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 Master of the Sword, Patton became an instructor at Fort Riley and improved and modernized the Army's cavalry saber fencing techniques.

While Patton was recuperating from his wounds, hostilities ended with the armistice of November 11, 1918 ( which happened to be Patton's 33rd birthday ).

While on duty in Washington, D. C., in 1919, Patton met Dwight D. Eisenhower, who would play an enormous role in Patton's future career.

While these measures may not have made Patton popular, they did tend to restore a sense of discipline and unit pride that may have been missing when Fredendall was still in command.

While Patton has a reputation today as a senior general who was both impatient and impulsive, with little tolerance for officers who had failed to succeed on the battlefield, the truth is somewhat different.

While Patton had many detractors in the press, he also received praise from others, including a tribute from a UPI writer who wrote, " Gen. George S. Patton believed he was the greatest soldier who ever lived.

While agreeing that Montgomery's drive towards the Ruhr should have priority, he still thought it was important to " get Patton moving again ".

While Col. Morgan's small band held off a main Union force under Major General Cullem Gillem on the opposite side the Holston River, Col. Samuel Patton took a force of cavalry to a ford in the river north and came down behind the Confederates.

While Patton is often viewed today as the prototype of the intolerant, impulsive commander, Bradley actually sacked far more generals and senior commanders during World War II, whereas Patton relieved only one general from his command — Orlando Ward — for cause during the entire war ( and only after giving General Ward two warnings ).

" While Bradley knew Patton personally, it was also well known that the two men were polar opposites in personality, and that Bradley despised Patton both personally and professionally.

While Mac is busy making final preparations, Gin contacts her boss, Hector Cruz ( Will Patton ), and informs him of Mac's whereabouts.

While Oberbürgermeister, he entered a much publicised friendship with U. S. Army Major General George S. Patton IV, the son of his father's World War II adversary, George S. Patton, who was assigned to the nearby U. S. military headquarters.

While Generals Montgomery, Bradley and Patton all favored relatively direct thrusts into Germany ( with Montgomery and Bradley each offering to be the spearhead of such an assault ), Eisenhower disagreed.

< center > While at Command and General Staff School, Middleton befriended George Patton, shown here in France in 1918.

While Florida has been successful in terms of runners-up, finalists and semi-finalists, the state has never won the Miss USA pageant, although Cheryl Patton became Miss USA after Sylvia Hitchcock won Miss Universe.

While Patton sat on the tailgate of the lorry to watch over the bomb, the driver towed the bomb out onto the aerodrome where it was then rolled very carefully into an existing bomb crater where it subsequently exploded harmlessly the next morning.

While hiding in a cemetery bathroom, The Darkness ( voiced by Mike Patton ), an ancient force that has inhabited his family for several generations, awakens within Jackie and slaughters the remaining mobsters, with the benefit of Jackie becoming the possessor of seemingly unholy demonic abilities that feed off the dark.