While initiated in England, competitive men's badminton in Europe has traditionally been dominated by Denmark.

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 Germany occupied Denmark during World War II, the United States controlled Greenland and built airports there.

While information on the various subtypes of the Krag-Jørgensen used in Denmark has proved difficult to find, at least the following subtypes were manufactured:

While Lübeck and the Hanseatic League prevailed in conflicts in 1435 and 1512, Lübeck lost when it became involved in the Count's Feud, a civil war that raged in Denmark from 1534 to 1536.

While the Swedes made only one failed foray into western Estonia in 1220, the Danish Fleet headed by King Valdemar II of Denmark had landed at the Estonian town of Lindanisse ( present-day Tallinn ) in 1219.

While very young, he was apprenticed to a pharmacist and worked in Denmark and Germany beginning in 1872 until passing his pharmacist's exam in 1879.

While historically Peter's planned war against Denmark was seen as being a political failure, recent scholarship has portrayed it as part of a pragmatic plan to expand Russian power westwards — he saw gaining territory and influence in Denmark and Northern Germany as more useful to Russia than taking East Prussia.

While some past princesses, for example Catherine of Aragon, Alexandra of Denmark and Mary of Teck, were called " Princess Catherine ", " Princess Alexandra " and " Princess Mary ", that was because they were already princesses ( of Spain, Denmark and Teck respectively ) when they married.

While being interviewed by the French weekly Point de Vue in October 2005, Henrik raised the issue shortly after the birth of Crown Prince Frederik's first son, Prince Christian, who is expected to inherit the Danish crown one day: " It also makes him very proud and happy that Monpezat will be added to this small grandson's future name as Prince of Denmark.

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 many demonyms are derived from placenames, many countries are named for their inhabitants ( Finland for the Finns, Germany for the Germans, Thailand for the Thais, Denmark for the Danes, France for the Franks, Slovakia for the Slovaks, and Slovenia for the Slovenes ).

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.

While after the 1920-plebiscite between 6, 000 and 8, 000 Danes found themselves in Southern Schleswig and even more than 12, 000 people had voted for Denmark in 1920, only about 3, 000 were organised in the association by the end of the war.

While visiting his second cousin Albert Edward, Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VII ) at Sandringham in 1875, he met Princess Thyra of Denmark ( 29 September 1853 – 26 February 1933 ), the youngest daughter of King Christian IX and a sister of the Princess of Wales ( later Queen Alexandra ).

While not the originator of the revolution, he was certainly the chief intermediary between Frederick III and the Conjoined Estates in the mysterious conspiracy which established absolutism in Denmark.

While the bulk of their 2007 tour was scheduled for Denmark, Germany, and England, an outdoor show, titled " Beat The Drum ", was held at Loch Ness on 18 August 2007.

While an ever wider range of foreign foods are available in Denmark, traditional dishes are still popular.

While the traditional, commonly-eaten cheese ( skæreost ) in Denmark is mild, there are also stronger cheeses associated with Danish cuisine.

While some experimentation occurred in other countries ( most extensively in Denmark ), in the majority of European countries, the struggle against the disease was based on stamping it out.

While living abroad, Puey met with Thais and influential figures in several countries, including those in the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Japan, and Australia to give facts on the incident and to call for a peaceful transition to democracy in Thailand.

While led by Denmark, this move was quickly joined by the Nordic nations, who then joined Denmark in a successful lobbying campaign within the Western world for a quick recognition of the Baltic states.

While Curtiz himself had escaped Europe before the rise of Nazism, other members of his family were not as lucky.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

While the phonemes can be very easily stated, no one is likely to be satisfied with the statement until phonemic occurrences can be related in some way to morphemic units, i.e. until the morphophonemics is worked out, or at least far enough that it seems reasonable to expect success.

While emphasizing that technical details were not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31.

While details are still to be worked out, Ratcliff said he expects to tell home folks in Dallas why he thinks Berry's proposed constitutional amendment should be rejected.

While I worked, Nadine sat and cried.

While Smith was always an artist who worked in several very different media, it is possible to identify three distinct periods in which one form of art had precedence over the others.

While the reliability of these sources has increasingly been called into question, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor ( as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate ).

While still in high school, he worked as a cub reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, covering courts, the high school, the mortuary and civic organizations.

While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

While at Cornell, he worked as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun with classmate Allison Danzig, who later became a sportswriter for The New York Times.

While with the firm, he also worked on two other family projects: the All Souls Church in Chicago for his uncle, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, and the Hillside Home School I in Spring Green for two of his aunts.

While she continued to practice her singing, she worked many non-singing jobs in the years after high school, including a job at Bamberger's department store.

While their old lands were being worked by slaves, the peasants were often forced into idleness in Rome where they had to subsist on hand outs due to a scarcity of paid work.

While Melville worked, his wife managed to wean him off alcohol, and he no longer showed signs of agitation or insanity.

While in Breslau, he worked on a commission that studied how children's mental ability declined during the school day.

While his younger brother began composing and " plugging " in Tin Pan Alley from the age of eighteen, Ira worked as a cashier in his father's Turkish baths.

While in Dallas, Texas, where the insurance company he worked for was based, he spoke to John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate and his running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, who were touring the city during the 1960 Presidential election campaign.

While cars were known to jump the tracks more than once during these excursions, the system seems to have worked fairly well.

While Tom Matano, Mark Jordan, Wu Huang Chin, Norman Garrett and Koichi Hayashi worked on the final design, the project was moved to Japan for engineering and production details.

While in Syria, he met Amal, a young Palestinian woman, who worked there in the planning bureau.

While recuperating at Youpon Dunes, a home owned by Elizabeth Patterson, in Myrtle Beach, he worked on the charter for a group of Sufis, which he named Sufism Reoriented.

While radar was being developed during World War II, there arose an urgent need for a high-power microwave generator that worked at shorter wavelengths ( around 10 cm ( 3 GHz )) rather than the 150 cm ( 200 MHz ) that was available from tube-based generators of the time.

While this same approach worked for Mach's ports as well, under Mach the operating system was assumed to be much more fluid, with ports appearing and disappearing all the time.

While some Jewish organizations, such as Chabad have worked to promote the observance of the Noachide laws, there are no figures for how many actually do.