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 accepting that Paul's apostolic anointing was likely only recognized by the Apostles in Jerusalem during the events described in Gal.

While Darwin had been criticised for simply accepting female whims as given, Ronald Fisher grasped the underlying mechanism in The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, in a remark that was not widely understood for another 50 years:

While accepting that Germany and Berlin would be divided, the Russians had decided against allowing the same state of affairs to arise in Austria and Vienna.

While expels castrated men from the assembly of Israel, gives a much more accepting view of eunuchs, and in, a eunuch is baptized.

While the Pac-10 was open to having Texas join, they were not interested in accepting any of the other SWC schools.

While the latter defends ontological dualism, thus accepting the existence of a material world ( res extensa ) as well as immaterial minds ( res cogitans ) and God, Berkeley denies the existence of matter but not minds, of which God is one.

While speaking in Parliament on the incident, Nehru stated that he was accepting the resignation because it would set an example in constitutional propriety and not because Shastri was in any way responsible for the accident.

While the Romans kept Dacia, the Iazyges stayed independent, accepting a client relationship with Rome.

While accepting that this would be insufficient for a full scale naval war with Britain, Hitler hoped it would be a sufficient deterrent.

While accepting that under Glass-Steagall financial firms could still have “ made, sold, and securitized risky mortgages, all the while fueling a massive housing bubble and building a highly leveraged, Ponzi-like pyramid of derivatives on top ,” the New Rules Project concludes that commentators who deny the GLBA played a role in the financial crisis “ fail to recognize the significance of 1999 as the pivotal policy-making moment leading up to the crash .” The Project argues 1999 was Congress ’ s opportunity to reject 25 years of “ deregulation ” and “ confront the changing financial system by reaffirming the importance of effective structural safeguards, such as the Glass-Steagall Act's firewall and market share caps to limit the size of banks ; bringing shadow banks into the regulatory framework ; and developing new rules to control the dangers inherent in derivatives and other engineered financial products .”

While accepting the award for " We Belong Together " in 2011, he joked " my percentages aren't great ".

While accepting the degree, Card was booed loudly by students and faculty who disapproved of him receiving the honor.

While dying of cancer in 1963, he tells Mike about his experiences in the U. S. Air Force in the 1920s and about establishing the Black Spot, a club started by Will and his black Air Force buddies and originally meant exclusively for black members, but gradually began accepting members of other races as well.

While behaviourism denies direct experience, Köhler suggests that behaviourists are unknowingly accepting it in this regard.

While accepting orders for the current model until January 31, 2011, and honoring all Xserve warranties and extended support programs, the company suggested users switch to Mac Pro Server or Mac mini Server.

While Hayes was diplomatic with some faculty members who voted against the trip and urged the students to cease complaining, Hayes did not spare his criticism of the alumni club president who led the charge against accepting the bowl bid.

While accepting the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist Video that year for " Sleep To Dream ", Fiona Apple appealed to her audience not to be enamored of celebrity culture.

While accepting her award she and Gaga teased a kiss.

While the majority of the radical left voted for the Greater German variant, accepting the possibility, as formulated by Carl Vogt of a " holy war for western culture against the barbarism of the East ", i. e., against Poland and Hungary, whereas the liberal centre supported a more pragmatic stance.

While considering the law as hypocrite, LO stated that " For teachers, not accepting hijab ,-particularly in the classroom ,-means to support women in their family and social environment, attempting to resist the machismo ".

While over 40 outed ministers agreed to the new terms, submitting themselves to the Crown's High Church Anglican form of church governance, accepting episcopacy and the King as head of the church, Cameron remained with those who rejected any accommodation that would compromise their presbyterian principles.

While Changeling developed quite a devoted cult following, its themes and subject were often perceived as unnecessarily complex or too childish, and it was generally thought that the game was indecisively written ( i. e., is it a hopeful game about returning magic and imagination to a dull, banal world, or is it a depressed game of accepting the decay of all that is imaginative and colorful ) and White Wolf discontinued the game more than a year before the end of the World of Darkness line due to exceedingly low sales.

While some in Britain's Foreign Office would like to see this closening of ties result in an ' osmosis ' between The Rock and the " Campo de Gibraltar ", there is no prospect of Gibraltarians accepting absorption into Spain.

While the Shepherd of Hermas was popular and sometimes bound with the canonical scriptures, it didn't retain canonical status, if it ever had it.

While " there is an intentional editorial unity with a cohesive purpose and message in the canonical form of the book ," Job contains many separate elements, some of which may have had an independent existence prior to being incorporated into the present text.

While the canonical status of the novels is uncertain, Russell T Davies intimated in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 article that various Dalek stories take place as parts of the Time War, such as Genesis of the Daleks, which he refers to as " the first strike ".

While the Chern class fails to be well-defined for singular Calabi – Yau's, the canonical bundle and canonical class may still be defined if all the singularities are Gorenstein, and so may be used to extend the definition of a smooth Calabi – Yau manifold to a possibly singular Calabi – Yau variety.

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 the bishops of Warsaw and Lublin refused to accept the documents, the bishop of Płock did accept them and started the canonical process for recognition.

While the exact phrase " baptism with the Holy Spirit " is not found in the New Testament, two forms of the phrase are found in the canonical gospels using the verb " baptize ".

While in the original game the player could select either the Kushan or Taiidan races, in the sequel the Kushan are established as the canonical protagonists.

While there are several choices of appearance for JC, the image at the top of this page is considered the canonical version, as it is also used in the PlayStation 2 version of the game, and in Deus Ex: Invisible War.

While there is significant variation in anatomical proportions between people, there are many references to body proportions that are intended to be canonical, either in art, measurement, or medicine.

While at the time it was announced that the game would take place within the continuity of the series, it is no longer canonical and has been adapted into comic form, altering many of the game's events.

While evidence that Wnt and Sonic hedgehog are direct antagonists of one another remains to be seen, the role of Wnt in patterning the neural tube is thought to work in an indirectly inhibitory manner towards Sonic Hedgehog via the canonical Wnt pathway.

While Rhoda herself was not the Jewish-American princess daughter, the character resisting the pull of that particular stereotype, Ida was a canonical example of the overbearing Jewish mother.

While the five canonical Ripper murders were located roughly to north, south, east and west of Whitechapel, Tabram's murder occurred close to their geographic centre.

While the major events are considered canonical, a number of the details are not.

While the major events are considered canonical, a number of the details are not.

While the Four Document Hypothesis remains a popular explanation for the origins of the synoptic gospels, the question is how could a major and respected source, used in a canonical gospel, totally disappear?

While indicating that the Congregation was still studying the question and would " at the appropriate time " establish " some concrete directives ", it remarked that some of the proposals in the document " appear contrary to canonical discipline ", so that actions taken in accordance with them could be overturned if an appeal were made to a higher level ; accordingly the Congregation emphasized " the need for this document to conform to the canonical norms presently in force.

While the quotations in Shem Tov's The Touchstone, which are interspersed in his own commentary, diverge from the canonical text of Matthew, the text of the Münster Matthew and the Du Tillet Matthew are significantly very close to it in many passages.

While such correspondence between these events and those of the canonical passion narratives might cast doubt on the former's historical veracity, in the experience of second century Christians this reminiscence of Christ ’ s life, served as a strong biblical affirmation and reassertion of Christian faith in the context of persecution.

While the manuscripts translated into the canonical New Testament were originally penned in koine Greek, a select few Aramaic words have survived in some texts.