While slashing attacks were still moderately effective against infantry wearing half-plate armor, cutting and slicing attacks against an opponent wearing plate armour were almost entirely ineffective in providing any sort of slashing wound as the sword simply could not cut through the steel, although a combatant could aim for the chinks in a suit of armour, sometimes to great effect.

While photomultipliers are extraordinarily sensitive and moderately efficient, research was still underway to create a photon-counting light detection device that is much more than 99 % efficient.

While the United States Notes had been used as a form of debt issuance during the Civil War, afterwards they were used as a way of moderately influencing the money supply by the federal government-such as through the actions of Boutwell and Richardson.

While moderately successful, this was the first Bad Religion album to reach any Billboard charts and two videos for the album, " American Jesus " and " Struck a Nerve ", were made.

While they are moderately uncommon elsewhere, they congregate in substantial numbers where conditions are suitable.

While the energy level is moderately low, electrical power at such a short duration is 24 million watts.

While moderately successful in the arcades, the game became and remained widely popular and remembered when it was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989.

While he was a moderately prolific composer, and his motets are polished and display a mastery of canonic counterpoint, his principal claim to fame was his work as a theorist.

While a number of scientific studies have now found shallow water fish caught-and-released on fly and lure have extremely high survival rates ( 95 – 97 %) and moderately high survival rates on bait ( 70 – 90 %, depending on species, bait, hook size, etc.

While the reaction to a strong negative stimulus is to avoid, a moderately negative stimulus instead causes curiosity and further examination.

While The Screaming Jets remained only moderately successful overseas, in Australia they became one of the top-drawing live bands of the 1990s, their singles often charted and they achieved the rare distinction of being embraced by both commercial and indie-music focused radio.

While Rutherford's solo albums had been moderately successful, he had never managed a Top 40 hit ( except in Canada, where " Maxine " from Acting Very Strange sneaked in at # 39 ); Mike + the Mechanics scored three of them, including two US Top 10s, " Silent Running ( On Dangerous Ground )" and " All I Need is a Miracle ".

While a moderately successful product, CallAir did not survive its founder's sale of the company in 1959, and the company foundered by the end of the year.

While only moderately close relatives to the silkworm ( Bombyx mori ) among the Lepidoptera, the cocoons of most larger saturniids can be gathered and used to make silk fabric.

While moderately successful, this was the first Bad Religion album to reach any Billboard charts and two videos for the album, " American Jesus " and " Struck a Nerve ", were made.

While making moderately successful records written largely by Berry, such as Paradise ( Temptations song ) and I Want a Love I Can See, and getting real choreography from Chollie Atkins, the group start to become known as " The Hitless Temptations " as they can't seem to make a real hit in the first three years under the Motown label.

While in office, Canalejas ( with the support of his sovereign, Alfonso XIII ) introduced several electoral reforms that aimed to win working-class support for moderately conservative policies ; to curb the power of independent political bosses, quite common at the time, especially in rural areas ; to weaken excesses of Catholic educational clericalism without threatening the Catholic Church as such ; and to turn Spain into a true democracy.

While it was moderately successful in sales for a two seater, it not only lacked performance but its styling still described as " a sound beating with the ugly stick ... unbelievably awkward, oddly proportioned lines and a curious headlight treatment ".

" While reviewing the eleventh season of The Simpsons, DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson commented on " The Mansion Family ", writing that " Although The Simpsons started out as moderately reality based, pretty much any grounding was gone by point this episode aired.

While adjacent areas have gently undulating and moderately rolling areas, and the remaining areas constitutes steeply undulating and rolling lands.

While there is no clear consensus as to how many Armenians lost their lives during the Armenian genocide and what followed, there seems to be a consensus among Western scholars with the exception of few dissident and Turkish national historians, as to when covering all the period between 1914 to 1923, over a million Armenian might have perished, and the tendency seem recently to be, either presenting 1. 2 million as figure or even 1. 5 million, while more moderately, " over a million " is presented, as the Turkish historian Fikret Adanir provides as estimation, but excludes what followed 1917.

While most moderately priced rimfire pistols are suitable for bullseye competition ( the Ruger MK II or Ruger MK III being a common starting gun ) the Smith & Wesson Model 41 and the Hämmerli 208 dominate the top levels of rimfire competition.

While ratings had gone down, the station still was moderately successful.

While the film was only moderately successful, it won the Filmfare Best Movie Award.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

While commercially successful, the production received almost universal criticism.

While people may gain celebrity status as a result of a successful career in a particular field ( primarily in the areas pertaining towards sports and entertainment ), in other cases, people become celebrities due to media attention for their extravagant lifestyle or wealth ( as in the case of a socialite ); for their connection to a famous person ( as in the case of a relative of a famous person ); or even for their misdeeds ( as in the case of a well-known criminal ).

While Titus received a court education in the company of Britannicus, Vespasian pursued a successful political and military career.

While not as successful as their first record, it did produce some fan favorites with the songs " Blockhead " and " The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize ", as well as a cover of the Johnny Rivers hit " Secret Agent Man ".

While this album was also successful, it was not quite as popular as her previous album in the mainstream.

While some might argue that, by this logic, humans should also express hairy shoulders given that these body parts would putatively be exposed to similar conditions, the protection of the head, the seat of the brain that enabled humanity to become one of the most successful species on the planet ( and which also is very vulnerable at birth ), was arguably a more urgent issue ( axillary hair in the underarms and groin were also retained as signs of sexual maturity ).

While attempts to implement a similar system had been made before and other networks have since developed registration services of their own, at the time DALnet's successful decision to allow and enforce nickname and channel registration was considered to be unique and even controversial, as it went against established practice.

While both Martin and Lewis went on to successful solo careers for years neither would comment on the split nor consider a reunion.

While compared unfavorably to White Heat by critics, it was fairly successful at the box office, with $ 500, 000 going straight to Cagney Productions ' bankers to pay off their losses.

While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, due to his successful economic and diplomatic policies, Tito was " seen by most as a benevolent dictator ," and was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad.

While bodyline was successful as a tactic ( England regained the Ashes with a 4 – 1 margin ), Australian crowds regarded it as vicious and unsporting.

While the Lusitani celebrated this new alliance, he massacred them, selling the survivors as slaves ; this caused a new rebellion led by Viriathus, who was soon killed by traitors paid by the Romans in 139 BC, after having led a successful guerrilla campaign against Rome and their local allies.

While the Brewers ' new park was a hit, the club itself was not successful playing in it, as the Brewers finished the season even worse than their previous seasons, going 68 – 94 in their first season at Miller Park.

While there were flaws in the R3000's multiprocessor support, it still managed to be a part of several successful multiprocessor designs.

While kings had to be successful war leaders to maintain their authority, kingship became rather less personalised and more institutionalised during this time.

While successful, the missions returned much poorer images than the Voyager's five years later.

While these theories were successful in explaining many experimental results, they had certain unsatisfactory qualities stemming from their neglect of the relativistic creation and annihilation of particles.

While its effect in treating malaria ( and hence malaria-induced shivering ) was unrelated to its effect in controlling shivering from rigors, it was still a successful medicine for malaria.

While the Metropolitans were initially the more successful club, Day and Mutrie began moving star players to the Gothams and the team won its first National League pennant in 1888, as well as a victory over the St. Louis Browns in an early incarnation of the World Series.

Sandra Annette Bullock (; born July 26, 1964 ) is an American and Academy Award winning actress and producer who rose to fame in the 1990s after roles in successful films such as Demolition Man, Speed, The Net, Hope Floats, A Time to Kill, and While You Were Sleeping.

While Burroughs Wellcome & Co. were not the first to derive the technology to make compressed tablets, they were the most successful at marketing them, hence the popularity of the term ' tabloid ' in popular culture.

While the search to find such a substance was not successful, it did lead to discovery of a new substance-Phosphorus.

While Valentinian had enjoyed a successful military career prior to his appointment as emperor, Valens apparently had not.