Paul nevertheless made an exception for Timothy, whom he circumcised and brought under the Covenant, probably because though Timothy's father was Greek, his mother was Jewish.

While briefly imprisoned in Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive 1905 Russian Revolution, Gorky wrote the play Children of the Sun, nominally set during an 1862 cholera epidemic, but universally understood to relate to present-day events.

While speaking in California in late 1934, Earhart had contacted Hollywood " stunt " pilot Paul Mantz in order to improve her flying focusing especially on long distance flying in her Vega and wanted to move closer to him.

While at Union, Buechner studied under such renowned theologians as Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, and James Muilenberg, who helped Buechner in his search for understanding:

While his brother Tim Finn left for England, Neil was the founder of Crowded House with Split Enz's final drummer Paul Hester in 1985.

While many of Lakeville's workers commute northward to Minneapolis, St. Paul, and closer-in suburbs such as Bloomington, Lakeville has had major industry since the 1960s — including the Airlake Industrial Park, which is served by Airlake Airport, a regional reliever airport.

While serving as Ambassador to Thailand, Martin's foster son, Marine 1LT Glenn Dill Mann, was killed near Chu Lai, South Vietnam, in November 1965 while attacking enemy positions at Thach Tru with his UH-1 helicopter gunship.

While he was performing in onstage in Mama Ama el Rock, a producer in the audience took notice of Martin's acting and offered him a role in the Mexican telenovela Alcanzar una estrella after the show.

While still at Oxford he took Holy Orders in 1815, and became first a curate to his father, and later curate of St Michael and St Martin's Church, Eastleach Martin in Gloucestershire.

While rates of homelessness and homeless deaths increased during the eleven years of Liberal government, the link to Martin's decisions was indirect as affordable housing is a mainly provincial jurisdiction.

While Dean of St. Paul's, he was patron of Saint Martin's League for letter carriers.

While detailing Martin's pursuit of the noble ideals of medical research for the benefit of mankind and of selfless devotion to the care of patients, Lewis throws many less noble temptations and self-deceptions in Martin's path.

* Kagan, Donald and Frederick W. Kagan, While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness and the Threat to Peace Today, New York, St. Martin's Griffin, 2000 ISBN 0-312-28374-1

While not invited to join Paul Martin's Cabinet, McGuinty served on the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development.

While Freddie Martin, whose version was released by RCA Victor Records, was able to top the chart for two weeks, Tony Martin's version, released by Mercury Records, peaked at number four.

While such cultural songs as Ricky Martin's " Livin ' la Vida Loca " and The Supremes ' " Everyday People " played over the extended lunch periods, students who were clearly sitting with students who they would not normally sit with would receive a t-shirt from the school's recycled 90s shirts in the nurse's office.

He is the author of seven books: If at All Possible, Involve a Cow: The Book of College Pranks ( St. Martin's: 1992 ); Complete and Utter Failure: A Celebration of Also-Rans, Runners-Up, Never-Weres and Total Flops ( Doubleday: 1994 ); The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances ( Doubleday: 1996 ); Don't Give Up the Ship: Finding My Father While Lost at Sea ( Ballantine: 2002 ); Hatless Jack ( Plume: 2004 ); Drunkard ( Dutton: 2008 ); and You Were Never in Chicago ( University of Chicago Press: 2012 ).

While Martin's old catch phrase was " Top 40 ", he has since replaced it with " Snore " and " You dont care do you ".

While Disraeli's government survived until the December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.

While the Liberals lost several seats, they still had 111 more seats than the Tories, enabling them to dominate the Canadian House of Commons.

While the Colorados reinforced their monopoly on power and spoils, Liberals called for reform.

While Bennett supported the Conservatives, he opposed Prime Minister Robert Borden's proposal for a Union Government that would include both Conservatives and Liberals, fearing that this would ultimately hurt the Conservative Party.

While the Liberals took only two seats from Labor, Askin got the support of the two independent members, Douglas Darby ( Manly ) and Harold Coates ( Hartley ), giving him enough support to end Labor's 24-year run in power.

While it failed, it allowed the Unionists to portray themselves as the party of compromise and the Liberals as stubborn and recalcitrant.

While not a socialist, Roblin was unquestionably to the " left " of Campbell's Liberals ( a point that he would later acknowledge in his memoirs ).

While negotiations occasionally seemed promising, King was unwilling to fully commit to the transfer, possibly because Charles Stewart, now King's Alberta lieutenant, and John R. Boyle, leader of the provincial Liberals, were sworn enemies of the UFA.

While King was inclined to view UFA politicians, like Progressives elsewhere, as " Liberals in a hurry " who were fundamentally comfortable with his government and preferred it to the Conservatives, Stewart understood that the UFA was a distinct group whose members were in many respect more conservative than liberal.

While the P. C. s made spending promises including paving all of the province's secondary highways, the Liberals — who had returned to the legislature in the 1986 election after fifteen years in the political wilderness — under new leader Laurence Decore stressed dealing with the deficit.

While exposure from the blackout had boosted the PCs into a short-lived tie with Dalton McGuinty's Liberals in the polls, and despite the reputation of the Ontario Tories for increasing their support base in mid-campaign, Eves had trouble convincing voters that his party deserved to stay in office.

While the NDP only outpolled the Liberals by a narrow six-point margin, they managed to unseat many Liberal incumbents in the Greater Toronto Area.

While none of the various protest parties ever succeeded in gaining significant power federally, they were damaging to the Progressive Conservative Party throughout its history, and allowed the federal Liberals to win election after election with strong urban support bases in Ontario and Quebec.

While the Social Democrats were positive to the idea the Social Liberals were initially more sceptical, due to differences in economic policies.

While most Liberals supported the Charlottetown Accord, a number of them opposed it and eventually quit the party.

** While the federalist Liberals maintained a plurality in the National Assembly of Quebec and Jean Charest remained Premier, the conservative, Quebec nationalist ADQ successfully replaced the social democratic and sovereigntist Parti Québécois as the Official Opposition ; prior to this election, the ADQ never had more than five Members of the National Assembly.

While many Liberals still supported free trade, the National Policy was too popular in Ontario and Quebec to end.

While Suez would come to be regarded by many as one of the finest moments in Canadian foreign policy, at the time it cost the Liberals support outside of Quebec.

While in Nova Scotia and elsewhere, opponents of confederation were predominantly Liberals and supporters were predominantly Tories, in New Brunswick the debate blurred party lines.

While the Liberals had traditionally been the party for radical change and free trade, in the 1896 election, they embraced a much more conservative platform.

While they were still the Official Opposition in the legislature by virtue of having more seats than the Liberals, the NDs ' popular support fell behind the Liberals ( 26 % to the Liberal's 28 %) for the first time in decades.

While the Liberals could never be called a Catholic party, the Catholic vote became as important a constituency to the Liberals as the Orange vote became to the Conservatives.