While teaching at the University of Florida, Alfred Korzybski counseled his students to eliminate the infinitive and verb forms of " to be " from their vocabulary, whereas a second group continued to use " I am ," " You are ," " They are " statements as usual.

While Sheffield helped Florida immediately and became an all-star, Hoffman eventually emerged as the best closer in the National League.

While Dr. Hill and Dr. Mennill are themselves convinced of the bird's existence in Florida, they are quick to acknowledge that they have not yet conclusively proven the species ' existence.

While the Florida law allows police to initiate the examination, it is the recommendations of two psychiatrists that guide the decisions of the court.

While humans are allowed to swim with manatees in one area of Florida, there have been numerous charges of people harassing and disturbing the manatees.

While Simon was in England that summer of 1965, radio stations around Cocoa Beach and Gainesville, Florida, began to receive requests for a song from the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. called " The Sound of Silence ".

While Sheffield led Florida to a World Championship in 1997, Hoffman would be the next franchise player behind Dave Winfield and Tony Gwynn.

While an " underground railroad " running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.

While Makley, Clark and Pierpont extended their vacation by driving west to Tucson, Arizona, Dillinger and Hamilton left Florida on January 14, driving through the night to get to Chicago the next day.

While traveling to Palm Springs, Florida to film Stolen Moments, Valentino read the novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.

While en route to Cuba, Crane's ship sank off the coast of Florida, leaving him adrift for several days in a dinghy.

While there has never been a freeze reported in the Bahamas, the temperature can fall to during Arctic outbreaks that affect nearby Florida.

While a student at Florida A & M in 1962, Hayes ran a new world record for the 100 yard dash with a time of 9. 2 seconds.

While federal regulators took no action, Florida regulators forced BCCI to pull out of the state.

While sunken ships from the Spanish Main ( such as Nuestra Señora de Atocha in the Florida Keys ) are the most commonly thought of type of treasure salvage, other types of ships including German submarines from World War II which can hold valuable historical artifacts, American Civil War ships ( the USS Maple Leaf in the St. Johns River, and the CSS Virginia in Chesapeake Bay ), and sunken merchant ships ( the SS Central America off Cape Hatteras ) have all been the subject of treasure salvage awards.

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 most of the former slaves at Fort Mose went to Cuba with the Spanish when they left Florida in 1763, others lived with or near various bands of Indians.

While visiting his forces in Florida, which had just repelled a Union advance at Jacksonville, Beauregard received a telegram that his wife had died on March 2, 1864.

While laws vary, most states, including Florida, award all electoral votes to the candidate for either office who receives a plurality of the state's popular vote.

While St. Clair-Abrams did not achieve his dream that Tavares become the state capital of Florida ( Tallahassee has held the spot since 1823 ), in 1887 the city was named the seat of Lake County.

While most members hold equity memberships in the Club, non-equity memberships are also offered to cater to members ' individual lifestyles if they do not live in South Florida full time.

While moving the first banyan tree over the Florida East Coast Railway, the massive tree shifted and disconnected the Western Union telephone and telegraph lines running adjacent to the railroad, cutting off most communications between Miami, to the south, and the outside world until the damage could be repaired.

While en route to Florida the men came upon the Alday farm in Donalsonville.

While in Florida, Delius had his first composition published, a polka for piano called Zum Carnival.

While roughly 3, 000 Seminoles were forced west of the Mississippi River, including the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, who picked up new members along the way, approximately 300 to 500 Seminoles stayed and fought in and around the Everglades of Florida.

While on the USS Bataan, Attorney General John Ashcroft, on January 16, 2002, announced that Lindh would be tried in the United States.

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 favorite sons County Attorney Earl Warren of California, Governor Warren Green of South Dakota, and Stephen A.

While to date no president has ever been impeached, the Hanover State's Attorney requested for the removal of Wulff's immunity due to alleged credit fraud shortly before his resignation.

While Attorney General, he created the Bureau of Investigation ( now the FBI ).

While there, he worked under District Attorney J. Frank Coakley.

While in custody, Rudolph talked with Brooklyn District Attorney William O ' Dwyer.

While victims maintain that Rudolph's messages are harassment and could incite violence, according to Alice Martin, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama when Rudolph was prosecuted for the Alabama bombing, the prison can do little to restrict their publication.

While he was Attorney General, he was the only Democrat to win statewide election in California.

While the law pronounces the duty of the U. S. Attorney is to impanel a grand jury for its action on the matter, some proponents of the unitary executive theory believe that the Congress cannot properly compel the U. S. Attorney to take this action against the Executive Branch, asserting that the U. S. Attorney is a member of the Executive Branch who ultimately reports only to the President and that compelling the U. S. Attorney amounts to compelling the President himself.

While the Assistant U. S. Attorney assigned to assess the work's obscenity felt that it was a " literary masterpiece ," he also found it obscene within the meaning of the law.

While Rodney spent most of his legal career in public service, he took on at least one notable case as a private advocate during the year before his appointment as Attorney General.

While Deputy Attorney General he signed a memo in 2002 denying deportation of Canadian citizen Maher Arar to Canada ultimately leading to his deportation to Syria where he faced torture.

While serving as Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton, Gorelick spoke in favor of banning the use of strong encryption and called for a key escrow system to allow the Federal government access to encrypted communication.

While Markhasev's lawyers appealed to get his conviction overturned, arguing that the letters had been forged by another convict, in a handwritten letter to California Deputy Attorney General Kyle Brodie, Markhasev apologized to the Cosby family, saying, " Although my appeal is in its beginning stages, I don't want to continue with it because it's based on falsehood and deceit ... I am guilty, and I want to do the right thing ... More than anything, I want to apologize to the victim's family.

While Usher was serving as the elected Indiana Attorney General in March 1862, Lincoln asked him to serve as Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

While Faso was beaten in a landslide by Eliot Spitzer, Cuomo won in his race and is the former Attorney General of New York State.

While serving as U. S. Attorney, Swayne was elected in 1834 to the Columbus city council, and in 1836 to the state legislature.

While serving as Attorney General, Montague became increasingly involved with the Virginia Progressive movement, with an emphasis on education reform and disfranchisement of black voters as a way to stem political corruption.

While Attorney General, Sandoval led the state's legal fight against the storage nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, developed Nevada's first Public Integrity Unit and sponsored legislation strengthening Nevada's laws against domestic violence, drug abuse and human trafficking.

While Attorney General, Blumenthal was one of the leaders of a 46-state lawsuit against the tobacco industry, which alleged that the companies involved had deceived the public about the dangers of smoking.