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 physically in Louisiana, Long customarily stayed at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans, where he was fond of the Sazerac Bar ( see Peychaud's Bitters ).

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 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.

In this case, is the smallest σ-algebra that contains the open intervals of R. While there are many Borel measures μ, the choice of Borel measure which assigns for every interval is sometimes called " the " Borel measure on R. In practice, even " the " Borel measure is not the most useful measure defined on the σ-algebra of Borel sets ; indeed, the Lebesgue measure is an extension of " the " Borel measure which possesses the crucial property that it is a complete measure ( unlike the Borel measure ).

While words are generally accepted as being ( with clitics ) the smallest units of syntax, it is clear that in most languages, if not all, words can be related to other words by rules ( grammars ).

While it has been described as the world's smallest nation, or a micronation, Sealand is not currently officially recognised by any established sovereign state.

While the pin diameter placed a lower limit on the smallest reproducible graphic detail, manufacturers were able to use higher dot density to great effect in improving text quality.

While typical owls ( hereafter referred to simply as owls ) vary greatly in size, with the smallest species, the Elf Owl, being a hundred times smaller than the largest, the Eurasian Eagle-Owl and Blakiston's Fish Owl, owls generally share an extremely similar body plan.

While words are generally accepted as being ( with clitics ) the smallest units of syntax, it is clear that, in most ( if not all ) languages, words can be related to other words by rules.

While Scotland County is the smallest county in the state of North Carolina ( 100 out of 100 ), it ranks 63rd in generating tourism dollars.

While Pinneberg is the smallest district within Schleswig-Holstein, it has the most inhabitants.

While most rafts are large multi-passenger craft, the smallest rafts are single-person whitewater craft, see packraft.

While N scale is quite small, it is not the smallest commercially available scale, as Z scale is smaller yet at 1: 220 and T scale is 1: 450 or 1: 480.

While today's radios are amazing pieces of modern technology, filled with low-power, high performance, integrated circuits crammed into the smallest spaces, the basic principle of the radio receiver is practically always the superheterodyne one, the same idea which was developed by Edwin Armstrong back in 1918.

While it is the smallest county in Ireland in terms of area, it is also the county with the longest name.

While it has the smallest geographic jurisdiction of any of the United States courts of appeals, the D. C.

While the smallest gaps can be filled with glue, larger ones can be filled with specially carved matches.

While SL45 was one of the most advanced phones in its time, it was also one of the smallest.

While Marzullo's Algorithm will return the smallest interval consistent with the largest number of sources, the returned interval does not necessarily include the center point ( calculated offset ) of all the sources in the intersection.

While most mailers use mailing systems, new technologies are making metered mail accessible to even the smallest of businesses.

While Sergei had their best interests at heart, his preoccupation with the smallest detail of their education and upbringing were not appealing to the two difficult adolescents.

* While 50, 245 fans showed up for the New York Yankees ' home opener, it was the smallest opening day crowd at Yankee Stadium since 1990.

While the neurophysiological data suggested that the smallest two point thresholds would be at vibration frequencies less than 60 Hertz, Roger ’ s experiments showed that the two point thresholds around 200 Hertz were actually smaller.

While SESAC is the smallest of the three U. S. performing rights organizations, size is its largest advantage.

While Medley Hall is the smallest of the residential colleges, it is not lacking in facilities.