While photographs and portraits portray Stalin as physically massive and majestic ( he had several painters shot who did not depict him " right "), he was only five feet four inches tall ( 160 cm ).

While Molotov cocktails may be a psychologically effective method of disabling armoured fighting vehicles by forcing the crew out or damaging external components, most modern tanks cannot be physically destroyed or rendered completely inoperable by Molotov cocktails ; only " disabled ".

While neurology is not physically demanding work, there can be a great deal of stress involved.

While it is occasionally used recreationally for its hallucinogenic properties, the experiences are often extremely mentally and physically unpleasant, and frequently physically dangerous, so repeated use is rare.

While Elizabeth declined physically with age, her running of the country continued to benefit her people.

While some open units are physically unlocked, other open units still use locked entrances and exits depending on the type of patients admitted.

While not physically able to see their partner, users derive stimulation from descriptive text.

While appearing humorous and kind-hearted in public, by all accounts Van Vliet was a severe taskmaster who abused his musicians verbally and sometimes physically.

While they cannot physically interfere with one another to detrimental effect, they can help each other, provided they stay above four miles per hour.

" While this is not essential to the plot of the play, the line figuratively serves to suggest Death has become physically present in Thebes.

While important mathematically, systems that process discrete time signals are difficult to physically realize.

While unusual, it is not unheard of for a sidekick to be more attractive, charismatic, or physically capable than the supposed hero.

While physically in Louisiana, Long customarily stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, where he was fond of the Sazerac Bar ( see Peychaud's Bitters ).

While his demeanor is typically mild and polite, Giles is not above using raw violence to solve a problem, such as physically threatening Principal Snyder into readmitting Buffy to school after her expulsion (" Dead Man's Party "), pummeling Angelus senseless with a flaming baseball bat and burning down his hideout upon discovering that he had killed Jenny Calendar (" Passion "), manhandling Spike while ordering him to get over his feelings for Buffy (" I Was Made to Love You "), forcing Glory's minion Slook to talk by inflicting a painful-sounding injury offscreen (" Tough Love "), severely beating up Ethan Rayne for information (" Halloween "), and suffocating a critically injured Ben with his bare hands to keep Glory from awakening in his body.

While physically the smallest of the Weyrs, Ista makes up for it by locating dragons in weyr caverns on the * outer face * of the caldera.

While the ultimate goal of transplanting is transfer of the brain to a new body optimized for it by genetics, proteomics, and / or other medical procedures, in uploading the brain itself moves nowhere and may even be physically destroyed or discarded ; the goal is rather to duplicate the information patterns contained within the brain.

While the fighting occurs on the beachhead, Om attempts to physically intervene, but Brutha demands he does not interfere with the actions of humans.

While the MegArray connector is physically similar to the Apple Power Mac G4 CPU daughtercard connector, it is not electrically compatible.

While working as an adviser to the United States military during World War I, he devised a program to help servicemen become more physically fit.

While Xenophanes is rejecting Homeric theology, he is not questioning the presence of a divine entity, rather his philosophy is a critique on Ancient Greek writers and their conception of divinity There is also the concept of God being whole with the universe, essentially controlling it, while at the same time being physically unconnected.

While in Cobourg, he was not a devoted student: he skipped many classes, and was judged by his classmates to be " intellectually, morally, physically and erratically preeminent in virtue and otherwise, especially otherwise ".

While Kariya was involved in a contract dispute with the Mighty Ducks, causing him to miss the start of the 1997 – 98 NHL season, Hockey Canada contacted Kariya, asking him to provide a training regimen by December 1, 1997, ensuring that he would be physically ready to play in the Olympics, given his inactivity in the NHL.

While Pioneer produced some industrial " jukeboxes " that held more than 50 discs, one company offered, for a short time in 1984, a " LaserStack " unit that required the user to physically remove the player lid for installation and attached to the top of the Pioneer LD-600, LD-1100 or the Sylvania / Magnavox clones.

While the church does not consider alcohol itself to be the cause of sin, it recognizes that intoxication and the like are a ' danger ' to many people, both physically and spiritually.

While in the first five years following World War II, massive emigration from these states to the West occurred, restrictions implemented thereafter stopped most East-West migration, except that under limited bilateral and other agreements.

While no meson is stable, those of lower mass are nonetheless more stable than the most massive mesons, and are easier to observe and study in particle accelerators or in cosmic ray experiments.

While not bestowing upon the reader any singular theme or underlying purpose, it shows that despite the obviously massive advances in technology, society and scope of human civilisation, we are still fundamentally the same.

While Gould is celebrated for the color and energy of his prose, as well as his massive interdisciplinary knowledge, critics such as Scott have concerns that the theory has gained undeserved credence among non-scientists because of Gould's rhetorical skills.

While the nature of these objects was controversial until as recently as the early 1980s, there is now a scientific consensus that a quasar is a compact region in the center of a massive galaxy surrounding its central supermassive black hole.

While polymers are often randomly constructed with massive entanglement, biopolymers often have a well defined structure.

While there, the Maquis ship and Voyager were transported against their will into the Delta Quadrant, 70, 000 light-years away, by a massive displacement wave.

While practicing for the show, stuntwoman Laura " Dinky " Patterson, one of a 16-member professional bungee jumping team, died of massive cranial trauma when she jumped headfirst from the top level of the Superdome and smashed head-first into the concrete-based playing field, causing her death.

While the surface of Venus is far too hot and features atmospheric pressure at least 90 times that at sea level on Earth, its massive atmosphere offers a possible alternate location for colonization.

While at G2S he became aware of massive backups of data being performed, clearly in anticipation of a major network outage.

While the results were not surprising since gravity was known to act on everything, including light ( see tests of general relativity and the Pound-Rebka falling photon experiment ), the self-interference of the quantum mechanical wave of a massive fermion in a gravitational field had never been experimentally confirmed before.

While UUHash allows very large files to be checksummed in a short time, even on slow computers, it also allows for massive corruption of a file to go unnoticed.

While Soviet deterrence doctrine posited massive responses to any nuclear use (" all against any "), military officials considered the possibility of proportionate responses to a limited U. S. attack, although they " doubted that nuclear war could remain limited for long.

While a boulder may be small enough to move or roll manually, others are extremely massive.

While Einstein's theory of general relativity shows that light waves can be bent near the surface of an extremely massive object, such as the sun or a black hole, current technology cannot manipulate the astronomical amounts of matter needed to do this.

While political intrigues on Coruscant delayed a Republic response, Thrawn seized all but 21 of the ships, and crewed them with his massive new army of clones.

While experiencing a political storm, China was also hit with a massive natural disaster — the Tangshan Earthquake, officially recorded at magnitude 7. 8 on the Richter Scale, authorities refused large amounts of foreign aid.

While at Springfield College, a student's question about the Lost Continent of Mu prompted a class project to investigate the lost continent of Atlantis, leading Hapgood to investigate possible ways that massive earth changes could occur and exposing him to the literature of Hugh Auchincloss Brown.

While moving the first banyan tree over the Florida East Coast Railway, the massive tree shifted and disconnected the Western Union telephone and telegraph lines running adjacent to the railroad, cutting off most communications between Miami, to the south, and the outside world until the damage could be repaired.

While at his vacation home on Martha's Vineyard, Giamatti, a heavy smoker for many years, died suddenly of a massive heart attack at the age of 51, just eight days after banishing Pete Rose and 154 days into his tenure as commissioner.

While government jobs and economic diversification prevented widespread unemployment in Knoxville, the city sought to recover the massive loss of revenue by attempting to annex neighboring communities in Knox County.

While poised to grow, river access to the community was stymied by a massive and ancient log jam in the river which prevented large ships from being able to port.

While McQueen felt that asbestos used in movie soundstage insulation and race-drivers ' protective suits and helmets could have been involved, he believed his illness was a direct result of massive exposure while removing asbestos lagging from pipes aboard a troop ship during his time in the Marines.

It transcends and influences national systems ... While it is important to develop greater cooperation among all the countries of the world, Japan, Western Europe, and North America, in view of their great weight in the world economy and their massive relations with one another, bear a special responsibility for developing effective cooperation, both in their own interests and in those of the rest of the world.