While there have been reports of attempts by individuals to circumvent the ban, e. g. by smuggling CFCs from undeveloped to developed nations, the overall level of compliance has been high.

" While other parts of Mexico are hit by an increase in drugs violence, the beheadings and massacres familiar a few years ago are now rare in Tijuana, a key battleground on one of the most lucrative drug smuggling corridors to the United States.

While in prison O ' Connor continued to write for the Northern Star, probably by smuggling his articles out, and was thus able to keep the Chartists, who rallied around him, united.

While at Riverkeeper, Kennedy hired William Wegner, a falconry friend who had pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges of smuggling bird eggs from Australia in contravention of the laws of Australia and the United States.

While there, he devoted his time to helping many unfortunate and dying camp prisoners by giving them spiritual comfort, smuggling in extra bread, and giving them solace and courage.

While Evan offers a number of reasons for his imprisonment, if the conspiracy is uncovered, it is revealed he was framed by Bollanet after he found out too much about his smuggling operations.

While the stated reason for the construction of the wall has been to curb smuggling and encroachment, security reasons-earlier in the 1970s and 1980s resulting from Malaysian communist groups and groups involved in the South Thailand insurgency in the late 1990s and early 2000s-have also been a major push for the barrier to be constructed.

While hitchhiking back from New York the boys meet two Department of Justice men who are investigating a case of diamond smuggling.

While playing Arlo Guthrie's " Coming Into Los Angeles ", which referenced smuggling marijuana, Leon charged into the station and ripped the turntable arm off the record.

While in some jurisdictions they are the responsibility of the Coast Guard, in Ireland, fisheries patrols are carried out by the Irish Naval Service and drug smuggling patrols by the Customs, Gardaí and the Naval Service.

While not entirely synonymous with Anatolia, the term Asia Minor, derived from the Latin Asia Minores, refers to Asia inside the Roman Empire, versus Asia Magna, all of Asia beyond the borders.

While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works.

While first aid can also be performed on all animals, the term generally refers to care of human patients.

While the general concept of a " Spirit " that permeates the cosmos is a general feature of most religions ( e. g. Brahman in Hinduism and Tao in Taoism and Great Spirit among Indigenous peoples of the Americas ), the term Holy Spirit specifically refers to the beliefs held in the Abrahamic religions.

While in philosophy the term specifically refers to a position put forward by the American philosopher Nelson Goodman, in literature and art it refers to a variety of writers and movements.

While the gospels present this as a consequence of the marriage of Herod Antipas and Herodias in defiance of Jewish law ( as in Matthew 14: 4, Mark 6: 18 ) Josephus refers to it as a pre-emptive measure by Herod to quell a possible uprising.

While traditionally most monarchs have been male, female monarchs have also ruled in history ; the term queen regnant refers to a ruling monarch, as distinct from a queen consort, the wife of a reigning king.

While Wake has been administered by the United States since 1899, the Marshallese government refers to it by the name Enen-kio.

While a telephone is a two way communication device, mass media refers to medium which can communicate a message to a large group, often simultaneously.

While the dividing line between machine pistols and compact submachine guns is hard to draw, the term " submachine gun " usually refers to larger automatic firearms scaled down from a full-sized machine gun to fire handgun rounds, while the term " machine pistol " usually refers to a weapon built up from a semi-automatic pistol design.

While the term submachine gun usually refers to an automatic firearm larger than a pistol, several weapons are classed in both categories.

While the most common modern usage of the word terrorism refers to civilian-victimizing political violence by insurgents or conspirators, several scholars make a broader interpretation of the nature of terrorism that encompasses the concepts of state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism.

While technically a UFO refers to any unidentified flying object, in modern popular culture the term UFO has generally become synonymous with alien spacecraft ; however, the term ETV ( ExtraTerrestrial Vehicle ) is sometimes used to separate this explanation of UFOs from totally earthbound explanations.

While Campbell refers to heavy batteries requiring a " load-bearing hull " and " cranky, even unseaworthy vessels ", Desmond points out that electric boaters tend to prefer efficient, low-wash hull forms that are more friendly to river banks.

While the term meantone temperament refers primarily to the tempering of 5-limit musical intervals, optimum values for the 5-limit also work well for the 7-limit, defining septimal meantone temperament.

William Cody's autobiography refers to a Pawnee Indian legend: " While we were in the sandhills, scouting the Niobrara country, the Pawnee Indians brought into camp some very large bones, one of which the surgeon of the expedition pronounced to be the thigh bone of a human being.

While proteomics generally refers to the large-scale experimental analysis of proteins, it is often specifically used for protein purification and mass spectrometry.

While AltiVec refers to an instruction set, the implementations in CPUs produced by IBM and Motorola are separate in terms of logic design.

While many cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, the term tragedy often refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western civilization.

While the sixth poem refers to Assyria, it is uncertain whether it is an historical reference to the ancient Ninevah, or a prophecy, which religious commentators consider refers to the Seleucid kingdom of Syria, which also took the name Assyria.

While taurine is sometimes called an amino acid, and indeed is an acid containing an amino group, it is not an amino acid in the usual biochemical meaning of the term, which refers to compounds containing both an amino and a carboxyl group.

3d 863, 873 ( 1989 ) observed: " While the filing of frivolous lawsuits is certainly improper and cannot in any way be condoned, in our view the better means of addressing the problem of unjustified litigation is through the adoption of measures facilitating the speedy resolution of the initial lawsuit and authorizing the imposition of sanctions for frivolous or delaying conduct within that first action itself, rather than through an expansion of the opportunities for initiating one or more additional rounds of malicious prosecution litigation after the first action has been concluded.

While this system lacks the versatility of other miniatures games, mainly because players cannot customize their figures, it makes up for this by facilitating rapid gameplay and by having a large number of distinctive figures.

While the crowd dispersed, some students began to create barricades out of whatever was at hand, while others threw paving stones, forcing the police to retreat temporarily, before eventually responding with tear gas and charging the crowd again, thereby facilitating the arrest of hundreds of students.

While in the United States, Ovakimian ran the Golos spy ring and is credited with facilitating the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

While not illegal, on 15 March the Treasurer of the party, Jack Dromey stated publicly that he had neither knowledge of or involvement in these loans and had only become aware when he read about it in the newspapers.

While a principle-based approach might claim that lying is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, lying might or might not be illegal or unethical.

While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

While " flame wars " are not illegal, so long as they remain ad hominem, threats and insults said within them may break cyber laws.

While quid pro quo agreements are generally illegal in most democracies, they are notoriously difficult to prove short of a well-documented paper trail.

While many Latin American countries have long since rendered the system officially illegal through legislation, usually at the time of their independence, prejudice based on degrees of perceived racial distance from European ancestry combined with one ’ s socioeconomic status remain, an echo of the colonial caste system.

While many Latin American countries have long since rendered the system officially illegal through legislation, usually at the time of independence, prejudice based on degrees of perceived racial distance from European ancestry combined with one's socioeconomic status remain, an echo of the colonial caste system.

While it is a popular belief that it is illegal to pick the common Trillium grandiflorum ( white trillium ) in Ontario, in reality they are only protected in provincial parks and land owned by conservation authorities.

While in Alaska, Harding was profoundly shocked by a long message he received detailing illegal activities previously unknown to him.

While the French government deemed Action Directe illegal, the group fashioned itself as an urban guerilla movement, claiming a legitimate armed struggle.

While a court did affirm that various Nigerian government officials ( including a governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria ) were directly or indirectly involved and that Nigerian government officials could be sued in U. S. courts under the " commercial activity " exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, he was unable to get his money back due to the doctrine of unclean hands because he had knowingly entered into a contract that was illegal.

While dating Renee ( and previously Edna ), he wholeheartedly spoiled them with whatever they wanted and vowed to give up his bar and take them away from Springfield forever, even if it means losing his own money and doing illegal acts to make more money.

While this is not illegal in the UK if employees live in, Paxman, known for grilling interviewees on workers ' rights issues, was criticised when his employees went public, claiming to have been paid " the bare minimum ".

While approved by the County Commission, Gilley's development has encountered stiff opposition from local religious and anti-gambling groups who are concerned that the planned bingo hall is illegal under state law, and would bring increased crime and gambling addiction to the area.

While consumption of alcoholic beverages in private homes was permitted in Williamson after the 21st Amendment ended Prohibition, the sales of such beverages were illegal within the town.

While the Death Eaters practice " dark magic ", illegal and dangerous spells, their ideology, such as it is, is a version of racial supremacy.

While there, they undertook a major operation, Operation Bobcat, to prevent floods of illegal Jewish immigrants coming into Israel.

While it was illegal, the Blackfoot held it in secret.

While illegal, possession is generally not fined as long as a certain maximum amount ( so called " geringe Menge " = English " small amount ") is not exceeded.

While he admitted that the installation of the idols may have been " an illegal act ", Nayar refused to remove them from the mosque claiming that " the depth of feeling behind the movement ... should not be underestimated.

While " community center " is a term used to describe any center of " public " activity, occasionally sanctioned by the state or private interests such as a corporation, social centers are characterized by their quasi-legal and sometimes illegal existence, their direct subsistence on the community that supports it and their political vision vis-a-vis the state.

While utilizing cannabis for recreational purposes is illegal in many parts of the world, many countries are beginning to entertain varying levels of decriminalization for medical usage ( the medical marijuana movement ), including Canada, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Spain, Israel, Italy, Finland, and Portugal.

While living in the settlement, Netanel and the other 9 settlers would routinely stone Palestinian cars which were forced to drive down the road immediately adjacent to the illegal outpost ( the other access road being blocked by a checkpoint ).

While the act of box breaking is legal, some businesses are also engaging in illegal activities such as exporting the box-broken phones to other countries, to sell as grey market goods without paying import duties ( known as Carousel Fraud ) or substituting counterfeit batteries and chargers.