While the original Sterling semi-auto would be classed a " short barrel rifle " under the U. S. National Firearms Act, fully legal long-barrel versions of the Sterling have been made for the U. S. collector market.

While the passes were at best a dubious defence of his capture, British admiralty and vice-admiralty courts ( especially in North America ) heretofore had often winked at privateers ' excesses into piracy, and Kidd may have been hoping that the passes would provide the legal fig leaf that would allow him to keep the Quedagh Merchant and her cargo.

While it is possible to identify earlier legal structures that would today fall into the " environmental " law metric-for example the common law recognition of private and public rights to protect interests in land, such as nuisance, or post-industrial revolution human health protections-the concept of " environmental law " as a separate and distinct body of law is a 20th Century development.

While the modern history of environmental law is one of continuing controversy, by the end of the 20th Century, environmental law had been established as a component of the legal landscape in all developed nations of the world, many developing ones, and the larger project of international law.

While there are few and they have limited authority, the decisions carry much weight with legal commentators and are quite influential on the development of international environmental law.

While subject to criticism at home and abroad on issues of protection, enforcement, over-regulation, and imposition of externalities, the country remains an important source of environmental legal expertise and experience.

While colloquially, a person may term a law suit to be frivolous if he or she personally finds a claim to be absurd, in legal usage " frivolous litigation " consists of a claim or defense that is presented where the party ( or the party's legal counsel ) had reason to know that the claim or defense was manifestly insufficient or futile.

While St. Louis University completed the first legal forward pass in the first half of September, this accomplishment was in part because most schools did not begin their football schedule until early October.

While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ( CPPCG ).

While some in the legal sector advocated that the National People's Congress ( NPC ) should be asked to amend the part of the Basic Law to redress the problem, the HKSAR Government decided to seek an interpretation to, rather than an amendment of, the relevant Basic Law provisions from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress ( NPCSC ).

While Hawala has been discouraged in some U. S. states and other countries, it is legal in all US and world jurisdictions.

While in theory insurers could encourage investment in loss reduction, some commentators have argued that in practice insurers had historically not aggressively pursued loss control measures-particularly to prevent disaster losses such as hurricanes-because of concerns over rate reductions and legal battles.

While " legal " insider trading cannot be based on material non-public information, some investors believe corporate insiders nonetheless may have better insights into the health of a corporation ( broadly speaking ) and that their trades otherwise convey important information ( e. g., about the pending retirement of an important officer selling shares, greater commitment to the corporation by officers purchasing shares, etc.

While some family stability might be desirable as helping to keep slaves tractable and pacified, anything approaching a legal marriage was not.

While the term Lower Mainland has been recorded from the earliest period of non-native settlement in British Columbia, it has never been officially defined in legal terms.

* Cost — While a mediator may charge a fee comparable to that of an attorney, the mediation process generally takes much less time than moving a case through standard legal channels.

While transforming the country to a market-oriented economy during 1992 – 1997, the government privatized some banks, recapitalized the rest and introduced legal reforms that made the sector competitive.

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 no Orthodox legal authorities agree that women can form a minyan ( prayer quorum ) for the purpose of regular services, women in these groups read the prayers and study Torah.

While legal science and legal education persisted to some extent in the eastern part of the Empire, most of the subtleties of classical law came to be disregarded and finally forgotten in the west.

While those who were born in these towns could technically enjoy all the rights of native French citizens, substantial legal and social barriers prevented the full exercise of these rights, especially by those seen by authorities as ' full blooded ' Africans.

While each convention is run separately by the local committee, an informal and self-selected group of volunteers constitute the " Permanent Floating Worldcon Committee " who volunteer for many Worldcons in different years ; this group offers a measure of institutional continuity to otherwise disparate legal organizations.

While the wearing of katana was limited to the samurai class, wakizashi of legal length ( ko-wakizashi ) could be carried by the chonin class which included merchants.

While president, he attempted to build a party of loyalists under the National Union label.

While the Khmer built a standard brick tower, Po Klaung Garai directed his people to build an impressive replica of paper and wood.

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 Fokker would pursue steel tube fuselages with wooden wings until the late 1930s, and Junkers would focus on corrugated sheet metal, Dornier was the first to build a fighter ( The Dornier D. I ) made with pre-stressed sheet aluminium and having cantelevered wings, a form that would replace all others in the 1930s.

While there are constant rumours that she has affairs with male celebrities in order to build her profile, in some cases she simply creates the rumours herself ; in The Desert Angel ( series 1 ) she confesses to Pat Cash that she started a rumour about having an affair with him.

While the company helped build some schools, it opposed the building highways, as they would compete with the UFC's railroad monopoly.

While slopes along channels of 1: 100 have been recommended, in practice it is difficult to build a base for channels that is sufficiently true to enable nutrient films to flow without ponding in locally depressed areas.

While living in Pittsburgh, PA, he advised the citizenry on various issues including the use of public funds to build stadiums and the method of raising tax revenue.

While technological advances have enabled the leadership process to take place in such virtual contexts, they present new challenges for leaders as well, such as the need to use technology to build relationships with followers, and influencing followers when faced with limited ( or no ) face-to-face interaction.

While the city government wanted the squatters out to build a parking garage, most of the population wanted affordable housing to be built in the area.

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 Italy experienced continuous economic progress in the 1980s, the Italian economy was being undermined by constant devaluation of the Italian lira and the issuing of excessive amounts of high-interest treasury bonds, so that, between 1982 and 1992, the excessive budget deficit build half of the deficit still plaguing the country today.

While this is the result when the electrons contributing to the current occur completely randomly, unaffected by each other, there are important cases in which these natural fluctuations are largely suppressed due to a charge build up.

While Cross Keys was still under construction, Rouse decided to build a whole new city.

While the title of Ron Champion's book claims to offer a means to build a car for £ 250, most Locosts are usually as much as ten times that cost or more.

While it is not really possible to build a race car for the £ 250 quoted in the title of the book by Ron Champion, it is probably the least expensive form of motor sport available in the UK.

While they do not burrow or build nests, they frequently seek shelter in the burrows of other animals, as well as in crevices and tunnels formed by vegetation.

While this was going on, Stanford University AI programmers, many of them MIT alumni, were working on their own project to build a PDP-10 that was ten times faster than the original KA-10.

While Peru and Ecuador had been at peace for years, President Toledo worked to solidify and build upon that peace.

While at Stanford, Toledo founded and continues to serve as the President of the Global Center for Development and Democracy, based in Latin America, the United States, and the European Union which ' aims to help Peru and Latin American countries build institutional bases for greater stability, with a wide political commitment to democracy, that is decentralized and equal to all ".

While his primary focus was on photography as art, his work raised public awareness of the beauty of the Sierra Nevada and helped to build political support for their protection.

While historical wizards were known to build towers for themselves, the builders are unknown.

While the city attracted international attention when Mercedes-Benz announced it would build its first automotive assembly plant in North America in Tuscaloosa County, the University of Alabama remains the dominant economic and cultural engine in the city.

While Casas Adobes ' neighboring municipalities of Oro Valley, Marana and Tucson continue to build new homes and shopping centers, Casas Adobes is mostly built out.

While she has accomplished major fundraising, the university continues to struggle to build its endowment.