While Dutch is classified as a Low Franconian language, the Dutch Low Saxon varieties, which are also defined as Dutch dialects, form a dialect continuum with the Westphalian language.

While Widukind was considered the leader of the Saxon resistance by the Franks, his exact role in the military campaigns is unknown.

While there are no historical sources to inform us one way or the other, it is likely that the Chauci continued their raiding until they were replaced by Frankish and Saxon raiders in the 3rd century.

While the prior Saxon Erfurt governorate had become a part of Thuringia.

While some sources cite Medieval Latin dom ( i ) niōn-" property " ( and ultimately dominus " lord ") as the original source, it is more likely that the word derives from the Frankish * dungjo, * dungjon-(" dungeon, vault, bower "), from Proto-Germanic * dungijōn, * dungō (" an enclosed space, treasury, vault "), from Proto-Indo-European * dʰengʰ-(" to cover, hide, conceal "), related to Old Saxon dung (" underground vault, cellar "), Old High German tung (" a cellar, underground living quarter "), Old English dung (" a dungeon, prison "), and Old Norse dyngja (" a detached apartment, lady's bower ").

While Boleslaw I could draw upon the support of many secular Saxon nobles, Henry II could rely on the Saxon clergy.

While most of the buildings in the village are from the past two centuries, Ilam dates from Saxon times or earlier.

While Mieszko's differences with Otto I were settled by an alliance and payment of tribute to the later, the nobles whom Otto I had invested with the former Saxon Eastern March, most notably Odo I, challenged Mieszko's gains.

While another Saxon captures Lancelot's attention for a moment, Cynric shoots Lancelot with a Saxon crossbow.

While in general he writes a variety of late West Saxon literary language, he uses in some texts words of Scandinavian origin, especially in speaking of the various social classes.

While editing a calculus book in October 1996 with mathematician R. Abraham Edwards, Saxon died due to a complicated illness.

While Henry was conducting a campaign against the Magyars on the one hand, papal legates were attempting to create support for the Saxon rebels on the other.

" While most slow songs by Iron Maiden or Saxon border into the area of ballads, all of the tracks on The Skull are as heavy as they are slow, with a distinctive fuzzy distortion and melodic, integral ( rather than superfluous or ostentatious ) guitar solos.

While the majority of people living here were once of the Jones clan, times have caused diversification and thinning of that family, showing how the community has grown.

While these princes were ancestors of Minamoto lineages, they were not themselves of the Minamoto clan.

While still portrayed as a ruthless radical leader of the Chōshū clan, he serves as a benevolent mentor of sorts to the young Kenshin Himura, who worked under him as the Hitokiri Battōsai.

While Henry had aristocratic tendencies, he shared the republican interests of much of the Hilgard clan.

While some clans remained neutral, others led by Montrose supported the Royalist cause, projecting their feudal obligations to clan chiefs onto the Royal House of Stuart, resisting the demands of the Covenanters for commitment and reacting to the ambitions of the larger clans.

While some lists and clan maps confine their area to the Highlands, others also show Lowland clans or families.

While Jim initially tried his hand at farming, he would grow restless and fell in with bad company: the Starr clan, a Cherokee Indian family notorious for whiskey, cattle, and horse thievery in the Indian Territory ( now Oklahoma ), as well as his wife's old friends the James and Younger gangs.

While this may be a coincidence, it bears resemblance to the Hojo clan.

While LeFlore was not said to be popular among the full-blood tribal men, he became powerful and influential within the tribe at an early age, largely because of his mother's clan and maternal uncle's position and his own skills.

While it was generally thought, largely from various fiction works that emphasize Mori Motonari's prowess, that this action was carried out by Motonari in order to weaken Haruhisa's power, it is now thought most likely that this was a move by Haruhisa himself to solidify control of the Amago clan.

While there he decorated his army tent with traditional symbols including a deer, the symbol of his clan.

While this alliance would prove to be a curse to the Azai clan, it was essential to the clan's survival.

While exploring in Borneo, the Quest clan come across a mysterious valley and native village headed by Orde Wingate II, a fictionalized son of the true man.

While arranging the dead Minbari's burial, Delenn discovers that he and Ashan are from the same clan and sends Lennier to look for Ashan.

While the Kushan and Taiidan fleets remain almost identical to their Homeworld counterparts, the player's clan, Kiith Somtaaw, is forced to scratch its own fleet specs based on salvaged technologies.

While each clan has access to the same broad units and technology and begins the game with roughly the same amount of land, each clan has a specific advantage in a particular area.

While the Atreides clan was too small and too feudally oriented to rule humanity, the Bene Gesserit lacked a desire to get their hands dirty or the passion to rule ( which the Atreides had ).

While this criticism is not directly addressed, it might act as a limiter on how large a particular clan could grow, since inevitably a large organizational structure would require specialization of tasks for which none of the clan members may be suited.

While historical records are unclear, it is believed that the area of present-day Ōkuma was ruled by the Shineha clan beginning in the mid-1100s.

While Igors are born in the normal fashion, the clan's strong tradition of surgery usually means that by the time they would have grown to maturity in the natural way many of their body-parts have already been swapped around repeatedly, mostly within the clan.

While the poet of Beowulf does not locate the Wulfings geographically, Scandinavian sources define the Ylfings ( the Old Norse form of the name ) as the ruling clan of the Eastern Geats.

While the clan is centred in Barra in the Outer Hebrides, there is a branch of the clan in Argyll that some historians have speculated was more senior in line, or possibly even unrelated.

While she has a brother and several allies, she is essentially a loner, although this is something which is uncomfortable for her to think about.

While limited by her gender, Madame Roland took it upon herself to spread Revolutionary ideology and spread word of events, as well as to assist in formulating the policies of her political allies.

While his lieutenants and the House sergeant-at-arms left the chamber to collect absent members in an attempt to rally enough votes for Cannon, the Speaker's allies initiated a legislative block in the form of a point of order debate.

While the Lusitani celebrated this new alliance, he massacred them, selling the survivors as slaves ; this caused a new rebellion led by Viriathus, who was soon killed by traitors paid by the Romans in 139 BC, after having led a successful guerrilla campaign against Rome and their local allies.

While the Spartans refrained from action themselves, some of their allies began to talk of revolt.

While Villars wanted to immediately move to secure the Alpine passes against Austrian reinforcements by moving against Mantua, Charles Emmanuel, mistrustful of his French allies and their dealings with Spain, sought to secure Milan.

While originally a civil war, it quickly escalated into a war between the western powers under the United Nations Command led by the United States and its allies and the communist powers of the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union.

While Caesar and Crassus were lifelong allies, Crassus and Pompey disliked each other and Pompey grew increasingly envious of Caesar's spectacular successes in the Gallic Wars.

While John led a campaign against de Braose and his allies in Ireland, an army led by Earl Ranulph of Chester and Peter des Roches, Bishop of Winchester, invaded Gwynedd.

* While Pausanias is occupying Byzantium, his arrogance and his adoption of Persian clothing and manners offends the allies and raises suspicions of disloyalty.

While Scrooge finds himself surrounded by an extended family ( see The Clan McDuck, Duck family and Coot Kin ) and a large number of allies and rivals ( see Scrooge McDuck Universe ), Flintheart lives a life of solitude and seems to have no family, friends or for that matter rivals except Scrooge himself.

While still trying to kill Mickey and his allies, he has other agendas as well.

While this charge is considered to be true, Epaminondas persuades the Thebans that this has been necessary to protect Thebes and its allies and reduce the power of Sparta.

While some conflicts involved Spanish and Dutch forces, all pitted the Kingdom of Great Britain, its colonies and American Indian allies on one side against France, its colonies and Indian allies on the other.

While Europe had gained one of Ireland's most capable and respected politicians, Jack Lynch had lost one of his allies, and someone who may have been in line to take over the leadership following Lynch's retirement.

While there there is not complete agreement among historians on the exact numbers there is general agreement that there was about 50, 000 on each side with the French having more cavalry and the allies having more infantry.

While the allies could have taken this opportunity to attack Sevastopol before it could be put into a proper state of defence, the allied commanders, British general Lord Raglan and the French commander Canrobert could not agree on a plan of attack.

While the T-64 was perhaps the world's most advanced battle tank design when introduced, it was too expensive to equip all the Soviet tank armies, let alone Warsaw Pact ( WARPAC ) allies.

While these provisions applied to all signatories, the focus of attention was on their application to the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies, including Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic ( East Germany ), Hungary, Poland, and Romania.

While most of Jones ' political allies broke ties after Jones ' departure, some did not.

While Musa and Mahathir were originally close allies, the two had fallen out during Mahathir's premiership, with Musa claiming that Mahathir no longer trusted him.

While Athens remained neutral, the Achaeans, Arcadians and Elis became his allies, with the important exception of Megalopolis, the staunchly anti-Spartan capital of Arcadia.

While Hillquit and his cohort retained control of the organization at this time, this action earned the lasting enmity of Hillquit's New York-based allies of the so-called " Old Guard ".