While the city withstood a siege, Heraclius campaigned deep into Persian territory and briefly restored the status quo in 628, when the Persians surrendered all their conquests.

While welcomed by the target shooting community, in 2008 opposition deputies Jim Deasy and Olivia Mitchell campaigned to ban these pistols on the grounds that they could be used in crime.

While he campaigned for Conservative candidates in the 1917 federal election he did not stand for re-election himself.

While attending Antioch College in the early 1960s, Gould was active in the civil rights movement and often campaigned for social justice.

While campaigning for president in 1952, Eisenhower denounced the Truman administration's failures in Korea, campaigned alongside McCarthy, and refused to defend Marshall's policies.

While the general campaigned successfully on the Rhine, the young emperor remained at Vienne, in contrast to his warrior father and his older brother, who had campaigned at his age.

While still in the Army, he actively campaigned for the election of Franklin Pierce, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1852, and a former general in the Mexican War who had been impressed by Beauregard's performance at Mexico City.

While the creation is unrecorded, he campaigned in Ireland from 1394 to 1395, and both he and King Richard use the title in letters that spring.

While O ' Connell campaigned for full scale Repeal of the Act, leaders like Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart Parnell sought a more modest form of Home Rule within the United Kingdom, rather than the full recreation of an independent Irish state.

While in the Senate, he strongly opposed American involvement in World War I and campaigned for child labor laws, social security, women's suffrage, and other progressive reforms.

While still at school, Tatchell campaigned in favour of better treatment of, and full human rights for, the Aboriginal people of Australia.

While Soult's Corps campaigned in central northern Italy, Masséna was besieged in Genoa by an Austrian army of 24, 000 and a British naval squadron.

While serving in the Tasmanian parliament, Brown successfully campaigned for a large increase in the protected wilderness areas.

While in college he worked as a congressional aide to Senator George McGovern ( to whom he is not related ), a two-time presidential candidate he campaigned for.

While BC Socred Premier Bennett campaigned actively for the federal party, its internal strain, Manning ’ s call to merge with the PCs, the defections of Thompson and Olson, and the wave of Trudeaumania swept the Socreds aside.

While Fianna Fáil campaigned on a platform of not introducing any public spending cuts, the party committed a complete u-turn once in government.

While in Parliament Kingham successfully campaigned to change laws to protect firefighters and to get a nationwide cystic fibrosis screening programme for newborn babies.

While editing the Independent on Sunday in 1997, she campaigned for the decriminalisation of cannabis use by individuals, earning her the nickname " Rizla Rosie ".

While in the House of Commons, he campaigned against the use of Public Interest Immunity Certificates, and exposed the arms-dealing activities of the billionaire publisher Robert Maxwell.

While in Massachusetts he campaigned with the Massachusetts politician Benjamin Butler, the Greenback Party's candidate for President.

While he was in custody, his sister Margaret campaigned on his behalf, in the process meeting the socialist writer and economist G. D. H. Cole, whom she subsequently married.

While living in the U. S. he campaigned for David Duke in his bid to be elected to the United States Congress in 1999, as well as working for Pat Buchanan's bid to be elected President of the United States in the 2000 U. S. presidential election.

While in university, Greig campaigned on the issue of student fees and, in 1986, he helped re-establish the National Union of Students.

While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

While it would take sometime for this novel concept to catch on with the " die hard Vinyl DJs ", This would soon become the first step in the new Digital DJ revolution.

While a truly characteristic euphonium sound is rather hard to define precisely, most players would agree that an ideal sound is dark, rich, warm, and velvety, with virtually no hardness to it.

While very difficult to bowl accurately, good leg spin is considered one of the most threatening types of bowling to bat against, since the flight and sharp turn make the ball's movement extremely hard to read and the turn away from the batsman ( assuming he or she is right-handed ) is more dangerous than the turn into the batsman generated by an off spinner.

While it is hard to assess the significance of military archery in pre-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon warfare, it is clear that archery played a prominent role under the Normans, as the story of the Battle of Hastings shows.

While the dividing line between machine pistols and compact submachine guns is hard to draw, the term " submachine gun " usually refers to larger automatic firearms scaled down from a full-sized machine gun to fire handgun rounds, while the term " machine pistol " usually refers to a weapon built up from a semi-automatic pistol design.

While heavy machine guns such as the Maxim gun and the Vickers gun were fearsome defensive weapons in a built-up emplacement, they were very hard to move to a new position if the army had advanced to a new area, or if it had to fall back.

While on the one hand most simulators will be limited from being unable to simulate much other hardware in a system, they can exercise conditions that may otherwise be hard to reproduce at will in the physical implementation, and can be the quickest way to debug and analyze problems.

While it is not required to attend the week-long festivities and seminars, it is thought by some that those in the running for the Gold Award may advance their cause by displaying professionalism and hard work at that time ; judges for the contest, however, refute this, as the judging is done blindly in advance of the week-long pre-awards event and most judges don't arrive on site until the last day of the workshop.

While pieces of light armor purportedly worn by ninja exist and date to the right time, there is no hard evidence of their use in ninja operations.

While government law already demanded that land purchases be completed with specie or paper notes from specie-backed banks, a large portion of buyers used paper money from state banks not backed by hard money.

" While the public mistakenly presumes that this federal agency is hard at work conducting complicated tests on every new model of truck, van, car, and SUV, in reality, just 18 of the EPA ’ s 17, 000 employees work in the automobile-testing department in Ann Arbor, Michigan, examining 200 to 250 vehicles a year, or roughly 15 percent of new models.

While tungsten-carbide bits are very hard, they eventually wear out or break.

While they are primarily used for sound recording, tape machines were also important for data storage before the advent of floppy disks and CDs, and are still used today, although primarily to provide an offline backup to hard disk drives.

While the number of homosexuals in German concentration camps is hard to estimate, Richard Plant gives a rough estimate of the number of men convicted for homosexuality " between 1933 to 1944 at between 50, 000 and 63, 000.

While he came from middle-class and provincial belongings ( seen from the perspective of European polite society ) he worked very hard to gain access to all levels of society, and the settings of his fiction range from working class to aristocratic, and often describe the efforts of middle-class Americans to make their way in European capitals.

While trying to attach the coral to the new transplant site, they found the coral placed on hard rock is growing considerably well, and coral was even growing on the wires that attached the transplant corals to the transplant site.

While the absence of plentiful primary sources makes it hard for us to map out Isaac ’ s life, piecing together the sources we do have along with the works he wrote give us a good picture of just how popular this Franco-Flemish composer was in his time.

While not known for extensive learning or brilliant speech, Huntington's steady hard work and unfailing calm manner earned him the respect of his fellow delegates.

While the economic recession has hit Sauk Village hard in 2009, the Village has managed to work through the challenges.

While Sitchin's scenario for the creation of the Solar System is hard to reconcile with the Earth's current small orbital eccentricity of only 0. 0167, Sitchin's supporters maintain that it would explain much of Earth's peculiar early geography due to cleaving from the celestial collision, i. e., solid continents on one side and a giant ocean on the other.

While both factions opposed Home Rule, there was little else that united them, and a separate Liberal Unionist identity was hard to define in the politics of the late 1890s.

While it is hard to find cases in which a minimal sufficient statistic does not exist, it is not so hard to find cases in which there is no complete statistic.

While Faith No More's first single " Quiet in Heaven / Song of Liberty ", was a " solid post-punk / pre-goth single ", the band is well known for combining elements of heavy metal with funk, hip hop, progressive rock, alternative rock, hardcore punk, polka, easy listening, jazz, samba, bossa nova, hard rock, pop, soul, gospel, and lounge music.