While many tokens point forward, the main achievements stand as a culmination of the simple patterns of the Dark ages.

While attempting a forward loop in overpowered storm conditions off the coast of Cantabria, Spain, windsurfer Justin Wheeler gets catapulted into a high double flip.

While St. Louis University completed the first legal forward pass in the first half of September, this accomplishment was in part because most schools did not begin their football schedule until early October.

While the traditional view that Paul's companion Luke authored the gospel is still often put forward, a number of possible contradictions between Acts and Paul's letters lead many scholars to dispute this account.

* While the synoptics look forward to a future Kingdom of God ( using the term parousia, meaning " coming "), John presents an eschatology that has already been realized.

While in philosophy the term specifically refers to a position put forward by the American philosopher Nelson Goodman, in literature and art it refers to a variety of writers and movements.

While the Germans pressed forward, Stalin was confident of an eventual Allied victory over Germany.

While the forward pass is an invention of the North American game, the lateral and backward pass is also a part of rugby union and rugby league, where such passes are much more common.

While it is one of the most commonly used concepts in logic it must not be mistaken for a logical law ; rather, it is one of the accepted mechanisms for the construction of deductive proofs that includes the " rule of definition " and the " rule of substitution " Modus ponens allows one to eliminate a conditional statement from a logical proof or argument ( the antecedents ) and thereby not carry these antecedents forward in an ever-lengthening string of symbols ; for this reason modus ponens is sometimes called the rule of detachment.

While the findings may be troubling, we look forward to putting this behind us and winning more championships in the future for our fans.

While quarterbacks are mainly not a factor in terms of receiving forward passes, some trick plays, like the flea flicker, require quarterbacks to catch a lateral by a wide receiver or running back before delivering a forward pass.

While rowing, the athlete sits in the boat facing backwards ( towards the stern ), and uses the oars which are held in place by the oarlocks to propel the boat forward ( towards the bow ).

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 the thinner shell wall and absence of a central tube allowed the shell to carry far more bullets, it had the disadvantage that the bursting charge separated the bullets from the shell casing by firing the case forward and at the same time slowing the bullets down as they were ejected through the base of the shell casing, rather than increasing their velocity.

While yet a cardinal, he had restored the church of Santa Maria in Domnica after Raphael's designs ; and as pope he had San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, on the Via Giulia, built, after designs by Jacopo Sansovino and pressed forward the work on St Peter's Basilica and the Vatican under Raphael and Agostino Chigi.

While Garfield had by then established himself as a superb orator while managing legislation on the floor of the House, he demonstrated little feel for the mood of the members or ability to control debate on items he brought forward.

While switches may learn about topologies at many layers, and forward at one or more layers, they do tend to have common features.

While most cryptozoologists recognize that at least some reports are simple misidentifications, they claim that many of the creatures described by those who have seen them look nothing like the known species put forward by skeptics and claim that certain reports stick out.

While planes had already been used in the war for scouting, on 1 April the French pilot Roland Garros became the first to shoot down an enemy plane by using a machine gun that fired forward through the propeller blades.

While many slaves were illiterate, educated blacks ( including escaped slaves ) moved down from the North to aid them, and natural leaders also stepped forward.

While they share with otariids the ability to turn their rear flippers forward, their swimming is more reminiscent of that of true seals, relying more on sinuous whole body movements.

While much of Thomsen's understanding of Sumerian grammar would now be rejected by most or all Sumerologists, Thomsen's grammar ( often with express mention of the critiques put forward by Pascal Attinger in his 1993 Eléments de linguistique sumérienne: La construction de du11 / e / di « dire ») is the starting point of most recent academic discussions of Sumerian grammar.

While the Islanders secured veteran forward Ed Westfall from the Boston Bruins in the 1972 NHL Expansion Draft, junior league star Billy Harris in the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft, and a few other players, several other draftees jumped to the WHA.

While the particles themselves can move quite slowly, sometimes with an average drift velocity only fractions of a millimetre per second, the electric field that drives them itself propagates at close to the speed of light, enabling electrical signals to pass rapidly along wires.

While the President was recovering in the hospital, McFarlane met with him and told him that representatives from Israel had contacted the National Security Agency to pass on confidential information from what Reagan later described as the " moderate " Iranian faction opposed to the Ayatollah's hardline anti-American policies.

While Nehru exempted Muslim law from legislation and they remained un-reformed, he did pass the Special Marriage Act in 1954.

While the U. S. Senate did not add any reservation to the treaty, it did pass a measure " interpreting " the treaty which included the statement that the treaty must not infringe upon America's right of self defense and that the United States was not obliged to enforce the treaty by taking action against those who violated it.

While it seemed to be a foregone conclusion that the bill would pass, the opponents went all out to fight it.

While most large, modern cruise ships cannot pass through this canal due to clearance limits under bridges, MS Norwegian Dream has special funnels and masts that can be lowered for passage.

While his term was short, he did manage to pass the Bank Safety Fund Law ( an early form of deposit insurance ) through the Legislature.

While their 7 – 10 mark down the stretch was slightly better than the previous season's 5 – 12, it still allowed the Phillies to pass them, once again.

While the Curiate Assembly did have the power to pass laws that had been submitted by the king, the Senate was effectively an honorary council.

While the Constitution always granted Congress the authority to meet on a different day without the need to pass an amendment, § 2 of the Twentieth Amendment " tidied up " the constitutional text by paralleling the original provision requiring that the Congress meet at least once a year in December, and changing it to January 3 ( unless changed by law ).

While the Senate did pass the amendment on April 8, 1864, by a vote of 38 to 6, the House declined to do so.

While the report was critical of the overall situation, the committee noted that subordinates had failed to pass on important information to their superiors, including Marshall.

While these charges are not cigarette-specific, tobacco companies are ultimately forced to pass on those costs to their consumers.

While material substance is not required for electromagnetic waves to propagate, such waves are usually affected by the transmission media they pass through, for instance by absorption or by reflection or refraction at the interfaces between media.

While the yard tried to pass the vast cost overruns directly onto the Navy, Rickover fought Electric Boat's general manager, P. Takis Veliotis, tooth and nail at every possible turn, demanding that the yard make good on its shoddy workmanship.

While the larvae of the cheese fly are killed by the digestive process, certain species of fly larvae ( which belong to a completely different family ) have adapted to pass through the mammalian digestive system alive when accidentally ingested ( stomach acids do not usually kill them ).

While almost every airliner will be reduced to scrap ( the exceptions end up as museum pieces or flown by collector groups ) they may pass through many owners before they are retired.

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.