While casuistry makes use of ethical theory, it does not view ethical theory as the most important feature of moral reasoning.

While Aquinas's theory follows generally the model of Aristotle, he develops a singular aesthetics which incorporates elements unique to his thought.

While Ricardo accepted Smith's labour theory of value, he acknowledged that utility could influence the price of some rare items.

While other theories may insist on the truth of the former, the latter precept of congregationalism gives the entire theory a unique character among plans of church government.

While Sunni and Shia Islam differ sharply on the conduct of a caliph and the right relations between a leader and a community, they do not differ on the underlying theory of stewardship.

While the Politburo theory states indirectly that the Party Congress is a non-important process, another theory, the circular-flow-of-power theory assumed that the General Secretary was able to build a power base among the party's regional secretaries.

While modernist critical theory ( as described above ) concerns itself with “ forms of authority and injustice that accompanied the evolution of industrial and corporate capitalism as a political-economic system ,” postmodern critical theory politicizes social problems “ by situating them in historical and cultural contexts, to implicate themselves in the process of collecting and analyzing data, and to relativize their findings ” ( Lindlof & Taylor, 2002, p. 52 ).

While on active duty, he received two lessons from Arnold Schoenberg at UCLA in an attempt to connect with High Modernism theory and practice.

While the term has remained in use amongst scientific authors when referring to modern evolutionary theory, it has increasingly been argued that it is an inappropriate term for modern evolutionary theory.

While the Darwin Awards are named after Charles Darwin, due to his theory of natural selection, there is no evidence that the stories depicted actually represent the removal of " judgement impairment genes " from the gene pool.

While individual equations present a kind of puzzle and have been considered throughout history, the formulation of general theories of Diophantine equations ( beyond the theory of quadratic forms ) was an achievement of the twentieth century.

While Just war theory is generally seen to set the background terms of moral debate, individual countries have more specific methods of upholding these ethical principles.

While many mathematicians before Galois gave consideration to what are now known as groups, it was Galois who was the first to use the word group ( in French groupe ) in a sense close to the technical sense that is understood today, making him among the founders of the branch of algebra known as group theory.

While formal language theory usually concerns itself with formal languages that are described by some syntactical rules, the actual definition of the concept " formal language " is only as above: a ( possibly infinite ) set of finite-length strings, no more nor less.

While in theory King Louis XVI was an absolute monarch, in practice he was often indecisive and known to back down when faced with strong opposition.

While this theory, first propounded by Ernst von Dobschütz and Rudolf Bultmann, is not universally accepted, Amos Wilder writes that, " it is at least clear that there are considerable and sometimes continuous elements in the epistle whose style distinguishes them from that of the author both with respect to poetic structure and syntactic usage.

While the heavens were variously described as being like an umbrella covering the earth ( the Kai Tian theory ), or like a sphere surrounding it ( the Hun Tian theory ), or as being without substance while the heavenly bodies float freely ( the Hsüan yeh theory ), the earth was at all times flat, although perhaps bulging up slightly.

While the diagrams are applied primarily to quantum field theory, they can also be used in other fields, such as solid-state theory.

While most Anabaptists adhered to a literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount which precluded taking oaths, participating in military actions, and participating in civil government, some who practiced re-baptism felt contrariwise.

While creation myths are not literal explications they do serve to define an orientation of humanity in the world in terms of a birth story.

While the sound remained more or less the same when pronounced in Japanese, the literal meaning of the name changed from " Beating Dog " to " High Hero ".

While blackface in the literal sense has played only a minor role in entertainment in recent decades, various writers see it as epitomizing an appropriation and imitation of black culture that continues today.

While Gaston Paris argues that the Guenivere-Meleagant episode of the Prose Lancelot is an almost literal adaptation of Chrétien's poem, the Prose Lancelot can be seen as a considerable amplification of Chrétien's tale.

While bribery could be related, nepotism clearly has no literal similarity or correlation with venality.

While some who believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible insist that the prediction of dates or times is futile, some other writers believe that Jesus foretold of signs which would indicate that the " end of days " was near.

While it is a literal reflection of the king and queen, Snyder writes " it is the image of exemplary monarchs, a reflection of ideal character " Later he focuses his attention on the princess, writing that Velazquez's portrait is " the painted equivalent of a manual for the education of the princess — a mirror of the princess "

While Indian speakers of English use idioms peculiar to their homeland, often literal translations of words and phrases from their native languages, this is far less common in proficient speakers, and the grammar itself tends to be quite close to that of Standard English.

While the literal translation is the Imperial King of the Blood, a more appropriate title is the Imperial Prince of the Blood.

While the text of the translation itself is widely regarded as excessively literal and flat, the Revised Version is significant in the history of English Bible translation for many reasons.

While transliteration into Chinese characters of foreign words is complex, choosing these three particular was puzzling, with literal meanings 卑 " low ; inferior ; humble ", ( traditional ) 彌 or ( simplified ) 弥 " fill, cover ; full ; whole, complete ", and 呼 " breathe out ; exhale ; cry out ; call ".

While many critics still consider the word “ beat ” in its literal sense of “ tired and beaten down ,” others, including Kerouac himself promoted the generation more in sense of “ beatific ” or blissful.

While there are many other quotations, prayers ( Du ' as ), sermons and letters in other literal, historic and religious books.

While often described as " insectoid ", the Formics are not insects in the literal sense ; like mammals, they are warm-blooded, and they respirate and perspire.

The show's name is a literal translation of While You Were Out and is hosted by Arturo.

While a union shop agreement that, by its literal terms, requires an employee to become a member in good standing might appear to be unlawful on its face and therefore unenforceable, the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ) and the courts have uniformly interpreted such clauses to require no more than what the law permits ( such as payment of dues ).

While inking can involve tracing pencil lines in a literal sense, it also requires interpreting the pencils, giving proper weight to the lines, correcting mistakes, and making other creative choices.

While the term raga is articulated in the Natya Shastra ( where its meaning is more literal, meaning " colour " or " mood "), it finds a clearer expression in what is called jati in the Dattilam, a text composed shortly after or around the same time as Natya Shastra.

While Pakistani speakers of English use idioms peculiar to their homeland ( often literal translations of words and phrases from their native languages ), this is far less common in proficient speakers, and grammar tends to be quite close to that of Standard English but exhibiting some features of American English.

While it stated that Scripture teaches " solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation ," Brown points out the ambiguity of this statement, which opened the way for a new interpretation of inerrancy by shifting from a literal interpretation of the text towards a focus on " the extent to which it conforms to the salvific purpose of God ".

While literal square wheels exist, a more common use is as a metaphor meaning stereotypically bad or naïve engineering ( see reinventing the wheel ).

While the Christian intellectuals of Alexandria emphasized the allegorical interpretation of Scriptures and tended toward a christology that emphasized the union of the human and the divine, those in Antioch held to a more literal and occasionally typological exegesis and a christology that emphasized the distinction between the human and the divine in the person of Jesus Christ.

While the literal meaning of the word, ' shunga ,' is significant, it is in fact a contraction of, ' shunkyu-higi-ga ' ( 春宮秘戯画 ), the Japanese pronunciation for Chinese sets of twelve scrolls depicting the twelve sexual acts that the crown prince had to carry out as an expression of yin yang.

While humans ' understanding of God while alive is indirect ( mediation / prayer, not actually looking at Him ), the beatific vision is direct ( immediate, visual ) or literal seeing God.