While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

While a hazy part of my mind concentrated on swimming down, a clear part sorted over recent events, among them my only positive act in a long time.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While not all Southerners saw themselves as fighting to preserve slavery, most of the officers and over a third of the rank and file in Lee's army had close family ties to slavery.

While over the far side of the Moon, the Command / Service Module's Service Propulsion System engine burned for six minutes and fifteen seconds, braking the spacecraft into an orbit around the Moon with a low point ( pericynthion ) of 58. 3 and a high point ( apocynthion ) of 170. 4 nautical miles ( 108. 0 and 315. 6 km, respectively ).

While driving home during a thunderstorm, the car in which he was a passenger skidded off the road and rolled over.

While bishop he was largely responsible for the construction of a large organ in the cathedral, audible from over a mile ( 1600 m ) away and said to require more than 24 men to operate.

While there is no scientific evidence for the cryptid's existence, there have been over 300 reported sightings.

" While his one-time acolytes The Rolling Stones and Cream made the front pages of music magazines all over the world, Korner was relegated to the role of ' elder statesman '.

While their powers grew over time, it is not always easy to distinguish the difference between their powers, and those of the Roman Censors.

While the Habsburgs were driven out, many of their minor nobles were allowed to keep their lands and offices, though over time they lost power to the Bernese government.

While the two herbicides that make up Agent Orange, 2, 4-D and 2, 4, 5-T, remain toxic over a short period — a scale of days or weeks — they quickly degrade.

" While Sakharov strongly disagreed with Teller over nuclear testing in the atmosphere and Strategic Defense Initiative, he believed that American academics had been unfair to Teller ’ s resolve to get the H-bomb for the United States since " all steps by the Americans of a temporary or permanent rejection of developing thermonuclear weapons would have been seen either as a clever feint, or as the manifestation of stupidity.

While government authorities prepared lists of aliens for deportation, many aliens fled the country during the debate over the Alien and Sedition Acts, and Adams never signed a deportation order.

While Dino De Laurentiis gave Raimi and his crew freedom to shoot the movie the way they wanted, Universal Pictures took over during post-production.

While the numerical difference between the decimal and binary interpretations is relatively small for the prefixes kilo and mega, it grows to over 20 % for prefix yotta, illustrated in the linear-log graph ( at right ) of difference versus storage size.

While Ignatius of Antioch offers the earliest clear description of monarchial bishops ( a single bishop over all house churches in a city ) he is an advocate of monepiscopal structure rather than describing an accepted reality.

While most patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches have jurisdiction over a " ritual church " ( a group or diocese of a particular Eastern tradition ), all Latin Rite patriarchs, except for the Pope, have only honorary titles.

While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body.

While Bonaparte was sailing to Malta, the Royal Navy re-entered the Mediterranean for the first time in over a year.

While based in Sacramento his radio broadcasts over 50, 000 watt KFBK were heard all over the West.

While its use has several advantages over use of a live edged weapon, it can still be deadly, and any training with a bokken should be done with due care.

While there have been many theological disputes over the nature of Jesus over the earliest centuries of Christian history, Christians generally believe that Jesus is God incarnate and " true God and true man " ( or both fully divine and fully human ).

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

While controlled clinical trials of atypicals reported that extrapyramidal symptoms occurred in 5 – 15 % of patients, a study of bipolar disorder in a real world clinical setting found a rate of 63 %, questioning the generalizability of the trials.

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the V-J Day parade on August 14 and August 15, 1945 – marking the end of World War II – was covered with 5, 438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the New York City Department of Sanitation.

While this aspect is similar to Scotch and Irish whisky regulations, it contrasts with the maximum alcoholic proof limits on distillation ( 80 % abv ) and aging ( 62. 5 % abv ) purity allowed in the production of straight whiskey in the U. S. All spirits used in making a Canadian whisky must be aged for at least three years in wooden barrels of not greater than 700 L capacity ( a requirement similar to that for Scotch and Irish whisky and longer than for American straight whisky ).

While on 5 June, several major politicians ( Baciro Dabo, Faustino Imbali and Helder Proenca ) were shot dead, officially to counter a planned coup d ' État against the temporary military leadership.

While it was technically possible to retrofit more advanced floppy drives such as the high-density drive ( released in 1984 ) into the original IBM PC, this was not an option offered by IBM for the 5150 model, and the move to high-density 5. 25-inch floppies in particular was notoriously fraught with disk compatibility problems.

While attendance figures were stagnant for most of the NFL, Jacksonville saw an increase of 36. 5 %, by far the highest in the league, and had none of their home games blacked out.

While most longships held a length to width ratio of 7: 1, the Karvi ships were closer to 4. 5: 1.

While reconstruction took place, the team played its " home " games at Manchester City's Maine Road ground ; Manchester United was charged £ 5, 000 per year, plus a nominal percentage of gate receipts.

While volcanism has persisted here for some 1. 5 million years, the current glaciated cone is likely no more than 140, 000 years old, and possibly no older than 80-90, 000 years.

While their 7 – 10 mark down the stretch was slightly better than the previous season's 5 – 12, it still allowed the Phillies to pass them, once again.

While many allergies are specific to one NSAID, up to 1 in 5 people may have unpredictable cross-reactive allergic responses to other NSAIDs as well.

While hydrogen nuclei cannot fuse to form helium until the temperature reaches about 10 million K, lithium and beryllium are destroyed at temperatures of 2. 5 million K and 3. 5 million K respectively.

While China invested roughly 9 % of its GDP on infrastructure in the 1990s and 2000s, most emerging economies invested only 2 % to 5 % of their GDP.

The pro-market policies enacted by Fujimori, were continued by presidents Alejandro Toledo and Alan Garcia, While poverty of Lima is 18. 5 %, the national average is 30 %, while the unemployment rate is 6. 5 % and 54 % are employed formally.

While this may seem high, a hand of Pai Gow poker takes a long time to play compared to a game like blackjack, and there are many pushes ; therefore the house doesn't collect that 5 % as often as it would collect the house percentage on other games.

While most QRP enthusiasts agree that for CW, AM, FM, and data modes, the transmitter output power should be 5 watts ( or less ), the maximum output power for SSB ( single sideband ) is not always agreed upon.

While 60 % of regimental commanders had two years or more of command experience in June 1941, and almost 80 % of rifle division commanders, only 20 % of corps commanders, and 5 % or fewer army and military district commanders, had the same level of experience.

While " 3 − 4 * 5 " can also be written " 3 − ( 4 * 5 )", that means something quite different from "( 3 − 4 ) * 5 ".

While attending the 17th ICMI Study conference in Hanoi, Papert ( 78 ) was struck by a motorcycle while crossing a road near his hotel on Tuesday December 5, 2006.

While standard ' superglue ' is 100 % ethyl cyanoacrylate, many custom formulations ( e. g .,, 91 % ECA, 9 % poly ( methyl methacrylate ), < 0. 5 % hydroquinone, and a small amount of organic sulfonic acid and variations on the compound N-butyl-cyanoacrylate's for medical applications ) have come to be used for specific applications.