While still nominally the sovereign, the Mughal Indian emperor became more and more of a puppet ruler, and anarchy spread until the company stepped into the

While Antony cemented his hold in the East and reformed the provincial administration ( like Sulla's provincial reforms, Caesar's had been quietly ignored after his death ), Octavian tightened his grip on the West and nominally oversaw a campaign against the pirate commander Sextus Pompeius ( the campaign was actually commanded by Octavian's lieutenant, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa ), which culminated in victory in 36 BC.

While briefly imprisoned in Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive 1905 Russian Revolution, Gorky wrote the play Children of the Sun, nominally set during an 1862 cholera epidemic, but universally understood to relate to present-day events.

While Trujillo was nominally a Roman Catholic, his devotion was limited to a perfunctory role in public affairs ; he placed faith in local folk religion.

While the term nominally includes those who do not necessarily consider themselves to be gamers ( i. e., casual gamers ), it is commonly used to identify those who spend much of their leisure time playing or learning about games.

While the treaty nominally reduced British involvement in Iraq's internal affairs, this was only to the extent that Iraq's behavior did not conflict with British economic or military interests.

While membership was nominally voluntary, those who didn't join lost access to officially sponsored holidays and found it very difficult to pursue higher education.

While Wert endured the humiliating situation in Mantua through the late 1560s, he kept his job: he was to remain at least nominally maestro di cappella in Mantua until 1592.

While the district was nominally retained as a separate administrative division, all its subdivisions were administratively subordinated to the town's Council of Deputies.

While it was nominally still a coalition, the " non-Communists " in the cabinet were mostly fellow travelers.

While the Brigantes were nominally an independent kingdom, Tacitus says Cartimandua and Venutius were loyal to Rome and " defended by Roman power ".

While Paulie Walnuts nominally held the title of Underboss, Bacala attended high-level meetings and sit-downs alongside Tony and Silvio, identifying him as a high-ranking capo.

While the AFL nominally did not exclude black workers, many of its affiliates did.

While it is nominally under the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus, it is effectively administered by the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ( UNFICYP ).

While the main studio concept nominally remains in US broadcast regulations, and certain administrative requirements ( such as the local employment of a manager and the equivalent of at least one other full-time staff member, as well as the maintenance of a public inspection file ) are still applied, removal of the requirement that stations originate local content greatly weakens the significance of maintaining a local main studio.

While pulse oximeters are a commonly used medical device the PPG derived from them is rarely displayed, and is nominally only processed to determine heart rate.

While states ' rights were nominally the primary issue, the resulting campaign quickly became a contest of personalities.

While Foster nominally shared power with Eugene Dennis and John Williamson, he had the most prestige of the three.

While nominally a cost-reduced R-390 ( savings of about $ 250 each ), its design compromises were minimal, and it added mechanical filters for improved selectivity.

While Joseph nominally led the French Army, his military adviser Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan actually exercised command over their 37, 700 infantry and artillerymen, 8, 400 cavalry and about 80 cannon.

While nominally an agricultural village, many of the inhabitants work in Cambridge, Ely or London.

" While Rawat's brother Satpal was nominally in charge of the festival, Davis was the " General Coordinator " and handled the details.

While dressed and referred to nominally as ' maids ', there are discrete albeit sometimes unusual departments for most of the employees ( including Defence, Science, Catering, etc .).

While by no means a villain in a conventional sense of the word, Pozzo is sometimes considered ( nominally ) the " antagonist " of Waiting for Godot.

While western Cairo is dominated by wide boulevards, open spaces, and modern architecture of European influence, the eastern half, having grown haphazardly over the centuries, is dominated by small lanes, crowded tenements, and Islamic architecture.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

While the concept of heaven ( malkuth hashamaim מלכות השמים, the Kingdom of Heaven ) is well-defined within the Christian and Islamic religions, the Jewish concept of the afterlife, sometimes known as olam haba, the World-to-come, is not so precise.

" While he also praised the group for " steadfast Islamic stance.

While Sunni Islam was the state religion, there was not widespread pressure to convert ; indeed, Jahangir specifically warned his nobles that they " should not force Islam on anyone .” In the first century of Islamic expansion this attitude was taken partially because of concerns that an absence of non-Muslims would deprive the state of a valuable source of revenue.

While part of the larger Islamic Empire, Morocco was initially organized as a subsidiary province of Ifriqiya, with the local governors appointed by the Arab governor in Kairouan.

While the English term " saint " originated in Christianity, the term is now applied in other world religions, with the Jewish Tzadik, the Islamic wali, the Hindu rishi or guru, and the Buddhist arahat or boddhisatva also referred to as saints.

While in power, it enforced its strict interpretation of Sharia law, and leading Muslims have been highly critical of the Taliban's interpretations of Islamic law.

While creating Muhammad, Messenger of God, he consulted Islamic clerics and tried to be respectful toward Islam and its views on portraying Prophet Muhammad.

While in many cases a story is cut off with the hero in danger of losing his life or another kind of deep trouble, in some parts of the full text Scheherazade stops her narration in the middle of an exposition of abstract philosophical principles or complex points of Islamic philosophy, and in one case during a detailed description of human anatomy according to Galen — and in all these cases turns out to be justified in her belief that the king's curiosity about the sequel would buy her another day of life.

While the Seljuqs and Crusaders both employed assassination as a military means of disposing of factional enemies, during the Alamut period almost any murder of political significance in the Islamic lands was attributed to the Ismailis.

While some propose that encounters with the Islamic shamshir inspired its creation, these " scimitars " of Persia were not developed until long after the falchion.

While Bahrain's liberals have sought to use the opening of civil society to campaign against the domination of Islamic parties in politics, with a campaign to protect personal freedoms, We Have A Right, led by the civic group, Al Muntada.

While earlier Greek proofs were largely geometric demonstrations, the development of arithmetic and algebra by Islamic mathematicians allowed more general proofs that no longer depended on geometry.

While the pinnacles may seem to be an aesthetic feature of the towers to enhance their presence and height, they also play function to aircraft warning lights and are an essential element to the overall Islamic minaret design that the towers embody.

While the siege was seen as a public relations disaster for Maskhadov, his more radical Islamic field commanders have correspondingly benefited.

While present in the Quran, sadaqah is much less formally established than the sometimes similar practice of zakat, and in many cultures takes a form similar to the green envelope closer to gift-giving and generosity among friends than charity in the strict sense: no attempt is made to give more to guests ' in need ', nor is it ( as Islamic charity is conventionally seen as ) a religious obligation.

While traditional religious supremacism played a role in the Islamic view of Jews, the same attitude applied to Christians and other non-Muslims.

While the ulama are well versed in legal fiqh ( jurisprudence ) being Islamic lawyers, some of them also go on to specialize in other fields, such as hadith or tafseer.

While forcefully speaking out against Islamic anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli rhetoric, the American Jewish Committee ( AJC ) has worked since 1985 to enhance relations between Jews and Muslims.

While he had very little influence in the Islamic world, which was then dominated by Avicennian philosophy and Ash ' ari theology, Averroism became very influential in medieval Europe, especially among the Scholastics.

While philosophy did indeed decline in the western Islamic world ( Al-Andalus and the Maghreb ), recent research has shown that philosophy continued long after in the eastern Islamic world ( Persia and India ), where the Avicennian, Illuminationist and Sufi schools predominated, until Islamic philosophy reached its zenith with Mulla Sadra's existentialist school of transcendent theosophy in the 17th century.

While the Seljuqs and Crusaders both employed assassination as a military means of disposing of factional enemies, during the Alamut period almost any murder of political significance in the Islamic lands was attributed to the Ismailis.