While both types of gun were effective against wooden ships, neither had the capability to pierce the armour of ironclads ; due to reports of slight problems with the breeches of the Armstrong gun, and their higher cost, the older muzzle-loaders were selected to remain in service, instead.

While these characteristics fit a Monophysite framework, a slight majority of scholars consider that Ignatius was waging a polemic on two distinct fronts, one Jewish, the other docetic, while a distinct minority holds that he is concerned with a group that commingled Judaism and docetism.

While a slight bow to the overall developer community to allow something looking like direct access ( e. g. thereby breaking the Information Hiding Principle ), the practice is dangerous as it hides or obfuscates the reality of a " setter " being used.

While slight variations on the standard code had been predicted earlier, none were discovered until 1979, when researchers studying human mitochondrial genes discovered they used an alternative code.

While mutually comprehensible with other dialects ( especially Sakkwatanci, and to a lesser extent Gaananci ), the northernmost dialects have slight grammatical and lexical differences owing to frequent contact with the Zarma and Tuareg groups and cultural changes owing to the geographical differences between the grassland and desert zones.

While the comb material does have a slight influence over the sound of the harmonica, the main advantage of a particular comb material over another one is its durability.

While slight variations on the standard code had been predicted earlier, none was discovered until 1979, when researchers studying human mitochondrial genes determined that they used an alternative code.

While the Tandy 1000 had three XT-compatible expansion slots ( with some slight differences ), early Tandy memory upgrade boards took up two of the slots to get to.

While symptoms are most common in women, some men may temporarily exhibit symptoms such as an irritation inside the penis, mild discharge, or slight burning after urination or ejaculation.

While the damage caused was slight ( reportedly only a baseball backstop was damaged and a powerline severed ), the presence of the enemy ship sowed panic along the Pacific coast of the United States.

While intentional gain twists are rare, due to manufacturing variance, a slight gain twist is in fact fairly common.

While all resemble each other with their stone fronts and common size, slight variations such as porches and window placement differed on each house, making each one slightly different.

While the ship is powerful and its crew consists of the top civilian experts in their fields, these individuals tend to have " some slight personality disorders ".

While she certainly was not a beauty, her countenance was very expressive and showed extreme intelligence ; she was not tall, but had a slight, rather pretty figure ; her bright eyes sparkled with good humour and vivacity ; her mouth was large, but filled with white and even teeth ; and her hair was a beautiful light brown colour.

While playing a guitar without humbuckers, a musician would hear a slight but significant hum through their pickups during quiet sections of music.

While this change was understandable, it has brought with it a slight confusion, and the popular misbelief that all crowns have a five pound face value, including the pre-1990 ones.

While not particularly strong, his playing style is consistent and is a slight step up in difficulty from the two previous opponents.

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While the physics behind the system remains the same, there is a slight advantage for the cylindrical shape to push water in a linear direction since, upon expansion, it has more elastic force vectors pointing in the desired direction of flow compared to a spherical pressure chamber.

While Moreno Valley and Palm Springs have a slight Democratic tilt, Palm Desert is strongly conservative.

While residents of the city of New Orleans gave Jefferson a slight majority over Carter, ( 51 % to 49 %); the Jefferson Parish share of the district voted for Jefferson by a staggering 71 % to 29 %, clearly swinging the election in his favor.

While there are slight variations, the main bulk of its buildings follow a similar theme with a complex geometrical design featuring a mix of zinc, perforated zinc, glass and sandstone tiles over a metal exoskeletal frame in a complex geometrical pattern composed entirely of scalene triangles.

While average attendance league-wide dropped that season, it had a slight increase in Vancouver.

While under the control of that organization, it crossed the Isar River at Granek, 30 April 1945, advanced to Indorf, seizing several small villages, and was driving toward Wasserburg against slight resistance when ordered to return to Nürnberg.

While the leaders of one of the two primary groups making up this movement, Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell, resisted what they saw as the spiritual manipulation of the camp meetings, the revivals contributed to the development of the other major branch, led by Barton W. Stone.

While potentially lacking the physical presence of desirable analog sound generation, real voltage manipulation, knobs, sliders, cables, and LEDs, software modular synthesizers offer the infinite variations and visual patching at a more affordable price and in a compact form factor.

While in theory the LMP concepts are useful and not evidently subject to manipulation, in practice system operators have substantial discretion over LMP results through the ability to classify units as running in " out-of-merit dispatch ", which are thereby excluded from the LMP calculation.

While he originally voiced Kyle without computer manipulation, Stone now does so by speaking within his normal vocal range and then adding a childlike inflection.

While originally voicing Stan without any computer manipulation, Parker now speaks within his normal vocal range while adding a child-like inflection.

While the Campbells resisted what they saw as the spiritual manipulation of the camp meetings, the Southern phase of the Awakening " was an important matrix of Barton Stone's reform movement " and shaped the evangelistic techniques used by both Stone and the Campbells.

While only a few characters have the explicit ability to create force fields ( for example, the Invisible Woman and Violet Parr ), many can emulate it with other powers, such as Green Lantern's energy constructs, Jean Grey's telekinesis, and Magneto's manipulation of electromagnetic fields.

While the Campbells resisted what they saw as the spiritual manipulation of the camp meetings, the Southern phase of the Awakening " was an important matrix of Barton Stone's reform movement " and shaped the evangelistic techniques used by both Stone and the Campbells.

While it claimed it was to achieve fiscal savings, some political analysts considered the results electoral manipulation.

While these differences in most cases can be attributed to choice and manipulation of rock source, form differences, such as small apertures and apertures on both ends ( double holed jars ) which would affect the use of the jar have been recorded in one district only.

While not effective as a fighting tactic the Big Wing, along with some blatant manipulation of statistics, worked as a political tool for those against Dowding.

While his powers of manipulation could create fear to be used to his advantage, she could truly persuade others to her point of view ; she knows she can use this power on Peter.

While studies in invertebrate models indicate that animals genetically engineered to lack specific antioxidant enzymes ( such as SOD ), in general, show a shortened lifespan ( as one would expect from the theory ), the converse manipulation, increasing the levels of antioxidant enzymes, has yielded inconsistent effects on lifespan ( though some studies in Drosophila do show that lifespan can be increased by the overexpression of MnSOD or glutathione biosynthesizing enzymes ).

While a student at Oxford in the 1930s, he took an interest in the work of genetic biologist Nathaniel Essex, and began experimenting with genetic manipulation, building a machine ( that he called the genetic accelerator ) with which he attempted to " evolve " the rats in his mother's London basement.

While the series tracked the character's struggle between good and evil, due to manipulation by supervillainesses Eclipso and Granny Goodness ( promotional material for the series used the catchphrase " Seduction of the Innocent ," a reference to Fredric Wertham's book of the same title ), Mary emerged from the series under the influence of Superman villain Darkseid.

While sailing in his yacht off the coast of Greece, Geo-Force suddenly found himself losing control over his powers, which had suddenly changed to include his sister's earth manipulation powers.

While Baltimore has been a major U. S. seaport since the 18th century, the historically shallow water of the Inner Harbor ( prior to manipulation through dredging ) was not conducive to large ships or heavy industry, most of which was concentrated in Locust Point, Fell's Point, and Canton.

While in Markovia, she came under the care of a Dr. Helga Jace and, through her experiments, Terra obtained Earth manipulation powers — specifically, the ability to control all forms of earthen matter.

While significant age differences did occur, as well as no experimental manipulation of classroom assignment, the findings do call into question the aim of congruent teaching-learning styles in the classroom.

While acknowledging the issue of multiple definitions of the word, Michael Langone states that: " Cults are groups that often exploit members psychologically and / or financially, typically by making members comply with leadership's demands through certain types of psychological manipulation, popularly called mind control, and through the inculcation of deep-seated anxious dependency on the group and its leaders.

While such manipulation is often prevalent in shared custody situations ( due to separation or divorce ), it can also take place in intact families, and is known as triangulation.

While relatively new, rope dart is becoming more and more popular and used in the object manipulation scene.

While in most cases the autarky bug eventually occurs, the use of extensive measures within player controlled countries-such as explosive population growth manipulation, severe limiting of human development and minimal infrastructures and telecommunications development-can maintain a permanent, large, and increasing resource deficit, which results in permanent importing for the player country, and massive export growth for virtually all other countries.

While every word is a sign taken from an inventory of available signs, the manipulation of the word contained in each speech act or individual utterance is regulated by social relations.