While the military effectiveness of these " Afghan Arabs " was marginal, Azzam's group is said to have organized paramilitary training for more than 20, 000 Muslim recruits, from about 20 countries around the world.

While relatively popular for sport and recreation, bicycle use is a very marginal commuting mode, with the percentage share hovering around 1 % in many major cities, and around 2 % nationwide ( 2000s figures ).

While the party struggled as a marginal force for its first ten years, since 1984 it has been the unrivalled major force of French right-wing nationalism.

While the evidence seems marginal at best, a small number of doctorate works have noted stylistic discrepancies across the corpus of Senecan work.

While one trial demonstrated highly significant improvements on all measures used, including anxiety, depression and quality of life, the other showed more marginal improvement of anxiety and quality of life.

While they may occur in forests and woodlands dominated by other tree types, these are marginal habitats for the family and are seldom used.

While a return to the simpler sound of their debut, it gained only marginal success.

While he never had more than a marginal following, he wielded extraordinary influence on the left wing of the Indian National Congress and played an instrumental role in the election of Subhash Chandra Bose to the leadership of Congress.

While defending the Majority Text ( also called the Byzantine text-type ), and admitting that the Textus Receptus is inferior to the Majority Text, he noted ( p. 114 ) that the NKJV references significant discrepancies among text types in its marginal notes: " None of the three traditions on every page of the New Testament ... is labeled ' best ' or ' most reliable.

While ISKCON and Brahma Kumari appear to have a relatively strong following in Russia, the other organizations in the list have a marginal presence in this country.

While some schools do boast a correlative decrease in violence, the overall statistics remain either virtually unchanged or show only a marginal decline.

While the artist had produced his first vehicle in Poland with additional conceptual versions designed when he lived in Canada, it was with his Homeless Vehicle Project of 1987-89, that he redirected “ attention from the work of art as dissent to the work of art as social action: in this case, the discussions and design collaboration with members of the homeless community to develop both a physical object and a conceptual design that would make their participation in the urban economy visible and self-directed .” The Homeless Vehicle Project was both symbolic and useful: the artist ’ s first work to use a collective process to legitimize the problems of a marginal community “ without legitimating the crisis of homelessness .” While the public was cautious, the operators of the vehicles took the project seriously.

While the main appeal of the film seems to have been the art and music, some commentators also appreciated giving the modern viewer a peek at the decimated Lower East Side of 1980, saying " the real star of the film is the gritty milieu of a New York long gone ", and that " New York Beat ... conveys the vast gulf between Manhattan ’ s rich and the forgotten corners of the city, and the marginal existence of the artistic underground who tried to survive in between these worlds.

While the benefits of trusts for tax-deferred and tax exempt entities are clear, trusts are clearly less attractive for other investors facing high marginal rates.

While commentators were generally divided on whether she would hold her seat, as it was the CLP's most marginal, almost no one expected the final result.

While these restorations might be ten times the price of direct restorations, the superiority of an inlay in terms of resistance to occlusal forces, protection against recurrent decay, precision of fabrication, marginal integrity, proper contouring for gingival ( tissue ) health, and ease of cleansing offers an excellent alternative to the direct restoration.

While some other microbreweries now export marginal amounts, approximately 60 % of Kiuchi's sales are overseas and it remains the largest exporter.

While this would normally point to a clear Liberal Party preference, fishermen and permanent residents of the caravan park who favour Labor comprise a fair proportion of those voting at Burns, making it a marginal booth with no clear preference at either federal or state elections.

While Councilman Olson cited the anticipated increase in school costs in answer to a direct question from a taxpayer, the impact upon a school system does not have to be measured only in increased taxes to find alarm in uncontrolled growth.

While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

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 the inclusion of 2600 hardware is required to maintain compatibility with the older system, this drove up production costs and reduced available space on the 7800 ’ s motherboard.

While many developing countries have been eager to join CITES, the annual costs of staffing and maintaining a CITES office and an effective presence at the biennial CoP gatherings remain unaffordable for many signatory nations.

While the Jewish population had received strict orders requiring them to hold their ground everywhere at all costs, the Arab population was more affected by the general conditions of insecurity to which the country was exposed.

While this is true for all insurance, for small, frequent losses the transaction costs may exceed the benefit of volatility reduction that insurance otherwise affords.

While the capital cost of electrifying track is high, electric trains and locomotives are capable of higher performance and lower operational costs than steam or diesel power.

While the cost for pain patients varies based on many factors, leading to few specifics in the literature, one source states that " in some cases monthly costs to patients for oral methadone can be more than 30-fold less than equianalgesic doses of other generic or brand-name opioid analgesics ".

While reducing the cargo reshipment rates for New Zealand industry, this is seen by some as a heavy blow for local competitors, who, specialised in coastal shipping only, are less able to achieve the costs savings of large lines – these can generally operate profitably even without cargo on New Zealand-internal legs of their routes, and are thus able to underbid others.

While largely populated by young people, surfers, and college students, the population is becoming older, more professional, and more affluent due to rising property and rental costs.

While this skim-feeding view became widely accepted, it was not subjected to scientific research until 2007 when a study showed that for such large pterosaurs it was not a viable method because the energy costs would be too high due to excessive drag.

While these charges are not cigarette-specific, tobacco companies are ultimately forced to pass on those costs to their consumers.

While arms control treaties are seen by many peace proponents as a key tool against war, by the participants, they are often seen as simply ways to limit the high costs of the development and building of weapons, and even reduce the costs associated with war itself.

While the innovations of the fast food industry gave Americans more and cheaper dining options, it has come at the price of destroying the environment, economy, and small-town communities of rural America while shielding consumers from the real costs of their convenient meal, both in terms of health and the broader impact of large-scale food production and processing on workers, animals, and land.

While cities certainly have a larger variety of markets and goods than rural areas, infrastructure congestion, monopolisation, high overhead costs, and inconvenience of cross town trips team up to make marketplace competition as often as not worse in cities than in rural areas.

While this technological tendency keeps manufacturing costs lower, the need for long-distance transportation often increases the environmental impact.

While successful predation results in a gain of energy, hunting invariably involves energetic costs as well.

While no concrete reason was ever provided, rising fuel costs and a desire to focus on their core service have been cited as reasons for BA's desire to sell.

While Hibbert is praised for his sense of humor and quality of care, it concludes that Riviera is a better role model for physicians ; Hibbert is a paternalistic and wasteful physician, unlike Riviera, who strives to cut costs and does his best to avoid the coroner.

While both films earned respectable gross incomes, they both lost money due to increased production costs and Astaire left RKO.

While lucrative, the implant has cost Johnny his childhood memories, and he seeks to have the implant removed to regain these ; his handler, Ralfi ( Udo Kier ) assigns him one more job that would cover the costs of the operation, sending Johnny to Beijing.

While it does not bias the OLS coefficient estimates, the standard errors tend to be underestimated ( and the t-scores overestimated ) when the autocorrelations of the errors at low lags are positive.

While unsustainable imbalances may persist for long periods ( cf, Singapore and New Zealand ’ s surpluses and deficits, respectively ), the distortions likely to be caused by large flows of wealth out of one economy and into another tend to become intolerable.

While the X-Men tend to the wounded, Cyclops finally forgives Professor X.

While ecosystem goods have traditionally been recognized as being the basis for things of economic value, ecosystem services tend to be taken for granted.

While k ' stulaami can be born as a random mutation in any t ' skrang line, they tend to congregate into communities filled with their own kind.

While not the exclusive domain of youth, extreme sports tend to have a younger-than-average target demographic.

These " politically neutral " groups tend to avoid global conflicts and view the settlement of inter-human conflict as separate from regard for nature-in direct contradiction to the ecology movement and peace movement which have increasingly close links: While Green Parties and Greenpeace, and groups like the ACTivist Magazine for example, regard ecology, biodiversity and an end to non-human extinction as absolutely basic to peace, the local groups may not, and may see a high degree of global competition and conflict as justifiable if it lets them preserve their own local uniqueness.

While City Streets and other pre-WWII crime melodramas such as Fury ( 1936 ) and You Only Live Once ( 1937 ), both directed by Fritz Lang, are categorized as full-fledged noir in Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward's film noir encyclopedia, other critics tend to describe them as " proto-noir " or in similar terms.

While black-and-white film has no color temperature itself, the silver halide grains themselves tend to be slightly more responsive to blue light, and therefore will have daylight and tungsten speeds-e. g.

While northern fur seal males aggressively select and defend the specific females in their harems, males of southern species of fur seals tend to protect spatial territories, and females are free to choose or switch their mates according to their own preference or social hierarchy.

While broomstick weddings have been associated with gypsies, the sources that make reference to the practice tend to repeat and recycle claims.

While Merlot wines tend to mature faster than Cabernet Sauvignon, some examples can continue to develop in the bottle for decades.

While some studies have historically found extremely low weight estimates for Quetzalcoatlus, as low as for a 10-meter individual, a majority of estimates published since the 2000s have been higher, and the tend toward.

Historian Henry Commager wrote that " Even when definitions of terrorism allow for state terrorism, state actions in this area tend to be seen through the prism of war or national self-defense, not terror .” While states may accuse other states of state-sponsored terrorism when they support insurgencies, individuals who accuse their governments of terrorism are seen as radicals, because actions by legitimate governments are not generally seen as illegitimate.

While the generations born before the 1940s tend to use the older terms of Arabic or Persian origin, the younger generations favor new expressions.

While Sunday services in most congregations tend to be spiritual in nature ( as different from theological ), it is not unusual for a part of a church's membership to attend pagan, Buddhist, or other spiritual study or worship groups as an alternative means of worship.

While Campbell refers to heavy batteries requiring a " load-bearing hull " and " cranky, even unseaworthy vessels ", Desmond points out that electric boaters tend to prefer efficient, low-wash hull forms that are more friendly to river banks.

While cohabitation has been shown to be associated with higher divorce rates, a study indicates that divorce-prone couples tend to first cohabit, and not that cohabitation by itself increases the likelihood of divorce.

While those who have expressive aphasia tend to retain good spoken language comprehension, other types of aphasia can render patients completely unable to understand any language at all, unable to understand any spoken language ( Auditory verbal agnosia ), while still other types preserve language comprehension, but with deficits.

While individuals with expressive aphasia tend to have a good ability to self-monitor their language output ( they " hear what they say " and make corrections ), other types of aphasics can seem entirely unaware of their language deficits.

While switches may learn about topologies at many layers, and forward at one or more layers, they do tend to have common features.

While these measures may not have made Patton popular, they did tend to restore a sense of discipline and unit pride that may have been missing when Fredendall was still in command.

While the " red " parties tend to focus on the adverse effects of capitalism on the working class, the " green " parties tend to focus on the ecological consequences of unrestrained capitalism.