While the first-place finisher was " Blades ," the Gunds were concerned about the name's potentially negative association with weapons, and went with the runner-up, " Sharks.

While on a pre season tour of New Zealand in February 2002, Johns and 11 other unnamed members of the Cronulla Sharks were involved in a group sex session with a 19-year-old in a Christchurch hotel room.

While still a UMaine Black Bear, he was drafted by the San Jose Sharks, in the 5th round ( 155th overall ) of the 1999 NHL Entry Draft.

While on a tour of New Zealand in February 2002, members of the Cronulla Sharks were involved in a group sex session of disputed consent with a young woman in a Christchurch hotel room.

While falling foul of Godwin's law tends to cause the individual making the comparison to lose their argument or credibility, Godwin's law itself can be abused as a distraction, diversion or even as censorship, fallaciously miscasting an opponent's argument as hyperbole when the comparisons made by the argument are actually appropriate.

" While some words eventually lose their status as slang ( the word " mob ", for example, began as a shortening of Latin mobile vulgus ), others continue to be considered as such by most speakers.

While the Sikhs ' spirit was being boosted, the opposing forces would lose morale.

25, page 169 ), " While Affiliates and Committees have over the years and still are able to approach all branches of their governments, the Incorporated ( International ) Association was prevented from seeking legislation in the United States lest it lose its tax exempt status.

While presented to the outside world as being independent entities, the funds Fastow created were to take write-downs off Enron's books and guaranteed not to lose money.

While poor form during the initial can lose a team the heat, it is otherwise rarely, if ever, decisive.

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 proponents of TC point out that online purchases and credit transactions could potentially be more secure as a result of the remote attestation capability, this may cause the computer user to lose expectations of anonymity when using the Internet.

While the Pistons would win Game 6 in Detroit, they would lose the series in a tough Game 7 back in Boston.

While there, the two encountered the Daleks, and the Doctor stole the directional unit from the Monk's TARDIS ( later destroying it when he tried to use it in his own ship, as it was incompatible ), causing the Monk to lose control over his TARDIS's navigation.

While his writing is often hyper-real and its polemic qualities can often be startling, his main strength lies in his ability to discredit almost everything and yet not lose a sense of enraged humanity.

While the first leg of the tour sold poorly and made the group lose $ 500, 000 dollars, most of the second leg of the tour was sold out.

While refrigeration slows this effect to about eight days, spinach will lose most of its folate and carotenoid content, so for longer storage, it is blanched and frozen, cooked and frozen, or canned.

While this belief is exaggerated, the entry to the Conspiracy does cause the couple to lose their bed monster, inadvertently creating the appearance of losing all childhood spirit under the responsibility of Adulthood.

While commercial garam masala preparations can be bought ready ground, like all ground spice they do not keep well and lose some of their aroma over time.

While positraction units can be of varying strength, some of them with high enough friction to cause an inside tire to spin or outside tire to drag in turns like a spooled differential, the LSD will remain open unless enough torque is applied to cause one wheel to lose traction and spin, at which point it will engage.

While doing work on charged objects, Guthrie discovered that a red-hot iron sphere with a positive charge would lose its charge ( by somehow discharging it into air ).

While an anorexic wants to lose weight, an orthorexic does not desire to become thin but wants to feel pure, healthy and natural.

While our own Sun loses approximately 10 < sup >− 14 </ sup > solar masses every year, Wolf – Rayet stars typically lose 10 < sup >− 5 </ sup > solar masses a year.

While gaining internal validity ( excluding interfering variables by keeping them constant ) you lose ecological or external validity because you establish an artificial laboratory setting.

While they are in this state of dormancy they stop feeding, their gut atrophies, their metabolism slows down and they lose weight.

While it did not entirely lose its arbitrary character, since individuals were allowed to pronounce the ban of excommunication on particular occasions, it became chiefly a legal measure resorted to by a judicial court for certain prescribed offenses.

While the growing business helps the economy, resident groups fear that the area will lose its current character, as many businesses are opening in formerly residential buildings, with questionable legal basis.

While these items may be inconvenient to trade daily or store, and may vary in value quite significantly, they rarely or never lose all value.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

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 scratch matches were played by Australian " diggers " in remote locations around the world, the game lost many of its great players to wartime service.

While the creator of the NES version would be restricted from making a competitive version of an NES game, the original arcade copyright holder was not precluded from licensing out rights for a home version of an arcade game to multiple systems.

While this does bear some similarity with the classic posture of cowboys firing their twin revolvers from the hip, in games this posture is almost never reflected, with almost all game characters firing twin guns at shoulder level, straight-armed.

While some purists consider luck not to be a desirable component of a game, others counter that elements of luck can make for far more diverse and multi-faceted strategies, as concepts such as expected value and risk management must be considered.

While a throwing stick can also be shaped overall like a returning boomerang, it is designed to travel as straight as possible so that it can be aimed and thrown with great force to bring down game.

While players may spend most of the game in a specific position, there are few restrictions on player movement, and players can switch positions at any time.

While it is possible through skillful play to minimize the house advantage, it is extremely rare that a player has sufficient skill to completely eliminate his inherent long-term disadvantage ( the house edge ( HE ) or house vigorish ) in a casino game.

While Capcom's first product was the coin-operated Little League from July 1983, its first real video game, the arcade title Vulgus, was released in May 1984.

While there are self-contained departments for the creation of arcade, pachinko and pachislo, online, and mobile games, the Consumer Games R & D Division instead is an amalgamation of subsections in charge of various game development stages.

While this agreement reportedly kept the company in existence, it also left RuneQuest moribund, leading to products of questionable quality, long gaps with no products published at all, and, eventually, the death of the game altogether.

While the standard rules allow hopping over only a single adjacent occupied position at a time ( as in checkers ), this version of the game allows pieces to catapult over multiple adjacent occupied positions in a line when hopping.

While the roots of the game are very casual and laid back the newer generations of players are taking course design as well as the other elements of the game to a new level.

( While the use of Hindu-Arabic numerals is occasionally seen, such as in the game Pop-O-Matic Trouble, the ambigrammatic properties of the digits ( for instance, 6 can look like a 9 upside down ) make such dice uncommon.

While this clarification is not overtly stated in the Cities and Knights rule book, it is enforced in the online version of the game.

While the game engine itself remained relatively similar between all games in the series, the interface went through many changes.

While the game is turn based, human players move simultaneously.

While almost any game can be played for money, and any game typically played for money can also be played just for fun, some games are generally offered in a casino setting.

While rules are light to moderate, they allow depth of play, usually requiring thought, planning, and a shift of tactics through the game and often with a chess-or backgammon-like opening game, middle game, and end game.