While Duke and Paulie cheer Rocky for his heroism, they remind him that Drago is not a machine, but a man.

While Tony did contemplate stabbing Paulie to death while they were on a fishing boat in Miami, he decided not to do anything to him.

While he tends to agree with Paulie G that Valerie is too overbearing, he attempts to accommodate her requests and show ideas.

While still nominally the sovereign, the Mughal Indian emperor became more and more of a puppet ruler, and anarchy spread until the company stepped into the

While Antony cemented his hold in the East and reformed the provincial administration ( like Sulla's provincial reforms, Caesar's had been quietly ignored after his death ), Octavian tightened his grip on the West and nominally oversaw a campaign against the pirate commander Sextus Pompeius ( the campaign was actually commanded by Octavian's lieutenant, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa ), which culminated in victory in 36 BC.

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 Trujillo was nominally a Roman Catholic, his devotion was limited to a perfunctory role in public affairs ; he placed faith in local folk religion.

While the term nominally includes those who do not necessarily consider themselves to be gamers ( i. e., casual gamers ), it is commonly used to identify those who spend much of their leisure time playing or learning about games.

While the treaty nominally reduced British involvement in Iraq's internal affairs, this was only to the extent that Iraq's behavior did not conflict with British economic or military interests.

While membership was nominally voluntary, those who didn't join lost access to officially sponsored holidays and found it very difficult to pursue higher education.

While Wert endured the humiliating situation in Mantua through the late 1560s, he kept his job: he was to remain at least nominally maestro di cappella in Mantua until 1592.

While the district was nominally retained as a separate administrative division, all its subdivisions were administratively subordinated to the town's Council of Deputies.

While it was nominally still a coalition, the " non-Communists " in the cabinet were mostly fellow travelers.

While the Brigantes were nominally an independent kingdom, Tacitus says Cartimandua and Venutius were loyal to Rome and " defended by Roman power ".

While the AFL nominally did not exclude black workers, many of its affiliates did.

While it is nominally under the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus, it is effectively administered by the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ( UNFICYP ).

While the main studio concept nominally remains in US broadcast regulations, and certain administrative requirements ( such as the local employment of a manager and the equivalent of at least one other full-time staff member, as well as the maintenance of a public inspection file ) are still applied, removal of the requirement that stations originate local content greatly weakens the significance of maintaining a local main studio.

While pulse oximeters are a commonly used medical device the PPG derived from them is rarely displayed, and is nominally only processed to determine heart rate.

While states ' rights were nominally the primary issue, the resulting campaign quickly became a contest of personalities.

While Foster nominally shared power with Eugene Dennis and John Williamson, he had the most prestige of the three.

While nominally a cost-reduced R-390 ( savings of about $ 250 each ), its design compromises were minimal, and it added mechanical filters for improved selectivity.

While Joseph nominally led the French Army, his military adviser Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan actually exercised command over their 37, 700 infantry and artillerymen, 8, 400 cavalry and about 80 cannon.

While nominally an agricultural village, many of the inhabitants work in Cambridge, Ely or London.

" While Rawat's brother Satpal was nominally in charge of the festival, Davis was the " General Coordinator " and handled the details.

While dressed and referred to nominally as ' maids ', there are discrete albeit sometimes unusual departments for most of the employees ( including Defence, Science, Catering, etc .).

While nominally Islamic, the customs and religious practices of the Lipka Tatars also accommodated many Christian elements adopted during their 600 years residence in Belarus, Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania while still maintaining the traditions and superstitions from their nomadic Mongol past, such as the sacrifice of bulls in their mosques during the main religious festivals.

While by no means a villain in a conventional sense of the word, Pozzo is sometimes considered ( nominally ) the " antagonist " of Waiting for Godot.

While in Washington, D.C., Lucy Upton held positions in the U.S. Census Office, and in the Pension Bureau.

While that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, " America the Beautiful " continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans.

While the Ottomans held their own in the conflict they ultimately lost with Ochakov falling in 1788 to the Russians ( all of its inhabitants being massacred.

While previously held elsewhere within or near the capital city, since 1918 it has been held on the Champs-Élysées, with the evident agreement of the Allies as represented in the Versailles Peace Conference, and with the exception of the period of German occupation from 1940 to 1944.

While no other Presidium members were enthusiastic for such an approach, Khrushchev held several Central Committee meetings from February to March 1954 to discuss agriculture alone.

While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ( the highest position in Communist China ), he nonetheless served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992.

While Titus held a great many offices under the rule of his father, Domitian was left with honours but no responsibilities.

While many historians have believed that Allen took these actions because he already held Wentworth grants of his own, there is no evidence that he was issued any such grants until after he had been asked to take up the defense of grants held by others.

While it is possible to create a controlled sporting event such as X Games, there are environmental variables that cannot be held constant for all athletes.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

While the Expresión en Corto International Film Festival is the largest competitive film festival in Mexico, specializing in emerging talents, and is held each year during the last week of July in the two colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato.

While swimming, the head was held up but the neck was drawn in.

While the general concept of a " Spirit " that permeates the cosmos is a general feature of most religions ( e. g. Brahman in Hinduism and Tao in Taoism and Great Spirit among Indigenous peoples of the Americas ), the term Holy Spirit specifically refers to the beliefs held in the Abrahamic religions.

While Constantinople experienced a succession of councils alternately approving and condemning doctrine concerning hesychasm considered as identified with Palamism ( the last of the five senses in which, according to Kallistos Ware, the term is used ), the Western Church held no council in which to make a pronouncement on the issue, and the word " hesychasm " does not appear in the Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum ( Handbook of Creeds and Definitions ), the collection of Roman Catholic teachings originally compiled by Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger.

While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of Test cricket records, and still holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by an England bowler.

While Stalin had promised at the Yalta Conference that free elections would be held in Poland, after an election failure in " 3 times YES " elections, vote rigging was employed to win a majority in the carefully controlled poll.

While on the Peleliu, he signed confession documents while he was held by the United States Marine Corps and informed his interrogators that he was not merely Taliban but al-Qaeda, though his father later asserted he was not involved in, and unaware of, al-Qaeda.

While most longships held a length to width ratio of 7: 1, the Karvi ships were closer to 4. 5: 1.

While the army held more than its own against the armies of the kingdom's neighbors, its performance against more technologically advanced European armies deteriorated over time.

While in Hamburg, Atta held a number of jobs, including a part-time position at Plankontor, an urban planning firm, from 1992 until the summer of 1997 when he was laid off.

While four of the Black September members held the pilots at gunpoint ( breaking an earlier promise that they would not take any Germans hostage ), Issa and Tony walked over to inspect the jet, only to find it empty.

While studying law under the mentorship of Oliver Ellsworth, the future U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice, Webster held a full-time job teaching in Hartford — a schedule he found grueling, and ultimately impossible to sustain .< p.

" While insisting on strict adherence to Jewish beliefs and practices, he held that Jews should attempt to engage and influence the modern world, and encouraged those secular studies compatible with Torah thought.