While photographs and portraits portray Stalin as physically massive and majestic ( he had several painters shot who did not depict him " right "), he was only five feet four inches tall ( 160 cm ).

While Molotov cocktails may be a psychologically effective method of disabling armoured fighting vehicles by forcing the crew out or damaging external components, most modern tanks cannot be physically destroyed or rendered completely inoperable by Molotov cocktails ; only " disabled ".

While neurology is not physically demanding work, there can be a great deal of stress involved.

While it is occasionally used recreationally for its hallucinogenic properties, the experiences are often extremely mentally and physically unpleasant, and frequently physically dangerous, so repeated use is rare.

While Elizabeth declined physically with age, her running of the country continued to benefit her people.

While some open units are physically unlocked, other open units still use locked entrances and exits depending on the type of patients admitted.

While not physically able to see their partner, users derive stimulation from descriptive text.

While appearing humorous and kind-hearted in public, by all accounts Van Vliet was a severe taskmaster who abused his musicians verbally and sometimes physically.

While they cannot physically interfere with one another to detrimental effect, they can help each other, provided they stay above four miles per hour.

" While this is not essential to the plot of the play, the line figuratively serves to suggest Death has become physically present in Thebes.

While important mathematically, systems that process discrete time signals are difficult to physically realize.

While unusual, it is not unheard of for a sidekick to be more attractive, charismatic, or physically capable than the supposed hero.

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 physically the smallest of the Weyrs, Ista makes up for it by locating dragons in weyr caverns on the * outer face * of the caldera.

While the ultimate goal of transplanting is transfer of the brain to a new body optimized for it by genetics, proteomics, and / or other medical procedures, in uploading the brain itself moves nowhere and may even be physically destroyed or discarded ; the goal is rather to duplicate the information patterns contained within the brain.

While the fighting occurs on the beachhead, Om attempts to physically intervene, but Brutha demands he does not interfere with the actions of humans.

While the MegArray connector is physically similar to the Apple Power Mac G4 CPU daughtercard connector, it is not electrically compatible.

While working as an adviser to the United States military during World War I, he devised a program to help servicemen become more physically fit.

While Xenophanes is rejecting Homeric theology, he is not questioning the presence of a divine entity, rather his philosophy is a critique on Ancient Greek writers and their conception of divinity There is also the concept of God being whole with the universe, essentially controlling it, while at the same time being physically unconnected.

While in Cobourg, he was not a devoted student: he skipped many classes, and was judged by his classmates to be " intellectually, morally, physically and erratically preeminent in virtue and otherwise, especially otherwise ".

While Kariya was involved in a contract dispute with the Mighty Ducks, causing him to miss the start of the 1997 – 98 NHL season, Hockey Canada contacted Kariya, asking him to provide a training regimen by December 1, 1997, ensuring that he would be physically ready to play in the Olympics, given his inactivity in the NHL.

While Pioneer produced some industrial " jukeboxes " that held more than 50 discs, one company offered, for a short time in 1984, a " LaserStack " unit that required the user to physically remove the player lid for installation and attached to the top of the Pioneer LD-600, LD-1100 or the Sylvania / Magnavox clones.

While the church does not consider alcohol itself to be the cause of sin, it recognizes that intoxication and the like are a ' danger ' to many people, both physically and spiritually.

While visiting Davis ' oldest sister near Saint Francisville, Louisiana, both newlyweds contracted malaria.

While singing " Where the Streets Have No Name ," Bono replaced the lyrics ' take shelter from the poison rain ' to ' dance in the Louisiana rain ' and ' high on a desert plain ' with ' where there's no sorrow or pain '.

While the 1811 German Coast Uprising in Louisiana involved a greater number of slaves, it resulted in only two white fatalities.

While Grant had been able to suppress the KKK through the Force Acts, other paramilitary insurgents organized, including the White League in 1874, active in Louisiana ; and the Red Shirts, with chapters active in Mississippi and the Carolinas.

While Lower Louisiana had been settled by French colonists since the late 18th century, the Cajuns trace their roots to the influx of Acadian settlers after the Great Expulsion from their homeland during the French and Indian War ( 1754 to 1763 ).

While the university is constructing new apartment-style student housing complexes, Louisiana Tech is moving to demolish some of the traditional dormitories.

While attempting to eat in a small rural Louisiana restaurant, the trio's appearance attracts the attention of the locals.

While in Louisiana in 1798, they were entertained by Julian Poydras in the town of Point Coupee.

While en route to Louisiana, Scott's daughter Eliza was born on a steamboat underway along the Mississippi River between the Iowa Territory and Illinois.

While zydeco is a genre that has become synonymous with the cultural and musical identity of Louisiana and an important part of the musical landscape of the United States, this southern black music tradition has also now achieved much wider appreciation.

While in prison he was a member of the " Gunslingers " prison boxing team in Louisiana and reportedly had an 30-0 prison record.

While the peace treaty saw France's Indian outposts, and the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe restored to France, the competition for influence in India had been won by the British, and North America was entirely lost – most of New France was taken by Britain ( also referred to as British North America, except Louisiana, which France ceded to Spain as payment for Spain's late entrance into the war ( and as compensation for Britain's annexation of Spanish Florida ).

While the subtropical depression moved eastward, a new low level circulation redeveloped to the east, and Allison quickly made landfall on Morgan City, Louisiana on June 11.

While the number of slaves in the 1811 Louisiana revolt was the largest in U. S. history, they killed only two white men.

While its repertoire includes hundreds of traditional Cajun and zydeco songs, BeauSoleil has also pushed past constraints of purely traditional instrumentation, rhythm, and lyrics of Louisiana folk music, incorporating elements of rock-and-roll, jazz, blues, calypso, and other genres in original compositions and reworkings of traditional tunes.

While attending law school, he served as a legislative aide in the Louisiana state Senate.

While nutria are the most common herbivores in Louisiana marshes, they are not the only ones.

While historically other Louisiana French dialects, including Colonial or Plantation Society French, have been spoken in the state, these are now considered to have largely merged with the original Cajun dialects.

While in the Senate, Smith continued his profitable trading ventures in Louisiana and West Florida and pursued numerous land investment schemes.

While they are in the woods, a shiny black 4-door Lincoln ( a black 1993 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham in the film ) arrives, and soon W. Jerome " Romey " Clifford, a 44-year old lawyer from New Orleans, Louisiana, gets out of the car.

While preparing for a performance of the comedy Luv at the Beverly Barn Dinner Playhouse in Shreveport, Louisiana, Frank Sutton died of a heart attack on June 28, 1974, at the age of 50.

While most of Palmer ’ s archaeological research was performed in Arkansas, he also excavated mounds in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia.

While ending his raid in Louisiana he was able to take part in Nathaniel P. Banks ' siege of Port Hudson as commander of the XIX Corps cavalry.

While exploring the Louisiana Purchase with Lewis and Clark, he took ill at the end of July 1804.