While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.

: While advocates of the deprogramming position have claimed high rates of success, studies show that natural attrition rates actually are higher than the success rate achieved through deprogramming.

While most of his proposals-" to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics ( including a consumer price index ) in order to facilitate this effort "-are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional-reserve banking still " remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom ".

While appearing or even feeling solid, it will continue to flow at very slow rates.

While politicians were previously involved in setting interest rates, the central bank was given an inflation-targeting mandate until Finland joined the eurozone.

While static gauge pressure is of primary importance to determining net loads on pipe walls, dynamic pressure is used to measure flow rates and airspeed.

While most machine pistols are designed to be fired with one hand, their light weight, small size, and extremely rapid rates of fire make them difficult to control.

While many ports reopened after the war, they ( and coastal shipping in general ) faced huge pressure from rail ( presumably now offering improved freight rates compared to the 1910 era ).

While reducing the cargo reshipment rates for New Zealand industry, this is seen by some as a heavy blow for local competitors, who, specialised in coastal shipping only, are less able to achieve the costs savings of large lines – these can generally operate profitably even without cargo on New Zealand-internal legs of their routes, and are thus able to underbid others.

While hydrogen fusion can occur in a stable manner on the surface of the white dwarf for a narrow range of accretion rates, for most binary system parameters the hydrogen burning is thermally unstable and rapidly converts a large amount of the hydrogen into other heavier elements in a runaway reaction, liberating an enormous amount of energy, blowing the remaining gases away from the white dwarf's surface and producing an extremely bright outburst of light.

While interest rates for private companies are often higher than for government debt, this can serve as a useful constraint to promote efficient investments by private companies, instead of cross-subsidizing them with the overall credit-risk of the country.

While long-distance inland calls have been offered by calling cards, by the mid-2000s conventional carriers reduced their rates to be competitive ; however in many countries calling-card type indirect services can be much cheaper than normal calls.

While rates of smoking have over time leveled off or declined in the developed world, they continue to rise in developing nations.

While cohabitation has been shown to be associated with higher divorce rates, a study indicates that divorce-prone couples tend to first cohabit, and not that cohabitation by itself increases the likelihood of divorce.

While it is not technically part of the ATSC or DVB broadcast standards as of yet, reports suggest that higher progressive frame rates will feature in the next-generation high-definition television broadcast standards.

While the absolute numbers of malnourished children in India is high, the rates of malnutrition and poverty in India have declined from approximately 90 % at the time of India's independence, to less than 40 % today.

While much smaller in volume than other chemical sectors, their products tend to have very high prices — over ten dollars per pound — growth rates of 1. 5 to 6 times GDP, and research and development spending at 15 to 25 percent of sales.

While ZIP may compress a CD-quality audio file by 10 – 20 %, FLAC achieves compression rates of 30 – 50 % for most music, with significantly greater compression for voice recordings.

While George argued for a " single tax " on land-rent to solve this problem, Keynes hoped that interest rates could be driven to zero.

While its circulation ( like that of almost all newspapers ) has been slipping, it has one of the highest market-penetration rates of any metropolitan news daily.

While maintaining many of its own services, Murray has one of the lowest city tax rates in the state.

While a ' fixed interest rate ' remains the same throughout the life of the debt, ' variable ' or ' floating ' rates can be reset.

While unrooted trees can always be generated from rooted ones by simply omitting the root, a root cannot be inferred from an unrooted tree without some means of identifying ancestry ; this is normally done by including an outgroup in the input data or introducing additional assumptions about the relative rates of evolution on each branch, such as an application of the molecular clock hypothesis.

While squatting is illegal in Japan, homelessness is seen as an endemic problem in Tokyo and other cities, and the presence of squatters is accepted as an inevitability.

While historically known as a crisis only of urban centres such as Toronto, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, and Montreal, the increasing incidence of homelessness in the suburbs is necessitating new services and resources.

While the causes are complex, the solutions to homelessness may be simple: " Homelessness may not be only a housing problem, but it is always a housing problem ; housing is necessary, although sometimes not sufficient, to solve the problem of homelessness.

While Mayor of Denver, Colorado, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper made dealing with the issues that underlie homelessness a top priority on his Mayoral agenda, speaking heavily on the issue during his first " State of the City " address in 2003.

While many street newspapers aim to provide coverage of social issues and educate the public about homelessness, this goal is often secondary: many people who buy street newspapers do so to support and express solidarity with the homeless vendor, rather than to read the paper.

While the artist had produced his first vehicle in Poland with additional conceptual versions designed when he lived in Canada, it was with his Homeless Vehicle Project of 1987-89, that he redirected “ attention from the work of art as dissent to the work of art as social action: in this case, the discussions and design collaboration with members of the homeless community to develop both a physical object and a conceptual design that would make their participation in the urban economy visible and self-directed .” The Homeless Vehicle Project was both symbolic and useful: the artist ’ s first work to use a collective process to legitimize the problems of a marginal community “ without legitimating the crisis of homelessness .” While the public was cautious, the operators of the vehicles took the project seriously.

While in San Francisco, she lived on the edge of homelessness in the Tenderloin district.

While en route to Chongqing, the Nationalist army intentionally started the " fire of Changsha ", which lasted for three days, destroyed two thirds of the city, killed twenty thousand civilians, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

While some tramps may do odd jobs from time to time, unlike other temporarily homeless people they do not seek out regular work and support themselves by other means such as begging or scavenging ( see Waste picker ).

While this initially proved successful, other Councils in London and the Home Counties soon became aware of homeless individuals and families from Westminster, many with complex mental health and addiction problems, being relocated to their area.

While bedridden in his Rockford, Michigan, home, he founded Acting for Life, a private charity to help the homeless and others in need.

While rich people blackmail one another, homeless people look for handouts and Jerry Pascoe is reduced to cleaning stadium restrooms and applying for a job as a peanut vendor.

While many of Capitol Hill's churches began as suburban congregations serving to establish the newest neighborhood of young Seattle, they have changed with the neighborhood to reach out to the poor and homeless and those living with HIV, as well as continuing their work of encouraging the faithful.

While filming in the Balkans in 2006, Lusha was made aware of the deprived conditions of local homeless children wandering the streets and begging for food.

While in the past men used to comprise the vast majority of homeless persons, now women and children represent the fastest growing subgroup of the homeless population, followed by youth.

While counting the homeless is a politically charged and methodologically contentious issue, the federal estimate of the number of homeless people in Canada was 150, 000 in 2005, or about 0. 5 per cent of the population .. Homeless advocates estimated it to be closer to 300, 000.

While some of the " homeless " do perish in the extreme cold of Canadian winters, more die due to the extreme heat in summers.

While in Canada there has always been a certain portion of the population that was very poor, it is not until recently, after the 1980s, that " homeless " has come to mean the " unhoused " versus those simply living in poor quality housing.

While accurate statistics on the homeless population are hard to gather, it is the general consensus that the number of homeless increased considerably beginning in the 1980s.

While there is no one agreed upon definition, one definition originally developed as part of the McKinney-Vento Act of 1987 federal legislation, describes a " homeless " person as being:

While homeless, Ali Forney protected other LGBTQ homeless youth by performing HIV prevention and awareness work.

While Denver's homeless population is much lower than other major cities, the homeless residents have often suffered when without shelter during Denver's infamously cold winters.

While some tramps may do odd jobs from time to time, unlike other temporarily homeless people they do not seek out regular work and support themselves by other means such as begging or scavenging.

While hiding inside the car of an old train Frank and his friends are frightened by some homeless people who were aboard the train.

While wandering the banks of the Seine looking for Lucia, Horatio encounters a clocharde, or homeless woman, both he and La Maga have met before, though he cannot recall the concrete circumstances of their previous meeting.