While providing valuable documentary evidence, Dürer's Netherlandish diary also reveals that the trip was not a profitable one.

While outside aid or even troops can be helpful, lack of clear limits, in terms of either a realistic plan for victory or exit strategy, may find the foreign helper " taking over " the local war, and being sucked into a lengthy commitment, thus providing the guerrillas with valuable propaganda opportunities as the toll of dead foreigners mounts.

While the Wang WP keyboard was different from the original PC keyboard, MultiMate compensated by providing a large plastic template that clipped on the PC keyboard, and stick-on labels for the fronts of the PC keys.

While military forces interdict insurgents and assure security, Provincial reconstruction teams are tasked with infrastructure building, like constructing roads and bridges, assisting during floods, and providing food and water to refugees.

The official web site currently ( April 2004 ) states: " While providing a service to Esperanto-speaking hosts and guests, at the same time it demonstrates, easily and clearly, to the outside public that Esperanto is useful and that it works in practice.

While the SCA does not take on the responsibility for providing medical care, it does encourage those who have medical training to voluntarily be available at events in case of injury or sudden illness.

While providing for increased human development, the project both reduced the inflow of freshwater and ended all natural nutrient-rich silt from entering the eastern Mediterranean at the adjacent Nile Delta.

While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six-minute black-and-white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his ( and Burton's ) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration.

While Freud's ideas were ignored and embarrassing to Viennese society, his work provoked a serious challenge to Victorian prudishness by providing the groundwork for the ideas of sex drive and infant sexuality.

While not always an efficient form of pest control, varmint hunting achieves selective control of pests while providing recreation, and is much less regulated.

While most of the work performed by LLNL is funded by the federal government, Laboratory employees are paid by LLNS which is responsible for all aspects of their employment including providing health care benefits and retirement programs.

While providing redundancy for negative-g maneuvers ( which lift the pilot out of the seat ), they also require the pilot to un-latch two harnesses if it is necessary to parachute from a failed aircraft.

While not usually providing long-term or continuing care, emergency medicine physicians diagnose a variety of illnesses and undertake acute interventions to resuscitate and stabilize patients.

While envisioned by some as being a method to make it much harder to illegally copy copyrighted software, present implementations tend to focus more on providing a tamper-proof boot environment and persistent and volatile storage encryption.

While the CNS network was not itself based on the X. 25 protocol, the network presented a standard X. 25 interface to the outside world, providing dialup connectivity to corporate hosts, and allowing CompuServe to form alliances with private networks Tymnet and Telenet, among others.

While IBM is still providing support for SNA, one of the primary pieces of hardware, the 3745 / 3746 communications controller, has been withdrawn from marketing by IBM.

While slashing attacks were still moderately effective against infantry wearing half-plate armor, cutting and slicing attacks against an opponent wearing plate armour were almost entirely ineffective in providing any sort of slashing wound as the sword simply could not cut through the steel, although a combatant could aim for the chinks in a suit of armour, sometimes to great effect.

While construction was proceeding on the Trail ( it was completed in 1929 ), Collier pushed construction of what became State Road 29 from Everglades City to Immokalee, providing the town with its first land connection to the rest of the state.

While competing with neighbor Jackson Hole and providing similar terrain and annual snowfall.

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While a PICT preview often contains a bitmap it could also contain a vector representation of the whole image, providing very high quality previews.

However, these genes confer only partial resistance to FHB, and many of the initial sources of resistance were not well adapted to most of the grain production regions of the U. S. While some success has been made in transferring FHB resistance from such exotic sources into adapted cultivars, identification and deployment of FHB resistance already present in local native germplasm and cultivars is providing another means to achieve this goal.

While they thought that the waterway should be nationalised, they were in principle willing to part-fund improvements providing control by the railway company was ended.

While it remained a local market town, it did a brisk trade providing travellers with the staple bread, ale and accommodation, maintaining trading links as far afield as Bristol.

While these and other ancient Near Eastern texts consider comparable issues, scholars have not found their direct antecedent.

While it is not altogether clear whether totally asynchronous designs can perform at a comparable or better level than their synchronous counterparts, it is evident that they do at least excel in simpler math operations.

While CT provides good spatial resolution ( the ability to distinguish two separate structures an arbitrarily small distance from each other ), MRI provides comparable resolution with far better contrast resolution ( the ability to distinguish the differences between two arbitrarily similar but not identical tissues ).

While the flesh has protein levels similar to other comparable red meats ( e. g. beef, deer and elk ) it has a low fat content and the fat that is found is made up of a higher proportion of polyunsaturated fats ( rather than saturated fats ).

* Cost — While a mediator may charge a fee comparable to that of an attorney, the mediation process generally takes much less time than moving a case through standard legal channels.

While clock speeds were comparable, the 8-bit databus and cycle stealing of the ZX8301 ULA limited the QL's performance.

While the Soviet Union had the technology to create a jet-powered strategic bomber comparable to Boeing's B-52 Stratofortress, they instead produced the Tupolev Tu-95 Bear, powered with four Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprops, mated to eight contra-rotating propellers ( two per nacelle ) with supersonic tip speeds to achieve maximum cruise speeds in excess of 575 mph, faster than many of the first jet aircraft and comparable to jet cruising speeds for most missions.

While many state constitutions are modeled after the United States Constitution and federal laws, those state constitutions did not necessarily include provisions comparable to the Bill of Rights.

While actual performance of the Black Talon rounds was not significantly better than any other comparable high performance hollow-point ammunition, the reverse taper jacket did provide reliable expansion under a wide range of conditions, and many police departments adopted the round.

While there is little question of the historical significance of that goal, Henderson's NHL statistics are not at a level comparable to those players usually selected for induction.

While that proposed amendment had many critics, there was no comparable opposition to the Charter's section 28.

While stressing the personal, if reverent relationship between the Virgin and the devout Christian who addresses her in prayer, it is comparable to the French, " Notre Dame ", or " Our Lady ".

While the hardware features were comparable to workstation-class systems, the OS features placed it more squarely in competition with i386 based PCs and the Amiga 2000.

While higher reverse voltages are achievable, they would be accompanied by higher forward voltage drops, comparable to other types ; such a Schottky diode would have no advantage.

While his statistics were comparable in the 2001 – 02 season, the Sixers dealt him to the New Jersey Nets, fearing that his game had deteriorated.

While the proof of the existence of a basis for any vector space in the general case requires Zorn's lemma and is in fact equivalent to the axiom of choice, the uniqueness of the cardinality of the basis requires only the ultrafilter lemma, which is strictly weaker ( the proof given below, however, assumes trichotomy, i. e., that all cardinal numbers are comparable, a statement which is also equivalent to the axiom of choice ).

While staffing one of the Navy awards, the Assistant Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Raymond M. Walsh, explained that an internee of the Soviet Union was previously denied the POW Medal under the older version of 10 USC § 1128 “ because he was not a prisoner of an enemy of the United States .” However, he could now be considered for the medal because “ The 1989 change to the law permits the Secretary of the Navy to determine if the circumstances under which internee was held captive were ‘ comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict .’” While staffing the Air Force award, the Air Force Directorate of Personnel Services ( AFPC / DPS ) concluded that “ In 1989, Title 10, Section 1128, regarding Prisoner of War Medals changed and allowed Service secretaries to determine eligibility for the POW Medal for personnel held captive in countries not directly involved in armed conflict with the United States, provided the treatment of the prisoners was similar to the treatment received by prisoners held by enemy forces .” AFPC / DPS determined that the internees in Siberia met the statutory criteria because “ the conditions of this detainment were comparable, if not worse, than those experienced in Germany, and therefore, should be eligible for the POW Medal .” In 1996 and 2006 the USAF awarded POW Medals to USAAF T / Sgt Daniel Culler and Lt. Richard Pettit for illegal incarceration during World War II in prison camp Wauwilermoos, in neutral Switzerland.

While his name became a household word in Romania and, to a lesser extent, throughout the Eastern bloc, he never achieved comparable fame in the West.

While can also be legitimately used in the contrastive sense, comparable to the words " although " or " whereas ", provided that it is not ambiguous ( although some commentators, such as Eric Partridge, have frowned upon such use ):

While it is comparable to the French model, where there is a President ( the European Council President ) and Prime Minister ( the Commission President ), the Council President does not hold formal powers such as the ability to directly appoint and sack the Commission President, or the ability to dissolve Parliament.