While it was able to establish itself on some islands, such as Barbados, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, other introductions, such as in Cuba before 1900 and in 1946, and on the islands of Dominica and Grand Cayman, were unsuccessful.

While censorious political correctness threatened Punch and Judy performances in the UK and other English speaking countries for a time, the show is having one of its cyclical recurrences and can now be seen not only in England, Wales, and Ireland, but also in Canada, the United States ( including Puerto Rico ), Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

While the PDP Democratic faction controls the Democratic party chapter under the state chairmanship of former senator Roberto Prats, two of the five DNC members residing in Puerto Rico, Senate president Kenneth McClintock and Francisco Domenech are statehooders.

While the Papal Nuncio in Washington, D. C. serves as the Vatican State's ambassador to the U. S. and the ecclesiastical liaison to the American Roman Catholic Church, the Holy See has designated the Papal Nuncio in the Dominican Republic as the ecclesiastical liaison to the Roman Catholic Church in Puerto Rico.

While working as the main bartender at Barrachina ( a restaurant in Puerto Rico ), Ramon mixed pineapple juice, coconut cream, condensed milk and ice in a blender, creating a delicious and refreshing drink, known today as the Piña Colada.

While it never achieved Menudo's level of popularity, it gave them a run for their money in Puerto Rico and many Latin American countries, specially Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panamá.

While she was in college, she was selected Miss San Juan on March 22, 1985 and later Miss Puerto Rico on April 27, 1985.

While still a public figure at home in Puerto Rico she retired as a model after her wedding.

While BK began its foray into locations outside of the continental United States in 1963 with a store in San Juan, Puerto Rico, it did not have an international presence until several years later.

While still at the conservatory, Vadiz was a finalist at the Metropolitan Opera House Eastern Region Auditions, and did concerts with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra with bass Justino Diaz, and renowned singers Ruth Fernandez, Chucho Avellanet and Nydia Caro.

While working in the Spanish Parliament, he made the most of his position and voiced his views about the abolishment of slavery and the establishment of a constitution which would guarantee Puerto Ricans more political rights.

While performing with his sister Nelly in New York's Teatro Puerto Rico in 1973, Tony was introduced to New York bred but Puerto Rico born vocalist Roberto Tirado who suggested that he compose a hit song for his idol Lucecita Benítez who was going through hard times in her career.

While he was almost as successful in Puerto Rico singing pop tunes with his sister as he was in other countries, Tony Croatto was very much impressed by Puerto Rican jibaro singers, who could improvise décimas on the spot, something that reminded him of the payadores of Uruguay and Argentina he used to listen to when he was growing up.

While Pérez was a teenager he became involved in various church singing groups and in the Puerto Rican production of Up With People.

While the projected cross-American link did not happen, the railroad opened up extensive lands that were ideally suited for the growing of tropical fruit, especially bananas, in the hinterland of Puerto Cortés.

While he was not the only reporter who covered crime stories in that newspaper, his name was probably the most recognizable one out of crime reporters for El Vocero among Puerto Ricans.

While studying, Cedeño joined a merengue orchestra called Los Nenes de Puerto Rico ( Puerto Rico Kids ).

While in Spain, de Diego collaborated with the newspaper El Progreso ( Progress ) which was founded by José Julián Acosta and which attacked the political situation in Puerto Rico.

While approaching the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, the storm became a Category 2 hurricane.

While dissipating in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, Sebastien dropped light rainfall in Puerto Rico, peaking at in Quebradillas.

While Puerto Rico still has a niche in the gourmet coffee market, the large scale coffee growing which built Maricao is no longer economically feasible.

While a baffled Kowalski tries rationalizing that such a simple thing defies all laws of the universe, Skipper simply states that Rico is a maverick who makes his own rules, and tells Kowalski to invent something that will not destroy the world.

While the cows are in town, a bounty hunter named Rico ( who Buck, the Sheriff's horse, idolizes ) drops a criminal off and collects the reward.

While at Santa Barbara, he studied art with Howard Warshaw and Rico Lebrun.

While passing north of the Lesser Antilles, Danielle dropped heavy rainfall in Puerto Rico, causing street flooding and damaging at least one home.

While in Spain he completed his studies in literature in Madrid ( 1850 – 1852 ) and joined the Society of the Recollection of Historical Documents Relating to Puerto Rico ( Sociedad Recolectora de Documentos Históricos de San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico ).

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 Qing dynasty abolished appointment of hereditary headmen, slavery and the treatment of poor peasants as serfs continued through 1949.

While the bill was silent on this issue, slavery would have been prohibited under the terms of the Missouri Compromise.

: While nongovernmental organizations argue over how to end slavery, few deny the existence of the practice.

While the British colonies had no slavery after 1834, discrimination was still common.

While he did not consider himself an abolitionist, he was opposed to slavery.

While the original southern response to the Wilmot Proviso was measured, it soon became clear to the South that this long postponed attack on slavery had finally occurred.

While Stowe weaves other subthemes throughout her text, such as the moral authority of motherhood and the redeeming possibilities offered by Christianity, she emphasizes the connections between these and the horrors of slavery.

While Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had hoped to settle issues related to slavery and Congressional authority by this decision, it aroused outrage and deepened sectional tensions.

While slavery was not as common in East Tennessee as in other parts of the Southeastern United States, it did occur.

While the land was available for construction of a southern railroad, the issue had become too strongly associated with the sectional debate over slavery to receive federal funding.

While Julius's tales recall the Uncle Remus tales published by Joel Chandler Harris, they differ in that Uncle Julius ' tales offer oblique or coded commentary on the psychological and social impact of slavery and racial inequality.

While the practice of direct slavery is widely banned across the world, in some places debt-slavery is still practiced.

: While the U. S. Constitution has a clause that states " No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed " the Confederate Constitution adds a phrase to protect slavery.

While conservatives and many moderates were content merely to call for the restoration of the Missouri Compromise or a prohibition of slavery extension, the group insisted that no further political compromise with slavery was possible.

While in Congress, he successfully added provisions to the 1785 Northwest Ordinance which barred the extension of slavery into the Northwest Territory.

While at Glasgow he was challenged by James Robertson to a debate on the subject of slavery.

While this is only one example out of thousands of enslaved persons, it does mean that not all slavery reparations can be determined by racial self-identification alone ; reparations would have to include a determination of the free or slave status of one's African-American ancestors, as well as when and by whom they were enslaved and denied rights such as property ownership.

While Brownlow had supported Bell in 1860, he praised Lincoln as an " Old Clay Whig ," and argued that opposition to him had more to do with sectionalism than with slavery.

While sir, slavery cuts off the colored portion of the community from religious privileges men are made infidels.

While this bull preceded the Atlantic slave trade by several decades, slavery and the slave trade were part of African societies and tribes which supplied the Arab world with slaves long before the arrival of the Europeans.