While at prep school as a boarder his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager, and when he was at home for the holidays his new family consisted of his mother, his stepfather and Christopher, his stepfather's son by an earlier marriage.

While the earlier settlers were primarily of British ancestry, the newer settlers also consisted of Germans, Irish, and African-Americans.

While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of Barcelona in Spain, Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing point out an earlier attestation of the name Barcilona in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems signifying a mountain, * bar and * cin ( the latter of which is also seen in the name of Mont Cenis ).

While the Great Wall had been built in earlier times, most of what is seen today was either built or repaired by the Ming.

While the earlier smaller species were insectivores, the later marmot-sized Cimolestes magnus probably took larger prey and were definitely a carnivore to some degree.

While repeating the earlier stories, the later sources of Suetonius and Cassius Dio provide additional tales of insanity.

While earlier versions of BIND offered no mechanism to store and retrieve zone data in anything other than flat text files, in 2007 BIND 9. 4 DLZ made available ( as a compile-time option ) zone storage in a variety of database formats including LDAP, Berkeley DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and ODBC.

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 it is possible to identify earlier legal structures that would today fall into the " environmental " law metric-for example the common law recognition of private and public rights to protect interests in land, such as nuisance, or post-industrial revolution human health protections-the concept of " environmental law " as a separate and distinct body of law is a 20th Century development.

While the previous seven ecumenical councils are recognized as ecumenical and authoritative by both East and West, many Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize the council of 879 as the Eighth Ecumenical Council, arguing that it annulled the earlier one.

While best known for his role on Diff ' rent Strokes, Coleman had appeared earlier on in television in The Jeffersons as Raymond, George Jefferson's nephew, and on Good Times as Penny's friend Gary.

While in the FA Cup final against Manchester United, United were looking for their first trophy since the Munich air disaster of five years earlier which had claimed the lives of eight of the Busby Babes whom Banks had faced as an adolescent.

While slight variations on the standard code had been predicted earlier, none were discovered until 1979, when researchers studying human mitochondrial genes discovered they used an alternative code.

While some scientists have claimed other objects ( such as Abell 1835 IR1916 ) have higher redshifts ( and therefore are seen in an earlier stage of the Universe's evolution ), IOK-1's age and composition have been more reliably established.

While these writings display some limited continuities with the earlier medical ideas known from the Vedas, historians have been able to demonstrate direct historical connections between early Ayurveda and the early literature of the Buddhists and Jains.

While the earlier era was characterized by a dramatic use of the major and minor scale systems, impressionist music tended to make more use of dissonance.

While Pasteur was not the first to propose germ theory ( Girolamo Fracastoro, Agostino Bassi, Friedrich Henle and others had suggested it earlier ), he developed it and conducted experiments that clearly indicated its correctness and managed to convince most of Europe it was true.

While earlier times had seen larger and taller longships in service, by this time the authorities had also gone over to other types of ships for warfare.

While slight variations on the standard code had been predicted earlier, none was discovered until 1979, when researchers studying human mitochondrial genes determined that they used an alternative code.

While four of the Black September members held the pilots at gunpoint ( breaking an earlier promise that they would not take any Germans hostage ), Issa and Tony walked over to inspect the jet, only to find it empty.

While the exact relationship of the short and apparently primitive text of Q1 to the later published texts is not resolved, Hardin Craig among others has suggested that it may represent an earlier draft of the play and hence would confirm that the play referred to in 1589 is in fact merely an earlier draft of Shakespeare's play.

While some examples of earlier prose strike modern readers as poetic, prose poetry is commonly regarded as having originated in 19th-century France, where its practitioners included Aloysius Bertrand, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé.

While the Philippines ' relationship with the United States remains strong, the administration of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has sought to establish closer ties to its earlier colonizer, Spain.

While Sitchin's scenario for the creation of the Solar System is hard to reconcile with the Earth's current small orbital eccentricity of only 0. 0167, Sitchin's supporters maintain that it would explain much of Earth's peculiar early geography due to cleaving from the celestial collision, i. e., solid continents on one side and a giant ocean on the other.

While cleaving is sometimes used to split uncut gemstones into smaller pieces, it is never used to produce facets.

While the beam's destructive power is immense ( even cleaving an entire planet in half at one point ), its most peculiar quality is its length.

While unsuccessful in defeating Cousins, this result represented one of the largest swings in the country, possibly attribued to Liberal Democrat candidate Greg Stone's student-oriented campaign which focused on issues such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq and Top-up fees.

While on the road, she underwent erratic mood swings and frequently clashed with her fellow cast members, including actors Michael Gough and Bryan Forbes, and the crew.

While Kirk Gibson was taking practice swings in the Dodgers ' clubhouse during Game 1, Orel Hershiser set up the hitting tee for his teammate.

While planes had already been used in the war for scouting, on 1 April the French pilot Roland Garros became the first to shoot down an enemy plane by using a machine gun that fired forward through the propeller blades.

While the fixed-blade broadhead keeps its blades rigid and unmovable on the broadhead at all times, the mechanical broadhead deploys its blades upon contact with the target, its blades swinging out to wound the target.

While stone blades were fastened to the wooden handle by tying, metal blades had sockets into which the handle was fitted.

While the prismatic blade industry is most often associated with obsidian ( especially in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica ), it is not limited to that material ; chert, flint, and chalcedony blades are not uncommon.

thumb Also, a braid / weave encompasses the top portion of the walking stick to ensure a good grip. While partially unsheathed, we see the two blades hidden inside. Very rare from late 19th to early 20th century, beautiful weapon and great example of ingenuity and master craftsmanship of the people.

While at DFE, he also contributed to the animation of the lightsaber blades in the original Star Wars.

While the pelvis is not entirely like that of a human ( being markedly wide, or flared, with laterally orientated iliac blades ), these features point to a structure radically remodelled to accommodate a significant degree of bipedalism.

While the cutting action is often likened to that of scissors, it is not necessary for the blades of the spinning cylinder to contact the horizontal cutting bar.

While the pelvis is not wholly human-like ( being markedly wide, or flared, with laterally orientated iliac blades ), these features point to a structure that can be considered radically remodeled to accommodate a significant degree of bipedalism in the animals ' locomotor repertoire.

While the Japanese were technically able to produce tempered steel ( e. g. sword blades ), they preferred to use work-hardened brass springs in their matchlocks.

While these knives are usually honed and sharpened on both sides, their blades are still given Japanese-style acute-angle cutting edges with a very hard temper to increase cutting ability.

While the whole arm generally feels painful in TOS, some relief can be seen when ice or heat is intermittently applied to the thoracic region ( collar bone, armpit, or shoulder blades ).

While being held in the Howard County jail in Kokomo, an escape attempt by Harry and Skeer was thwarted with the discovery of ten saw blades in the cells.

While the A Broadhead tip fixed-blade broadhead keeps its blades rigid and unmovable on the broadhead at all times, the mechanical broadhead deploys its blades upon contact with the target, its blades swinging out to wound the target.

While modern military bayonets typically have knife blades, they are usually too short to be called sword bayonets and are more akin to fighting / utility knives.

While most sword bayonets have straight blades, a popular variant in the 19th century featured sinuous, S-curved blades like those found on the Balkan's and Middle-East's sword called the yataghan.

While swinging to a tower, Matau falls, but is saved when he discovers that his blades can grant him flight.

While the blades are too small to see normally, they reflect light in such a way as to appear as cherry blossom petals.