While Dampier was captain of the St. George, Selkirk served on the galley Cinque Ports, the St. Georges companion, as a sailing master serving under Thomas Stradling.

While retaining his professorship at Duke after the beginning of World War II, Linebarger began serving as a second lieutenant of the United States Army, where he was involved in the creation of the Office of War Information and the Operation Planning and Intelligence Board.

While serving in this capacity, he was selected for promotion to brigadier general in November 1988.

While serving in the military, Brubeck met Paul Desmond in early 1944.

While serving as First Sea Lord, his primary concerns dealt with devising plans on how the Royal Navy would keep shipping lanes open if Britain fell victim to a nuclear attack.

While Henry was dallying in France, Catherine, who was serving as regent in his absence, and his advisers were left to deal with this threat.

While serving abroad, Adams married Louisa Catherine Johnson, the daughter of an American merchant, in a ceremony at the church of All Hallows-by-the-Tower, London.

While both serving on the Tsaritsyn Front in 1918, where Ekaterina was helping orphans, they adopted a four year old orphan boy who they named Petya.

While serving his sentence, he studied philosophy.

While serving the government as a silent weapon against political adversaries or dangerous writers and as a means of punishing culprits of high birth without the scandal of a lawsuit, the lettres de cachet had many other uses.

While serving as prime minister during the 1940s, Didi nationalized the fish export industry.

While serving as a judge on " American Idol ," Abdul accepted a second assignment as reporter for Entertainment Tonight.

While serving as a color commentator for WWE Smackdown, John Layfield pointed out that a wrestler sometimes will make pin attempts early in the match, despite knowing that he has not damaged his opponent enough to win, because sometimes the point is not to get a pin, but rather to force the opponent to expend energy for later in the match.

While serving on Voyager, Paris nurtured a long-hidden talent for holo-programming, devising several programs for the entertainment of his fellow crewmembers.

While no laws prohibited serving homosexuals, courts allowed the SLA discretion in approving and revoking liquor licenses for businesses that might become " disorderly ".

* While serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party

While serving as a celebrity judge on Dance Fever, Gretzky met his future wife, American actress Janet Jones.

While serving as the War Secretary Taft generally concentrated on major developments, including the Philippines and the Panama Canal, to the detriment of departmental housekeeping problems, including factionalism within the Department, of which Roosevelt was aware.

While serving in the army in early 1862, Garfield was approached by friends about political opportunities resulting from the redrawn 19th Ohio Congressional District ; it was believed that the incumbent, John Hutchins, was vulnerable.

While serving as a financial agent for the City of Philadelphia's treasurer Joseph Marcer, Yerkes risked public money in a colossal stock speculation.

While serving as governor, Wallace completed his second novel, which made him famous: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ).

While the title was not official, he is considered to be the first Senate Majority leader ( and in turn, the first Senate Democratic Leader ), while serving concurrently as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus.

While passing through the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh it touches a small village called Dharmapuri which is a pilgrimage village with many ancient Hindu temples and river Godavari serving as spiritual place in true sense for bathing in Godavari river spread over rocks and sand.

While he was serving in Whampoa, Zhou was also made the secretary of the Communist Party of Guandong-Guanxi, and served as the CCP representative with the rank of major-general.

Danner co-wrote and helped produce two hour-long television documentaries for ABC News ' Peter Jennings Reporting series: " While America Watched: The Bosnian Tragedy " and " House on Fire: America's Haitian Crisis ", which both aired in 1994.

While such a large-scale slave rebellion was never again repeated, the Haitian Revolution stood as a model for achieving emancipation for slaves in the rest of the Atlantic World.

While by February 9, 2011, the Haitian Ministry of Health reported 4, 549 cholera-related deaths, and 231, 070 cases of infection, estimates by the United Nations put the numbers at two to four times higher than these.

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 Zamorin's officials wondered at why there was no gold or silver, the Muslim merchants who considered da Gama their rival suggested that the latter was only an ordinary pirate and not a royal ambassador.

While serving as ambassador to Russia in February 1834, Ahmed Pasha presented Tsar Nicholas with a number of gifts, including a jewel-encrusted sword supposedly taken from Constantine XI's corpse.

While serving as ambassador to Thailand, Martin came to the attention of Richard Nixon during a state banquet for the Thai King.

While publicly trying to appease tensions between France and the Republic, making ambassador William Temple avow friendship to Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt, he secretly schemed to seduce Louis to a campaign against the Dutch.

While at Venice, she was induced by Lady Wentworth, the wife of the British ambassador, to accompany her to London.

While in Italy he also visited the kingdom of Naples, where he was well received by Lord Cathcart's brother, Sir William Hamilton, British ambassador.

While in the East, Sulla was the first Roman magistrate to meet a Parthian ambassador, Orobazus, and by taking the seat between the Parthian ambassador and the ambassador from Pontus ( the centre seat being the place of honour ), he sealed, perhaps unintentionally, the Parthian ambassador's fate.

While at Constantinople he also served as an ambassador to Isaac II Angelus, and was in the embassy that demanded that Isaac appoint Alexius IV co-emperor.

While the US refused to establish any diplomatic relations with the new regime, Saddam Hussein told a Brish ambassador in 1969 that Iraq was " earnest " in seeking improved ties with Britain " and with America too, for that matter "; adding that Iraq's pro-Soviet stance " was forced upon it ".

While he had been posted in Turkey for most of his career, he also served as consul-general in Oslo and was the British ambassador to Bulgaria in 1994.

" While waiting for the head of the staff the hearing was adjourned ; it was arranged not to resume it that day, for in the interval the government, informed of the incident, had opposed the production of a document which brought the foreign embassies into the case, and of which Hanotaux, the minister for foreign affairs, warned by the Italian ambassador, Tornielli, suspected the genuineness.

While he was there, the Spanish ambassador, Don Pedro de Lucena, who was a very pious man, grew to know and admire him.

While serving as an ambassador, Mazel became a controversial figure in Sweden.

While there has been some criticism of the vague division of powers between the EU's top players, Ukrainian ambassador to the EU Andriy Veselovsky praised the framework and clarified it in his own terms: The President of the European Commission speaks as the EU's " government " while the President of the European Council is a " strategist ".

While ambassador to Turkey, Steinhardt, particularly because he was Jewish, was involved in the rescue of Hungarian Jews from Bergen Belsen.

While serving in the Ministry of External Relations, Amorim spent large amounts of time working as an ambassador to the United Nations.

While Foreign Minister, Surakiart transferred Asda's younger brother Surapong Jayanama to become ambassador to Germany ( from Director General of the East Asia Department of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs ).

* ( While assaulting the ambassador to Moldavia ) ' Have you had enough?

While the Soviet and American governments try to acquire as much of the oil as they can, Soviet-backed terrorists kidnap a US ambassador in hopes of provoking an international incident.

While considering the mediation offer, Abraham Lincoln mentions to the British ambassador Richard Lyons that he has in his desk drawer a proclamation that would have freed slaves in the rebellious Confederacy.

While ambassador to Colombia, Patterson and U. S. Senator Paul Wellstone were the alleged targets of a failed bomb plot while on an official visit to the Colombian town of Barrancabermeja.