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 accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

While the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

While most Anabaptists adhered to a literal interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount which precluded taking oaths, participating in military actions, and participating in civil government, some who practiced re-baptism felt contrariwise.

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

While containment of biological warfare transmission is less of a concern for certain criminal or terrorist organizations, it remains a significant concern for the military and civilian populations of virtually all nations.

While visiting Beijing in 1970 Sihanouk was ousted by a military coup led by Prime Minister General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak in the early hours of March 18, 1970.

While Clausewitz was intensely aware of the value of intelligence at all levels, he was also very skeptical of the accuracy of much military intelligence: " Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory ; even more are false, and most are uncertain ....

While serving in the military, Brubeck met Paul Desmond in early 1944.

While Titus received a court education in the company of Britannicus, Vespasian pursued a successful political and military career.

While the vassal performed military service in exchange for the fief, the peasant performed physical labour in return for protection.

While Hannibal is mentioned in the company of history's greatest generals, military professionals have bestowed Fabius ' name on an entire strategic doctrine known as " Fabian strategy ", and George Washington has been called " the American Fabius.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

While there were wide needs for accurate navigation in military and civilian sectors, almost none of those were seen as justification for the billions of dollars it would cost in research, development, deployment, and operation for a constellation of navigation satellites.

While modern M16s and equipment are standard issue, much of the secondary equipment used by the Ghanaian military is generally older than that used in Western military forces, and Ghanaian troops frequently rely on British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish weaponry.

While on 5 June, several major politicians ( Baciro Dabo, Faustino Imbali and Helder Proenca ) were shot dead, officially to counter a planned coup d ' État against the temporary military leadership.

While the states issued their own decorations, and some had their own armies, the military forces of the smaller ones were put under Prussian control.

While the military effectiveness of these " Afghan Arabs " was marginal, Azzam's group is said to have organized paramilitary training for more than 20, 000 Muslim recruits, from about 20 countries around the world.

While playing football at PJC, Robinson suffered a fractured ankle, complications from which would eventually delay his deployment status while in the military.

While military efforts were directed to the East, the situation in Italy took a turn for the worse.

While bound to the stretcher his picture was taken by American military personnel.

While the sale of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went largely unnoticed, fear of an eventual French invasion spread nationwide when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to secure New Orleans.

While monetary and military Libyan support for the Sahrawi cause dwindled in the mid-1980s, after a rapprochement with Morocco, the enemy of Polisario, some Sahrawi refugee students are still able to apply for higher education in Libya.

While this aspect is similar to Scotch and Irish whisky regulations, it contrasts with the maximum alcoholic proof limits on distillation ( 80 % abv ) and aging ( 62. 5 % abv ) purity allowed in the production of straight whiskey in the U. S. All spirits used in making a Canadian whisky must be aged for at least three years in wooden barrels of not greater than 700 L capacity ( a requirement similar to that for Scotch and Irish whisky and longer than for American straight whisky ).

While tense relates the time of a situation to some other time, commonly the time of speaking, aspect conveys other temporal information, such as duration, completion, or frequency, as it relates to the time of action.

While organized to promote common economic, social, and cultural goals, ASEAN acquired a security dimension after Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia in 1979 ; this aspect of ASEAN expanded with the establishment of the ASEAN Regional Forum in 1994, which comprises 22 countries, including the U. S. Indonesia's continued domestic troubles have distracted it from ASEAN matters and consequently lessened its influence within the organization.

While the CGI shots have already been mastered in a 16: 9 aspect ratio for future applications, they are currently broadcast in the U. S. and Canada – along with the live-action footage – in the original 4: 3 aspect ratio television format to respect the show's original composition.

While some scholars see warfare as an inescapable and integral aspect of human culture, others argue that it is only inevitable under certain socio-cultural or ecological circumstances.

While cultural universals are by definition part of the mores of every society ( hence also called " empty universals "), the customary norms specific to a given society are a defining aspect of the cultural identity of a ethnicity or a nation.

While it is possible that a dominant would not act as a top and thus have no expression of his or her control through kink-or fetish-based activities, it may be argued that such a relationship, lacking any erotic aspect to the exercise of control, would fall outside of the BDSM context.

While atrocities occurred during the war, the most striking aspect of these British atrocities -- the burning of a churchful of townspeople, is thought to be borrowed from war crimes committed by the Nazis during World War II.

While many vampires cling to the mannerisms and speech patterns prevalent at the time they were sired, Spike has been shown to easily adjust to changing fashions and styles over the decades and displays an impressive knowledge of both British and American popular culture, demonstrating another aspect of his potential for analysis and adaptability.

While the medieval and later Roman custom of a Lord of Misrule as a master of revels, a figure of fun and no more than that, is most familiar, there does seem to be some indication of an earlier and more unpleasant aspect to this figure.

While fan service describes every aspect to please the fans, ecchi relates to sexual themes.

While paper sizes " may " have been chosen based on the size of original frames, the frames themselves were chosen to make page reduction efficient without distorting the aspect ratio of the pages regardless of final size chosen.

While both of these involve digital pressure to the anterior aspect ( front ) of the laryngeal apparatus, the purpose of the latter is to improve the view of the glottis during laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation, rather than to prevent regurgitation.

He claimed, “ the best sites for ‘ earth art ’ are sites that have been disrupted by industry, reckless urbanization, or nature ’ s own devastation .” While in earlier 18th-century formal characterizations of the pastoral and the sublime, something like a “ gash in the ground ” if encountered by a “ leveling improver ”, as described by Price, would have been smoothed over and the whole composition returned to a more aesthetically pleasing contour For Smithson, however, it was not necessary that the deformation become a visual aspect of a landscape ; by his anti-formalist logic, more important was the temporal scar worked over by natural or human intervention.

While Janus sometimes is named belliger and sometimes pacificus in accord with his general function of beginner, he is mentioned as Janus Quirinus in relation to the closing of the rites of March at the end of the month together with Pax, Salus and Concordia: This feature is a reflection of the aspect of Janus Quirinus which stresses the quirinal function of bringing peace back and the hope of soldiers for a victorious return.

While the killing of sacrifices was a prerogative of Strangite priests, female priests were specifically barred from participating in this aspect of the priestly office.

While the unification aspect of Unicode is controversial in some quarters for the reasons given above, Unicode itself does now encode a vast number of seldom-used characters of a more-or-less antiquarian nature.

While emphasizing the importance of the rational aspect of the psyche, he does not ignore the importance of other ‘ goods ’ such as friends, wealth, and power in a life that is eudaimonic.

While in Cuba, Cornell said that he takes " every aspect of human life " into consideration, when it comes to writing lyrics, and that he would write about the experience in a song, or more songs.

While generally educational about some aspect of the company, the programs usually featured some member of the senior management team in a humorous way.

While Blair's outline of the requirements for an excellent speaker or writer is an important aspect of Lectures, the work covers a very broad scope of issues relating to composition.

While no single model has taken precedence, a large body of empirical literature has identified social-cognitive ( the psycho-social aspect of Engel's model ) variables that appear to influence engagement in healthy behaviors and adhere to prescribed medical regimens, such as self-efficacy, in chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc.

While much of this is a commercialized aspect of Shaolin, it is also widely credited as keeping the 1500-year-old temple in the consciousness of the world, and from vanishing into obscurity like many other ancient traditions.