While Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Islamist extremist enjoying the backing of neighboring Pakistan, pushed for continued violent struggle against the Afghan government, Massoud and Rabbani advocated for a peaceful political campaign lobbying officials working for the government and armed forces.

While images appear to show the internees happy and enjoying their lives, Tatsuno said that they were " hamming it up " for the camera, hiding their sorrow.

While leisurely enjoying the city of Paris with Romana, the Doctor feels effects of time distortion.

While not initially enjoying Smallville, Conner eventually changes his mind.

While enjoying a leisurely trip through the countryside, a five course meal is served as theatrical entertainers perform a comical, and interactive murder mystery.

While enjoying a leisurely trip through the countryside, a five course meal is served as actors and actresses perform a comical, and interactive murder mystery.

While not traditionally enjoying a reputation for competitive sport, King's has recently rebuked this generalisation.

While enjoying the beginnings of his prosperity in Australia, Barrington romanced and cohabited with a native woman, Yeariana, who soon left him to return to her family.

While enjoying playing Shirley Partridge, Jones was in a real-life crisis with her emotionally troubled husband.

While enjoying considerable popularity for some years, its growth and activity were stalled by the rise of Mohandas Gandhi and his Satyagraha art of revolution: non-violent, but mass-based civil disobedience, aimed at complete independence.

While he was mayor, the city was enjoying an economic boom, attracting many unskilled labourers from all over the country.

While visiting her old friend Jason Beck, who was enjoying modest European success as Chilly Gonzales in his new home base of Berlin, Peaches landed a one-night gig.

While enjoying success in the middle-of-the-road and pop fields, Eckstine occasionally returned to his jazz roots, recording with Vaughan, Count Basie and Quincy Jones for separate LPs, and he regularly topped the Metronome and Down Beat polls in the Top Male Vocalist category: He won Esquire magazine's New Star Award in 1946 ; the Down Beat magazine Readers Polls from 1948 to 1952 ; and the Metronome magazine award as " Top Male Vocalist " from 1949 to 1954.

While enjoying continuous popularity with the show, Reubens teamed with young director Tim Burton in 1985 to make the comedy film Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

While initially enjoying strong public support, the LRA allegedly turned on its own supporters, supposedly to " purify " the Acholi people and turn Uganda into a theocracy.

While not a new technique, hygroscopic seeding for enhancement of rainfall in warm clouds is enjoying a revival, based on some positive indications from research in South Africa, Mexico, and elsewhere.

While she had been largely cared for by his parents, he had been enjoying life at the front as a bachelor.

While there, enjoying a whirlwind social life, she met the playwright George Kaufman and they had an affair, which she documented in her diary.

While enjoying the playroom, they discover an ancient dragon scale that transports them to Dragon Land, a world of fantasy that brims with talking trees, rainbow rivers, gnomes, giants – and dragons!

While enjoying his newly found success, Héctor became severely addicted to narcotics, namely heroin, and prescription drugs.

While enjoying a spa in Bad Ems, Germany, in May 1876, the Tsar signed what would come to be called the " Ems Ukaz ", extending the publication ban to apply to all books and song lyrics in the " Little Russian dialect ", and to prohibit the importation of such materials.

While the main characters are enjoying themselves, the dockhand, Darik ( Benjamin Brown ), is slashed across the head, the maid, Olga ( Ellerine!

While the rest of the team was enjoying their cake with Stengel, Throneberry realized he didn't receive a slice.

While enjoying his work, Kraft found it increasingly stressful, especially since he did not consider himself to be a strong theoretician.

While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.

While there are a number of political parties in the state, the political landscape has been dominated for decades by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, historically opposed and competing entities, which both occupy the traditional centre ground.

While several individuals wrote biographies in the decades following the king's death, only Jean of Joinville, Geoffrey of Beaulieu, and William of Chartres wrote from personal knowledge of the king.

While Merlot wines tend to mature faster than Cabernet Sauvignon, some examples can continue to develop in the bottle for decades.

While mining today is substantially safer than it was in the previous decades, mining accidents still occur.

" While the original image was a popular humorous graphic for many decades before Mad adopted it, the face is now primarily associated with Mad.

While at one time influential within Orthodox Judaism, the Agudath HaRabbonim in the last several decades has progressively moved further to the right ; its membership has been dropping and it has been relatively inactive.

While many networks followed the show's success by scheduling other cartoons in the early 1960s, including Scooby-Doo, Where Are You !, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and The Alvin Show, none of these programs survived more than a year ( save Scooby-Doo, which, despite not being a primetime cartoon, has managed to stay afloat for over four decades ).

While New World Cabernets are characterized as being drinkable earlier than Bordeaux, premium producers such as the Californian cult wines will produce wines that need time to age and could potentially develop for two to three decades.

While standard versions of ramen are available throughout Japan since the Taisho era, the last few decades have shown a proliferation of regional variations.

While they contain some remarks on Jung's dissenting view on the nature of libido, they represent largely a " psychoanalytical Jung " and not the theory Jung became famous for in the following decades.

While she is best known for an ongoing acting career spanning more than two decades, she has increasingly become involved in global humanitarian efforts and political activism.

While the procedure, initially termed a leucotomy, has been controversial since its inception in 1935, it was a mainstream procedure for more than two decades, prescribed for psychiatric ( and occasionally other ) conditions — this despite general recognition of frequent and serious side-effects.

While his best-known roles have spanned three decades from 1981, he started his television career in 1964 as Bert Bradshaw in the soap-opera Crossroads, and after several appearances as Captain Fantastic on the children's television show Do Not Adjust Your Set, by the 1970s Jason was already an established screen comedy actor with recurring appearances in television series.

While the diamond had disappeared for several decades, there were questions whether this recovered diamond in Britain was exactly the same one as had belonged to the French king, but subsequent scientific investigation in 2008 confirmed " beyond reasonable doubt " that the Hope Diamond and that owned by the French king were, in fact, the same gemstone in the sense that the Hope Diamond had been cut from the same material as the French Blue.

While most oil companies were switching to leaded gasolines en masse during the mid-to-late 1920s, American Oil chose to continue marketing its premium-grade " Amoco-Gas " ( later Amoco Super-Premium ) as a lead-free gasoline by using aromatics rather than tetraethyllead to increase octane levels, decades before the environmental movement of the early 1970s led to more stringent auto emission controls which ultimately mandated the universal phase out of leaded gasoline.

While the basic rasterization process has been known for decades, modern applications continue to make optimizations and additions to increase the range of possibilities for the rasterization rendering engine.

While he was recovering, Mantle made peace with his estranged wife, Merlyn, and repeated a request he made decades before for Bobby Richardson to read a poem at Mantle's funeral if he died.

While technically referring to the era before Christopher Columbus ' voyages of 1492 to 1504, in practice the term usually includes the history of American indigenous cultures until they were conquered or significantly influenced by Europeans, even if this happened decades or even centuries after Columbus ' initial landing.

While the Eye of Providence is currently a common Masonic motif, this was not the case during the 1770s and 1780s ( the decades when the Great Seal was being designed and approved ).

While Chinese chestnuts evolved with the blight and developed a strong resistance, the airborne bark fungus spread a year and in a few decades girdled and killed up to three billion American chestnut trees.

While later critics have noted that Stowe's female characters are often domestic clichés instead of realistic women, Stowe's novel " reaffirmed the importance of women's influence " and helped pave the way for the women's rights movement in the following decades.

While many vampires cling to the mannerisms and speech patterns prevalent at the time they were sired, Spike has been shown to easily adjust to changing fashions and styles over the decades and displays an impressive knowledge of both British and American popular culture, demonstrating another aspect of his potential for analysis and adaptability.

While in the past there were differences between the siyur units, due to the experiences of the past decades the IDF is now consolidating them into larger units with many different capabilities: battalion-sized units called Gadsar ( contraction of Gdud siyur, " Reconnaissance battalion ").

While blackface in the literal sense has played only a minor role in entertainment in recent decades, various writers see it as epitomizing an appropriation and imitation of black culture that continues today.