While Bongo's major opponents rejected the outcome as fraudulent, some international observers characterized the results as representative despite any perceived irregularities.

While Bongo's major opponents rejected the outcome as fraudulent, international observers characterized the result as representative even if the election suffered from serious administrative problems.

While in the beginning only Pashtuns were allowed to participate in the Jirgas, later other ethnic groups like Tajiks and Hazaras were allowed to participate as well, however they were little more than observers.

While the multiverse is deterministic, we perceive non-deterministic behavior governed by probabilities, because we can observe only the universe ( i. e., the consistent state contribution to the aforementioned superposition ) that we, as observers, inhabit.

While this error is often not obvious to casual observers, under the ISU Judging System, cheated jumps are heavily penalized, in many cases as much as or more than a fall on a fully rotated jump.

While Tainos kept dogs and Muscovy ducks, only dogs were reported by early observers, or found at Lucayan sites.

While observers are watching the Ba ' ku unseen, Goldsmith employed a " spying theme " that bears resemblance to the composer's conspiracy theme from Capricorn One.

While his allegations were initially greeted with scepticism by outside observers, the subsequent investigation by the U. S. authorities confirmed these accusations and resulted in the conviction of Sheela and several of her lieutenants.

While many foreign observers tended to take sides and emphasize the atrocities committed by one Spanish faction while glossing over or offering apologies for those of the other, there were also those who tended to lump together all the atrocities reportedly committed in Spain and attribute them all to the inherent cruelty of " Spanish character " or " Spanish culture "-regardless of the political affiliation of the Spaniards involved in each specific case.

While it was not the first battle involving pre-dreadnought technology on a wide scale ( the Battle of Foochow in the 1884 Sino-French War predated it ), there were significant lessons for naval observers to consider.

While largely described by contemporary Western observers as a front for the expansion of the Japanese army, the idea behind the Co-Prosperity Sphere was that Asia would be united against the Western powers and Western Imperialism under the auspices of the Japanese.

While public security considerations have weighed heavily at all levels of administration since the founding of the PRC, the police are perceived by some outside observers to wield progressively greater influence at lower levels of government.

While the Reds were a great offensive team, most baseball observers agreed that they did not deserve seven starters in the All-Star Game.

While Young's style initially alienated some observers, the cool school embraced it.

While, ultimately, a great deal did change in Romania, it is still very contentious among Romanians and other observers as to whether this was their intent from the outset, or merely pragmatic playing of the cards they were dealt.

While there are no official government estimates of the labor force, observers believe 20, 000-50, 000 work as galamseys in Ghana, a figure that includes many women, who work as porters.

While not questioning his ability to sell cars, though, some observers, including automotive analyst Maryann Keller, questioned whether it was wise for Nordhoff to build more of the same car rather than develop new models.

While the government initially denied all involvement, Iranian Christians and independent observers claimed that he was murdered for his beliefs.

While he respected Kempelen as " a very ingenious man ", he asserted that the Turk was an elaborate hoax with a small child inside the machine, describing the machine as " a complicated piece of clockwork ... which is nothing more, than one, of many other ingenious devices, to misguide and delude the observers.

While World War I nose art was usually embellished or extravagant squadron insignia, true nose art appeared during World War II, which is considered by many observers to be the golden age of the genre, with both Axis and Allied pilots taking part.

While aces are generally thought of exclusively as fighter pilots, some have accorded this status to gunners on bombers or reconnaissance aircraft, and observers / gunners in two-seater fighters such as the Bristol F. 2b.

While it was then assumed by observers that WinFS was finished as a project, in November 2006 Steve Ballmer announced that WinFS was still in development, though it was not clear how the technology was to be delivered.

While HOLDRs have some qualities in common with ETFs, including low costs, low turnover, and tax efficiency, many observers consider HOLDRs to be a separate product from ETFs.

While on active duty in 1958, Donaldson was one of the military observers of an atomic test in the Nevada testing grounds when an atomic device with a yield roughly equivalent to the bombs dropped on Japan was detonated three thousand yards away from the slit trench which protected the observers.

While strong forms of the various dialects are not normally fully comprehensible to Northern Germans, communication is much easier in Bavaria, especially rural areas, where Bavarian dialect still predominates as the mother tongue.

While the Scandinavian branch emphasizes pantheist spirituality rooted in medieval and contemporary Scandinavian folklore, the American branch postulates a " native religion of the peoples of Northern Europe " reaching back into the paleolithic.

While the 1997 Labour government devolved power to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, it refused to created a devolved Assembly or parliament for England, planning instead to introduce eight regional assemblies around England to devolve power to the regions.

While the Office for National Statistics and others describe the United Kingdom as a " nation state ", others, including a then Prime Minister, describe it as a " multinational state ", and the term Home Nations is used to describe the four national teams that represent the four nations of the United Kingdom ( England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales ).

While Bruni and Machiavelli used the term to describe the states of Northern Italy, which were not monarchies, the term res publica has a set of interrelated meanings in the original Latin.

While the classical writers had been the primary ideological source for the republics of Italy, in Northern Europe, the Protestant Reformation would be used as justification for establishing new republics.

While Home Secretary, Peel helped create the modern concept of the police force, leading to officers being known as " bobbies " ( in England ) and " Peelers " ( in Northern Ireland ).

While historically Peter's planned war against Denmark was seen as being a political failure, recent scholarship has portrayed it as part of a pragmatic plan to expand Russian power westwards — he saw gaining territory and influence in Denmark and Northern Germany as more useful to Russia than taking East Prussia.

While there were many non-communist members of the NLF, they were subject to the control of the party cadres and increasingly side-lined as the conflict continued ; they did, however, enable the NLF to portray itself as a primarily nationalist, rather than communist, movement, despite being in almost direct control by the Northern regime.

While there are not many Gold Rush era ghost towns still in existence, the remains of the once-bustling town of Shasta have been preserved in a California State Historic Park in Northern California.

While in theory pitmatic was spoken throughout the Great Northern Coalfield, from Ashington in Northumberland to Fishburn in County Durham, early references apply specifically to its use by miners especially from the Durham district ( 1873 ) and to its use in County Durham ( 1930 ).

While his father remained in England, Wright and his four sisters returned to Northern Ireland, where he was raised in a children's home in Mountnorris, South Armagh ( a predominantly Irish nationalist area ).

While Zhang Qian did not succeed in this mission, his reports of the west provided even greater incentive to counter the Xiongnu hold on westward routes out of China, and the Chinese prepared to mount a large scale attack using the Northern Silk Road to move men and material.

While England and Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland diverge in the more detailed rules of common law and equity, and while there are certain fields of legislative competence devolved in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and London, there are substantive fields of law which apply across the United Kingdom.

While Northern Norway ultimately fell, efforts there allowed the Norwegian government, including the Norwegian royal family, to escape and maintain the legitimate government in exile, as part of the Allies.

While the linen industry survived to some degree in Ulster until well into the 1960s, increased fabric imports from the Far East led to tremendous difficulties for the industry across Northern Ireland.

While Alabama became a state in 1819, until the 1830s, much of Northern Alabama was still officially Cherokee territory.

While the Tuoba migrated south and established the State of Dai ( 310-376 ) and Northern Wei dynasty ( 386-534 ) the Shiwei remained in the north but eventually paid tribute to the Northern Wei ( for example the Wuluohu sub-tribe started paying tribute in 444 ).

While the company's retail market is Northern Ohio, its products have acquired a reputation that extends far beyond its local retail market and are available for shipping anywhere via the company's website.

While the truce was welcomed by enthusiastic crowds, and some arrangement beyond the Home Rule Act 1920 provisions was in prospect, it was also evident that the IRA military campaign had not secured the 32-county republic claimed by the Dáil, and that a separate government in Northern Ireland was now functioning.

While the wind is a summer condition ( hot inland, cool oceanside ), winter weather is right in line with the rest of sea level Northern California ( mild with occasional rain ).

While living in Northern California, she attended Cloverdale High School and also Pacific Union College Preparatory School.

While religious tests for students at Oxford and Cambridge ceased in the 1850s, Northern colleges continued to promote themselves as offering a different, distinct type of teaching.