While ceremonial, these offices no doubt gained Domitian valuable experience in the Roman Senate, and may have contributed to his later reservations about its relevance.

While there are 73 positions available within the Senate, one position is currently unoccupied.

While the Senate mustered their willing slaves, Hannibal offered his dishonoured Roman captives a chance for honourable death, in what Livy describes as something very like the Roman munus.

While there was a Carthaginian Senate, the real power was with the inner " Council of 30 Nobles " and the board of judges from ruling families known as the " Hundred and Four ".

While the Senate passed the petition on January 29, it was defeated in House of Representatives on February 18.

While a member of the Senate, Adams also served as a professor of logic at Brown University.

While he was still campaigning in Spain, the Senate began bestowing honors on Caesar.

While in Constantinople therefore it was not strange to see Julian frequently active in the Senate, participating in debates and making speeches, placing himself at the level of the other members of the Senate.

While the U. S. Senate did not add any reservation to the treaty, it did pass a measure " interpreting " the treaty which included the statement that the treaty must not infringe upon America's right of self defense and that the United States was not obliged to enforce the treaty by taking action against those who violated it.

While the Academic Senate is an independent body, it is required to make recommendations to the university Council in relation to matters outside its delegated authority.

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 Henry in the south cooperated with the rebel Senate of Rome, Frederick I in the north blocked the passes of the Alps and cut off all communication between the Pope, then living in Verona, and his German adherents.

While Zeno told the Senate that Nepos was their lawful sovereign, he did not press the point, and accepted the imperial insignia brought to him by the senate.

While the Curiate Assembly did have the power to pass laws that had been submitted by the king, the Senate was effectively an honorary council.

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 he presided in the Senate, emotions sometimes ran high, including during a debate on the Mexican border crisis in 1916.

While the Senate did pass the amendment on April 8, 1864, by a vote of 38 to 6, the House declined to do so.

While Senate customs have created supermajority rules that have diminished this Constitutional power, the Vice President still retains the ability to influence legislation ( e. g. the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 ).

While the Vice President's only constitutionally prescribed functions aside from Presidential succession relate to his role as President of the Senate, the office is commonly viewed as a component of the executive branch of the federal government.

While in the Senate, Allen was one of a group of Western Democrat expansionists who asserted that the U. S. had a valid claim to the entire Oregon Country, which was an issue during the 1844 U. S. presidential election.

While many urged him to run for the Senate seat held by Adlai Stevenson III ( even after Stevenson dropped out of the race ), Anderson had higher sights: the Republican presidential nomination.

While the Speaker is the functioning head of the House majority party, the same is not true of the President pro tempore of the Senate, whose office is primarily ceremonial and honorary.

While the title was not official, he is considered to be the first Senate Majority leader ( and in turn, the first Senate Democratic Leader ), while serving concurrently as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus.

While studying the continuum hypothesis, Cohen is quoted as saying in 1985 that he " had the feeling that people thought the problem was hopeless, since there was no new way of constructing models of set theory.

While H. Floris Cohen states that most scholars reject crude articulations of the conflict thesis, such as Andrew D. White's, he also states that milder versions of this thesis still hold some sway.

While chatting to a group of skateboarders, in character, Baron Cohen realised that people could be led to believe his character was real, and filmed a number of segments which were ordered off air by London Weekend Television.

While working for Jake Guzik, Cohen was forced to flee Chicago after an argument with a rival gambler.

While Cohen returned to the laboratory in academia, Swanson contacted Boyer to found the company.

* Andrew Cohen, While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World

While in high school and college, Cohen was a basketball player and was named to the Maine all-state high school and college basketball team, and at Bowdoin was inducted into the New England All-Star Hall of Fame.

While Cohen waited, an elderly man with a long gun attacked the facility, fatally shooting a security guard before being wounded himself by the other guards.

While his involvement in the project was publicly hidden early on, Stephen Michael Cohen was closely involved in all stages of ES5 and, in most opinions, was the founder, primary architect, and primary participant in most of its actions.

While many diavlogs feature Wright and Kaus, other regular participants at Bloggingheads. tv include Rosa Brooks, Conn Carroll, Jonathan Chait, Joshua Cohen, David Corn, Timothy Noah, Ross Douthat, Daniel Drezner, Garance Franke-Ruta, John Horgan, Heather Hurlburt, George Johnson, Mark Kleiman, Ezra Klein, Jeffrey Lewis, Glenn Loury, Megan McArdle, John McWhorter, James Pinkerton, Jacqueline Shire, Mark Schmitt, Will Wilkinson and Matthew Yglesias.

While it was predicted by Nick Cohen in the New Statesman in 2000 that NPN would merge with Make Votes Count and Charter 88, Nina Temple among others attempted to steer the organisation back towards its democratic socialist roots at the 2003 AGM.

While not known as an innovator, Cohen did come up with the idea of placing revolving advertisements courtside at NBA games.

While in the USA, Wahl with Gustave Cohen and backed by the Rockefeller Foundation founded a ' university in exile ', the École Libre des Hautes Études, in New York.

While in private practice, Cohen litigated Indian land claims, won the right to vote for American Indians in New Mexico and Arizona, and successfully challenged Arizona's practice of denying social security benefits to Indians.

While serving for three years as Legal Advisor for the Memphis Police Department, Cohen rose to political prominence when he was elected to the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1977 at the age of 27.

While in London in 1943, he wrote the lyrics for the song La complainte du partisan, ( known in English translation as The Partisan ( recorded by Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez, and doubtless many others ).

While the designs of Seth and Munchie were not modeled after anyone in particular, their hair-styles were slightly based on those of Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen, owners of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry's.

While Ice Cream for Crow was being produced, Herb Cohen had settled his lawsuit with Frank Zappa over the latter withholding the master tapes to Captain Beefheart's unreleased Bat Chain Puller album.

While stripping at Chuck Landis ' Largo Club on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, she met gangster Mickey Cohen and became his girl.

While serving her sentence, she was a witness in Los Angeles in mid-1961 in the tax evasion trial of her former boyfriend, Mickey Cohen.

While well-versed in big-budget motion picture production, it was widely believed Ms. Cohen did not have strong enough backgrounds in independent film, or in the marketing / publicity aspects of film distribution to hold that role.

While as noted above, a United States Appeals court has stated that the Wire Act does not apply to non-sports betting, the Supreme Court of the United States previously refused to hear an appeal of the conviction of Jay Cohen, where lower courts held that the Wire Act does make it illegal to own a sports betting operation that offers such betting to United States citizens.

While attending Huffman High School he became interested in the poetry and music of Leonard Cohen and the poetry of Richard Brautigan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other members of the Beat Generation.

While TVT lawyers announced intentions to pursue the matter further, Cohen's lawyer noted, " In reversing the finding of liability, fraud and the related damages, the court has specifically found that there was no credible evidence to support the outrageous claims against Mr. Cohen.