While it is not recorded as a " steal ", in a practical sense a batter can be said to " steal first base " by successfully running to first base ( without being tagged or thrown out ) in rare circumstances following an uncaught third strike ; the rarely-seen play avoids an " out " and gains a baserunner.

While it is possible through skillful play to minimize the house advantage, it is extremely rare that a player has sufficient skill to completely eliminate his inherent long-term disadvantage ( the house edge ( HE ) or house vigorish ) in a casino game.

While Ricardo accepted Smith's labour theory of value, he acknowledged that utility could influence the price of some rare items.

While ' typical ' near-death and mystical states occurred, they were relatively rare.

While orchestral bass solos are somewhat rare, there are some notable examples.

While rare now, some late 19th – early 20th century authors used kanji as furigana for loanwords written in katakana.

While there is evidence of such incidents, they are quite rare and have never resulted in serious injury.

While serious injury is rare, a number of short track skaters have been paralysed after a fall when they hit the boarding.

While the population of LambdaMOO once numbered close to 10, 000 with over 300 actively connected at any time, these days it is rare to see more than a few dozen actively participating connected players at one time.

While these injuries are rare, significant complications can occur.

While it is occasionally used recreationally for its hallucinogenic properties, the experiences are often extremely mentally and physically unpleasant, and frequently physically dangerous, so repeated use is rare.

While battles at sea were rare, they would occasionally occur when Viking ships attempted to board European merchant vessels in Scandinavian waters.

While they do not sing or call out like males do, they do answer back ( an extremely rare phenomenon in the animal world ).

While the direct usage of Servlets to generate HTML ( as shown in the example below ) has become rare, the higher level MVC web framework in Java EE ( JSF ) still explicitly uses the Servlet technology for the low level request / response handling via the FacesServlet.

While luxury establishments may boast the fact that wild animals can be seen at close range on a daily basis, the leopard's camouflage and propensity to hide and stalk prey typically make leopard sightings rare.

While it is technically possible for a bishop to fork, practical opportunities are rare.

While some women with Turner syndrome have successfully become pregnant and carried their pregnancies to term, this is very rare and is generally limited to those women whose karyotypes are not 45, XO.

While there is no known instance of a male mule siring offspring, female mules have on very rare occasion given birth to viable offspring.

While this approach persists in some countries, such as India, it is generally becoming increasingly rare.

While fast food restaurants usually have a seating area in which customers can eat the food on the premises, orders are designed to be taken away, and traditional table service is rare.

While rare, federal reprosecution of a crime tried in state court that produced an acquittal can be the functional equivalent of a trial de novo appeal of a state court prosecution, and vice versa.

While mammalian liver cells are polyploid, rare instances of polyploid mammals are known, but most often result in prenatal death.

While most proto-human fossil sites are associated with wet conditions upon the death of the hominin, this is not seen as evidence for the AAH since being buried in waterside sediment is one of the rare situations in which fossilization is likely to occur ; paleontologists are aware of this preservation bias and expect fossils to be located near such sediments.

While by no means the pioneer of " singular " team nicknames, which had been used by some college and professional sports teams since the 19th century, the quantity of them in a single league (" Fire ", " Sun ", " Bell ", " Storm ", " Steamer ", " Thunder ", " Express ") was rare in professional sports at the time, and was a distinguishing mark of the league.

While authors such as Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Marc Ferro and Jacques Le Goff continue to carry the Annales banner, today the Annales approach has been less distinctive as more and more historians do work in cultural history, political history and economic history.

While the Reno Air Races keep this tradition alive, most air shows today primarily feature a series of aerial demos of short duration.

While popular during the 1950s, these terms are infrequently used today.

While it is tempting to attribute this major decline solely to Mongol ferocity, scholars today have mixed sentiments regarding this subject.

While the Great Wall had been built in earlier times, most of what is seen today was either built or repaired by the Ming.

While many mathematicians before Galois gave consideration to what are now known as groups, it was Galois who was the first to use the word group ( in French groupe ) in a sense close to the technical sense that is understood today, making him among the founders of the branch of algebra known as group theory.

While it is possible to identify earlier legal structures that would today fall into the " environmental " law metric-for example the common law recognition of private and public rights to protect interests in land, such as nuisance, or post-industrial revolution human health protections-the concept of " environmental law " as a separate and distinct body of law is a 20th Century development.

While cod was formerly the main catch, today the industry centers on cold-water shrimp and Greenland halibut.

While all states currently have provisions for grand juries, today approximately half of the states employ them and only twenty-two require their use, to varying extents.

While few players " play Goren " exactly today, the point count approach he popularized remains the foundation for most bidding systems.

While Conservative Jews have varied views regarding the origin of the Torah and its authority today, and believe it can be continuously reinterpreted.

While the majority of his films lost money at the box office ( the main reason for Santana's end ), at least two of them are still remembered today ; In a Lonely Place is now recognized as a masterpiece of film noir.

While it may well be the case that the people of the western stream spoke a language belonging to a wider Eastern Bantu division, it is a puzzle which remains to be resolved that they spoke a language most closely related to the languages just mentioned, all of which are today spoken in southeastern Africa.

While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.

While on the Bears, Aaron earned $ 10 per game ($ today ).

While the North American and European regions are technically independent of each other, today many issues within EFnet are handled at a global level.

While in the early days these calculations were extremely expensive to perform, the advent of high speed microprocessors has made them much more feasible today.

While the nations still offer limited housing, today they are best described as student societies.

" While he did not graduate from George Washington, his time there subsequently became important because, as George Malko puts it, " many of his researches and published conclusions have been supported by his claims to be not only a graduate engineer, but ' a member of the first United States course in formal education in what is called today nuclear physics.

While many today would say that any misfortune surrounding a production is mere coincidence, actors and other theatre people often consider it bad luck to mention Macbeth by name while inside a theatre, and sometimes refer to it indirectly, for example as " the Scottish play ", or " MacBee ", or when referring to the character and not the play, " Mr. and Mrs. M ", or " The Scottish King ".

While mining today is substantially safer than it was in the previous decades, mining accidents still occur.

While it is possible to write programs in machine code, because of the tedious difficulty in managing CPU resources, it is rarely done today, except for situations that require the most extreme optimization.

While the VW / SEAT / Ford model had alength of, the Espace and the eurovan were around shorter and would be considered today as compact MPVs.

While most Jews consider Modern Orthodoxy traditional today, some within the Orthodox community groups to its right consider it of questionable validity.

While early PDAs connected to a user's personal computer via serial ports or another proprietary connection, many today connect via a USB cable.