While early slingshots were most associated with young vandals, they were also capable hunting arms in the hands of a skilled user.

While a student in Augsburg, he appeared in student theatrical productions as an actor and singer, and became a skilled violinist and organist.

While he has been regarded as intelligent and artistically skilled, as well as politically ambitious, early in his reign he showed signs of mental instability, a condition that eventually led to insanity.

" While not exactly giving up her pin-up credentials, Turner established herself as a skilled actress.

While brigs could not sail into the wind as easily as fore and aft rigged vessels such as schooners, a trait that is common to all square-rigged ships, a skilled brig captain could " manoeuvre it with ease and elegance ; a brig could for instance turn around almost on the spot ".

While the Roman Republic was annexing territories in Anatolia through skilled diplomacy, Antiochus was able to keep Commagene independent from the Romans.

While her releases have often received mixed critical reception, she is renowned for her technically skilled and powerful vocals.

While many of their predecessors had been agriculturalists, the newer immigrants proved to be highly skilled tradespeople, which would prove useful for a growing community.

While the vast majority of technical and skilled labor is educated locally, the once-seasonal field labor pool now experiences a yearly shortage of workers.

While in the stage version ( along with Isherwood's original story ), Sally is a terrible singer, who thinks she's better than she actually is ( preventing her from becoming the actress she wants to be and keeping her trapped at the Kit Kat Club ), in the film she is portrayed as a skilled singer.

While the appointment of a Band Captain is always a pupil in their final year, the Senior Drum Major can be of any age if there are not enough skilled applicants on a more senior year.

While Roy concedes that Pinsky is highly skilled at treating drug and alcohol addiction, he claims that Pinsky has no knowledge of sex addiction, and that he merely recycled the words and ideas of Jill Vermiere, MFT, one of the therapists on Sex Rehab, who Roy says, along with Dr. John Sealy, were the true therapeutic forces behind his recovery.

While the absolute number of such émigrés are not large, the economic implications of such very skilled workers are significant.

While not himself a cyborg, Taki was skilled in martial arts, and often used them alongside both Kamen Riders to battle the foot-soldiers who invariably accompanied a Shocker agent.

While many children of Foreign Service members become very well developed, are able to form friendships easily, are skilled at moving frequently and enjoy international travel, other children have extreme difficulty adapting to the Foreign Service lifestyle.

While some nations have a high level of younger, skilled workers who are capable of speaking English as one of their native languages, their English skills have caused debate in North America and Europe.

While running the military, Von Seeckt only allowed skilled men to be in the 100, 000 man army.

While 14 clubs is a maximum, it is not a minimum ; players are free to use any lesser number of clubs they think will be useful, so substitutions for the common omissions above are not always made ; a player may simply choose to play without a 5-wood or 2-4 irons, instead using a 4-wood and moving directly to their 5-iron as desired distance decreases ( a 4-wood in a skilled golfer's hands averages 200 yards ; a 5-iron in the same player's hands would be about 160, which is a large gap but not unplayable ).

While Duff was a highly skilled scholar who was devoted to India, his evangelist ideals and western prejudice may have influenced his students in ways that he did not anticipate.

While Art Davie felt that Gracie's older brother Rickson Gracie, who was stronger and more skilled than Royce, was the obvious choice as the Jiu-Jitsu representative, Rorion Gracie chose the younger Royce to represent the family style.

While working full-time at a manufacturing company, Hull tested his mathematical and analytical skills at the blackjack tables in Las Vegas, where he proved to be a skilled and disciplined player.

While particularly skilled batters have some ability to place hit and direct the ball to desired locations, the pitcher's influence is much more dramatic.

While serving for two years in the United States Marine Corps, he played the tuba and horn in the Marine Corps Band, although he was also skilled in the sousaphone and percussion ( New York Times, January 26, 2010 ).

While interrogating a spy for the Sisterhood of the Wasp, Anya and Miguel discover that the Sisterhood has recruited a fifteen year old boy codenamed Amun, a descendant of Egyptian assassins who believes he is skilled enough that he does not need to conceal his identity.

While in charge of Wentworth for the day, The Freak transfers Rita to Blackmoor where she encounters the sadistic governor Ernest Craven ( Ray Meagher ).

While she is sadistic and power hungry, her character would usually become humorous whenever the Power Rangers defeated her ; this would end with the catchphrase " I've got such a headache!

While he told the Ecuadorean authorities of the locations of the bodies and how the sadistic crimes were committed, he showed no feelings of remorse.

While few people read the Doctor Fu Manchu novels of Sax Rohmer at the beginning of the 21st century, his character has become iconic and is easily recognized in many of the traits of the Mandarin ; while the Professor may be recognized as Professor Moriarty, the Original Napoleon of Crime ; and Spectrobert is clearly based on the sadistic, exhibitionist French arch-villain and master of disguise Fantomas.

While Ziva teases McGee a great deal, often with Tony, they remain on friendly terms ( Ziva's teasing is far more playful than Tony's, who takes a much more sadistic approach to the pranks he pulls on McGee ).

While Angelus killed Jenny in vampiric face — a result of Joss not wanting the audience to truly hate Angel's face — Giles is murdered while Angel's face is in human form.

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 at Constantinople he also served as an ambassador to Isaac II Angelus, and was in the embassy that demanded that Isaac appoint Alexius IV co-emperor.

While The Darkness cannot function at all in the light, The Angelus can function in the dark but only for short periods of time as it completely drains her power while the power of The Darkness becomes supreme.

( vocal: Denny Dennis )-1948 ; released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-3331, with the flip side “ While the Angelus Was Ringing ”

While contributing to various journals, he undertook investigative tramping expeditions in and around London, collecting material for use in " The Spike ", his first published essay, and the latter half of Down and Out in Paris and London.

While many vampires cling to the mannerisms and speech patterns prevalent at the time they were sired, Spike has been shown to easily adjust to changing fashions and styles over the decades and displays an impressive knowledge of both British and American popular culture, demonstrating another aspect of his potential for analysis and adaptability.

While Mysterio was Cruiserweight Champion, Spike Dudley turned heel after plowing Mysterio through a table and joined the other Dudleys before winning the Cruiserweight Title from Mysterio on the July 29 episode of SmackDown !.

While with WWE he competed as Chavo Classic and became the oldest WWE Cruiserweight Champion in history, defeating Chavo, Jr. and Spike Dudley in a triple threat match.

While the majority of Technōs Japan's console games were still licensed to other companies such as Tradewest ( Double Dragon ), Acclaim ( Double Dragon II and III ), CSG Imagesoft ( Super Dodge Ball ) and even Nintendo ( Super Spike V ' Ball and Nintendo World Cup ), American Technōs also managed to published a few console games: namely River City Ransom and Crash ' n the Boys: Street Challenge for the NES, Super Double Dragon ( co-published with Tradewest ) and Combatribes for the Super NES and Geom Cube for the PlayStation.

While contemplating their situation, Holli tells Jack about the " Spike of Power ", an artifact placed on the top of a Las Vegas casino by a doodle who crossed into the real world.

While Spike battles the zombie defenses protecting the creature meant to kill Angel, Angel and Lindsey face off in the chamber where the " contingency plan " is stored.

While nervously rubbing at her handcuff burned wrists, Buffy reveals that Spike is now able to hurt her, but not other humans.

While working on the first two seasons of George Romero ’ s television series Tales from the Darkside, he filmed John Jopson's One Night with Blue Note ( 1985 ) and was later on contacted by Spike Lee who had then found a budget to shoot he ’ s movie She's Gotta Have It ( 1986 ).

* While captive, Spike asks a fellow prisoner who their captors are, specifically asking if " the government " or " the Nazis " are involved.

While resuscitating Spike on the shore, Hound makes the mistake of thinking that the human Spike had " flooded his engine ".

While examining the scene where the dog was eaten, Spike explains that the manifest spirits from the school were the cause of his temporary insanity.

While taking the usual shortcut home through the cemetery from Cool School High, Senior Spike O ' Hara found a strange, glowing skull.

While Andrew leans against a wall and starts to talk to Anya about what he knows in the next room over, Spike punches through the wall, grabs Andrew, and viciously bites him.

While the real Spike tries to show Buffy where he buried the bodies the fake Spike starts to sing the hypnotizing tune.

While talking to Xander, Willow sarcastically suggests that Buffy and Spike get married.

" While Buffy and Spike cuddle and kiss and make plans for the wedding, Giles calls Willow for help, confessing he is totally blind.

While there, he met Spike Jones, and a week later Jones asked Katz to join him in Hollywood.

While collecting dirt from Joyce's grave that night, Dawn is caught by Spike, who recognizes her actions, but shocks her by offering to help.

* While searching for an incantation to give to Dawn and Spike, Doc hums a few bars from " Peter and the Wolf ".

While Harmony and Spike fight, Drusilla breaks free and goes after Buffy while the Slayer is still chained up.