While in government work, he helped develop the metric system to secure uniformity of weights and measures throughout France.

While in Italy the tendency was to give scale by increasing the number of panels, in France the contrary seems to have been the rule ; and one of the great doors at Fontainebleau, which is in two leaves, is entirely carried out as if consisting of one great panel only.

While filming The Madwoman of Chaillot in France, he phoned home to ask his family if they would like to eat at " Ying's Thing " that evening ; Kaye then flew home for dinner.

While nationalization committees were set up in France and the United Kingdom, Finland avoided nationalizations.

While Henry was dallying in France, Catherine, who was serving as regent in his absence, and his advisers were left to deal with this threat.

While at sea the French had some success at Boulogne but Nelson's Royal Navy destroyed an anchored Danish and Norwegian fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen ( 1801 ) because the Scandinavian kingdoms were against the British blockade of France.

While France continues to revere its rich history and independence, French leaders increasingly tie the future of France to the continued development of the European Union.

While nationalization committees were set up in France and UK, Finland avoided nationalizations.

While Albéniz's crowning achievement, Iberia, was written in the last years of his life in France, many of its preceding works are well-known and of great interest.

While still at war with France, the British could not afford to antagonise the Americans.

" While he allowed for the possibility of peaceful transition in some countries with strong democratic institutional structures ( such as Britain, the US and the Netherlands ), he suggested that in other countries with strong centralised state-oriented traditions, like France and Germany, the " lever of our revolution must be force.

While the sale of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went largely unnoticed, fear of an eventual French invasion spread nationwide when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to secure New Orleans.

While fully supporting the ideas and actions of the Mars Society, it considers that those must be adapted to the specific cultural and political context of France and Europe.

While Britain and France refused to allow Soviet Union to impinge on the sovereignty of its neighbors, Germany possessed no such reservations.

While some examples of earlier prose strike modern readers as poetic, prose poetry is commonly regarded as having originated in 19th-century France, where its practitioners included Aloysius Bertrand, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé.

While the idea of postmodernity had been around since the 1940s, postmodern philosophy originated primarily in France during the mid-20th century.

While still not a fringe movement, there was not popular widespread support of phrenology in France.

While Hitler conquered Poland, France and other countries acting on single front at the start of World War II, the USSR was able to build up its military and regain some of the former territories of the Russian Empire during the Soviet invasion of Poland and the Winter War.

While leftists had mostly fled to France, many neofascist activists involved in the strategy of tension, such as Vincenzo Vinciguerra or Stefano Delle Chiaie, fled to Spain ; Delfo Zorzi, condemned for the Piazza Fontana bombing, was granted asylum and citizenship in Japan, while others fled to Argentina ( in particular Augusto Canchi, wanted by Italian justice for his role in the 1980 Bologna massacre ).

While his father visited his lands from Scotland to France, Richard probably stayed in England.

While the German Blitzkrieg doctrine called for combined-arms action, which required fire support for armoured units, during the invasion of Poland and France this was provided by the Luftwaffe using Stuka dive-bombers effectively acting as artillery.

While Minister to France during 1784 – 1789, Jefferson had opportunity to see some of the classical buildings with which he had become acquainted from his reading, as well as to discover the " modern " trends in French architecture then fashionable in Paris.

While Spain was fighting in France, Portugal — which had been under personal union with Spain for 60 years — acclaimed John IV of Braganza as king in 1640, and the House of Braganza became the new dynasty of Portugal ( see Portuguese Restoration War, for further information ).

While still in France, Paine formed the Church of Theophilanthropy with five other families ; this civil religion held as its central dogma that man should worship God's wisdom and benevolence and imitate those divine attributes as much as possible.

While undergoing treatment, she cut some sides for Roulette in 1969, mostly produced by Leland Rogers.

While they are seeing to Leslie's sister, Leland tries to make his escape, but the malfunctioning Sea Swine tracks him down and attacks him as well resulting in his defeat.

While attempting to resolve her conflicted feelings about her past, Baltimore discovers that her former boss at the CIA, Leland Perkins ( Patrick Malahide ), has allied with a psychological-operations specialist named Timothy ( Craig Bierko ), who is a former lover of Charly, in a false flag plot to detonate a chemical bomb in downtown Niagara Falls, New York, frame " Islamic " terrorists for the crime, and thus secure more funding.

While Eckbo was at Berkeley he was influenced by two of the programs faculty members, H. Leland Vaughan and Thomas Church, who inspired him to move beyond the formalized beaux-arts style that was popular at the time.

While in juvenile hall, Leland is schooled by teacher Pearl Madison ( Don Cheadle ), an aspiring writer who is searching for a breakthrough story.

While his girlfriend is out of town in Los Angeles, Pearl sleeps with a coworker and tells her that he is going to write a book about Leland.

While attending Leland, he has two serious girlfriends.

While with the Leland Giants, Rube Foster considered Hill his " field general " and it was his job to be almost a " second manager.

While Annie and John Bidwell resided in the mansion, they were hosts to many prominent figures of their era, including: President Rutherford B. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, Governor Leland Stanford, John Muir, and Asa Gray.

While central registries are kept in some countries which aid in proving claims of ownership, registering does not necessarily prove ownership, nor does the fact of copying ( even without permission ) necessarily prove that copyright was infringed.

While this agreement reportedly kept the company in existence, it also left RuneQuest moribund, leading to products of questionable quality, long gaps with no products published at all, and, eventually, the death of the game altogether.

While both artists kept in contact with African Americans on the West Coast during its creation, influencing the content and depictions.

While there was no separate Polish state at all, the idea of Polish independence was kept alive throughout the 19th century and led to more Polish uprisings and other warfare against the partitioning powers.

While the observance of these statutes would have and do lead to several health benefits, Jewish belief commands that these rituals and prohibitions be kept purely to fulfill the will of God with no ulterior motive.

While Maroger medium is usually mixed directly with oil paints, its proportion should be kept to no more than 20 % of the mixture.

While in hiding his mother kept Hoffman entertained by teaching him to read and having him memorize geography from textbooks stored in the attic, then quizzing him on it.

While he was president in the United States Senate, a small number of anti-war senators kept it deadlocked by refusing to end debate.

While the house's structure was kept intact by the Truman reconstruction, much of the new interior finishes were generic, and of little historic value.

While he was away, Whiteman famously kept a chair empty in Beiderbecke's honor.

While he interfered less in the day-to-day movements of units than at Arnhem, he still kept himself fully informed on the situation, slowing the Allies ' progress, inflicting heavy casualties and taking full advantage of the fortifications the Germans called the Westwall, better known to the Allies as the Siegfried Line.

While he was drunk, he kept hearing Novalee's voice talking about Americus, then he tripped on train tracks and an oncoming train.

While Kuratowski associated with many of the scholars of the Lwów School of Mathematics, such as Stefan Banach and Stanislaw Ulam, and the circle of mathematicians based around the Scottish Café he kept close connections with Warsaw.

While he kept that vow, Fonda spoke glowingly of Ford in Peter Bogdanovich's documentary Directed by John Ford.

While this position kept him in the thick of science in Britain and beyond, it also led to some heated arguments with other scientists, such as Huygens ( see above ) and particularly with Isaac Newton and the Royal Society's Henry Oldenburg.

While the only recent war experience of the Prussian Army was in the War of the Polish Succession ( Rhine campaign of 1733 – 1735 ) it had largely been kept out of combat, since Prussia was not fully trusted by Austria.

While on a visit to Corfu he was given a portrait of the Greek hero, which he always kept in his office.

While the lowland area of Zug, Baar, Steinhausen and Cham are quite urbanized, we see that Ennetsee, with Risch and Hüneneberg, despite a building boom, have kept their rustic side.

While French skirmishers kept the English garrison of Saint-Loup contained, a fleet of boats from Orleans sailed down to the landing to pick up the supplies, Joan and 200 spearmen.

While Spassky was undefeated and handed tournament victor Larsen one of his three losses, his fourteen draws kept him from seriously contending for first prize, as he came two points behind Larsen.

While his drinking became public knowledge during his lifetime, the press ( per established practice at the time ) kept quiet about his many marital infidelities.

While saying that the information would not be in a central database as part of Operation TIPS, he maintained that the information would still be kept in databases by various law enforcement agencies.

While Nakamichi violated the tape recording standards to achieve the highest dynamics possible, producing non-compatible cassettes for playback on other machines, both Tandberg and Revox kept to the standards and produced cassettes that could be played back on other machines.

While making the golden arm ring Draupnir the gadfly came again and bit Brokkr, this time in the neck but Brokkr kept on blowing.

While Boone recovered, the Shawnees kept up their attacks outside Boonesborough, destroying the surrounding cattle and crops.