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 a wind wave never travels at more than 60 miles per hour, the velocity of a tsunami in the open sea must be reckoned in hundreds of miles per hour.

While this does bear some similarity with the classic posture of cowboys firing their twin revolvers from the hip, in games this posture is almost never reflected, with almost all game characters firing twin guns at shoulder level, straight-armed.

While government authorities prepared lists of aliens for deportation, many aliens fled the country during the debate over the Alien and Sedition Acts, and Adams never signed a deportation order.

While Granny frequently mentioned that she was from Tennessee, the series never specified the state from which the Clampetts moved to California.

While modern Breviaries are nearly always printed in four volumes, one for each season of the year, the editions of the Sarum never exceeded two parts.

While he had never been adopted by Augustus or his successors, he was the grandson of Octavia, and so felt he had the right.

While Cernunnos was never assimilated, scholars have sometimes compared him functionally to Greek and Roman divine figures such as Mercury, Actaeon, specialized forms of Jupiter, and Dis Pater, the latter of whom Julius Caesar said was considered the ancestor of the Gauls.

While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ( the highest position in Communist China ), he nonetheless served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992.

While motions of censure are periodically proposed by the opposition following government actions that it deems highly inappropriate, they are purely rhetorical ; party discipline ensures that, throughout a parliamentary term, the government is never overthrown by the assembly.

Prof. Spiegelberg writes, " While outward religious practice never entered his life any more than it did that of most academic scholars of the time, his mind remained open for the religious phenomenon as for any other genuine experience.

While Fine Gael was responsible for the initial nomination of the uncontested, first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the office of President.

While acknowledging that his conduct had been lax, he countered that he had never allowed gifts to influence his judgement and, indeed, he had on occasion given a verdict against those who had paid him.

While the other Italian states gradually recognized Sforza as the legitimate Duke of Milan, he was never able to obtain official investiture from the Holy Roman Emperor.

While much of the attempt at gender equity in mainstream Christianity ( Judaism never recognized any gender for God ) is aimed at reinterpreting scripture and degenderizing language used to name and describe the divine ( Ruether, 1984 ; Plaskow, 1991 ), there are a growing number of people who identify as Christians or Jews who are trying to integrate goddess imagery into their religions ( Kien, 2000 ; Kidd 1996 ," Goddess Christians Yahoogroup ").

While Lovecraft never considered his pantheon of alien gods more than a mere plot device, Derleth created an entire cosmology, complete with a war between the good Elder Gods and the evil Outer Gods, such as Cthulhu and his ilk ).

While Hadrian may have been the obvious choice as successor, he had never been adopted as Trajan's heir.

While there is evidence of such incidents, they are quite rare and have never resulted in serious injury.

While the above classical hexameter has never enjoyed much popularity in English, where the standard metre is iambic pentameter, English poems have frequently been written in iambic hexameter.

While these theories were espoused by Charles Darwin and many of his students, their application as applied in Social Darwinism and General Evolution characterized in the theories of Spencer and White, historicism was neither anti-selection, nor anti-evolution, as Darwin never attempted nor offered an explanation for cultural evolution.

On 27 February 1914, two days after his death, the Daily Graphic recalled Tenniel: " He had an influence on the political feeling of this time which is hardly measurable … While Tenniel was drawing them ( his subjects ), we always looked to the Punch cartoon to crystallize the national and international situation, and the popular feeling about it — and never looked in vain.

While it never baldly advocates the case for broader societal acceptance of homosexuality or for the abandonment of elements of the Jewish religious tradition, those causes are subtly evident in the stark, simplistic picture the film presents of sincere, conflicted and victimized men and women confronted by a largely stern and stubborn cadre of rabbis.

While Zuse never became a member of the Nazi Party, he is not known to have expressed any doubts or qualms about working for the Nazi war effort.

While his father placed the Christmas tree in the front parlor behind closed drapes, Frank would decorate the tree and talk to them from behind the drapes, although they never could manage to see him.

While the Scandinavian branch emphasizes pantheist spirituality rooted in medieval and contemporary Scandinavian folklore, the American branch postulates a " native religion of the peoples of Northern Europe " reaching back into the paleolithic.

While George Mason University is young compared to established research universities in Virginia, it has grown rapidly, reaching an enrollment of 30, 714 students in 2008.

While the ' 80s saw neo-prog keeping a glimmer alive in the U. K. and U. S., symphonic prog was reaching other countries around the world.

While both formats need fast-forwarding to find certain scenes, rewinding to beginning upon reaching the end is not required in VCD.

While Tula does have the urban complexity expected of an imperial capital its influence and dominance was not very far reaching.

While not reaching the commercial heights of previous albums, it managed at least to reach both the British and American Top 20.

While Smith wrote the single from as a throwaway, " stupid " pop song to the press, it became a minor hit in the UK, reaching number 44 on the singles chart.

While reaching a newer, more commercial audience, the band upset many longtime fans, accusing them of " selling out ".

While the air has already been dried by orographic lift before reaching the Great Basin as well as by subsidence from the upper atmosphere, the relative humidity of the air is further decreased as it descends from the high desert toward the coast, often falling below 10 percent.

While Glass Harp could be very at home with the progressive rock bands of the era, they were in fact one of the pioneers of what would later be known as the jam rock genre, with songs many times reaching over 30 minutes in length with extended solo passages and group improvisation.

While Flat Rock is a rapidly growing community today, even with its growth, it remains a unique " small town " with many of its residents having roots reaching back to the 1800s.

While most mineral water resorts fell out of favor as medical science began to question the healing properties of mineral springs, Red Boiling Springs persisted, reaching its peak in the 1920s and 1930s.

While France was less concerned than other countries with nationalism, it still had a well-established tradition of narrative and illustrative music reaching back to Berlioz and Félicien David.

While the album itself failed to become a success, the song " When Love Cries " continued her success on the R & B charts, reaching 18.

While on tour with Richard, pop singer Georgia Gibbs recorded her version of James ' song, which was released under the title " The Wallflower ", and became a crossover hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100, which angered James.

While in theory every STV election should see the right number of candidates elected through reaching the quota, in practice many voters may only vote for a small proportion of the candidates on the ballot paper, such as only those candidates from one party, or even only one candidate.

While the metropolitan area of Toulouse at the center of the region is a densely populated area, in some places reaching 3, 500 inhabitants per km² ( 9, 000 inhabitants per sq.

While tacit knowledge appears to be simple, it has far reaching consequences and is not widely understood.

While fraudsters in the past relied on cold calls, the Internet now offers a cheaper and easier way of reaching large numbers of potential investors.

While wintering during the southern summer, it can be found at sea, reaching the southern edge of the Antarctic ice.

While working through her sorrow, she helped ease the pain of the many servicemen who returned so war-damaged that they were incapable of ever reaching normalcy.

While at the University of Minnesota, he was a member of the varsity wrestling team, reaching the Big Ten semifinals ; and helped introduce the sport to Minnesota high schools by putting on exhibition matches around the state.

While Berry Gordy, Jr. apologized to Reeves for the length of time in reaching the agreement, the terms of the settlement were not made public.

While heroin and common alcohol may appear similarly dangerous based on their safety ratio ( 6 vs 10 ), an inexperienced drinker will most likely vomit and fall asleep long before reaching life-threatening amounts of alcohol in their system.