While the double bass is nearly identical in construction to other violin family instruments, it also embodies features found in the older viol family.

While the violin, viola, and cello all use friction pegs for gross tuning adjustments, the double bass has metal machine heads.

While attempting a forward loop in overpowered storm conditions off the coast of Cantabria, Spain, windsurfer Justin Wheeler gets catapulted into a high double flip.

While prolonged grappling in muay Thai will result in a separation of the competitors, the art extensively uses the clinch hold known as a double collar tie.

While the Third Estate demanded and was granted " double representation " so as to balance the First and Second Estate, voting was to occur " by orders " – votes of the Third Estate were to be weighted – effectively canceling double representation.

While the details of the mechanism are uncertain, the stereochemical retention is achieved through a double displacement reaction.

While puns are often simple wordplay for comedic or rhetorical effect, a double entendre alludes to a second meaning which is not contained within the statement or phrase itself, often one which purposefully disguises the second meaning.

While her demeanor is superficially cheerful, she makes judgmental comments about Mary, exchanges personal insults with Murray, and uses many sexual double entendres, especially around Lou, to whom she is strongly attracted.

While theoretically capable of peaking at about 60-80 MFLOPS for both single precision and double precision for the XP versions, hand-coded assemblers managed to get only about up to 40 MFLOPS, and most compilers had difficulty getting even 10 MFLOPs.

While weapons like double barreled shotguns were reasonably safe, weapons like the pepperbox revolver would sometimes fire all barrels simultaneously, or would sometimes just explode in the user's hand.

While they wait, Millicent, now coming to, insists the strange events are caused by an evil double from a parallel world-a nearby, yet distant alternate plane of existence that comes into convergence with this world by powerful forces, or unnatural, unknown events.

While today some cheaper engines rely on a single camshaft per cylinder bank, which is known as a single overhead camshaft ( SOHC ), most modern engine designs ( the overhead-valve or OHV engine being largely obsolete on passenger vehicles ), are driven by a two camshafts per cylinder bank arrangement ( one camshaft for the intake valves and another for the exhaust valves ); such camshaft arrangement is known as a double or dual overhead cam ( DOHC ), thus, a V engine, which has two separate cylinder banks, may have four camshafts ( colloquially known as a quad-cam engine ).

While this orientation is rather conducive to the double pump motion, Spud Webb was known to perform the dunk while facing the basket.

While the Reports were intended to give an explanation of the law chronologically, Coke's intentions with the Institutes were to provide an English language tutorial for those students studying law at the Inns of Court, as an alternative to the Roman law lectures at university, which were based on Latin ; " It was a double vision ; the Institutes as authority, the Reports as illustration by actual practise ".

While in Amsterdam Monteux conducted operas, including Pelléas et Mélisande, its Dutch premiere, Carmen, The Tales of Hoffmann, a Lully and Ravel double bill of Acis et Galatée and L ' heure espagnole, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride ( also brought to the Paris Opéra ) and Verdi's Falstaff.

While he has won screen acclaim, no-one who saw his ravaged King Lear at Stratford, while still in his early forties, will forget his superb double act with a red-nosed Antony Sher as the Fool sitting on his master's knee like a ventriloquist's doll.

( 3 ) While the accuracy of a double path interferometer is dependent on the precision with which the reference element is figured, careful design enables the generated reference beam of the PDI to be of guaranteed precision.

The band's first commercial release in years, Destiny, received a lukewarm reception from music critics, While the album's lead single " Goodbye to Yesterday " still made it to the top five, follow-up " Maybe " and double A-single " Amaze Me "/" Teardrops " became No Angels ' lowest-charting singles to date, never making it to the top 20 of any chart.

While working in the FBI New York office, Pitts had access to " a wide range of sensitive and highly classified operations " that included " recruitment operations involving Russian intelligence officers, double agent operations, operations targeting Russian intelligence officers, true identities of human assets, operations against Russian illegals, defector sources, surveillance schedules of known meet sites, internal policies, documents, and procedures concerning surveillance of Russian intelligence officers, and the identification, targeting, and reporting on known and suspected KGB intelligence officers in the New York area.

While these tactics may have helped to more than double party support in the 2002 elections ( to 13. 3 %), they have also provoked accusations of betraying liberal ideology from within leftist factions of the party, and led to criticism from the strong liberal press in Sweden.

While attempting a forward loop in storm conditions off the coast of Cantabria, Spain, a windsurfer gets catapulted into a high double flip.

While the individual strands of a linear double helix represent two distinct and separable molecules, this need not be true for circular DNA.

While its total capacity barely changed, the new stadium contains double the number of luxury and wheelchair-accessible seats, along with more modern services.

While Aquinas felt positive and negative theology should be seen as dialetical correctives to each other, like thesis and antithesis producing a synthesis, Lossky argues, based on his reading of Dionysius and Maximus Confessor, that positive theology is always inferior to negative theology, a step along the way to the superior knowledge attained by negation.

While Shankara holds that the transcendent noumenon, Brahman, is realized by the means of negation of every phenomenon including language ; Bhartṛhari theorizes that language has both phenomenal and noumenal dimensions, the latter of which manifests Brahman.

While approving of the Epicurean physics, he rejects the Epicurean negation of God and particular providence.

While the N400 is larger to unexpected items at the end of a sentence, its amplitude is generally unaffected by negation that causes the last word to be untrue and thus anomalous.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

While he is worldly, the musician often cultivates public attitudes of childlike astonishment and naivete.

While some think we move too fast and others too slowly, Florida's record is a good one and stands out among the 50.

While white is the coolest summer shade, there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend with any wardrobe color.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

While clay is still pressed in mold, press three equally spaced holes 1/4'' '' deep, using pencil eraser, in bottom of clay to allow for proper drying and firing.

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

While some regression is inevitable, it is discouraged rather than encouraged so that the transference does not follow the stages of planned regression associated with certain casework adaptations of the psychoanalytic model for insight therapy.

While other conditions might be even more effective in bringing about a change from immobility to mobility in Kohnstamm reactivity, it is our hypothesis that all such conditions would have as a common factor the capacity to induce an attitude in the subject which enabled him to divorce himself temporarily from feelings of responsibility for his behavior.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While roleplaying for testing is not too well understood at the present time, it represents one of the major uses of this procedure.

While the phonemes can be very easily stated, no one is likely to be satisfied with the statement until phonemic occurrences can be related in some way to morphemic units, i.e. until the morphophonemics is worked out, or at least far enough that it seems reasonable to expect success.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

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 there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

While one element is announcing progress, another is delineating its problems.