While Expat is mainly a stream-based ( push ) parser, it supports stopping and restarting parsing at arbitrary times, thus making the implementation of a pull parser relatively easy as well.

While Johnny made himself comfortable on the couch, I'd play the tunes for him.

While he was heir-apparent — 1865 to 1881 — Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.

While the 7800 can actually play hundreds of titles due to its compatibility with the Atari 2600, there was limited third party support for the 7800 and fewer than 100 titles were specifically designed for it.

While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound — core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood — beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.

While Alexander was waiting for his guests to arrive, he stood by a window, watching a group of boys at play on the seashore below the house.

While it is not recorded as a " steal ", in a practical sense a batter can be said to " steal first base " by successfully running to first base ( without being tagged or thrown out ) in rare circumstances following an uncaught third strike ; the rarely-seen play avoids an " out " and gains a baserunner.

While competitive basketball is carefully regulated, numerous variations of basketball have developed for casual play.

While it is possible through skillful play to minimize the house advantage, it is extremely rare that a player has sufficient skill to completely eliminate his inherent long-term disadvantage ( the house edge ( HE ) or house vigorish ) in a casino game.

) While the monarch retains some powers from the constitution, most particular is lèse majesté which protects the image and ability of the monarch to play a role in politics and carries modest criminal penalties for violators.

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

While the Browns ' on-field play in 1956 was uninspiring, off-the-field drama developed after a Cleveland-based inventor named George Sarles let Brown test a helmet with a radio transmitter inside.

While ethnicity and culture play a large part in Jewish identity, they are not the only way Jews define themselves as Jews.

While they continued to play live shows during 1983 and 1984, they took a break from releasing new records to concentrate on the Alternative Tentacles record label, which would become synonymous with DIY alternative culture.

While attending the University of Texas, Wallach performed in a play with fellow students Ann Sheridan and Walter Cronkite.

While many titles ( especially the strategically heavier ones ) are enthusiastically played by gamers as a hobby, German-style games are, for the most part, well suited to social play.

While rules are light to moderate, they allow depth of play, usually requiring thought, planning, and a shift of tactics through the game and often with a chess-or backgammon-like opening game, middle game, and end game.

While few players " play Goren " exactly today, the point count approach he popularized remains the foundation for most bidding systems.

While the Richter-tuned 10-hole chromatic is intended to be played in only one key, the 12 -, 14 -, and 16-hole models ( which are tuned to equal temperament ) allow the musician to play in any key desired with only one harmonica.

While in European classical music elements of interpretation, ornamentation and accompaniment are sometimes left to the performer's discretion, the performer's primary goal is to play a composition as it was written.

While some enthusiasts of certain types of jazz have argued for narrower definitions which exclude many other types of music also commonly known as " jazz ," jazz musicians themselves are often reluctant to define the music they play.

While having a solid understanding of positional play, Polgár excels in tactics and is known for an aggressive playing style, striving to maximize the initiative and actively pursuing complications.

While a forward pass may only be thrown once per down by the team on offense from within or behind the neutral zone, there are no restrictions on the use of lateral passes ; any player legally carrying the ball may throw a lateral pass from any position on the field at any time, any player may receive such a pass, and any number of lateral passes may be thrown on a single play.

While many today would say that any misfortune surrounding a production is mere coincidence, actors and other theatre people often consider it bad luck to mention Macbeth by name while inside a theatre, and sometimes refer to it indirectly, for example as " the Scottish play ", or " MacBee ", or when referring to the character and not the play, " Mr. and Mrs. M ", or " The Scottish King ".

While the entire metaplot has always been meant to be altered as each play group sees fit, Ascension provided multiple possible endings, with none of them being definitive ( though one was meant to resolve the metaplot ).

While the Laws of the Game continue to provide for competitive scrums, a convention exists that some scrum rules are not enforced.

While other knowledge could be a figment of imagination, deception or mistake, the very act of doubting one's own existence serves to some people as proof of the reality of one's own existence, or at least that of one's thought.

While humans have developed clothing and other means of keeping warm, the hair found on the head serves as primary sources of heat insulation and cooling ( when sweat evaporates from soaked hair ) as well as protection from ultra-violet radiation exposure.

While Route 16 serves every single stop along University Avenue, Route 50 only serves select stops, skipping the rest.

While the Papal Nuncio in Washington, D. C. serves as the Vatican State's ambassador to the U. S. and the ecclesiastical liaison to the American Roman Catholic Church, the Holy See has designated the Papal Nuncio in the Dominican Republic as the ecclesiastical liaison to the Roman Catholic Church in Puerto Rico.

While the moderator of a presbytery normally serves one year, the stated clerk normally serves a designated number of years and may be re-elected indefinitely by the presbytery.

While some critics see the gloss as spelling out clearly the moral of the tale, others point to the inaccuracies and illogicalities of the gloss and interpret it as the voice of a dramatized character that only serves to highlight the poem's cruel meaninglessness.

While the vulnerability they exploited was a flaw in the software loaded on the 4758, and not the architecture of the 4758 itself, their attack serves as a reminder that a security system is only as secure as its weakest link: the strong link of the 4758 hardware was rendered useless by flaws in the design and specification of the software loaded on it.

" While this is not essential to the plot of the play, the line figuratively serves to suggest Death has become physically present in Thebes.

Thus, it is apparent that Ismene serves as a foil for Antigone ; she is the “ compliant citizen ” to her sister ’ s “ conscientious objector .” While she is loyal and willing to die at her sister ’ s side, she does not make the same bold, defiant stand that Antigone does.

While the County Court no longer exercises much judicial authority, it serves as the executive branch of county government.

While not passing through any part of Wilton, the Merritt Parkway ( Route 15 ) also serves the town via the Route 33 exit ( Exit 41 ) which is signed for Wilton, as well as the Route 7 exits ( Exits 39B & 40B ) which are signed for Danbury.

While New Preston village once had its own post office, it is now served by a combined New Preston-Marble Dale post office, which is located in Marble Dale, and also serves the southern portion of the Town of Warren.

While located in northern Texas County, the Plato R-V School District serves Pulaski County residents living south of the post.

While the district serves many towns in Lower Bucks County, Newtown Township is home to Council Rock High School North, Newtown Middle School ( formerly Newtown Junior High ), Goodnoe Elementary School, Newtown Elementary School, and the former Chancellor Street School, which now acts as the administrative building for the district.

While Richland Township is a suburb of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, it serves as the central retail area for Johnstown and its two-county SMSA region.

While XUL serves primarily for constructing Mozilla applications and their extensions, it may also feature in Web applications transferred over HTTP.

While Elizabeth City still retains its extensive waterfront property, it is thoroughly linked to neighboring counties and cities by interstate highways and bridges and serves as the site of a major US Coast Guard Base.

While still portrayed as a ruthless radical leader of the Chōshū clan, he serves as a benevolent mentor of sorts to the young Kenshin Himura, who worked under him as the Hitokiri Battōsai.

While many of its students are Radburn residents, it serves a larger district.

While there, he founded the Valle Crucis Mission School, which has had several purposes throughout its history and currently serves as a conference and retreat center, hosting ( among other things ) the Jink and Diddle School of Scottish Fiddling.

While Orlando is absorbed in the ideal, Rosalind serves as a mediator, bringing Orlando back down to reality and embracing the simplicity of pastoral love.

While he does not play a role in the main plot or subplot, the " Emcee " ( Joel Grey ) serves in the role of storyteller throughout the film, acting as a sort of voyeur in the circus atmosphere.

While the Papal Anthem serves as the official anthem for the Vatican State, the Vatican stresses that it " is not to be understood as a national anthem "; it is a composition whose words and music " speak to the heart of many throughout the world who see in Rome the See of Peter.