While not a military genius, and surpassed by his contemporary, Commonwealth hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski, Władysław was known as a fairly skillful commander on his own.

While Władysław, and his father Sigismund, tried to ensure Władysław's election during Sigismund's life, this was not a popular option for the nobility, and it repeatedly failed, up to and including at the sejm of 1631.

While hunting near Merkinė ( Merecz ) in early 1648, Władysław suffered from a case of gallstone or kidney stone.

While Władysław opted for a quick response against him ( the voivode was blinded and muted ), forcing Włostowic to go to Kiev, the High Duke's final decision on his confrontation with the voivode considerably weakened his position.

While he was battling the Turks, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth requested his assistance in war with Moscovy ; they wanted him to provide Władysław IV Vasa, the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, with 20, 000 Cossacks near Moscow.

While in the past the state enjoyed a variety of mammals such as Plains Bison, Eastern elk, bear, and deer, only the White-tailed deer remains abundant.

While his personal quarters were austere, Cleveland did enjoy an active social life and enjoyed " the easy-going sociability of hotel-lobbies and saloons.

While obviously enjoyed by many as a bit of fun, an adrenaline rush, or an escape from reality, outdoor sport is also frequently used as an extremely effective medium in education and team building.

While the above classical hexameter has never enjoyed much popularity in English, where the standard metre is iambic pentameter, English poems have frequently been written in iambic hexameter.

While Cagney was not nominated, he had thoroughly enjoyed the production.

While commercially watered-down, his album enjoyed a status of being one of the first mainstream Spanglish CDs on the market.

While Miyazaki's films have long enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan, he remained largely unknown to the West until Miramax Films released Princess Mononoke.

While the light romantic comedy of A Good Year was not greatly received, Crowe seemed pleased with the film, telling STV in an interview that he thought it would be enjoyed by fans of his other films.

While Valentinian had enjoyed a successful military career prior to his appointment as emperor, Valens apparently had not.

While Marshall enjoyed considerable success in working with Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he refused to lobby for the position.

While historically there may have been actual rivalry and tension between Mozart and Salieri, there is also evidence that they enjoyed a relationship marked by mutual respect.

While he enjoyed " hot pursuit " much like a little boy playing with toy cars would, he ( and Boss Hogg as well ) never intended for anyone to get seriously hurt.

While French losses were proportionally severe, the smaller but better protected Spanish trade suffered the least and it was Spanish privateers who enjoyed much of the best allied plunder of British trade, particularly in the West Indies.

While Louis XVI, as a constitutional king, enjoyed broad popularity among the population, his indecisiveness and conservatism led some elements of the people of France eventually to view him as a symbol of the perceived tyranny of the Ancien Régime, and his popularity deteriorated progressively.

While President Eisenhower suffered heart problems, the economy enjoyed robust health.

While the Basque Country was granted autonomy through the rapid process granted to the " nationalities ", it also retained the economic and fiscal autonomy that it had enjoyed through the fueros or charters.

While the two split singing and songwriting duties roughly in half, Linnell's songs enjoyed the most commercial success in their early years: singles like " Don't Let's Start " and " Ana Ng " introduced the band to college radio, and they made waves on the Billboard charts in 1990 with " Birdhouse in Your Soul ".

While she enjoyed the company of the soldiers she met, the young Tatiana also sometimes found their behavior shocking.

While Chile has produced the largest number of Nueva Canción artists, its popularity has been great in almost all Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, and it enjoyed some popularity in Spain during the 1970s, where it was initially fueled by the political oppression of the Franquist regime ( see Nova Cançó, from Catalonia ).

While on the ship, Felix Yusupov enjoyed boasting about the murder of Rasputin.

While the Reagan Doctrine enjoyed strong support from the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute opposed the Reagan Doctrine, arguing in 1986 that " most Third World struggles take place in arenas and involve issues far removed from legitimate American security needs.

While considered passé by the 1960s, they have enjoyed renewed interest and attention due to the quality of-and attention paid to-the quality of construction and variety of design.

While the development enjoyed an almost isolated location for many years, real estate development during the 1990s greatly increased the population.

While the Charter has enjoyed a great deal of popularity, with 82 % of Canadians describing it as a " good thing " in opinion polls in 1987 and 1999, the document has also been subject to published criticisms from both sides of the political spectrum.

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 at Jerusalem, Absalom built support for himself among the populace by promising justice for all " if only I were appointed judge in the land ", and by showing humility by kissing those who approached him rather than accepting supplication.

While the Mercury capsule could only support one astronaut on a limited Earth orbital mission, the Apollo spacecraft was to be able to carry three astronauts on a circumlunar flight and eventually to a lunar landing.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

While Pope Stephen V supported Guy, crowning him Roman Emperor in 891, Arnulf threw his support behind Berengar.

While the 7800 can actually play hundreds of titles due to its compatibility with the Atari 2600, there was limited third party support for the 7800 and fewer than 100 titles were specifically designed for it.

While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound — core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood — beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.

While the British foreign affairs were in favour of support of the Canadian argument, the event resulted in what was thought of as a betrayal, leading to alienation of the British from the new nation of Canada.

While he told staff that he had bumped into a suitcase, the media briefly reported it as a sign of cutaneous anthrax and a possible link to the 2001 anthrax attacks, although FBI later addressed the rumors stating that " Exhaustive testing did not support that anthrax was present anywhere the hijackers had been.

While his work on deciphering the Maya script gained some support from Alfred Tozzer at Harvard, the main authority on Ancient Maya culture, J. E. S.

While tests have been done to support this with fixed pieces of flat metal, the result is inconclusive with respect to the curved armour of the period. Given the following actions of the archers, it seems likely Froissart was correct.

While Allied Air Forces were tied to the support of the Army, the Luftwaffe deployed its resources in a more general, operational way.

While the definitive studies are lacking, the former view received support from a 2004 meta-analysis of 13 small studies.

While most pre-Columbian historians believe that there was ritual cannibalism related to human sacrifices, they do not support Harris's thesis that human flesh was ever a significant portion of the Aztec diet.

While Cotton Mather was experimenting with the procedure, prominent Puritan pastors Benjamin Colman and William Cooper expressed public and theological support for them.

While encyclopedias in larger languages, having large markets that could support a large editorial staff, churned out new 20-volume works in a few years and new editions with brief intervals, such publication plans often spanned a decade or more in smaller languages.

While the conservative wing of the German political spectrum, primarily formed of the CDU and CSU, enjoys considerable support, this support tends to be less extended to Stoiber.

While threads require external library support in most languages, Erlang provides language-level features for creating and managing processes with the aim of simplifying concurrent programming.

While some experts point to statistics in support of the idea that a lack of adoption of research findings results in suboptimal treatment for many patients, others emphasize the importance of the skill of the practitioner and the customization of the treatment to fit individual needs.

While far from a cure, operant-based biofeedback based on conditioning of EEG waves has some experimental support ( see Professional practice of behavior analysis ).

While taxonomists using molecular phylogenetic techniques find strong support for the order, there remain questions about the morphological relationships of the Quillajaceae and Surianaceae to the rest of the order, due in part to limited research on these families.

While many Guianese wish to see more autonomy, support for complete independence is low.

While fascists promoted social welfare to ameliorate economic conditions affecting their nation or race as whole, they did not support social welfare for egalitarian reasons.

While passages in John have been used to support anti-semitism, these passages reflect a dispute within Judaism, and it is highly questionable whether the evangelist himself was anti-semitic.