While rubber bridge is played competitively and for stakes, it is most often played socially and with less formality than duplicate bridge.

While duplicate is the primary form of higher levels of competitive bridge, it is also played socially.

While in Mexico Eisenstein mixed socially with Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera.

While Bilbo may be seen as a literary symbol of small folk of any gender, a gender-conscious approach can help students establish notions of a " socially symbolic text " where meaning is generated by tendentious readings of a given work.

While continental feudalism had remained strong socially and economically, it was in deep political decline by the time of Frederick Barbarossa.

While possessing great technical skill and sincere enthusiasm, Barclay seems anxiety-ridden, socially awkward, and self-conscious in ways that may indicate Asperger syndrome, avoidant personality disorder or social anxiety disorder.

While Democratic politics are entrenched because of a strong union history, the county is generally socially conservative.

While organizations such as the Society of Janus and the BackDrop Club existed, there were few informal ways to meet others socially within the scene.

While the band retained its socially conscious lyrics ( touching on topics such as gun control and the environment ), the arrangements on Empire were more straightforward than the band's previous efforts.

While socially accepted kids are the best in high school because of having the most class resources, the most opportunities and the most positive experiences, research shows that being in the popular crowd may also be a risk factor for mild to moderate deviant behavior.

While socially evolved base level pagan ways are existing side by side and the multitude of these images cannot be attributed to the great Vedic Religion / Sanatana Dharma which is an abode of divine disposition.

While it is sometimes described as centre-right in the context of Quebec politics, the party believes in a strong role for government in the economy and supports socially liberal policies.

While a return to folk and socially active music was occurring in the United States, United Kingdom and elsewhere across the world, the Finnish roots revival began in the 1960s.

While the term is socially accepted, it is becoming an outdated due to its association with the apartheid era.

While Dolores del Rio was refined and educated, Vélez was untimely and brutal: she said what came to mind, and did not care for anything look good socially.

While non-professional listeners often claim that music has meaning ( to them ), " new " musicologists, such as Susan McClary ( 1999 ), argue that so called " abstract " techniques and structures are actually highly politically and socially charged, specifically, even gendered.

While remaining aloof from him as a kinsman and doing nothing to embrace him personally or advance him socially, the uncle does give Clyde a job and ultimately advances him to a position of relative importance within the factory.

While men with more N-Pow show high levels of aggression, drink heavily, act in sexually exploitative manner, and participate in competitive sports, women channel their N-Pow in a more socially acceptable and responsible manner, being more concerned and caring.

While the Lark Buntings are socially monogamous, there is high existence of extra-pair mating, observed through extra-pair paternity.

Robert Firsching of Allmovie made similar criticisms of the film's content, saying " While the film is undoubtedly gruesome enough to satisfy fans, its mixture of nauseating mondo animal slaughter, repulsive sexual violence, and pie-faced attempts at socially conscious moralizing make it rather distasteful morally as well ".

While people can do cocaine socially and still function, once they do heroin, they're zombies.

While IBD can limit quality of life because of pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and other socially unacceptable symptoms, it is rarely fatal on its own.

While at Oxford he was President of the Christ Church JCR, a member of the Bullingdon Club-a socially exclusive student dining and binge drinking society-and editor of the student magazine, Isis.

While Yiddish theatre was an immediate hit with the broad masses of Jews, was generally liked and admired by Jewish intellectuals and many Gentile intellectuals, a small but socially powerful portion of the Jewish community, centered among Orthodox and Hasidic Jews remained opposed to it.

While primarily utilised for ceremonial purposes, the regiment can be deployed for internal security or police roles if required.

While Scary Monsters utilised principles established by the Berlin albums, it was considered by critics to be far more direct musically and lyrically.

While Marxist thought may be used to empower marginalised and dispossessed people, it has also been used to prop up governments who have utilised violence to remove those seen as impeding the revolution.

While our earliest Hominid ancestors were probably frugivores or omnivores, there is evidence that earlier Homo species, and possibly also australopithecine species utilised larger animals for subsistence.

While multimedia facilities offer many opportunities for language learning with the integration of text, images, sound and video, these opportunities have often not been fully utilised.

While other countries, such as Britain, already utilised canals and coastal shipping well, these nations had no government-controlled railways, and thus the vested interests of water-borne trade were less able to oppose new competition.

While most modern legislatures sit in a circular chamber, the benches of the British Houses of Parliament are laid out in the form of choir stalls in a chapel, simply because this is the part of the original room that the members of the House of Commons utilised when they were granted use of St Stephen's Chapel.

While he was a mystic inspired by the opaque imagery of the Zohar, Cordoverian Kabbalah utilised the conceptual framework of evolving cause and effect from the Infinite to the Finite in systemising Kabbalah, the method of philosophical style discourse he held most effective in describing a process that reflects sequential logic and coherence.

While he was actively teaching, Hisataka utilised the title Shinan, and many of his former students from that era, and their descendent students, continue to respect him with this title.

While a very specific formula is utilised to determine a student's OP, it is considered an inexact science on the part of all concerned outside of the Board of Senior Secondary Studies itself.

While a number of interesting celestial objects are readily identified by the naked eye, sometimes with the aid of a star chart, many others are so faint or inconspicuous that technical means are necessary to locate them.

While these rules do generate some pairs of amicable numbers, many other pairs are known, so these rules are by no means comprehensive.

While most prophets had heroic names ( e. g., Isaiah means " God has saved "), Jonah's name carries with it an element of passivity.

While previous wars were fought for social, religious, even cultural reasons, Clausewitz taught that war is merely " a continuation of politics by other means.

While the first application of the term " clipper " in a nautical sense is by no means certain, it seems to have had an American origin when applied to the Baltimore clippers of the late 18th century.

While Qoheleth clearly endorses wisdom as a means for a well-lived earthly life, he is unable to ascribe eternal meaning to it.

While the North American perception is important to understand the usage of the term, it by no means dominates a wider global view, where the fundamentalist debate was not so influential.

While the former means " handsome ", the latter gives an ironic sense of " clumsy ", akin to the English " That was clever!

While extending the notion of number by means of his revolutionary concept of infinite cardinality, Cantor was paradoxically opposed to theories of infinitesimals of his contemporaries Otto Stolz and Paul du Bois-Reymond, describing them as both " an abomination " and " a cholera bacillus of mathematics ".

While the momentum of the invasion was broken, the Galatians were by no means exterminated.

While for p equal to 0 we assume that it's equal to the geometric mean ( which is, in fact, the limit of means with exponents approaching zero ):

While the " historical " part of historical materialism does not cause a comprehension problem ( i. e., it means the present is explained by analysing the past ), the term materialism is more difficult.

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 post-structural historicism is relativist in its orientation, that is, it sees each culture as its own frame of reference, a large number of thinkers have embraced the need for historical context, not because culture is self-referential, but because there is no more compressed means of conveying all of the relevant information except through history.

While one standard deviation is 15 points, and two SDs are 30 points, and so on, this does not imply that mental ability is linearly related to IQ, such that IQ 50 means half the cognitive ability of IQ 100.

While this effort has by no means converted all, or even most, Muslims to the Wahhabist interpretation of Islam, it has done much to overwhelm more moderate local interpretations, and has set the Saudi-interpretation of Islam as the " gold standard " of religion in Muslims ' minds.

While admitting that Russia's rural " commune is the fulcrum of social regeneration in Russia ", Marx also warned that, in order for the mir to operate as a means for moving straight to the socialist stage without a preceding capitalist stage, it " would first be necessary to eliminate the deleterious influences which are assailing it ( the rural commune ) from all sides.

While it was by no means the only creative force behind Arthurian romance, many of its elements were borrowed and developed ( e. g., Merlin and the final fate of Arthur ), and it provided the historical framework into which the romancers ' tales of magical and wonderful adventures were inserted.

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 by no means a central authority of the Lollards, the Twelve Conclusions reveal certain basic Lollard ideas.

While pantheism means that the totality of all that exists is God, panentheism means All is in God, the divine being both immanent and transcendent.

While other guidance systems have been tried, the basic reliability of wire-guidance means this will remain the primary means of controlling anti-tank missile in the near future.

While training doctrines for machine pistols vary between armies, in general, soldiers are instructed to use the weapon for short bursts, rather than for an uninterrupted period of automatic fire, because the weapon easily gets out of control in sustained firing, which means that many of the rounds may be off target.