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While the city withstood a siege, Heraclius campaigned deep into Persian territory and briefly restored the status quo in 628, when the Persians surrendered all their conquests.
While the Persians were contesting each other in Iran, the 25-year-old Ahmad Khan was busy in Afghanistan calling for a loya jirga (" grand assembly ") to select a leader among his people.
While saltpeter was called " Chinese Snow " by Arabs, it was called " Chinese salt " by the Iranians / Persians.
While in Rome he also claimed an official victory over the Persians with the titles of Parthicus Adiabenicus, Persicus Maximus and Parthicus Maximus.
While Persians are only one of several Indo-Iranian ethnic groups in Iran, their home province Pars ( Fārs ) was a center of political power in ancient times under the Achaemenid Empire and Sassanid Empire as well as other Iranian dynasties hence the, somewhat misleading, usage of the name Persia ( in other countries ) up to 1935 when referring to Iran as a whole.
While Slavic languages are related to the Iranian group of the Indo European language family inasmuch as both went through satemization, and the ancient Proto-Slavs were certainly to some degree influenced by their Iranian-speaking neighbours of West Asia ( such as the Scythians and Sarmatians ), the idea that the Slavic peoples as a whole are a direct off-shoot of Zoroastrian Persians is not only unprovable, but also quite unbelievable.
While initially the Prince does not trust Farah because of the Persians ' mistreatment of her, the two begin to grow closer as time goes on.
While Alexander arrives during the stoning Philotas requests he let him die so as to not show weakness to the Persians.
While the Ottomans often had the upper hand, the Persians for the most part held their ground.
While besieged by the Persians in 479 BC, the town was saved by the earliest recorded tsunami in history.
While the predominant non-English language among Iranian Americans is Persian, Iranian Americans who are not ethnic Persians often speak the language of their ethnic group as well ( commonly Armenian, Kurdish, or Azeri ).

While and proved
While the transition to a market economy proved difficult, many of the post-Soviet states have been experiencing strong, resource-based economic growth in recent years, though the levels vary substantially.
While the technique extends to higher dimension ( as proved by Edelsbrunner and Shah ), the runtime can be exponential in the dimension even if the final Delaunay triangulation is small.
While not enough is known about Hebrews or its background, its dependence on any early Jewish tradition cannot be proved.
While she did not focus on gender politics in her writings, by taking an active role in the tumultuous time of the Revolution, Roland took a stand for women of the time and proved they could take an intelligent active role in politics.
While captured supplies proved useful, water and ammunition were constantly in short supply while a shortage of transport impeded the distribution of the supplies that the Axis forces did have.
While the final victory in Italy and the conquest of the coast of southern Spain significantly enlarged the area over which the Empire could project its power and influence, and while they must have contributed to the Empire's prestige, most of the conquests proved ephemeral.
While these series proved commercially unsuccessful and were canceled, several of their characters and the Fourth World mythos have continued as a significant part of the DC Universe.
While criticized as backward by British officials and white settlers, African farming proved resilient, and Kikuyu farmers engaged in widespread resistance to the colonial state's agrarian reforms.
While information on the various subtypes of the Krag-Jørgensen used in Denmark has proved difficult to find, at least the following subtypes were manufactured:
While a majority of the commissions were delivered, it proved impossible for all of them to be delivered before Adams's term as president expired.
While the first accusation proved to be false, Heilmann's connection with the Stasi remained controversial.
While Roosevelt was popular with the public, most Republican politicians and party leaders supported Taft, and their support proved difficult to counter in states without primaries.
While Britain itself did not provide support, the Electorate of Hanover, where George II also ruled as an Imperial Elector, proved willing to help.
" While among the earliest submarines to successfully make use of electric power, she proved to have a severe flaw.
While the car did not prove to be a major concern, the Peugeot engine proved to be heavy and unreliable.
While it has not proved to be as immensely popular as the Verdi works that immediately preceded it, namely Aida and Otello, Falstaff has long been an admired favorite with critics and musicians because of its brilliant orchestration, scintillating libretto and refined melodic invention.
While interrogating agents got nothing out of Barker, Bolton ( a hitherto obscure criminal ) proved to be a " geyser of information ", as one crime historian called him.
While Dong Zhuo originally wanted to re-establish the authority of the Han Dynasty and manage all the political conflict properly, his political capability proved to be much worse than his military leadership.
While some military historians point out that leaving enemies in your rear is not generally wise, the Mongols proved that indirect attack, and bypassing weaker foes to eliminate the strongest first, is a devastatingly effective mode of invasion.
While vaccines proved effective in preventing many viral diseases, they could not help once a viral infection set in.
While the British P1903 and its similar predecessor, the P1888, had proved completely satisfactory in service, a storm of criticism soon arose regarding the effective reach of the new short rifles when equipped with fixed bayonet.
While Lindros became a preeminent star in Philadelphia, the trade proved heavily lopsided in favor of the Nordiques-soon to become the Colorado Avalanche-providing the core of their two Stanley Cup teams and an unprecedented eight straight division championships, with Forsberg becoming a franchise player.
While Richard Mulcahy was the leader of the party, Costello, who had proved his skill as Taoiseach, remained as parliamentary leader of the party.
While serving to ward off enemy fleets and bolster Earth's defenses against most conventional assaults, it proved insufficiently powerful against large asteroids and small moons, as when in the book the moon Iapetus was hurled at Earth to " crack it open like a bullet through butter.

While and largely
While bishop he was largely responsible for the construction of a large organ in the cathedral, audible from over a mile ( 1600 m ) away and said to require more than 24 men to operate.
While he has been rated as one of the top-50 eminent psychologists of the 20th century, Jensen remains a controversial figure, largely for his conclusions regarding the causes of race-based differences in intelligence.
While the government and parliament moved to Berlin, as a compromise, some of the ministries ( such as Defence and Agriculture ) largely remained in Bonn, with only the top officials in Berlin.
While his scheme largely ignores soil and sun exposure, Holdridge did acknowledge that these, too, were important factors in biome determination.
While he did well in Las Vegas and other areas, and made records for the Kapp Records label, he was largely a forgotten figure — even though inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1968.
While many older Soviet and European cars remain in service in Cuba, they are largely eclipsed by the island's great 1950s Cadillacs, Packards, De Sotos and similar products from one of the most ornate styling periods in U. S. auto history.
While most armies still maintained cavalry units at the outbreak of World War II in 1939, significant mounted action was largely restricted to the Polish, Balkan and Soviet campaigns.
While cyberspace should not be confused with the Internet, the term is often used to refer to objects and identities that exist largely within the communication network itself, so that a Website, for example, might be metaphorically said to " exist in cyberspace.
While the upright bass is still occasionally used in country music, the electric bass has largely replaced its bigger cousin in country music, especially in the more pop-infused country styles of the 1990s and 2000s, such as new country.
While largely accurate, it notably omits Benedict Arnold from the capture of Ticonderoga, and Seth Warner as the leader of the Green Mountain Boys.
While some scholars attempt to suggest, like Melanchthon, that it is a type of theological treatise, this view largely ignores chapters 14 and 15 of Romans.
While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.
While largely left out of the thrust for increasing rights of citizens, as the question was left indeterminate in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, activists such as Pauline Léon and Théroigne de Méricourt agitated for full citizenship for women.
While its influence continued to be felt in small ways in some west European states, the Gothic language and culture largely disappeared during the Middle Ages.
While they were largely assimilated, their Gothic origin was still well-known: the chronicler Theophanes the Confessor calls them Gothograeci.
While the head of state is the popularly elected President of Ireland, this is a largely ceremonial position with real political power being vested in the indirectly elected Taoiseach ( prime minister ) who is the head of the government.
While the low volume of business conducted by Universal in Germany made such threats largely hollow, the State Department, under pressure from the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and the Screen Actors Guild, stepped in and the German government backed down.
While the Broncos scored two touchdowns early in the game, after the first quarter, the Jaguars largely dominated.
While it never baldly advocates the case for broader societal acceptance of homosexuality or for the abandonment of elements of the Jewish religious tradition, those causes are subtly evident in the stark, simplistic picture the film presents of sincere, conflicted and victimized men and women confronted by a largely stern and stubborn cadre of rabbis.
While most asteroids are composed primarily of rock and metal, Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles ( termed " ices "), such as methane, ammonia and water.
While the sale of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went largely unnoticed, fear of an eventual French invasion spread nationwide when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to secure New Orleans.
While still in Pannonia, the Lombards were touched first by Christianity, but only touched: Their conversion and Christianisation was largely nominal and far from complete.
While the government formally requires licensing for both motorcycles and their operators, these rules are largely ignored.
While many films are not as obvious as Disney fairy tales in respect to the employment of myth, the plots of many films are largely based on the rough structure of the myth.
While the land surface is continuously reused by man, the sea bed was largely inaccessible until the advent of submarines and scuba equipment in the twentieth century.

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