While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

While administrative decision-making bodies are often controlled by larger governmental units, their decisions could be reviewed by a court of general jurisdiction under some principle of judicial review based upon due process ( United States ) or fundamental justice ( Canada ).

While scientists have learned a great deal about ours and other galaxies, the most fundamental questions about formation and evolution remain only tentatively answered.

While working at Martin Marietta designing interplanetary mission architectures, Robert Zubrin perceived a fundamental flaw in the SEI program.

While not fundamental to circuit operation, diodes connected in series with the base or emitter of the transistors are required to prevent the base-emitter junction being driven into reverse breakdown when the supply voltage is in excess of the V < sub > eb </ sub > breakdown voltage, typically around 5-10 volts for general purpose silicon transistors.

While Mormonism and Islam certainly have many similarities, there are also significant, fundamental differences between the two religions.

While the fundamental concepts of PLC programming are common to all manufacturers, differences in I / O addressing, memory organization and instruction sets mean that PLC programs are never perfectly interchangeable between different makers.

While confirming that quantum mechanics and gravity are indeed consistent at reasonable energies, it is clear that near or above the fundamental cutoff of our effective quantum theory of gravity ( the cutoff is generally assumed to be of the order of the Planck scale ), a new model of nature will be needed.

While not a treaty itself, the Declaration was explicitly adopted for the purpose of defining the meaning of the words " fundamental freedoms " and " human rights " appearing in the United Nations Charter, which is binding on all member states.

While the meaninglessness of the sentence is often considered fundamental to Chomsky's point, Chomsky was only relying on the sentences ' having never been spoken before.

While the fundamental technology underlying the Marathon engine is still considered rather outdated by today's standards, Aleph One has added significant improvements and a more modern polish to its capabilities and ported it to a wide variety of platforms, bringing Marathon and its derivatives far beyond their Mac roots.

While Lévi-Strauss generally discounted the relevance of alliance theory in Africa, a particularly heinous concern for incest is a fundamental issue among the age systems of East Africa.

While the study of sociolinguistics is very broad, there are a few fundamental concepts on which many sociolinguistic inquiries depend.

While a sense of ethnic identity may coexist with racial identity ( Chinese Americans among Asian or Irish American among European or White, for example ), the long history of the United States as a settler, conqueror and slave society, and the formal and informal inscription of racialized groupings into law and social stratification schemes has bestowed upon race a fundamental social identification role in the United States.

While some individual buildings have undergone contemporary remodeling, the district retains its fundamental architectural integrity.

While opponents have argued that reactionary nationalism is evidence of Chinese insecurity or immaturity and that it is both unnecessary and embarrassing to a powerful nation, Chinese nationalists assert that Chinese nationalism was in many ways a result of Western imperialism and is fundamental to the founding of a modern Chinese state that is free from foreign domination.

While it is theoretically possible to get the reed to overblow a twelfth above the fundamental note, this is extremely difficult because the reed is not held in the mouth, and in practice all playing is confined to the fundamental series.

While the fundamental nature of Janus is debated, in most modern scholars ' view the set of the god's functions may be seen as being organized around a simple principle: that of presiding over all beginnings and transitions, whether abstract or concrete, sacred or profane.

The above equation is known as the fundamental thermodynamic relation, for which the independent variables are taken as S and V, with respect to which T and P are partial derivatives of U. While this has been derived for quasistatic changes, it is valid in general, as U can be considered as a thermodynamic state function of the independent variables S and V.

While the spindle apparatus is composed of hundreds upon hundreds of proteins, the fundamental machinery are the spindle microtubules.

While MIDI 1. 0 by itself provides a communications protocol which ensures that different instruments can interoperate at a fundamental level ( e. g., that pressing keys on a MIDI keyboard will cause an attached MIDI sound module to play musical notes ), GM goes further in two ways: it requires that all GM-compatible synthesizers meet a certain minimal set of features, such as being able to play at least 24 notes simultaneously ( polyphony ), and it attaches specific interpretations to many parameters and control messages which were left under-specified in the MIDI 1. 0 spec, such as defining instrument sounds for each of the 128 possible program numbers.

While these divisions are extremely useful for ordering geological events in a relative manner, it is important to realize that the boundaries do not imply any fundamental change of geological processes.

While both film manufacturers recognized this fundamental change, it can be said that Fuji Photo had adopted to this shift much more successfully that Eastman Kodak ( which filed for bankruptcy in January 2012 ).

While it touted superior graphics to the 2600 and Mattel's Intellivision, the system was initially incompatible with the 2600s expansive library of games, and some market analysts have speculated that this hurt its sales especially since an Atari 2600 cartridge adapter had been released for the Intellivision II.

While there is considerable debate about the relative merits of a constitutional arrangement such as that of the United States versus a parliamentary arrangement such as Britain, analysts have noted that most democracies around the world have chosen the British multi-party model.

While some analysts have applied the doctrine in opposition to governments established by revolution, this usage is not widespread, and its invocation usually involves treaty violations.

While many analysts debate the magnitude, evidence has shown a statistically significant positive relationship between infrastructure investment and economic performance.

While analysts feared that a PFP run will split the Pan-Blue Coalition vote and hand a winnable election to the DPP ( as was the case in the 2000 Presidential election ), Soong has insisted that his campaign is a serious one and that he will complete his run .< ref > http :// www. atimes. com / atimes / China / MJ04Ad01. html </ reF > On election day, however, the Soong-Lin ticket underperformed and garnered a mere 2. 77 % of votes.

While Disney's stock dropped four percent after a screening for unenthusiastic investment analysts,

While some analysts argue that Getty's fiscal program laid the groundwork for Ralph Klein's later balancing of the provincial budget, on Getty's departure from office the government's debt had reached $ 11 billion, setting the stage for his successor to characterize the Getty years as an era of wasteful and excessive spending.

Amanpour reported that, " While people in Sarajevo are dying from starvation, the Serbs are living Kiseljak in plenty ," a report that was subsequently criticized by some analysts as spreading " misinformation " and " beautiful lies.

While it claimed it was to achieve fiscal savings, some political analysts considered the results electoral manipulation.

While it is true that poor initial summaries will certainly yield an inaccurate final report, qualitative analysts can respond to this criticism.

While Defense Minister, Ustinov received a report from analysts that in theory the US Shuttle could be used to deploy space based weapons platforms and nuclear missiles over Soviet territory.

While these efforts were intended to placate the voters of the TSU, most analysts feel that they did nothing to attract more moderate voters.

While Deputy Director for Intelligence from 1997 to 2000, he created the Senior Analytic Service, a CIA career track that enables analysts to rise to very senior rank without branching out into management.

While most analysts agree that devaluation was necessary for economic reasons, Salinas supporters argue that the process was mishandled at the political level.

While analyst Benedict Carey writing in The New York Times agrees political analysts tend to agree that government will continue to be divided and marked by paralysis and feuding, there was research suggesting that humans have a " profound capacity through which vicious adversaries can form alliances ," according to Berkeley professor Dacher Keltner.

While some political analysts described their ideology as being populistic.

While analysts had expected that United States sales of Guitar Hero 5 and The Beatles: Rock Band would be high — close to or exceeding one million units each in the first month of their release — sales only reached roughly half of those projections.

While some claim that pow-wow had been an integral part of indigenous cultures for over 10 centuries, some modern analysts believe that powwows were invented to appeal to tourists and had only a tangential relationship to genuine Native American traditions, which generally revolved around ceremonial dance music like the Ghost Dance, Zuni Shalako, Navajo Yeibichai and the Sun Dance of the Plains.

While most became clerks, secretaries, and drivers, they also became mechanics, weather observers, radio operators, medical technicians, intelligence analysts, chaplains, postal workers, and heavy equipment operators.

While Allison did not claim that any of his additional two models could fully explain anything, he noted that policymakers and analysts alike would benefit from stepping away from the traditional model and exploring alternate viewpoints ( although this last remark could be viewed as facetious on Allison's part ).

While the takeover / merger was touted in glowing terms in press releases, analysts quietly shared the opinion that, based on the terms of the transaction, Royal had few options and little time left.

While some contacts between agents of Saddam's government and members of al-Qaeda have been alleged, the consensus of experts and analysts has held that those contacts never led to an " operational " relationship.

While Saddam was not involved in the September 11 attacks, members of his government did have contacts with al-Qaeda over the years ; many of the links, as will be seen below, are not considered by experts and analysts as convincing evidence of a collaborative operational relationship.