While he talked you wouldn't trade being a West Tennessee farmer for being anything else in the whole damned world, no matter if it hadn't, in six weeks, rained enough to wet a rat's ass.

While Angola's foreign policy shifted to a pro-U. S. stance based on substantial economic ties, under the rule of President Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe's ties with the West soured in the late 1990s.

While the replays were inconclusive, the captain of the West Indies side, Brian Lara wanted Dhoni to walk-off based on the fielder's assertion of the catch.

While based in Sacramento his radio broadcasts over 50, 000 watt KFBK were heard all over the West.

While in the first five years following World War II, massive emigration from these states to the West occurred, restrictions implemented thereafter stopped most East-West migration, except that under limited bilateral and other agreements.

While not a national holiday, it does appear on all printed calendars, much as Father's Day does in the West.

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

While the previous seven ecumenical councils are recognized as ecumenical and authoritative by both East and West, many Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize the council of 879 as the Eighth Ecumenical Council, arguing that it annulled the earlier one.

While East German propaganda was based on the benefits of the GDR's social programs and the alleged constant threat of a West German invasion, many of her citizens looked to the West for political freedoms and economic prosperity.

While the immediate response from the West German population was positive, the Soviet authorities were less pleased with the combative Lass sie nach Berlin kommen.

While at West Point, Davis was placed under house arrest for his role in the Eggnog Riot in Christmas 1826.

While this tendency decreased under his successors, it established the image of West Germany ( and later reunified Germany ) as a " chancellor democracy ".

While police control barriers are a common sight on African highways, and while illicit demands for bribes at such stops are common in many countries, the main Malian highway heading south from Bamako to the Burkina Faso border was singled out in late 2008 as the worst in West Africa.

While the single player tile matching game mahjong solitaire is familiar in the West, in Asia it is the four-player table version which holds predominance and has little in common with the solitaire version other than using the same tiles.

While Miyazaki's films have long enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan, he remained largely unknown to the West until Miramax Films released Princess Mononoke.

While doing his obligatory community service ( Zivildienst ) in a West German hospital in 1989, Rust stabbed a female co-worker who had rejected him.

While Pedersen's Nostratic hypothesis did not make much headway in the West, it became quite popular in what was then the Soviet Union.

While the civil power in the East controlled the church and the bishop of Constantinople, the capital, wielded much power, in the West the Bishops of Rome were able to consolidate the influence and power they already possessed.

While stationed in St Kitts, West Indies, on, he had his first encounter with Clements Markham, then Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ), who would loom large in Scott's later career.

While Ned Jordan is credited with changing the way advertising was written with his " Somewhere West of Laramie " ads for his Jordan Playboy, Reo's Flying Cloud — a name that provoked evocative images of speed and lightness — changed the way automobiles would be named in the future.

While Sultan Suleiman was known as " the Magnificent " in the West, he was always Kanuni Suleiman or " The Lawgiver " to his own Ottoman subjects.

While the Giants have more wins in franchise history, both National League West teams are tied for the most National League pennants with 21, and both teams have each won six World Series titles.

While East Malaysia is less populated and less developed than West Malaysia, its land mass is larger and it has notably more natural resources, chiefly oil and gas reserves.

While the general prognosis is favorable, current studies indicate that West Nile Fever can often be more severe than previously recognized, with studies of various recent outbreaks indicating that it may take as long as 60 – 90 days to recover.

While modern systems distinguish between offences against the " State " or " Community ", and offences against the " Individual ", the so-called penal law of ancient communities did not deal with " crimes " ( Latin: crimina ), but with " wrongs " ( Latin: delicta ).

While courts have specifically made clear certain instances which have succeeded or failed to meet the nebulous threshold for materiality, the topic remains unresolved in large part, except in certain legal areas where intent manifests itself in an abundantly clear fashion, such as with the so-called perjury trap, a specific situation in which a prosecutor calls a person to testify before a grand jury with the intent of drawing a perjurious statement from the person being questioned.

While the Wends were arriving in so-called Germania Slavica as large homogeneous groups, they soon divided into a variety of small tribes, with large strips of woodland separating one tribal settlement area from another.

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While fighting the fifth so-called " Light ", who was out of control, Hope attempts to take some of his powers only to exhausts herself and collapses.

While so-called ' pitched ' brick vaulting, which could be constructed without centering, may date back in the Ancient Near East to the 2nd millennium BC, the earliest evidence of the pointed masonry arch appears in late Roman and Sassanian architecture, mostly evidenced in early church building in Syria and Mesopotamia, but occasionally also in secular structures like the Karamagara Bridge.

While it is true that Tippett's music is not as obviously ' English ' in style as composers of the so-called ' English pastoral school ' - Vaughan Williams, Holst and Delius, and later Howells and Finzi-there is an underlying thread of nature mysticism running through it which is as English as William Blake, Samuel Palmer or John Keats.

While these specific failings came back to haunt the Empire in subsequent decades, perhaps the greatest weakness of the Peace of Augsburg was its failure to take into account the growing diversity of religious expression emerging in the so-called evangelical and reformed traditions.

While some hard-wired dedicated switches must still be used for reasons of integrity and safety, many traditional controls are replaced by multi-function re-configurable controls or so-called “ soft keys ”.

While the 2SH remains the most popular explanation for the origins of the synoptic gospels, two questions, the existence of the so-called " minor agreements ", and problems with the hypothesis of Q, continue at the centre of discussion over its explanatory power.

While the existence of so-called " righteous Gentiles " during Jewry's most recent darkest hour, the Holocaust, has long been recognized, they were by no means a new phenomenon at the time.

While pure blood ( so-called limpieza de sangre ) would come to be placed at a premium, particularly among the nobility, in a 15th-century defense of conversos, Bishop Lope de Barrientos would list what Roth calls " a veritable ' Who's Who ' of Spanish nobility " as having converso members or being of converso descent.

While White's defense team did argue successfully for a ruling of diminished capacity, resulting in a verdict of voluntary manslaughter rather than murder, an urban legend that the defense had blamed White's actions on the ingestion of sugar and junk food ( the so-called " Twinkie defense ") sprang up out of inaccurate media coverage.

While tilting trains had been in development in other countries for some years, and even seen service, so-called ' pendular tilt ' had not been particularly satisfactory.

While Hillquit and his cohort retained control of the organization at this time, this action earned the lasting enmity of Hillquit's New York-based allies of the so-called " Old Guard ".

While Hay admitted Mexico's responsibility, he replied that there is " no rule universally accepted in theory nor carried out in practice which makes obligatory the payment of immediate compensation ..." The so-called " Hull formula " has been adopted in many treaties concerning international investment, but is still controversial, especially in Latin American countries, which historically have subscribed to the Calvo Doctrine, which among other things, suggests that compensation is to be decided by the host country and that as long as there is equality between nationals and foreigners and no discrimination, there cannot be any claim in international law.

While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called ' organic ' methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot.

While this failed to influence the outcome of the coalition talks, it led directly to the so-called " sanctions " against Austria, which had no basis whatsoever in the EU charter.

While MR remained essentially a publication with roots in the so-called " Old Left " of writers unconnected with the Communist Party or Socialist Party, the publication was not unfriendly to the young radical movement which grew in conjunction with the Civil Rights movement and the opposition to conscription and the Vietnam War.

While the left demanded to solve this situation by creating a revolutionary parliamentary government, on 24 June 1848, the Paulskirche parliament voted, with a 450 votes against 100, for a so-called Provisional Central Power ( Provisorische Zentralgewalt ).

While fighters designated 4. 5th generation under the US-devised system incorporate some low-observable features, so-called fifth generation fighters have more clearly been designed with this as a very high priority.

While some colonies live in hives provided by humans, so-called " wild " colonies ( although all honey bees remain wild, even when cultivated and managed by humans ) typically prefer a nest site that is clean, dry, protected from the weather, about 20 liters in volume with a 4 to 6 cm² entrance about 3 m above the ground, and preferably facing south or south-east ( in the northern hemisphere ) or north or north-east ( in the southern hemisphere ).

While always remaining independent, Tonga became a British protected state under the so-called Treaty of Friendship on 18 May 1900, when European settlers and rival Tongan chiefs tried to oust the second king.

While always remaining independent, Tonga became a British protected state under the so-called Treaty of Friendship on 18 May 1900, when European settlers and rival Tongan chiefs tried to oust the second king.