While that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, " America the Beautiful " continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans.

While the NA continues to this day, he saw it as a tool to end threats from smaller rivals who might some day want to expand in other territories and threaten his league's dominance.

While he no longer continues to openly question every move that Cyclops makes, he is still concerned about some of his leadership decisions.

While FBI investigators have insisted from the beginning that Cooper probably did not survive his risky jump, the agency maintains an active case file — which has grown to more than 60 volumes — and continues to solicit creative ideas and new leads from the public.

While normalization of ties continues, Eritrea has been recognized as a broker for peace between the separate factions of the Sudanese civil war.

While rheumatic fever since the advent of routine penicillin administration for Strep throat has become less common in developed countries, in the older generation and in much of the less-developed world, valvular disease ( including mitral valve prolapse, reinfection in the form of valvular endocarditis, and valve rupture ) from undertreated rheumatic fever continues to be a problem.

While there is no disagreement as to the normal range of blood sugar, debate continues as to what degree of hypoglycemia warrants medical evaluation or treatment, or can cause harm.

While France continues to revere its rich history and independence, French leaders increasingly tie the future of France to the continued development of the European Union.

While he maintains his practice of the Jesus Prayer, which becomes automatic and continues twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the Hesychast cultivates watchful attention ( Gr. nepsis ).

While the Ithaca Hour continues to exist, in recent years it has fallen into disuse.

While MEMS manufacturing continues to be dominated by used semiconductor equipment, there is a migration to 200 mm lines and select new tools, including etch and bonding for certain MEMS applications.

While the production of coffee and tea is well-suited to the small farms, steep slopes, and cool climates of Rwanda and has ensured access to foreign exchange over the years, farm size continues to decrease.

While many medical antimicrobial uses of silver have been supplanted by antibiotics, further research into clinical potential continues.

While the country shifted toward a more market-oriented economy, the Vietnamese government still continues to hold a tight rein over major state sectors such as the banking system, state-owned enterprises and foreign trade.

While they defuse the situation, Joshua nonetheless continues the simulation to trigger the scenario and win the game.

While considerable research has since occurred and the knowledge-base has grown significantly, the main concepts remain unchanged, and indeed Newburgh's book continues to be cited by contemporary authors, including those attempting to develop thermoregulatory models of clothing development.

While the wandering lifestyle practised by the Buddha and his disciples continues to be the ideal model for forest tradition monks in Thailand and elsewhere, practical concerns-including shrinking wilderness areas, lack of access to lay supporters, dangerous wildlife, and dangerous border conflicts-dictate that more and more ' meditation ' monks live in monasteries, rather than wandering.

While it continues to be lauded to be the major force that defeated " imperialism and feudalism " and created a " New China " by the Communist Party of China, the ideology survives only in name on the Communist Party's Constitution ; Deng Xiaoping abolished most Maoist practices in 1978, advancing a guiding ideology called " Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

While the method of analysis is characteristic of contemporary analytic philosophy, its status continues to be a source of great controversy even among analytic philosophers.

While this interpretive mode continues throughout all three stages of his teachings, a shift takes place where his emphasis moves to philosophical elucidation and finally to legislative pronouncements.

While most Americans eventually agreed that the Court's desegregation and apportionment decisions were fair and right, disagreement about the " due process revolution " continues into the 21st century.

While this action is not without controversy as some people consider it disrespectful, the tradition continues to the present day.

While staying at the castle, he arouses Valentine's desire, charms the rest of the family except for Jeanette, saves a deer's life during a hunt, and continues to woo Jeanette.

While I-95 in Rhode Island takes a diagonal path to Providence, U. S. 1 continues east along the coast through Westerly to Wakefield, where it turns north and follows Narragansett Bay.

While man shares this procreative function with all his predecessors in the evolutionary process, he is the only animal with a true non-instinctive and conscious creative ability.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

While the complexity, size, construction, and general form of CPUs have changed enormously since 1950, it is notable that the basic design and function has not changed much at all.

While plenty is known about the healthy heart, the bulk of the study in cardiology is in the disorders of the heart and restoration, where possible, of function.

While it is always possible to directly apply the definition of the derivative to compute the derivative of a composite function, this is usually very difficult.

The EPR paper ends by saying: While we have thus shown that the wave function does not provide a complete description of the physical reality, we left open the question of whether or not such a description exists.

While most compilers for imperative programming languages detect pure functions, and perform common-subexpression elimination for pure function calls, they cannot always do this for pre-compiled libraries, which generally do not expose this information, thus preventing optimizations that involve those external functions.

While almost none of this math goes beyond the basic functions of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division ( certain obscure and completely optional situations may call for a logarithmic function ), this can seem daunting to newcomers.

While IGF-2 may be primarily fetal in action it is also essential for development and function of organs such as the brain, liver and kidney.

While most modern IDEs are graphical, IDEs in use before the advent of windowing systems ( such as Microsoft Windows or X Window System ( X11 )) were text-based, using function keys or hotkeys to perform various tasks ( Turbo Pascal is a common example ).

While Lippman's journalistic philosophy might be more acceptable to government leaders, Dewey's approach is a better description of how many journalists see their role in society, and, in turn, how much of society expects journalists to function.

While the knot itself does not fail, it ceases to perform the desired function.

While at least one researcher, Michael Persinger, claims otherwise, Jeffrey Gray states in his book Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem, that tests looking for the influence of electromagnetic fields on brain function have been universally negative in their result.

While it is possible to define some arbitrary, ad hoc cost function, frequently a particular cost will be used, either because it has desirable properties ( such as convexity ) or because it arises naturally from a particular formulation of the problem ( e. g., in a probabilistic formulation the posterior probability of the model can be used as an inverse cost ).

While phonetics concerns the physical production, acoustic transmission and perception of the sounds of speech, phonology describes the way sounds function within a given language or across languages to encode meaning.

While at Xerox PARC, Merkle designed the Khufu and Khafre block ciphers, and the Snefru hash function.

While all primitive recursive functions are total, this is not true of partial recursive functions ; for example, the minimisation of the successor function is undefined.

While in mathematics all function applications are referentially transparent, in programming this is not always the case.

While the shot / reverse shot function of split screen comprises most of the running time of the film, the filmmakers also used split screen for other spatial, temporal and emotional effects.

While they may appear to have a far more important part to play, or, perhaps, an important future role, being the unit of account for the IMF has long been the main function of the SDR.

While any LTI system can be described by some transfer function or another,

While being empowered to legislate on matters, the Universal House of Justice has, since its inception, limited its exercise of this function.

While being empowered to legislate on matters, the Universal House of Justice has, since its inception in 1963, been limited in its exercise of this function.

While a student of Andrey Kolmogorov at Moscow State University and still a teenager, Arnold showed in 1957 that any continuous function of several variables can be constructed with a finite number of two-variable functions, thereby partially solving Hilbert's thirteenth problem.

While there had been previous game consoles that used cartridges, either the cartridges had no information and served the same function as flipping switches ( the Odyssey ) or the console itself was empty and the cartridge contained all of the game components.