While Plato finally allows a few acceptable hymns to the gods and famous men, still he clearly leaves the way open for further discussion of the issue.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

While availability of mortgage money has been a factor in encouraging apartment construction, the generally high level of prosperity in the past few years plus rising consumer income are among the factors that have encouraged builders to concentrate in the apartment-building field.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While the group only recorded one album together as the Analog Brothers, a few bootlegs of its live concert performances, including freestyles with original lyrics, have occasionally surfaced online.

While the use of paracetamol, aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen and other NSAIDS concurrently with weak to mid-range opiates ( up to about the hydrocodone level ) has been said to show beneficial synergistic effects by combatting pain at multiple sites of action, several combination analgesic products have been shown to have few efficacy benefits when compared to similar doses of their individual components.

While in the fort he only communicated with the outside world by a crevice through which food would be passed and he would say a few words.

While protons and neutrons combined to form the first atomic nuclei only a few minutes after the Big Bang, it would take thousands of years for electrons to combine with them and create electrically neutral atoms.

While there are a few motherboards that offer more than 8 slots, that is the traditional limit.

While players may spend most of the game in a specific position, there are few restrictions on player movement, and players can switch positions at any time.

While diverse life forms prospered in the oceans, the land was comparatively barren – with nothing more complex than a microbial soil crust and a few forms that apparently emerged to browse on the microbial materials.

While mountain tops remain snow-capped year long, near the coast snow only stays on the ground for a few minutes or hours.

While the dative case is no longer a part of modern English usage, it survives in a few set expressions.

While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.

While playing in thumb position, few players use the fourth ( little ) finger, as it is too weak to produce a reliable tone ( this is also true for cellists ), although some extreme chords or extended techniques, especially in contemporary music, may necessitate its use.

While encyclopedias in larger languages, having large markets that could support a large editorial staff, churned out new 20-volume works in a few years and new editions with brief intervals, such publication plans often spanned a decade or more in smaller languages.

While Heman remained in Salisbury, where he ran a general store until his death in 1778, Ethan's movements over the next few years are poorly documented.

While these epistles are traditionally attributed to Paul of Tarsus, there are a few scholars who consider them pseudepigraphical.

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 the rest of the series does not do this as much as the first, there are still a few cases that it happens, such as the opening sequence of Resident Evil 4.

While the absorption of infrared radiation by many greenhouse gases varies linearly with their abundance, a few important ones display non-linear behaviour for current and likely future abundances ( e. g., CO < sub > 2 </ sub >, CH < sub > 4 </ sub >, and N < sub > 2 </ sub > O ).

While Telemann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann.

While few players " play Goren " exactly today, the point count approach he popularized remains the foundation for most bidding systems.

While conventional reality was eventually restored, it came at a high price, as thousands if not millions of Earth ’ s mutant population lost their powers or died in the process, leaving only a few hundred mutants alive and powered.

While DNA had been known to biologists since 1869, a few scientists still assumed at the time that proteins carried the information for inheritance.

While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

While the speed of communication is important, so is the fact that the messages cannot be overheard except by listeners with a piece of the original crystal.

While the creator of the NES version would be restricted from making a competitive version of an NES game, the original arcade copyright holder was not precluded from licensing out rights for a home version of an arcade game to multiple systems.

The Allmusic review by Marc Gilman awarded the album 4½ stars noting that " While some compositions retain their original structure and sound, some are expanded and probed by Zorn's arrangements, and resemble avant-garde classical music more than jazz.

While often criticized for its reliance on existing franchises, the company developed several titles for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 based on original intellectual property: Lost Planet and Dead Rising.

While the original Sterling semi-auto would be classed a " short barrel rifle " under the U. S. National Firearms Act, fully legal long-barrel versions of the Sterling have been made for the U. S. collector market.

While the automatic stay is in place, most litigation against the debtor is stayed, or put on hold, until it can be resolved in bankruptcy court, or resumed in its original venue.

While the original IPA did not explicitly mark unaspirated consonants, the revised Extensions to the IPA marks them with a superscript equals sign "=", ( e. g., ).

While there are specific types of underlying bass rhythms ( shita-byōshi ), the accompanying player is free to express an original musical beat.

While Gretchen Daily's original definition distinguished between ecosystem goods and ecosystem services, Robert Costanza and colleagues ' later work and that of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment lumped all of these together as ecosystem services.

While not one of George Carlin's original seven dirty words, he noted in a later routine that the word fart, ought to be added to " the list " of words that were not acceptable ( for broadcast ) in any context ( which have non-offensive meanings ), and described television as ( then ) a " fart-free zone ".

While similar in appearance to the original cars, it was bigger, wider, and three inches taller than the original 40 inches ( 1. 02 m ).

While at Pitt, Kelly became involved in the university's Cap and Gown Club, which staged original, comedic musical productions.

While the original Grand Guignol attempted to present naturalistic horror, the performances would seem melodramatic and heightened to today's audience.

While thousands of political prisoners and many dissidents were released in the spirit of glasnost, Gorbachev's original goal of using glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet Union was not achieved.

While presenting several specific differences in their respective translations of the original computer game, all of them constitute essentially the same game with no major changes to level design, plot, or overall delivery.

While progressive, this was a controversial design decision among fans of the original title, a well-known first-person shooter built on the Doom engine.

While no temples in the original chartered lineage of the Golden Dawn survived past the 1970s, several organizations have since revived its teachings and rituals.

While not featuring the censoring mosaics of the original Japanese version, the US release of La Blue Girl was edited during the initial VHS release and all scenes featuring Miko's companion Nin-Nin engaged in a sexual act were removed, probably to avoid the charge of pedophilia, in spite of the fact that the character is not a minor but a dwarf ninja.

While the number of regions is somewhat stable ( the only modification to the original set is the separation of Molise from Abruzzo ), there has been a tendency in later years to create new provinces, such as Crotone, Verbania, Lodi, Biella, Lecco and others.

While it was technically possible to retrofit more advanced floppy drives such as the high-density drive ( released in 1984 ) into the original IBM PC, this was not an option offered by IBM for the 5150 model, and the move to high-density 5. 25-inch floppies in particular was notoriously fraught with disk compatibility problems.

While the original Karaoke Revolution was also eventually released for the Microsoft Xbox console in late 2004, the new online-enabled version included the ability to download additional song packs through the console's exclusive Xbox Live service.

While incomplete and subtitled a " fragment ", its language is highly stylised with a strong emphasis on sound devices that change between the poem's original two stanzas.