While the majority were born in the Gaza Strip, a large percentage identify as Palestinian refugees, fleeing to Gaza as part of the 1948 Palestinian exodus following the Arab-Israeli War.

While the crowd was rioting in the streets, Justinian considered fleeing the capital, but he remained in the city on the stirring words of Theodora ( according to Procopius, she said " For an Emperor to become a fugitive is not a thing to be endured ... I hold with the old saying that the purple makes an excellent shroud ".

While there are no historical records that deal directly with the founding of Venice, tradition and the available evidence have led several historians to agree that the original population of Venice consisted of refugees from Roman cities near Venice such as Padua, Aquileia, Treviso, Altino and Concordia ( modern Portogruaro ) and from the undefended countryside, who were fleeing successive waves of Germanic and Hun invasions.

While the Bretons were fleeing, rumours swept the Norman forces that the duke had been killed, but William rallied his troops.

While fleeing from Minos, who lusted after her, she cast herself into nets cast for a catch of fish.

While fleeing across the Libyan desert from angry sisters of the slain Gorgon Medusa, Mopsus died from the bite of a viper that had grown from a drop of Medusa's blood.

While in Miletus at a festival in honor of Artemis, she became an object of Apollo's desire and, fleeing from his advances, asked Pompilus, a seafarer and an old friend of her father, to take her home.

While Hialeah was once envisioned as a playground for the elite, Cuban exiles, fleeing Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution as well as World War II Veterans and city planners transformed the city into a working-class community.

While fleeing Europe in 1939, Capa had lost the collection, which over time came to be dubbed the " Mexican suitcase ".

While fleeing from the advancing French army he wrote a letter explaining his opposition to Napoleon to a friend, Rabbi Moshe Meizeles:

While the stores, heavy equipment and Loyalist American civilians fleeing revenge attacks would be shipped by sea, the main army would march overland across New Jersey.

While fleeing the Sheriff's forces, Robin and Azeem encounter a band of outlaws hiding in Sherwood Forest, led by Little John ( Nick Brimble ).

While fleeing the Fire Angel, Merlin passes through a field of flowers whose scent is intoxicating.

While fleeing with the disk and Devlin's wallet Bennett's dinghy collides with rocks, destroying the disk and hospitalizing her, unconscious, for three days.

While fleeing, Matahachi finds himself on the mountain trail leading to Shishido Baiken, a figure renowned for his chain and sickle technique, and encounters a mysterious young girl armed with a chain and sickle.

While fleeing, Sima Ying was captured and put under house arrest by Sima Chu ( to whom Sima Ying was a second cousin once removed ).

" While the chronicler al-Maqrizi claims that al-Ḥākim's stepsister Sitt al-Mulk was hostile to Amīna, other sources say she gave her and her child refuge when they were fleeing al-Ḥākim's persecution.

While fleeing, Zavitz runs into an old college friend, labor lawyer Robert Clayton Dean ( Smith ).

While the Upper Belvedere was transformed into a picture gallery at the end of the eighteenth century, the Lower Belvedere served chiefly to house family members fleeing from Napoleon.

While fleeing the police, Batman encounters an actress-turned-vampire who was thought to have died 40 years ago, and Batman is hypnotized into doing her will.

While fleeing from Ada and Jeeter ’ s onslaught, Dude backs the Ford right over Grandma Lester, who then lies with her face mashed into the sand, near dead.

While they are considering how to help the Lion, a field mouse runs in front of them, fleeing a cougar.

While punishments for cross-border movement into northeast China by Han Chinese and Koreans by their respective governments ( the Qing and Joseon ) were on the books and Koreans apprehended in Gando were repatriated to Korea by Qing authorities, it is evident that these regulations did not deter people fleeing poor conditions, and they were able to make this claim in an attempt to escape relocation and punishment.

While Bouquet travelled down the road from Fort Bedford, his troops were attacked by French and Indians at Loyalhanna, near present Ligonier, Pennsylvania, but the attack was repulsed and they continued on to Fort Duquesne, only to find it razed by the fleeing French.

While the Brooklyn was pursuing fleeing Spanish armored cruisers Vizcaya and Cristobal Colin, Ellis took a position about three feet in front of the forward turret.

While living in Hall County, Texas they also played at ' ranch dances ' which were popular in both North Texas and eastern New Mexico.

While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

While the Expresión en Corto International Film Festival is the largest competitive film festival in Mexico, specializing in emerging talents, and is held each year during the last week of July in the two colonial cities of San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato.

) While in the mountain town of Orizaba in central Mexico, she married Juan Jaramillo, a Spanish hidalgo.

While Mexican restaurants can be found in many parts of North America, Europe and in many cities around the world, restaurants outside of Mexico often feature non-traditional ingredients, such as grated American-style cheese, " nacho " cheese or tomato-based sauce substitutes for Mexican chile-based sauces or mole, or the common use in the United States of hard-shelled tacos instead of the Mexican style " soft " or fresh tortillas.

While red tides in the Gulf of Mexico have been occurring since the time of early explorers such as Cabeza de Vaca, it is unclear what initiates these blooms and how large a role anthropogenic and natural factors play in their development.

While in Mexico Eisenstein mixed socially with Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera.

While his and others ' attacks brought home a great deal of money, they hardly dented the flow of gold and silver from Mexico to Spain.

While in some countries, such as the United States, production is almost entirely through fisheries, other countries have concentrated on aquaculture ( shrimp farms ), including Ecuador where 95 % of production is farmed ; some countries produce similar amounts from fisheries and aquaculture, including Mexico, China, India and Indonesia.

While a handful stand out – the country waltz Mexico, You Turn the Screws and Hem of Your Garment – Prolonging the Magic shows McRea and company to be little more than an above average bar-room act.

While Chagall had done stage settings before while in Russia, this was his first ballet, and it would give him the opportunity to visit Mexico.

While the license of XERF rested in the hands of Ramon D. Bosquez, a Mexican national, the actual control of the airtime and the management of the facilities in Ciudad Acuña, Mexico were under the control of Inter-American Radio Advertising, Inc.

While attempting to return to Miami, his car broke down in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Calley then reported to a recruiting official, enlisting in the U. S. Army on July 26, 1966.

While at the time, government propaganda and the mainstream media in Mexico claimed that government forces had been provoked by protesters shooting at them, government documents that have been made public since 2000 suggest that the snipers had in fact been employed by the government.

While many writers focused primarily upon American expansionism, be it into Mexico or across the Pacific, others saw the term as a call to example.

While little known outside of Mexico, its seeds were perhaps the most common psychedelic drug used by the natives.

" While other parts of Mexico are hit by an increase in drugs violence, the beheadings and massacres familiar a few years ago are now rare in Tijuana, a key battleground on one of the most lucrative drug smuggling corridors to the United States.

While still in the Army, he actively campaigned for the election of Franklin Pierce, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1852, and a former general in the Mexican War who had been impressed by Beauregard's performance at Mexico City.

While the obverse of these coins bears the traditional Coat of arms of Mexico, their reverses show the individual coats of arms of the component states.

While in Mexico and Spain the persecution was directed chiefly against the Catholic Church, hostility in the Soviet Union was directed against all Christians but especially against the Eastern Catholic Churches united with the Vatican.

While Iturbide's reign lasted less than a year, it was the result of and further defined the struggle between republican and traditional ideals, not only in Mexico, but also in Europe.

While in Mexico, Pedro de Alvarado went to the assistance of the town of Jalisco which was under siege by hostile Indians.

While at New Mexico she played in the Las Vegas Bowl against UCLA, when her extra point attempt was blocked.

While in the Gulf of Mexico, near Mobile, Alabama, Törni jumped overboard and swam to shore.

While Burger King lags behind McDonald's in international locations by over 12, 000 stores, as of 2008 it had managed to become the largest chain in several countries including Mexico and Spain.