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 Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

While living in the home, Louisa began writing in earnest and was given her own room.

While an autobiography typically focuses on the " life and times " of the writer, a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on his or her own memories, feelings and emotions.

While the Ottomans held their own in the conflict they ultimately lost with Ochakov falling in 1788 to the Russians ( all of its inhabitants being massacred.

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

While in many instances an improper purpose is readily evident, such as a director looking to feather his or her own nest or divert an investment opportunity to a relative, such breaches usually involve a breach of the director's duty to act in good faith.

While pursuing one's own self-interest is not necessarily bad, one would be a better, more righteous person if one's life was based upon following a path designed to enhance the greater good.

While Cassandra foresaw the destruction of Troy ( she warned the Trojans about the Trojan Horse, the death of Agamemnon, and her own demise ), she was unable to do anything to forestall these tragedies since no one believed her.

The power of making by-laws was “ tacitly annexed to corporations by the very act of their establishment .” While they must not directly contradict the overarching laws of the land, the central or local government cannot be expected to regulate toward the peculiar circumstances of a given body, and so “ they are invested with authority to make regulations for the management of their own interests and affairs .”

While some jurisdictions regard crossbows same as firearms, many others do not even require any sort of license to own a crossbow even for people, such as felons, who may not legally possess a firearm.

While some are dark skinned and insist on their own customs, others are of the same color and are Christians or Muslim like the communities they live in.

While other knowledge could be a figment of imagination, deception or mistake, the very act of doubting one's own existence serves to some people as proof of the reality of one's own existence, or at least that of one's thought.

While Canion developed an 18-month plan to create a line of low-priced computers, Rosen sent his own Compaq engineering team to Comdex without Canion's knowledge and discovered that a low-priced PC could be made in half the time and at lower cost than Canion's initiative.

While the British were in charge, the prisoners created their own governance and culture.

The internal level, which is hidden inside the DBMS and depends on its implementation ( see Implementation section below ), requires a different level of detail and uses its own data structure types, typically different in nature from the structures of the external and conceptual levels which are exposed to DBMS users ( e. g., the data models above ): While the external and conceptual levels are focused on and serve DBMS users, the concern of the internal level is effective implementation details.

Silvermintz notes that, " Historians of economic thought credit Plato, primarily on account of arguments advanced in his Republic, as an early proponent of the division of labor .” Notwithstanding this, Silvermintz argues that, " While Plato recognizes both the economic and political benefits of the division of labor, he ultimately critiques this form of economic arrangement insofar as it hinders the individual from ordering his own soul by cultivating acquisitive motives over prudence and reason.

While Germany created their own adaptations of episodes, the United Kingdom ( UK ) reprinted the Dark Horse titles, then translated some of the German adaptations of Adventure 02 episodes.

While these traits had an impact on the women of the Order, the nuns especially absorbed the latter characteristics and made those characteristics their own.

While we now see with our own eyes that such operations were a habit which is prevalent among all civilized people of the west "

While in Ottawa he also collected and published French Canadian Folk Songs, and a volume of his own poetry.

While many historians have believed that Allen took these actions because he already held Wentworth grants of his own, there is no evidence that he was issued any such grants until after he had been asked to take up the defense of grants held by others.

While much of the attempt at gender equity in mainstream Christianity ( Judaism never recognized any gender for God ) is aimed at reinterpreting scripture and degenderizing language used to name and describe the divine ( Ruether, 1984 ; Plaskow, 1991 ), there are a growing number of people who identify as Christians or Jews who are trying to integrate goddess imagery into their religions ( Kien, 2000 ; Kidd 1996 ," Goddess Christians Yahoogroup ").

While England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland diverge in the more detailed rules of common law and equity, and while there are certain fields of legislative competence devolved in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and London, there are substantive fields of law which apply across the United Kingdom.

While most members hold equity memberships in the Club, non-equity memberships are also offered to cater to members ' individual lifestyles if they do not live in South Florida full time.

While it can be used to refer to the business ' total equity, it is most often used:

* Justice in representation: economic equity is sometimes used to argue against progressive taxation, on the grounds of representation being out-of-proportion to taxation: While the top 5 % in income in most countries pay over half the taxes they have only 5 % of the voting weight.

While media coverage of the Nichol / Loblaw split had been extensive, it seemingly had little or no negative impact on brand equity.

While factoring is an attractive alternative to raising equity for small innovative fast-growing firms, the same financial technique can be used to turn around a fundamentally good business whose management has encountered a perfect storm or made significant business mistakes which have made it impossible for the firm to work within the constraints of their bank covenants.

While a price of $ 4 billion was initially discussed, in August when the private equity firm Carlyle Group emerged as the likely acquirer, the price under consideration was said to be $ 3. 3-3. 4 billion.

While the legislation favoured middle-class communities because it required local financial contributions, it channelled federal funds to poor communities, thus raising hospital standards and equity in access to quality care.

While the Canadian Parliamentary Channel's name was soon changed to Cable Public Affairs Channel to reflect the greater diversity of programming and the cable industry's ownership of the service, the original ownership structure continues today ; accordingly the largest shareholders are Canadian media giants such as Rogers Communications ( 41. 4 %), Shaw Communications ( 25. 05 %), Vidéotron ( 21. 71 %), Cogeco ( 6. 7 %), Bragg Communications ( EastLink / Persona ) ( 3. 76 %) and three other cable companies owning a combined equity of 1. 37 %.

While Forstmann settled the case for $ 15 million, the suit was considered a landmark launching a series of similar actions between private equity fund managers and public entity investors.

While this catch-all definition has been interpreted by the courts to capture some hybrid pension plans like cash balance ( CB ) plans and pension equity plans ( PEP ), most pension plans offered by large businesses or government agencies are final average pay ( FAP ) plans, under which the monthly benefit is equal to the number of years worked multiplied by the member's salary at retirement multiplied by a factor known as the accrual rate.

While it continues to act as trustee of public funds and as the agent to the State Bank of Pakistan ( in places where SBP does not have a presence ) it has diversified its business portfolio and is today a major lead player in the debt equity market, corporate investment banking, retail and consumer banking, agricultural financing, treasury services and is showing growing interest in promoting and developing the country's small and medium enterprises and at the same time fulfilling its social responsibilities, NBP headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan with over 1, 250 branches country wide.

While it continues to act as trustee of public funds and as the agent to the State Bank of Pakistan ( in places where SBP does not have a presence ) it has diversified its business portfolio and is today a major lead player in the debt equity market, corporate investment banking, retail and consumer banking, agricultural financing, treasury services and is showing growing interest in promoting and developing the country's small and medium enterprises and at the same time fulfilling its social responsibilities, as a corporate citizen.

While there are certainly programs available for use by the elderly in Thailand, questions of equity have risen since their introduction.

While typically a result of fluctuating asset prices, negative equity can occur when the value of the asset stays fixed and the loan balance increases because loan payments are less than the interest, a situation known as negative amortization.

While Paulson was giving his speech, and unbeknownst to him, word spread causing counter parties to start runs ( account holders calling their brokers and telling them they wanted their money now ) on other banks such as Goldman Sachs, Bank of America / Merrill Lynch, JPMorganChase, freezing credit markets so that companies having nothing to do with banking but needed financing ( e. g. General Electric ) could not get daily funding requirements which had the effect of sending the US equity / bond markets into turmoil between September 15, 2008, and September 19, 2008.

While it is possible to isolate the company-specific risk premium as shown above, many appraisers just key in on the total cost of equity ( TCOE ) provided by the following equation: TCOE

While a number of different structures were used, all of the equity partnerships involved a private sector partner acquiring a partial interest in a pool of assets, controlling the management and sale of the assets in the pool, and making distributions to the RTC based on the RTC's retained interest.