While the southern two counties have historically been predominantly agricultural, New Castle County has been more industrialized.

While the total value of export merchandise fell in 1990 and 1991 and had still not recovered in 1993 to its 1989 level, the overall agricultural sector output has grown somewhat because of growth in the sale of winter vegetables and shrimp.

While the volcanic ash has resulted in fertile soils, it makes agricultural conditions unpredictable in some areas.

While there are close to 4000 different varieties of potato, it has been bred into many standard or well-known varieties, each of which has particular agricultural or culinary attributes.

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 in 1992, a sales value ratio of 80 % handcrafts to 20 % agricultural goods was the norm, in 2002 handcrafts amounted to 25. 4 % of fair trade sales while commodity food lines were up at 69. 4 %.

While the productivity of domesticated animal-breeding greatly exceeded that of the settled agricultural societies, the pastoral economy also needed supplemental agricultural produce, and stable nomadic confederations developed either symbiotic or forced alliances with sedentary peoples – in exchange for animal produce and military protection.

While the European Union has shifted agricultural subsidies to organic farmers due to perceived environmental benefits, the United States has not, continuing to subsidize some but not all traditional commercial crops, such as corn and sugar.

While most of the men of the 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot ( 1 / 24 ) were recruited from the industrial towns and agricultural classes of England, principally from Birmingham and adjacent southwest counties, only 10 soldiers of the 1 / 24 that fought in the battle were Welsh.

While the inland inhabitants are mainly employed within the agricultural sector, the majority of Salamis ' inhabitants work in maritime occupations ( fishing, ferries, and the island's shipyards ) or commute to work in Athens.

While Northolt remained a rural, agricultural area in the 19th century, its population growth remained slow:

While French youth culture has gravitated toward fast food and American eating habits ( with an attendant rise in obesity ), the French in general have remained committed to preserving certain elements of their food culture through such activities as including programs of taste acquisition in their public schools, by the use of the appellation d ' origine contrôlée laws, and by state and European subsides to the French agricultural industry.

While some point to the small towns and agricultural communities in Kansas, Iowa, the Dakotas, and Nebraska of the Great Plains as representative of traditional Midwestern lifestyles and values, others assert that the Rust Belt cities of the Great Lakes – with their histories of 19th-and early-20th-century immigration, manufacturing base, and strong Catholic influence – are more representative of the Midwestern experience.

While Sacramento began to urbanize on the other side of the river, early West Sacramento found its hand at agricultural development.

While the soils in Columbia are not ideal for many agricultural uses, they are well suited for blueberry production, and this activity continues to provide significant employment in town.

While the 19th century saw a primarily agricultural economy, the 20th century saw the completion of a railroad depot and the arrival of the automobile, as a number of visitors from Detroit began to visit the township.

While Alstead was basically an agricultural community, its streams and ponds once powered a variety of small mills.

While the agricultural past of the town is still clear, it has begun to become a bedroom community for commuters working in nearby Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Harrisburg and York.

While a trusted bailiff might be manumitted as a gesture of gratitude, for those working as agricultural labourers or in workshops, there was little likelihood of being so noticed.

While the nearby settlement of Copper Bank-situated across the lagoon from Chunox, on the west bank-is a fishing village, Chunox is primarily agricultural, and it is surrounded by sugar cane fields.

While Châtelet ’ s economy was dominated by artisanal guilds and trade, that of its neighbours, including Châtelineau and Bouffioulx, remained mostly agricultural.

While the agricultural sector became increasingly reliant on small family farms, the heavy industries, banks and financial institutions remained owned and run by the state.

While inspired by traditional Beltane, this festival is a modern arts and cultural event ( compared by organizers to the American Burning Man festival ) which incorporates myth and drama from a variety of world cultures and diverse literary sources.

While some sources have rated the lagoon water as non-potable, testimony from the crew of the tuna clipper M / V Monarch, stranded on Clipperton for 23 days in 1962 after their boat sank, indicates otherwise.

While he supported the idea of federal appropriations for science, he took exception to a federal bill that would have funded engineering research at land-grant colleges, and instead sought to raise a $ 1 million national research fund entirely from private sources.

While the reliability of these sources has increasingly been called into question, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor ( as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate ).

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

While Scandinavian sagas describe events in 9th century Britain, their value as sources of historical narrative, rather than documents of social history, is disputed.

While Scandinavian sagas describe events in 10th-century Britain, their value as sources of historical narrative, rather than documents of social history, is disputed.

While the sources for north-eastern Britain, the lands of the kingdom of Northumbria and the former Pictland, are limited and late, those for the areas on the Irish Sea and Atlantic coasts — the modern regions of north-west England and all of northern and western Scotland — are non-existent, and archaeology and toponymy are of primary importance.

While many have shared Burckhardt's assessment, particularly with reference to the Life of Constantine, others, while not pretending to extol his merits, have acknowledged the irreplaceable value of his works which may principally reside in the copious quotations that they contain from other sources, often lost.

While humans have developed clothing and other means of keeping warm, the hair found on the head serves as primary sources of heat insulation and cooling ( when sweat evaporates from soaked hair ) as well as protection from ultra-violet radiation exposure.

While the early sources indicate that Horsa died fighting the Britons, no details are provided about Hengist's death until Geoffrey's Historia, which states that Hengist was beheaded by Eldol, the British duke of Gloucester, and buried in an unlocated mound.

While there are many sources of error with performance ratings, error can be reduced through rater training and through the use of behaviorally-anchored rating scales.

While broomstick weddings have been associated with gypsies, the sources that make reference to the practice tend to repeat and recycle claims.

While the automatic feeder was a success, unverified sources claim that it developed a reputation for being temperamental, prone to breakdowns, and difficult to repair.

While all scholars acknowledge that there is a large mythological part of the narrative some maintain that by using a critical comparative method some level of historicity can be salvaged from the sources, whereas others maintain that continued analysis of the narratives as sources of actual history is futile and hinders access to actual knowledge of the culture of Tula, Hidalgo.

While some sources call the MAC-10 and MAC-11 machine pistols, the guns are also referred to as compact submachine guns.

While different color dyes absorb different frequencies of light, there was a need for as many light sources as cells.

While there are natural sources for all of these species, the concentrations of chlorine and bromine have increased markedly in recent years due to the release of large quantities of man-made organohalogen compounds, especially chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) and bromofluorocarbons.

While contemporary sources will still speak of early prime ministers of Canada as premier, the modern practice is such that the federal head of government is known almost exclusively as the prime minister, while the provincial heads of government are termed premiers ( save for within Quebec and New Brunswick, where the premiers are addressed in French as Premier ministre du, literally translated as Prime Minister of ).

While there are many audiophiles who still prefer vinyl records over digital music sources ( primarily compact disc ) for superior sound quality, they represent an enthusiastic minority of listeners.

While very little in the way of Pictish writing has survived, Pictish history since the late 6th century is known from a variety of sources, including Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, saints ' lives such as that of Columba by Adomnán, and various Irish annals.

While this does not help detect targets masked by stronger surrounding clutter, it does help to distinguish strong target sources.