While Johnny made himself comfortable on the couch, I'd play the tunes for him.

While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.

While I respect his sincere concern for peace, he made four points that I would like to question.

While there are now allegations of the withholding of `` favorable evidence developed at the hearing '' and a denial of a `` full and fair hearing '', no such claim was made by petitioner at any stage of the administrative process.

While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

While Wesley freely made use of the term " Arminian ," he did not self-consciously root his soteriology in the theology of Arminius but was highly influenced by 17th-century English Arminianism and thinkers such as John Goodwin, Jeremy Taylor and Henry Hammond of the Anglican " Holy Living " school, and the Remonstrant Hugo Grotius.

While in Jerusalem he made a gift of a gold chalice to the church of the Holy Sepulchre.

While his predecessors Thales and Anaximander proposed that the arche, the underlying material of the world, were water and the ambiguous substance apeiron, respectively, Anaximenes asserted that air was this primary substance of which all other things are made.

" While his one-time acolytes The Rolling Stones and Cream made the front pages of music magazines all over the world, Korner was relegated to the role of ' elder statesman '.

While Hunt negotiated with Bidwills, similar offers were made by Bud Adams, Bob Howsam, and Max Winter.

While the adapter was only made to work on the two-port version, modifications can be made to the four-port to make it line-compatible.

While BASE jumps had been made prior to that time, the El Capitan activity was the effective birth of what is now called BASE jumping.

While the battle raged in the bay, the two straggling British ships made strenuous efforts to join the engagement, focusing on the flashes of gunfire in the darkness.

While a board may have several committees, two -- the compensation committee and audit committee -- are critical and must be made up of at least three independent directors and no inside directors.

While he did well in Las Vegas and other areas, and made records for the Kapp Records label, he was largely a forgotten figure — even though inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968.

While still a youth he was made a canon of Magdeburg cathedral.

While the original Sterling semi-auto would be classed a " short barrel rifle " under the U. S. National Firearms Act, fully legal long-barrel versions of the Sterling have been made for the U. S. collector market.

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

While most crochet is made with a hook, there is also a method of crocheting with a knitting loom.

While Canion developed an 18-month plan to create a line of low-priced computers, Rosen sent his own Compaq engineering team to Comdex without Canion's knowledge and discovered that a low-priced PC could be made in half the time and at lower cost than Canion's initiative.

While the terms ace, deuce, trey, cater, cinque and sice have been made obsolete by one to six, they are still used by some professional gamblers to designate different sides of the dice.

While earlier versions of BIND offered no mechanism to store and retrieve zone data in anything other than flat text files, in 2007 BIND 9. 4 DLZ made available ( as a compile-time option ) zone storage in a variety of database formats including LDAP, Berkeley DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and ODBC.

While the term " anti-globalization " arose from the movement's opposition to free-trade agreements ( which have often been considered part of something called " globalization "), various participants contend they are opposed to only certain aspects of globalization and instead describe themselves, at least in French-speaking organisations, as " anti-capitalist ", " anti-plutocracy ," or " anti-corporate.

While 55 % thought he " would have something worthwhile to contribute and should remain active in public life ", 68 % thought he would be remembered for his " involvement in personal scandal ", and 58 % answered " No " to the question " Do you generally think Bill Clinton is honest and trustworthy?

While she has a brother and several allies, she is essentially a loner, although this is something which is uncomfortable for her to think about.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

While a slight bow to the overall developer community to allow something looking like direct access ( e. g. thereby breaking the Information Hiding Principle ), the practice is dangerous as it hides or obfuscates the reality of a " setter " being used.

While the Senate mustered their willing slaves, Hannibal offered his dishonoured Roman captives a chance for honourable death, in what Livy describes as something very like the Roman munus.

While Adeline is alone in her characteristically Gothic chamber, she detects something supernatural, or mysterious about the setting.

While every representation must be implemented in the machine by some data structure, the representational property is in the correspondence to something in the world and in the constraint that

While the feeling persists that there is something there which is profoundly important, the challenge to elucidate it proves irresistible.

While Xenophon and Plato also described realistic politics, and were closer to Machiavelli than Aristotle was, they, like Aristotle, also saw Philosophy as something higher than politics.

While the band Korn is considered the pioneers of the nu metal genre, frontman Johnathan Davis stated: " I remember when were coming out we were fighting being called a metal band because we weren't a metal band, we were something that wasn't classifiable ," Davis says.

While the Victorian version of the show drew on the morality of its day, the Punch & Judy College of Professors considers that the 20th-and 21st-century versions of the tale have evolved into something more akin to a primitive version of The Simpsons, in which a bizarre family is used as vehicle for grotesque visual comedy and a sideways look at contemporary society.

While the first factor, which describes the bulk of the variation in a set of data, is more likely to represent something objectively real, subsequent factors become more and more abstract.

While " 3 − 4 * 5 " can also be written " 3 − ( 4 * 5 )", that means something quite different from "( 3 − 4 ) * 5 ".

While the patent was initially rejected by the patent office as being a purely mathematical invention, following 12 years of appeals, Pardo and Landau won a landmark court case at the CCPA ( Predecessor Court of the Federal Circuit ) overturning the Patent Office in 1983 — establishing that " something does not cease to become patentable merely because the point of novelty is in an algorithm.

While hosting The Victor Borge Show on NBC beginning in 1946, he developed many of his trademarks, including repeatedly announcing his intent to play a piece but getting " distracted " by something or other, making comments about the audience, or discussing the usefulness of Chopin's " Minute Waltz " as an egg timer.

While visiting wounded service men and women, Nicks became determined to find an object she could leave with each soldier that would raise their spirits, motivate, and give them something to look forward to each day.

While some may be amazed at this expression of the Sinatra talent versatility, it will come as no surprise to those who remember the few times he has had a chance to be something other than a crooner in films.

While her organelle genesis ideas are widely accepted, symbiotic relationships as a current method of introducing genetic variation is something of a fringe idea.

While the interpretation of this event varied from tribe to tribe, one consensus was universally accepted: the powerful earthquake had to have meant something.

While we can confirm that there will indeed be something special done to mark the occasion, the depth of the band's involvement still remains undetermined.

While PS's ability to display fonts on " low resolution " devices was good, " low resolution " meant something on the order of 300 dpi, not the 96 dpi that a NeXT screen used.

While Little Women showed normal American middle class lives of girls, it also “ legitimized ” their dreams to do something different and allowed them to consider the possibilities.

While this section highlights the modern trends of strict mechanical performance as something widespread in the 20th century and beyond ; it is interesting to observe that as early as 1860, there were people who firmly advocated this type of " modern " performance practice:

" While another biographer, David Pryce-Jones, added: " If you come from a ruck of children in a large family, you've got to do something to assert your individuality, and I think through the experience of trying to force her way forward among the sisters and in the family, she decided that she was going to form a personality against everything ".