While the early texts condemn killing in the strongest terms, and portray the ideal king as a pacifist, such a king is nonetheless flanked by an army.

While laying the siege, the king was attacked by a Nasrid army from Granada.

While Victor Emmanuel ruled as king, Shefqet Bej Verlaci served as the Prime Minister.

While Paris inspected them, each attempted with her powers to bribe him ; Hera offered to make him king of Europe and Asia, Athena offered wisdom and skill in war, and Aphrodite, who had the Charites and the Horai to enhance her charms with flowers and song ( according to a fragment of the Cypria quoted by Athenagoras ), offered the world's most beautiful woman ( Euripides, Andromache, l. 284, Helena l. 676 ).

While it is not clear from the Historia Brittonum and the Annales Cambriae that Arthur was even considered a king, by the time Culhwch and Olwen and the Triads were written he had become Penteyrnedd yr Ynys hon, " Chief of the Lords of this Island ", the overlord of Wales, Cornwall and the North.

While several individuals wrote biographies in the decades following the king's death, only Jean of Joinville, Geoffrey of Beaulieu, and William of Chartres wrote from personal knowledge of the king.

While the witches do not tell Macbeth directly to kill King Duncan, they use a subtle form of temptation when they tell Macbeth that he is destined to be king.

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 the Curiate Assembly did have the power to pass laws that had been submitted by the king, the Senate was effectively an honorary council.

While some writers believed there was no appeal from the king's decisions, others believed that a proposal for appeal could be brought before the king by any patrician during a meeting of the Curiate Assembly.

While David was in this state his fourth son Adonijah, heir apparent to the throne after the death of his elder brothers Amnon and Absalom, acted to have himself declared king, But Bathsheba, a wife of David and Solomon's mother, along with the prophet Nathan convinced David to proclaim Solomon king.

While little progress was made in the Iberian theatre, the Scipios were able to negotiate a new front in Africa by allying themselves with Syphax, a powerful Numidian king in North Africa.

While landing on Tenedos, Achilles killed king Tenes, son of Apollo, despite a warning by his mother that if he did so he would be killed himself by Apollo.

While Spain was fighting in France, Portugal — which had been under personal union with Spain for 60 years — acclaimed John IV of Braganza as king in 1640, and the House of Braganza became the new dynasty of Portugal ( see Portuguese Restoration War, for further information ).

While the Qur ' an does not mention the king's name, Muslim commentators have assigned Nimrod as the king based on Jewish sources, namely the Book of Jasher ( 11: 1 and 12: 6 ).

While a young man, Xenophon participated in the expedition led by Cyrus the Younger against his older brother, king Artaxerxes II of Persia, in 401 BC.

While this defense was going on, the king was raising an army to march south.

While Hamilton was willing to negotiate with England to stop their support of the rebels and bring the castle back under his control, Mary of Guise decided that it could only be taken by force and requested the king of France, Henry II to intervene.

While the council was engaged in planning a crusade and in considering the reform of the clergy, a new crisis occurred between the pope and the new king of France, Francis I, an enthusiastic young prince, dominated by the ambition of recovering Milan and the Kingdom of Naples.

While making her way back home with a pregnant Maharet, Mekare curses the king and queen secretly with the bloodthirsty spirit.

While the king and queen lie dying, the evil spirit sees its chance to ensnare the soul of the dying queen and pulls it back into her body.

While the king is uncertain — except in the case of the elephants carrying the world on the back of the turtle — that these mysteries are real, they are actual modern events that occurred in various places during, or before, Poe's lifetime.

While under the protection of Yaroslav, Andronikos brought about an alliance between him and the Emperor Manuel I, and so restored himself to the emperor's favour.

While the city withstood a siege, Heraclius campaigned deep into Persian territory and briefly restored the status quo in 628, when the Persians surrendered all their conquests.

While conventional reality was eventually restored, it came at a high price, as thousands if not millions of Earth ’ s mutant population lost their powers or died in the process, leaving only a few hundred mutants alive and powered.

While the republican government had been restored, Munich subsequently became a hotbed of extremist politics, among which Adolf Hitler and the National Socialism rose to prominence.

While modern amenities such as wi-fi Internet and flatscreen television would appear in the rooms, the exterior architecture and neon highway signage would be meticulously restored to original designs.

While yet a cardinal, he had restored the church of Santa Maria in Domnica after Raphael's designs ; and as pope he had San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, on the Via Giulia, built, after designs by Jacopo Sansovino and pressed forward the work on St Peter's Basilica and the Vatican under Raphael and Agostino Chigi.

While some Germans were shocked by the killing, many others saw Hitler as the one who restored " order " to the country.

While Churchville Station has been restored, Holland station was demolished in 2000.

While China's later imperial period does not seem to have broken new ground for innovative approaches to poetry, picking through its vast body of preserved works remains a scholarly challenge, so new treasures may yet be restored from obscurity.

While his adopted son Germanicus restored order in Germania, Tiberius ' biological son Drusus was sent to quell the uprising in Pannonia, accompanied by Sejanus and two Praetorian cohorts.

While labouring for the establishment of Merton College, the barons triumphed and Walter was removed from the chancellorship in 1263 but after the civil war was restored to the government.

While the Concordat restored some ties to the papacy, it was largely in favor of the state ; the balance of church-state relations had tilted firmly in Napoleon's favour.

While fiscal health was restored through a careful choice of star-driven vehicles, the studio's image was badly hurt by the David Begelman check-forging scandal.

While the peace treaty saw France's Indian outposts, and the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe restored to France, the competition for influence in India had been won by the British, and North America was entirely lost – most of New France was taken by Britain ( also referred to as British North America, except Louisiana, which France ceded to Spain as payment for Spain's late entrance into the war ( and as compensation for Britain's annexation of Spanish Florida ).

While they did not win any championships, Shivers and Barrett had restored a measure of respectability for the franchise and had set the stage for things to come.

While democracy as Filipinos knew it was restored, rampant corruption plagued the government that led to the 2001 EDSA Revolution, which deposed President Joseph Estrada.

While the Senate from 1916 to 1935 had exclusive confirmation rights over executive appointments, as part of the compromises that restored the Senate in 1941, the power of confirming executive appointments has been exercised by a joint Commission on Appointments composed of members of both houses.

While the timber supply thinned out, other means such as Citrus fruit and dairy farming restored the fortunes of Ourimbah.

While the land is left fallow the forest regrows in the cleared area and soil fertility and biomass is restored.

While the outside facade has been restored and remains intact, the building's interior has been modernized into one of the world's most innovative media complexes.

While most of the murals have been restored, a small segment ( the spiral stairway exit to the observation platform ) was not restored but durably painted over with epoxy surfacing.

While the case has remained largely intact, the organ itself has been variously rebuilt and restored ; in 1704 by Christian Smith, and in 1711 by Abraham Jordan ( c. 1666 – 1716 )— who it is thought added the swell organ to the two manual instrument.

While demons and devils had their original names restored in the third edition of Dungeons and Dragons, the yugoloths did not.