While preparing for the entrance exam, she suffered a personal tragedy after her mother died from a prolonged battle with tuberculosis in Switzerland.

While a law student, Hoover became interested in the career of Anthony Comstock, the New York City United States Postal Inspector, who waged prolonged campaigns against fraud and vice, and also was against pornography and birth control.

While infiltrating the headquarters of ' Project: Wideawake ' to find his old teammate John Wraith, Wolverine encounters two full-sized Sentinels, destroying a half-finished Sentinel with a Sentinel hand-weapon and defeating the other one in a prolonged confrontation.

While palette knives are manufactured without sharpened cutting edges, with prolonged use they may become " sharpened " by the action of abrasive pigments such as earth colors.

While it may be confiding in the breeding and non-breeding seasons, and vagrant birds especially are extremely tame, they will still hide when they are aware of being watched, and will hesitate before entering the nest and even take roundabout routes towards the nest during prolonged observations.

While Cornwallis protected the main British column from any further American attack, Washington had fought his opponent to a standstill after a pitched and prolonged engagement ; the first time that Washington's army had achieved such a result.

While Romania did emancipate itself from Ottoman tutelage, Brătianu had to accommodate a prolonged Russian occupation, and the Congress of Berlin saw Russia seizing counties of the Budjak that were still Romanian-owned ( Romania was awarded Northern Dobruja in return ).

While some consider the noise reduction of a suppressor significant enough to permit safe shooting without hearing protection (" hearing safe "), noise-induced hearing loss may occur at 85 time-weighted-average decibels or above if exposed for a prolonged period, and suppressed gunshots regularly meter above 130 dB.

While nearly all agreed that some form of prescription drug benefit would be included, other provisions were the subject of prolonged debate in Congress.

While the most obvious symptoms are related to motor skills, prolonged progression of the disease can lead to cognitive and behavioral problems as well as dementia.

While lynchings of blacks by mobs around the same time were spontaneous and quickly concluded, the incident at Rosewood was prolonged over several days.

While rarely closed for weather, two situations have made shutdown necessary: Tropical Storm Fay and prolonged freezing conditions.

While it had been undergoing repairs at the time of the February 22 earthquake, the building thankfully did not sustain any further damage, which would have prolonged the time required for repairs.

While living abroad, Švitrigaila sided with the Teutonic Knights in their prolonged struggle against Vytautas.

While breastfeeding may also contribute to prolonged milk production and breast enlargement, temporary or permanent weaning is not recommended.

While endorsing some aspects of Dobrogeanu-Gherea's theories regarding the ways in which serfdom was allegedly prolonged, in a discreet form, even after the 20th century, Pătrăşcanu challenged his refusal to investigate the effects of capitalism in rural areas.

While true allergies are associated with fast-acting immunoglobulin IgE responses, it can be difficult to determine the offending food causing a food intolerance because the response generally takes place over a prolonged period of time.

While there are many means of achieving this, two of the most common are prolonged boiling in a strong acid ( acid-HVP ) or strong base or using an enzyme such as the pancreatic protease enzyme to stimulate the naturally occurring hydrolytic process.

While all tea plant tissues accumulate fluorine to some extent, tea bricks that are made from old tea leaves and stems can accumulate large amounts of this element, which can make them unsafe for consumption in large quantities or over prolonged periods.

While it is primarily an aquatic plant, the rhizomes can survive prolonged dry conditions.

While various styles of amateur wrestling continued as legitimate sports, grappling as a promotional business did not return to Britain until the beginning of the 1930s when the success of the more worked aspects of professional wrestling in America, like gimmickry and showmanship, were introduced to British wrestling.

While the West was firmly embedding its new political institutions, or contesting the growing forces of socialism ( which had overpowered parts of the feudal and aristocratic West ), the Indian intelligentsia was grappling with the challenge of the first major task ahead of it, namely independence.

While the phrase " hand-to-hand " appears to refer to unarmed combat, the term is generic and may include use of striking weapons used at grappling distance such as knives, sticks, batons, or improvised weapons such as entrenching tools.

While the course is heavy on grappling, it does not lose sight of the fact that it is a course designed for soldiers going into combat.

While sportive grappling had fixed rules that prohibited dangerous techniques, usually starting in grappling hold and ending with a throw or submission,

While the precepts for monks and nuns differ somewhat depending on which tradition one has ordained in ( Tibetan, Thai Theravadan, etc.

While the Thai State offers recourse in the courts to obtain satisfaction after the fact, Thai authorities, NGOs and others generally offer little or no protection in preventing hate speech.

While in Thai the pronunciation can largely be inferred from the script, the orthography is complex, with silent letters to preserve original spellings and many letters representing the same sound.

While the oldest known inscription in the Khmer language dates from 611 CE, inscriptions in Thai writing began to appear around 1292 CE.

While in English, such classifiers are usually absent (" four chairs ") or optional (" two bottles of beer " or " two beers "), a classifier is almost always used in Thai ( hence " chair four item " and " beer two bottle ").

While serving as ambassador to Thailand, Martin came to the attention of Richard Nixon during a state banquet for the Thai King.

While Patpong is internationally known as a red light district at the heart of Bangkok's sex industry, it is in fact only one of numerous red-light districts some catering primarily to Thai men and some others, like Patpong, catering primarily to foreigners.

While the surrounding portico of the shrine is an example of Thai craftsmanship, the perimeter of the temple complex has 12 open pavilions.

While Thai classical music was somewhat discouraged as being unmodern and backward looking during Thailand's aggressively nationalistic modernization policies of mid-20th century, the classical arts have benefited recently from increased governmental sponsorship and funding as well as popular interest as expressed in such films as Homrong: The Overture ( 2003 ), a popular fictionalized biography of a famous traditional xylophone ( ranat ek ) performer.

While Kathoey may encompass simple effeminacy or transvestism, it most commonly is treated in Thai culture as a third gender.

While he was in Ayutthaya, Thailand, 75 kilometers north of Bangkok, he was planning a terrorist attack against several Thai hotels and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit ( APEC ) in Bangkok on October 2003.

While the Sai Yok National Park in the Dawna Hills contains much of the bat's range, some Thai populations occur outside the park and are therefore unprotected.

While scholarships and special recruitment programs do help attract many bright students, its average currently-Admission score is still unacceptably low comparing to other leading science and engineering programs in the country — which, in turns, affects the image of the institute in the eyes of Thai students.

While not a government-observed holiday, it is nonetheless an auspicious day in Thai culture, in which Thai people " loi ", meaning " to float " a " krathong ", a small raft traditionally made from a section of banana tree, decorated with elaborately-folded banana leaves, flowers, candles, incense sticks etc.

While the main story is identical to that of the Ramayana, many other aspects were transposed into a Thai context, such as the clothes, weapons, topography, and elements of nature, which are described as being Thai in style.

While working in a bank, he had a chance to meet the famous Thai TV producer " Kai Varayuth " who saw entertainment talent in Bird.

While some of these servicemen formed lasting relationships with Thai women, some luk khrueng were the product of temporary relationships with " rented wives " or prostitutes, a fact which led to some discrimination in that era.

While the majority of Thai literature before the twentieth century was dominated by royal and elite authors writing for the kingdom ’ s gentry, it has been argued that Khamsing ’ s divergence from typical Thai literary subject matter has created the concept of the Thai peasant as a literary hero.

While the southern dialect has borrowed more Burmese words, Eastern Shan is somewhat closer to northern Thai language dialects ( Kam Muang, Yuan ) and Lao in vocabulary and pronunciation, and the northern so-called " Chinese Shan " is much influenced by the Yunnan-Chinese dialect.