While the battle raged in the bay, the two straggling British ships made strenuous efforts to join the engagement, focusing on the flashes of gunfire in the darkness.

While Burma's presence in ASEAN was seen as a test of the organisation's philosophy of constructive engagement, the presence of Burma in ASEAN however has started to be seen as an embarrassment to the organisation, because of Burma's human rights record and lack of democracy.

While the storylines and production were remembered by children, the adult jokes like those about the Welsh in " Ivor the Engine ," or the fact that the Clangers swore occasionally ; gave them both an instant parent engagement as well as a later revival with children who had grown up and were re-watching their favourite programmes.

While pointing to an engagement between two kingdoms of the 7th century, it is debatable which kingdoms these may be and whether this battle is recorded in other historical records of Britain or England.

While we often identify others with their physical bodies, this type of phenomenology requires that we focus on the subjectivity of the other, as well as our intersubjective engagement with them.

While opening the National Ploughing Championships in County Kildare in September 2011 she spoke of her sadness that she would soon no longer be President, saying: " I'm going to miss it terribly … I'll miss the people and the engagement with them.

While playing a successful engagement in New York City in 1915 the band was offered a chance to record for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

While there, he accepted a speaking engagement at the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

While no single model has taken precedence, a large body of empirical literature has identified social-cognitive ( the psycho-social aspect of Engel's model ) variables that appear to influence engagement in healthy behaviors and adhere to prescribed medical regimens, such as self-efficacy, in chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc.

While Cornwallis protected the main British column from any further American attack, Washington had fought his opponent to a standstill after a pitched and prolonged engagement ; the first time that Washington's army had achieved such a result.

While the Spanish had taken the initiative by beginning the engagement, two factors slowed their escape.

While most of the Federation starships are destroyed early in the engagement, the Defiant manages to continue fighting the Borg Cube as it approaches Earth.

While the trade-offs involved in combat aircraft design are again shifting towards BVR engagement, the management of the advancing environment of numerous information flows in the modern battle-space, and low-observability, arguably at the expense of maneuvering ability in close-combat, the application of thrust vectoring provides a way to maintain it, especially at low speed.

While Communist sympathisers were highly present among their ranks ( which explains their history of engagement in the Résistance, and according to some due to a desire to practice entryism ), a purge limited their number after the French Communist Party ( PCF ) took on the role of opposition to postwar governments – following a demonstration in Marseille ( 12 November 1947 ) called by the CGT union and the PCF that the CRS, a majority of whom were Communists, refused to repress, several companies were dissolved and the CRS were reorganised so as to remove Communist influence among their ranks.

While Nightwing is hesitant, due to his engagement with Barbara, she encourages him to go and returns his engagement ring so he can make an honest decision for himself.

While Lorelei and Dorothy fulfill their Paris nightclub engagement, Lady Beekman ( Norma Varden ) has filed charges regarding her missing tiara, and Lorelei is charged with theft.

While, however, Dalhousie was content with a mutual engagement with the Afghan chief, binding each party to respect the territories of the other, he saw that a larger measure of interference was needed in Baluchistan, and with the Khan of Kalat he authorized Major Jacob to negotiate a treaty of subordinate co-operation on 14 May 1854.

While at Goražde, Private Shaun Taylor of C Company was killed during an engagement with Bosnian-Serb forces while manning an observation post.

While Clay was from a wealthy family, Sullivan was still a poor young composer from a poor family ; the Scott Russells welcomed the engagement of Alice to Clay, who, however broke it off, but forbade the relationship between Sullivan and Rachel, although the two continued to see each other covertly.

While many nations have their own rules of engagement documents, many others do not.

While the aircraft is not a " true " air defence fighter in the mould of the F-15 and F-16, the RAF has developed tactics to exploit its long range engagement capabilities and to guard against its weaknesses.

While this was her first engagement in a bel canto opera and she had to learn the role in less than one month, her performance made her famous throughout the opera world.

While his works are often full of both the widescreen spectacles associated with science fiction and the subtle frissons typical of more earthbound fantasy, his focus remains on the engagement of characters with ethical quandaries any reader might encounter in his or her daily life.

While still applying pressure to Cargill, in 2010 RAN began campaigning for responsible use of palm oil by food production giant General Mills through direct action tactics, negotiation and membership engagement ; eight months later General Mills issued a strong palm oil policy and committed to getting all of its palm oil from responsible sources by 2015.

While his work on deciphering the Maya script gained some support from Alfred Tozzer at Harvard, the main authority on Ancient Maya culture, J. E. S.

While not considered orthodox Christian, the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica uses roles and titles derived from Christianity for its clerical hierarchy, including bishops who have much the same authority and responsibilities as in Roman Catholicism.

While Israeli law is undergoing codification, its basic principles are inherited from the law of the British Mandate of Palestine and thus resemble those of British and American law, namely: the role of courts in creating the body of law and the authority of the supreme court in reviewing and if necessary overturning legislative and executive decisions, as well as employing the adversarial system.

While all Catholics must therefore hold that " the infliction of capital punishment is not contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church, and the power of the State to visit upon culprits the penalty of death derives much authority from revelation and from the writings of theologians ", the matter of " the advisability of exercising that power is, of course, an affair to be determined upon other and various considerations.

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 the presence of a long-term professional minister has sometimes created " significant de facto ministerial authority " and led to conflict between the minister and the elders, the eldership has remained the " ultimate locus of authority in the congregation ".

" While " lord it over " implies abusive leadership, his words " exercise authority " have no connotation of abuse of authority.

While modernist critical theory ( as described above ) concerns itself with “ forms of authority and injustice that accompanied the evolution of industrial and corporate capitalism as a political-economic system ,” postmodern critical theory politicizes social problems “ by situating them in historical and cultural contexts, to implicate themselves in the process of collecting and analyzing data, and to relativize their findings ” ( Lindlof & Taylor, 2002, p. 52 ).

While some Celtic Christian practices were changed at the Synod of Whitby, the church in the British Isles was under papal authority from earliest times.

While there are few and they have limited authority, the decisions carry much weight with legal commentators and are quite influential on the development of international environmental law.

While Conservative Jews have varied views regarding the origin of the Torah and its authority today, and believe it can be continuously reinterpreted.

While he ceded much of the authority of the imperial government to the cities, Julian also took more direct control himself.

While by no means a central authority of the Lollards, the Twelve Conclusions reveal certain basic Lollard ideas.

While the Academic Senate is an independent body, it is required to make recommendations to the university Council in relation to matters outside its delegated authority.

While Royal Assent and the royal sign-manual are required to enact laws, letters patent, and Orders in Council, the authority for these acts stems from the New Zealand populace.

While the content of the letters was subtle in their inferred goal of securing his authority, when read in total, his goal becomes more obvious:

While kings had to be successful war leaders to maintain their authority, kingship became rather less personalised and more institutionalised during this time.

In shifting the debate from " what is true " to " of what can I be certain ?," Descartes shifted the authoritative guarantor of truth from God to Man ( While traditional concept of " truth " implies an external authority, " certainty " instead relies on the judgement of the individual Man ).

While the Waffen-SS remained officially outside the armed forces ( Wehrmacht ) and under Himmler's authority, they were placed under the operational command of the Armed Forces High Command ( OKW ) or Army High Command ( OKH ), and were largely funded by the Wehrmacht.

" While there are no explicit definitions authoritatively put forth by the Catholic Church that would warrant calling the doctrine of creationism de fide, nevertheless, there can be no doubt as to which view has been favored by ecclesiastical authority.

While the Constitution always granted Congress the authority to meet on a different day without the need to pass an amendment, § 2 of the Twentieth Amendment " tidied up " the constitutional text by paralleling the original provision requiring that the Congress meet at least once a year in December, and changing it to January 3 ( unless changed by law ).

While at the studio, Mizner had hardly any respect for authority and found it difficult to work with studio boss Jack Warner, but became a valuable asset.

While Mormons do not believe such groups had the fullness of the gospel ( often meaning priesthood authority of the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods ), and neither considering themselves Protestant, they do however believe that such groups had many righteous leaders and members who could be considered saints because they followed the light of Christ and sought to follow Him.