While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

While he, Meriwether Lewis and their men were crossing the Bitterroot Mountains they ran low of food, and Clark took six hunters and hurried ahead to hunt.

While attending the 17th ICMI Study conference in Hanoi, Papert ( 78 ) was struck by a motorcycle while crossing a road near his hotel on Tuesday December 5, 2006.

While crossing the room he slips on the hem of his robe.

While crossing Ohio, he experienced the first of an estimated over 20 heart attacks.

While the pilot does most of the steering, the crew can also lean into curves to aid in steering the sled, and, by pulling the sled's brake lever, the brakeman stops the sled after crossing the finish.

While crossing into Brittany past the fortified abbey of Mont Saint-Michel, Harold is recorded as rescuing two of William's soldiers from quicksand.

While watching for these reinforcements, Buller made another bid to relieve Ladysmith by crossing the Tugela west of Colenso.

While crossing the Deccan Plateau and then turns to flow in a southeast direction until it empties into the Bay of Bengal through two mouths.

While crossing the Atlantic, Niven resigned his commission by telegram on 6 September 1933.

While traveling Jason lost his sandal crossing the muddy Anavros river while helping an old woman ( Hera in disguise ).

While strengthening finished crossing the bridge and managed something the " trafficking " of troops, vehicles, guns and cavalry through the streets of the city, he heard the first rumblings of musketry and cannon from the French army.

While Rabbi Schneerson rarely chose to involve himself with questions of halakha ( Jewish law ), some notable exceptions were with regard to the use of electrical appliances on Shabbat, sailing on Israeli boats staffed by Jews, and halakhic dilemmas related to certain religious observances which may arise when crossing the International Date Line.

While the royal family was crossing the square, shots were fired from the crowd by at least two men: Alfredo Costa and Manuel Buiça.

While crossing the courtyard Thomas Wintour was hit in the shoulder.

While the exact location is not known, it is probable that it was close to where the Portage Trail crossed the creek ; and it is altogether likely that the dam was used as a bridge for crossing the creek during the season of high water.

While crossing the Sinai, the king ’ s army fought local Bedouins called the Shasu.

While five of the defendants were initially convicted of crossing state lines to incite a riot, all convictions were soon reversed in appeal court.

While the direction of crossing seems to be the result of at least 3 genetic factors working together in a case of epistasis and most probably autosomal, it is not clear whether the 1: 1 frequency of both morphs in most cases is the result of genetics, or environmental selection.

While crossing the square, shots were fired from the crowd by two republican activists: Alfredo Costa and Manuel Buiça.

While attempting to prevent the Swedish from crossing into Bavaria over the Lech River near the city of Rain am Lech, he was wounded by a cannon ball early in the Battle of Rain and died of tetanus fifteen days later in Ingolstadt at the age of 73 on 30 April 1632.

While this crossing was intended to replace the ferry service provided in the same area from approximately 1669 onward, the local population eventually bridled over the toll, and popular sentiment culminated in the construction of the “ Farmers ’ Free Bridge ” further south along the Spuyten Duyvil Creek in 1758.

Father Juan Crespí wrote, " While crossing the basin the scouts reported having seen some geysers of tar issuing from the ground like springs ; it boils up molten, and the water runs to one side and the tar to the other.

While driving a car given to him by admirers, Jennings ’ car overturned while crossing a bridge over the Lehigh River near Goldsborough, 23 miles southeast of Scranton.

While crossing through the recently reformed levels of hell ( satirical forms of Dante's Inferno ) they encounter da Quirm and the parrot, as well as Lavaeolus, who tells them where the exit is.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

While a hazy part of my mind concentrated on swimming down, a clear part sorted over recent events, among them my only positive act in a long time.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While not all Southerners saw themselves as fighting to preserve slavery, most of the officers and over a third of the rank and file in Lee's army had close family ties to slavery.

While over the far side of the Moon, the Command / Service Module's Service Propulsion System engine burned for six minutes and fifteen seconds, braking the spacecraft into an orbit around the Moon with a low point ( pericynthion ) of 58. 3 and a high point ( apocynthion ) of 170. 4 nautical miles ( 108. 0 and 315. 6 km, respectively ).

While driving home during a thunderstorm, the car in which he was a passenger skidded off the road and rolled over.

While bishop he was largely responsible for the construction of a large organ in the cathedral, audible from over a mile ( 1600 m ) away and said to require more than 24 men to operate.

While there is no scientific evidence for the cryptid's existence, there have been over 300 reported sightings.

" While his one-time acolytes The Rolling Stones and Cream made the front pages of music magazines all over the world, Korner was relegated to the role of ' elder statesman '.

While their powers grew over time, it is not always easy to distinguish the difference between their powers, and those of the Roman Censors.

While the Habsburgs were driven out, many of their minor nobles were allowed to keep their lands and offices, though over time they lost power to the Bernese government.

While the two herbicides that make up Agent Orange, 2, 4-D and 2, 4, 5-T, remain toxic over a short period — a scale of days or weeks — they quickly degrade.

" While Sakharov strongly disagreed with Teller over nuclear testing in the atmosphere and Strategic Defense Initiative, he believed that American academics had been unfair to Teller ’ s resolve to get the H-bomb for the United States since " all steps by the Americans of a temporary or permanent rejection of developing thermonuclear weapons would have been seen either as a clever feint, or as the manifestation of stupidity.

While government authorities prepared lists of aliens for deportation, many aliens fled the country during the debate over the Alien and Sedition Acts, and Adams never signed a deportation order.

While Dino De Laurentiis gave Raimi and his crew freedom to shoot the movie the way they wanted, Universal Pictures took over during post-production.

While the numerical difference between the decimal and binary interpretations is relatively small for the prefixes kilo and mega, it grows to over 20 % for prefix yotta, illustrated in the linear-log graph ( at right ) of difference versus storage size.

While Ignatius of Antioch offers the earliest clear description of monarchial bishops ( a single bishop over all house churches in a city ) he is an advocate of monepiscopal structure rather than describing an accepted reality.

While most patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches have jurisdiction over a " ritual church " ( a group or diocese of a particular Eastern tradition ), all Latin Rite patriarchs, except for the Pope, have only honorary titles.

While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body.

While Bonaparte was sailing to Malta, the Royal Navy re-entered the Mediterranean for the first time in over a year.

While based in Sacramento his radio broadcasts over 50, 000 watt KFBK were heard all over the West.

While its use has several advantages over use of a live edged weapon, it can still be deadly, and any training with a bokken should be done with due care.

While there have been many theological disputes over the nature of Jesus over the earliest centuries of Christian history, Christians generally believe that Jesus is God incarnate and " true God and true man " ( or both fully divine and fully human ).