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While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.
While there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.
While Plato finally allows a few acceptable hymns to the gods and famous men, still he clearly leaves the way open for further discussion of the issue.
While most of his beliefs were still unsettled, he knew that he did not believe in killing.
While 2-year-olds are still gaining most of the attention at the track, green horses are starting to go a bit, and Jimmy Cruise has several that can really make it.
While clay is still pressed in mold, press three equally spaced holes 1/4'' '' deep, using pencil eraser, in bottom of clay to allow for proper drying and firing.
While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.
While there are still many bugs to be ironed out, the technique is fast developing.
While patent suits are still among the most complex and expensive forms of litigation, these rules have saved litigants uncounted sums of money.
While details are still to be worked out, Ratcliff said he expects to tell home folks in Dallas why he thinks Berry's proposed constitutional amendment should be rejected.
While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.
While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.
While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.
While strong forms of the various dialects are not normally fully comprehensible to Northern Germans, communication is much easier in Bavaria, especially rural areas, where Bavarian dialect still predominates as the mother tongue.
While the improvements are attributed primarily to changes in the brain and not just the hip and / or ankle joints, it is still unknown whether the improvements are due to adaptations in the cerebellum or compensation by other areas of the brain.
While this disturbance is usually small, it is still noticeable to the human ear.
While many of Alcott's ideas continue to be perceived as being on the liberal / radical edge, they are still common themes in society, including vegetarian / veganism, sustainable living, and temperance / self-control.
While the emperor's palace no longer exists, the church built by Charlemagne is still the main attraction of the city.
While Judah I was still living, Rav, having been duly ordained as teacher — though not without certain restrictions ( Sanhedrin 5a )— returned to Babylonia, where he at once began a career that was destined to mark an epoch in the development of Babylonian Judaism.
While English and Russian are the dominant languages used by Aleuts living in the US and Russia respectively, the Aleut language is still spoken by several hundred people.
While still a deacon under Alexander's care, he seems to have been brought for a while into close relations with some of the solitaries of the Egyptian desert, and in particular with the Anthony the Great, whose life he is said to have written.
While supervising the ceasefire after the Agacher Strip War, an FABF SA. 316B Alouette III crashed at Kouni on 14 January 1986, leaving only one SA. 316B still in service with the Escadrille d ' Hélicoptères.
While the inning is still being played, this last scenario can cause a temporary situation where a run has already scored, but its earned / unearned status is not yet certain.
While he was away his wife, still in her mid-twenties, gave her children " constant " beatings, then ignored them most of the time as she performed the public duties of the bishop's wife.
While in the mix, ensure that the tracks are still synchronized, adjusting the records if needed.

While and nominally
While Antony cemented his hold in the East and reformed the provincial administration ( like Sulla's provincial reforms, Caesar's had been quietly ignored after his death ), Octavian tightened his grip on the West and nominally oversaw a campaign against the pirate commander Sextus Pompeius ( the campaign was actually commanded by Octavian's lieutenant, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa ), which culminated in victory in 36 BC.
While briefly imprisoned in Peter and Paul Fortress during the abortive 1905 Russian Revolution, Gorky wrote the play Children of the Sun, nominally set during an 1862 cholera epidemic, but universally understood to relate to present-day events.
While Trujillo was nominally a Roman Catholic, his devotion was limited to a perfunctory role in public affairs ; he placed faith in local folk religion.
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 the treaty nominally reduced British involvement in Iraq's internal affairs, this was only to the extent that Iraq's behavior did not conflict with British economic or military interests.
While membership was nominally voluntary, those who didn't join lost access to officially sponsored holidays and found it very difficult to pursue higher education.
While Wert endured the humiliating situation in Mantua through the late 1560s, he kept his job: he was to remain at least nominally maestro di cappella in Mantua until 1592.
While the district was nominally retained as a separate administrative division, all its subdivisions were administratively subordinated to the town's Council of Deputies.
While it was nominally still a coalition, the " non-Communists " in the cabinet were mostly fellow travelers.
While the Brigantes were nominally an independent kingdom, Tacitus says Cartimandua and Venutius were loyal to Rome and " defended by Roman power ".
While Paulie Walnuts nominally held the title of Underboss, Bacala attended high-level meetings and sit-downs alongside Tony and Silvio, identifying him as a high-ranking capo.
While the AFL nominally did not exclude black workers, many of its affiliates did.
While it is nominally under the sovereignty of the Republic of Cyprus, it is effectively administered by the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus ( UNFICYP ).
While the main studio concept nominally remains in US broadcast regulations, and certain administrative requirements ( such as the local employment of a manager and the equivalent of at least one other full-time staff member, as well as the maintenance of a public inspection file ) are still applied, removal of the requirement that stations originate local content greatly weakens the significance of maintaining a local main studio.
While pulse oximeters are a commonly used medical device the PPG derived from them is rarely displayed, and is nominally only processed to determine heart rate.
While states ' rights were nominally the primary issue, the resulting campaign quickly became a contest of personalities.
While Foster nominally shared power with Eugene Dennis and John Williamson, he had the most prestige of the three.
While nominally a cost-reduced R-390 ( savings of about $ 250 each ), its design compromises were minimal, and it added mechanical filters for improved selectivity.
While Joseph nominally led the French Army, his military adviser Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan actually exercised command over their 37, 700 infantry and artillerymen, 8, 400 cavalry and about 80 cannon.
While nominally an agricultural village, many of the inhabitants work in Cambridge, Ely or London.
" While Rawat's brother Satpal was nominally in charge of the festival, Davis was the " General Coordinator " and handled the details.
While dressed and referred to nominally as ' maids ', there are discrete albeit sometimes unusual departments for most of the employees ( including Defence, Science, Catering, etc .).
While nominally Islamic, the customs and religious practices of the Lipka Tatars also accommodated many Christian elements adopted during their 600 years residence in Belarus, Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania while still maintaining the traditions and superstitions from their nomadic Mongol past, such as the sacrifice of bulls in their mosques during the main religious festivals.
While by no means a villain in a conventional sense of the word, Pozzo is sometimes considered ( nominally ) the " antagonist " of Waiting for Godot.

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