While the NFL retained its old name and logo, it nevertheless claims the rights to all AFL products and trademarks, including the name and the eagle logo.

While the AFL was played in cities like Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Dallas, and Chicago, the AF2 fielded teams in cities which are part of metropolitan statistical areas ranging in size from Milwaukee ( with 1, 739, 497 residents ) to Albany, Georgia ( with 164, 000 residents ).

While the IWW participated in the Seattle General Strike, that action was called by the Seattle Central Labor Union, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor ( AFL, predecessor of the AFL-CIO ).

While the bulk of the AFL disappeared at the demise of the league, two members had an official existence after the 1926 season.

While the AFL had always included a number of industrial unions, such as the United Mine Workers and the Brewery Workers, by the 1930s the most dogmatic craft unionists had a strong hold on power within the federation.

While the bureaucratic leadership of the AFL was unable to win strikes, three victorious strikes suddenly exploded onto the scene in 1934.

While Reuther set out a number of conditions for merger with the AFL, such as constitutional provisions supporting industrial unionism, guarantees against racial discrimination, and internal procedures to clean up corrupt unions, his weak bargaining position forced him to compromise most of these demands.

While in the AFL, the Rush competed in the Central Division of the American Conference.

While advocating a " united front from below ," the Party attacked other socialist parties as " social fascists " and denounced the AFL as " an organ to suppress and disorganize the masses " which workers should join only to " overthrow the reformist bureaucracy " that ran them.

While not precluding its members from belonging to the Socialist Party or working with its members, the AFL traditionally refused to pursue the tactic of independent political action by the workers in the form of the existing Socialist Party or the establishment of a new labor party.

While the AFL sought to outlaw " yellow dog contracts ," to limit the courts ' power to impose " government by injunction " and to obtain exemption from the antitrust laws that were being used to criminalize labor organizing, the courts reversed what few legislative successes the labor movement won.

While the party line still favored creation of autonomous revolutionary unions, party activists chose to fold up those organizations and follow the mass of workers into the AFL unions they had been attacking.

While the Colts and Browns were respectable playoff contenders during this period, AFL fans accepted the Steelers because of the team's dominance throughout the league, winning four Super Bowls in a six year span.

While often seen as something of a failure, Waverley Park actually served an important strategic purpose for the VFL / AFL.

While the AFL asserted throughout the 1990s that the patent covered virtually every aspect of the game ( from the 50-yard field to the eight-man format ), a 1998 lawsuit ( Arena Football League v. Professional Indoor Football League ) established that the patent specifically covered the rebound net feature, meaning that competitors and imitators who attempted to copy the game couldn't use this aspect of the rules.

While Bridges still advocated the post-war plan for industrial peace that the Communist Party, along with the leaders of the CIO, the AFL and the Chamber of Commerce, were advocating, he differed sharply with CIO leadership on Cold War politics, from the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine's application in Greece and Turkey to participation in the World Federation of Trade Unions.

While other unions, notably the railroad brotherhoods and building trades unions within the AFL also founded banks of their own, the Amalgamated also used its banks to supervise the business operations of those garment businesses that came to it for loans.

While privately convinced that launching a strike under these conditions would be a mistake, and aware that the AFL leadership felt even more strongly on this subject, Foster nonetheless continued to organize as if a strike was in the offing.

While nursing a slim half-game lead in the Eastern Division in Week 12 of the 1962 AFL season, Norton personally tormented Denver Broncos quarterback Frank Tripucka.

While the union made concessions to those unions, such as the United Mine Workers of America, that had already established themselves as industrial unions, it opposed any support for organizing workers in mass production industries or permitting such organizations to affiliate with the AFL unless they first surrendered their skilled trade members.

While the Carpenters had never made similar claims on work performed by sawmill workers, much less tried to organize them, the union successfully insisted that the AFL assign the newly created sawmill workers union to it in 1935.

While pulling the New York Titans and the AFL together, Wismer was approached by writer George Plimpton, who asked to join the team's training camp for a Sports Illustrated profile.

While the initial complaint was dismissed, further investigation by the CBC and the Alberta Federation of Labour ( AFL ) claimed to have found contradictions between the grounds for the complaint's dismissal, and the laws regarding private interests influencing government.

While with the Cobras, Hamilton played against the Los Angeles Avengers in the first AFL game played at the Staples Center on April 20, 2000.

While still nominally the sovereign, the Mughal Indian emperor became more and more of a puppet ruler, and anarchy spread until the company stepped into the

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 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.