While `` better late than never '' may have certain merits, the posthumous award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to the late Dag Hammarskjold strikes me as less than a satisfactory expression of appreciation.

While high anxiety children achieve significantly less well ( Af ) in the unstructured school than do low anxiety children, they appear to do at least as well as the average in the structured classroom.

While we, as American artists, believe deeply in the universal character of all intellectual activity, we would be less than honest with you, or ourselves, if we failed to state a specific attitude toward our own society as well as the international community as a whole.

While both sexes state that kindness is the most preferable trait in a partner there is some evidence that men place less value on this than women and that women may not be more altruistic in presence of an attractive man.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

While authors such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Marc Ferro and Jacques Le Goff continue to carry the Annales banner, today the Annales approach has been less distinctive as more and more historians do work in cultural history, political history and economic history.

While the above passages from 1 Kings do not view Ahab unfavourably, there are others which are less friendly.

While in Puerto Rico slavery was 2 % of the population and blacks were less than 11 %, Cuba was 30 % black and slaves wee the backbone of the plantation economy.

While non-native users know of the spiritual applications of ayahuasca, a less well-known traditional usage focuses on the medicinal properties of ayahuasca.

While there has been a fair amount of scientific research on the psychology of older board games ( e. g., chess, go, mancala ), less has been done on contemporary board games such as Monopoly, Scrabble, and Risk.

While rubber bridge is played competitively and for stakes, it is most often played socially and with less formality than duplicate bridge.

While containment of biological warfare transmission is less of a concern for certain criminal or terrorist organizations, it remains a significant concern for the military and civilian populations of virtually all nations.

While providing comparable quality, they are theoretically also less expensive.

While the men of the tribe ate the body of the deceased and rarely contracted the disease, the women and children, who ate the less desirable body parts, including the brain, were 8 times more likely than men to contract kuru from infected tissue.

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

While the former are prone to internal struggles, they have less reason to fear votes of non-confidence.

While his system was less " scientific " than that of J. P. Lesley, it's other key features – notation, specificity, and versatility – make it deserving of the praise it has received.

While the steps to follow in the case of a triumph of the " yes " option, which the document obviously anticipated, were clearly delineated, the steps for the " no " triumph were less so, but still clear enough that no serious doubt emerged when the " no " option actually was victorious in the 1988 plebiscite.

While this is a good basis for a query language, it is less well suited as a modeling language.

* Niall Lucy points to the impossibility of defining the term at all, noting that: " While in a sense it is impossibly difficult to define, the impossibility has less to do with the adoption of a position or the assertion of a choice on deconstruction ’ s part than with the impossibility of every ‘ is ’ as such.

While there are other European countries like Estonia with a birthrate that is at less than replacement levels, Estonia lacks the immigration found, for example, in Germany.

While the conservative wing of the German political spectrum, primarily formed of the CDU and CSU, enjoys considerable support, this support tends to be less extended to Stoiber.

While rheumatic fever since the advent of routine penicillin administration for Strep throat has become less common in developed countries, in the older generation and in much of the less-developed world, valvular disease ( including mitral valve prolapse, reinfection in the form of valvular endocarditis, and valve rupture ) from undertreated rheumatic fever continues to be a problem.

" While his intentions for publishing a fresh Latin translation are clear, it is less clear why he included the Greek text.

While urban areas are growing and thriving, economic adjustments have been harsh in rural and resource-dependent communities, and emigration has been an ongoing phenomenon for some parts of the region.

While a group with the same task survived the winter on Spitsbergen, all seven on Jan Mayen died of scurvy or trichinosis ( from eating raw polar bear meat ) combined with the harsh conditions.

While Eysenck's R-factor is easily identified as the classical " left-right " dimension, the T-factor ( representing a factor drawn at right angles to the R-factor ) is less intuitive ; high-scorers favored pacifism, racial equality, religious education, and restrictions on abortion, while low-scorers had attitudes more friendly to militarism, harsh punishment, easier divorce laws, and companionate marriage.

While harsh, the land allowed for a pastoral farming life familiar to the Norse.

While harsh, the microclimates along some fjords allowed for a pastoral lifestyle similar to that of Iceland.

While some statements in the Bayan show tolerance, there are other very harsh regulations in regards to relations with non-believers.

While some of the earlier dwellings have been lost to erosion as the island shrinks, it still provides a welter of valuable information to archaeologists on how early Eskimos survived in their harsh environment.

While harvesting grapes destined for sparkling wine, premium producers will take extra care to handle the grapes as gently as possible in order to minimize the extraction of harsh phenolic compounds from the skin.

While book royalties and a sort of " Tsuji Jun Fan Club " ( provided some economic support, Tsuji was caught up in a harsh late World War II economic environment and would spend the last few years of his life in vagabond poverty.

While seven million prisoners and forced laborers left Germany, over 10 million German speaking refugees arrived there from Eastern Europe as living conditions were harsh.

While young are usually born after six to seven months, the mother has the ability to delay giving birth for an additional month if conditions are harsh.

While sanctions and harsh economics kept it lagging way behind its competitors, and while the demise of the Soviet Union cast doubts on the future of its Tupolev fleet, Syrianair's fortunes changed following the second Gulf War in 1990.

While his regime was not as harsh as other Communist regimes ( and certainly less so than the first seven years of out-and-out Communist rule in Hungary ), it wasn't a liberal one either.

While undoubtedly marking a massive leap in industrial capacity, the first Five Year Plan was extremely harsh on industrial workers ; quotas were difficult to fulfill, requiring that miners put in 16 to 18-hour workdays.

While initially a vocal supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal, he later became a harsh critic of Roosevelt.

While in certain cases, such as harsh environments, a protection filter may be necessary, there are also downsides to this practice.

While maintaining a harsh, wiry texture, the puppy coat may be shorter than that of an adult coat.

While incarcerated, Wang spent two years at Qincheng Prison, known for its high number of political prisoners and harsh living conditions.

While there, he was interrogated under harsh circumstances, and confessed that Abderraouf Jdey had been known to him.

While the harsh oppression of Protestantism initiated by King Louis XIV had largely receded, Protestants were, at best, tolerated.

While this may seem a harsh judgement-especially considering Taylor's support of revivalism and the ensuing " conversion " experience that accompanies it-the fact was that Taylor and other proponents of New Haven theology had deliberately abandoned teachings that were, up to that time, considered an essential part of traditional Calvinist Theology.

While in Peru, Hostos helped to develop that country's educational system and spoke against the harsh treatment given to the Chinese who lived there.

While Earth is prosperous and well protected, the colonies on Luna, Mars, and Venus suffer from increasingly harsh regulations and production quotas.

While the older Gathic Avestan texts have heat ( and thus fire ) associated with harsh judgement, the Younger Avestan texts have the divinity Atar completely representing and being represented by fire itself ; and associated with warmth and light and essential for growth.

While they sound loud and proud in criticizing the minister for his veil, they are clearly weak and unsure inside their own minds about their personal salvation, so the harsh judgement of others could possibly be seen as a coping mechanism for a people were never sure about whether they were really going to heaven.