While meetings of collective organs, such as the Politburo, could become very lively, the liveliness always ended when Stalin entered the discussions – he was in total control.

While official ideology was de-emphasized, the PDPA did not lose its monopoly on power, and the Revolutionary Council, the equivalent to the rubber-stamp Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, continued to be ruled through its Presidium, the majority of Presidium members were from the PDPA Politburo.

While the Politburo was a collective decision-making organ, which decided on issues through the support of a majority, Lê, through his post as General Secretary, was the most powerful figure within the Politburo, and able to amass power thanks to his alliances with Thọ, Trần Quốc Hoàn and Võ Nguyên Giáp.

While sixty-eight would be considered retirement age most elsewhere, this is not an advanced age whatsoever for a top CPC cadre ; in fact, at 68 Li was the second youngest member of the then seven-member Politburo Standing Committee, behind only Hu Jintao.

While in Moscow, Kang was elected a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party, perhaps as early as 1931 but more probably in January 1934.

While Kang remained a member of the Politburo, he had no concrete role and no power base, which led him to take on a series of diverse assignments and to align himself as closely as possible with Mao, who was devising his response to de-Stalinization and its effects within the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

While Brezhnev was plotting, Podgorny's position within the Politburo grew stronger.

While Zhao and Deng had supportive attitudes toward the film, a few members of the Politburo were offended by Heshang ’ s harsh criticism of Chinese traditions and the Party ’ s policies since 1978, as well as its attack on Leninist theories.

While casuistry makes use of ethical theory, it does not view ethical theory as the most important feature of moral reasoning.

While Aquinas's theory follows generally the model of Aristotle, he develops a singular aesthetics which incorporates elements unique to his thought.

While Ricardo accepted Smith's labour theory of value, he acknowledged that utility could influence the price of some rare items.

While other theories may insist on the truth of the former, the latter precept of congregationalism gives the entire theory a unique character among plans of church government.

While Sunni and Shia Islam differ sharply on the conduct of a caliph and the right relations between a leader and a community, they do not differ on the underlying theory of stewardship.

While modernist critical theory ( as described above ) concerns itself with “ forms of authority and injustice that accompanied the evolution of industrial and corporate capitalism as a political-economic system ,” postmodern critical theory politicizes social problems “ by situating them in historical and cultural contexts, to implicate themselves in the process of collecting and analyzing data, and to relativize their findings ” ( Lindlof & Taylor, 2002, p. 52 ).

While on active duty, he received two lessons from Arnold Schoenberg at UCLA in an attempt to connect with High Modernism theory and practice.

While the term has remained in use amongst scientific authors when referring to modern evolutionary theory, it has increasingly been argued that it is an inappropriate term for modern evolutionary theory.

While the Darwin Awards are named after Charles Darwin, due to his theory of natural selection, there is no evidence that the stories depicted actually represent the removal of " judgement impairment genes " from the gene pool.

While individual equations present a kind of puzzle and have been considered throughout history, the formulation of general theories of Diophantine equations ( beyond the theory of quadratic forms ) was an achievement of the twentieth century.

While Just war theory is generally seen to set the background terms of moral debate, individual countries have more specific methods of upholding these ethical principles.

While many mathematicians before Galois gave consideration to what are now known as groups, it was Galois who was the first to use the word group ( in French groupe ) in a sense close to the technical sense that is understood today, making him among the founders of the branch of algebra known as group theory.

While formal language theory usually concerns itself with formal languages that are described by some syntactical rules, the actual definition of the concept " formal language " is only as above: a ( possibly infinite ) set of finite-length strings, no more nor less.

While in theory King Louis XVI was an absolute monarch, in practice he was often indecisive and known to back down when faced with strong opposition.

While this theory, first propounded by Ernst von Dobschütz and Rudolf Bultmann, is not universally accepted, Amos Wilder writes that, " it is at least clear that there are considerable and sometimes continuous elements in the epistle whose style distinguishes them from that of the author both with respect to poetic structure and syntactic usage.

While the heavens were variously described as being like an umbrella covering the earth ( the Kai Tian theory ), or like a sphere surrounding it ( the Hun Tian theory ), or as being without substance while the heavenly bodies float freely ( the Hsüan yeh theory ), the earth was at all times flat, although perhaps bulging up slightly.

While the diagrams are applied primarily to quantum field theory, they can also be used in other fields, such as solid-state theory.

While Durkheim and others examined the state of modern societies, Mauss and his collaborators ( such as Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz ) drew on ethnography and philology to analyze societies that were not as ' differentiated ' as European nation states.

While refuting reincarnation, the Saadia Gaon further states that Jews who hold to reincarnation have adopted non-Jewish beliefs.

While Stradivari's first known violin states that he was a pupil of Amati, the validity of his statement is questioned.

124-126 .</ ref > While other philosophers also recognized such transitions in states of matter, Anaximenes was the first to associate the quality pairs hot / dry and cold / wet with the density of a single material and add a quantitative dimension to the Milesian monistic system .< ref > Kirk, G. S., J. E.

While Greek states had in the past often been ruled by tyrants, this was a form of arbitrary government that was on the decline.

While in the first five years following World War II, massive emigration from these states to the West occurred, restrictions implemented thereafter stopped most East-West migration, except that under limited bilateral and other agreements.

While eating meat raw may be the only way to avoid HCAs fully, the National Cancer Institute states that cooking meat below creates " negligible amounts " of HCAs.

While the new ex-colonial states appeared to follow the blueprint of the idealized state-centralized government, territory enclosed by defined borders, and citizenry with defined rights -, as well as accessories such as a national flag, an anthem, a seat at the United Nations and an official economic policy, they were in actuality far weaker than the Western states they were modeled after.

While the Zhou can be labelled as feudal, others were centralized states.

While Jerry F. Hough agrees with Daniels analysis, he states that other factors must be included ; for example an official with a bad relationship with the General Secretary would not be appointed to the Central Committee.

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 ' typical ' near-death and mystical states occurred, they were relatively rare.

While most states require a for-profit corporation to have at least one director and two officers, Delaware laws do not have this restriction.

While Duck Hunt does not have a traditional multiplayer mode, the manual states that a second player may plug in a standard NES controller in the other controller port and control the duck that appears.

While the other Italian states gradually recognized Sforza as the legitimate Duke of Milan, he was never able to obtain official investiture from the Holy Roman Emperor.

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 the states issued their own decorations, and some had their own armies, the military forces of the smaller ones were put under Prussian control.

While all states currently have provisions for grand juries, today approximately half of the states employ them and only twenty-two require their use, to varying extents.

While visiting Greece in 126, Hadrian attempted to create a kind of provincial parliament to bind all the semi-autonomous former city states across all Greece and Ionia ( in Asia Minor ).

While Hawala has been discouraged in some U. S. states and other countries, it is legal in all US and world jurisdictions.

While short strings have zero entropy, he could identify long highly excited string states with ordinary black holes.

While the early sources indicate that Horsa died fighting the Britons, no details are provided about Hengist's death until Geoffrey's Historia, which states that Hengist was beheaded by Eldol, the British duke of Gloucester, and buried in an unlocated mound.