While we, as American artists, believe deeply in the universal character of all intellectual activity, we would be less than honest with you, or ourselves, if we failed to state a specific attitude toward our own society as well as the international community as a whole.

While BASE jumps had been made prior to that time, the El Capitan activity was the effective birth of what is now called BASE jumping.

While Portuguese and Spanish activity in the region had weakened, the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands, ten to twenty kilometres from the main Banda Islands.

" While the economic slowdown has created a difficult business environment, we are encouraged by brisk activity from new and existing propeller fleet operators placing almost 200 orders for 2009 production aircraft ," Pelton stated.

While in graduate school and during the early 1970s, he had a side activity as a folk singer.

While still professor of philosophy at Michigan, Dewey and his junior colleagues, James Hayden Tufts and George Herbert Mead, together with his student James Rowland Angell, all influenced strongly by the recent publication of William James ' Principles of Psychology ( 1890 ), began to reformulate psychology, emphasizing the social environment on the activity of mind and behaviour rather than the physiological psychology of Wundt and his followers.

While individual members continued to produce work of importance, however, the collaborative activity that marked the heyday of the society was noticeably absent.

While it is most notably a member of the β-galactosidase enzymatic class, lactase also has glucosidase and glycosylceramidase activity.

While hydrated calcium oxalate can be found in coal seams and other sedimentary deposits involving organic matter, the hydrothermal occurrence is not considered to be related to biological activity.

While many Namibians are economically active in one form or another, the bulk of this activity is in the informal sector, primarily subsistence agriculture.

While praising its efficiency, Smith also expressed concern about the effects of industrial labor ( e. g. repetitive activity ) on workers.

While dopamine receptor D2 suppresses adenylate cyclase activity, the D1 receptor increases it.

: While living standards have improved for many, a large number of persons has been pushed to the margin of economic activity especially in the areas which once depended heavily on the banana industry for a livelihood.

While the exact cause of this behavior is unknown, springbok exhibit this activity when they are nervous or otherwise excited.

While the independence of Finland and Poland was already accepted by them in principle, the loss of Ukraine and the Baltics created, from the Bolshevik perspective, dangerous bases of anti-Bolshevik military activity in the subsequent Russian Civil War ( 1917 – 1922 ).

While hippopotamuses rest near each other in the water, grazing is a solitary activity and hippos are not territorial on land.

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 Otto II was in Rome overseeing the election of a new pope, a malaria outbreak in central Italy prevented the resumption of military activity in southern Italy.

While activity in development of IN standards has declined in recent years, there are many systems deployed across the world which use this technology.

While, historically, the psychoanalytic research tradition was the first to focus on the phenomenon of unconscious mental activity, there is an extensive body of conclusive research and knowledge in contemporary cognitive psychology devoted to the mental activity that is not mediated by conscious awareness.

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 lobbying is subject to extensive and often complex rules which, if not followed, can lead to penalties including jail, the activity of lobbying has been interpreted by court rulings as free speech and protected by the US Constitution.

While studies show that such activity would be feasible, if unlike that of present-day horned animals, there is disagreement about whether they actually did so.

While there is very little industrial activity at present, the council has embarked on a scheme to attract local and foreign investment to the city.

While a violent Maoist insurgency continues to rage across a wide-swath of eastern rural India, the movement is not considered a secessionist movement because the goal of the Maoists is to overthrow the government of India, although rebel commanders have occasionally called for a Communist republic to be carved out of swaths of India.

While the government efforts were a failure, the LRA reaction caused many Acholi to finally turn against the insurgency.

While PRTs in Afghanistan focused on short-term effects and ensuring an attractive alternative to the insurgency was available, Iraq PRTs focus on building the governance capacity at the local levels of government.

While in Vietnam, Colby focused intensively on building up Vietnamese capabilities to combat the Viet Cong insurgency in the countryside.

While not every insurgency involves terror, most involve an equally hard to define tactic, subversion.

In a Western context, Rosenau cites a British Secret Intelligence Service definition as " a generalized intention to ( emphasis added ) “ overthrow or undermine parliamentary democracy by political, industrial or violent means .” While insurgents do not necessarily use terror, it is hard to imagine any insurgency meeting its goals without undermining aspects of the legitimacy or power of the government or faction it opposes.

While it may be reasonable to consider transnational insurgency, Anthony Cordesman points out some of the myths in trying to have a worldwide view of terror:

While the popular insurgency was eventually crushed by the US-trained Bolivian military troops under American CIA command, Guevara was captured and executed in October 1967.

While the army was fighting the guerrillas, the miners of Siglo XX ( a state-owned Bolivian mining town ) declared themselves in support of the insurgency, prompting the president to send troops to regain control.

" While interviewing Hitchens on his show, Scarborough claimed to be outraged at Moore's portrayal of the Iraqi insurgency, claiming Moore's film suggests " those killing Americans in Iraq aren't the enemy, but rather they are the revolution and the Minutemen, who are sure to win their battle against the occupation " and that " Moore says that the enemy is George Bush and Saddam Hussein and Mr. Zarqawi and Mr. Bin Laden are no problem.

While Alice ’ s practice as a medium immediately after returning to Gulu does not seem to have been particularly successful, the tale of Paraa became the central text of the Holy Spirit Movement, in particular in the discourse about the insurgency being a rebellion of nature itself, and deserves explication.

While fighting continued into 2000 and there have been sporadic attacks, the UPDF was largely successful in destroying the insurgency and securing the Ugandan conflict areas.

While the elite planter class often supported insurgencies, violence against freedmen and other Republicans was often carried out by other whites ; insurgency took the form of the secret Ku Klux Klan in the first years after the war.

While the term insurgency weapon is not generally used outside of the Hillberg designs mentioned below, there are a number of documented firearms that share many similar characteristics, and may be classified under the same label.

While there were sporadic periods of violence there was no organized insurgency movement.

While the stated reason for the construction of the wall has been to curb smuggling and encroachment, security reasons-earlier in the 1970s and 1980s resulting from Malaysian communist groups and groups involved in the South Thailand insurgency in the late 1990s and early 2000s-have also been a major push for the barrier to be constructed.

While some reports have linked him to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who later led al-Qaeda's component of the insurgency in Iraq, his network of contacts was much wider, and included jihadis from Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraqi Kurdistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Uzbekistan, and elsewhere.

While this statement did coincide with an end to the conventional phase of the war, Bush's assertion — and the sign itself — became controversial after guerrilla warfare in Iraq increased during the Iraqi insurgency.