While AA has pamphlets that suggest meeting formats, groups have the autonomy to hold and conduct meetings as they wish " except in matters affecting other groups or A. A. as a whole ".

While attending the Milton Boarding School, Booth met a Gypsy fortune-teller who read his palm and pronounced a grim destiny, telling Booth that he would have a grand but short life, doomed to die young and " meeting a bad end ".

While at the show, they met Quinn again, and, a few days later, set up a meeting with him to obtain a sales order.

While some writers believed there was no appeal from the king's decisions, others believed that a proposal for appeal could be brought before the king by any patrician during a meeting of the Curiate Assembly.

While he was in New York for a meeting of the UN, Army Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Sonthi Boonyaratglin launched the bloodless September 2006 Thailand military coup d ' état supported by anti-Thaksin elements in civil society and among the Democrat Party.

While at Audley Court, the country manor, Lady Audley avoids meeting with George.

While Bulgaria had declared a ' symbolic ' war on the distant United Kingdom and the United States, at that meeting Boris once again refused to get involved in the war against the Soviet Union, giving two major reasons for his unwillingness to send troops to Russia — first, that many ordinary Bulgarians had strong Russophile sentiments ; and second, that the political and military position of Turkey remained unclear.

* While King Fuchai of Wu attends a meeting in Huangchi, in an attempt to gain hegemony over all the other duchies of Zhou Dynasty China, his capital city in the State of Wu is captured in a surprise assault by King Goujian of Yue.

While it maintains a mailing list of 3, 000 persons, it often has difficulty meeting the minyan or quorum for worship on Shabbat and Jewish holidays.

While the ROC continuously ruled Taiwan after the government was directed to Taiwan by the General Order No. 1 ( 1945 ) to receive Japanese surrender, there has never been a meeting of the ROC National Assembly in making a territory change according to the ROC constitution.

While living in Aspen, Bayer had a chance meeting with the eccentric oilman, outdoorsman and ( to those who knew him ) visionary ecologist, Robert O. Anderson.

While there, he spoke to an improvised meeting of Progress workers.

While the words " synod " and " council " usually refer to a transitory meeting, the term " Synod of Bishops " or " Synod of the Bishops ", is also applied to a permanent body established in 1965 as an advisory body of the Pope.

While the funeral of Muhammad was being arranged a group of Muhammad's followers who were natives of Medina, the Ansar ( helpers ), organised a meeting on the outskirts of the city, effectively locking out those companions known as Muhajirs ( The Emigrants ) including Umar.

" While meeting with Stalin and Roosevelt in Tehran in 1943, Churchill stated that Britain was vitally interested in restoring Poland as an independent country.

While the negotiations were strung out by Disney, Earl Holding, a Utah businessman, learned of the situation through a small article in The Wall Street Journal and contacted Janss and arranged for a meeting.

While the Landaff case underwent litigation to resolve the rival claims, Vermont ( then meeting in Norwich ) came to the aid of the college and granted it the township of Wheelock ( northwest of St. Johnsbury ) in 1785.

While the tickets state the purpose is uniform enforcement of the traffic laws, the real purpose is to generate revenue for this cash-poor city, thus meeting the definition of a classic speed trap.

While all of the other states also have such a law, their exact provisions vary ; 41 states require advance notice of meetings, 37 states are required to take and publish minutes of every meeting, and in 31 states actions or decisions are only recognized as official if decided upon during an open meeting.

While Senate meetings could take place either inside or outside of the formal boundary of the city ( the pomerium ), no meeting could take place more than a mile outside of the pomerium.

On that day, during a prayer session with a group of Advent believers, Hiram Edson became convicted that “ light would be given ” and their “ disappointment explained .” Some years later, Edson reported on his experiences following that meeting: " While passing through a large field I was stopped about midway of the field.

While some politicians have argued that the resolution could authorize war under certain circumstances, the representatives in the meeting were clear that this was not the case.

While the church in Norway initially had refused to recognise Haakon as King of Norway, it had largely turned to support his claim to the throne by the 1223 meeting, although later disagreements occurred.

While on sabbatical from the University of Chicago in 1934, Morris traveled abroad, visiting Europe and meeting working philosophers such as Bertrand Russell and members of the Vienna Circle like Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Moritz Schlick.

While patrolling the waters of the Messina strait between Italy and Sicily with the first vessels, Scipio Asina received the information that Lipara, in the Lipari Islands, was about to change to the Roman side.

While this might suggest that the Earth is at the center of the Universe, the Copernican principle requires us to interpret it as evidence for the evolution of the Universe with time: this distant light has taken most of the age of the Universe to reach and shows us the Universe when it was young.

While some genetically modified plants are developed by the introduction of a gene originating from distant, sexually incompatible species into the host genome, cisgenic plants contain genes that have been isolated either directly from the host species or from sexually compatible species.

While Shaitan ( شيطان, from the root ) is an adjective ( meaning " astray " or " distant ", sometimes translated as " devil ") that can be applied to both man (" al-ins ", الإنس ) and Jinn, Iblis () is the personal name of the Devil who is mentioned in the Qur ' anic account of Genesis.

While the Germanic peoples were slowly converted to Christianity by varying means, many elements of the pre-Christian culture and indigenous beliefs remained firmly in place after the conversion process, particularly in the more rural and distant regions.

While they wait, Millicent, now coming to, insists the strange events are caused by an evil double from a parallel world-a nearby, yet distant alternate plane of existence that comes into convergence with this world by powerful forces, or unnatural, unknown events.

: While the vext billows, in their distant roar,

While tourists may visit Bonampak, it is a rather difficult and distant journey from anywhere else, and the murals are much less visible than in the photographs from the 1940s.

While some of these may be distant background objects, the total number of galaxies in the cluster is quite large.

While not sensitive enough to detect distant earthquakes, this instrument could indicate the direction of the pressure waves and thus help find the epicenter of a local earthquake – such instruments were useful in the analysis of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

While not providing time information or information on distant earthquakes these did give accurate initial shock directions and proved useful in a late 20th century analysis of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

While the relationship between Hussein and Mahathir was distant, Ghazali and Razaleigh became Hussein's closest advisers, often bypassing the more senior Mahathir when accessing Hussein.

While not rendering an aircraft " invisible " as is popularly conceived, stealth makes an aircraft much more difficult to discern among the sky, clouds, or distant aircraft, conferring a significant tactical advantage.

: While others hailed in distant skies

In S the simultaneous positions of the left side of A and the right side of C are more distant than those of D and F. While in S ' the simultaneous positions of the left side of D and the right side of F are more distant than those of A and C.

While this thermal emission is very weak, observations at these frequencies are important for characterizing the cold 10-20K dust in the interstellar medium in the Milky Way galaxy, and in distant starburst galaxies.

While Menard writes of the distant past (" the land of Carmen during the century of Lepanto and Lope ”), in Cervantes “ there are neither bands of Gypsies, conquistadors ... nor autos de fé ".

While the Tinariwen style is possibly a distant relative of blues music, via West African music, members of Tinariwen claim to have never heard actual American blues music until they began to travel internationally in 2001.

While still serving as a Justice of the Peace, Green ran for mayor of Houston in 1981, finishing a distant fifth in the primary.

While pay television systems existed as early as the late 1940s, until the early 1970s cable television only brought distant over-the-air TV to rural areas without local stations.

While this adaptive duplex scheme was able to send large files quickly, for users accustomed to having the distant computer echo characters, the delay associated with having the DSPs take turns using the bandwidth tended make interactive typing difficult, as there could be as much as a second and a half delay for a single character echo.

While still part of the area code, the term does not refer to areas more distant from Toronto, such as Hamilton and the Niagara Region.

While Penrose diagrams share the same basic coordinate vector system of other space-time diagrams for local asymptotically flat spacetime, it introduces a system of representing distant spacetime by shrinking or " crunching " distances that are further away.