While the Sheldon Scale is universally acknowledged, coin experts in Europe and elsewhere often shun the numerical system, preferring to rate specimens on a purely descriptive, or adjectival, scale.

While some species are found in most habitats, overall African species are predominantly found in rainforest whilst rainforest species are rare in Asia, instead preferring more open areas.

While Jeanne was part of the faction that brought down the duc de Choiseul, Minister of Foreign Affairs, she was unlike her late predecessor, Madame de Pompadour, in that she had little interest in politics, preferring rather to pass her time ordering new ravishing gowns and all sorts of complementary jewellery.

While reluctant to speak about his private life, it is assumed that his war experience and the war's aftermath persuaded him not to pursue his academic career, preferring to help former soldiers reintegrate into civilian life by assisting them finding employment or further their education.

While other members of Congress who come from a medical background prefer to be referred to as " Doctor " while serving in Congress ( most notably former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist ), Simpson does not insist that he be referred to as Dr. Simpson, preferring to simply go by Congressman or Mr. Simpson.

While he possesses great strength and cunning, he is often depicted as lazy, preferring to send his minions, Nim and Keeg, out into the jungle to bring him food and to perform any other task he feels is beneath him.

While Sui Generis achieved a different, more mature sound with Instituciones, its public did not embrace it, preferring the old one.

While it is established by secular sources that Hinduism and Buddhism were in competition during this time, with the Sungas preferring the former to the latter, historians such as Etienne Lamotte and Romila Thapar argue that Buddhist accounts of persecution of Buddhists by Sungas are largely exaggerated.

David Cornelius of DVD Talk said " While many Sonic fans did not take too well to all the changes, preferring the original " Sonic " cartoon to this stranger, sometimes darker, sometimes sillier incarnation, the series did win a small but loyal cult following.

While these grounds are the regular home of Bruce Wayne, he temporarily vacated it in the stories from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, preferring to live in a penthouse apartment on top of the Wayne Foundation building in the city, which also included a secret sub-basement acting as a Batcave.

While Seiji is quite happy ( and Midori therefore quite unhappy ) to see her again, he is rather disconcerted by the fact that she tends to idolize manga characters, preferring them to real boys.

While there are indeed a number of human barons, they all tend to be uninterested in politics, preferring instead to dabble in experimental surgery and " Meddling In Things Man Was Not Meant To Wot Of ," each with the help of their personal Igors.

While cruel, Bakaar does not usually involve himself directly in the fight against the Knights ; preferring to let his soldiers and minions to do the job ( often with much failure ).

While managing, McCarthy utilized a low-key approach, never going to the mound to remove a pitcher or arguing with an umpire except on a point of the rules, preferring to stay at his seat in the center of the dugout.

While in general reactions to the Latin influence on English have been neutral or positive – either not commenting or finding the vocabulary useful – there has been some opposition in the form of linguistic purism, which rejects borrowings, especially Latinate, preferring instead native terms.

While preparing diving equipment to reach the ice cavern with the spacecraft, Gant admitted her attraction to Book, but said she didn't want to admit the feelings to Schofield himself, preferring to be close and unable to touch him than be further away and still not touch him.

While Botero disagrees with Bodin's thought on sovereignty, preferring something more popularly based, he does agree with some of Bodin's economic ideas.

While serving as an assistant coach, Guthridge turned down several head coaching opportunities, preferring to remain in Chapel Hill working alongside Smith.

While Charles II did have his own version of the Test Act, he was slow to jail or persecute Puritans, preferring merely to keep them from public office ( and therefore to try to rob them of their Parliamentary positions ).

While widely used today, some adherents of Wahhabism shun them as an intolerable innovation, preferring to stick to the exact method believed to have been used by Muhammad.

While the film was released in 1964, the song " I'm a Roustabout " was not used, producer Hal Wallis instead preferring " Roustabout ", written by Bill Giant, Bernie Baum and Florence Kaye, as the title song.

While he enjoyed recounting tales from his military experience, he never complained about the segregated nature of his unit, preferring instead to focus on his own exploits on the job.

While Alexei was pondering his options, on 26 August 1716 Peter wrote to Alexei from abroad, urging him, if he desired to remain tsarevich, to join him and the army without delay.

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 Alexander had been priming Athanasius to assume the bishopric after his death, it is said, he was not unanimously supported, and questions of his age ( the minimum age to become a bishop was thirty, and questions remain to this day whether he was yet that old ).

While 55 % thought he " would have something worthwhile to contribute and should remain active in public life ", 68 % thought he would be remembered for his " involvement in personal scandal ", and 58 % answered " No " to the question " Do you generally think Bill Clinton is honest and trustworthy?

While many older Soviet and European cars remain in service in Cuba, they are largely eclipsed by the island's great 1950s Cadillacs, Packards, De Sotos and similar products from one of the most ornate styling periods in U. S. auto history.

While many developing countries have been eager to join CITES, the annual costs of staffing and maintaining a CITES office and an effective presence at the biennial CoP gatherings remain unaffordable for many signatory nations.

While mountain tops remain snow-capped year long, near the coast snow only stays on the ground for a few minutes or hours.

While both types of gun were effective against wooden ships, neither had the capability to pierce the armour of ironclads ; due to reports of slight problems with the breeches of the Armstrong gun, and their higher cost, the older muzzle-loaders were selected to remain in service, instead.

While some of his findings have endured and remain relevant to this day ( Learning Curve ), his greatest contribution to the field of memory research was demonstrating that memory can be studied scientifically.

Earthdawn Player's Compendium ( RedBrick Limited ) While RedBrick tried to remain faithful to FASA's vision and also tried to keep the visual style, they revised almost everything, and introduced some new material to fill the gaps.

While taxonomists using molecular phylogenetic techniques find strong support for the order, there remain questions about the morphological relationships of the Quillajaceae and Surianaceae to the rest of the order, due in part to limited research on these families.

While " flame wars " are not illegal, so long as they remain ad hominem, threats and insults said within them may break cyber laws.

While the abolition of the financial rand marked the end of capital controls on Non-Residents, controls remain in place on South African Residents to the present day ( September 2012 ).

While scientists have learned a great deal about ours and other galaxies, the most fundamental questions about formation and evolution remain only tentatively answered.

While pushing her eldest son Leonard ( Chico Marx ) in piano lessons, she found that Julius had a pleasant soprano voice and the ability to remain on key.

While mandating the closure of the detention camp, the naval base as a whole was not subject to the order and will remain operational indefinitely.

While tensions remain ( for example, with Muslim immigrants and in the Basque region ), modern Spain has seen the development of a robust, modern democracy as a constitutional monarchy with popular King Juan Carlos, one of the fastest-growing standards of living in Europe, entry into the European Community, and the 1992 Summer Olympics.

While there is little scholarly debate about the existence of some of these differences, their causes remain highly controversial both within academia and in the public sphere.

While proponents may say that secrecy allows the jury to remain impartial by protecting it from undue pressure or attention, opponents contend that this prevents there from being a transparent trial.

While the surrounding seas are generally rough, they remain ice-free year-round.

While allegiances dating back to the liberation struggle remain relevant, Mozambique's foreign policy has become increasingly pragmatic.

While relations with neighboring Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania show occasional strains, Mozambique's ties to these countries remain strong.

While other guidance systems have been tried, the basic reliability of wire-guidance means this will remain the primary means of controlling anti-tank missile in the near future.

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 many former motel chains have become hotel chains and some have entirely left the low-end of the market, a handful of national franchise brands ( Econo Lodge, Thriftlodge, Knights Inn ) remain available to owners of existing motels with the original drive-up-to-room motor court architecture.