While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

While the men of the tribe ate the body of the deceased and rarely contracted the disease, the women and children, who ate the less desirable body parts, including the brain, were 8 times more likely than men to contract kuru from infected tissue.

While an unlicensed satellite dish can often be identified easily, satellite radio receivers are much more compact and can rarely be easily identified, at least not without flagrantly violating provisions against unreasonable search and seizure in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

While amplification is rarely used in classical music, in some cases where a bass soloist performs a concerto with a full orchestra, subtle amplification called acoustic enhancement may be used.

While the range of two hellbenders may overlap, they are noted as rarely being present in the overlapping area when the other salamander is in the area.

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 rarely used in home games, the cut card is universal in casino play.

While most wearers find that PAs are comfortable to wear and rarely remove them, even during sex, some individuals might find that extremely large or heavy jewelry is uncomfortable to wear for long periods or interferes with the sexual functioning of the penis.

While inns and taverns were known from antiquity, these were establishments aimed at travelers, and in general locals would rarely eat there.

While out of the burrow, the rabbit will occasionally reingest its soft, partially digested pellets ; this is rarely observed, since the pellets are reingested as they are produced.

While Legislative power is technically vested in both the government and the parliament, the parliament rarely introduces legislation or votes down legislation proposed by the government.

While their aggressive, no-compromise attitude identified them as one of the instigators of the UK punk rock scene that followed, their idiosyncratic approach rarely followed any single musical genre and the group went on to explore a variety of musical styles, from New Wave, art rock and gothic rock through to the sophisticated pop of some of their 1980s output.

While this species carries the parasite that can cause Chagas disease, it rarely infects humans as defecation is delayed 20 – 30 minutes after feeding, in contrast to the immediate defecation behavior displayed by the Latin American species.

While XFree86 was used in most distributions before its license change with version 4. 4. 0, it has mostly been replaced by its fork X. org and is used rarely nowadays.

While poor form during the initial can lose a team the heat, it is otherwise rarely, if ever, decisive.

While commercially canned goods are required to undergo a " botulinum cook " in a pressure cooker at for 3 minutes, and so rarely cause botulism, there have been notable exceptions such as the 1978 Alaskan salmon outbreak and the 2007 Castleberry's Food Company outbreak.

While cathedral buildings, in general, tend to be large, size and grandeur have rarely been essential requirements.

While larger metric prefixes of a second are rarely used, subdivision prefixes are well established within science and technology.

While a fetus of ectopic pregnancy is typically not viable, very rarely, a live baby has been delivered from an abdominal pregnancy.

While most electric bass players rarely play chords ( two or more notes all sounded at the same time ), chords are used in some styles, especially jazz, progressive rock or Heavy Metal.

While Tok Pisin is usually referred to under this name, it is also sometimes — though rarely — called New Guinea Pidgin or, in academic contexts, Melanesian Pidgin, Melanesian Pidgin English or Neo-Melanesian.

While the latter ruling was famously defied by Jackson, the actions of the Jackson administration were not isolated because state and federal officials had violated treaties without consequence, often attributed to military exigency, as the members of individual Native American nations were not automatically United States citizens and were rarely given standing in any U. S. court.

While it rarely kills the trees, it lowers their growth rate by reducing the amount of light to a tree's own leaves.

While that race is rarely run outside of high school and collegiate invitational competition, it has been held at the international level.

While the index rarely gave outright buy or sell signals, over time it was found to give an accurate forecast of the stock market.

While at the time the process was openly referred to as colonization (" takushoku " 拓殖 ), the notion was later reframed by Japanese elites to the currently common usage " kaitaku "( 開拓 ), which instead conveys a sense of opening up or reclamation of the Ainu lands.

While the 68000 family has a 32-bit design, the 68000 used in several early models is generally referred to as 16-bit.

While the term — literally meaning " sailing the air "— originally referred solely to the science of operating the aircraft, it has since been expanded to include technology, business and other aspects related to aircraft.

While Maitreya ( Pāli: Metteya ) is mentioned in the Pāli canon, he is not referred to as a bodhisattva, but simply the next fully awakened Buddha to come into existence long after the current teachings of the Buddha are lost.

While collaborating on what is referred to as the " director's cut ", the director and the editor go over the entire movie with a fine-tooth comb ; scenes and shots are re-ordered, removed, shortened and otherwise tweaked.

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 living in London, noting the American Engineer's patriotic intensity, some British acquaintances referred to him as the " star-spangled Hoover ".

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 he was born in a section of Mobile referred to as " Down the Bay ," he spent most of his youth in Toulminville.

While cardio-focused, rowing also stresses many muscle groups throughout the body anaerobically, thus rowing is often referred to as a strength-endurance sport.

While some sources call the MAC-10 and MAC-11 machine pistols, the guns are also referred to as compact submachine guns.

While the scope of WikiWikiWeb was broad, users who strayed too far from the focus wanted to engage in discussions about the wiki itself and how it operated, referred to as WikiOnWiki discussions, were going beyond the scope of WikiWikiWeb.

While the New Age lacks any unified belief-system, many spiritual practices and philosophies are common among adherents of the movement — sometimes referred to as New Agers.

While the exact relationship of the short and apparently primitive text of Q1 to the later published texts is not resolved, Hardin Craig among others has suggested that it may represent an earlier draft of the play and hence would confirm that the play referred to in 1589 is in fact merely an earlier draft of Shakespeare's play.

While it is only one of the terms with which the Pope is referred to as " Vicar ", it is " more expressive of his supreme headship of the Church on earth, which he bears in virtue of the commission of Christ and with vicarial power derived from him ", a vicarial power believed to have been conferred on Saint Peter when Christ said to him: " Feed my lambs ... Feed my sheep " ().

While most other necklaces are simply referred to by their physical measurement, pearl necklaces are named by how low they hang when worn around the neck.

While the term refactoring originally referred exclusively to refactoring of software code, in recent years code written in hardware description languages ( HDLs ) has also been refactored.

While the title of dux could refer to a Consul or Imperator, it usually referred to the commander-in-chief of the limitanei garrisoned within a province.

While the precise meaning of this term changed over time, including free retainers of an aristocrat and small landholders, it always referred to commoners.

While the English term " saint " originated in Christianity, the term is now applied in other world religions, with the Jewish Tzadik, the Islamic wali, the Hindu rishi or guru, and the Buddhist arahat or boddhisatva also referred to as saints.

While the appearances, which are referred to by the philosophical term accidents, are perceptible to the senses, the substance is not.

While the communities are commonly referred to by the collective " The Battlefords ," they retain distinctive identities.

While revolution is often used as a synonym for rotation, in many fields, particularly astronomy and related fields, revolution, often referred to as orbital revolution for clarity, is used when one body moves around another while rotation is used to mean the movement around an axis.

While at SDSU, he wrote for the student newspaper, The Daily Aztec, at times penning so many articles that the paper was jokingly referred to as the " Daily Joe ".

While Nigeria is most often the nation referred to in these scams, they may be originated in other nations as well.