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 there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.

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 emphasizing that technical details were not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31.

While encysted it may undergo a peculiar process of autogamy or self-fertilization, where it goes through meiosis and divides to form two gametes, which then fuse together again.

While in the fort he only communicated with the outside world by a crevice through which food would be passed and he would say a few words.

While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex.

While many aspects of national copyright laws have been standardized through international copyright agreements, copyright laws of most countries have some unique features.

While it is possible through skillful play to minimize the house advantage, it is extremely rare that a player has sufficient skill to completely eliminate his inherent long-term disadvantage ( the house edge ( HE ) or house vigorish ) in a casino game.

While insulation reduces energy loss through the building envelope, thermal mass uses walls to store and release energy.

While most elements are generally viewed as stable, a small amount of natural transformation of one element to another also occurs in the present time, through decay of radioactive elements as well as other natural nuclear processes.

While the perspective is compatible with Jamesian pragmatism ( above ), the notion of the transformation of embodied concepts through structural mapping makes a distinct contribution to the problem of concept formation.

While calling the social structure as a racial caste or caste-like system, these scholars noted that African Americans were segregated, shunned through refused entry into restaurants and hotels, isolated, excluded, and fixed in a hereditary system with the anti-miscegenation laws declaring interracial sex or marriage a criminal offense.

While Qing dynasty abolished appointment of hereditary headmen, slavery and the treatment of poor peasants as serfs continued through 1949.

While they may hold the document as sacred, and most certainly as central to Christianity, they are also aware of the historical and cultural context in which it was originally written through archaeological and from critical study.

While he continued drifting through various jobs, he met Pearl Turner ( 1904 – 1987 ).

While they shared ideas during their work, the younger Cézanne wanted to study the countryside through Pissarro ’ s eyes, as he admired Pissarro ’ s landscapes from the 1860s.

: While advocates of the deprogramming position have claimed high rates of success, studies show that natural attrition rates actually are higher than the success rate achieved through deprogramming.

While the latter part was a boom and bust cycle, the Internet boom is sometimes meant to refer to the steady commercial growth of the Internet with the advent of the world wide web, as exemplified by the first release of the Mosaic web browser in 1993, and continuing through the 1990s.

While the game engine itself remained relatively similar between all games in the series, the interface went through many changes.

While some women chose a militant, and often violent, path, others chose to influence events through writing, publications, and meetings.

While studying them, the sun shines through a hole in the wall, shaped like a cross inside a circle.

While all this is happening, Mothra is heading through the city, directly towards the hotel.

While travel to Brazil is via the old cattle trail it has been upgraded into a fair weather track that passes through the bauxite-producing town of Linden and ending at Lethem.

While Pepys provides an account of the Plague through his diary, Henry Foe's nephew Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague Year, a fictional account of the plague, in 1722, possibly based on Foe's journals.

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.