While evolutionarily speaking, as opposed to culturally, humans are omnivores, religion and social constructs such as morality, activism, or environmentalism will often affect which foods they will consume.

While technologically and culturally the city dwellers were more advanced, they could do little militarily to defend against the mounted hordes of the steppe.

While early Eurocentric Westerns frequently portray the " Injuns " as dishonorable villains, the later and more culturally neutral Westerns ( notably those directed by John Ford ) gave native Americans a more sympathetic treatment.

While it is perhaps not quite a match for Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's genre-defining 1941 novel Röde Orm ( later expanded and better known as The Long Ships ), Bengtsson had the advantage of being culturally closer to his sources.

Addresses in this Hammond neighborhood show “ Whiting, Indiana .” While not legally a part of the City of Whiting, locally the area has long been informally considered to be a culturally integrated part of Whiting.

Addresses in this Hammond neighborhood show “ Whiting, Indiana .” While not legally a part of the City of Whiting, locally the area has long been informally considered to be a culturally integrated part of Whiting.

While the goal of politeness is to make all of the parties relaxed and comfortable with one another, these culturally defined standards at times may be manipulated to inflict shame on a designated party.

While praised by critics, many affiliates, especially those in politically and culturally conservative markets, objected to the perceived liberal slant of the programming.

While over the centuries Central Asia became Turkicized, culturally the Turks came close to being Persianized or, in certain respects, Arabicized.

While this does not compare to U. S. cities like San Francisco or New York, early in the 20th century Mexicali was numerically and culturally more Chinese than Mexican.

While situated in South America, Palombia is culturally close to Central America: tortillas and tamales are typical foods, and tequila the most common drink, above all of the Coyotl brand.

While the intimate associations between the two groups were manifested in the cross references of the Mongols as " Mengwu Shiwei " ( or " Mongol Xianbei ") from the first century and the Monguor as " Chaghan ( or White ) Monguor " in the thirteenth century, ethnically and culturally they remained different.

While closely related to the three Maritime provinces, Newfoundland and Labrador is culturally and politically separate.

While the Dutch often see unification just as growth of the Dutch territory, the Flemish sometimes fear to be culturally annexed into the larger and more populous Netherlands.

While historically, culturally, and ethnically a Tibetan area, Amdo has been administered by a series of local rulers since the mid-18th century and the Dalai Lamas have not governed the area directly since that time.

While agriculture remains the backbone of the area's economy, pottery is important culturally.

While Southside has long been reputed for its isolated, rural, and culturally conservative character, in recent years the aforementioned counties have become increasingly linked to the Richmond metro area.

While most of these negative qualities usually have real documented precedents in the activities of a very small minority of new religious groups, mass culture often extends them to any religious group viewed as culturally deviant, however peaceful or law abiding it may be.

While the South Florida metropolitan area mostly voted for Kerry, the other parts of the state mainly supported Bush, being culturally closer to the rest of the southern United States than to Miami, home to large Hispanic and Jewish populations, as well as retirees and transplants from the largely liberal Northeastern United States.

While some of these regions are seen purely as culturally distinct, others have historically been parts of different countries and have been used to divide the country for administrative and other purposes.

While according official recognition to the languages of different ethno-linguistic communities in Singapore, it sought to promote English as a neutral common language to unite a culturally diverse nation of immigrants.

While the Australian Muslim community is defined largely by religious belonging, the Muslim community is fragmented further by being the most racially, ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse religious grouping in Australia, with members from every ethnic and racial background, including Anglo-Celtic Australian Muslims.

While the Methodist church in particular has always argued that homosexuality offends it on a cultural level, and it is not culturally appropriate for Fiji, the High Court disagreed with those arguments.

While Mills ' vision of what Odinism involves is still being re-explored and re-evaluated by modern Odinists, nevertheless Mills prefigures many of the concerns of Germanic pagans today-the morally and culturally corrosive effects of Judeo-Christianity, the importance of Eugenics and breeding programmes, the linking of individual with national vitality, the fall from grace of the White Race by being untrue to the spirit of their forefathers, valourisation of heroism, the intrinsic healthiness of freedom of heterosexual expression and so on.

While a number of private railroads exist and provide mostly commuter-type services, the national railway, Ferrovie dello Stato, also provides sophisticated high-speed rail service that joins the major cities of Italy from Naples through northern cities such as Milan and Turin.

While some embedded systems are very sophisticated, many have minimal requirements for memory and program length, with no operating system, and low software complexity.

While initially aimed at natural language processing, the language has since then stretched far into other areas like theorem proving, expert systems, games, automated answering systems, ontologies and sophisticated control systems.

While DiffServ is used in many sophisticated enterprise networks, it has not been widely deployed in the Internet.

While the film may have been a little sophisticated for young audiences at the time, it got rave reviews from critics and adults in general.

While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude identified them as one of the instigators of the UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from New Wave, art rock and gothic rock through to the sophisticated pop of some of their 1980s output.

While even folkloric vampires of the Balkans and Eastern Europe had a wide range of appearance ranging from nearly human to bloated rotting corpses, it was interpretation of the vampire by the Christian Church and the success of vampire literature, namely John Polidori's 1819 novella The Vampyre that established the archetype of charismatic and sophisticated vampire ; it is arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century, inspiring such works as Varney the Vampire and eventually Dracula.

While naïve versions of group selectionism have been disproved, more sophisticated formulations make accurate predictions in some cases while positing selection at higher levels.

While the assembly line remains the most famous example of a workflow from this era, the early thinking around work was far more sophisticated than is commonly understood.

While his sophisticated melodies and orchestrations were embraced by mainstream audiences, his peers were embracing counter-culture sounds.

While the trait theory of leadership has certainly regained popularity, its reemergence has not been accompanied by a corresponding increase in sophisticated conceptual frameworks.

While initially derided for poor performance in comparison to the more sophisticated graphics devices used in computers like the Atari 400, framebuffers eventually became the standard for all personal computers.

While quality control and quality assurance in such locations may be variable, sophisticated technology ( such as multi-stage particle filtration, UV irradiation, ozonation, and membrane filtration ) is applied with increasing frequency.

While it is not a particularly sophisticated missile when compared to newer generations of Anti-Ship missiles such as the French Exocet, the Silkworm's unusually large warhead ensures that a single hit will inflict very serious damage.

While the computer science community initially perceived the context as a matter of user location, as Dey discuss, in the last few years this notion has been considered not simply as a state, but part of a process in which users are involved ; thus, sophisticated and general context models have been proposed ( see survey ), to support context-aware applications which use them to ( a ) adapt interfaces, ( b ) tailor the set of application-relevant data, ( c ) increase the precision of information retrieval, ( d ) discover services, ( e ) make the user interaction implicit, or ( f ) build smart environments.

While officials were able to discover the use of the laptop, it is reported they were unable to decrypt many of the files due to sophisticated encryption techniques.

While not a sophisticated actor or a flawless musician, his huge voice and volcanic renditions of the most forceful tenor roles in the Italian and French repertoires had a tremendous impact on audiences, enabling him to build a worldwide reputation as an elite performer and charge promoters on both sides of the Atlantic top-tier fees for his services.

While scoring is much more sophisticated with IRT, for most tests, the ( linear ) correlation between the theta estimate and a traditional score is very high ; often it is. 95 or more.

While 1D-MITM can be efficient, a more sophisticated attack has been developed: Multi Dimensional-Meet In The Middle attack, also abbreviated MD-MITM.

While initially they were little more than a cheap plastic trinket such as a Frisbee or ball, they have gradually been replaced with increasingly sophisticated toys, many of which are a tie-in to some existing toy line, TV show, or contemporary motion picture.

While still debatable, well documented empirical evidence now exists, and the development of sophisticated theories incorporating multilocus genetics has followed.

While later games had sophisticated multi-colour displays, early games achieved colour effects using transparent filters to change the colour of the ( usually light blue ) light emitted by the phosphors.

While Secretary of Defense, he opposed amnesty for draft resisters, and pressed for development of more sophisticated nuclear weapon systems.

While Cernan and Schmitt landed and worked on the Moon in the Taurus-Littrow Valley, Evans remained in lunar orbit on board the command module America, completing assigned work tasks which required visual geological observations, hand-held photography of specific targets, and the control of cameras and other highly sophisticated scientific equipment carried in the service module's SIM bay.