While most Anabaptists adhered to a literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount which precluded taking oaths, participating in military actions, and participating in civil government, some who practiced re-baptism felt contrariwise.

While there is universal agreement that some Mesoamerican people practiced human sacrifice, there is a lack of scholarly consensus as to whether cannibalism in pre-Columbian America was widespread.

While intervention has been practiced since the international system has existed, its nature changed substantially.

While laying the foundation stone of the National Defence Academy ( India ) in 1949, he stated: " We, who for generations had talked about and attempted in everything a peaceful way and practiced non-violence, should now be, in a sense, glorifying our army, navy and air force.

While the Constitution declares Islam as the official religion, with ceremonial rulers as head of Islam in their respective states, other religions may be freely practiced ( albeit with restrictions against proselytizing to Muslims ).

While geophagy is most often seen in tribal and rural societies among children and pregnant women, it is practiced by members of all races, social classes, ages, and sexes.

While human sacrifice was practiced throughout Mesoamerica, the Aztecs, if their own accounts are to be believed, brought this practice to an unprecedented level.

While much of Australia's cultural output has traditionally tended to fit with general trends and styles in Western arts, the arts as practiced by indigenous Australians represent a unique Australian cultural tradition, and Australia's landscape and history have contributed to some unique variations in the styles inherited by Australia's various migrant communities.

While the popularity of council – manager government has endured into the twenty-first century, the system as practiced has changed over time, particularly in once medium-sized communities that have grown into more heterogeneous and politically contentious large cities.

While critiques of postcolonialism / neo-colonialism theory is widely practiced in literary theory, international relations theory also has defined " postcolonialism " as a field of study.

While filming the movie in Arkansas, Remick lived with a local family and practiced baton twirling so that she would be believable as the teenager who wins the attention of Lonesome Rhodes ( played by Andy Griffith ).

While his works say little else about his life, they tell us that he practiced the profession of pharmacy and personally attended to a very large number of customers.

While the practice of direct slavery is widely banned across the world, in some places debt-slavery is still practiced.

While Shinsato was there, one of the other demonstrators asked him the name of the martial art he practiced.

While most frequently practiced with works of different languages, comparative literature may also be performed on works of the same language if the works originate from different nations or cultures among which that language is spoken.

While slave masters worked diligently to convert their slaves to Christianity, the African slaves still practiced their own form of religious celebration which was called Slave Christianity.

While teaching, he also practiced law.

While textual criticism ( or lower criticism ) had been practiced for centuries, a number of approaches to historical analysis and a number of criteria for evaluating the historicity of events emerged as of 18th century, as a series of " Quests for the historical Jesus " took place.

While Dryden's own plays would themselves furnish later mock-heroics ( specifically, The Conquest of Granada is satirized in the mock-heroic The Author's Farce and Tom Thumb by Henry Fielding, as well as The Rehearsal ), Dryden's MacFlecknoe is perhaps the locus classicus of the mock-heroic form as it would be practiced for a century to come.

While Buddhism and Christianity are the most widely practiced religions, most religions are represented in the Special Administrative Region.

While traditionally taught and practiced in monasteries, hesychasm teachings have spread over the years to include laymen.

" While the monastic life makes this easier, Nikodemos himself stressed that " unceasing prayer " should be practiced by all.

While the use of bones in divination has been practiced almost globally, such divination involving fire or heat has generally been found in Asia and the Asian-derived North American cultures.

While their program of united resistance to Russian conquest was popular, uniting Ichkeria / Mishketia with Dagestan was not necessarily ( see Shamil's page ), especially as some Chechens still practiced the indigenous religion, most Chechen Muslims belonged to heterodox Sufi Muslim teachings ( divided between Qadiri and Naqshbandiya, with a strong Qadiri majority ), rather than the more orthodox Sunni Islam of Dagestan ; and finally, the rule of Ichkeria by a foreign ruler not only spurred distrust, but also threatened the existence of Ichkeria's indigenous " taip-conference " government structure.

While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.

While some people with bipolar disorder mainly experience manic symptoms, others more often feel depressed.

While in Fort Worth, Wills added the " rowdy city blues " of Bessie Smith and Emmett Miller to a repertoire of mainly waltzes and breakdowns he had learned from his father, and patterned his vocal style after that of Miller and other performers such as Al Bernard.

While the addition to the electron-rich alkenes and alkynes is mainly electrophilic, the nucleophilic addition plays an important role for the carbon-heteroatom multiple bonds, and especially its most important representative, the carbonyl group.

While an emphasis remains on agriculture and stock breeding, due to the climate and terrain of the island, there has been a drop in manufacturing, and an observable expansion in its service industries ( mainly tourism-related ).

While it has skin and blood ( cellular organic systems ), these serve mainly as a disguise and are not symbiotic with the machine components, a trait of true cyborgs.

While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

While Charles Darwin is mainly noted for his treatise on evolution, he was one of the founders of soil ecology, and he made note of the first ecological experiment in The Origin of Species.

While he was billed as a supporting actor in the 1978 Battlestar Galactica pilot, a majority of his scenes were cut mainly because those scenes dealt with Serina's ( Jane Seymour ) " space cancer " B-story which had been excised from the final cut.

While glycerophospholipids are the major component of biological membranes, other non-glyceride lipid components such as sphingomyelin and sterols ( mainly cholesterol in animal cell membranes ) are also found in biological membranes.

While the CIA Factbook in 2006 stated that the " US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system ", ( in addition to non-industrialised Burma / Myanmar, Liberia ), the actual situation, however, is more complicated than the CIA Factbook would suggest-in the United Kingdom, for example, although metric is the official system for most regulated trading by weight or measure purposes, the pint is the official unit for milk in returnable bottles and for draught beer and cider in British pubs, and miles, yards and feet remain the official units for road signage.

While the mobility of walking vehicles is arguably higher than that of wheeled or tracked vehicles, their inherent complexity has limited their use mainly to experimental vehicles.

While some stations play all kinds of electronic dance music, others ( mainly pirate radio stations ) focus on particular genres.

While quarterbacks are mainly not a factor in terms of receiving forward passes, some trick plays, like the flea flicker, require quarterbacks to catch a lateral by a wide receiver or running back before delivering a forward pass.

While large farms concentrate mainly on the production of grain and husbandry products, small private household plots produce most of the country's yield of potatoes, vegetables and fruits.

While sociobiology is predicated on the observation that genes do affect behavior, it is perfectly consistent to be a sociobiologist while arguing that measured IQ variations between individuals reflect mainly cultural or economic rather than genetic factors.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance have increased in recent centuries, mainly because of Industrialization, advanced transportation, globalization, multinational corporations, and outsourcing.

While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.

While the majority of the missile launches came from United States Department of Defense footage of ICBM missile tests ( mainly Minuteman IIIs from Vandenberg Air Force Base adjacent to Lompoc, California ), all of the stock footage of missile launches were acquired from declassified DoD film libraries.

While this book contains some history of the Nephites, including the death of Nephi, it is mainly a record of Jacob's preachings to his people.

While PEDOT ( poly ( 3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene )) is mainly used in antistatic applications and as a transparent conductive layer in form of PEDOT: PSS dispersions ( PSS = polystyrene sulfonic acid ), polyaniline is widely used for printed circuit board manufacturing – in the final finish, for protecting copper from corrosion and preventing its solderability.

While cortical axons synapse mainly on spine heads of spiny neurons, nigral axons synapse mainly on spine shafts.

While Shea concentrated mainly on historical novels, Wilson produced over 30 works, mixing fictional novels with nonfiction.

While technically ' bong ' does not mean a device used for smoking mainly marijuana, drug-related connotations have been formed with the word itself ( partly due to punning with Sanskrit bhangah " hemp ").