While the gay subculture grew, with official and underground press alike discussing the subject of homosexuality, the traditionally conservative attitudes towards sexuality were used by the secret police to harass and put pressure on individuals.

While factorially distinct from Eysenck's previous R factor, the S-factor did positively correlate with the R-factor, indicating that a basic left – right or right – left tendency underlies both social values and economic values, although S tapped more into items discussing economic inequality and big business, while R relates more to the treatment of criminals, and to sexual issues and military issues.

While the moment in time at which a particular nucleus decays is unpredictable, a collection of atoms of a radioactive nuclide decays exponentially at a rate described by a parameter known as the half-life, usually given in units of years when discussing dating techniques.

While Steed and Keel used wit while discussing crimes and dangers, the series also depicted the interplay — and often tension — between Keel's idealism and Steed's professionalism.

While hosting The Victor Borge Show on NBC beginning in 1946, he developed many of his trademarks, including repeatedly announcing his intent to play a piece but getting " distracted " by something or other, making comments about the audience, or discussing the usefulness of Chopin's " Minute Waltz " as an egg timer.

* While discussing the details of a military expedition against the Almoravids for the following year, the representative of the Republic of Genoa and the count of Barcelona reach a commercial agreement granting privileges to merchants of both nation in the Catalan and Ligurian ports.

While Septimus waits for appropriate music for a dance lesson that Thomasina has asked for, he examines the picture she made to illustrate the irreversibility of heat, an action mirrored in the present setting with Valentine and Hannah also looking at the same diagram and discussing its significance.

While the phrase is Windows-specific and a derivation of the general cross-platform phrase " dependency hell ", the rhyme " DLL hell " makes its use popular for discussing a general Windows-related dependency hell case.

While you ’ re discussing it, night cometh to pass.

While they remained at Aberdeen the two were inseparable, reading together the best Greek authors, especially Plato, and discussing, either during their walks by the sea-shore and the banks of the Don or in their rooms until early morning, the most perplexed questions in philosophy and religion.

While discussing his approach to writing episodes in a 1986 interview, he drew parallels between the premise and characters of Captain Scarlet and those of Thunderbirds, suggesting, for example, that the Spectrum Organisation was similar to International Rescue and that the character of Captain Black was like the earlier recurring villain from Thunderbirds, The Hood.

While under house arrest of Judge Asterius, and discussing his faith with him, Valentinus ( the Roman pronunciation of his name ) was discussing the validity of Jesus.

While Corgan typically avoids discussing United States politics, he said after the 2008 presidential election, " I'm very proud of my country right now for doing the right thing.

While the two parties were bickering over the price, the Midland's John Ellis overheard two directors of the Birmingham and Bristol Railway on a London train discussing the business, and took it on himself to pledge that the Midland would match anything the Great Western would offer.

While discussing the war in Flanders, Catesby asked about the morality of " killing innocents ".

While discussing the graphic violence in games such as Counter-Strike, Grand Theft Auto and Half Life, the author Judy Arnall notes that children in many societies, current and historical, often witness events much more horrific than those featured in the games.

While discussing Wesley's character development over the course of Angel, Denisof explains: " I decided that Wesley was internally confronting his father and that released him a little bit and made him less repressed.

While discussing proposed healthcare reform on the December 17, 2009, edition of Hardball, Matthews stated, " The Republicans will know they have lost .... Let them keep score and it's easy.

While discussing the Gran Grimoire, a powerful source of magic, Guildenstern and Samantha discover ancient Kildean letterings carved throughout the city walls.

) While discussing the University of Kentucky's decision to dispose of its investments in South Africa at a meeting of the university's board of trustees on April 5, 1988, Chandler remarked " You know Zimbabwe's all nigger now.

While discussing the Greek conception of the river delta in ancient Greek literature, Francis Celoria notes that both Ptolemy and Pausanias of the 2nd century AD provided gazetteer information on geographical terms.

While most young girls present at the celebration seek to impress the young men with their dress sense, Melanie is plainly clothed, discussing the works of William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens.

While he cares greatly about him, several times discussing future plans to live on the same street, he recognizes that the feeling may not be mutual.

While The Space Merchants indicates, as Kingsley Amis has correctly observed, some of the `` impending consequences of the growth of industrial and commercial power '' and satirizes `` existing habits in the advertising profession '', its warning and analysis penetrate much deeper.

While it is assumed that the younger Cuyp did work with his father initially to develop rudimentary talents, Aelbert became more focused on landscape paintings while Jacob was a portrait painter by profession.

" While a Saiyid retains his saintly profession Mir is a prefix ; if he has taken to agriculture, Mir is an affix to his name.

While working as a tax inspector, Callaghan was instrumental in establishing the Association of Officers of Taxes as a trade union for those in his profession and became a member of its national executive.

While this intramural contest looms large in retrospect, Mannheim's most active contemporary competitors were in fact other academic sociologists, notably the gifted proto-fascist Leipzig professor, Hans Freyer, and the proponent of formal sociology and leading figure in the profession, Leopold von Wiese.

While a few sources say Mahesh came from a lower-caste family, the predominant view is that he was a member of the Kayastha caste, a high-status caste whose traditional profession is writing.

While his works say little else about his life, they tell us that he practiced the profession of pharmacy and personally attended to a very large number of customers.

While her brothel businesses made her quite wealthy, the Catholic Church did not accept her donations because of her past and the illicit nature of her profession.

While Carnegie provided the institutions where librarianship as a profession blossomed, it was Melvil Dewey who was a primary force in establishing the professionalization of librarians and library education in the US.

He greatly impressed the Spanish Ambassador in Rome, the Duke of Sesa, who described him as a “ man of good judgement, experienced in his profession, hard working, quiet and disinterested .” While in Rome Queirós also first wrote his Treatise on Navigation as a letter to the king, further reinforcing his reputation as a navigator.

" While a Saiyid retains his saintly profession Mir is a prefix ; if he has taken to agriculture, Mir is an affix to his name.

While politics and showbiz are not exactly bedfellows in Asia, A-mei made it clear that she has no intention of engaging in anything irrelevant to her profession.

While possession of a college degree can aid in obtaining employment in this profession, only extensive training provided at specialized facilities, combined with on-the-job training, can provide the skills and knowledge needed to perform the duties of a federal criminal investigator.

While farming is the predominant profession among the Mandinka, men also work as tailors, butchers, taxi drivers, woodworkers, metalworkers, soldiers, nurses, and extension workers for aid agencies.

While not only disliking Blackford's chosen profession because it so often spoils their plans, Sally also disapproves of many of the ideals she believes the CIA represents.

While the collection was used in the papal chancery until the 11th century, the content of the document that contains the profession of faith shows that this formulary can have been used only at some time or times in the short period between the election of Pope Conon ( 686-687 ) and that of Pope Zachary ( 741-752 ); and the profession of faith speaks of the Third Council of Constantinople ( 680-681 ) as having been held recently (" nuper "), making the beginning of that period the most likely.

While his intelligence and English skills were notably inferior to Victor's, Hugo was able to make sense of some of his brother's spoonerisms, and he would often describe their chosen profession as " criminiminals ".

While he was celebrated as a daring test pilot, he claimed that his actual profession was an engineer.

While the profession of Jesus as the Son of God has been an essential element of Christian creeds since the Apostolic age, such professions do not apply to Son of man.

") While in Switzerland, he introduced ( and practised for some time ) the profession of obstetrician, under the difficult Alpine conditions.

While he gained much material success in his profession as a lawyer, the stress and over-strain eventually took its toll, and during this time he experienced a complete physical and mental breakdown, and financial disaster.

While also acting, at least initially, as his therapist, Landy managed Wilson's career between 1983 and 1991, in violation of the ethics code of his profession.

While its use may be declining in the medical profession, several dictionaries of the slang have been compiled on the internet.