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 serving as Haitian ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Lescot fell under the sway of Trujillo's influence and wealth.

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.

While he still was mayor of Paris ( since 1977 ), Chirac went to Abidjan ( Côte d ' Ivoire ) where he supported President Houphouët-Boigny ( 1960 – 1993 ), although the latter was being called a " thief " by the local population.

While Jacques Peirotes, at this time deputy at the Landrat Elsass-Lothringen and just elected mayor of Strasbourg, proclaimed the forfeiture of the German Empire and the advent of the French Republic, a self-proclaimed government of Alsace-Lorraine declared independence as the " Republic of Alsace-Lorraine ".

While Cindercott wishes to make a beeline for city hall to protect the mayor, the officers know they have to attack the problem at its source: superspace.

While the city has an elected mayor, the majority of daily decisions are made by a hired city manager.

While Garden City is sometimes considered to be a city it is not incorporated and does not yet have a city council or mayor.

While Lesslie is sometimes considered to be a town it is not incorporated and does not have a town council or mayor.

While the mayor is technically a non-partisan office, current mayor Joe Marine's personal political beliefs are with the Republican party.

While he was mayor, the city was enjoying an economic boom, attracting many unskilled labourers from all over the country.

While running for mayor in 1993, Coleman wrote in a letter to the City Convention Delegates: " I have never sought any other political office.

While Mammy was the unofficial mayor of Dogpatch and could read, Pappy remained illiterate.

While the examination process was proceeding, the mayor of South Chang ' an submitted a rock with a mysterious red writing on it -- " Wang Mang, the Duke of Anhan, should be emperor.

While on a business trip in Alaska, a ( former ) teacher at Obihiro's Agricultural High School, Yasuhiko Ohzono, was asked by the mayor of Seward to create some sort of cultural exchange between the two cities.

While the City and District are separate entities, each with its own mayor, council, and operations departments, they share several core services such as the North Vancouver School District, the North Vancouver Recreation Commission and the North Vancouver detachment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

While the examination process was proceeding, the mayor of South Chang ' an submitted a rock with a mysterious red writing on it -- " Wang Mang, the Duke of Anhan, should be emperor.

While in Los Angeles, she met Don Antonio Coronel, former mayor of the city and a well-known authority on early Californio life in the area.

While Roman Lazaro witnessed 4 government transitions, Taciano Rizal and Mayor Severino J. Lajara served the longest terms as municipal mayor, although the latter served uninterruptedly for 10 years.

While mayor, Pelletier also became friends with Paris mayor Jacques Chirac.

While serving in the U. S. House, Conyers made two unsuccessful runs for mayor of Detroit: one in 1989 against incumbent Coleman Young and again in 1993.

While still serving as a Justice of the Peace, Green ran for mayor of Houston in 1981, finishing a distant fifth in the primary.

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While Bishop was mayor, the Prince of Wales accepted his invitation to visit the city, and, despite being a Democrat, Bishop made the address of welcome to President Lincoln as he passed through on the way to his inauguration.

While mayor of Dayton, Leonard was known as outgoing and youth-oriented, sometimes called " the Rock ' N ' Roll Mayor of Dayton.