While originally written as a male role, it has been performed by female cast as well.

While masculine, feminine, and neuter genders are recognized, nouns do not normally decline for gender, though some nouns, especially Latin words and personal names, exist in multiple forms corresponding to different genders: Alumnus ( male, singular )/ Alumna ( female, singular ); Andrew / Andrea, Paul / Paula, etc.

While most of the nations of Western Europe had adopted bicameral parliaments by the end of the 19th century, in 1906 the Finns adopted a unicameral parliamentary system, and female citizens were included in universal suffrage.

While the Trivers – Willard hypothesis predicts that birth sex is dependent on living conditions ( i. e. more male children are born in " good " living conditions, while more female children are born in poorer living conditions ), the probability of having a child of either gender is still regarded as 50 / 50.

While it differentiates a small number of male and female nouns such as patro ( father ) and patrino ( mother ), most nouns are gender-neutral and the use of it is not necessary.

While traditionally most monarchs have been male, female monarchs have also ruled in history ; the term queen regnant refers to a ruling monarch, as distinct from a queen consort, the wife of a reigning king.

While the court was prepared to accept Mary's fiancé as king, the majority of the nobility was opposed to the idea of a female monarch and regarded her closest agnate, King Charles III of Naples, as the legitimate heir.

While doing his obligatory community service ( Zivildienst ) in a West German hospital in 1989, Rust stabbed a female co-worker who had rejected him.

While Darwin had been criticised for simply accepting female whims as given, Ronald Fisher grasped the underlying mechanism in The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, in a remark that was not widely understood for another 50 years:

While males have long tails, female tastes in tail length are still more extreme.

While the name Sigyn is found as a female personal name in Old Norse sources ( Old Norse sigr meaning " victory " and vina meaning " girl-friend "), and though in surviving sources she is largely restricted to a single role, she appears in the 9th century Haustlöng from pagan times, written by the skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.

While driving alone in a rented car along a downtown Miami street, he approached a female undercover police officer posing as a prostitute and offered $ 40 for oral sex.

While female monastic ( bhikkhuni ) lineages existed in most Buddhist countries at one time, the Theravada lineages of Southeast Asia died out during the 14th-15th Century AD.

While there is no known instance of a male mule siring offspring, female mules have on very rare occasion given birth to viable offspring.

While The Diamond Age can be viewed primarily as a coming-of-age or Bildungsroman central plot centered on a female character, deeper analysis reveals several interconnected themes.

While some believed that a special term for literature written for women by women about women's experiences were necessary, others were concerned that feminist literature served to place the female writers and readers outside the community, in an isolated cycle.

( While Lady Astor was the first female member of the House of Commons who actually took up her seat, she was not the first woman to be elected to the House.

* May 17, 1984: Des Moines, Iowa While students in a French class at Southeast Polk High School were taking a test in the hallway, a 17 year old boy shot and killed a 16 year old female student before firing a single shot into his own head, killing himself.

While caring for the young, the males will charge at any perceived threat that approach the chicks including female rheas and humans.

While courting, a male usually purrs deeply, swaying and circling the female in a behavior called " rumblestrutting ".

While a baseline serum creatinine of 2. 0 mg / dl ( 150 μmol / l ) may indicate normal kidney function in a male body builder, a serum creatinine of 1. 2 mg / dl ( 110 μmol / l ) can indicate significant renal disease in an elderly female.

While later critics have noted that Stowe's female characters are often domestic clichés instead of realistic women, Stowe's novel " reaffirmed the importance of women's influence " and helped pave the way for the women's rights movement in the following decades.

While Ceres ' original Aventine cult was led by male priests, her " Greek rites " ( ritus graecus Cereris ) were exclusively female.

While these words all share that principal meaning, they differ a little in their additional meanings, so that gynecocracy also means ' women's social supremacy ', gynaecocracy also means ' government by one woman ', ' female dominance ', and, derogatorily, ' petticoat government ', and gynocracy also means ' women as the ruling class '.

While to a reader today it might seem that Earhart was engaged in flying " stunts ," she was, with other female flyers, crucial to making the American public " air minded " and convincing them that " aviation was no longer just for daredevils and supermen.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

While he is worldly, the musician often cultivates public attitudes of childlike astonishment and naivete.

While some think we move too fast and others too slowly, Florida's record is a good one and stands out among the 50.

While white is the coolest summer shade, there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend with any wardrobe color.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

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 clay is still pressed in mold, press three equally spaced holes 1/4'' '' deep, using pencil eraser, in bottom of clay to allow for proper drying and firing.

While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.

While some regression is inevitable, it is discouraged rather than encouraged so that the transference does not follow the stages of planned regression associated with certain casework adaptations of the psychoanalytic model for insight therapy.

While other conditions might be even more effective in bringing about a change from immobility to mobility in Kohnstamm reactivity, it is our hypothesis that all such conditions would have as a common factor the capacity to induce an attitude in the subject which enabled him to divorce himself temporarily from feelings of responsibility for his behavior.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While roleplaying for testing is not too well understood at the present time, it represents one of the major uses of this procedure.

While the phonemes can be very easily stated, no one is likely to be satisfied with the statement until phonemic occurrences can be related in some way to morphemic units, i.e. until the morphophonemics is worked out, or at least far enough that it seems reasonable to expect success.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

While it had long been known in general, that `` the public is always wrong '', the use of odd-lot indices now puts the adage on a statistical basis.

While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

While one element is announcing progress, another is delineating its problems.