While in this position he supervised development of the M1903 Springfield rifle and chaired the ordnance board that approved the M1911 pistol.

While in that position she chaired the Minner Commission on Government Reorganization and Effectiveness.

While leader of the Atlantic branch, Figueroa chaired an organizing committee that signed up 800 part-time seasonal professors and teaching assistants at Dalhousie University, ultimately leading to membership in the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

While a member of the Seattle City Council, Drago chaired the Council ’ s Transportation Committee which has jurisdiction over city-wide and regional transportation policies, planning and coordination of transportation issues.

While a student, he chaired the group, faculty and institute Komsomol committee.

While serving on the panel, he chaired the learning processes task group.

While in the State Assembly, Walker took a special interest in criminal justice matters, and chaired the Committees on Correctional Facilities, and Corrections and the Courts.

While serving as the official photographer for the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, he also chaired its Development Committee and its Highway Committee for years.

While president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Archbishop Keeler chaired the 1993 World Youth Day held in Denver, Colorado.

While in Congress, he chaired the Committee on the Judiciary and was one of the managers for the impeachment proceedings against U. S. Commerce Court Judge Robert W. Archbald.

While on Ottawa city council, Munter chaired the city's health committee and, along with Medical Officer of Health Robert Cushman, led the battle to bring Ottawa's no-smoking by-law.

While retired from politics, he chaired a regional forestry marketing board for eight years before he sought re-election in the new, though largely unchanged, riding of Nepisiguit in 2003, where he defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative Joel Bernard by a margin of nearly 2-to-1.

While in the Senate, DeVeber chaired the Standing Committee on Public Health and Inspection of Foods.

While serving in the Confederate Provisional Congress, Miles chaired the " Committee on the Flag and Seal ," which adopted the " Stars and Bars " flag as the national flag of the Confederacy.

While in the House, Bingham served on the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and chaired the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade.

While there, he chaired the Committee on Revolutionary Claims ( regarding claims from the U. S. Revolutionary War ).

While in Congress, White chaired the currently-defunct Irrigation committee, and also was a member of the Committee on Coins, Weights and Measures.

While Assistant General Secretary of the union and a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, he chaired the Labour Party policy group on Industrial Democracy.

While in the Senate, Burns sat on the Senate Appropriations Committee and was the chairman of its Subcommittee on the Interior.

While holding the position of Subcommittee Chair, Congresswoman Johnson sponsored the Water Resources Development Act.

While a member of the Subcommittee on Europe and Chair of the Congressional Albanian Issues Caucus, Engel fought ethnic cleansing and genocide in Kosovo in 1999 and voiced support in Congress for independence of Kosovo.

While in Congress, she served on the Committee on Banking, Currency and Housing, the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, and the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service ( including serving as chairperson of the Subcommittee on Compensation of Employee Benefits ).

While serving in the House, Bateman was a member of the Armed Forces and Transportation Infrastructure Committees, while chairing the Subcommittee on Military Readiness and the House Merchant Marine Panel.

While a member of the House, Rogers served as chair of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment from 1971 to 1979.

While the above action in pending action by the Subcommittee on Health, a six-month delay in the effective date was passed as part of H. R. 3668.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

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

While Johnny made himself comfortable on the couch, I'd play the tunes for him.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

While expensive in time and involving a great deal of adaptation on the part of the worker ( in terms of his willingness to leave the sanctity of his office and enter actively into the client's life ), techniques of accompaniment were found to be of tremendous value when in the service of specific preventive objectives.

While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.

While the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

While it had long been known in general, that `` the public is always wrong '', the use of odd-lot indices now puts the adage on a statistical basis.

While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

While the factories were always the center of the labor market, they were often on the city's periphery.

While the `` empirical psychoanalytic '' label which Fromm claims sheds no light on the validity of his underlying philosophy, it does increase the marketability of his product.

and on Christmas Day, 1890, Hardy wrote: `` While thinking of resuming ' the viewless Wings Of Poesy before dawn this morning, new horizons seemed to open, and worrying pettinesses to disappear '' ( Early Life, p. 302 ).

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

While a hazy part of my mind concentrated on swimming down, a clear part sorted over recent events, among them my only positive act in a long time.

While ideas about altruism from one field can have an impact on the other fields, the different methods and focuses of these fields always lead to different perspectives on altruism.

While both sexes state that kindness is the most preferable trait in a partner there is some evidence that men place less value on this than women and that women may not be more altruistic in presence of an attractive man.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

While Durkheim and others examined the state of modern societies, Mauss and his collaborators ( such as Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz ) drew on ethnography and philology to analyze societies that were not as ' differentiated ' as European nation states.