While the acquisitions of Tarkenton and wide receiver John Gilliam improved the passing attack, the running game was inconsistent and the Vikings finished with a disappointing 7 – 7 record.

While the band's management had involvement in the artwork of the release, the overall finished product was disappointing due to the label's poor quality control.

While many IBS patients believe they have some form of dietary intolerance, tests attempting to predict food sensitivity in IBS have been disappointing.

While he finished the season with a disappointing 15 – 17 record, he had a low ERA and allowed only 7 hits per 9 innings pitched.

While the same reviewer found the spa disappointing, she gave highest marks to the hotel's personalised service, the Savoy Tea, afternoon tea in the Thames Foyer, and the Beaufort bar, concluding: " The Savoy is back where it belongs – right on top.

" In a mostly positive review, Allmusic said of the album: " While Human Touch was a disappointing album of second-rate material, Lucky Town is an ambitious collection addressing many of Springsteen's major concerns and moving them forward.

While the results of this test were disappointing, the British learned much about radiation implosion in H-bombs.

While the BBC's Breakfast Time was a huge success, TV-am's early ratings were very disappointing.

While initially garnering good reviews for its handling ( Motor Trend 1984 ), the Fiero soon received disappointing reviews, as the automotive critics expected higher performance from a mid-engine two-seater.

Addressing viewers, Sherwood said, " While I'm truly sorry for disappointing you, I never wavered from my commitment to reduce taxes, create jobs and bring home our fair share.

While initial preview coverage was positive the launch lead to disappointing reviews.

While at Daisho-ji, he read the Lotus Sutra, considered by the Nichiren sect to be the king of all Buddhist sutras, and found it disappointing, saying " it consisted of nothing more than simple tales about cause and effect ".

While the senior team may have endured a disappointing season, the under-21 team reached the under-21 Enda McGill cup final defeating Bray Wanderers in the quarter finals and Drogheda United in the semi-finals before losing to Cork City in the final 1-0.

While Variety rated The Curse of the Cat People as " highly disappointing ", The New York Times ' Bosley Crowther called it " a rare departure from the ordinary run of horror films emerges as an oddly touching study of the working of a sensitive child's mind ".

While Edwards, naturally, admitted that he was disappointing with the lack of progress in the league, he understood the reasons for the disappointment, which was largely down to a series of injuries to key players, and said that he was pleased with Ferguson for his reorganisation of the squad.

While anticipated with much hype, The Album received generally negative reviews and generated disappointing sales upon its release.

Variety thought it was " a beautifully crafted film with flawless performances and many splendid moments, yet the overall effect is a bit disappointing " and added, " While the day-to-day details are drawn with a striking clarity, Ephron's script never goes much beyond the mannerisms of middle-class life.

While he had a disappointing ODI series, he top-scored with 96 in the first warm-up match to enhance his claims to the Test squad.

While the Venizelist legacy was still popular, election results were disappointing as the abolition of the monarchy, the dilution of support for Greek nationalism after the seven years of the junta and the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and Karamanlis ' move towards the political center had blurred the differences between the liberals and their former conservative opponents, while the socialist PASOK party was gaining support at the left side of the spectrum.

" While the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music cites this as a " subdued approach to ministry ", other commentators saw it as a disappointing lack of spiritual message, especially on Trouble With X.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

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 studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

While Johnny made himself comfortable on the couch, I'd play the tunes for him.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

While expensive in time and involving a great deal of adaptation on the part of the worker ( in terms of his willingness to leave the sanctity of his office and enter actively into the client's life ), techniques of accompaniment were found to be of tremendous value when in the service of specific preventive objectives.

While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.

While the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

While it had long been known in general, that `` the public is always wrong '', the use of odd-lot indices now puts the adage on a statistical basis.

While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

While the factories were always the center of the labor market, they were often on the city's periphery.

While the `` empirical psychoanalytic '' label which Fromm claims sheds no light on the validity of his underlying philosophy, it does increase the marketability of his product.

and on Christmas Day, 1890, Hardy wrote: `` While thinking of resuming ' the viewless Wings Of Poesy before dawn this morning, new horizons seemed to open, and worrying pettinesses to disappear '' ( Early Life, p. 302 ).

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

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 ideas about altruism from one field can have an impact on the other fields, the different methods and focuses of these fields always lead to different perspectives on altruism.

While both sexes state that kindness is the most preferable trait in a partner there is some evidence that men place less value on this than women and that women may not be more altruistic in presence of an attractive man.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

While Durkheim and others examined the state of modern societies, Mauss and his collaborators ( such as Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz ) drew on ethnography and philology to analyze societies that were not as ' differentiated ' as European nation states.