While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, the term was coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (" Jew-hatred "),

While the Byzantine troops were assembling for the expedition, Alexios was approached by the Doukas faction at court, who convinced him to join a conspiracy against Nikephoros III.

While Wilson and Smith credited their sobriety to working with alcoholics under the auspices of the Oxford Group, a Group associate pastor sermonized against Wilson and his alcoholic Groupers for forming a " secret, ashamed sub-group " engaged in " divergent works ".

While Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Islamist extremist enjoying the backing of neighboring Pakistan, pushed for continued violent struggle against the Afghan government, Massoud and Rabbani advocated for a peaceful political campaign lobbying officials working for the government and armed forces.

While Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, was absent on his expedition against Troy, Aegisthus seduced Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, and was so wicked as to offer up thanks to the gods for the success with which his criminal exertions were crowned.

While the attack on Taviers went in the Earl of Orkney launched his first line of English across the Petite Gheete in a determined attack against the barricaded villages of Offus and Autre-Eglise on the Allied right.

While the mechanism is unclear, it appears a local immune reaction is mounted against the tumor.

While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex.

While perhaps lightly competing against each other, they will present a unified front ( sometimes called a trade association or industry trade group ) to the government in requesting subsidies or aid or regulation.

While most cartoonist decided to follow the tide, some cartoonists have complained about this, with Pogo ending in 1975 as a form of protest from its creators against the practice.

While modern systems distinguish between offences against the " State " or " Community ", and offences against the " Individual ", the so-called penal law of ancient communities did not deal with " crimes " ( Latin: crimina ), but with " wrongs " ( Latin: delicta ).

While an unlicensed satellite dish can often be identified easily, satellite radio receivers are much more compact and can rarely be easily identified, at least not without flagrantly violating provisions against unreasonable search and seizure in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

While both types of gun were effective against wooden ships, neither had the capability to pierce the armour of ironclads ; due to reports of slight problems with the breeches of the Armstrong gun, and their higher cost, the older muzzle-loaders were selected to remain in service, instead.

While seventeenth century English admiralty law allowed captains great leeway in using violence against their crew, outright murder was not permitted.

While their numbers did not pose a serious threat to the government, they scared the Rump into action and a Treasons Act was passed against them in 1649.

While modern law has officially abolished the class hierarchy, there are reports of discrimination against the Buraku or Burakumin underclasses.

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 Amorphs have the ability to move fast, quietly, and sprout appendages at will, they excel at ' closer-than-melee-range combat, primarily " meme-toxins " against other Amorphs.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

While he had programmed extensively in machine code in the 1950s, he was known for his low opinion of the GOTO statement in computer programming, writing a paper in 1965, and culminating in the 1968 article " A Case against the GO TO Statement ", regarded as a major step towards the widespread deprecation of the GOTO statement and its effective replacement by structured control constructs, such as the while loop.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

While not as critically acclaimed as the first two films, it was still a box office success, earning a revenue of $ 136 million against a budget of $ 54 million.

While acknowledging that his conduct had been lax, he countered that he had never allowed gifts to influence his judgement and, indeed, he had on occasion given a verdict against those who had paid him.

While insurance is sometimes distinguished from gambling by the requirement of an insurable interest, the equivalent in gambling is simply betting against one's own best interests ( e. g., a sports coach betting against his own team to mitigate the financial repercussions of a losing season ).

While God commands all men to repent and believe and this command must be preached to all, Hoeksema insisted this command, like all other commands to godliness in Bible, is not a " well-meant offer " since it is impossible for unregenerated, totally depraved man to truly perform apart from God's saving grace.

While we, as American artists, believe deeply in the universal character of all intellectual activity, we would be less than honest with you, or ourselves, if we failed to state a specific attitude toward our own society as well as the international community as a whole.

While each scene has its own character and completeness it must fit into the general sequence to which it belongs.

While a character with Pattern, Logrus or Conjuration can acquire virtually any object, players can choose to spend character points to obtain objects with particular virtues-unbreakability, or a mind of their own.

While some scholars praise him as an orthodox saint with great character, others see him as a power-hungry politician who employed questionable ecclesiastical tactics.

" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.

While other theories may insist on the truth of the former, the latter precept of congregationalism gives the entire theory a unique character among plans of church government.

* Never Whistle While You're Pissing is the work of the fictional character Hagbard Celine in The Illuminatus!

While some critics lauded the casting of Bill Murray as the voice of the title character, Garfield: The Movie met with mostly negative reviews: Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times called it " soulless excuse for entertainment ", while Desson Thomson of The Washington Post said of the film " There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness ".

While Dürer rigorously details his models, Baldung's style differs by focusing more on the personality of the represented character, an abstract conception of the model's state of mind.

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 many today would say that any misfortune surrounding a production is mere coincidence, actors and other theatre people often consider it bad luck to mention Macbeth by name while inside a theatre, and sometimes refer to it indirectly, for example as " the Scottish play ", or " MacBee ", or when referring to the character and not the play, " Mr. and Mrs. M ", or " The Scottish King ".

While Nasreddin is mostly known as a character from short tales, whole novels and stories have later been written and an animated feature film was almost made.

While it is possible she was an idealized or pseudonymous character – particularly since the name " Laura " has a linguistic connection to the poetic " laurels " Petrarch coveted – Petrarch himself always denied it.

While both sexes carried the stain of original sin, for a girl, original sin suggested more than the roster of Puritan character flaws.

While previous critics such as A. W. Gomme believed that the slave was “ truly comic character, the devisor of ingenious schemes, the controller of events, the commanding officer of his young master and friends, is a creation of Latin comedy ,” and that Greek dramatists such as Menander did not use slaves in such a way that Plautus later did, Harsh refutes these beliefs by giving concrete examples of instances where a clever slave appeared in Greek comedy.

While he doubts this is so, he nonetheless states: “ In his unrelated state, man has a natural right to his property, to his character, to liberty, and to safety .” James Wilson asks whether “ the primary and principal object in the institution of government … was … to acquire new rights by human establishment?

While Plato's condemnation of rhetoric is clear in the Gorgias, in the Phaedrus he suggests the possibility of a true art wherein rhetoric is based upon the knowledge produced by dialectic, and relies on a dialectically informed rhetoric to appeal to the main character: Phaedrus, to take up philosophy.

Worf was the only character to be a regular in more than one live-action Star Trek series ( While Miles O ' Brien was featured in both The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, he was not a regular cast member in the former series ).

While the recurring character of Michael Eddington ( played by Kenneth Marshall ) in Deep Space Nine was a member of the Maquis, Voyager contained three regular Maquis characters, Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ), Seska ( Martha Hackett ) and B ' Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ), as well as Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ), a regular character that had been captured and imprisoned for joining the Maquis.

* While SignWriting has a standardized symbol set and a defined character encoding model, SignWriting is not yet part of the Unicode standard.

" While Marge is her most famous character, Kavner's favorite characters to voice are Patty and Selma because " they're really funny and sad at the same time.

While it is neither required nor prohibited for Jews to eat meat, a number of medieval scholars of Jewish religion ( e. g., Joseph Albo and Isaac Arama ) regard vegetarianism as a moral ideal, not just because of a concern for the welfare of animals, but because the slaughter of animals might cause the individual who performs such acts to develop negative character traits.

* While predating Novikov's thesis, the film Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann presents a similar predestination paradox, wherein the title character becomes his own great-great-grandfather thus causing his own existence and time-travel.