While the precepts for monks and nuns differ somewhat depending on which tradition one has ordained in ( Tibetan, Thai Theravadan, etc.

While somewhat uncommon, entire asynchronous CPUs have been built without utilizing a global clock signal.

While professional grading has reduced the number of counterfeits foisted upon investors and has improved buyer confidence substantially, the goal of creating a sight-unseen market for coins remains somewhat elusive.

While orchestral bass solos are somewhat rare, there are some notable examples.

While attending courses at Greenwhich he was somewhat distracted from his naval career by the delights of London.

While the ending of the film does look somewhat ambiguous, Toho confirmed that King Kong was indeed the winner in their 1962 / 63 English-language film brochure Toho Films Vol.

While the total value of export merchandise fell in 1990 and 1991 and had still not recovered in 1993 to its 1989 level, the overall agricultural sector output has grown somewhat because of growth in the sale of winter vegetables and shrimp.

While the number of regions is somewhat stable ( the only modification to the original set is the separation of Molise from Abruzzo ), there has been a tendency in later years to create new provinces, such as Crotone, Verbania, Lodi, Biella, Lecco and others.

While this singer had somewhat of a poor memory, he did help to fill in many gaps in the work Lönnrot had already catalogued.

While most Black-legged Kittiwakes do, indeed, have dark-grey legs, some have pinkish-grey to reddish legs, making colouration a somewhat unreliable identifying marker.

While the supergravity description assumes a continuous space-time, Matrix theory predicts that, at short distances, non-commutative geometry takes over, somewhat similar to the way the continuum of water breaks down at short distances in favor of the graininess of molecules.

While this was initially a somewhat vague formulation, by the 1930s many Surrealists had strongly identified themselves with communism.

While Stephen and his army besieged Lincoln Castle at the start of 1141, Robert of Gloucester and Ranulf of Chester advanced on the king's position with a somewhat larger force.

While the term two-party system is somewhat imprecise and has been used in different countries to mean different things, there is considerable agreement that a system is considered to be of a two-party nature when election results show consistently that all or nearly all elected officials belong to only one of the two major parties, such as in the United States.

While the object from which the genre is derived dates from the Renaissance, theater historians argue that slapstick comedy has been at least somewhat present in almost all comedic genres since the rejuvenation of theater in church liturgical dramas in the Middle Ages.

While Patton has a reputation today as a senior general who was both impatient and impulsive, with little tolerance for officers who had failed to succeed on the battlefield, the truth is somewhat different.

While Tate reportedly wanted a traditional marriage, Polanski remained somewhat promiscuous and described Tate's attitude to his infidelity as " Sharon's big hang-up ".

While one can usually intuitively sense the level / amount of social capital present in a given relationship ( regardless of type or scale ), quantitative measuring has proven somewhat complicated.

While manufacturers use various designations for a rod's power, there is no fixed standard, hence application of a particular power tag by a manufacturer is somewhat subjective.

While political propaganda or personal emphasis may have somewhat distorted the historical accuracy of the story, the Bayeux tapestry presents a unique visual document of medieval arms, apparel, and other objects unlike any other artifact surviving from this period.

While this was merely speculation on Samad's part based on the prevailing scientific knowledge at the time, it somewhat erodes the patient's story by eliminating the motivation for the fish to have attacked him in the first place.

While average highs are somewhat consistent throughout the year, average lows dip to in July.

While that version ( which did not air ) had a much greater departure from the game's original format, the producers significantly retooled the format to create a somewhat more faithful remake of the program, which was picked up in syndication and began in fall 1998.

While Grewe was somewhat circumspect, the foreign minister, Brentano, made it clear that regardless of the economic consequences the Federal Republic would immediately break off diplomatic relations with any state that recognized the German Democratic Republic de jure or recognized the " reality of two German states ".

While his pace cooled somewhat in the final eight weeks of the season ( he only hit 10 home runs in the Mariners ' last 47 games ), his 40 home runs by August 12 still put him two ahead of Chicago's Frank Thomas and four ahead of Cleveland's Albert Belle for the AL lead.

While competitive basketball is carefully regulated, numerous variations of basketball have developed for casual play.

While the roots of the game are very casual and laid back the newer generations of players are taking course design as well as the other elements of the game to a new level.

While other names of God in Judaism are generally restricted to use in a liturgical context, HaShem is used in more casual circumstances.

While this error is often not obvious to casual observers, under the ISU Judging System, cheated jumps are heavily penalized, in many cases as much as or more than a fall on a fully rotated jump.

While primitive, this teen exploitation film contained the foundations of Altman's later work in its use of casual, naturalistic dialogue.

While adolescents may engage in casual sexual encounters ( often referred to as hookups ), most sexual experience during this period of development takes place within romantic relationships.

While only adequate technically, the video captured the energy and playfulness of Springsteen and the E Street Band in concert, and was the first such introduction many casual fans had.

While it is sufficient for many casual users, there are multiple alternatives used for each alphabet, and many exceptions.

While the term nominally includes those who do not necessarily consider themselves to be gamers ( i. e., casual gamers ), it is commonly used to identify those who spend much of their leisure time playing or learning about games.

While he understands that his relationship with Sandy is casual, he's still enraged when he discovers her having sex with another man, and savagely beats him, later loathing himself because his action contradicts his own belief in anarchism.

While gay men and straight men showed similar psychological interest in casual sex on markers of sociosexuality, gay men showed a larger number of partners in behaviour expressing this interest ( proposed to be due to a difference in opportunity ).

While it remained a popular stage piece through the 18th century, much praised and enjoyed for its wit, attitudes to its casual sexual morality became increasingly ambivalent as public opinion became ever more restrictive in this area, and more at odds with the permissive ethos of Restoration comedy.

While progressive lip tricks are often overlooked in the upper echelons of wakeskating now, lip tricks are still an important part of wakeskating's identity and continue to be popular among its amateur and casual participants.

While the date is fairly casual in most European-influenced cultures, in some traditional societies, courtship is a highly structured activity, with very specific formal rules.

While the scrambling method was not at all as strong as encryption in newer digital phones, such as GSM, it did prevent casual listening with scanners.

While still at university, he co-wrote a book on environmental politics and worked as a casual layout and design artist.

While in the US or Britain, shorts are considered casual dress, Bermuda shorts are considered to be formal attire in Bermuda, and are worn with a jacket and tie.

) While the band was actively creating music under this name for some time, it was treated as a strictly casual and only occasionally evoked side project until the early-mid ' 90s.

While occurring over a mile downstream of the Inner Harbor, it nonetheless was associated with the Inner Harbor by news reports and casual observers.

While the English-dubbed Bakura retains his host's accent, his voice is deeper and his speech patterns are still more casual than his good counterpart.

While handling two jobs ( switching between casual wear and business suits in the elevator ), Brantley also falls head-over-heels for Christy Wills ( Helen Slater ), a fellow financial wizard who recently graduated from Harvard.

While in western popular culture both younger men and women may wear casual leather anklets, they are popular among barefoot women.

While it is considered one neighborhood for administrative purposes, it is composed of numerous distinct sections ( East Fenway, West Fenway, Audubon Circle, Kenmore Square ) that, in casual conversation, are almost always referred to as " Fenway ," " Kenmore Square ," or " Kenmore.

While the Migration Period Elder Futhark had been an actual " secret " known only to a literate elite, with only some 350 surviving inscriptions, literacy in the Younger Futhark became widespread in Scandinavia, as witnessed by the great number of Runestones ( some 6, 000 ), sometimes inscribed with almost casual notes.