While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

While that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, " America the Beautiful " continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans.

While Nicomachus ' algorithm is the same as Euclid's, when the numbers are prime to one another it yields the number " 1 " for their common measure.

While many indigenous Amazonian people say they received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits, researchers have devised a number of alternative theories to explain its discovery.

While any combination and number of string instruments is possible in a section, a traditional string section sound is achieved with a violin-heavy balance of instruments.

While most urban and suburban transport in Bulgaria is composed of buses ( using an increasing number of CNG vehicles ), around a dozen cities also have trolley bus networks.

While they are not major teratogens, uncertainty remains as to whether they cause cleft palate in a small number of babies and whether neurobehavioural effects occur as a result of prenatal exposure ; they are known to cause withdrawal symptoms in the newborn.

While the detailed particle physics mechanism responsible for inflation is not known, the basic picture makes a number of predictions that have been confirmed by observation.

While professional grading has reduced the number of counterfeits foisted upon investors and has improved buyer confidence substantially, the goal of creating a sight-unseen market for coins remains somewhat elusive.

While he supported the idea of government by an all-powerful sage, ruling as an Emperor, his ideas contained a number of elements to limit the power of rulers.

While aiding the return of nutrients in fecal matter to the soil, it can carry and spread a number of human pathogens.

While an exact number has not been determined, thousands of Canadians have purchased and used what they contend to be grey market radio and television services, licensed in the United States but not in Canada.

While at university, Gauss independently rediscovered several important theorems ; his breakthrough occurred in 1796 when he showed that any regular polygon with a number of sides which is a Fermat prime ( and, consequently, those polygons with any number of sides which is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2 ) can be constructed by compass and straightedge.

While the number of cardinals was small from the times of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance, and frequently smaller than the number of recognized churches entitled to a cardinal priest, in the 16th century the College expanded markedly.

While the overall structure of archaeal pseudopeptidoglycan superficially resembles that of bacterial peptidoglycan, there are a number of significant chemical differences.

While clearly attributable to the presence of the opportunistic pathogens of the genus Candida, candidiasis describes a number of different disease syndromes that often differ in their causes and outcomes.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

While it is clear that the Christmas tree originates in Renaissance and early modern Germany, there are a number of speculative theories as to its ultimate origin.

While there were still a number of loud / fast songs, much of the music featured an eclectic mix of instruments including trumpets and synthesizers.

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 every computable number is definable, the converse is not true: the numeric representations of the Halting problem, Chaitin's constant, the truth set of first order arithmetic, and 0 < sup >#</ sup > are examples of numbers that are definable but not computable.

" Japan Hero said, " While this movie is not the best of the Heisei series, it is still a really interesting movie.

While on the Moon's surface, Schmitt — the only geologist in the astronaut corps — collected the rock sample designated Troctolite 76535, which has been called " without doubt the most interesting sample returned from the Moon ".

While dealing with serious topics in what are now known as anthropology, sociology and psychology, he introduced a satirical approach, " based on the premise that, however serious the subject under review, it could be made more interesting and thus achieve greater effect, if only one leavened the lump of solemnity by the insertion of a few amusing anecdotes or by the throwing out of some witty or paradoxical observations.

While electronic money has been an interesting problem for cryptography ( see for example the work of David Chaum and Markus Jakobsson ), to date, the use of e-money has been relatively low-scale.

While the machine was never developed commercially, it was an interesting ancestor to the modern magnetic tape recorder which it resembled somewhat in design.

While the city is no centre of tourism, it does have various interesting sights and opportunities for recreation.

GameSpot listed him at # 9 in their " Top 10 Video Game Villains " article, stating " Of all the villains to make an appearance on this list, Bowser ... has got to be the most interesting ," later adding " While some people say Bowser's life may have gotten into a rut, the man has simply refined his game down to an everyday thing.

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 large Telidon deployments might hold tens of thousands of pages, users were able to quickly exhaust the content in their particular areas of interest, suggesting that systems would have to contain hundreds of thousands of pages in order to remain interesting for longer periods.

Native Hawaiian scholar Charles Kenn, a Living Treasure of Hawai ' i recognized in the Hawaiian community as a kahuna and expert in Hawaiian history and traditions, was friendly with Max Freedom Long but said, “ While this Huna study is an interesting study, … it is not, and never was Hawaiian .”

While some such exhibits may be conducted in character as a representation of typical everyday life, others are specifically organized to inform the public and so might include an emphasis on handicrafts or other day-to-day activities, which are convenient to stage and interesting to watch, and may be explained out of character.

" ( Alternately reported as " While at a conference a few weeks back, I spent an interesting evening with a grain of salt.

While these elements certainly are " flaws " in camera design, they can produce interesting, artistic, or enjoyable results.

While they are briefly useful to level designers and interesting to experienced players, they are usually not included in final list of levels of the game because of their limited replay value.

While this possibility is interesting to ponder ... Large Field Array can also seem more trite than profound.

While both the new plot and character offered interesting possibilities, the producers felt that their vision for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was put off-course for almost one year.

While most Eulophia flowers rarely exceed 2 " in width, this is often made up for by the sheer abundance of interesting blooms they produce.

While unique sources, such as M, L, or Semitic first editions, are interesting for form-critical purposes, they are quite peripheral to the " synoptic problem " as to how the canonical gospels are interrelated.

While appreciating the force of Ruskin ’ s criticisms, Henry James was more appreciative: “ A structure not supremely interesting, not logical, not … commandingly beautiful, but grandly curious and superbly rich.

While cleaning up after their final party before returning to their unhappy lives, Alabama remarks — an interesting contrast to the closing lines of The Great Gatsby — that emptying the ashtrays is " very expressive of myself.

While there are many interesting and unique science ROVs, there are a few larger high-end systems that are worth taking a look at.

While the term is nowadays used to describe any interesting old vehicle, many in the US consider it only properly used to describe vehicles considered eligible for the CCCA.

While in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1756, West's patron, a gunsmith named William Henry, encouraged him to design a " Death of Socrates " based on an engraving in Charles Rollin's Ancient History ; the resulting composition, which significantly differs from West's source, has been called " the most ambitious and interesting painting produced in colonial America ".

While the battles of Shimonoseki Strait were mere footnotes in the histories of the European powers, an interesting aspect of the affair was the resourcefulness displayed by the Japanese, something another generation of Europeans and Americans, eighty years later would come to appreciate.