While virtually independent, at the federal level, the parties form a common CDU / CSU fraction.

While the conservative wing of the German political spectrum, primarily formed of the CDU and CSU, enjoys considerable support, this support tends to be less extended to Stoiber.

While he ran for the chancellorship as the candidate of the CDU / CSU in 1980, for the rest of his life Strauss never again held federal office.

While Cal Poly is part of the California State University, it is improper to refer to the campus with names such as " CSU San Luis Obispo " or " Cal State SLO ".

While industrial leaders and both the conservative and economically liberal parliamentary parties such as the CDU, the CSU, and the FDP strongly supported Agenda 2010 as it implemented their long-time demands, there was a strong upheaval in Schröder's own social democratic party.

While the CDU / CSU had offered proposals to reduce benefits in healthcare and pensions, the SPD controlled Bundesrat secured the passage of the bill.

While 86 % of CSU faculty members were tenured or tenure-tracked, only 30 % of CCCS faculty were tenured or tenure-tracked.

While at CSU, Olsen guided the men ’ s teams to four consecutive Big South Conference Championships, earning Big South Coach of the Year four times.

While the day-to-day management and operations is entrusted to a board of directors composed of elected students, governed by the constitution and bylaws of the society, students are ultimately in control the activities of the CSU.

While president, he attempted to build a party of loyalists under the National Union label.

While deploying a heat-flow experiment that had burned up with the Lunar Module Aquarius on Apollo 13 and had been attempted without success on Apollo 15, a cable was inadvertently snapped after getting caught around Young's foot.

While in Vietnam, he attempted to commit suicide by swimming out to sea, but changed his mind more than a mile out.

While the exact definition and what is included as extreme sport is debatable, some attempted to make classification for extreme sports.

While the original Grand Guignol attempted to present naturalistic horror, the performances would seem melodramatic and heightened to today's audience.

While breaking into the film industry in the summer of 1916, Hawks also unsuccessfully attempted to transfer to Stanford University, and then returned to Cornell in September 1916.

While visiting Greece in 126, Hadrian attempted to create a kind of provincial parliament to bind all the semi-autonomous former city states across all Greece and Ionia ( in Asia Minor ).

While these theories were espoused by Charles Darwin and many of his students, their application as applied in Social Darwinism and General Evolution characterized in the theories of Spencer and White, historicism was neither anti-selection, nor anti-evolution, as Darwin never attempted nor offered an explanation for cultural evolution.

While laying the foundation stone of the National Defence Academy ( India ) in 1949, he stated: " We, who for generations had talked about and attempted in everything a peaceful way and practiced non-violence, should now be, in a sense, glorifying our army, navy and air force.

While Paris inspected them, each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite, who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras ), offered the world's most beautiful woman ( Euripides, Andromache, l. 284, Helena l. 676 ).

While archbishop, he attempted unsuccessfully to resolve differences with the native British bishops by corresponding with them about points of dispute.

While Drexler, Merkle and others have created designs of simple parts, no comprehensive design effort for anything approaching the complexity of a Model T Ford has been attempted.

While Cordelia Vorkosigan is pregnant with Miles, an attempted assassination severely injures her unborn child.

While there, Honorius ruled that the Bishop of St Andrews was to be subject to the Archbishop of York and in the more contentious issue, he attempted to circumvent his way around the problem by declaring that Thurstan was subject to William de Corbeil, not in his role as Archbishop of Canterbury, but as papal legate for England and Scotland.

While living, his writings and activism attempted to empower black people, and he was famous for his slogan " black is beautiful ", which he described as meaning: " man, you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being ".

In arguing before the Supreme Court, Gitlow contended that " the statute as construed and applied by the trial court penalize the mere utterance, as such, of ' doctrine ' having no quality of incitement, without regard to the circumstances of its utterance or to the likelihood of the unlawful sequences " While acknowledging " liberty of expression ' is not absolute ,'" he maintained " it may be restrained ' only in instances where its exercise bears a causal relation with some substantive evil, consummated, attempted or likely '" As the statute took no account of the circumstances under which the offending literature was written, it violated the First Amendment.

While on assignment out west and in an effort to supplement a military salary inadequate to support his family, Grant, assuming his work as quartermaster so equipped him, attempted but failed at several business ventures.

While battles at sea were rare, they would occasionally occur when Viking ships attempted to board European merchant vessels in Scandinavian waters.

While Marlborough's attempted invasion of France down the Moselle came to nought, and although he managed to wrong-foot Villeroi and break through the Lines of Brabant, he was unable to bring the French commander to battle.

While in Manchester, General Benjamin Lincoln, whose promotion in preference to Stark had been the cause for Stark's resignation from the Continental Army, attempted to assert Army authority over Stark and his men.

While intoxicated, Jerome confesses that he did not have a car accident, but rather, had attempted suicide by jumping in front of a car, but only paralyzed himself from the waist down.

While Recreative Science had attempted to include more physical sciences such as astronomy and archaeology, the Intellectual Observer broadened itself further to include literature and art as well.

While the latter attempted to convert the work into an epic opera, Foucault admired Broch's text for its portrayal of death as an affirmation of life.

While some later rabbis have attempted to reconcile the differences, claiming that Maimonides ' principles are covered by Albo's much shorter list, alternate lists provided by other medieval rabbinic authorities seem to indicate some level of tolerance for varying theological perspectives.

While many versions of myths portray Ægir as a giant, it is curious that many do not.

While the early texts condemn killing in the strongest terms, and portray the ideal king as a pacifist, such a king is nonetheless flanked by an army.

While animal sacrifice was part of the practice of ancient Judaism, the Tanakh ( Old Testament ) and Jewish teaching portray human sacrifice as one of the evils that separated the pagans of Canaan from the Hebrews (, ).

While photographs and portraits portray Stalin as physically massive and majestic ( he had several painters shot who did not depict him " right "), he was only five feet four inches tall ( 160 cm ).

While at school, he tried to portray himself more as a social connoisseur rather than a scholar, continuing his image of being a Cavalier.

While their art is recognizable as a bitter, cynical criticism of life in Weimar Germany, they were striving to portray a sense of realism that they saw missing from expressionist works.

While a CT scan can show the bony structures in more detail, an MRI scan can better portray soft tissue.

While official sources maintain that Lin planned and executed the alleged coup attempt, scholars such as Jin Qiu portray Lin as a passive character manipulated by members of his family and his supporters.

While trying to portray the new government as a Khalq – Parcham coalition, most members ( the majority of whom were Khalqists ), saw through the lies.

While there were many non-communist members of the NLF, they were subject to the control of the party cadres and increasingly side-lined as the conflict continued ; they did, however, enable the NLF to portray itself as a primarily nationalist, rather than communist, movement, despite being in almost direct control by the Northern regime.

While early Eurocentric Westerns frequently portray the " Injuns " as dishonorable villains, the later and more culturally neutral Westerns ( notably those directed by John Ford ) gave native Americans a more sympathetic treatment.

While reporting various unsavoury hearsay, the ancient sources generally portray Livia ( Julia Augusta ) as a woman of proud and queenly attributes, faithful to her imperial husband, for whom she was a worthy consort, forever poised and dignified.

While Haggard does indeed portray some Africans ( such as Twala and Gagool ) in their traditional ( for Victorian literature ) literary posts as barbarians, he also presents the other side of the coin, showing some black Africans as heroes and heroines ( such as Ignosi ), and shows respect for their culture.

In its capacity as a media-watchdog, CSI has “ mobilized thousands of scientists, academics and responsible communicators ” to criticize what it regards as “ media's most blatant excesses .” While much of this criticism has focused on factual TV programming or newspaper articles offering support for paranormal claims, CSI has also been critical of programs such as The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which its members believe portray skeptics and science in a bad light and help to promote belief in the paranormal.

While preparing to portray Wells, Malcolm McDowell obtained a copy of a 78 rpm recording of Wells speaking.

While the court testimony can support the woman's actions as reasonable under the circumstances as self defense, the courts seem to focus on testimony that portray the battered woman as " dysfunctional ".

While it failed, it allowed the Unionists to portray themselves as the party of compromise and the Liberals as stubborn and recalcitrant.

While some folktales speak of kitsune employing this ability to trick others — as foxes in folklore often do — other stories portray them as faithful guardians, friends, lovers, and wives.

While Parker and Stone portray Kyle as having common childlike tendencies, his dialogue is often intended to reflect stances and views on more adult-oriented issues, and has been frequently cited in numerous publications by experts in the fields of politics, religion, pop culture, and philosophy.

While Parker and Stone portray Stan as having common childlike tendencies, his dialogue is often intended to reflect stances and views on more adult-oriented issues, and has been frequently cited in numerous publications by experts in the fields of politics, religion, popular culture and philosophy.

" While O ' Keeffe was known to have a " prickly personality ", Webb's photographs portray her with a kind of " quietness and calm " suggesting a relaxed friendship, and revealing new contours of O ' Keeffe's character.

While scouting locations, he relied extensively on his gut instinct and desire to portray a gritty, realistic vision he had of Mexico.

While Choibalsan could not — and did not — maintain an independent foreign policy course, it is too simplistic to portray him as a Soviet puppet with no agenda of his own.

While the first trilogy portrays these beings as evil – for indeed they are not natives of Corus – the later books portray the Alectors through their own point of view.