While earthquakes are common in British Columbia and adjacent coastal waters, most are minor in energy release or are sufficiently remote to have little effect on populated areas.

While many ports reopened after the war, they ( and coastal shipping in general ) faced huge pressure from rail ( presumably now offering improved freight rates compared to the 1910 era ).

While reducing the cargo reshipment rates for New Zealand industry, this is seen by some as a heavy blow for local competitors, who, specialised in coastal shipping only, are less able to achieve the costs savings of large lines – these can generally operate profitably even without cargo on New Zealand-internal legs of their routes, and are thus able to underbid others.

While boating on international waters does not require any license, a license may be required to operate a vessel on coastal waters or inland waters.

While Henry VIII had launched the Royal Navy, Edward and Mary had ignored it and it was little more than a system of coastal defense.

While the coastal areas are primarily in the Hudson Plains, the northeastern coast bordering Quebec is in the Taiga Shield ecozone.

While still a relatively tranquil coastal town, the city received national news in 2003 upon becoming the first city in the Continental United States to enact a smoking ban on its public beaches, a trend which has continued as many other coastal Californian towns have followed suit in banning smoking on their beaches.

While the Brussels Haren airport was Sabena's main base, the company also operated services from other Belgian airports, and had a domestic network that was mainly used by businessmen who wanted to be in their coastal villas for the weekend.

While the western shores of Cape Breton Island and northeastern shores of the Nova Scotia peninsula are dominated by granite, sedimentary rocks along the central and western parts of the strait, as well as the entire south shore of Prince Edward Island, consist of sandstone, lending to beautiful sandy beaches with minimal coastal development.

While some are entirely freshwater, very few venture into the open ocean beyond near coastal areas.

While other countries, such as Britain, already utilised canals and coastal shipping well, these nations had no government-controlled railways, and thus the vested interests of water-borne trade were less able to oppose new competition.

While these practices may have short-term impacts to the tidelands, these impacts are not nearly as great as the documented impacts from upland residential development including bulkheading of the shoreline ( disrupting the natural beach creation process ), deforestation of the upland ( creating increased storm water run-off ) and placing of septic systems in the shoreline habitat ( creating nitrogen loading of the coastal waters ).

While the Egyptian influence is undeniable, coastal East Africa is a cultural melting pot and has absorbed influences from across the Indian Ocean and even further abroad.

While vast, its range is also patchy as the bat is limited to mostly well-watered lowland and coastal areas also well as river basins.

While this winter fur is actually a very good camouflage in the coastal regions of Finland where the snow covers the shrubs but for a short time, the mountain hare is better adapted for the snowier conditions of the inland areas.

While he marched towards Palermo, his fleet followed close by the coastal road.

While the southern part of the province is located at the shore to the Gulf of Thailand and thus is mostly coastal alluvial plains, the hinterlands of the province are quite mountainous.

While widely distributed in freshwater areas in Eurasia, it is associated almost solely with saltwater, coastal areas in North America.

While it mostly lives in offshore waters, it does occur in deep coastal waters on off North America.

While there are no indigenous human cultures, there is a complex ecosystem, especially along Antarctica's coastal zones.

While the navy took control of coastal towns, the army pushed on into the interior of the island.

While freighters and tankers were being sunk in coastal waters the destroyers that were available remained inactive in port.

While upwelling promotes abundant primary and secondary production in the upper parts of the water column and near the coast, deeper waters with limited oxygen exchange create hypoxic areas called oxygen minimum zones at the coastal shelf and upper coastal slope.

While some suppression and some denial are not only necessary but healthy, the worker's clinical knowledge must determine how these defenses are being used, what healthy shifts in defensive adaptation are indicated, and when efforts at bringing about change can be most effectively timed.

While the aging Prince Eugene of Savoy had recommended to the emperor a more warlike posture against potential actions by France in the Rhine valley and northern Italy, only minimal steps were taken to improve imperial defenses on the Rhine.

While peer-to-peer attacks are easy to identify with signatures, the large number of IP addresses that need to be blocked ( often over 250, 000 during the course of a large-scale attack ) means that this type of attack can overwhelm mitigation defenses.

While serving to ward off enemy fleets and bolster Earth's defenses against most conventional assaults, it proved insufficiently powerful against large asteroids and small moons, as when in the book the moon Iapetus was hurled at Earth to " crack it open like a bullet through butter.

While planning Quebec's defenses in 1775, General Carleton had anticipated the problem of transportation on Lake Champlain, and had requested the provisioning of prefabricated ships from Europe.

While the exact mechanisms have yet to be elucidated, peroxidases are known to play a part in increasing a plant's defenses against pathogens.

While their early daylight raids in May 1917 were able to easily evade the weak defenses of London, the strengthening of the home defence fighter force led to the Germans switching to night raids from 3 September 1917.

While the surcoat was being phased out, small plates of various forms and sizes ( and not always made in pairs, i. e., the plate for the sword-arm often being smaller and lighter than its the one for the off-hand ) were attached to the armour in front of the shoulders, to defend the otherwise vulnerable points where the plate defenses left a gap.

While revising their offensive ambitions the Japanese staff also ordered prepared defenses and planning for various island bases they believed would be likely targets.

While the Burmese defenses held in " the most disastrous frontier war the Qing dynasty had ever waged ", the Burmese were preoccupied with another impending invasion by the world's largest empire for years.

While the older defenses might be considered a credible threat to a large aircraft or a missile approaching at higher altitudes, against a sea-skimming missile they were useless.

While the loss of Haarlem was a severe blow to the rebel cause, the siege had given the rebels time to improve their defenses.

While Lawler was able to defeat Eudy in non-title matches, Eudy was able to retain his title in several championship defenses through screwjobs initiated by The Spellbinder, his ally at the time.

While the Austrians initially held the river line, Lannes ' strike force crashed through Louis ' defenses farther east.

While she is preparing the defenses of the city, Gilthanas and Silvara arrive with the good dragons, having travelled to Sanction and discovered the fate of the good dragons ' eggs.

While Spike battles the zombie defenses protecting the creature meant to kill Angel, Angel and Lindsey face off in the chamber where the " contingency plan " is stored.

While Sif and the Skuttlebutt's defenses fight the Fire Demons, Thor and Beta Ray Bill fight Enchantress ( who has been converted into Surtur's mind-controlled pawn ).

While the Japanese were building up their defenses in the Gilberts, American forces were making plans to retake the islands.

While several Union regiments did manage to capture Fort Darling's outer defenses, delays by Union generals spoiled the success.

While often described as a " blitzing " scheme ( implying more than the typical number of four pass rushers used by most defenses ), the call on any particular " zone blitz " play may involve only three or four pass rushers but from unpredictable positions and angles.

While Megatron used only a couple of Mini-Cons to enhance his troops and take over the capital Cyber City, the four free Minis breached the Decepticon headquarters ' defenses and freed the remaining captives, retreating to the Air Defense Team's junkyard base where a starship waited to take them all off-world and out of Megatron's reach.

While strategies for countering zone defenses vary and often depend on the strengths and weaknesses of both the offensive and defensive teams, there are some general principles that are typically used by offensive teams when facing a zone.

While the skirt of a maille shirt or tassets of a cuirass could protect the upper legs from above, a thrust from below could avoid these defenses.

While stopping at the imperial messenger post at Fushui ( 敷水, in modern Weinan, Shaanxi ), Yuan got into a dispute with an imperial eunuch messenger — variously reported as either Liu Shiyuan ( 劉士元 ) ( by the Book of Tang ) or Qiu Shiliang ( by the New Book of Tang ), in which the eunuch, as a result of the dispute, hit Yuan's face and injured him — Emperor Xianzong ruled that Yuan had overstepped his authorities as censor and demoted him to serve as the logistics officer at Jiangling Municipality ( 江陵, in modern Jingzhou, Hubei ), despite defenses submitted on his behalf by Li Jiang, Cui Qun, and Bai.