While rubber bridge is played competitively and for stakes, it is most often played socially and with less formality than duplicate bridge.

While rubber is still used in textile manufacturing, its low tenacity limits its use in lightweight garments because latex lacks resistance to oxidizing agents and is damaged by aging, sunlight, oil, and perspiration.

While in Amman during a break in filming, he bought a piece of foam rubber at a market and added it to his saddle.

While the finished polyurethane product is quite light, consisting largely of closed cells of hydrogen, the rubber form and the metal and wood foam box are very heavy.

While the method of production is entirely the choice of the artist, creators who exclusively or primarily use rubber stamps are occasionally held in contempt by members of the artistamp community, some of whom refer to such producers as " bunny-stampers.

While related to duct tape, it differs in that it can be removed cleanly because it uses a synthetic rubber adhesive rather than a natural rubber adhesive.

While green Wellingtons are popular in Britain, red-soled black rubber boots are often seen in the United States, in addition to Canadian styles.

While there, he tried his first experiments with India rubber.

While there are other compounds, such as silicone and urethane that are stronger and last longer, foam rubber is used because it is much easier to work with.

While reversing the card to store a second program was possible, it was officially discouraged ( unlike in later models such as the HP-67 ) because the other half of the card was touched by the rubber wheel during transport, causing extra abrasion.

While other rubber products may use synthetic rubber, most rubber bands are primarily manufactured using natural rubber because of its superior elasticity.

While some car mats are the plain colour of rubber, many contain branded company logos, cartoon characters or even advertisements.

While losing on the first day against Venus Williams, she won her singles match against Meilen Tu on the second day and then teamed with Elena Vesnina to beat Williams and Lisa Raymond in the decisive doubles rubber.

While chains and gears may be more durable, rubber composite belts are quieter in their operation ( in most modern engines the noise difference is negligible ), are less expensive and more efficient, by dint of being lighter, when compared with a gear or chain system.

While at Karlsruhe and later, Zurich, Staudinger began research in the chemistry of rubber, for which very high molecular weights had been measured by the physical methods of Raoult and van't Hoff.

While Hevea-derived rubber contains proteins that can cause severe allergic reactions in a few people, guayule does not.

While competitive sets used nut and bolt fasteners, the Lionel set employed round-head aircraft rivets, retained with rubber grommets, eliminating the need for tools.

While lines 1, 2, and 5 use rubber tire stock, lines 4 and 4A use steel wheels in order to increase capacity.

While he waited for Work at the plant, Haskell idly wound a long rubber thread into a ball.

While most Thais were engaged in rice production, Chinese brought new ideas towards crops and new methods to supply labor on its rubber plantations, both domestically and internationally.

While narcosis affects all divers, predicting the depth at which narcosis will affect a diver is difficult, as susceptibility varies widely from dive to dive, and between individuals.

While divers who followed the buddy system, were generally rescued by their buddy.

While on the water, wigeon often gather with feeding coots and divers, and are known to grab pieces of vegetation brought to the surface by diving water birds.

While the recommended maximum depth for conventional scuba diving is 130 ft, technical divers may work in the range of 170 ft to 350 ft, sometimes even deeper.

While a less-intensive kind of diving called cavern diving does not take divers beyond the reach of natural light ( and typically no deeper than 100 ft, and penetration not further than 200 ft ), true cave diving can involve penetrations of many thousands of feet, well beyond the reach of sunlight.

While earlier writers such as Zacconi and Caccini stated that singers ought to only sing in their “ natural voice ,” Tosi went so far as to say “ f chest and head register do not perfectly unite, the Voice will be of divers Registers, and must consequently lose its Beauty .” Tosi ’ s is also the first recorded encouragement of the use of rubato as an embellishment.

While in the water the divers will use a hot water suit to protect against the cold.

While common in snorkeling, this feature is less favored by SCUBA divers because of the possibility of the valve failing at depth and leaving the user no means of clearing his mask.

While drag is a minor concern, entanglement is a real hazard, for this reason, many technical and cave divers use " bungee-less " wings, as the elastic cords increase the risk of snagging.

While divers are retrieving the canisters of T-virus in the flooded labs, rescue workers also manage to find John, who, despite his wounds, has survived the explosion and was sucked out through the airlock when the grenade went off.

While current mouthwash treatments must be used with a degree of frequency to prevent this bacteria from regrowing, future treatments could provide a viable long term solution.

While aircraft communications provide the backbone for safe flight, the tactical systems are designed to withstand the rigors of the battle field.

While tanks are seen as being integral to armoured warfare, in forces with a remit of power projection deployability has always been a consideration, which conventional main battle tanks cannot provide.

While working for the CTC, Erlang was presented with the classic problem of determining how many circuits were needed to provide an acceptable telephone service.

While repeating the earlier stories, the later sources of Suetonius and Cassius Dio provide additional tales of insanity.

While the passes were at best a dubious defence of his capture, British admiralty and vice-admiralty courts ( especially in North America ) heretofore had often winked at privateers ' excesses into piracy, and Kidd may have been hoping that the passes would provide the legal fig leaf that would allow him to keep the Quedagh Merchant and her cargo.

While clavichords were typically single manual instruments, they could be stacked to provide multiple keyboards.

While anecdotal accounts do not provide scientific proof of clairvoyance, such common experiences continue to motivate research into such phenomena.

While Western philosophical traditions, as exemplified by Descartes, equate mind with the conscious self and theorize on consciousness on the basis of mind / body dualism ; some Eastern philosophies provide an alternate viewpoint, intimately related to substance dualism, by drawing a metaphysical line between consciousness and matter — where matter includes both body and mind.

The EPR paper ends by saying: While we have thus shown that the wave function does not provide a complete description of the physical reality, we left open the question of whether or not such a description exists.

While it may be mathematically possible to construct such a system, it is not clear what additional explanatory power or physical insight such a system would provide, assuming that it does indeed accord with existing empirical data.

While it would defeat the business model if companies provide all of their goods and services free of charge, it is common for them to provide limited amount of free goods in their promotional mix.

While a number of private railroads exist and provide mostly commuter-type services, the national railway, Ferrovie dello Stato, also provides sophisticated high-speed rail service that joins the major cities of Italy from Naples through northern cities such as Milan and Turin.

While there is not much evidence of communities in Luxembourg at the beginning of the Bronze Age, a number of sites dating back to the period between the 13th and the 8th century BC provide evidence of dwellings and reveal artifacts such as pottery, knives and jewelry.

While data reduction ( compression, be it lossy or lossless ) is a main goal of transform coding, it also allows other goals: one may represent data more accurately for the original amount of space – for example, in principle, if one starts with an analog or high-resolution digital master, an MP3 file of a given size should provide a better representation than a raw uncompressed audio in WAV or AIFF file of the same size.

While much lower in energy, these plants provide the moose with its sodium requirements, and as much as half of their diet usually consists of aquatic plant life.

While the underlying protocols and technologies are different, both MPLS and ATM provide a connection-oriented service for transporting data across computer networks.

While most music stations that offer news reports simply " tear and read " news items ( from the newswires or the Internet ), larger stations ( generally those affiliated with news / talk stations ) may employ an editor to rewrite headlines, and provide summaries of local news.

While the assays reveal differences, unfortunately different assays provide differing ratios.

While the figure of Jesus Christ and his redemptive work are at the center of Pentecostal theology, that redemptive work is believed to provide for a fullness of the Holy Spirit of which believers in Christ may take advantage.

While phrenologist did not contend the existence of talented women, this minority did not provide justification for citizenship or participation in politics.

While ASH Cable and SAS Cable are much smaller than the huge systems across the North Pacific, they will provide more than 40 times the capacity currently in use in both island groups combined.

While civil law systems have traditionally put great pains in defining the notion of private property, how it may be acquired, transferred, or lost, socialist law systems provide for most property to be owned by the state or by agricultural co-operatives, and having special courts and laws for state enterprises.

While conventional analgesic pain killers such as paracetamol ( acetaminophen ) or NSAIDs provide initial relief for some sufferers, the pain is often more neurologic in nature, which often does not respond well to these drugs.