While the ports of Burlington, Vermont ; Port Henry, New York ; and Plattsburgh, New York are little used nowadays except by small craft, ferries and lake cruise ships, they had substantial commercial and military importance in the 18th and 19th centuries.

While XFree86 was used in most distributions before its license change with version 4. 4. 0, it has mostly been replaced by its fork X. org and is used rarely nowadays.

While nowadays, tourism makes up an important part of its industry.

While " Latem " used to be known as an artists ' colony before World War II, nowadays Sint-Martens-Latem is one of the wealthiest residential municipalities in Belgium.

While it is more common nowadays for car bombs to be fixed magnetically to the underside of the car, the underneath of passenger / driver's seat, or inside of the mudguard, detonators triggered by the opening of the vehicle door or by pressure applied to the brakes or accelerating pedals are also used.

While hakama used to be a required part of men's wear, nowadays typical Japanese men usually wear hakama only on extremely formal occasions and at tea ceremonies, weddings, and funerals.

While locomotive-hauled trains are rarely seen in commuter traffic nowadays, they are still the usual in intercity traffic.

While the term is nowadays used to describe any interesting old vehicle, many in the US consider it only properly used to describe vehicles considered eligible for the CCCA.

While the main campus of Université catholique de Louvain is based at Louvain-la-Neuve, it also comprises a small campus in Brussels, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, which until recently was called " Louvain-en-Woluwe " ( the authorities of the UCL tend to prefer nowadays to refer to it as " UCL-Brussels Woluwe ") for the faculty of medicine of the university, a campus in Mons called " UCL-Mons ", a minor installation in Charleroi with 133 students ( 2011 ) " UCL-Charleroi ", an architectural school in Tournai " UCL-Tournai " with 540 students ( 2011 ), an architectural school in Brussels " UCL-Bruxelles Saint Gilles " with 570 students ( 2011 ).

While throughout most of Western history, these elaborate cakes in general were the privilege of the wealthy, birthday cakes are nowadays common to most Western birthday celebrations.

While geta are nowadays worn with the informal yukata, zōri are associated with the more formal kimono.

While Mädchen is an everyday word, Maid is hardly used nowadays and usually is associated with medieval language ( as in fables, novels, etc.

While nowadays one speaks of " drawing " a stop to select a particular rank, the earliest organs were constructed as blockwerk with all ranks ' on ' by default.

While loading a general cargo vessel, they use dunnage, which are pieces of wood ( or nowadays sometimes strong inflatable dunnage bags ) set down to keep the cargo out of any water that might be lying in the hold or are placed as shims between cargo crates for load securing.

While the term is nowadays mostly used as a synonym for " coffee break " ( or " tea break ", " lemonade break ", " cake break " or similar ), the original use of the word-meaning just " coffee "-still lives on, especially in the older generations.

: While there was a time when people were reluctant to pronounce the word ' Mafia ' ... nowadays people have gone so far in the opposite direction that it has become an overused term ...

While there is a uniform stage pronunciation based on a manual by Theodor Siebs which is used in theatres, and, nowadays to a lesser extent, in radio and television news all across German-speaking countries, this is not true for the standards applied at public occasions in Austria, South Tyrol and Switzerland, which differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, and sometimes even grammar.

While demand for French, Italian and German is decreasing, the demand for other languages such as Chinese and Arabic has significantly increased within the last years .. Total immersion Spanish language schools have become very popular in Latin America and Spain. Total immersion Italian language schools are popular in Italy, especially in Florence ( since the eighties ) nowadays also in the other cities like Rome, Milan, Siena and even in small centers.

While the above is nowadays standard terminology in " infinite " model theory, the slightly different earlier definitions are still in use in finite model theory, where an elementary class may be called a Δ-elementary class, and the terms elementary class and first-order axiomatizable class are reserved for basic elementary classes ( Ebbinghaus et al.

While many people nowadays substitute sparkling fruit juice ( often packaged in champagne-style bottles ), and many authorities consider it perfectly acceptable to participate in a toast while drinking water, formerly, refusal to drink might give offence ; noted teetotaler William Jennings Bryan, on a state visit, toasted a Japanese admiral with his water glass, pointing out that his host had won his victories on water, and if he should ever win a battle on champagne, he would willingly toast him with champagne.

While coffee and milk were the main products for many years nowadays one of the main products of the local economy is the extraction and commercialization of quartz.

While it is uncommon nowadays for vessels to suffer disasters such as fire, explosion, or a sinking, workers face the possibility that they may have to abandon their craft at short notice if it collides with other vessels or runs aground.

While much neglected nowadays, he is still very well known on both sides of the Tasman for a short song Waiata Poi, which was recorded by many singers including Peter Dawson.

While local historians held the view that the castle had been erected by Theoderich I, Count of Are, ( who died in 1132 ) as a refuge for the ruling court of Adenau, nowadays his son Ulrich von Are, the self-proclaimed Count of Nürburg, is considered to be the person responsible for commissioning the building of the castle, even though there is no source material to back this theory.

While I fully agree with Sir Anthony's contention, I think that we must carry the analysis farther, bearing in mind that while common peril may be the measure of our need, the existence or absence of a positive sense of community must be the measure of our capacity.

While some think we move too fast and others too slowly, Florida's record is a good one and stands out among the 50.

While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.

While observing the operations of our Government in various parts of the world, I have felt that in many situations where our policies were good we have tended to ignore minor problems which spoiled our main effort.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

While we, as American artists, believe deeply in the universal character of all intellectual activity, we would be less than honest with you, or ourselves, if we failed to state a specific attitude toward our own society as well as the international community as a whole.

While he declined to suggest, how, he said that sooner or later we must get rid of Castro, `` for unless we do we're liable to face similar situations in this hemisphere.

While we are filling outer space with scientific successes, for many the `` inner '' space of their soul is an aching void.

" While we were having dinner, he got up and came back with his hands behind his back.

While all these conditions are equivalent for metric spaces, in general we have the following implications:

" While the economic slowdown has created a difficult business environment, we are encouraged by brisk activity from new and existing propeller fleet operators placing almost 200 orders for 2009 production aircraft ," Pelton stated.

While we now see with our own eyes that such operations were a habit which is prevalent among all civilized people of the west "

# While ideal gas molecules do not interact, we consider molecules attracting others within a distance of several molecules ' radii.

The EPR paper ends by saying: While we have thus shown that the wave function does not provide a complete description of the physical reality, we left open the question of whether or not such a description exists.

While we cannot do this by simply rearranging the quantifiers, we show that it is yet enough to prove the theorem for sentences of that form.

While we do not know Palestrina's compositional motivations, he may have been quite conscious of the need for intelligible text, however, this was not to conform with any doctrine of the Counter-Reformation, because no such doctrine exists.