While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

While there are 54 members of the International Floorball Federation ( IFF ), the Czech Republic, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland have finished in most of the coveted 1st, 2nd and 3rd places at the World Floorball Championships.

While there are 68 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ), 162 of 177 medals at the IIHF World Championships have been taken by these seven nations: Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States.

While independence was being reclaimed, the election of King Gustav of the Vasa at Strängnäs on June 6, 1523, has been seen as a formal declaration of independence, and as the de facto end of a union that had lost all long-term support in Sweden.

While some argued that it went against Sweden's historic policy of neutrality, where Sweden had not joined during the Cold War because it was seen as incompatible with neutrality, others viewed the move as a natural extension of the economic cooperation that had been going on since 1972 with the EU.

While staying in Lübeck, Gustav could hear about developments in his native Sweden.

While he was there, Christian II mobilised to attack Sweden in an effort to seize power from Sten Sture and his supporters.

While Sigismund never managed to regain the Swedish throne, his personal ambition to do so did succeed in provoking a long series of conflicts between the Commonwealth and Sweden and Muscovy.

While heralding many sweeping social reforms seen as positive for Sweden, the book also incorporated some of the zeitgeist of the 1930s, in its promotion of the idea of racism, eugenics and compulsory sterilization programs.

While Northern-European armies such as Britain, Russia, Sweden and various German states ( perhaps most famously Prussia ) wore the mitre cap, southern countries such as France, Spain, Austria, Portugal and various Italian states preferred the bearskin.

While the Scandinavist Richard Dybeck originally wrote the text with reference to the three Nordic kingdoms, later it was thought to apply mainly to the two united kingdoms Sweden and Norway.

While the vast majority of Hammarö's inhabitants live in a single urban area going by the Statistics Sweden designation of Skoghall, this urban area is split in two postal areas: Skoghall ( western part ) and Hammarö ( eastern part ).

While Martin Luther opposed the whole idea of the spiritual value of monastic life, there are Lutheran religious orders in the United States and Sweden.

A section devoted to the beat generation at a bookstore in Stockholm, Sweden While many authors claim to be directly influenced by the Beats, the Beat Generation phenomenon itself has had a pervasive influence on Western culture more broadly.

While most realms have, in the documented past, calculated membership in the royal house as descending through the male line ( sometimes allowing females to inherit and sometimes not ), most European monarchies have now constitutionally eliminated preference in the line of succession to the throne for males ( Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark ), and some non-European royal families have contemplated doing so ( Japan, Thailand ).

While the party set up a new youth league, which came to be called Moderate Youth League or The Young Swedes ( currently the largest youth league in Sweden in terms of membership ), the core of the old one ( in spite of some districts, such as Young Swedes-Gothenburg joining the new one ) set up its own party-the National League of Sweden-which fought elections as an openly pro-Nazi party and temporarily gained parliamentary representation in shape of three rightist MPs.

While peace negotiations lumbered on Lacy — who had distinguished himself in similar operations during the Great Northern War — embarked from Kronstadt in order to effect a landing in Sweden proper.

While these tactics may have helped to more than double party support in the 2002 elections ( to 13. 3 %), they have also provoked accusations of betraying liberal ideology from within leftist factions of the party, and led to criticism from the strong liberal press in Sweden.

While Adolphus landed his army in Mecklenburg and was in Berlin, trying to make alliances with the leaders of Northern Germany, Johann Tserclaes laid siege to the city of Magdeburg on the Elbe River, which promised to support Sweden.

While Yossarian is trying to work out how to escape this Catch-22 situation, the Chaplain runs in to announce that the missing Orr is alive and well, and has rowed his way to neutral Sweden, escaping the war.

While lingering distrust between Denmark and Sweden caused by the Scanian War remained, Hedvig Eleonora and the government of Sweden were never receptive to the son's idea to marry a Danish princess.

* Norrbottens regemente ( I 19 ) ( While designated as infantry, the regiment is responsible for the training of most army branches in the Northern Sweden ) Boden

While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

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

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.

While they were told that there were some normal people who reacted differently than they had, they were also informed that there were other normals who reacted as they had.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

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 Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.

While not all Southerners saw themselves as fighting to preserve slavery, most of the officers and over a third of the rank and file in Lee's army had close family ties to slavery.

While this increased Antoninus ’ s popularity, the frugal emperor had to debase the Roman currency.

While working on a second book, Alcott and Peabody had a falling out and Conversations with Children on the Gospels was prepared with help from Peabody's sister Sophia, published at the end of December 1836.

While Agrippina lived there or when she went on short visits to Rome, Nero had sent people to annoy her.

While he was heir-apparent — 1865 to 1881 — Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.