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 some enthusiasts of certain types of jazz have argued for narrower definitions which exclude many other types of music also commonly known as " jazz ," jazz musicians themselves are often reluctant to define the music they play.

While the United States defined its interests in terms of resisting the fascist threat, Paraguayan officials believed their interests lay in economic expediency and were reluctant to antagonize Germany until the outcome of the war was no longer in doubt.

While Blake intends to use Liberator to strike against the Federation, the others are often reluctant followers – especially Avon.

While congregants were reluctant at first to take on the task, ultimately he prevailed, and a religious school opened in Hanover on January 1, 1827.

While he is still explaining to his reluctant wife that they have to leave in a hurry, Davenport — whom Henry does not recognise from the pub — arrives and wants to have a talk with him.

While reluctant to undertake such a major project, he was persuaded in 1975 to accept the commission and began work on his Saint-François d ' Assise.

While initially reluctant to give up her life in America and return to Scotland as royalty, she finally accepts.

While many of these are appropriate for the purpose, many others are reluctant compromises which federal officials have had to make as a result of studies independent of whether a focus group is the best or even appropriate methodology.

While reluctant to speak about his private life, it is assumed that his war experience and the war's aftermath persuaded him not to pursue his academic career, preferring to help former soldiers reintegrate into civilian life by assisting them finding employment or further their education.

While Debs had been reluctant to start the strike he now threw his energies into organizing it.

While at first reluctant to accept the idea of its men sleeping in hammocks, the United States Marine Corps later employed jungle hammocks in New Britain and later Pacific island campaigns where heavy rain and insects were prevalent ; concerns over injuries from machine gun and artillery fire were overcome by first digging a slit trench, then staking the hammock's support lines to suspend the hammock beneath ground level.

While in London Evatt acted as the spokesperson for the Australian Board of Control and made personal representations to the Marylebone Cricket Club who were reluctant to send a cricket team to tour Australia so soon after the war.

While Páez and his supporters were willing to have Bolívar as supreme leader, they were reluctant to follow Santander.

While Liu Yu was sieging Guanggu, Xu Daofu persuaded a reluctant Lu Xun ( who was afraid of a confrontation with Liu Yu ) to attack north, reasoning that eventually when Liu Yu was ready, Liu Yu would attack first, and that with Liu Yu sieging Guanggu, they could capture the rest of the empire together.

While the program achieved top ratings for a weekly syndicated program themed to African American viewers — even taking the number one show position, although it was in a late night time slot — in such markets as New York and Atlanta, affiliates in other markets were reluctant to upgrade the show to prime time for a targeted audience.

While Madere was initially reluctant to remove archived material, protests from users and legal pressure led to the introduction of " nuking ", a method for posters to permanently remove their own messages from search results.

While Capitol was reluctant to release this song, after they had scored several more hits with Capitol, including, ' Tennessee Waltz " and " Mockin ’ Bird Hill ", " How High The Moon " was released in March 1951.

While Crosby was reluctant to have her poems published, as she considered them to be " unfinished productions ", she acquiesced eventually as it would both publicise the Institution and raise funds for it.

While many south Germans volunteered to crusade in the Middle East, the north German Saxons were reluctant.

While he was reluctant to take over Woody Hayes ' split-T offense with the Buckeyes, the true reason for his selection of Purdue stemmed from the chemistry he had established with a Boilermaker assistant coach, Hank Stram, beginning a friendship that would last for more than a half century.

While he was initially reluctant to perform, the album managed to elicit some of Manuel's finest vocal performances, including renditions of the Bobby Blue Bland R & B standard " Share Your Love With Me " and the Platters ' " The Great Pretender ".

While its former rivals Sears, J. C. Penney, Macy's, McRae's, and Dillard's established new anchor outlets in the growing number of suburban shopping malls, Avery and succeeding top executives had been reluctant to pursue such expansion.

: While there was a time when people were reluctant to pronounce the word ' Mafia ' ... nowadays people have gone so far in the opposite direction that it has become an overused term ...

While modern historians have become very reluctant to classify other societies into European models, in Japan, the system of land tenure and a vassal receiving tenure in exchange for an oath of fealty is very close to what happened in parts of medieval Europe, and thus the term is sometimes used in connection with Japan.