While the Sheldon Scale is universally acknowledged, coin experts in Europe and elsewhere often shun the numerical system, preferring to rate specimens on a purely descriptive, or adjectival, scale.

While Ricardo accepted Smith's labour theory of value, he acknowledged that utility could influence the price of some rare items.

While many have shared Burckhardt's assessment, particularly with reference to the Life of Constantine, others, while not pretending to extol his merits, have acknowledged the irreplaceable value of his works which may principally reside in the copious quotations that they contain from other sources, often lost.

While a graduate student, one of his teachers was Dorothy Arzner, whose encouragement Coppola later acknowledged as pivotal to his film career.

While the self-designation of hobbyists as hackers is acknowledged by all three kinds of hackers, and the computer security hackers accept all uses of the word, people from the programmer subculture consider the computer intrusion related usage incorrect, and emphasize the difference between the two by calling security breakers “ crackers ” ( analogous to a safecracker ).

While interrelations are acknowledged in both directions between the model elements, in the last instance the purpose is to explain variations in the power and reach of organized crime in the sense of an ultimately unified organizational entity.

While industry remained largely state-controlled, Lenin acknowledged that the NEP was a necessary capitalist measure for a country unripe for socialism.

While opposing secession, the Government acknowledged the constitutional rights of Nevisians to determine their future independence.

While critics have frequently dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot — musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a " shabby little shocker "— the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged.

While animal models are acknowledged to model merely aspects of depressive illness, human and animal brains are very similar at a molecular level, enabling detailed study of the molecular mechanisms involved in ECT.

While subsequently acknowledged to be more viable, this model was rejected at the time by London.

While daydreaming has long been derided as a lazy, non-productive pastime, it is now commonly acknowledged that daydreaming can be constructive in some contexts.

While the most powerful ruler was acknowledged as King of the Britons ( later Tywysog Cymru: Leader or Prince of Wales ), and some rulers extended their control over other Welsh territories and into western England, none were able to unite Wales for long.

While music writer Michael Azerrad acknowledged that early grunge bands like Mudhoney, Soundgarden, and Tad had disparate sounds, he noted " to the objective observer, there were some distinct similarities.

While still young, Rav Ashi became the head of the Sura Academy, his great learning being acknowledged by the older teachers.

While Flynn acknowledged his attraction to de Havilland, film historian Rudy Behlmer's assertions that they were romantically involved during the filming of Robin Hood ( see the Special Edition of Robin Hood on DVD, 2003 ) have been disputed by de Havilland.

While even the NBA acknowledged that Shinn had alienated fans, league officials felt such a demand would anger other owners.

While subsequently released files show that ' Macmillan's cuts were few and covered up few technical details ', and that even the full report at the time found no danger to public health, later official estimates acknowledged the release of polonium-210 may have led directly to 25 to 50 deaths, and anti-nuclear groups linked it to 1, 000 fatal cancers.

While Banks ' story-telling skills were acknowledged, some felt that this was less satisfying, in contrast to Look to Windward, his previous book ( under the Iain M Banks guise ).

While Norman acknowledged that others saw it as being about " a certain televangelist ... about a certain Christian artist or celebrity, ... it was written about all kinds of things that were happening in the American church, in the gospel music industry, and what I was seeing around me as I toured and performed in 1977 ".

While the difference in sound between acetal and quill is usually acknowledged to be small, what difference there held to be to the advantage of quill.

While online critics such as Peter Gutmann have dismissed much of what was written about Toscanini during his lifetime as " adoring puffery ", it neverthleless remains a fact that composers and others who worked with the Maestro readily acknowledged what they felt was his greatness, and audio interviews containing the praise of such luminaries as Aaron Copland still exist.

While attending Leffingwell Christian High School, she and a group of friends began doing bad things which she acknowledged on Celebrity Ghost Stories in 2012.

While as late as the 18th century a soldier such as Marshal Puysegur based his own works on this acknowledged model, in Milner's words, Vegetius ' work suffered " a long period of deepening neglect ".

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

While working on a second book, Alcott and Peabody had a falling out and Conversations with Children on the Gospels was prepared with help from Peabody's sister Sophia, published at the end of December 1836.

While the complete title of the book is the Acts of the Apostles, really the book focuses on only two men: The Apostle Peter ( chs.

While others feel that the Prayer of Nabonidus shows signs of dependence on the book of Daniel.

While " there is an intentional editorial unity with a cohesive purpose and message in the canonical form of the book ," Job contains many separate elements, some of which may have had an independent existence prior to being incorporated into the present text.

While the book purports to describe a plague of locusts, some ancient Jewish opinion saw the locusts as allegorical interpretations of Israel's enemies.

While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.

While the Switcheroonie was a one-time publicity stunt, for one artist to take over a feature from its originator is an old tradition in newspaper cartooning ( as it is in the comic book industry ).

While the Platinum Age saw the first use of the term " comic book " ( The Yellow Kid in McFadden's Flats ( 1897 )), the first known full-color comic ( The Blackberries ( 1901 )), and the first monthly comic book ( Comics Monthly ( 1922 )), it was not until the Golden Age that the archetype of the superhero would originate.

While Eddy's Manual established limited executive functions under the rule of law in place of a traditional hierarchy, the controversial 1991 publication of a book by Bliss Knapp led the then Board of Directors to make the unusual affidavit during a suit over Knapp's estate that neither acts by it violating the Manual, nor acts refraining from required action, constituted violations of the Manual.

While coming to terms with who he was, Mather read Robert Boyle ’ s book “ The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy .” Mather read Boyle ’ s work closely throughout the 1680s and his early works on science and religion borrowed greatly from it.

While promoting the 1975 book, Day caused a stir by rejecting the ' girl next door ' and ' virgin ' labels so often attached to her.

While traditionally accepted as the genuine words of Moses delivered on the eve of the occupation of Canaan, a broad consensus of modern scholars now see its origins in traditions from Israel ( the northern kingdom ) brought south to the Kingdom of Judah in the wake of the Assyrian destruction of Samaria ( 8th century BCE ) and then adapted to a program of nationalist reform in the time of King Josiah ( late 7th century ), with the final form of the modern book emerging in the milieu of the return from the Babylonian exile during the late 6th century.

While he is a confirmed compatibilist on free will, in " On Giving Libertarians What They Say They Want " – Chapter 15 of his 1978 book Brainstorms, Dennett articulated the case for a two-stage model of decision making in contrast to libertarian views.

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 in the case of 1 Corinthians, the love ' does not ' statements like boasting remind one of the criticisms of the Corinthians earlier in the book, Colossians is different.

While Coupland's book helped to popularize the phrase " Generation X ," in a 1989 magazine article he erroneously attributed the term to English musician Billy Idol.

While the first is far shorter than the second, it sets out the basic themes and provides an interpretive key for understanding the entire book.

While Conrad ’ s materialism does not prove him an optimist, as he believed, or a pessimist, as a surface reading of his book may suggest, it provides an important filter through which one may discern his world view.

While in Edinburgh to seek subscriptions for the book, Audubon gave a demonstration of his method of propping up birds with wire at professor Robert Jameson's Wernerian Natural History Association.

While picking through the belongings that the Jicarilla had left in their camp, one of Major Grier's soldiers came across a book that the White family had carried with them from Missouri — the paperback novel starring Kit Carson.

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.