While some individuals might deliberately use a biased sample to produce misleading results, more often, a biased sample is just a reflection of the difficulty in obtaining a truly representative sample.

While previous critics such as A. W. Gomme believed that the slave was “ truly comic character, the devisor of ingenious schemes, the controller of events, the commanding officer of his young master and friends, is a creation of Latin comedy ,” and that Greek dramatists such as Menander did not use slaves in such a way that Plautus later did, Harsh refutes these beliefs by giving concrete examples of instances where a clever slave appeared in Greek comedy.

While the shareware game would be a truly complete game, there would be additional " episodes " of the game that were not shareware, and could only be legally obtained by paying for the shareware episode.

While many middle-class residents live in high-rise condos near the center, the houses of the truly affluent are located in the lower neighborhoods southwest of the Prado.

While not truly a unit of capacity, a refrigeration system's coefficient of performance ( CoP ) is very important in determining a system's overall efficiency.

While these walls protected the main town, it was not safe to live on the rest of the island until Mediterranean piracy was largely eradicated, which did not truly end until the 19th century.

While the Xbox and GameCube versions also received generally positive reviews ( the Xbox version was described as " truly fantastic " and " the best Star Wars experience on the Xbox " and the GameCube version as " worth spending time with "), their aggregated scores were not as strong as the PC and Macintosh versions '.

" While a strong case can be made that even the more seemingly arbitrary components of the TCSEC contribute to a " chain of evidence " that a fielded system properly enforces its advertised security policy, not even the highest ( E7 ) level of the CC can truly provide analogous consistency and stricture of evidentiary reasoning.

While Sega would later rival Nintendo's success with the Mega Drive / Genesis, Atari never truly recovered and could not match the success of its competitors or its own 2600 console ; it finally stopped producing game systems in after the failure of the Atari Jaguar.

While not truly counting steps ( no pendulum is involved ) an advanced GPS odometer can accurately reveal the distance traveled to within 1 / 100 of a mile ( depending on the model, perhaps 1 / 1000 of a mile ).

While the CMI continues to function in an advisory capacity, many of its functions have been taken over by the International Maritime Organization, which was established by the United Nations in 1958 but did not become truly effective until about 1974.

While the life described in the Vinaya may appear difficult, it would be perhaps better described as Spartan rather than truly ascetic.

While she was not truly featured as a character in the novel, Henry II was as he was featured as the nun's father.

While this instrument is in reality a conical-cylindrical bore hybrid, neither truly euphonium nor baritone, it was almost universally labeled a " baritone " by both band directors and composers.

While Pius considered another Benedict, Benedict XIV in terms of his sanctity and scholarly contributions to be worthy as Doctor of the Church, he thought that Benedict XV during his short pontificate was truly a man of God, who worked for peace.

While most soaps centered on extended families or large hospitals that tended to be insular in their scope, The Edge of Night was probably the only daytime serial to truly capture the dynamics of a medium-sized city.

While Angelus killed Jenny in vampiric face — a result of Joss not wanting the audience to truly hate Angel's face — Giles is murdered while Angel's face is in human form.

While some purists may condemn this practice, it allows the consumer to contribute his or her own creative processes to tailor a unique malt whisky that is truly his or hers.

While she would appear in a handful of films throughout the seventies, including The Children of Sanchez ( 1978 ), with the Mexican legends Anthony Quinn and Dolores del Río, Mendez truly came into her own in Mexican television starting with a small part in Muchacha italiana viene a casarse ( 1971 ) with Angelica María.

While Western participants ' responses were exactly what would have been expected by reading the philosophical literature, ( Bob only believes that Jill drives an American car ), the majority of East Asian participants actually reported the opposite ( Bob truly knows that Jill drives an American car ).

While such a mistake necessarily involves a normative judgment, it is not truly subjective.

While these references from Redwall, the first book, were made before the series had truly realized itself, The Taggerung makes references to an underworld again when a devilish character called " Vulpuz " is mentioned by one seer as the ruler of Hellgates and the ancestor of foxes.

While some maintain that this doctrine is the opposite of " works ' righteousness " and conflicts with some of the aspects of the Roman Catholic doctrine of merit, it might be asserted that this article, taken at face value, conflicts in no way with Roman Catholic teaching ; while the doctrine that grace is truly and always a gift of God is held in agreement between both views, the difference in doctrine lies mainly in two facts: that of God as sole actor in grace ( in other words, that grace is always efficacious without any cooperation by man ), and second, that man cannot by any action of his own, acting under the influence of grace, cooperate with grace to " merit " greater graces for himself ( the latter would be the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church ).

While Apostolo Zeno and Alessandro Scarlatti had paved the way, the genre only truly came to fruition due to Metastasio and later composers.

While often simplistically summarised as " aboutness " or the relationship between mental acts and the external world, Brentano defined it as the main characteristic of mental phenomena, by which they could be distinguished from physical phenomena.

While the tactics of modern guerrilla warfare originate in the 20th century, irregular warfare, using elements later characteristic of modern guerrilla warfare, has existed throughout the battles of many ancient civilizations but in a smaller scale.

While many of the public shrines are elaborate structures, all are characteristic Japanese architectural styles of different periods depending on their age.

While Lindgren almost immediately became a much appreciated writer, the irreverent attitude towards adult authority that is a distinguishing characteristic of many of her characters has occasionally drawn the ire of some conservatives.

While many New Zealand winemakers are still developing a characteristic style, the Chardonnay produced so far have emphasized the grape's affinity for oak.

While electromagnetic interference ( EMI ) is a phenomenon-the radiation emitted and its effects-electromagnetic compatibility ( EMC ) is an equipment characteristic or property-to not behave unacceptably in the EMI environment.

While the tin whistle is very common in Irish music to the point that it could be called characteristic of the genre and fairly common in Scottish music, it is not a " required " instrument in either one.

While analysis is characteristic of the analytic tradition in philosophy, what is to be analyzed ( the analysandum ) often varies.

While the method of analysis is characteristic of contemporary analytic philosophy, its status continues to be a source of great controversy even among analytic philosophers.

While the supply shortages of consumer goods characteristic of the 1980s went away ( see Consumer goods in the Soviet Union ), this was not only related to the opening of Russia's market to imports in the early 1990s but also to the impoverishment of the Russian people in the 1990s.

While often simplistically summarised as " aboutness " or the relationship between mental acts and the external world, Brentano defined it as the main characteristic of mental phenomena, by which they could be distinguished from physical phenomena.

While some authors choose to treat a planet in depth, considering it to have a wide diversity of geography, climate, politics and culture, others prefer to characterize their planets by some single global characteristic.

While there are very small pockets of Amish communities in Bucks County, this is much more characteristic of Central Pennsylvania, a considerably more rural area than suburban Lower Bucks.

While the traditional characteristic of a fire appliance was a lack of water pumping or storage, many modern TLs have a water pumping function built in ( and some have their own onboard supply reservoir ), and may have a pre-piped waterway running the length of the ladder, to allow a stream of water to the firefighters at the top.

While " radius " normally is a characteristic of perfect spheres, the term as employed in this article more generally means the distance from some " center " of the Earth to a point on the surface or on an idealized surface that models the Earth.

While they would have the press believe that their characteristic arguments were a thing of the past, excesses typical to the era took their toll.

While some authors describe both lacustrine and marine locations of Gilbert deltas, others note that their formation is more characteristic of the freshwater lakes, where it is easier for the river water to mix with the lakewater faster ( as opposed to the case of a river falling into the sea or a salt lake, where less dense fresh water brought by the river stays on top longer ).

While Canadian defence minister Bill Graham said McKenna was simply misunderstood ( as the NORAD agreement and missile defence are separate ), this initial contradiction was interpreted by others as evidence of characteristic indecision by the Martin government and was seen to somewhat hamper McKenna's credibility.

While in every line it bears the marks of intense individuality, it is at the same time a product highly characteristic of the age, and even of the decade, in which it appeared.

While recovering next year he will write the first short story in his later characteristic style.

While the innovation is often popularly credited for using steam in baking ovens leading to a different crust characteristic, it notably included procedures for high milling of grains ( see Vienna grits ), cracking them incrementally instead of mashing them with one pass ; as well as better processes for growing and harvesting top-fermenting yeasts, this was known as press-yeast.

While the four-chambered heart is traditionally characteristic of endotherms, it is thought that the ectothermic crocodilia have a four-chambered heart because of an endothermic ancestry, originating in the archosaurs or in an earlier predecessor.

While the Allies were distracted, Napoleon solved his problem in characteristic fashion.

While withdrawal or detachment from the outer world is a characteristic feature of schizoid ( alleged ) pathology, it is sometimes classic and sometimes secret.