While suitable for laboratory instruments, the vacuum tube amplifiers available in the first half of the 20th century were too expensive, power consuming, and unreliable for everyday applications.

While satire of everyday life in the USSR was allowed, the most prominent satirist being Arkady Raikin, political satire existed in the form of anecdotes that made fun of Soviet political leaders, especially Brezhnev, famous for his narrow-mindness and love for awards and decorations.

" While physical destruction as a method is self-explanatory, its targets are nuanced, reflecting objects to which the saboteur has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

While the art of the older masters was based in the physical world of everyday experience, Bosch confronts his viewer with, in the words of the art historian Walter Gibson, " a world of dreams nightmares in which forms seem to flicker and change before our eyes.

While Germany had a semi-presidential system during the Weimar Republic, today's presidential office is mainly supervising and ceremonial, with the Chancellor of Germany generally seen as wielding the effective power and guideline authority in everyday politics.

While urban migration, development projects, and modernization are bringing more Gambians into contact with Western habits and values, the traditional emphasis on the extended family, as well as indigenous forms of dress and celebration, remain integral parts of everyday life.

GameSpot listed him at # 9 in their " Top 10 Video Game Villains " article, stating " Of all the villains to make an appearance on this list, Bowser ... has got to be the most interesting ," later adding " While some people say Bowser's life may have gotten into a rut, the man has simply refined his game down to an everyday thing.

While some such exhibits may be conducted in character as a representation of typical everyday life, others are specifically organized to inform the public and so might include an emphasis on handicrafts or other day-to-day activities, which are convenient to stage and interesting to watch, and may be explained out of character.

While the Ten Commandments of Judaeo-Christian ethics are rules of conduct laid down by divine revelation, the Negative Confession is more a divine enforcement of everyday morality.

While no such complete system has ever become common in milk production, many of its features are in everyday use in today's rotary milking parlors.

While in the beginning of the film National Socialist members are sometimes harassed and even kicked out of the Kit Kat Klub, a scene midway through the film shows everyday Germans rising in song to rally around National Socialism, and the final shot of the film shows the cabaret's audience is dominated by Nazi party members.

While German became Wallenstein's everyday language, he is said to have continued to curse in Czech.

While the original No Name line-up was promoted as basic, everyday items at considerable savings, Dave Nichol eventually began experimenting with the product line-up by adding more upscale items.

While an innate cautiousness around heights is helpful for survival, an extreme fear can interfere with the activities of everyday life, such as climbing up a flight of stairs or a ladder or even standing on a chair.

While in everyday siphons, atmospheric pressure is the driving mechanism, in specialized circumstances other mechanisms can work – in the laboratory, some siphons have been demonstrated to work in a vacuum – see vacuum siphons – indicating the tensile strength of the liquid is contributing to the operation of siphons at very low pressures.

While most roleplaying situations arise from the strict codes regulating the everyday life of the empire's citizens, the imperial age is rife with opportunities for adventure: following the fall of the old regime and the following centuries of darkness and warfare, many worlds have slipped back to a pre-civilized state, and a number of alien threats lurk in the shadows.

While Mädchen is an everyday word, Maid is hardly used nowadays and usually is associated with medieval language ( as in fables, novels, etc.

While Wall is known for large-scale photographs of contemporary everyday genre scenes populated with figures, in the early 1990s he became interested in still lifes.

While his early works, such as " The Banjo Lesson " were concerned with everyday life as an African American, Tanner's later paintings focused mainly on the religious subjects for which he is now best known.

While some series like De Familie Snoek and Bessy stuck very close to their origin ( an everyday Flemish contemporary family for the former, and a pioneer family in the American Old West in the latter ), others were more loose.

While practicing for the rodeo, Skip, Harry, Jesus, Rory and Grossberger acquire the numerous tools they require for their escape, using the prison's metal shop to transform them into seemingly everyday items.

Iran Contra: While clearly not the first case, it was the first case in which the term clearly exploded into public consciousness, if not quite into everyday parlance.

While clinical audit makes great sense, there can be an issue around persuading hospitals and clinicians to undertake and apply clinical audit to their everyday work.

While his methods and style charmed all his students, he had the opposition of many of his colleagues, who found his approach of connecting mathematics to everyday life as demeaning.

While a wind wave never travels at more than 60 miles per hour, the velocity of a tsunami in the open sea must be reckoned in hundreds of miles per hour.

While the Dines anemometer had an error of only 1 % at it did not respond very well to low winds due to the poor response of the flat plate vane required to turn the head into the wind.

While Greek fire remained a potent weapon, its limitations were significant when compared to more traditional forms of artillery: in its siphon-deployed version, it had a limited range, and it could be used safely only in a calm sea and with favourable wind conditions.

While tides are usually the largest source of short-term sea-level fluctuations, sea levels are also subject to forces such as wind and barometric pressure changes, resulting in storm surges, especially in shallow seas and near coasts.

While using the new Eight-Foot High-Speed Tunnel, a wind tunnel with performance up to Mach 0. 95 at NACA's Langley Research Center, he was surprised by the increase in drag due to shock wave formation.

While direct measurement of the most violent tornado wind speeds is nearly impossible, since conventional anemometers would be destroyed by the intense winds, some tornadoes have been scanned by mobile Doppler radar units, which can provide a good estimate of the tornado's winds.

While the spinner is making new yarn, the bobbin and the flyer turn in unison, but when the spinner wants to wind the yarn onto the bobbin, the bobbin or the flyer slows down and thus the yarn winds on.

While most thunderstorms move with the mean wind flow through the layer of the troposphere that they occupy, vertical wind shear causes a deviation in their course at a right angle to the wind shear direction.

While the astrolabe could be useful for determining latitude on land, it was an awkward instrument for use on the heaving deck of a ship or in wind.

While the Geest has some woods, trees are found in marshlands only in form of wind protection around houses or villages.

While the French marshal, Lannes, who wasted no time, was approaching the outskirts of the city from the mountains of the north wind and the sun rose.

While the wind itself was not a major factor, the dust that both armies created would have been potentially debilitating to sight.

While the wind is a summer condition ( hot inland, cool oceanside ), winter weather is right in line with the rest of sea level Northern California ( mild with occasional rain ).

While brigs could not sail into the wind as easily as fore and aft rigged vessels such as schooners, a trait that is common to all square-rigged ships, a skilled brig captain could " manoeuvre it with ease and elegance ; a brig could for instance turn around almost on the spot ".

While windsurfing is possible under a wide range of wind conditions, most recreational windsurfers prefer to sail in conditions that allow for consistent planing with multi-purpose, not overly specialized, free-ride equipment.

While working at Borgward Focke set up a wind tunnel in a disused hangar in central Bremen ; this wind tunnel was rediscovered in 1997 and is today the centerpiece of a museum devoted to him.

While not all severe thunderstorms produce tornadoes, they can produce serious straight line wind damage as severe as a tornado ( and can actually cover a much wider area than a tornado ).

While " reading the wind " -- anticipating shot deflection caused by varying wind speed and direction -- is the same problem faced by competitors using conventional benchrest rifles, return-to-battery rifles do, in fact, generally place higher than the " bag guns " ( rifles shot off sandbags, which have to be consciously aimed for each shot ).

While waiting to board their plane, they watch as the suitcase falls off a cart, breaks open and the loose banknotes are swept away by the wind.

While the stellar wind from a red supergiant is dense and slow, the wind from a blue supergiant is fast but sparse.