While the election was deemed by the European Union election observer team to fall short of international standards for fair and free elections, other teams drew different conclusions.

While the European Union election observer team of Ana Maria Gomes deemed the elections to have fallen short of international standards for fair and free elections, other teams drew totally different conclusions.

While at the university, he was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams and was a part of the inaugural Big Game versus rival University of California ( Stanford won ).

While many universities and professional sports teams ( for example, the Cleveland Indians, who had a Chief Wahoo ) no longer use such images without consultation and approval by the respective nation, some lower-level schools continue to do so.

While the Office for National Statistics and others describe the United Kingdom as a " nation state ", others, including a then Prime Minister, describe it as a " multinational state ", and the term Home Nations is used to describe the four national teams that represent the four nations of the United Kingdom ( England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales ).

While military forces interdict insurgents and assure security, Provincial reconstruction teams are tasked with infrastructure building, like constructing roads and bridges, assisting during floods, and providing food and water to refugees.

While doing so, other teams would attempt to fire at the target in order to overwhelm the Russians ' ability to effectively counter the attack.

While the Giants have more wins in franchise history, both National League West teams are tied for the most National League pennants with 21, and both teams have each won six World Series titles.

While the 1972 team faced no competition that possessed a better record than 8-6 in the regular season, the 1973 team played a much tougher schedule that included games against the Oakland Raiders, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Dallas Cowboys ( all playoff teams ), plus two games against a resurgent Buffalo Bills squad that featured 2, 000-yard rusher O. J.

While regular season and post-season games in the NFL are all broadcast by national television contracts on CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN and NFL Network, the television broadcasts are for the most part handled by the individual teams.

While these development teams are now technically " in-house " they often continue to operate in an autonomous manner, each with its own culture and work practices.

While North American teams were shut out of communist Mongolia during the Cold War, expeditions by Soviet and Polish scientists, in collaboration with Mongolian colleagues, recovered several more specimens of Velociraptor.

While teaching he also played amateur football for local teams and was soon signed up to Manchester United as a professional, playing his first game in 1936 and being part of the team that won promotion to the First Division in 1938.

While Minardi had run Bridgestone tyres, Stoddart had offered to compromise with the Michelin teams but Mosley had rejected it.

While the project teams on SoftwareForge and ProjectForge are focused on their individual project or projects, the Forge. mil Community site provides teams / individuals working to solve similar problems and / or discuss similar challenges that transcend a single project or set of projects a means to self organize around these challenges to develop common solutions.

While the plans were well received by all of the teams, Holden chief Simon McNamara warned potential new manufacturers to stay out of the championship just hours after the plans were released, claiming that they would " gain nothing " from entering the series,

While teams with a knuckleballer on their pitching staff often employ a special " knuckleball catcher " who is equipped with a knuckleball mitt, similar to a first baseman's glove, it is still extremely difficult to catch.

While the AFL was played in cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Chicago, the AF2 fielded teams in cities which are part of metropolitan statistical areas ranging in size from Milwaukee ( with 1, 739, 497 residents ) to Albany, Georgia ( with 164, 000 residents ).

While by no means the pioneer of " singular " team nicknames, which had been used by some college and professional sports teams since the 19th century, the quantity of them in a single league (" Fire ", " Sun ", " Bell ", " Storm ", " Steamer ", " Thunder ", " Express ") was rare in professional sports at the time, and was a distinguishing mark of the league.

While variations in payoff schedules exist, in an NCAA Basketball tournament ( 64 teams, single elimination ) the payoffs could resemble the following schedule: 1 win-0. 25 %, 2 wins-2 %, 3 wins-4 %, 4 wins-8 %, 5 wins-16 %, tournament winner with 6 wins-32 %.

While head coach Keith Allen soon after replaced Poile as GM, this mandate eventually led to one of the most feared teams to ever take the ice in the NHL.

While Lindros became a preeminent star in Philadelphia, the trade proved heavily lopsided in favor of the Nordiques-soon to become the Colorado Avalanche-providing the core of their two Stanley Cup teams and an unprecedented eight straight division championships, with Forsberg becoming a franchise player.

While there have been many sports teams in Newark proper, it has spent much of its history without an MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL team actually located in the city itself.

While the group only recorded one album together as the Analog Brothers, a few bootlegs of its live concert performances, including freestyles with original lyrics, have occasionally surfaced online.

( While the use of Hindu-Arabic numerals is occasionally seen, such as in the game Pop-O-Matic Trouble, the ambigrammatic properties of the digits ( for instance, 6 can look like a 9 upside down ) make such dice uncommon.

While the upright bass is still occasionally used in country music, the electric bass has largely replaced its bigger cousin in country music, especially in the more pop-infused country styles of the 1990s and 2000s, such as new country.

While Mike is usually portrayed as simply dumb ( for example, in A Man of His Convictions in series 2 he writes a letter to media commentator Stuart Littlemore full of basic spelling and grammatical errors ) he occasionally surprises his colleagues with his sneakiness: in Give ' em Enough Rope ( series 2 ) he traps the network owner into admitting to contravening the Broadcasting Act in a live interview, after first getting the owner to publicly commit to allowing him to ask difficult questions without threat to his job.

While few women are mentioned by name in rabbinic literature, and none are known to have authored a rabbinic work, those who are mentioned are portrayed as having a strong influence on their husbands, and occasionally having a public persona.

While out of the burrow, the rabbit will occasionally reingest its soft, partially digested pellets ; this is rarely observed, since the pellets are reingested as they are produced.

While it is occasionally used recreationally for its hallucinogenic properties, the experiences are often extremely mentally and physically unpleasant, and frequently physically dangerous, so repeated use is rare.

While the storylines and production were remembered by children, the adult jokes like those about the Welsh in " Ivor the Engine ," or the fact that the Clangers swore occasionally ; gave them both an instant parent engagement as well as a later revival with children who had grown up and were re-watching their favourite programmes.

While Marge has learned to cope with her addiction, it has never completely disappeared and remains an underlying problem that is referenced occasionally on the show.

While battles at sea were rare, they would occasionally occur when Viking ships attempted to board European merchant vessels in Scandinavian waters.

While many homes have word processors on their computers, word processing in the home tends to be educational, planning or business related, dealing with assignments or work being completed at home, or occasionally recreational, e. g. writing short stories.

While Lindgren almost immediately became a much appreciated writer, the irreverent attitude towards adult authority that is a distinguishing characteristic of many of her characters has occasionally drawn the ire of some conservatives.

While the idea of laws and markets as emergent phenomena comes fairly naturally to an economist, and was indeed present in the works of early economists such as Bernard Mandeville, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Hayek traces the development of ideas based on spontaneous-order throughout the history of Western thought, occasionally going as far back as the presocratics.

While Tamar occasionally accompanied her army and is described as planning some campaigns, she was never directly involved in the fighting.

While there have occasionally been a few vocals on the band's other releases, such as the track " Kiew Mission " from 1981's Exit and " The Harbor " from 1987's Shy People, the group only recently returned to featuring vocals in a musical trilogy based on Dante's Divine Comedy and their 2007 album Madcap's Flaming Duty.

While almost all of the Prix de Rome cantatas have long since been forgotten ( along with their composers, for the most part ), Debussy's prize-winning L ' enfant prodigue ( 1884, following his unsuccessful Le gladiateur of 1883 ) is still performed occasionally today.

While the procedure, initially termed a leucotomy, has been controversial since its inception in 1935, it was a mainstream procedure for more than two decades, prescribed for psychiatric ( and occasionally other ) conditions — this despite general recognition of frequent and serious side-effects.

While opera seria deals with gods and ancient heroes and only occasionally contained comic scenes, opera buffa involves the predominant use of comic scenes, characters, and plot lines in a contemporary setting.

While the region is predominantly French-speaking, it also has two significant minority language communities: the western Flemings, whose presence is evident in the many Dutch placenames in the area and who speak West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch ( perhaps 20, 000 inhabitants of Nord-Pas-de-Calais use Flemish daily and an estimated 40, 000 use it occasionally, both, primarily in and around the arrondissement of Dunkirk ); and the Picards, who speak the Picard language, or Ch ' ti ( speakers, " chitimi ", have been working to revive the nearly-extinct regional speech since the 1980s ).

While one will occasionally see a physician with an ambulance crew on an emergency call, this is much more likely to be the Medical Director or an associate, inducting newly trained paramedics, or performing routine medical quality assurance.

While Clapton was shy about singing, he occasionally harmonised with Bruce and, in time, took lead vocals on some Cream tunes including " Four Until Late ", " Strange Brew ", " World of Pain ", " Outside Woman Blues ", " Anyone for Tennis ", " Crossroads ", and " Badge ".

While so-called ' pitched ' brick vaulting, which could be constructed without centering, may date back in the Ancient Near East to the 2nd millennium BC, the earliest evidence of the pointed masonry arch appears in late Roman and Sassanian architecture, mostly evidenced in early church building in Syria and Mesopotamia, but occasionally also in secular structures like the Karamagara Bridge.

While mystery elements were occasionally present in these early series, the Syndicate was later to specialize in children's series mysteries.

While civilian drones do generally match humans in intelligence, drones built especially as Contact or Special Circumstances agents are often several times more intelligent, and imbued with extremely powerful senses, powers and armaments ( usually forcefield and effector-based, though occasionally more destructive weaponry such as lasers or, exceptionally, " knife-missiles " are referred to ) all powered by antimatter reactors.

While Ventura has not held public office since the end of his term as governor in 2003, he has remained politically active and has occasionally stated intentions of possibly running again for political office.