While attendance figures were stagnant for most of the NFL, Jacksonville saw an increase of 36. 5 %, by far the highest in the league, and had none of their home games blacked out.

While sharing an apartment with his cousin, he reportedly attended discos and beach parties, and his attendance at the mosque fell off.

While many of these moments were baseball-related — including World Series games, no-hitters, perfect games, and historic home runs — the stadium also hosted boxing matches, concerts, Conventions of Jehovah's Witnesses ( see record attendance ), and three Papal Masses.

While the Hornets continued to put a competitive team on the court, the team's attendance fell dramatically, in large part because Shinn had become a pariah in the city.

While many Buttonwillow residents attempted to participate in meetings, there was no one in attendance who was willing to translate for Spanish speakers.

While other factors have also played a role, the scandals in the Catholic Church have contributed to a steep decline in church attendance among Irish Catholcs.

While pursuing his Bachelors degree at the University of the West Indies, he served as Chairman of the university ’ s External Affairs Commission, where he gained exposure to world leaders and international political thought through attendance at a number of international student fora.

While the Rapids had, until recent years, always have been among the top teams in the league in average fan attendance, including leading the league in average fans per game in 2002, the club has had a fairly rocky history when it comes to supporters groups or ultras.

While he'd anticipated years of losses when he first got his franchise, the team's poor attendance made him unwilling to stick it out, and he decided to sell.

While Tulsa as a USFL host city had a number of legitimate problems, fan turnout was surprisingly respectable, especially compared to the crippling attendance numbers seen by USFL teams in Chicago ( 7, 455 ), Washington ( 7, 694 ) and Los Angeles ( 15, 361 ).

While attending a party at the French embassy in London and looking around the room, West realized that every woman in attendance had been his mistress at one time or another.

While average attendance league-wide dropped that season, it had a slight increase in Vancouver.

While the Santa Anita meeting could still draw large crowds, attendance had decreased by a third.

While day-to-day dress often simply reflects the general society, many Conservative synagogues expect somewhat more modest dress ( although not necessarily as stringent as in Orthodox Judaism ) for synagogue attendance, and may have specific dress requirements to receive synagogue honors ( such as being called for a Torah reading ).

While Scotland's attendance average over their 10-season history of 11, 306 was comparable to some Scottish Premier League clubs, teams in Germany were able to consistently bring in more support.

While the team suffered through several losing seasons, they quietly established new standards for Minor League Baseball attendance.

While Catholicism is now the largest church tradition in Australia and the overall Catholic population continues to grow, active participation in weekly church attendance has been in decline.

While the Gold had been one of the USFL's attendance leaders ( drawing over 40, 000 fans per game in 1983 ), fans in the Denver area were not about to abandon the Broncos.

While up to 70 % of students have family incomes low enough to qualify for free lunch, they receive the support from parents and school to excel on citywide tests and maintain near-perfect school attendance.

While initial owner Lyle Abrhams brought the franchise to Toronto with good intentions, poor attendance, a questionable business model, and a dispute with building officials resulted in the relocation of the franchise to Edmonton, Alberta after only one season, becoming the Edmonton Road Runners.

While the number of visitors has grown, the pattern is more complicated: 346, 287 people visited the museum in its first year ; in 1978 the traveling exhibit Treasures of Tutankhamun ( shown in the facility at Seattle Center ) drew 1. 3 million visitors in a mere four months ; 2007 attendance was 797, 127.

While the arena's location hindered attendance somewhat, nevertheless, the Cavaliers ' average attendance was over 18, 000 per game each of the last 2 seasons at the Coliseum.

While playing at the Georgia Dome on March 27, 1998, the Atlanta Hawks set a then-NBA single-game attendance record with 62, 046 fans.

While Johnny made himself comfortable on the couch, I'd play the tunes for him.

While Aristotle censors literature only for the young, Plato would banish all poets from his ideal state.

While Plato finally allows a few acceptable hymns to the gods and famous men, still he clearly leaves the way open for further discussion of the issue.

While all citizens share in blame for lax municipal ethics the Wagner regime has seen serious problems in the schools, law enforcement and fiscal policies.

While I respect his sincere concern for peace, he made four points that I would like to question.

While `` better late than never '' may have certain merits, the posthumous award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to the late Dag Hammarskjold strikes me as less than a satisfactory expression of appreciation.

While here, visit Theodore Roosevelt National Park for its spectacular scenery.

While clay is still pressed in mold, press three equally spaced holes 1/4'' '' deep, using pencil eraser, in bottom of clay to allow for proper drying and firing.

While some regression is inevitable, it is discouraged rather than encouraged so that the transference does not follow the stages of planned regression associated with certain casework adaptations of the psychoanalytic model for insight therapy.

While there are many different possibilities for the timing of casework intervention, the experiments recently reported from a variety of traditional settings all point up the importance of an immediate response to the client's initial need for help.

While other conditions might be even more effective in bringing about a change from immobility to mobility in Kohnstamm reactivity, it is our hypothesis that all such conditions would have as a common factor the capacity to induce an attitude in the subject which enabled him to divorce himself temporarily from feelings of responsibility for his behavior.

While roleplaying for testing is not too well understood at the present time, it represents one of the major uses of this procedure.

While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

While talking with Julian M. Beall, Francisco Archuleta and Juan Marcus appeared, both heavily armed, and after watching the house for a while, rode away.

While ATP appears to be necessary for the occurrence of contraction, its presence and enzymatic hydrolysis of it by the muscle protein myosin are not the only criteria for contraction.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.

While neighbor women assumed some of the dead mother's duties, fund-raising events were being planned by a homeowners association and a student council for the hard-hit Henry Kowalski family, 34220 Viceroy.

While he declined to suggest, how, he said that sooner or later we must get rid of Castro, `` for unless we do we're liable to face similar situations in this hemisphere.