While plenty is known about the healthy heart, the bulk of the study in cardiology is in the disorders of the heart and restoration, where possible, of function.

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 the first factor, which describes the bulk of the variation in a set of data, is more likely to represent something objectively real, subsequent factors become more and more abstract.

While the seaway is currently ( 2010 ) mostly used for shipping bulk cargo, the possibility of its use for large-scale container shipping is under consideration as well.

While the CBS prime-time lineup featured music, comedy and variety shows, the daytime schedule was a direct conduit into American homes — and into the hearts and minds of American women ; for many, it was the bulk of their adult human contact during the course of the day.

While the bulk of the population is to be found in Tatarstan ( nearly 2 million ) and neighbouring regions, significant numbers of Kazan Tatars live in Central Asia, Siberia and the Caucasus.

While epithelial cells form the lining of body structures, it is fibroblasts and related connective tissues which sculpt the " bulk " of an organism.

While Southeast Asian and Sri Lankan monks generally continue to make daily begging rounds to receive their daily meal, monks in East Asia more commonly receive bulk foodstuffs from lay supporters ( or the funds to purchase them ) and are fed from a kitchen located on the site of the temple or monastery and staffed either by working monks or by lay supporters.

While the bulk of the stories took place within the continuity of the series ( circa JLA # 76 – 113 ) some of the stories take place outside of regular DC Universe canon.

While some houses in Indian Hills were built in the 1920s, the bulk of the development occurred after World War II and into the 1950s.

While the bulk of Greenville lies within the Scarsdale zip code, none of Greenville is part of the village of Scarsdale.

While some electric instruments were produced in bulk, such as the Ondioline, the Hammond organ, and the Trautonium, many of these would not be considered synthesizers by the standards of later instruments.

While part of his army demonstrated in front of Chadds Ford, Howe took the bulk of his troops on a long march that crossed the Brandywine beyond Washington's right flank.

While the bulk of his troops attacked the slope of the hillock that looks at Alfaro, highlights some of its forces by the ravine of Christ to wrap up the summit.

While later American examples include the bulk of the careers of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and his use of Benday dots, a technique used in commercial reproduction.

While the bulk of the Forest Rangers went off to the East Cape von Tempsky and the other mutineers were allowed to return to Wanganui where he took part in McDonnell's and Chute's later Taranaki campaigns against the Hau Hau.

While some are actually used by visiting tourists and resident scientists, the bulk are sold overseas to collectors.

While most of the medical programs are taught in Swedish, the bulk of the Ph. D. projects are conducted in English.

While the force rose by a slope and narrow path, fire broke-out ... But 175 inexperienced soldiers made impotent for quarter of an hour, the repeated attacks by the bulk of the enemy.

While Edison seems to have conceived the idea and initiated the experiments, Dickson apparently performed the bulk of the experimentation, leading most modern scholars to assign Dickson with the major credit for turning the concept into a practical reality.

While they varied in design and appearance, cataphracts were universally the heavy assault force of most nations that deployed them, acting as " shock troops " to deliver the bulk of an offensive manoeuvre, while being supported by various forms of infantry and archers ( both mounted and unmounted ).

While the bulk of the AFL disappeared at the demise of the league, two members had an official existence after the 1926 season.

While this usually reduces the bulk, it does not reduce the extra weight of noise-cancelling headphones compared to traditional headphones.

While high-voltage direct current ( HVDC ) is increasingly being used to transmit large quantities of electricity over long distances or to connect adjacent asynchronous power systems, the bulk of electricity generation, transmission, distribution and retailing takes place using alternating current.

While claims of racial bias in the writings of Rudolf Steiner and Alice Bailey were made, Bailey was firmly opposed to the Axis powers ; she believed that Adolf Hitler was possessed by the Dark Forces, and Steiner emphasized racial equality as a principle central to anthroposophical thought and humanity's progress.

While some constructs, such as mathematics, are considered to be very reliable, all human constructs are subject to humanity's assumptions of cause and effect.

" While this episode is somewhat similar to the live action Star Trek show " Plato's Stepchildren " where Kirk and his crew also gain superpowers, " it's actually a better episode, as Kirk pleads humanity's case to the Megans.

While many environmentalists still contend that most technology is detrimental to the environment, technogaians point out that it has been in humanity's best interests to exploit the environment mercilessly until fairly recently.

While he is waiting for the ship, he meets and quarrels with a bigoted stranger who tells Affranchi that the white man is humanity's elite, destined to rule over the lesser races.

While Houyi was vanquishing humanity's foes, including giant boars, dragons, and other monsters ( including the giant Chiseltooth and a monstrous sea serpent, his wife stayed at home, and for months, he had no news of home.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

While most Anabaptists adhered to a literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount which precluded taking oaths, participating in military actions, and participating in civil government, some who practiced re-baptism felt contrariwise.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

While containment of biological warfare transmission is less of a concern for certain criminal or terrorist organizations, it remains a significant concern for the military and civilian populations of virtually all nations.

While visiting Beijing in 1970 Sihanouk was ousted by a military coup led by Prime Minister General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak in the early hours of March 18, 1970.

While Clausewitz was intensely aware of the value of intelligence at all levels, he was also very skeptical of the accuracy of much military intelligence: " Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory ; even more are false, and most are uncertain ....

While serving in the military, Brubeck met Paul Desmond in early 1944.

While Titus received a court education in the company of Britannicus, Vespasian pursued a successful political and military career.

While the vassal performed military service in exchange for the fief, the peasant performed physical labour in return for protection.

While Hannibal is mentioned in the company of history's greatest generals, military professionals have bestowed Fabius ' name on an entire strategic doctrine known as " Fabian strategy ", and George Washington has been called " the American Fabius.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

While there were wide needs for accurate navigation in military and civilian sectors, almost none of those were seen as justification for the billions of dollars it would cost in research, development, deployment, and operation for a constellation of navigation satellites.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

While on 5 June, several major politicians ( Baciro Dabo, Faustino Imbali and Helder Proenca ) were shot dead, officially to counter a planned coup d ' État against the temporary military leadership.

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 the military effectiveness of these " Afghan Arabs " was marginal, Azzam's group is said to have organized paramilitary training for more than 20, 000 Muslim recruits, from about 20 countries around the world.

While playing football at PJC, Robinson suffered a fractured ankle, complications from which would eventually delay his deployment status while in the military.

While military efforts were directed to the East, the situation in Italy took a turn for the worse.

While bound to the stretcher his picture was taken by American military personnel.

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 monetary and military Libyan support for the Sahrawi cause dwindled in the mid-1980s, after a rapprochement with Morocco, the enemy of Polisario, some Sahrawi refugee students are still able to apply for higher education in Libya.