While the CIA Factbook in 2006 stated that the " US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system ", ( in addition to non-industrialised Burma / Myanmar, Liberia ), the actual situation, however, is more complicated than the CIA Factbook would suggest-in the United Kingdom, for example, although metric is the official system for most regulated trading by weight or measure purposes, the pint is the official unit for milk in returnable bottles and for draught beer and cider in British pubs, and miles, yards and feet remain the official units for road signage.

While the Bamar heartland was directly administered ( first as a part of India and then, from 1937, as British Burma ), ethnic regions outside the heartland were allowed some measure of self-rule along the lines of the Princely States of India.

While Burma's presence in ASEAN was seen as a test of the organisation's philosophy of constructive engagement, the presence of Burma in ASEAN however has started to be seen as an embarrassment to the organisation, because of Burma's human rights record and lack of democracy.

While on a fund-raising tour of the United States in October 1979 on behalf of the Royal Opera House, Margaret became embroiled in a controversy following the assassination of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

While working in Rangoon, Burma ( Myanmar ), K. R. Narayanan met Ma Tint Tint, whom he later married in Delhi on 8 June 1951.

* Domestic elephants: While working as a police officer for the British colonial government in Burma in 1926, George Orwell was forced to deal with an incident in which a domestic elephant went " musth " and killed a man by stepping on him.

While Western oil and gas companies were unwilling to conduct business in Burma on account of the abysmal human rights record of the ruling military junta, Daewoo is one of three oil companies, along with the French company Total and the American company Unocal, which is already, or is close to, starting gas production in the country ( at the Yadana Field ).

While allegedly limited and low-intensity in that the territories occupied in force by central government forces are returned ( as they cannot be held permanently as of yet ) at the end of the offensives ( with the stated, but sometimes unstated, purpose of weakening the opposition and independence movements ), human rights organizations and national governments outside of Burma question the veracity of, and sometimes outright refute ( based on clear evidence ) these claims.

While Pyu settlements remained in Upper Burma until the advent of the Pagan Empire in mid 11th century, the Pyu gradually were absorbed into the expanding Burman kingdom of Pagan in the next four centuries.

While in Burma, the Marauders were usually outnumbered by Japanese troops from the 18th division, but always inflicted many more casualties than they suffered.

While Wingate was still in Burma, Gen. Wavell had ordered the formation of 111 Brigade along the lines of the 77 Brigade Chindits, selecting Brigadier Joe Lentaigne as the new commander.

While the situation of the Karen was discussed, nothing practical was done before the British left Burma.

While both attacks failed, Marcus helped plan and execute a makeshift winding road through the difficult mountains to Jerusalem — known as the " Burma Road " ( named after the road built by 200, 000 Chinese laborers during the Second Sino-Japanese War that later served the Allies to transport goods from Burma to China during World War II ).

While all U. S customary units have been redefined in terms of SI units, the United States does not commonly mandate the use of SI, making it, according to the CIA Factbook, one of three countries that has not adopted the International System of Units ( SI ) metric system as their official system of weights and measures, along with Burma ( Myanmar ) and Liberia.

While traditional opium cultivation has been suppressed, processed heroine and latest scourge, methamphetamine, is freely available from Burma.

While the majority of the Burma Army was reconstituted elsewhere in India, the division headquarters was retained at the front.

While Dorman-Smith was back in the UK for medical reasons he was replaced by Rance, who was supported by Lord Mountbatten of Burma and fully backed a policy of immediate unconditional independence for Burma under the leadership of the AFPFL.

While in Burma, he was shot through the thigh, but he made a complete recovery.

While technically there is a railway station known as Longcross station, on Burma Road, this is poorly serviced and is not easily accessible from the village.

While Tabinshwehti had been campaigning in the east, a Mon revival had been gathering momentum in Lower Burma.

While senior air staff officer, Air Command Southeast Asia, and deputy commander of the Third Tactical Air Force in 1944, he participated in combat operations against the Japanese in Burma.

While Zetor is a Czech company, versions of its tractors are assembled in numerous countries including Argentina, Burma, India, Iraq, Uruguay and Zaire.

While at Nootka Sound Vancouver acquired Robert Gray's chart of the lower Columbia River.

While he was there, California became the 31st state in September 1850 and Schliemann acquired United States citizenship.

While the Mughals had acquired firearms via the Ottoman Empire, Bahadur's Gujurat had acquired them through a series of contracts drawn up with the Portuguese, allowing the Portuguese to establish a strategic foothold in north western India.

While working with Cousteau, he acquired the nickname he is still known by in photographic circles, " Papa Flash ".

While organized to promote common economic, social, and cultural goals, ASEAN acquired a security dimension after Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia in 1979 ; this aspect of ASEAN expanded with the establishment of the ASEAN Regional Forum in 1994, which comprises 22 countries, including the U. S. Indonesia's continued domestic troubles have distracted it from ASEAN matters and consequently lessened its influence within the organization.

While most cell biologists consider the term organelle to be synonymous with " cell compartment ", other cell biologists choose to limit the term organelle to include only those that are DNA-containing, having originated from formerly autonomous microscopic organisms acquired via endosymbiosis.

While the term propaganda has justifiably acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples ( e. g. Nazi Propaganda used to justify the Holocaust ), propaganda in its original sense was neutral, and could refer to uses that were generally benign or innocuous, such as public health recommendations, signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to report crimes to the police, among others.

While the latter two features were acquired during the Spanish domination, the others reveal deeper relations between ancient Sardinia and the Iberian world.

While civil law systems have traditionally put great pains in defining the notion of private property, how it may be acquired, transferred, or lost, socialist law systems provide for most property to be owned by the state or by agricultural co-operatives, and having special courts and laws for state enterprises.

While the majority of the missile launches came from United States Department of Defense footage of ICBM missile tests ( mainly Minuteman IIIs from Vandenberg Air Force Base adjacent to Lompoc, California ), all of the stock footage of missile launches were acquired from declassified DoD film libraries.

While his successors have tended to be less domineering, the chancellor has acquired enough power that Germany is often described as a " chancellor democracy.

While the control traverse is being run, ties should be measured and all details relevant to the boundaries should be acquired.

While rare, skin lesions may occur in the acquired form of the disease, including roseola and erythema multiforme-like eruptions, prurigo-like nodules, urticaria, and maculopapular lesions.

While Mao-era China acquired some of the attributes of a superpower such as nuclear weapons and a space program, the nation was still quite poor and backwards compared to the Soviet Union, to say nothing of the United States, Japan, or Western Europe.

While researching the rights, he learned that CBS had acquired the entire Terrytoons library in 1955 and forgotten about it.

While Bloomsbury was not the first area of London to have acquired a formal square, Bloomsbury Square, laid out in 1660 by Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton as Southampton Square, was the first square to be named as such .< ref name = LondonEncyc >< cite > The London Encyclopaedia, Edited by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert.

While still an entertaining town with an enjoyable atmosphere, locals and tourists alike would agree that it has lost its " anything goes " mentality which it had once acquired, a mindset that was dangerous to tourists, locals, and the tourism industry as a whole.

While some sources report that the attorney had no known connection to the community, one newspaper reported in 1958 that Selden and attorney Edward Boyle ( the namesake for Boyle Road ) acquired a large tract of land in the hamlet shortly before the post office opened, and started to develop it.

While it remains a common myth that it is built on land donated by St John's College, the site was acquired slowly by the purchase of existing houses and residences for the use of students.

While the company's retail market is Northern Ohio, its products have acquired a reputation that extends far beyond its local retail market and are available for shipping anywhere via the company's website.

While Nim did learn 125 signs, Terrace concluded that he had not acquired anything the researchers were prepared to designate worthy of the name " language " ( as defined by Noam Chomsky ) although he had learned to repeat his trainers ' signs in appropriate contexts.

While the Central Pacific was under construction, Stanford and his associates in 1868 acquired control of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

While EchoStar's lawsuit against Microsoft was in process, DirecTV ( presumptively acquired by EchoStar, and in control by EchoStar ) dropped UltimateTV ( thus ending Microsoft's satellite product initiatives ) and picked TiVo's DirecTV product as its only Digital Video Recorder offering.