While Yahweh demands animals that are " without blemish " ( Leviticus 1: 3, NRSV ), the priests, who were " to determine whether the animal was acceptable " ( Mason 143 ), were offering blind, lame and sick animals for sacrifice because they thought nobody would notice.

While in a trance the Pythia " raved " – probably a form of ecstatic speech – and her ravings were " translated " by the priests of the temple into elegant hexameters.

As Anglicanism represents a broad range of theological opinion, its presbyterate includes priests who consider themselves no different in any respect from those of the Roman Catholic Church, and a minority who prefer to use the title presbyter in order to distance themselves from the more sacrificial theological implications which they associate with the word “ priest .” While priest is the official title of a member of the presbyterate in every Anglican province worldwide, the ordination rite of certain provinces ( including the Church of England ) recognizes the breadth of opinion by adopting the title The Ordination of Priests ( also called Presbyters ).

While priests emphasized works of religiosity, the respectability of the church began diminishing, especially among well educated urbanites, and especially considering the recent strings of political humiliation, such as the apprehension of Pope Boniface VIII by Philip IV of France, the " Babylonian Captivity.

While all the Eastern Catholic Churches recognize the authority of the Pope, some of them who having originally been part of the Orthodox Church or Oriental Orthodox Church closely follow the traditions of Orthodoxy or Oriental Orthodoxy, including the tradition of allowing married men to become priests.

While Ceres ' original Aventine cult was led by male priests, her " Greek rites " ( ritus graecus Cereris ) were exclusively female.

While the religion flourished these priests accompanied public officials, including generals in the field, and were consulted on everything of interest to the senate and people of Rome.

While Touvier plugged into the remains of the old Catholic right, he also was aided by a number of credulous, apolitical priests.

While the killing of sacrifices was a prerogative of Strangite priests, female priests were specifically barred from participating in this aspect of the priestly office.

While the priests taught him mathematics and Latin, his mother completed his education.

While the natives ( indios ) were trained to become secular clergy, Spanish priests in the powerful religious orders were given preferential treatment in the assignment to parishes.

While initially these baths were only used by priests, sick people gradually also gained access, until in the Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1333 ) sick people were routinely allowed access to the bath house.

While the king restored the priesthood of Amun, he did not permit the Amun priests from forming a stranglehold on power by deliberately reappointing priests who mostly came from the Egyptian army since he could rely on their personal loyalty.

While this structure is not optimal, it certainly served its purpose of allowing its intended readership ( Catholic priests familiar with Latin grammars ) to get a basic enough grasp of the language to be able to communicate with and evangelise to the natives.

While Buddhist monks are common in most villages, Taoist priests and shamans have become very few and serve the whole area.

While there was a higher rate of rejection in urban areas, most of these refractory priests ( like most of the population ) lived in the countryside, and the Civil Constitution generated considerable resentment among religious peasants.

While the replacement, juror priests often faced a hostile and violent reception in their old parishes On 7 May 1791, the Assembly reversed itself, deciding that the non-juring priests, referred to as prêtres habitués (" habitual priests ") could say Mass and conduct services in other churches on condition that they would respect the laws and not stir up revolt against the Civil Constitution.

While the college still retains its original function as a centre for the education of future priests and ministers of the Catholic Church, its student body is now much larger, more international and more diverse.

While his doctrines follow the middle path, his gifts are to the brahmibns, sramansa ( Buddhist priests ) and others equally.

While a young man, Alma was one of several corrupt priests who served King Noah in the land of Nephi.

While historical wizards were known to build towers for themselves, the builders are unknown.

While not being unkind they are all busy forming new relationships ( such as Mrs Cake talking to the wizards ).

While making the wearer invisible to Muggles and wizards, some creatures are able to sense people hidden under it.

While attempting to maintain a timeline where The Origin was written, the wizards inadvertently take Darwin to the Discworld.

While it is made clear in the first book in the series that anyone who possesses the ability to wield magic is amongst the Few, it is also mentioned in book 2 ( The Warrior-Prophet ) that unless they are part of a School as sorcerers, they are merely wizards.

While Doremi and the girls learn to take care of Hana and help her take baby tests, at the same time, the wizards in the Wizard World are afraid of the tremendous magical power Hana has.

While the series is set in Great Britain, there is evidence that the wizarding world has locations throughout the globe, such as in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when it describes many people at the Quidditch World Cup speaking foreign languages, the number of Irish wizards working for the Ministry and attending Hogwarts, as well as the various nationalities attending Beauxbatons and Durmstrang suggest the wizarding world's borders differ from the geopolitical divisions of the Muggle world.

While white is the coolest summer shade, there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend with any wardrobe color.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

While there are now allegations of the withholding of `` favorable evidence developed at the hearing '' and a denial of a `` full and fair hearing '', no such claim was made by petitioner at any stage of the administrative process.

While 2-year-olds are still gaining most of the attention at the track, green horses are starting to go a bit, and Jimmy Cruise has several that can really make it.

While individual sportsmen are aware of this situation, too many of our political, social, educational and even religious leaders too often forget it.

While some suppression and some denial are not only necessary but healthy, the worker's clinical knowledge must determine how these defenses are being used, what healthy shifts in defensive adaptation are indicated, and when efforts at bringing about change can be most effectively timed.

While there are many different possibilities for the timing of casework intervention, the experiments recently reported from a variety of traditional settings all point up the importance of an immediate response to the client's initial need for help.

While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

While ATP appears to be necessary for the occurrence of contraction, its presence and enzymatic hydrolysis of it by the muscle protein myosin are not the only criteria for contraction.

While there are still many bugs to be ironed out, the technique is fast developing.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

While patent suits are still among the most complex and expensive forms of litigation, these rules have saved litigants uncounted sums of money.

While details are still to be worked out, Ratcliff said he expects to tell home folks in Dallas why he thinks Berry's proposed constitutional amendment should be rejected.

While availability of mortgage money has been a factor in encouraging apartment construction, the generally high level of prosperity in the past few years plus rising consumer income are among the factors that have encouraged builders to concentrate in the apartment-building field.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

While we are filling outer space with scientific successes, for many the `` inner '' space of their soul is an aching void.

While there is general agreement on these six families, there are some points of disagreement among linguists who study Afroasiatic.

While most alphabets have letters composed of lines ( linear writing ), there are also exceptions such as the alphabets used in Braille, fingerspelling, and Morse code.