While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

While the older men have already had a life of professional and personal experience before the war, Bäumer and the men of his age have had little life experience or time for personal growth.

While there, he meets an intelligent little boy ( played by his son, Michael ), whose parents are targeted by the FBI.

While most male cross-dressers utilize clothing associated with modern women, there are some who are involved in subcultures that involve dressing as little girls or in vintage clothing.

While firing a higher quantity of smaller bullets makes it easier to hit a target ( and is therefore good for beginner marksmen ), it offers very little to more advanced marksmen.

While playing in thumb position, few players use the fourth ( little ) finger, as it is too weak to produce a reliable tone ( this is also true for cellists ), although some extreme chords or extended techniques, especially in contemporary music, may necessitate its use.

While little progress was made toward gender equality during the Revolution, the activism of French feminists was bold and particularly significant in Paris.

While supporters of trigger locks argue that they will save children from dying in gun accidents, critics point to demonstrations that some models can be removed by children with very little force and common household tools.

" While most other modern critics have little positive to say about the story's writing, Ralph 124C 41 + is still considered an " essential text for all studies of science fiction.

While cellulose is crystalline, strong, and resistant to hydrolysis, hemicellulose has a random, amorphous structure with little strength.

While technologically and culturally the city dwellers were more advanced, they could do little militarily to defend against the mounted hordes of the steppe.

While the Thai State offers recourse in the courts to obtain satisfaction after the fact, Thai authorities, NGOs and others generally offer little or no protection in preventing hate speech.

While there is little scholarly debate about the existence of some of these differences, their causes remain highly controversial both within academia and in the public sphere.

While there he is said to have encountered a statue of Alexander the Great, and realized with dissatisfaction he was now at an age when Alexander had the world at his feet, while he had achieved comparatively little.

While the ports of Burlington, Vermont ; Port Henry, New York ; and Plattsburgh, New York are little used nowadays except by small craft, ferries and lake cruise ships, they had substantial commercial and military importance in the 18th and 19th centuries.

While the cow is in the care of Mac Cinnfhaelaidh's brother Mac Samthainn, Balor appears in the form of a little red-haired boy and tricks him into giving him the cow.

While earthquakes are common in British Columbia and adjacent coastal waters, most are minor in energy release or are sufficiently remote to have little effect on populated areas.

While in the beginning only Pashtuns were allowed to participate in the Jirgas, later other ethnic groups like Tajiks and Hazaras were allowed to participate as well, however they were little more than observers.

While little is known about Morocco settlement in these early times, excavations elsewhere in the Maghreb suggest an abundance of game and forests that would have been hospitable to Mesolithic hunters and gatherers.

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 of little interest to those outside the MUMPS / M community, this topic has been contentious there.

While the first is represented all over the rest of the country, the second, being represented only in this little part of Spain, is considered by some, especially in the mainland, to be foreign.

While Stalin had little faith in Japan's commitment to neutrality, he felt that the pact was important for its political symbolism, to reinforce a public affection for Germany.

While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.

While owning steel works, Carnegie had purchased at low cost the most valuable of the iron ore fields around Lake Superior.

While recognising bureaucracy as the most efficient form of organisation and even indispensable for the modern state, Weber also saw it as a threat to individual freedoms and the ongoing bureaucratisation as leading to a " polar night of icy darkness ", in which increasing rationalisation of human life traps individuals in the aforementioned " iron cage " of bureaucratic, rule-based, rational control.

While commercially made slingshots date back to at least 1918, with the introduction of the Zip-Zip, a cast iron model, it was not until the post World War II years saw a surge in the popularity, and legitimacy, of slingshots.

While carbon steel and cast iron ( the most common wok materials ) are induction-compatible metals, induction cooking also requires close contact between the cooking vessel and the induction burner.

While the nutrient composition depends on the species and environmental conditions, the most common components of acerola and their concentration range are as follow: proteins ( 2. 1-8g ), lipids ( 2. 3-8g ), carbohydrates ( 35. 7-78g ), calcium ( 117 mg ), phosphor ( 171 mg ), iron ( 2. 4 mg ), pyridoxine ( 87 mg ), riboflavin ( 0. 7 mg ), thiamine ( 0. 2 mg ), water ( 906-920g ) and dietic fibre ( 30g )

While the first iron ore was likely meteoric iron, and hematite was far easier to smelt, in Africa, where the first evidence of iron metallurgy occurs, limonite is the most prevalent iron ore. Before smelting, as the ore was heated and the water driven off, more and more of the limonite was converted to hematite.

While originally an iron mining town, the area is now known for its downhill skiing resorts, including Big Powderhorn, Blackjack, Indianhead, Mount Zion and Whitecap as well as its cross country skiing at the Wolverine Nordic Trail System.

While the foundry's iron was probably used to make ammunition and weapons for the Continental Army, no cannons were made.

While in Chambersburg Brown posed as Dr. Isaac Smith, an iron mine developer, and bought and stored weapons under the guise of mining equipment.

While this technically makes these base alloys ternary Fe-C-Si alloys, the principle of cast iron solidification is understood from the binary iron-carbon phase diagram.

While the focus initially remained on ore mining and iron production in the Ruhr region, mechanical engineering became the dominating branch of business in Augsburg and Nuremberg.

While these are fine for blacksmithing iron, special care must be taken when using them to blacksmith steel.

While developed nations saw a decline and re-awakening of interest in blacksmithing, in many developing nations blacksmiths continued doing what blacksmiths have been doing for 3500 years: making and repairing iron and steel tools and hardware for people in their local area.

While the Regulators at various times consisted of dozens of American and Mexican cowboys, the main dozen or so members were known as the " iron clad ", including McCarty, Richard " Dick " Brewer, Frank McNab, Doc Scurlock, Jim French, John Middleton, George Coe, Frank Coe, Jose Chavez y Chavez, Charlie Bowdre, Tom O ' Folliard, Fred Waite ( a Chickasaw ), and Henry Newton Brown.

While working as a ' viewer ' or manager at Wylam's Colliery near Newcastle upon Tyne, he built the first practical steam locomotive which relied simply on the adhesion of iron wheels on iron rails.

While doing work on charged objects, Guthrie discovered that a red-hot iron sphere with a positive charge would lose its charge ( by somehow discharging it into air ).

Stern-mounted rudders are uniformly suspended at the back of the ship in a central position, but the term has historically been found wanting because it does not take into account that the stern rudders were attached to the ship hull in quite a different way: While the European pintle-and-gudgeon rudder was attached to the sternpost by pivoting iron fastenings, the Arabs used instead a system of lashings.

While earlier rudders were mounted on the stern by the way of rudderposts or tackles, the iron hinges allowed for the first time to attach the rudder to the entire length of the sternpost in a really permanent fashion.