While the president pro tempore does have other official duties, the holders of the office have, like the vice president, over time ceased presiding over the Senate on a daily basis, owing to the mundane and ceremonial nature of the position.

While in session, the Senate had the power to act on its own, and even against the will of the presiding magistrate if it wished.

While the fundamental nature of Janus is debated, in most modern scholars ' view the set of the god's functions may be seen as being organized around a simple principle: that of presiding over all beginnings and transitions, whether abstract or concrete, sacred or profane.

While presiding over the Mathematical Association of America in the 1950s, he initiated its activities aimed at improving the teaching of modern mathematics.

" While there are many possible grounds for censuring members of an organization, such as embezzlement, absenteeism, drunkenness, and so on, DEM notes that the grounds for censuring a presiding officer are more limited:

While serving as commissioner, she continued her national involvement, presiding over both the Welfare Reform: Next Step Task Force for the National Association of Counties and the association ’ s Human Services and Youth committee.

While presiding over this mission, Pratt received a pamphlet from Lorenzo Snow entitled " The voice of Joseph " that Snow wanted translated into French to advance his missionary efforts in northern Italy.

While presiding over the church's branches and interests in New England and the mid-Atlantic states, Pratt published a periodical entitled The Prophet from his headquarters in New York City.

While the latter was committed to the notion of Lebanon as a nation state defined as an entity presiding over the borders outlined first by the Sykes-Picot agreement in 1916, and afterwards by the French administrative division of its mandate into six states including the state of Greater Lebanon, the SSNP rejected this national claim on the basis that the borders outlining the newly-created states were fictitious, resulting from colonialism, and do not reflect any historical and social realities.

While Smith believed that he was entitled to become the presiding patriarch or a member of the Council of Twelve Apostles of the RLDS Church, his nephew did not agree and William Smith remained a high priest in the RLDS Church for the remainder of his life.

While all three are charged with presiding over church government, the president has extra responsibilities as prophet, seer, and revelator of the church.

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 convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

While Republicans were discouraged, Democrats were energized and did especially well in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and New York.

While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.

* Egg roll – While native Chinese spring rolls have a thin crispy skin with mushrooms, bamboo, and other vegetables inside, the Westernized version ( specifically the version found in such American Northeast metro areas as Boston and New York ) uses a thick, fried skin stuffed with cabbage and usually bits of meat or seafood ( such as pork or shrimp ), but no egg.

While being a Middle Comic poet, Alexis was contemporary with several leading figures of New Comedy, such as Philippides, Philemon, Diphilus, and even Menander.

While on a recital tour in New Zealand ( 1895 ) he began to realise the wider significance of head carriage for overall physical functioning.

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.

Bronx Local: While hundreds of songs about New York City, Manhattan and Brooklyn can be found in Wikipedia's List of songs about New York City and also in Marc Ferris's 5-page, 15-column list of " Songs and Compositions Inspired by New York City " in The Encyclopedia of New York City ( 1995 ), only a handful refer to The Bronx.

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 Boxing Day is 26 December, many retailers who hold Boxing Day Sales will run the sales for several days before or after 26 December, often up to New Year's Eve.

While unsustainable imbalances may persist for long periods ( cf, Singapore and New Zealand ’ s surpluses and deficits, respectively ), the distortions likely to be caused by large flows of wealth out of one economy and into another tend to become intolerable.

While living in Hall County, Texas they also played at ' ranch dances ' which were popular in both North Texas and eastern New Mexico.

While male players are in the majority at club level in the UK, the opposite is the case in Australia and New Zealand.

While living in New York, Elwes studied acting at both the Actors Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

While Britain, Australia and New Zealand have traditionally employed the European usage ( below ), they have been moving to the U. S. system more recently.

While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

While Camilla Hall attended elementary school in Minnesota, the family moved to Montclair, New Jersey until Hall was to start high school.

While the southern two counties have historically been predominantly agricultural, New Castle County has been more industrialized.

* 1960 – 1960 New York air disaster: While approaching New York's Idlewild Airport, a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 collides with a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation in a blinding snowstorm over Staten Island, killing 134.

While dominatrices come from many different backgrounds, it has been noted that a considerable number are very well-educated, with a recent survey of New York dominatrices revealing that 39 % had attended graduate school / university, including well-regarded institutions such as Columbia University.