While debating what became the Land Ordinance of 1785, Thomas Jefferson's committee wanted to divide the public lands in the west into “ hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot ” and “ sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre ”.

While they were debating she drew a concealed dagger and stabbed herself in the heart.

While debating, a well known Pakistani nuclear physicist Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy and Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood had an acrimonious public debate in 1988 at the University of Islamabad's Physics Hall.

While scholars are still debating the subject, there is a growing acceptance that the simple spiral, when found in Chinese art, is an early symbol for the sun.

While studying here, Martí openly participated in discourse on the Cuban issue, debating through the Spanish press and circulating documents protesting Spanish activities in Cuba.

While debating the Treaty of Paris ( 1898 ) on the senate floor, Nelson said: " Providence has given the United States the duty of extending Christian civilization.

While the assemblies began debating how best to defend their Mexican rights, a similar series of outbreaks of demonstrations, assemblies, and civil strife throughout Mexico led to a massive crackdown throughout the country by a new military junta led by Antonio López de Santa Anna.

While at Bates, Muskie was a successful member of the debating team, participated in several sports, and was elected to student government.

While some critics have been debating the end of development others have predicted a development revival as part of the War on Terrorism.

While debating the reform of the House of Lords in March 2007, Etherington also called for the abolition of the British Monarchy.

While related sections of the law made references to sex, a State Assembly committee that was debating adding sex-specific terms to this section in 1977 noted: " Under existing law it is not clear whether partners of the same sex can get married ".

While others – in Europe and New Spain – were debating whether or not they were human and had souls, he was interviewing them, seeking to understand who they were, how they loved each other, what they believed, and how they made sense of the world.

While scientists are still debating the significance and cause of the albedo patterns, one likely culprit is tectonism.

While the senate was debating the issue a slave girl, whose Greek name was Philotis and Latin Tutela or Tutula proposed that she together with other slave girls would render herself up to the enemy camp pretending to be the wives and daughters of the Roman families.

While most house competitions are sporting in nature, there are also competitions in bridge, chess, debating, drama, music, reading, recitation and an annual Spelling Bee.

While at Ampleforth he and his friend Nicholas Mostyn ( also the Nigerian born son of a BAT executive, and later leading divorce barrister ), won the national Observer Mace debating prize.

" While debating the issue with Lovejoy on the television show Smartline, Homer makes a case for gay marriage and mockingly joins the Bible and Lovejoy in matrimony — adding that Lovejoy is the wife and that he owes Homer $ 200.

While many debating societies use a mayoral style chain to indicate the Auditor, in UL the auditor wears an academic style purple gown.

While at university, Shanahan was the editor of the ANU Student Newspaper, Woroni, where he gained notoriety among the University's political groups ( and debating society ) for his strongly satirical writing style.

While there he was a member of the top debating team with his debating partner and future Co-operative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) leader Lloyd Stinson.

While there he competed in the World High School Public Speaking Championship, where he placed second, and was the winner of several national debating competitions.

While high-profile “ history wars ” have taken place over public exhibits and interpretations of history in many places in recent years ( for example, Australia ’ s ongoing debate over the history of colonisation and indigenous peoples, the furor over Jack Granatstein ’ s 1998 book “ Who Killed Canadian History ?”, or the 1994 controversy over the National Museum of American History's planned exhibit on the Enola Gay bomber ), public historians tend to welcome these as opportunities to participate in vigorous public discussions over the meanings of the past, debating how people arrive at those meanings.

While at King's, he was recruited into the Cambridge Apostles, a secret debating society whose members included Guy Burgess, and Michael Straight, who became spies for the Soviet Union ( see Cambridge Five ).

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 Jonah passively finds himself forced to act under the Divine Will, the people of Nineveh actively petition God to change His mind.

While in many instances an improper purpose is readily evident, such as a director looking to feather his or her own nest or divert an investment opportunity to a relative, such breaches usually involve a breach of the director's duty to act in good faith.

While a large trade in both types of diamonds exists, the two markets act in dramatically different ways.

The power of making by-laws was “ tacitly annexed to corporations by the very act of their establishment .” While they must not directly contradict the overarching laws of the land, the central or local government cannot be expected to regulate toward the peculiar circumstances of a given body, and so “ they are invested with authority to make regulations for the management of their own interests and affairs .”

While other knowledge could be a figment of imagination, deception or mistake, the very act of doubting one's own existence serves to some people as proof of the reality of one's own existence, or at least that of one's thought.

While openness and accountability are usually considered cornerstones of a democratic system, the act of casting a vote and the content of a voter's ballot are usually an important exception.

While some historians read this generous act as a sign that Emperor Menelik still hoped for a peaceful resolution to the war, Harold Marcus points out that this escort allowed him a tactical advantage: " Menelik craftily managed to establish himself in Hawzien, at Gendepata, near Adwa, where the mountain passes were not guarded by Italian fortifications.

While not featuring the censoring mosaics of the original Japanese version, the US release of La Blue Girl was edited during the initial VHS release and all scenes featuring Miko's companion Nin-Nin engaged in a sexual act were removed, probably to avoid the charge of pedophilia, in spite of the fact that the character is not a minor but a dwarf ninja.

While, in principle, all fission reactors can act in all three capacities, in practice the tasks lead to conflicting engineering goals and most reactors have been built with only one of the above tasks in mind.

While it may seem unfair to forbid prosecution of crimes that law enforcement can later prove to a standard required by law (< em > cf .</ em >, e. g. beyond a reasonable doubt, clear and convincing evidence, and preponderance of the evidence ), the purpose of a statute of limitations or its equivalent is to ensure that the possibility of punishment for an act committed long ago cannot give rise to either a person's incarceration or the criminal justice system's activation.

While the act established severe punishment against the international trade, it did not regulate the domestic slave trade.

While a tribune could veto any act of the senate, the assemblies, or the magistrates, he could only veto the act, and not the actual measure.

While a democratic nation espousing civil liberties may claim a sense of higher moral ground than other regimes, an act of terrorism within such a state may cause a dilemma: whether to maintain its civil liberties and thus risk being perceived as ineffective in dealing with the problem ; or alternatively to restrict its civil liberties and thus risk delegitimizing its claim of supporting civil liberties.

While the results were not surprising since gravity was known to act on everything, including light ( see tests of general relativity and the Pound-Rebka falling photon experiment ), the self-interference of the quantum mechanical wave of a massive fermion in a gravitational field had never been experimentally confirmed before.

While the film portrayed the events of the " Hundred Days " quite faithfully, including some allusions to and scenes from the Battle of Ligny and of Quatre Bras, there were a few mistakes, presumably made for artistic purposes, and some characters act as ciphers for others.

While WoL hardware / firmware is arguably performing the role of a " server ", web based interfaces which act as a gateway through which users can issue WoL packets without downloading a local client often become known as " The Wake On LAN Server " to users.

While the act has several titles and provisions, the majority of criticism stems from the act's tightening of habeas corpus laws.

" While the Germanic word thus reflects a mythological notion of a " domain of Man " ( compare Midgard ), presumably as opposed to the divine sphere on the one hand and the chthonic sphere of the underworld on the other, the Greco-Latin term expresses a notion of creation as an act of establishing order out of chaos.

While the act addressed some religious issues, it did not appease those used to English culture.

While broadly popular among the general public, Chamberlain's policy towards Hitler was the subject of some opposition in the House of Commons, which led historian John Grigg to describe the King's behaviour in associating himself so prominently with a politician as " the most unconstitutional act by a British sovereign in the present century ".

While broadly popular among the general public, Chamberlain's policy towards Hitler was the subject of some opposition in the House of Commons, which led historian John Grigg to describe the King's behaviour in associating himself so prominently with a politician as " the most unconstitutional act by a British sovereign in the present century ".

While complying with the constitution, this allowed Cinna to act as monarch while still appearing to follow the will of the population.

While this marriage took place with the king's approval, the act itself was performed secretly and without consulting the great barons, as a marriage of such importance warranted.