While individual sportsmen are aware of this situation, too many of our political, social, educational and even religious leaders too often forget it.

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

While services in the Temple in Jerusalem included musical instruments ( 2 Chronicles 29: 25 – 27 ), traditional Jewish religious services in the Synagogue, both before and after the destruction of the Temple, did not include musical instruments given the practice of scriptural cantillation.

While the Gregorian calendar is widely used in Israel's business and day-to-day affairs, the Hebrew calendar, used by Jews worldwide for religious and cultural affairs, also influences civil matters in Israel ( such as national holidays ) and can be used there for business dealings ( such as for the dating of checks ).

While previous wars were fought for social, religious, even cultural reasons, Clausewitz taught that war is merely " a continuation of politics by other means.

While Rabbi Kaplan defines Judaism as a civilization, there are many who would not agree, citing millennia of religious tradition and observance as more than simple civilization.

Prof. Spiegelberg writes, " While outward religious practice never entered his life any more than it did that of most academic scholars of the time, his mind remained open for the religious phenomenon as for any other genuine experience.

While the Egyptians had no unified religious scripture, they produced many religious writings of various types.

While the main usage is religious, the term is also used to characterize a movement that has great commitment.

While new members continued to arrive, including immigrants from Germany, others found the Harmonists ' religious life too difficult and left the group.

While it never baldly advocates the case for broader societal acceptance of homosexuality or for the abandonment of elements of the Jewish religious tradition, those causes are subtly evident in the stark, simplistic picture the film presents of sincere, conflicted and victimized men and women confronted by a largely stern and stubborn cadre of rabbis.

While it is heavily used by some denominations, it is not a religious denomination in itself.

While most pagans draw from old religious traditions, they also adapt them.

While Eysenck's R-factor is easily identified as the classical " left-right " dimension, the T-factor ( representing a factor drawn at right angles to the R-factor ) is less intuitive ; high-scorers favored pacifism, racial equality, religious education, and restrictions on abortion, while low-scorers had attitudes more friendly to militarism, harsh punishment, easier divorce laws, and companionate marriage.

While women were typically not permitted to speak in church, they were allowed to engage in religious discussions outside it, and they could narrate their conversions.

While many of the school's attendees were day students, Coubertin boarded at the school under the supervision of a Jesuit priest, which his parents hoped would instill him with a strong moral and religious education.

While Jews have not used the LXX in worship or religious study since the 2nd century CE, recent scholarship has brought renewed interest in it in the field of Judaic Studies.

While biographers such as Ackroyd have taken a relatively tolerant view of More's campaign against Protestantism by placing his actions within the turbulent religious climate of the time, other equally eminent historians, such as Richard Marius, have been more critical, believing that persecutions -- including what he perceives as the advocacy of extermination for Protestants -- were a betrayal of More's earlier humanist convictions.

While far from universal, ancestor veneration occurs in societies with every degree of social, political, and technological complexity, and it remains an important component of various religious practices in modern times.

While the traditional majority view in religious Judaism has been that the teachings of Kabbalah were revealed by God to Biblical figures such as Abraham and Moses and were then transmitted orally from the Biblical era until its redaction by Shimon ben Yochai, modern academic analysis of the Zohar, such as that by the 20th century religious historian Gershom Scholem, has theorized that De Leon was the actual author.

“ Pre-marital, extra-marital and same-sex relationships are all forbidden in Islam .” While most members of these groups don ’ t adhere to the strict nature of their religious organization ’ s belief on cohabitation, the pressure from other members of the group or religious authorities lead to a drop in cohabitation.

While tests have been done to support this with fixed pieces of flat metal, the result is inconclusive with respect to the curved armour of the period. Given the following actions of the archers, it seems likely Froissart was correct.

While these tests are not required in US, an estimated 75 – 90 % of the blood supply is currently tested for Chagas, including all units collected by the American Red Cross, which accounts for 40 % of the U. S. blood supply.

While at the station the officer also asks the defendant to perform certain psycho-physical tests such as the walk and turn, one leg stand or finger to nose test.

While at least one researcher, Michael Persinger, claims otherwise, Jeffrey Gray states in his book Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem, that tests looking for the influence of electromagnetic fields on brain function have been universally negative in their result.

While at NASA Dryden Enterprise was used by NASA for a variety of ground and flight tests intended to validate aspects of the shuttle program.

While the majority of the missile launches came from United States Department of Defense footage of ICBM missile tests ( mainly Minuteman IIIs from Vandenberg Air Force Base adjacent to Lompoc, California ), all of the stock footage of missile launches were acquired from declassified DoD film libraries.

While the results were not surprising since gravity was known to act on everything, including light ( see tests of general relativity and the Pound-Rebka falling photon experiment ), the self-interference of the quantum mechanical wave of a massive fermion in a gravitational field had never been experimentally confirmed before.

While the catalase test alone cannot identify a particular organism, combined with other tests, such as antibiotic resistance, it can aid identification.

While these tests and experiments were going on, JPL performed a number of speculative studies for planetary aerobot missions to Mars, Venus, Saturn's moon Titan, and the outer planets.

" While the public mistakenly presumes that this federal agency is hard at work conducting complicated tests on every new model of truck, van, car, and SUV, in reality, just 18 of the EPA ’ s 17, 000 employees work in the automobile-testing department in Ann Arbor, Michigan, examining 200 to 250 vehicles a year, or roughly 15 percent of new models.

While a nuclear penetrator ( the " Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator ", or " RNEP ") was never built, the U. S. DOE was allotted budget to develop it, and tests were conducted by the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory.

While IQ tests do give an overall IQ score, they now also give scores for many more narrow abilities.

While the National Assessment of Education Progress ( NAEP ) has served as an educational barometer for some thirty years by administering standardized tests on a regular basis to random schools throughout the United States, efforts over the last decade at the state and federal levels have mandated annual standardized test administration for all public schools across the country.

While medication alleviated the toxoplasmosis, further tests, including a biopsy, revealed he had progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy ( PML ), a rare and usually fatal viral inflammation of the brain that breaks down the electrical impulses of the nervous system.

While training for the summer Olympic Games of 1956, Ávila experienced terrible pain in parts of his body and, after various tests, was diagnosed with chronic arthritis by his doctors.

While the tests were announced the following year, the full results and documentation of the tests were not declassified until April 30, 1982.

While most of the larger tests were conducted elsewhere, NTS was home to tests in the range, which caused noticeable seismic effects in Las Vegas.

While there are no longer any explosive tests of nuclear weapons at the site, there is still subcritical testing, used to determine the viability of the United States ' aging nuclear arsenal.

While currently many countries have different regulations regarding the types of tests, amounts of tests and cut off levels, the implementation of Global Harmonization will begin unifying these countries as early as 2008.

While the published figures from Nissan were as quoted above, practical tests showed the car had a factory power output of closer to at the flywheel.

While this was once true, and many of recently developed methods of Antibody detection are of limited value — because substantial antigenic cross reactivity exists between filaria and other helminths, and a positive serologic test does not necessarily distinguish between infections — up and coming serologic tests that are highly specific to Loa loa were furthered in 2008.

While the 122mm armour piercing shell had a lower muzzle velocity than similar late German 7. 5 cm and 8. 8 cm guns, proving-ground tests showed that the 122mm AP shell could defeat the frontal armour of the German Panther tank, and the HE shell would easily blow off the drive sprocket and tread of the heaviest German tank or self-propelled gun.