While tensions have subsided to some extent in recent years, mainly due to intermarriage among Crucians and other Caribbean peoples, in the late 1990s an attempt was made to legislate the definition of a " native U. S. Virgin Islander " as anyone who could trace their ancestry to 1927, the year in which U. S. Virgin Islanders were granted American citizenship.

While the Rockies were playing the New York Islanders, the Rockies ' goaltender left the ice for an extra skater after a delayed penalty was called on the Islanders.

While some Islanders and Aborigines inter-bred at Joskeleigh, the last of the indigenous Darumbals living there were removed by the State in 1930.

While Niue and the Cook Islands are not members of the Pacific Tri-Nations competition, they did supply players to the squad for the Pacific Islanders ' tour in 2004 ( but not in 2006 ).

While the Stars ' captain, he led them to a semifinals appearance in 1980 and to the 1981 Stanley Cup Final, where they lost to the New York Islanders.

While Clark performed respectably, he then became embroiled in a contract dispute after the season ended and was sent to the New York Islanders.

While formal equality has been legally granted, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders remain among the most economically disadvantaged groups in the country, and according to National mental health studies, American Indians as a group tend to suffer from high levels of alcoholism, depression and suicide.

While on the island, he worked closely with the Islanders chief scout and assistant GM, Jim Devellano, and when Devellano was contacted by the new Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch to become GM in the summer of 1982, Smith moved with him to the Detroit Red Wings, where he won two Calder Cup championships as the General Manager of the team's minor league affiliate, the Adirondack Red Wings in 1985 – 1986 and 1988 – 1989.

While this program has been deemed a success, many believe that its funding levels need to be increased so as to ensure that all dangerous nuclear materials are secured in the most expeditious manner possible.

While the Electra was being repaired Earhart and Putnam secured additional funds and prepared for a second attempt.

While married to Ruskin, she modelled for Millais ' painting The Order of Release, in which she was depicted as the loyal wife of a Scottish rebel who has secured his release from prison.

While Charles won several decisive battles in the Commonwealth and ultimately secured the coronation of his ally Stanisław Leszczyński and the surrender of Saxony, the Russian Tsar Peter the Great embarked on a military reform plan that improved the Russian army, using the effectively organized Swedes and other European standards for role model.

While the truce was welcomed by enthusiastic crowds, and some arrangement beyond the Home Rule Act 1920 provisions was in prospect, it was also evident that the IRA military campaign had not secured the 32-county republic claimed by the Dáil, and that a separate government in Northern Ireland was now functioning.

While archbishop, he secured two new suffragan bishops for his province.

While enrolled in Cannock House School, he began taking acting classes, and eventually secured work as an extra with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

While serving as Vice Chairman of Enron Energy Services White had actively pursued military contracts for the company and in 1999 had secured a prototype deal at Fort Hamilton for privatising the power supply of army bases.

While a green presence in the 12th Bundestag is thus secured, the Greens cannot form a faction, instead remaining a " group " ( with less rights and a smaller budget ).

While Constantine now received the support of the Anatolic and Thracesian themes, Artabasdos secured that of the themes of Thrace and Opsikion, in addition to his own Armeniac soldiers.

By 1985, Voice-mail ® was offered by British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom and Voice-mail Swenska and the company eventually secured licenses for thirty Voice-mail ® centers in twelve countries. Fortune Magazine-September 30, 1985-Corporate Performance – Voice-mail International Japan was the first to introduce Voice-mail ® on the Pacific Rim. Nikkei Industry Newspaper, June 11, 1985 – Promising Voice-mail VMI was responsible for worldwide introduction of voice mail as an efficient and cost effective way to deliver messages and information by telephone. Information Week, July 1985-Use it While you ’ re in, not out.

While Unisys evetually secured PacBell's residential voice-mail services, Boston Technology became the mainstay of Bell Atlantic's residential voice-mail offering and Comverse Technology enjoyed some success in the European market ; Octel became the world's leading provider of voice-mail platforms for virtually all of the major US wireless carriers ( including the seven RBOCs, AT & T Wireless and McCaw ), Canadian cellular carriers and a large percent of the GSM carriers around the world.

While imprisoned he secured election to Dáil Éireann for Roscommon at the 1923 general election, however, in keeping with the Sinn Féin abstention policy he refused to take his seat.

While his reasons for leading a military expedition south remain unclear, it seems that he wanted to seal his newly secured grip on Burgundy, now threatened by Umayyad occupation of several cities lying in the lower Rhone, or maybe it provided the excuse he needed to intervene in this territory ruled by Gothic and Roman law, far off from the Frankish centre in the north of Gaul.

While at the Collège, Charpak secured a research position for the National Centre for Scientific Research ( CNRS ).

While first lady of Ontario, she secured funds for the presentation of a wedding gift to the present Prince and Princess of Wales and assisted in securing the establishment in Canada of a branch of the St. John Ambulance Association.

While securing the requires quota, Mukherjee secured 558, 194 votes to Sangma's 239, 966.

While this doctrine, also known in Kansas Territory as " squatter sovereignty ," was not actually formulated by U. S. Senator Lewis Cass, he nevertheless earned the sobriquet " Father of Popular Sovereignty " by providing its ideological framework in a letter published in the Washington Daily Union, which later also secured for Cass the presidential nomination of the Democratic party.

While Lewis pursued these literary ambitions, mainly to earn money for his mother, his father ’ s influences secured him the position as an attaché to the British embassy in The Hague.

While Confederate troops secured arms and supplies from the friendly British, Union soldiers and agents spied on their activity while similarly arranging for weapons shipments from France.

While Clark and Bowman secured the town, a detachment was sent to begin firing at Fort Sackville after their wet black powder was replaced by local resident François Busseron.

While there, Chicago secured him for 1880, then-Chicago Secretary Albert Spalding doing the signing.

While at the IBA, Aziz secured the internship of U. S .- based Citibank, and after his master's degree, Aziz was called to join the executive senior staff of the Citibank, based in the United States.

While the Catholicos Patriarch of Seleucia-Ctesiphon reserved for himself the right to send his own prelates originating from Iraq to the Indian diocese, the continuous governance of his Indian flock was secured by the indigenous Archdeacon serving as the head of all the priests in Malabar and representing the bishop ’ s will.

While there, they encounter veteran gunslinger, Chris ( Yul Brynner ); after listening to their tale, Chris suggests that the village hire more gunfighters as they would be cheaper than guns and ammunition.

While guest-starring on Xena, Hercules and Young Hercules, Smith also appeared in other TV shows and films, notably as a Vietnam veteran in the feature film Channelling Baby and as detective John Lawless in three TV movies: Lawless ( 1999 ), Lawless 2: Dead Evidence ( 2000 ), and Lawless 3: Beyond Justice ( 2001 ).

While the map was located in the possession of another veteran in 1993, subsequent searches of the area indicated failed to find a wreck.

While most of the Warner Brothers characters were drawn well ( veteran Warners animator Virgil Ross was working there at the time ), and voiced by veteran voice actor Mel Blanc, the special is not liked by many fans of classic Warner Bros. animation because of its limited animation, as well as a weak storyline.

While several of its former leaders, including Malaysian jihadist and Afghanistan War veteran Nasir Abbas, have renounced violence and even assisted the Indonesian and Malaysian governments in the war on terrorism.

While doing Husband, veteran character actors Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet had played Rudolph and Iris Atterbury, an older, more financially stable couple as Mr. Atterbury was George Cooper's ( Lucy's radio husband's ) boss.

While most authorities stress the African roots of calypso, in his 1986 book, Calypso from France to Trinidad: 800 Years of History, that veteran calypsonian, The Roaring Lion ( Rafael de Leon ) asserted that calypso descends from the music of the medieval French troubadours.

While working in the show, she became involved with Ed Gallagher, a veteran actor who joined her in putting together a vaudeville act.

While O ' Neill viewed Yemen as a serious threat, unstable from the Yemeni Civil War, with a large number of weapons, large cells of Ayman al-Zawahiri's al-Jihad, and many Mujahideen veteran from the war in Afghanistan, Bodine, in contrast, viewed Yemen as an infant democracy, a " promising American ally in an unsettled but strategically important part of the world.

While coping with his son's drug problem, O ' Connor starred as Sparta, Mississippi, Police Chief Bill Gillespie, a tough veteran Mississippi cop on In the Heat of the Night.

While Costello's camp was wary of Mamby's ring savvy and crafty veteran status, the fight went ahead anyway.

While some veteran TVB actors merely switch sides because their contract ended, some joined because they're offered better compensation and positions to veteran TVB actors.

While some players and sports writers believe veteran Japanese players who come to play baseball in the United States should not be considered rookies, Major League Baseball rules allow them to win the award.

While in the Marines, he attained the rank of Sergeant, and was a decorated combat veteran, earning three battle stars and the Expert Rifleman's medal while serving with the famed 1st Marine Division in Korea.

While Reed shows tremendous potential on his first night on the job, Malloy realizes that his new partner has plenty to learn, and with renewed purpose, the veteran officer decides to stay on the job and guide Reed during his nine-month probationary period.

While Roddy McDowall returns, John Huston appears as the Lawgiver and veteran actor Lew Ayres has a cameo as Mandemus, the casting of this film otherwise showed the diminishing stature and budget of the series.

While no Federal government representative attended the interment ceremony for this highly-decorated veteran, Puerto Rico's second-highest official, Secretary of State Kenneth McClintock attended.

While it was another veteran of TV commercials, McLean Stevenson, who would play Colonel Blake ’ s role on the long-running M * A * S * H television series, Roger Bowen already had solid exposure in the early 1970s.

While enlisted, he received his General Educational Development ( GED ), joined the United States Army Special Forces, became a combat-decorated Vietnam veteran, and began his career in medicine as a Special Forces medic.

While sitting in San Francisco's Caffe Trieste, coffee industry veteran ( and friend of Torani ) " Brandy " Brandenburger saw Torani behind the counter and brought a bottle home to experiment with espresso and steamed milk.

While Walmart maintains that the measures are necessary to stay competitive, critics believe that the salary caps are primarily an effort to push higher-paid veteran workers out of the company.

While Wang was the only one to receive credit, it is also believed that fellow Shaw Brothers veteran composer Chen Yung-yu assisted with the score.