While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

While Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Islamist extremist enjoying the backing of neighboring Pakistan, pushed for continued violent struggle against the Afghan government, Massoud and Rabbani advocated for a peaceful political campaign lobbying officials working for the government and armed forces.

While some women chose a militant, and often violent, path, others chose to influence events through writing, publications, and meetings.

While the Rwandan Civil War was a complex sequence of violent episodes which included killers and victims on all sides, most historians agree with RPF's assertions that the 1994 genocide was a deliberate, methodical Hutu campaign to completely exterminate the Tutsis, and that plans for the genocide were well known in advance by European, American, and UN officials.

While conceding that he saw no artistic merit in some violent video games, King also opined that such games reflect the violence that already exists in society, which would not be lessened by such a law, and would be redundant in light of the ratings system that already exists for video games.

While direct measurement of the most violent tornado wind speeds is nearly impossible, since conventional anemometers would be destroyed by the intense winds, some tornadoes have been scanned by mobile Doppler radar units, which can provide a good estimate of the tornado's winds.

While many outpatient commitment laws have been passed in response to violent acts committed by people with mental illness, most proponents involved in the outpatient commitment debate base their arguments on the quality of life and cost associated with untreated mental illness and " revolving door patients " who experience a cycle of hospitalization, treatment and stabilization, release, and decompensation.

While there, he got into a violent argument with one guest.

While in a battle it wasn't until getting close to kill her own mother ( Xena ) she finally comes to terms with the fact and relinquish her violent past and embrace a peaceful way of living.

While the water the spacecraft landed on would cushion it to a degree, the impact could still be quite violent for the astronauts.

While under construction, the Metallak was destroyed in April 1893 during a violent windstorm, and its investors abandoned the project.

While a violent Maoist insurgency continues to rage across a wide-swath of eastern rural India, the movement is not considered a secessionist movement because the goal of the Maoists is to overthrow the government of India, although rebel commanders have occasionally called for a Communist republic to be carved out of swaths of India.

While pulp detectives such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe are hard-boiled and cynical, Hammer is in many ways the archetypal " hard man ": brutally violent, and fuelled by a genuine rage against violent crime that never afflicts Raymond Chandler's or Dashiell Hammett's heroes.

While the renamed Anastasia family made more money than ever, some other mobsters grew concerned about his temper and violent behavior.

While investigating the surrounding countryside Peter meets a violent, homicidal farmer, Mr. Grimethorpe, with a stunningly beautiful wife.

While William had aroused the jealousy of the other barons during his rise, the arbitrary and violent manner of his fall very likely discomfited them and played a role in the Baronial uprisings of the next decade.

While Barthes had shared sympathies with Marxist thought in the past ( or at least parallel criticisms ), he felt that, despite its anti-ideological stance, Marxist theory was just as guilty of using violent language with assertive meanings, as was bourgeois literature.

While many anarchists during the 19th century embraced violent propaganda of the deed, Leo Tolstoy and other anarcho-pacifists directly opposed violence as a means for change.

While Russ Meyer may have championed powerful woman characters, he also forced them into violent and terrifying situations, making them prove their physical and mental strength against tremendous odds.

While Swedish writer Herman Lindqvist has referred to this as the " Age of crushed skulls " there is no indication that this was an especially violent time, and most of the " crushing " happened post-mortem in the ground.

While the violent political culture was not invented by Seaga or Manley, and had its roots in conflicts between the parties from as early as the beginning of the two-party system in the 1940s, political violence reached unprecedented levels in the 1970s.

While assigned to the OSS in Washington, he was, recalled a colleague, ' the most violent Anglophobe I have encountered.

While Turpin eluded his enemies, making his escape to Cambridge, the others were arrested on charges of " violent suspicion of being dangerous rogues and robbing upon the highway ".

While in the ' 40s, the prevailing butch image was severe but gentle, it became increasingly tough and aggressive as violent confrontation became a fact of life.

While the actual possibility of explosion without a blasting cap is minimal, old dynamite is still dangerous.

While investigating the VIN from an axle of the truck used in the explosion and the remnants of the license plate, federal agents were able to link the truck to a specific Ryder rental agency in Junction City.

While running to the shelter, the Dahlberg's son, Danny, stared directly at a nuclear explosion and was flash-blinded.

While the Magdalene Asylums had been " reforming " prostitutes since the mid-18th century, the years between 1848 and 1870 saw a veritable explosion in the number of institutions working to " reclaim " these " fallen women " from the streets and retrain them for entry into respectable society — usually for work as domestic servants.

While the classification of acritarchs into form genera is entirely artificial, it is not without merit, as the form taxa show traits similar to those of genuine taxa-for example an ' explosion ' in the Cambrian and a mass extinction at the end of the Permian.

While looking at the glow to the south caused by the destruction of Miami, the family sees the nuclear explosion and mushroom cloud that destroys Tampa and MacDill Air Force Base, and which temporarily blinds Randy's niece, Peyton.

While the park's arrival benefited Gatlinburg and made many of the town's residents wealthy, the tourism explosion led to problems with air quality and urban sprawl.

While some of those who had escaped the explosion left the area for other work, many others returned to the mines.

While the other rules of chess apply fully, all captures result in an " atomic explosion ".

While flammable, these solvents do not present a high risk of fire or explosion when used properly.

While not exclusively focused on a disaster, in this case, an airplane crippled by the explosion of a bomb, the film established the blueprint of multiple plotlines acted out by an all-star cast.

While at GE, an explosion at the factory under his management blew off the roof of the facilities, and he was almost fired for that episode.

While there are no reliable historical population estimates, population models suggest crabeater seal populations may have increased at rates up to 9 % a year in the 20th century, due to the removal of large baleen whales ( especially the blue whale ) during the period of industrial whaling and the subsequent explosion in krill biomass and removal of important competitive forces.

While he's forced to witness Batman's dragging down Simon Hurt's helicopter and seemingly die in a fiery explosion with his foe, he's shown holding Batman's cape, discarded during the fight.

While on route from his residence to his office, the vehicle carrying Gligorov was blown up by an explosion from a parked vehicle, killing his driver and injuring several passers-by.

While the X-Men attacked Asteroid M to rescue Moira and stop Magneto's plans, the Soviets launched a particle beam satellite which destroyed Asteroid M. Betrayed and abandoned at the last minute by Cortez, Magneto refused Xavier's pleas to escape with the X-Men back to Earth and he and his followers seemingly perished in the subsequent explosion.

While waiting, he hears an explosion nearby, and leaves the room to investigate.

While testing an experimental rocket pack on 23 August 1954, Zura survived an explosion that killed his observer, John Hiebert.

While he was doing this, Rouse testified that he went to the side of the road to urinate, and while there heard a large explosion.

While not suffering a direct hit, Anderson was struck by fragments from the missile warhead's proximity explosion that penetrated and compromised his pressure suit.

While the term BLEVE is most often used to describe the results of a container of flammable liquid rupturing due to fire, a BLEVE can occur even with a non-flammable substance such as water, liquid nitrogen liquid helium or other refrigerants or cryogens, and therefore is not usually considered a type of chemical explosion.

While it housed this company, Blackfriars was the site of an explosion of innovative drama and staging.

While no fixed, qualifying distance from an explosion of these devices can be established, commanders should consider the entirety of the combat situation when considering award of the CIB.

While Spider-Man was dealing with the Lizard, Silvermane, Tombstone and Alicia, Hammerhead slipped by and stole the Tablet with the good guys thinking it was destroyed in the explosion of Silvermane's building, as Alicia wanted this process to come because she blamed everyone against her about her father becoming a baby ( Silvermane actually overused the Tablet ) and tried to kill them by blowing the building up with them inside, though all of them escaped.

While this did not stop the composition of secular music — indeed the explosion of forms and styles of secular music continued unabated — many composers began to adapt the most advanced secular compositional forms to religious usage.