While the creator of the NES version would be restricted from making a competitive version of an NES game, the original arcade copyright holder was not precluded from licensing out rights for a home version of an arcade game to multiple systems.

While competitive basketball is carefully regulated, numerous variations of basketball have developed for casual play.

While initiated in England, competitive men's badminton in Europe has traditionally been dominated by Denmark.

While duplicate is the primary form of higher levels of competitive bridge, it is also played socially.

While there, she attended a specialized and competitive class, lasting from 6: 00 AM to 6: 00 PM.

While it is mostly social dance, its ballroom form may be competitive dance, as in DanceSport.

While the Expresión en Corto International Film Festival is the largest competitive film festival in Mexico, specializing in emerging talents, and is held each year during the last week of July in the two colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato.

While horses in the wild mate and foal in mid to late spring, in the case of horses domestically bred for competitive purposes, especially horse racing and various futurities, it is desirable that they be born as close to January 1 in the northern hemisphere or August 1 in the southern hemisphere as possible, so as to be at an advantage in size and maturity when competing against other horses in the same age group.

While transforming the country to a market-oriented economy during 1992 – 1997, the government privatized some banks, recapitalized the rest and introduced legal reforms that made the sector competitive.

While long-distance inland calls have been offered by calling cards, by the mid-2000s conventional carriers reduced their rates to be competitive ; however in many countries calling-card type indirect services can be much cheaper than normal calls.

While there are relatively few competitive Olympic weightlifters ( or more simply lifters ), the lifts and their components are commonly used by elite athletes in other sports to train for both explosive and functional strength.

While sailing groups organize the most active and popular competitive yachting, other boating events are also held world-wide: speed motor boat racing ; competitive canoeing, kayaking, and rowing ; and navigational contests ( generally a test of celestial and landmark-based navigation skills where GPS and other electronic navigation equipment is disallowed ) are among the events which are organized around the world.

While many PCL stars went on to play in the major leagues, teams in the league were often successful enough that they could offer competitive salaries to avoid being outbid for their stars ' services.

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 county-level politics tend to be competitive, Northumberland is a Republican county in most statewide elections.

While Republicans have controlled the commissioner majority most of the time and continue to control most county row offices, Democrats have become more competitive in Berks in recent years.

While pearl button production levels in Beulah would never have been competitive with the self-proclaimed " Pearl Button Capital of the World " at Muscatine, Iowa at the height of industry in that city in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Beulah shares in the rich heritage of this industry.

While not traditionally enjoying a reputation for competitive sport, King's has recently rebuked this generalisation.

While kyudo is primarily viewed as an avenue toward self-improvement, there are often kyudo competitions or tournaments whereby archers practice in a competitive style.

While awaiting the results of the required competitive examination, he learned that his interest in aeronautics had not been forgotten.

While not all ceremonial sports were competitive, some included an element of competition for the most beautiful movement, or for speed or strength.

While there are no reliable historical population estimates, population models suggest crabeater seal populations may have increased at rates up to 9 % a year in the 20th century, due to the removal of large baleen whales ( especially the blue whale ) during the period of industrial whaling and the subsequent explosion in krill biomass and removal of important competitive forces.

While the rationale for this exemption — that the pools were agents of their members, and that any income should therefore be taxed as personal income once disbursed, and not as corporate income pre-disbursal — was initially accepted, the UGG argued that the pools ' 1931 reorganization eliminated the differences between them and the UGG, and that the exemption thus put the UGG at a competitive disadvantage.

While Mercury had reached the minivan and SUV segments before a number of other foreign or domestic brands, by the time Mercury received a more competitive entry ( the Monterey, its version of the Ford Freestar ), the minivan segment was in decline.

While patent suits are still among the most complex and expensive forms of litigation, these rules have saved litigants uncounted sums of money.

While there is no generally accepted formal definition of " algorithm ," an informal definition could be " a set of rules that precisely defines a sequence of operations.

While the players were on the tour, the National League instituted new rules regarding player pay that led to a revolt of players, led by Ward, who started the Players ' League the following season ( 1890 ).

While the civil market has had weather radar for a while, there are strict rules about using it to navigate the aircraft.

While these rules do generate some pairs of amicable numbers, many other pairs are known, so these rules are by no means comprehensive.

While capital adequacy is important, it is defined and regulated by the Bank for International Settlements, and central banks in practice generally do not apply stricter rules.

While the standard rules allow hopping over only a single adjacent occupied position at a time ( as in checkers ), this version of the game allows pieces to catapult over multiple adjacent occupied positions in a line when hopping.

While it establishes some common EU rules on the SE, these rules are incomplete, and the holes in the rules are to be filled in using the law of the member state in which the SE is registered.

While formal language theory usually concerns itself with formal languages that are described by some syntactical rules, the actual definition of the concept " formal language " is only as above: a ( possibly infinite ) set of finite-length strings, no more nor less.

While Germany and most of contiguous Europe use standard gauge ( 1435 mm ), differences in signalling, rules and regulations, electrification voltages, etc.

While rules are light to moderate, they allow depth of play, usually requiring thought, planning, and a shift of tactics through the game and often with a chess-or backgammon-like opening game, middle game, and end game.

While visiting Lake Geneva in 1972, Arneson ran his fantasy game using the new rules, and Gygax immediately saw the potential of role-playing games.

While a board of elders was elected for the enforcement of the Society's rules and regulations, business management passed to its trustees: Baker and Henrici, 1847 – 68 ; Henrici and Jonathan Lenz, 1869 – 90 ; Henrici and Wolfel, 1890 ; Henrici and John S. Duss, 1890 – 1892 ; Duss and Seiber, 1892 – 1893 ; Duss and Reithmuller, 1893 – 1897 ; Duss, 1897 – 1903 ; and finally to Suzanna ( Susie ) C. Duss in 1903.

While Kepler considered most traditional rules and methods of astrology to be the " evil-smelling dung " in which " an industrious hen " scrapes, there was an " occasional grain-seed, indeed, even a pearl or a gold nugget " to be found by the conscientious scientific astrologer.

While each state has its own rules of evidence, many states model their rules on the Federal Rules of Evidence, which themselves relate closely to the common-law mode of examination.

While the government formally requires licensing for both motorcycles and their operators, these rules are largely ignored.

While there are several rules, such as those regarding not allowing shoes in the prayer hall, that are universal, there are many other rules that are dealt with and enforced in a variety of ways from mosque to mosque.

While words are generally accepted as being ( with clitics ) the smallest units of syntax, it is clear that in most languages, if not all, words can be related to other words by rules ( grammars ).

While Nomic is traditionally capitalized as the proper name of the game it describes, it has also sometimes been used in a more informal way as a lowercased generic term, nomic, referring to anything with Nomic-like characteristics, including games where the rules may be changed during play as well as non-gaming situations where it can be alleged that " rules lawyers " are tinkering with the process used to amend rules and policies ( in an organization or community ) in a manner akin to a game of Nomic.