While only a few characters have the explicit ability to create force fields ( for example, the Invisible Woman and Violet Parr ), many can emulate it with other powers, such as Green Lantern's energy constructs, Jean Grey's telekinesis, and Magneto's manipulation of electromagnetic fields.

While most weapons are designed to be used exclusively in one manner or the other, FM 3-22. 68 " Crew-Served Machine Guns ", describes how the M249 can be used either as a machine gun or as an automatic rifle: " Both the M249 automatic rifle and the M249 machine gun are identical, but its employment is different.

" While listening to The Today Show, musician Stevie Wonder heard a demonstration of the device and purchased the first production version of the Kurzweil Reading Machine, beginning a lifelong friendship between himself and Kurzweil.

While Swing components do implement the Serializable interface, they are not portable between different versions of the Java Virtual Machine.

" While his opponents called his powerful network of supporters the " Tuskegee Machine ," Washington maintained control because of his ability to gain support of numerous groups including influential whites and the black business, educational and religious communities nationwide.

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.

* Machine Cleans Blood While You Wait — 1950 article on early use of Dialysis machine at Bellevue Hospital New York City — i. e. example of how complex and large early dialysis machines were

While most of the dry-dock and production facilities were razed to make way for mid-rise apartment houses, many sold as investment " condos ", some buildings were renovated for adaptive re-use ( notably the Tea Building, formerly home to Lipton Tea, and the Machine House, home of the Hoboken Historic Museum ).

While playing a successful engagement in New York City in 1915 the band was offered a chance to record for the Victor Talking Machine Company.

While fronting the band, Dickinson also came across Iron Maiden for the first time, who were supporting Samson at the Music Machine in 1980.

While Statistical classification methods by definition generate posterior probabilities, Machine Learners usually supply membership values which do not induce any probabilistic confidence.

While certain key Mac OS X improvements were kept " close to the vest ," there were 10 improvements announced for OS X in its next iteration, Mac OS X Leopard ( 10. 5 ), including: Full 64-bit app support, Time Machine, Boot Camp, Front Row, and Photo Booth packaged with the OS, Spaces ( Virtual Desktops ), Spotlight enhancements, Core Animation, Universal Access enhancements, Mail enhancements, Dashboard enhancements, including Dashcode, and iChat enhancements.

While the group is listening to Frost recount an event from his days in Vietnam, Sex Machine transforms into a vampire and bites both Frost and Jacob before being tossed through a boarded up window, which allows many other vampires, in the form of bats, to enter.

While attempting to evade Machine pursuers, their hovercraft crashes, so that Trinity is fatally wounded and dies in Neo's arms.

While playing in Sydney's Enmore Theatre in May 2011 as part of their 2011 Australian tour, lead singer Courtney Taylor-Taylor announced the new album would be titled This Machine ( after previously jokingly that it would be called either The Pastor of Muppets ,< ref > Shitty Shitty Band Band < ref > or Whirled Piece < ref > in blog posts on the band's official website ).

While the Machine, Roadrunners, and Express folded, the partnership between RDS and the Impact and Alouettes helped both the network and the teams to become popular.

" While this definition suggests a more universally applicable technology as a superset of M2M ( Machine to Machine ) connectivity, and as part of an " intelligent network of connected things ", the term is typically associated with the vehicle market.

While Rob Riley won as a Machine nominee, his sister Minda Riley-Campbell lost running for SGA President after being assaulted in her own home, allegedly by members of the Machine.

While a teenager, he was apprenticed to Thomas Rogers ( who founded the Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works ).

While presenting the Top 40, Brookes played the full uncensored version of " Killing in the Name " by Rage Against the Machine on 21st February, 1993.

While Trivia no Izumi claims that TM stands for ' Tama ' Tetsuya Komuro himself as early as 1984 on the show LiveG, has said that the TM stands for Time Machine.

While attending Michigan, Walker was able to play for the White Sewing Machine Club, based in Cleveland, Ohio.

While he was a prolific artist he may be best known for his work as a pioneer of light shows in music ( including liquid light shows ), producing light environments for Soft Machine and Jimi Hendrix during the 1960s.

While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

While she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.

While they were told that there were some normal people who reacted differently than they had, they were also informed that there were other normals who reacted as they had.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.

While it had long been known in general, that `` the public is always wrong '', the use of odd-lot indices now puts the adage on a statistical basis.

While Protogeometric vases usually turn up, especially outside Greece proper, together with as many or more examples of local stamp, these `` non-Greek '' patterns had mostly vanished by the later ninth century.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

While a Senator, Kennedy had unsuccessfully pushed a bill to preserve the Belasco Theater, as well as the Dolley Madison and the Benjamin Taylor houses, all scheduled for razing.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While the Ural – Altaic hypothesis can still be found in encyclopedias, atlases, and similar general references, it has not had any adherents in the linguistics community for decades.

While not all Southerners saw themselves as fighting to preserve slavery, most of the officers and over a third of the rank and file in Lee's army had close family ties to slavery.

While this increased Antoninus ’ s popularity, the frugal emperor had to debase the Roman currency.

While working on a second book, Alcott and Peabody had a falling out and Conversations with Children on the Gospels was prepared with help from Peabody's sister Sophia, published at the end of December 1836.

While Agrippina lived there or when she went on short visits to Rome, Nero had sent people to annoy her.

While he was heir-apparent — 1865 to 1881 — Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.