While not as critically acclaimed as the first two films, it was still a box office success, earning a revenue of $ 136 million against a budget of $ 54 million.

While generally Banach was a diligent student he did on occasion receive low grades ( he failed Greek during his first semester at the gymnasium ) and would later speak critically of the school's math teachers.

While Christensen's critically acclaimed portrayal of a misunderstood teenager in Life as a House ( 2001 ) earned him Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations as well as the National Board of Review's award for Breakthrough Performance of the Year, the performance did not receive widespread public notice.

While critically acclaimed, the album received little promotion from EMI and did poorly commercially.

While in battle with Aeneas, he is critically injured by a spear blow, but his son Lausus bravely blocks Aeneas's final blow.

While the film was critically acclaimed, it has been harshly criticized as exploitative by real-life witnesses.

While some believe that the slick production and disco rhythms didn't flatter the group, and the album had mixed critically and commercial response, it sold enough to generate a follow up.

While his demeanor is typically mild and polite, Giles is not above using raw violence to solve a problem, such as physically threatening Principal Snyder into readmitting Buffy to school after her expulsion (" Dead Man's Party "), pummeling Angelus senseless with a flaming baseball bat and burning down his hideout upon discovering that he had killed Jenny Calendar (" Passion "), manhandling Spike while ordering him to get over his feelings for Buffy (" I Was Made to Love You "), forcing Glory's minion Slook to talk by inflicting a painful-sounding injury offscreen (" Tough Love "), severely beating up Ethan Rayne for information (" Halloween "), and suffocating a critically injured Ben with his bare hands to keep Glory from awakening in his body.

While critically acclaimed for his style, the themes and characters of Arishima ’ s works did not appeal to many contemporary Japanese readers.

While critically praised, the album was not as commercially viable as its predecessors ( though it was certified Silver by the BPI for sales of over 60, 000 copies ).

While Magnolia struggled at the box office, it was well-received critically.

While at Cambridge, he was a member of the Marlowe Society and directed several plays, including a critically acclaimed production of Cyrano de Bergerac with Tom Hollander amongst the cast members.

While Sumner often viewed contemporary society critically, his faith in reform was unshakable.

While Evola was clear about the relative insignificance of the physical attributes of race, he did acknowledge that the ' original Hyperboreans ,' which he was critically concerned, were probably ' dolichocephalic, tall and slender, blond and blue-eyed ' ( Sintesi di Dottrina della Razza, p. 67 ).

While Creation Records ' releases at this time tended to be critically acclaimed, they tended not to be major commercial hits.

While critically successful, Brütal Legend failed to make any sales breakthrough.

" While Japanese sociologist Kosaku Yoshino sees Iorga as a main contributor to didactic and dramatized cultural nationalism in Europe, University of Trento academic Paul Blokker suggests that, although " politicized, essentialist and sometimes anachronistic ", Iorga's writings can be critically recovered.

While at Interplay, he worked on the critically acclaimed Fallout as co-Lead Programmer and was responsible for much of the engine architecture and optimizations.

While the photography yielded the director satisfactory results critically, the rest of the production was difficult from the start.

While the film itself was critically panned, many reviews singled out her performance for acclaim.

While his works were never particularly successful in the west, throughout the Middle East they are both critically acclaimed and extremely popular.

While the tour was well received critically, Spirit disbanded in mid-1973.

While the film did not do well commercially, critically it was acclaimed, with Martin Scorsese naming Bottle Rocket one of his favorite films of the 1990s.

While critically acclaimed, the show ran for only half a season in 1975.

While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007 for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the National Blues Trail stating that he was " acclaimed as a founder of rock and roll.

While Spain was fighting in France, Portugal — which had been under personal union with Spain for 60 years — acclaimed John IV of Braganza as king in 1640, and the House of Braganza became the new dynasty of Portugal ( see Portuguese Restoration War, for further information ).

While acclaimed by the press in 1998 as the most realistic racing simulator ever, GPL did not sell very well, especially in the US where a Formula One-based racing game holds less appeal than it does in the rest of the world.

While the success of some of these films was variable, the 2001 London stage production of My Fair Lady and his portrayal of Professor Henry Higgins was being acclaimed by the media.

While working with the British armies in America, he conducted experiments concerning the force of gunpowder, the results of which were widely acclaimed when eventually published, in 1781, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

While Asteroids ( 1979 ) allowed the player to rotate the game's spacecraft, 1982's highly acclaimed Robotron 2084 was most influential on subsequent multi-directional shooters.

While using Muppet characters to act out educational principles, " Monsterpiece Theater " is also a parody of the similarly acclaimed PBS show Masterpiece Theatre, now known simply as Masterpiece.

While not as acclaimed or commercially successful as director Friedkin's later work, Friedkin considers this film to be one of his favorites.

While some Soviet critics acclaimed it at the time of the premiere, the Second Symphony did not attain lasting success.

While Pere Ubu have never been widely popular — usually categorized as " underground rock "— they have a devoted following and are an influential and critically acclaimed band.

While the gameplay was universally acclaimed, critics were divided on the philosophical nature and execution of the game's storyline, which explores themes such as memes, social engineering, political conspiracies, censorship, and artificial intelligence.

While the acclaimed Warlords series later allowed customization of heroes, Master of Magic was the first major fantasy strategy game to feature individually distinct heroes, with unique abilities, which could be equipped with customized items.

While working for Chaosium he co-authored the second edition of RuneQuest, for which he also co-wrote the critically acclaimed Trollpak and a number of other Gloranthan supplements.

While many companies have done fine work in developing sales personnel, much of it has been product rather than sales training.

While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.

While Boxing Day is 26 December, many retailers who hold Boxing Day Sales will run the sales for several days before or after 26 December, often up to New Year's Eve.

While rival Dell Computer had 55 % growth in U. S. PC sales in the first quarter of 1999, Compaq could only manage 10 %.

While supporters of the merger argued that there would be economies of scale and that the sales of PCs would drive sales of printers and cameras, Walter Hewlett was convinced that PCs were a low-margin but risky business that would not contribute and would likely dilute the old HP's traditionally profitable Imaging and Printing division.

While President Ronald Reagan was a supporter of the Contra cause, the evidence is disputed as to whether he authorized the diversion of the money raised by the Iranian arms sales to the Contras.

While Attorney General, Ashcroft consistently denied that the FBI or any other law enforcement agency had used the Patriot Act to obtain library circulation records or those of retail sales.

While waiting for this new high-end system to develop, Microsoft would still receive licensing money from Xenix and OS / 2 sales.

While OS / 2 was arguably technically superior to Microsoft Windows 95, OS / 2 sales were largely concentrated in networked computing used by corporate professionals.

While media have reported widely the grand corruption that accompanied the sales, one study has argued that in addition to increased operating efficiency, daily petty corruption is, or would be, larger without privatization, and that corruption is more prevalent in non-privatized sectors, and that there is evidence to suggest that extralegal and unofficial activities are more prevalent in countries that privatized less.

While at the show, they met Quinn again, and, a few days later, set up a meeting with him to obtain a sales order.

While connecting it to Mega Drive did increase its capabilities, reluctance to adapt due to the previous failure of the Mega-CD and the upcoming Sega Saturn system led to low sales and a short lifespan.

While reliable figures are difficult to obtain, estimated global sales of The Hobbit run between 35 and 100 million copies since 1937.

While not her highest chart debut, debut sales for From the Choirgirl Hotel are Amos's best to date, selling 153, 000 copies in its first week.

While MES was responsible for the majority of GEC's defence sales other GEC companies achieved defence related sales, principally GEC Alsthom, GEC-Plessey Telecommunications ( GPT ) and GEC Plessey Semiconductors.

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 growth in sales of processed foods in these countries has been much more rapid than the growth in fresh food sales, the imperative nature of supermarkets to achieve economies of scale in purchasing, means that the expansion of supermarkets in these countries has important repercussions for small farmers, particularly those growing perishable crops.

While managing Chrysler sales in Memphis, Tucker made a connection with Pierce-Arrow.

While on a sales trip, there was a flood in the hotel room where Burgess was storing jeans.

While much smaller in volume than other chemical sectors, their products tend to have very high prices — over ten dollars per pound — growth rates of 1. 5 to 6 times GDP, and research and development spending at 15 to 25 percent of sales.