While still a deacon under Alexander's care, he seems to have been brought for a while into close relations with some of the solitaries of the Egyptian desert, and in particular with the Anthony the Great, whose life he is said to have written.

While the churches originating in the Second Great Awakening have some superficial similarities, their doctrine and practices vary significantly.

While travelling south along the north Queensland coast, the Gothenburg encountered a cyclone-strength storm and was wrecked on a section of the Great Barrier Reef.

While the general concept of a " Spirit " that permeates the cosmos is a general feature of most religions ( e. g. Brahman in Hinduism and Tao in Taoism and Great Spirit among Indigenous peoples of the Americas ), the term Holy Spirit specifically refers to the beliefs held in the Abrahamic religions.

While there he is said to have encountered a statue of Alexander the Great, and realized with dissatisfaction he was now at an age when Alexander had the world at his feet, while he had achieved comparatively little.

While there, Julian became acquainted with two men who later became both bishops and saints: Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil the Great ; in the same period, Julian was also initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, which he would later try to restore.

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.

While the Great War carried on in Europe ( 1914 – 1918 ), Margaret Mitchell attended Atlanta's Washington Seminary ( now The Westminster Schools ), a " fashionable " private girls ' school with an enrollment of over 300 students.

While young, he was the favourite of his legendary grandfather, Akbar the Great.

While Otto the Great had pardoned rebellious family members for their crimes, Otto II followed a different policy.

While religion had previously played an important role on the American political scene, the Second Great Awakening highlighted the important role which individual beliefs would play.

While the wars of religion did not re-ignite, as many as 400, 000 Protestants chose to leave France, most moving to Great Britain, Prussia, the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, South Africa and the new French colonies in North America.

While allowing him to participate in the All-Century Team, MLB has refused to allow him to participate in local events in Cincinnati, such as the 25th anniversary reunion of the Big Red Machine, the closing of Cinergy Field, and the opening of the Great American Ballpark, as well as the closing of Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia and 1980 Phillies anniversary celebrations.

While the homesteads were criticized as too small for the environmental conditions on the Great Plains, a homesteader using 19th-century animal-powered tilling and harvesting could not have cultivated the 1500 acres later recommended for dry land farming.

While Lower Louisiana had been settled by French colonists since the late 18th century, the Cajuns trace their roots to the influx of Acadian settlers after the Great Expulsion from their homeland during the French and Indian War ( 1754 to 1763 ).

While their anthem changed to " God Save the Queen " after the dissolution of the Great Britain side in 2007, it is still tradition for the team to use " Land of Hope and Glory " as their walk-out theme.

While Davis ' explorations of modal jazz were sporadic throughout the 1960s — he would include several of the tunes from Kind of Blue in the repertoire of his " Second Great Quintet "— Coltrane would take the lead in extensively exploring the limits of modal improvisation and composition with his own classic quartet, featuring Elvin Jones ( drums ), McCoy Tyner ( piano ), and Reggie Workman and Jimmy Garrison ( bass ).

While the Eye of Providence is currently a common Masonic motif, this was not the case during the 1770s and 1780s ( the decades when the Great Seal was being designed and approved ).

While Benjamin Franklin was a Mason, he was the only member of any of the various Great Seal committees definitively known to be so, and his ideas were not adopted.

While in theory pitmatic was spoken throughout the Great Northern Coalfield, from Ashington in Northumberland to Fishburn in County Durham, early references apply specifically to its use by miners especially from the Durham district ( 1873 ) and to its use in County Durham ( 1930 ).

While taking a trip through the countryside, Peng was horrified at the wreckage of the Great Leap Forward.

One last words reference work provides at least four distinct historical claims to his last words ( and additional variations of these ) – While many include the phrase " un grand peut-être " (" a Great Perhaps ") – all are listed as " doubtful " due to lack of documentation.

While the air has already been dried by orographic lift before reaching the Great Basin as well as by subsidence from the upper atmosphere, the relative humidity of the air is further decreased as it descends from the high desert toward the coast, often falling below 10 percent.

While continuing to play supporting roles in films like Spaceballs, Candy was awarded the opportunity to headline or co-star in such comedy films as Volunteers ; Planes, Trains and Automobiles ; Brewster's Millions ; The Great Outdoors ; Armed and Dangerous ; Who's Harry Crumb ?, Summer Rental, and Uncle Buck.

While in graduate school at UC Berkeley, Wall and his wife were studying linguistics with the intention afterwards of finding an unwritten language, perhaps in Africa, and creating a writing system for it.

While on the East Berlin side painting was not allowed, artists painted on the Western side of the Wall from the 80s until the fall of the Wall in 1989.

While the fall of the Berlin Wall had broad economic, political and social impacts globally, it also had significant consequence for the local urban environment.

While eating a slice at Sal's, Buggin ' Out ( Esposito ) questions Sal about the " Wall of Fame " and demands he put up some pictures of Black celebrities on the wall, since, he explains, Sal's pizzeria is in a Black neighborhood and sells pizza to Black people.

While the Hole in the Wall Gang was known to hide out in Johnson County there is no evidence that Champion had any relationship to them.

While the negotiations were strung out by Disney, Earl Holding, a Utah businessman, learned of the situation through a small article in The Wall Street Journal and contacted Janss and arranged for a meeting.

While Messner and Peter Habeler were noted for fast ascents in the Alps of the Eiger North Wall, standard route ( 10 hours ) and Les Droites ( 8 hours ), his 1975 Gasherbrum I first ascent of a new route took three days.

While academic attention has remained, perhaps disproportionately, focused on poetry from Northern Ireland, several of the younger generation of Irish poets ( William Wall, Justin Quinn, Caitriona O ' Reilly ) have proved perceptive and independent critics of the contemporary scene, as have several older poets who are also literary critics, such as Hugh McFadden, Dennis O ' Driscoll and Michael Smith.

While the Wall of Sound might give such an initial impression, further examination reveals that it is indeed more flexible, and it is a false premise that Spector filled every second with a megalomanic conundrum of noise.

While still in high school, his cartoons were published regularly in many major magazines, including Saturday Review, The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger ’ s Changing Times, Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Weight Watchers, Reader ’ s Digest and New Woman.

While Holden voted for legislation supported by President Bush that toughened bankruptcy laws and enacted the Halliburton loophole, he voted for the Dodd – Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, signed into law by President Obama, in July 2010.

Scheer's latest book, The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street ( Nation Books ), was released on September 7, 2010.

While Wall is known for large-scale photographs of contemporary everyday genre scenes populated with figures, in the early 1990s he became interested in still lifes.

While the eyes of the world were on the Mauerfall ( the fall of the Wall ) in Berlin, a simultaneous process of Grenzöffnung ( border opening ) was taking place along the entire length of the inner German border.

Wild Turkey is mentioned in the lyrics of the song " Sober " by Muse ; in Ray Wylie Hubbard's 1973 hit ( with Jerry Jeff Walker and others ) " Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother ", ZZ Top ’ s " Arrested For Driving While Blind ", Danny Barker's version of " St. James Infirmary Blues ", the Cowboy Junkies ' " Where Are You Tonight?

While at the studios, the band witnessed the Fall of The Berlin Wall.

While studying at Wharton School of Business, Rick Yune worked as an intern on Wall Street trading stocks during summer 1992.

While the poem itself is signed Larry Wall, the original message was posted with forged message headers, causing uncertainty of authorship.

While the western half of the premises were seized for the " death strip " of the Berlin Wall in 1961, a Plattenbau apartment block and a kindergarten were built on the eastern corner with Wilhelmstraße in the 1980s.

While Yergin has been invited by the press – including Fox Business, The New York Times, Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal, – to speak on energy issues, his predictions and assertions have been attacked by critics from a peak oil perspective.

While Morrison ’ s original Ripsaw fought for temperance, the new Ripsaw reveled in the exploits of Slim Goodbuzz, who wrote a “ Barfly on the Wall ” column.

While playing the Baltimore music scene, he also ran and produced records out of Wall of Sound Recording Studio which later became Wright Way Studios.