While Alexei was pondering his options, on 26 August 1716 Peter wrote to Alexei from abroad, urging him, if he desired to remain tsarevich, to join him and the army without delay.

While spectators ran on the field, Hurst ran on towards the goal, stating later that he aimed for the top left corner knowing that, should it miss, the resulting delay would eat away valuable seconds.

While playing football at PJC, Robinson suffered a fractured ankle, complications from which would eventually delay his deployment status while in the military.

While this makes the weapon safer to carry and reduces the likelihood of an accidental discharge, it also means that there will be a longer delay before the officer can fire the weapon.

While the BIOS video interface routines were adequate for rudimentary output, they were inefficient ; they did not have " string " output ( only output by individual character ) and they inserted delay periods to compensate for CGA hardware " snow " ( a display artifact of CGA cards produced when writing directly to screen memory )-- an especially bad artifact since they were called by IRQs, thus making multitasking very difficult.

While SCL is low, the transmitter ( initially the master ) sets SDA to the desired value and ( after a small delay to let the value propagate ) lets SCL float high.

While in Malta, he was criticised for his approach to leadership during the 3 year siege and for what critics argue to have been an unacceptable delay in the creation of bomb shelters ; as well as in implementing efficient food-rationing and creating an effective civil-defence system.

While the Oireachtas is bicameral, the upper house, the Senate, has little power which at most allows the Senate to delay rather than veto legislation.

While this system generally uses delay as the basis for its measurements, the particular measurements and statistical methods vary depending on the facility being described.

While the tactic of delay worked well in the field, the result in the Continental Congress was a different matter.

While young are usually born after six to seven months, the mother has the ability to delay giving birth for an additional month if conditions are harsh.

While endometrial cancers are 40 % more common in Caucasian women, an African American woman who is diagnosed with uterine cancer is twice as likely to die ( possibly due to the higher frequency of aggressive subtypes in that population, but more probably due to delay in the diagnosis ).

While this adaptive duplex scheme was able to send large files quickly, for users accustomed to having the distant computer echo characters, the delay associated with having the DSPs take turns using the bandwidth tended make interactive typing difficult, as there could be as much as a second and a half delay for a single character echo.

While the computer system never generated an impact prediction, the large amount of data caused enough concern that the equipment was subsequently modified to reject moon returns based on their long ( 2. 5 second ) delay.

While some of the sounds that enter the ear travel directly to the canal, others reflect off the contours of the pinna first: these enter the ear canal at a very slight delay.

While the new defence team argued the charges should be thrown out due to the long delay, this motion was rejected.

While the policy was being drawn up, Gonzales as Counsel to the President issued a series of orders to the U. S. Archivist to delay the release of Reagan's records.

While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina, and discovers she has become a morphine addict.

While in many ways Might and Magic 2 is an updated version of the original, the improved graphics help greatly with navigation, and the interface added several functions that facilitated gameplay, such as a " delay " selector which allowed for faster or slower response times, and a spinning cursor when input was required-all features lacking in Might and Magic 1.

While fans cannot see the game in person from the concourse below, it does provide an enclosed dry refuge in case of a rain delay.

While the escape plan is going on, Raymond chooses to stay behind to delay Chaiko, gaining time for Nikolai and Darya to get to the American Consulate at Leningrad.

While Chadwick rested, Evans, Walker and Groothuizen took advantage of the time off to return to My White Bedroom, which released its lone album in 1991 after two years of delay.

While cyanobacteria have been traditionally considered algae, recent works usually exclude them due to large differences such as the lack of membrane-bound organelles, the presence of a single circular chromosome, the presence of peptidoglycan in the cell walls, and ribosomes different in size and content from those of the Eukaryotes .< ref >

While the improvements are attributed primarily to changes in the brain and not just the hip and / or ankle joints, it is still unknown whether the improvements are due to adaptations in the cerebellum or compensation by other areas of the brain.

While modern Ainu have predominantly tested as being mongoloid ( due to heavy race mixing ), The race to which the Ainu belonged cannot be determined until ancient remains are tested.

While administrative decision-making bodies are often controlled by larger governmental units, their decisions could be reviewed by a court of general jurisdiction under some principle of judicial review based upon due process ( United States ) or fundamental justice ( Canada ).

While the 7800 can actually play hundreds of titles due to its compatibility with the Atari 2600, there was limited third party support for the 7800 and fewer than 100 titles were specifically designed for it.

While suitable media and raw pigments are available for the individual production of acrylic paint, due to the fast drying time and other technical issues, hand mixing may not be practical.

While the Dines anemometer had an error of only 1 % at it did not respond very well to low winds due to the poor response of the flat plate vane required to turn the head into the wind.

While attending Harvard, he lost his sight in his left eye due to an accident in the boxing ring.

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 this was occurring, modern birds were undergoing diversification and replacing archaic birds and pterosaur groups, possibly due to direct competition, or they simply filled empty niches.

While people may gain celebrity status as a result of a successful career in a particular field ( primarily in the areas pertaining towards sports and entertainment ), in other cases, people become celebrities due to media attention for their extravagant lifestyle or wealth ( as in the case of a socialite ); for their connection to a famous person ( as in the case of a relative of a famous person ); or even for their misdeeds ( as in the case of a well-known criminal ).

While most traditional Spanish style builders use the one piece neck / heel block, Fleta a prominent Spanish builder used a dovetail joint due to the influence of his early training in violin making.

While this slogan is sometimes attributed to Paul Dirac or Richard Feynman, it is in fact due to David Mermin.

While an emphasis remains on agriculture and stock breeding, due to the climate and terrain of the island, there has been a drop in manufacturing, and an observable expansion in its service industries ( mainly tourism-related ).

While both types of gun were effective against wooden ships, neither had the capability to pierce the armour of ironclads ; due to reports of slight problems with the breeches of the Armstrong gun, and their higher cost, the older muzzle-loaders were selected to remain in service, instead.

While objects naturally follow a straight path ( due to inertia ), this centripetal acceleration describes the circular motion path caused by a centripetal force.

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 there are those who maintain that God will punish or reward us according to our behavior on Earth, likewise there are those who assert that any punishment or reward that is due to us is given during our mortal stay on Earth.

While the Darwin Awards are named after Charles Darwin, due to his theory of natural selection, there is no evidence that the stories depicted actually represent the removal of " judgement impairment genes " from the gene pool.

While taxonomists using molecular phylogenetic techniques find strong support for the order, there remain questions about the morphological relationships of the Quillajaceae and Surianaceae to the rest of the order, due in part to limited research on these families.

While Menelik's victory was in a large part due to sheer force of numbers, Menelik's careful preparations had made them well-armed numbers.

While economic growth has declined since 2001 due to adverse shocks, including slowdown in the global economy and natural disasters, fiscal policy became more expansionary when privatization receipts declined.

While fused quartz ( primarily composed of SiO < sub > 2 </ sub >) is used for some special applications, it is not very common due to its high glass transition temperature of over 1200 ° C ( 2192 ° F ).< ref > Normally, other substances are added to simplify processing.

While their old lands were being worked by slaves, the peasants were often forced into idleness in Rome where they had to subsist on hand outs due to a scarcity of paid work.