While its proven oil reserves of ranks Iraq second in the world behind Saudi Arabia, the United States Department of Energy estimates that up to 90 percent of the country remains unexplored.

While petroleum has decreased in importance in recent years due to depleting reserves and growth in other industries, it is still the mainstay of the economy.

While much smaller than the arsenals of the US and the USSR, Western Europe's nuclear reserves were nevertheless a significant factor in strategic planning during the Cold War.

While East Malaysia is less populated and less developed than West Malaysia, its land mass is larger and it has notably more natural resources, chiefly oil and gas reserves.

While dozens of zoos worldwide have Przewalski's horses in small numbers, there are also specialized reserves dedicated primarily to the species.

While its oil reserves in the North Sea are of little importance, the Netherlands is presently the second largest natural gas producer in Europe and the ninth in the world, accounting for more than 30 % of EU total annual gas production and about 2. 7 % of the annual world total.

While groundwater is a renewable source, reserves replenish relatively slowly.

While this ratio does not always lead to bank failures if the banks in question have raised additional capital and have properly established reserves for the bad debt, it is an important indicator for future FDIC activity.

While economists and historians agree that access to and control of the access of others to important resources has throughout history been a factor in warfare and in diplomacy, oil imperialism theorists generally tend to assert that control of petroleum reserves has played an overriding role in international politics since World War I.

While the United States built its " Arsenal of Democracy ", American war planners increasingly worried about what would happen if the Axis gained control of the world's oil reserves.

While the ships seem to have vast reserves of power, all of it is required in order to send a message across interplanetary distances using a maser.

While the reserves are overwhelmingly extra heavy crude, pockets of lighter tight oil, as well as natural gas, are also found in the basin.

While the act was intended to protect the Indian holdings, the limitations make it difficult for the reserves and their residents to obtain financing for development and construction, or renovation.

While some populations ( subspecies ) are decreasing, others will remain unchanged in the long term if large, healthy populations continue to persist in a substantial number of national parks, equivalent reserves and hunting zones in southern and eastern Africa ".

While en route to their planned destination, sensors pick up a lone shuttlecraft drifting through empty space with no power or fuel reserves.

While primarily a street directory, Melway editions also contain details on public transport ( train, tram, and bus routes, tickets and prices ), bicycle paths, suburb and postcode details, public parks and reserves, landmarks ( such as commercial buildings, telephone boxes, pubs and restaurants ), attractions, and also boat mooring details in recognised docks.

While in the reserves, he actively supported local paramilitary training activities.

While the main body of the division went to Imphal ( where some units had been isolated and almost all of IV Corps ' reserves had already been committed ), the 161st Indian Infantry Brigade, with 24th Mountain Artillery Regiment Indian Artillery attached, were flown to Dimapur.

While the Soviet Union justified its second intervention on the basis of responsibility to a Warsaw Pact ally, in the form of the Kádár government formed on November 3, the Soviet forces allocated came from national reserves, and other Warsaw Pact countries did not supply troops.

While the Amendment expressly reserves existing protections for proceedings and records of the Legislature and rules adopted in furtherance of those protections, and maintains all other preexisting constitutional and statutory exemptions to the right of access to public records and meetings, these branches of government are now within the mantle of the public's constitutional right of access.

While Lestat spoils Claudia and tries to teach her how to behave like a vampire, she largely ignores him and reserves her love for Louis.

While much of the mineral reserves have been extracted, industrial gold mining continues at Edie Creek and at the newly established Hidden Valley Gold Mine operated by Morobe Goldfields ( a subsidiary of Harmony Gold-South Africa ).

While the Chippewa Island reserve is shared among Beausoleil and two other First Nations, the two Christian Island reserves are not.

While playing for Nottingham Forest reserves in November as part of another trial, Carter tore a groin muscle, requiring surgery and a three-month recovery period.

While professional grading has reduced the number of counterfeits foisted upon investors and has improved buyer confidence substantially, the goal of creating a sight-unseen market for coins remains somewhat elusive.

While uncertain, it seems to be supported by the die-links between his coins and those of his successor, Alla Amidas.

While numismatists are often characterized as students or collectors of coins, the discipline also includes the broader study of money and other payment media used to resolve debts and the exchange of goods.

While no indubitably attributable sculpture by Praxiteles is extant, numerous copies of his works have survived ; several authors, including Pliny the Elder, wrote of his works ; and coins engraved with silhouettes of his various famous statuary types from the period still exist.

While the obverse of these coins bears the traditional Coat of arms of Mexico, their reverses show the individual coats of arms of the component states.

While there, he helped to write the first collections catalogues for Greek coins at the museum.

While the deposit systems usually are designed to accommodate a certain size of domestic coin, foreign coins, former currencies ( like DM coins ) or even appropriately folded pieces of cardboard can be used to unlock the trolleys as well.

While for the sixpence and larger silver coins an older bust of the king was used from 1743 onwards, the small silver coins continued to use a young portrait of him throughout his reign.

While ruble coins were silver, there were higher denominations minted of gold and platinum.

While older coins were struck in Germany, current coins are struck domestically, by the Kazakhstan Mint in Ust-Kamenogorsk.

While the official medium of exchange was gold coins, most loans and payments were carried out with bank notes, backed by the promise of redemption in gold.

While she did not find the hoard of three million gold coins reportedly buried there, the excavators unearthed a seven-foot headless marble statue.

While a few Roman era coins have been found in Schwyz, the earliest evidence of a settlement comes from the 8th century.

While numerous local authorities were allowed to mint bronze coins, no local authority was authorized to strike silver coins.

While moneyers had earlier issued coins with portraits of ancestors, Caesar ’ s was the first Roman coinage to feature the portrait of a living individual.

While the emperor is by far the most frequent portrait on the obverse of coins, heirs apparent, predecessors, and other family members, such as empresses, were also featured.

While circulated coins of the entire series are readily available to collectors there is one outstanding rarity, the 1894-S Barber Dime.

While the face value usually refers to the true value of the coin, stamp or bill in question ( as with circulation coins ) it can sometimes be largely symbolic, as is often the case with bullion coins.

While such thematic coins may or may not commemorate any particular event or jubilee, the distinction between commemorative coins and thematic coins is often blurred or ignored.