While the term ahimsa is not officially mentioned, one passage in the Rig Veda reads, " Do not harm anything.

While reliance on prayer is central to Christian Science, Christian Scientists are not officially required to refuse medicine.

While modern law has officially abolished the class hierarchy, there are reports of discrimination against the Buraku or Burakumin underclasses.

While on 5 June, several major politicians ( Baciro Dabo, Faustino Imbali and Helder Proenca ) were shot dead, officially to counter a planned coup d ' État against the temporary military leadership.

While the organization was founded under a different name in 1970 and was officially named Greenpeace in 1972, the organization itself dates its birth to the first protest of 1971.

While officially discouraged in schools and seen as ' bad language ', local English teachers like the distinction, because it corresponds well with the English continuous form.

While a gay poet Grzegorz Musiał could publish officially, Jerzy Andrzejewski's last novel dealing with the subject of homosexuality was censored.

While not officially a diplomat, Louisa Adams did serve an invaluable role as wife-of-diplomat, becoming a favorite of the tsar and making up for her husband's utter lack of charm.

While they had both lived in the United States since they were four and five, respectively, neither had officially obtained U. S. citizenship.

While the term Lower Mainland has been recorded from the earliest period of non-native settlement in British Columbia, it has never been officially defined in legal terms.

While the Neo Geo CD library consisted primarily of ports of MVS and AES titles, there were a few MVS arcade games which were not officially released for the Neo Geo AES and ported instead to the Neo Geo CD.

While in office, the Prime Minister officially resides at 10 Downing Street in London and is also entitled to use the country house of Chequers in Buckinghamshire.

While many Latin American countries have long since rendered the system officially illegal through legislation, usually at the time of their independence, prejudice based on degrees of perceived racial distance from European ancestry combined with one ’ s socioeconomic status remain, an echo of the colonial caste system.

While it is officially termed " Rivest Cipher 4 ", the RC acronym is alternatively understood to stand for " Ron's Code " ( see also RC2, RC5 and RC6 ).

While many Latin American countries have long since rendered the system officially illegal through legislation, usually at the time of independence, prejudice based on degrees of perceived racial distance from European ancestry combined with one's socioeconomic status remain, an echo of the colonial caste system.

While the term is used in the media of many countries, it has only been officially used by the United Kingdom and Ukraine.

While the Waffen-SS remained officially outside the armed forces ( Wehrmacht ) and under Himmler's authority, they were placed under the operational command of the Armed Forces High Command ( OKW ) or Army High Command ( OKH ), and were largely funded by the Wehrmacht.

While it has been described as the world's smallest nation, or a micronation, Sealand is not currently officially recognised by any established sovereign state.

While originally called ultimate frisbee, it is now officially called ultimate in many areas because Frisbee is registered in some areas as a trademark, albeit genericized, for the line of discs made by the Wham-O toy company.

While political liberals make up a clear majority of Unitarian Universalists, the UU movement aspires to diversity, and officially welcomes congregants regardless of their political views.

While the General Conference is the only organization that can officially speak for The United Methodist Church as a whole, there are 13 agencies, boards and commissions of the general church.

** While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a heavenly body considered a planet until 2006, when the term " planet " was officially defined.

While these groups elevated Antonescu to the status of hero, his involvement in the Holocaust was officially reasserted and condemned following the 2003 Wiesel Commission report.

While a large number of species have been discovered and described, approximately 250 new species are officially described by science each year.

While the priest denied, the Virgin rectified the error.

While Attorney General, Ashcroft consistently denied that the FBI or any other law enforcement agency had used the Patriot Act to obtain library circulation records or those of retail sales.

While the DOJ denied that Chong was treated any differently from the other defendants, many felt that he was made an example of by the government.

" While under oath, Clinton denied having had " a sexual affair ", " sexual relations ", or " a sexual relationship " with Lewinsky.

While Natural Law Party leaders denied formal connection with the Transcendental Meditation movement, Bob Roth, a spokesman at the party's headquarters in Fairfield reportedly said, " It's no secret this is the TM party.

While it is possible she was an idealized or pseudonymous character – particularly since the name " Laura " has a linguistic connection to the poetic " laurels " Petrarch coveted – Petrarch himself always denied it.

While Cisco denied all allegations in the suit, on August 18, 2006, Cisco's liability insurers, its directors, and officers paid the plaintiffs US $ 91. 75 million to settle the suit.

While Patel vehemently denied such allegations, the acrimony with Maulana Azad and other secular Muslim leaders increased when Patel refused to dismiss Delhi's Sikh police commissioner, who was accused of discrimination.

While such claims are denied by Toshiba, they have agreed to settle alongside several other manufacturers for a total of $ 571 million.

While the Gottis were on vacation in Florida at the time, John Gotti is still presumed to have ordered the killing, an allegation considered probable by John, Jr., while denied by his daughter Victoria.

While addressing both Houses the King first emphatically denied the existence of the Treaty of Dover and then produced the peace proposal to the great satisfaction of the members — who in turn had to pretend surprise although Parliament had been informed beforehand by the Dutch of the full content.

While Norman explicitly denied this album was autobiographical in the accompanying lyric songbook, many years later some critics challenged this claim, arguing " Norman was struggling through his own divorce and identity crisis at the time ".

While allegations of corruption and bribery were never proven and strongly denied by both Steele and officials like Mark Ratner, the head of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, it remained a cloud over Steele's mostly exemplary career as a boxing referee.

While there is no way to know whether, had it been tested, it would have been confirmed or denied, O. T. O.

While the Palestine Solidarity Campaign had urged a boycott, they denied being behind the disruption inside the Royal Albert Hall.

While the pilots were assigned the majority of the blame, which included accusations of attempting maneuvers that they were not experienced with, Toponar had requested an additional training flight at the airfield where the display was to be performed ; this request was denied.

While their devotion to the Communist cause was well documented, the Rosenbergs denied the espionage charges even as they faced the electric chair.

While few individuals were detained for long, many were denied access to flights and thus economic or political opportunities, including prominent members of the Green Party and the Libertarian Party, wholly peaceful organizations with no ties to terrorism.

While the doctrine of anatta denies the self can be the five aggregates or skandhas since everywhere within them resides impermanence and suffering, this does not mean the Buddha categorically denied the self.

While this allegation was repeatedly disproved – even the Academy officially denied it – Tomei called the story " extremely hurtful.

While for the first two additional list seats are simply denied to parties, in the last case a fairer procedure was proposed of subtracting the constituency seats won by parties with overhang seats from the total number of seats and recalculating the quota ( the largest remainder method was also recommended ) to proportionally redistribute the list seats to the other parties.

While serving his time, Barry was accused of letting a woman perform oral sex on him in a prison waiting room, a charge Barry denied.

While Communist leaders later denied that they had planned an armed uprising, and extreme militants only comprised 2 % of the populace, they had overestimated de Gaulle's strength as shown by his escape to Germany.

While Chong argued for community service and home detention at his sentencing, the district judge, Arthur J. Schwab, denied his requests and sentenced him to 9 months in federal prison, a fine of $ 20, 000, forfeiture of $ 103, 514, and the loss of all merchandise seized during the raid of his business.