While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

While the tunnel was being built, the railroad operated to a temporary terminal at Pacific Street and Henry Street.

While a continent like Australia consists of a large body of land surrounded by a fringe of continental shelf, Zealandia consists almost entirely of continental shelf, with the vast majority, some 93 %, submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean.

While on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting.

While ASH Cable and SAS Cable are much smaller than the huge systems across the North Pacific, they will provide more than 40 times the capacity currently in use in both island groups combined.

While in the Pacific Coast League in 1936, Williams met future teammates and friends Dom DiMaggio and Bobby Doerr, who were on the Pacific Coast League's San Francisco Seals.

While some outsized Pacific males can weigh as much as, most weigh between.

While most of the current activity at the site is related to the cleanup project, Hanford also hosts a commercial nuclear power plant, the Columbia Generating Station, and various centers for scientific research and development, such as the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the LIGO Hanford Observatory.

" While this claim didn't garner the same level of controversy as some of his other statements, it was generally received with mild amusement by the Pacific Northwest media.

While commander of a destroyer squadron, he was surface warfare and anti-submarine warfare commander of battle groups in the Western Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, and he developed new tactics and battle management procedures under the Composite Warfare Commander concept.

While Victoria Island is part of Canada, it is over from the city of Victoria, British Columbia, which is on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean.

While the band was inspirational to some performers in the riot grrrl movement in the Pacific Northwest, Babes in Toyland never associated themselves with the movement.

While many writers focused primarily upon American expansionism, be it into Mexico or across the Pacific, others saw the term as a call to example.

While the damage caused was slight ( reportedly only a baseball backstop was damaged and a powerline severed ), the presence of the enemy ship sowed panic along the Pacific coast of the United States.

While early historians placed his approach to the Bay from the Pacific Ocean as coming over the San Carlos hills, present researchers believe this " discovery " actually occurred in present day Belmont.

While ENSO events are basically in phase between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, ENSO events in the Atlantic Ocean lag behind those in the Pacific by 12 – 18 months.

While the Central Pacific was under construction, Stanford and his associates in 1868 acquired control of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

While the Pacific Ocean command structure was convoluted, operations were " designed to sequence the SWPA's operations with POA's forces across the central Pacific .... The main purpose of sequencing is to arrange objectives / tasks in such a progression that collectively they lead to the accomplishment of the assigned ultimate objective in the shortest time possible and with the least loss of personnel and materiel.

While living in Northern California, she attended Cloverdale High School and also Pacific Union College Preparatory School.

While managing clients ' portfolios, he began to invest his own money, banking on a tip he had received from an uncle about the workers ' takeover of the Chicago and North Western Railroad, making approximately $ 6 million off his $ 100, 000 initial investment.

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 her exact route is unknown, Tubman made use of the network known as the Underground Railroad.

While early homesteaders moved into the valley in the late 1800s, Seneca only began growing in the 1929 when it became the northern terminus of the now-vacated Oregon and Northwestern Railroad, owned by the Edward Hines Lumber Company, which extended south to Burns.

While it is completely surrounded by Upper Darby, Yeadon, PA is on the other side of the SEPTA Media / Elwyn Line Railroad tracks, thus connecting Yeadon to East Lansdowne from the southeast.

While in Germany, Villard became involved in investments in American railroads, and returned to the U. S. in 1874 to oversee German investments in the Oregon and California Railroad.

While criticizing the " reactionary role which the AF of L leadership has played ," Cannon declared that " our party ... takes a clear-cut position in favor of the earliest and completest possible unification of the AF of L and the CIO, and also the hitherto unaffiliated Railroad Brotherhoods.

While many stayed in the region, others spread across America, with more than 10 million leaving from the nearby Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal.

While teaching at Yale, he and fellow professor Thurman Arnold were riding the New Haven Railroad and were inspired to set the sign Passengers will please refrain ... to Antonin Dvořák's Humoresque # 7, which became a common theme on the train and later spread widely into popular culture as an often bawdy song.

While the Central Pacific was still under construction, in 1868, Crocker and his three associates acquired control of the Southern Pacific Railroad.

While entering downtown Ionia, the trunkline crosses the Grand River and the mainline of the Grand Rapids Eastern Railroad near the county fairgrounds.

While still at high school she undertook a concert tour of the western states as a dancer, with her mother as accompanist, in a group sponsored by the Santa Fe Railroad for its Workman ’ s Clubs.

While still a young man, McDougall assisted the survey of the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, later known as the Albany and Schenectady, one of the first railroads in the nation.

While other railroads were introducing streamlined trains, like the Union Pacific's M-10000 or the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad with the Zephyr, the Pennsylvania had the GG1.

While in office he supported mining efforts, creation of toll roads, and the interests of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad.

While under the control of the Northern Pacific, the Wisconsin Central Railroad constructed Solon Spencer Beman's great Romanesque Grand Central Station ( Chicago ) in 1889 as its southern terminus.

While Sandusky was built for the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, that railroad never actually purchased the engine.

While the track was under construction, the company was acquired by the Western Railroad, which later became part of the Boston and Albany Railroad ( B & A ), as their North Adams Branch.

While in the North Carolina Senate, Linney was a major proponent of the construction of the Alexander Railroad, then known as the Statesville & Western Railroad.

While a great part of his life was filled with travel and leisure activities, Willie K Vanderbilt's father put him to work at the family's New York Central Railroad offices at Grand Central Station in Manhattan.

While Nagoya Railroad is an old company in its own right, it has acquired many small rail companies in the area surrounding Nagoya, so most lines that belong to modern-day Nagoya Railroad were constructed and operated by other companies which later merged with Nagoya Railroad, mostly in the prewar and wartime period.

While many ancient boroughs remained as municipal boroughs, they were disenfranchised by the Reform Act.

While landline and mobile telephone providers must also be majority-owned by Canadians under the federal Telecommunications Act, the CRTC is not responsible for enforcement of this provision.

While the original Sterling semi-auto would be classed a " short barrel rifle " under the U. S. National Firearms Act, fully legal long-barrel versions of the Sterling have been made for the U. S. collector market.

While their numbers did not pose a serious threat to the government, they scared the Rump into action and a Treasons Act was passed against them in 1649.

While the Rising and its leaders continued to be venerated by Irish republicans — including members and supporters of the Provisional IRA and the modern Sinn Féin — with murals in republican areas of Belfast and other towns celebrating the actions of Pearse and his comrades, and a number of parades held annually in remembrance of the Rising, the Irish government discontinued its annual parade in Dublin in the early 1970s, and in 1976 it took the unprecedented step of proscribing ( under the Offences against the State Act ) a 1916 commemoration ceremony at the GPO organised by Sinn Féin and the Republican commemoration Committee.

While Mike is usually portrayed as simply dumb ( for example, in A Man of His Convictions in series 2 he writes a letter to media commentator Stuart Littlemore full of basic spelling and grammatical errors ) he occasionally surprises his colleagues with his sneakiness: in Give ' em Enough Rope ( series 2 ) he traps the network owner into admitting to contravening the Broadcasting Act in a live interview, after first getting the owner to publicly commit to allowing him to ask difficult questions without threat to his job.

While the pending Second Chance Act which may change this, at present the only relief that an individual prosecuted in federal court may receive is a Presidential Pardon, which does not expunge the conviction, but rather grants relief from the civil disabilities that stem from it.

While the Indian Removal Act made the relocation of the tribes voluntary, it was often abused by government officials.

While Nehru exempted Muslim law from legislation and they remained un-reformed, he did pass the Special Marriage Act in 1954.

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 the funding of the standing army subsists on annual financial votes by parliament, the Mutiny Act is also renewed on an annual basis by parliament.

While the Act had been in force only one official newspaper existed ; the London Gazette, published by the government.

While Senate customs have created supermajority rules that have diminished this Constitutional power, the Vice President still retains the ability to influence legislation ( e. g. the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 ).

While legal challenges also dogged COPA's successor, the Children's Internet Protection Act ( CIPA ) of 2000, the Supreme Court upheld it as constitutional in 2004.

While a court did affirm that various Nigerian government officials ( including a governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria ) were directly or indirectly involved and that Nigerian government officials could be sued in U. S. courts under the " commercial activity " exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, he was unable to get his money back due to the doctrine of unclean hands because he had knowingly entered into a contract that was illegal.

While Debs had carefully guarded his speeches in an attempt to comply with the Espionage Act, the Court found he still had the intention and effect of obstructing the draft and military recruitment.

While outwardly appearing to be similar, single-tier authorities formed using older legislation are not Unitary Authorities thus excluding e. g. the Isle of Wight Council or any other single-tier authority formed under the Local Government Act 1972 or older legislation.

While the Act, by its terms, applied to current office holders, it also limited the protection offered to Cabinet members to one month after a new president took office.

While the repeal of the Act is sometimes blamed for the Panic, the Panic was already well underway.

While Wilson's commission suggested that short-term credit also be incorporated in any nationalized credit system, the Act lacked this crucial component.

While some of the programs have been eliminated or had their funding reduced, many of them, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Older Americans Act and federal education funding, continue to the present.

While Congress passed several Organic Acts that provided a path for statehood for much of the original Indian Country, Congress never passed an Organic Act for the Indian Territory.

While life peerages were often created in the early days of the Peerage, their regular creation was not provided for by Act of Parliament until the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876.