While the exact definition and what is included as extreme sport is debatable, some attempted to make classification for extreme sports.

While these definitions are distinct, the problem of precisely measuring rapid decomposition makes practical classification of explosives difficult.

While Agassiz did much to place the subject on a scientific basis, this classification has been superseded by later work.

While this classification is based on the differences between the North Germanic languages at the time they split, their present-day characteristics justify another classification, dividing them into an Insular Scandinavian and Mainland Scandinavian language groups, based on mutual intelligibility.

While his official website claims he was third in the 1950 Mr. Universe contest, most sources place him in the 1953 competition, either third in the Junior class or failing to place in the Tall Man classification.

While he is best known for the Kolmogorov – Arnold – Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable Hamiltonian systems, he made important contributions in several areas including dynamical systems theory, catastrophe theory, topology, algebraic geometry, classical mechanics and singularity theory, including posing the ADE classification problem, since his first main result — the partial solution of Hilbert's thirteenth problem in 1957 at the age of 19.

While this traditional classification is orderly, most of the groups are paraphyletic, i. e. do not contain all descendants of the class's common ancestor.

While this classification is largely accepted, relationships among families of frogs are still debated.

While originally meant simply as a neutral ethno-linguistic classification, it was later used for ideologically motivated racism in Nazi and neo-Nazi doctrine, as well as in occultism and white supremacism in particular.

While the climate is mostly oceanic in nature, the dry summers result in the Mediterranean classification in the Köppen system.

While gaits can be classified by footfall, new work involving whole-body kinematics and force-plate records has given rise to an alternative classification scheme, based on the mechanics of the movement.

While the classification of acritarchs into form genera is entirely artificial, it is not without merit, as the form taxa show traits similar to those of genuine taxa-for example an ' explosion ' in the Cambrian and a mass extinction at the end of the Permian.

While consensus was rapidly reached on the classification of Hodgkin lymphoma, there remained a large group of very different diseases requiring further classification.

While universally considered a masterpiece, its precise classification and influence in both Western and Eastern canon has been a matter of debate.

While the placement of a variety like Alasha, which is under the cultural influence of Inner Mongolia but historically tied to Oirat, and of other border varieties like Darkhad would very likely remain problematic in any classification, the central problem remains the question of how to classify Chakhar, Khalkha, and Khorchin in relation to each other and in relation to Buryat and Oirat.

While it is clear that the closed / semi-closed / semi-open / open classification commonly used by scholars studying primary systems does not fully explain the highly nuanced differences seen from state to state, still, it is very useful and has real-world implications for the electorate, election officials, and the candidates themselves.

While yellow liquors have a wide variety of classification methods, white liquors are grouped primarily by their type of fragrance.

While Orthodoxy does not make use of the strict classification system of the Roman Catholic Church, it too recognizes and venerates relics which may pertain to Jesus Christ or a saint, such as a relic of the True Cross, the Chains of Saint Peter ( feast day, 16 January ), the grapevine cross of Saint Nino of Georgia, etc.

While it provides a way to compare malnutrition within and between populations, the classification has been criticized for being " arbitrary " and for not considering overweight as a form of malnutrition.

While the classification system for normal lenticulars depends on dust content, barred lenticular galaxies are classified by the prominence of the central bar.

While its musical classification, influences, and origins are debated, Brown is regarded as the fundamental force behind the creation of go-go music.

While in traditional classification tetrapods and fish are seen as two different groups, phylogenetically tetrapods are considered a branch of fish.

While the Politburo theory states indirectly that the Party Congress is a non-important process, another theory, the circular-flow-of-power theory assumed that the General Secretary was able to build a power base among the party's regional secretaries.

While the 1997 Labour government devolved power to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, it refused to created a devolved Assembly or parliament for England, planning instead to introduce eight regional assemblies around England to devolve power to the regions.

While Somalia's formal judicial system was largely destroyed after the fall of the Siad Barre regime, it was later gradually rebuilt and administered under different regional governments, such as the autonomous Puntland and Somaliland macro-regions.

While standard versions of ramen are available throughout Japan since the Taisho era, the last few decades have shown a proliferation of regional variations.

While exploiting Slavic weakness in the wake of the Mongol invasion, Gediminas wisely avoided war with the Golden Horde, a great regional power at the time, while expanding Lithuania's border towards the Black Sea.

While the region is predominantly French-speaking, it also has two significant minority language communities: the western Flemings, whose presence is evident in the many Dutch placenames in the area and who speak West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch ( perhaps 20, 000 inhabitants of Nord-Pas-de-Calais use Flemish daily and an estimated 40, 000 use it occasionally, both, primarily in and around the arrondissement of Dunkirk ); and the Picards, who speak the Picard language, or Ch ' ti ( speakers, " chitimi ", have been working to revive the nearly-extinct regional speech since the 1980s ).

While depictions of the dragon in art and literature are largely consistent throughout the cultures in which it is found, there are some regional differences.

While the Nazi party was interested in improving its financial strength on the regional and local level by taking over Jewish property, Hermann Goering, in charge of the Four-Year Plan, hoped to acquire access to foreign currency in order to pay for the import of urgently-needed raw material.

" While still not known outside the South, Presley's singles and regional success became a drawing card for Sun Records, as singing hopefuls soon arrived from all over the region.

While they had deprived the traditional administration of major functions by transferring local and regional government to newly established committees in which they largely dominated, they failed to eliminate " bourgeois " influence in the army or to expropriate industrialists and large landowners.

While government policy and public debate in France in recent years has returned to a valorization of regional differences and a call for decentralization of certain aspects of the public sphere ( sometimes with ethnic, racial or reactionary overtones ), the history of regional displacement and the nature of the modern urban environment and of mass media and culture have made the preservation of a regional " sense of place or culture " in today's France extremely difficult.

While many countries ' efforts to preserve species and their habitats have been government-led, those in the North Western Europe tended to arise out of the middle-class and aristocratic interest in natural history, expressed at the level of the individual and the national, regional or local learned society.

While most state offices and the regional waste management area are based in Greenfield, the town is actually closer to Northampton, the former seat of Hampshire County.

While many of Lakeville's workers commute northward to Minneapolis, St. Paul, and closer-in suburbs such as Bloomington, Lakeville has had major industry since the 1960s — including the Airlake Industrial Park, which is served by Airlake Airport, a regional reliever airport.

While stone as a foundation material is common in pre-1920s buildings, its use as a structural material is very rare due in large measure to the common availability and economy of sawn lumber, and the age of the community which postdated the vernacular use of stone as a regional building material.

While the print version of the OED does not indicate any regional preference for either form, the online Compact OED characterizes " flutist " as an American usage.

While producing another regional hit, Fuller was displeased with the results.

While their next release, " Never to be Forgotten " brought a regional hit, the band ’ s next single, " Let Her Dance " brought the band ’ s first national hit, barely missing the Billboard Hot 100 at 133, though bringing in a Top 40 hit.

While the branding is very similar to regions owned by ITV plc, Channel Television uses an older ITV1 logo with white letters on its idents supplemented by the wording ' Channel Television ' and pre-recorded local continuity announcements are used at key junctions-including prior to national and regional news and on the handover from ITV Breakfast at 9. 25am.

While Dartmouth and its neighbouring city of Halifax, the town of Bedford and the Municipality of the County of Halifax were dissolved at this time, the former city forms part of the urban core of the larger regional municipality and is officially labelled the " capital district " by the HRM government.

While military aircraft made up the majority of Embraer's products during the 1970s, by 1985 a regional airliner had debuted, the Brasilia.

While the meaning of " Mali " is still contested, the process of how it entered the regional lexicon is not.