While there are those who maintain that God will punish or reward us according to our behavior on Earth, likewise there are those who assert that any punishment or reward that is due to us is given during our mortal stay on Earth.

While we may suspect a few characters, such as Medb or Cú Roí, of once being deities, and Cú Chulainn in particular displays superhuman prowess, the characters are mortal and associated with a specific time and place.

While the Catholic Church had taught that abortion and contraception were gravely sinful actions (" mortal sins ") for a long period ; not all mortal sins demanded the additional penalty of excommunication.

While the Americans held the field of battle, they retreated because of the heavy casualties they suffered, including the mortal wounding of their leader, General Nicholas Herkimer.

While this concession in court was made by Knapp, others felt that Knapp meant that Mrs. Eddy, as a mortal, could not be that Woman, but as an idea of God, she, in fact could be related to that woman.

Allyne Smith, " While the Roman Catholic tradition has identified particular acts as ' mortal ' sins, in the Orthodox tradition we see that only a sin for which we don't repent is ' mortal.

While on this expedition ( reports vary, some saying it ended further exploration, others saying it occurred while on the return ) Diaz accidentally suffered a mortal wound.

While fairly surefooted on land, he manages to get into mortal peril in even the calmest water-allowing Jack Aubrey to demonstrate his proficiency at diving rescues-and is prone to plunging down hatches and companionways on board ship.

While they are free to attend Mass without conditions, they may receive Holy Communion only if they are in a state of grace ( free from unconfessed mortal sin, which destroys the supernatural life of charity within the soul ) and if they observe the prescribed pre-Communion fast, which for Latin Rite Catholics is one hour before the reception of Holy Communion.

While doing this he was severely wounded, but continued directing operations until he received two more wounds, the second mortal.

While the historicity of this account of the origin of Pennying is almost as doubtful as the validity of its posing actual mortal danger to the Sovereign, Pennying has certainly lasted long enough to become a credible tradition within Oxford, Cambridge and a few other places ( such as the University of St Andrews ) elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

While von Till does not have a lion he does have a very large white German Shepherd with which Dirk Pitt engages in a mortal struggle.

While encouraging sexual abandon in others, Trevor remains celibate ; he believes sex with a mortal will confine him to Earth forever.

While it may be supposed that a few characters, such as Medb or Cú Roí, of once being deities, and Cúchulainn in particular displays superhuman prowess, the characters are firmly mortal and rooted in a specific time and place.

While in the mortal form of Donald Velez he wore enchanted glasses which granted him super-enhanced vision.

While outside, Bloke leaps to protect their informant, taking several mortal wounds.

While some software developers use the term ISO C, others are standards body – neutral and use Standard C.

While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.

While the scientific community was once divided between supporters of the Big Bang and those of alternative cosmological models, most scientists became convinced that some version of the Big Bang scenario best fit observations after the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, and especially when its spectrum ( i. e., the amount of radiation measured at each wavelength ) was found to match that of thermal radiation from a black body.

While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body.

While Israeli law is undergoing codification, its basic principles are inherited from the law of the British Mandate of Palestine and thus resemble those of British and American law, namely: the role of courts in creating the body of law and the authority of the supreme court in reviewing and if necessary overturning legislative and executive decisions, as well as employing the adversarial system.

While the men of the tribe ate the body of the deceased and rarely contracted the disease, the women and children, who ate the less desirable body parts, including the brain, were 8 times more likely than men to contract kuru from infected tissue.

The power of making by-laws was “ tacitly annexed to corporations by the very act of their establishment .” While they must not directly contradict the overarching laws of the land, the central or local government cannot be expected to regulate toward the peculiar circumstances of a given body, and so “ they are invested with authority to make regulations for the management of their own interests and affairs .”

While some Lutherans believe in consubstantiation, others reject the concept because it substitutes what they believe to be the biblical doctrine with a philosophical construct and implies, in their view, a natural, local inclusion of the body and blood of Christ in the consecrated bread and wine of the eucharist .< ref > J. T.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

While most may think that the body of the drum produces the sound, it is in fact actually the membrane and its vibration that creates the sound when struck.

While Western philosophical traditions, as exemplified by Descartes, equate mind with the conscious self and theorize on consciousness on the basis of mind / body dualism ; some Eastern philosophies provide an alternate viewpoint, intimately related to substance dualism, by drawing a metaphysical line between consciousness and matter — where matter includes both body and mind.

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 some might argue that, by this logic, humans should also express hairy shoulders given that these body parts would putatively be exposed to similar conditions, the protection of the head, the seat of the brain that enabled humanity to become one of the most successful species on the planet ( and which also is very vulnerable at birth ), was arguably a more urgent issue ( axillary hair in the underarms and groin were also retained as signs of sexual maturity ).

While cardio-focused, rowing also stresses many muscle groups throughout the body anaerobically, thus rowing is often referred to as a strength-endurance sport.

While he usually does not use his powers in lethal ways his powers are so vast that it extends to the molecular level, to the point that he can freeze all of the molecules of an object / being with a thought ; he once froze every single molecule of water within the body of David Haller.

While no compromise could ever be accepted by the dogmatic wing of the church, his sincere efforts at reconciliation gained him the approval of the major body of the church.

While the rest of Stalin's inner circle ( even Molotov, saved from certain liquidation ) stood sobbing unashamedly over the body, Beria reportedly appeared " radiant ", " regenerated ", and " glistening with ill-concealed relish.

While an ' arm lead ' without the transfer of weight ( or movement of the body ) on the part of the leader is often a marker of an inexperienced or poorly taught dancer, the process of leading and following, particularly at an advanced level, often involves the contra-and contrasting uses of weight transfers and ' arm moves '.

While there, the Luthor robot tampers with the body chemistry of the previously-captured Reactron.

While CT of the lungs is usually adequate, a positron emission tomography ( PET ) scan of the body may also be performed to search for an occult tumour, particularly of the lung.

While the exact cause of primary lymphedema is still unknown, it generally occurs due to poorly developed or missing lymph nodes and / or channels in the body.

While the Academic Senate is an independent body, it is required to make recommendations to the university Council in relation to matters outside its delegated authority.

While a continent like Australia consists of a large body of land surrounded by a fringe of continental shelf, Zealandia consists almost entirely of continental shelf, with the vast majority, some 93 %, submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean.

While the idea of shared electron pairs provides an effective qualitative picture of covalent bonding, quantum mechanics is needed to understand the nature of these bonds and predict the structures and properties of simple molecules.

While counter weights add a considerable amount of weight to the crankshaft, it provides a smoother running engine and allows higher RPM levels to be reached.

While threads require external library support in most languages, Erlang provides language-level features for creating and managing processes with the aim of simplifying concurrent programming.

While these methods of distributing communion are not accepted in Roman Catholic churches, one such church provides a mechanical dispenser to allow those intending to communicate to place in a bowl, without touching them by hand, the hosts for use in the celebration.

While Freenet provides an HTTP interface for browsing freesites, it is not a proxy for the World Wide Web ; Freenet can only be used to access content that has been previously inserted into the Freenet network.

While Pepys provides an account of the Plague through his diary, Henry Foe's nephew Daniel Defoe published A Journal of the Plague Year, a fictional account of the plague, in 1722, possibly based on Foe's journals.

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 thinner than a swaged bullet jacket, the plated jacket is far thicker than normal electroplate, and provides significant structural integrity to the bullet.

While a number of private railroads exist and provide mostly commuter-type services, the national railway, Ferrovie dello Stato, also provides sophisticated high-speed rail service that joins the major cities of Italy from Naples through northern cities such as Milan and Turin.

While it is true that three power strokes typically occur per rotor revolution due to the 3: 1 revolution ratio of the rotor to the eccentric shaft, only one power stroke per shaft revolution actually occurs ; this engine provides three power ' strokes ' per revolution per rotor giving it a greater power-to-weight ratio than piston engines.

; Pharmacology: While it is well established that the skin provides an ideal site for the administration of local and systemic drugs, it presents a formidable barrier to the permeation of most substances.

While burning itself, it provides fragrance to others.

While CT provides good spatial resolution ( the ability to distinguish two separate structures an arbitrarily small distance from each other ), MRI provides comparable resolution with far better contrast resolution ( the ability to distinguish the differences between two arbitrarily similar but not identical tissues ).

While the wooden structure of the Mary Rose and the individual artifacts have been undergoing conservation since their recovery, the Holland 1 provides an example of a relatively recent ( metal ) wreck for which extensive conservation has been necessary to preserve the hull.

While the Singapore Department of Statistics reports overall population figures for Singapore ( 4. 48 million in 2006 ), as a matter of policy, it only provides more detailed demographic breakdown analysis for the approximately 80 % of the population who are Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents ( collectively termed ' residents ').

While the Secretary General of the United Nations receives instruments of ratification and accession and the UN provides support for meetings of states party to the Convention, the UN has no direct operational role in the implementation of the Convention.

While collagen ( mostly type I ) provides strength and structural support to the tissue, which are useful to withstanding stress and resisting deformation when subjected to a force, elastin fibers bring elasticity to the tissue, allowing it to return to its original shape after deformation.

While the first year of the program is usually devoted to completing the requirements of the core curriculum, the second year provides students with the opportunity to choose from the more than 130 elective courses available at the School and supplement them with more than 4, 000 graduate-level classes from the University's other graduate and professional schools.

While the name provides a lot of this, the sponsorship of Newcastle United, the depiction of the River Tyne in the blue star and mentioning in programmes such as Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads have helped ensure its association.

While the LANS retirement program provides rehired UC employees with pensions similar to those UC would have given them, LANS no longer guarantees full pensions to newly hired LANL employees, it now provides basic 401 ( k ) retirement saving options.

While apoptosis often provides beneficial effects to the organism, necrosis is almost always detrimental and can be fatal.

While maintaining full compatibility with older versions, this proposed standard provides numerous extensions that make writing and managing VHDL code easier.