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 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 rates of homelessness and homeless deaths increased during the eleven years of Liberal government, the link to Martin's decisions was indirect as affordable housing is a mainly provincial jurisdiction.

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

While technically ' bong ' does not mean a device used for smoking mainly marijuana, drug-related connotations have been formed with the word itself ( partly due to punning with Sanskrit bhangah " hemp ").

Despite smoking in some of his films, Eastwood is a lifelong non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and as a Vegan practices healthy eating and daily Transcendental Meditation. While promoting his film, Hereafter, Eastwood spoke about his views on religion and meditation by saying " I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them.

While still a relatively tranquil coastal town, the city received national news in 2003 upon becoming the first city in the Continental United States to enact a smoking ban on its public beaches, a trend which has continued as many other coastal Californian towns have followed suit in banning smoking on their beaches.

While the warheads are evidence of an Iraqi weapons program, they may not amount to a " smoking gun ", according to US officials, unless some sort of chemical agent was also detected.

While primarily functioning as only residential spaces, Page Hall featured a smoking lounge as well as a shooting range.

While smoking has not been found to be a direct cause of bronchiectasis, it is certainly an irritant that all patients should avoid in order to prevent the development of infections ( such as bronchitis ) and further complications.

While Roosevelt finished his message, Donovan turned his back and fired ten shots into a sandbag he had brought with him, announced what he had done and handed the smoking gun to the astonished president.

While Chris ' low intelligence level is often viewed as a heredity commonality with his father, it is mentioned in the episode " Peter's Daughter ," that Lois abusing alcohol and smoking while pregnant with Chris and " chickening out half-way through " a clandestine abortion could also be a cause.

While smoking, the hollow part of the tube is usually compressed to make two perpendicular flat surfaces, for the sake of convenience.

While he struggled to deal with the band's success, he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a disease that causes lesions to form in the lungs, prompting him to temporarily quit smoking.

While at school he began smoking, which became a lifelong habit.

While Attorney General, Blumenthal was one of the leaders of a 46-state lawsuit against the tobacco industry, which alleged that the companies involved had deceived the public about the dangers of smoking.

While smoking a cigar, he falls asleep on the couch and the cigar ignites some magazines.

While low body weight in the elderly can be caused by conditions associated with aging ( such as cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or depression ) or of the cachexia ( wasting syndrome ) and sarcopenia ( loss of muscle mass, structure, and function ), the results of a large epidemiological study published in the fall of 2011 show that among the Japanese an association between BMI < 21 ( under 65kg for a 1. 75m tall individual ( or in imperial units, under 140lbs for a 5 ' 9 " tall individual )) and increased mortality persists even when confounders like age, smoking, and disease are carefully controlled for.

While employed at various institutions including the University of Nebraska he conducted research on passive smoking, but he is best known today for his claims about homosexuality.

While blindness was shown by competent medical testimony to be the otherwise inevitable result of the defendant's disease, no adverse effects from the smoking of marijuana have been demonstrated.

While opposing proposals to restrict smoking in public places, FOREST attracted the support of celebrity smokers including artist David Hockney, inventor Trevor Baylis, musician Joe Jackson, cook Antony Worrall Thompson, and social commentator Claire Fox.

While wearing a smoking, it is allowed to wear the miniature.

While smoking had been extremely prevalent in Orthodox yeshivot, rabbinic opinions have led to a major decrease in cigarette use in Israeli and ( especially ) American yeshivot.

While active maternal tobacco smoking has well established adverse perinatal outcomes such as LBW, that mothers who smoke during pregnancy are twice as likely to give birth to low-birth weight infants.

While they are fasting Muslims must also abstain from smoking and sexual contact.

While he drives very gently, Mike says that he has decided to give up what the narrator believes is smoking for Lent.