While en route to the Shi ' ar home world, Xavier is abducted and is later thrown into the M ' Kraan Crystal by Vulcan.

While Iran has outlawed homosexuality, Iranian Shi ' a thinkers such as Ayatollah Khomeini have allowed for transsexuals to change their sex so that they can enter heterosexual relationships.

While on Cable's island, the team and Iceman began working to defeat the Shi ' ar weapon known as the Hecatomb.

* 1276 – While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.

While Shi ' a and Druze parties command fierce loyalty to their leaderships, there is more factional infighting among many of the Christian parties.

While in China, Shi Tao used a Yahoo email address to notify a pro-democracy website that the Chinese government ordered the Chinese media not to cover the fifteenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 on June 4.

While the vast majority of Samarra's native citizens are Sunnis and the Sunnis do not share the same religious practices that the Ja ' farī Madhhab Shi ' a of Iraq do, they consider these to be the grave sites of their forefathers and the pillars of Islam (' Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari ).

While Shang Yang ( the Prime Minister of Duke Xiao of Qin ) would allow rulers to listen to musical instruments rather than focus on foreign policy, Han Fei ( the Legalist scholar most admired by the First Qin Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi ) demanded more of the wise ruler.

While there is reason to doubt Sima Qian ’ s claim that Qin Shi Huang did in fact divide households into groups of ten, certainly the other examples of standardization and administrative organization undertaken by the First Emperor reflect the importance of Legalist thought in Qin law.

While in the Genosha prison cells, Gambit and Xavier find the Shi ' ar parts hunters and they are told what is happening.

While they battle, Rachel and Korvus try, and fail, to stop the beacon that will initiate the attack by the Shi ' ar.

While they battle, Rachael and Korvus try, but fail to stop the beacon that will initiate the attack by the Shi ' ar.

While the Avengers Infinity group are held by the Shi ' ar, the Ruul imprison them under the orders of the Supreme Intelligence.

While ethnic media might provide a useful category of analysis, it can sometimes, as Shi points out, run the risk of homogenizing all members of a certain given ethnic group into a single overarching descriptive category.

While Shen was appointed as the regional inspector of Zhejiang in 1073, the Emperor requested that Shen pay a visit to the famous poet Su Shi ( 1037 – 1101 ), then an administrator in Hangzhou.

While the majority of Muslims in Singapore are traditionally Sunni Muslims who follow the Shafi ' i school of thought, there are also Muslims who follow the Hanafi school of thought as well as Shi ' ite Muslims.

While acknowledging its support base to be the “ traditionally under-represented politically and economically disadvantaged ” Shi ' a community, it aimed, according to Palmer-Harik, to seek social justice for all deprived Lebanese.

While the Shi ' ites take the meaning ' master ' or ' ruler ', some Sunni scholars say that Muhammad was merely saying that anyone who was his friend should also befriend Ali.

While enrolled in the Beijing Film Academy, Tian directed a short student film, Our Corner ( 1980 ), based on a short story by Shi Tiesheng.

While Sunnis regard him as his rightful successor ( caliph ), chosen by the people, indeed, the first of four righteous Caliphs ( Rashidun ), the Shi ' a insist that he violated Muhammad's direct orders and orchestrated a Coup d ' état.

While the Farangis had accepted Mughal gifts in the seventeenth century, by the nineteenth century they had withdrawn from politics to avoid contamination by the Shi ’ a rulers of Lucknow and their British overlords.

While both Sunni and Shi ' a groups believe in the Mahdi, the largest Shi ' a group, the Twelvers, believe that the Mahdi is the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, who is believed to have gone into occultation since 874 CE.

While Sunni and Shia Islam differ sharply on the conduct of a caliph and the right relations between a leader and a community, they do not differ on the underlying theory of stewardship.

While Sunni Islam was the state religion, there was not widespread pressure to convert ; indeed, Jahangir specifically warned his nobles that they " should not force Islam on anyone .” In the first century of Islamic expansion this attitude was taken partially because of concerns that an absence of non-Muslims would deprive the state of a valuable source of revenue.

While there has been an aversion to potential idol worship through Islamic history, this is a distinctly modern Sunni view.

While members of the Sunni Muslim minority do not have reserved seats in the majlis, they were not allowed to serve in the body.

While one is allowed to consume prohibited or haraam food to protect one's life under the jurisprudence of idtirar, some Sunni sources emphasize the fact that a person who prefers to proclaim their faith in the face of death will have a greater reward than they who deny their faith to save their lives.

While their program of united resistance to Russian conquest was popular, uniting Ichkeria / Mishketia with Dagestan was not necessarily ( see Shamil's page ), especially as some Chechens still practiced the indigenous religion, most Chechen Muslims belonged to heterodox Sufi Muslim teachings ( divided between Qadiri and Naqshbandiya, with a strong Qadiri majority ), rather than the more orthodox Sunni Islam of Dagestan ; and finally, the rule of Ichkeria by a foreign ruler not only spurred distrust, but also threatened the existence of Ichkeria's indigenous " taip-conference " government structure.

The recent emphasis on Sunni and scripturalist Islam encouraged by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam political-religious party is making inroads into Baloch regions. While the Baloch population does not discriminate the above said State forces promote the discrimination.

While he did not lose any important territories in North Africa, the Ismaili communities there were attacked by Sunni fighters led by their influential Maliki jurists.

While the Sindhi and Kutchi languages are spoken by both Muslims and non-Muslims, Memoni refers exclusively to the vernacular of the Kathiawadi Memons who are predominately Sunni Muslims that migrated from Sindh to the neighbouring regions of Kutch and Kathiawar in Gujarat several centuries ago.

While Al-Ash ' ari and Al-Tahawi were Sunni together with Al-Maturidi, they constructed their own theologies diverging slightly from Abu Hanifa's school.

While the majority are Sunni, there are also significant Shia and Ahmadi Muslims ; 7 % and 4 % respectively.

While he was raised under a Sunni Muslim household, during his rookie season with the Green Bay Packers he converted to Christianity.

While in Salah al-Din, Baer unsuccessfully urged the Clinton administration to back an internal Iraqi attempt to overthrow Hussein ( organized by a group of Sunni military officers, the Iraqi National Congress ' Ahmad Chalabi, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's Jalal Talabani ) in March 1995 with covert CIA assistance.

While in Germany, he was drawn to Al Quds Mosque in Hamburg, which adheres to a " harsh, uncompromisingly fundamentalist, and resoundingly militant " version of Sunni Islam.

While Abu Hanifa and Ahmad bin Hanbal agreed with them in this, the followers of the Hanafi and Hanbali schools generally do not, nor do the other two Sunni schools.

While exact statistics on religion in Burkina Faso are not available and vary widely, the Government of Burkina Faso estimated in its most recent census ( 1996 ) that approximately 60 percent of the population practice Islam, and that the majority of this group belong to the Sunni branch, while remaining minorities adhere to the Shi ' a branch, and significant numbers of Sunni Muslims identify with the Tijaniyah Sufi, or Salafi traditions.

While the exact ethnic distribution of the Iraqi population by governorate is unknown, because the country has not had an official census for 15 years, governorates that include substantial Sunni populations include Baghdad, Al Anbar, Salah ad Din, Ninawa and Diyala.

While many leading chemists of the time refused to accept Lavoisier's new ideas, demand for Traité élémentaire as a textbook in Edinburgh was sufficient to merit translation into English within about a year of its French publication.

While the Freien Ämter often had independent lower courts, they were forced to accept the Confederation's sovereignty.

While the classic guidelines still apply, today's anti-guerrilla forces need to accept a more disruptive, disorderly and ambiguous mode of operation.

While the self-designation of hobbyists as hackers is acknowledged by all three kinds of hackers, and the computer security hackers accept all uses of the word, people from the programmer subculture consider the computer intrusion related usage incorrect, and emphasize the difference between the two by calling security breakers “ crackers ” ( analogous to a safecracker ).

While non-local businesses are welcome to accept Hours, those businesses need to spend them on local goods and services to be economically sustainable.

While it retains traditional references to a personal redeemer and prayers for the restoration of the Davidic line in the liturgy, Conservative Jews are more inclined to accept the idea of a messianic era:

While the Catholic Church has a defined doctrine on original sin, it has none on the eternal fate of unbaptized infants, leaving theologians free to propose different theories, which Catholics are free to accept or reject.

While, in principle, any general-purpose lossless compression algorithm ( general-purpose meaning that they can accept any bitstring ) can be used on any type of data, many are unable to achieve significant compression on data that are not of the form for which they were designed to compress.

While all the other outcasts lay idly lamenting, one of them, named Moses, advised them not to look for help to gods or men, since both had deserted them, but to trust rather in themselves, and accept as divine the guidance of the first being, by whose aid they should get out of their present plight.

While the court was prepared to accept Mary's fiancé as king, the majority of the nobility was opposed to the idea of a female monarch and regarded her closest agnate, King Charles III of Naples, as the legitimate heir.

While he was prepared to become head of state he made it known that it would not necessarily be as monarch: " I will accept the responsibility of head of state if that is what the Loya Jirga demands of me, but I have no intention to restore the monarchy.

While many historians accept this belief doubt remains.

While clearly contributing to the field, he did not accept many of the more " philosophical consequences and interpretations " of quantum mechanics, such as the lack of deterministic causality.

While IntServ mechanisms do work, it was realized that in a broadband network typical of a larger service provider, Core routers would be required to accept, maintain, and tear down thousands or possibly tens of thousands of reservations.

While Worf decided to accept this dishonor, it was decided to keep Kurn's true identity secret in order to protect his honor ( TNG: " Sins of the Father ").

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 Otto III was in Pavia, Crescentius II, fearing the king's march on Rome, reconciled with Otto III and agreed to accept his nominee as pope.

While the core will accept light at higher numerical apertures ( higher angles ), those rays will not totally reflect off the core – cladding interface, and so will not be transmitted to the other end of the fiber.

While acceptance of this premise can lead to the conclusion that a god must exist, the argument itself provides no demonstrated necessity to accept the premise.

While defending Maimonides against Hasdai and Albo, he refused to accept dogmatic articles for Judaism, criticizing any formulation as minimizing acceptance of all 613 mitzvot.

While he did check some himself, the sheer number of objects meant Dreyer had to accept them as published for purpose of his compilation.

While the King retained extensive power over policy-making, as well as the sole power of the Executive, he was, nonetheless, reliant upon the Parliament to accept and pass his legal decrees.

While Section 106 does not mandate explicitly that any federal agency director accept the advice of the ACHP, their advice has practical influence, especially given the statutory obligations of the NHPA that require federal agencies to " take into account the effect of the undertaking.

While they taught her to treat blacks and members of other racial groups as equals, they cannot accept their daughter's actions for they did not expect her to introduce to them a black man as their future son-in-law.