While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

While he was heir-apparent — 1865 to 1881 — Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.

While most traditional Spanish style builders use the one piece neck / heel block, Fleta a prominent Spanish builder used a dovetail joint due to the influence of his early training in violin making.

While Cotton Mather was experimenting with the procedure, prominent Puritan pastors Benjamin Colman and William Cooper expressed public and theological support for them.

While Captain Marvel did not recapture his old popularity, he later appeared in a Saturday morning live action TV adaptation and gained a prominent place in the mainstream continuity DC calls the DC Universe.

While James and John are prominent disciples in the synoptics, John mentions them only in the epilogue, where they are referred to not by name but as the " sons of Zebedee.

While not very prominent in modern English, cases featured much more saliently in Old English and other ancient Indo-European languages, such as Latin, Ancient Greek, and Sanskrit.

While his stories appeared in the pages of prominent pulp magazines such as Weird Tales ( eliciting letters of outrage as often as letters of praise from regular readers of the magazines ), not many people knew his name.

While it is hard to assess the significance of military archery in pre-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon warfare, it is clear that archery played a prominent role under the Normans, as the story of the Battle of Hastings shows.

While writing that the series fulfills the norms of mass-market fiction, as mentioned above, magazine writer Michelle Goldberg characterized the books as an attack on Judaism and liberal secularism, and suggested that the near-future " end times " in which the books are set seem to reflect the actual worldview of millions of Americans, including many prominent conservative leaders.

While Merlot is grown throughout the state, it is particularly prominent in Napa, Monterey and Sonoma County.

While it is uncertain to what extent his work was read amongst the warrior class as opposed to the clergy, Vegetius remained prominent in the literature on warfare in the medieval period.

While there he took a prominent part in the consultations of the various congregations of which he was a member.

While satire of everyday life in the USSR was allowed, the most prominent satirist being Arkady Raikin, political satire existed in the form of anecdotes that made fun of Soviet political leaders, especially Brezhnev, famous for his narrow-mindness and love for awards and decorations.

While studying in Toronto he met a wide circle of friends, many of whom became prominent.

While the LMC is often considered an irregular type galaxy ( the NASA Extragalactic Database lists the Hubble sequence type as Irr / SB ( s ) m ), the LMC contains a very prominent bar in its center, suggesting that it may have previously been a barred spiral galaxy.

While some patients may initially present with a large number of alters, this number may reduce during treatment — though it is considered important for the therapist to become familiar with at least the more prominent personality states as the " host " personality may not be the " true " identity of the patient.

While Ethnic Koreans make up only 0. 5 % of the Japanese population, they are a prominent part of yakuza, despite or perhaps because they suffer severe discrimination in Japanese society alongside the burakumin.

While social hierarchies do exist, rank plays a less prominent role than in other primate societies.

While a few characters are most prominent, notably Yossarian and the Chaplain, the majority of named characters are described in detail with fleshed out or multidimensional personas to the extent that there are few if any " minor characters.

While most systems support a variety of cloning, ex nihilo object creation is not as prominent.

While Clark's 1976 leadership rivals were prominent in that province, Claude Wagner had left politics and recently died, while Brian Mulroney was still bitter about his loss and turned down an offer to serve under Clark.

While a number of major international stars gained early prominence in Australia over the period, an important stable of established and emerging local stars with prodigious film credits remained prominent, including screen veterans Charles Tingwell, Bill Hunter, Jack Thompson, Bryan Brown and Chris Haywood.

While most of the bands embraced the straight edge lifestyle, some prominent ones from this era did not, such as Biohazard, Madball and Sick of It All.

) While these locations are largely the legacy of the region's historical importance as a Japanese-American population center, it has proven fortuitous for two reasons: first, it enables closer oversight of vehicle import operations at the nearby ports ; and second, it gives them proximity to the automobile customization culture that is prominent in nearby South Los Angeles.

While this effort has by no means converted all, or even most, Muslims to the Wahhabist interpretation of Islam, it has done much to overwhelm more moderate local interpretations, and has set the Saudi-interpretation of Islam as the " gold standard " of religion in Muslims ' minds.

While fasting from dawn until sunset Muslims refrain from consuming food, drinking liquids, smoking and sexual relations ; and in some interpretations from swearing.

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 in power, it enforced its strict interpretation of Sharia law, and leading Muslims have been highly critical of the Taliban's interpretations of Islamic law.

While the Zamorin was willing to sign a new treaty, Gama made a preposterous call to the Hindu king to expel all Muslims from Calicut before beginning negotiations, which was naturally turned down.

While out right Monasticism is forbidden in Islam, Muslims are encouraged to view this life as a transitory period bordering on a mirage.

While obviously meant to take place in the mid-Fifth century, Foster incorporated anachronistic elements: Viking Longships, Muslims, alchemists and technological advances not made before the Renaissance.

While it is prohibited in France for the government census to collect data on religious beliefs, estimates and polls place the percentage of Muslims at between 4 % and 7 %.

While Sarkozy created the French Council of the Muslim Faith, an official body which is now dominated by Orthodoxes, Villepin would have preferred a " Muslim foundation ", in which mosque-based representatives would be balanced by secular Muslims.

While forcefully speaking out against Islamic anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli rhetoric, the American Jewish Committee ( AJC ) has worked since 1985 to enhance relations between Jews and Muslims.

While most western scholars, Jews, and Christians believe Jesus died, most Muslims believe he was raised to Heaven without being put on the cross and God transformed another person to appear exactly like Jesus who was crucified instead of Jesus.

While the title can be used religiously by Muslims to designate a learned person, as an Arabic word it is essentially independent of religion.

While there are around three million Muslims, mostly of Turkish origin, now in the country, many of them are not members of large religious bodies with whom the states could arrange such matters.

While the commonly held view among historians, most Westerners and some lay Muslims is that Islam originated in Arabia with Muhammad's first recitations of the Qur ' an in the 7th century CE, In Islam ` s view, the Qur ' an itself asserts that it was Adam who is the first Muslim ( in the sense of believing in God and surrendering to God and God's commands ).

While serving on the D. C. city council, Barry was shot on March 9, 1977, by radical Hanafi Muslims ( from a breakaway sect of the Nation of Islam ) when they overran the District Building.

While most works of art had legible inscriptions, not all Muslims would have been able to read them.

While many Pashtuns ( particularly the Red Shirts ) were willing to work with Indian politicians, many other Pashtuns were sympathetic to the idea of a separate homeland for India's Muslims following the departure of the British.

While incarcerated at Deuel Washington began to recruit young African American inmates into the Crips, much to the disapproval of established black prison groups like the Black Muslims and the Black Guerrilla Family ( also known as the BGF ).

While most people allow the material world to fill their hearts, Muslims should keep God in their hearts and the material world in their hand.

* In a television interview with Julian Assange on 17 April 2012, Nasrallah said that Israel “ is and will be an illegal state … It was established on the basis of occupying the lands of others .” He added, “ If I occupy your house by force it doesn't become mine in 50 or 100 years .” While “ Hezbollah does not want to kill anyone ”, the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he argued, was to establish a democratic state on Palestinian land where Muslims, Jews and Christians live in peace but that the US “ won't let people listen to Hezbollah .”

While total expulsion as in other Christian nations such as Spain, Portugal and Sicily was not feasible to achieve a homogenous Russian Orthodox population, other policies such as land grants and the promotion of migration by other Russian and non-Muslim populations into Muslim lands displaced many Muslims making them minorities in places such as some parts of the South Ural region to other parts such as the Ottoman Turkey, and almost annihilating the Circassians, Crimean Tatars, and various Muslims of the Caucasus.

While preaching that the Sharia takes precedence, Salafi Muslims conform to civil or state law as far as they are required, for example in purchasing mandatory auto insurance.

While Hindus form the majority population, the town also has a substantial population of Muslims and Christians.