While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

While that national dichotomy has stymied any effort at changing the tradition of the national anthem, " America the Beautiful " continues to be held in high esteem by a large number of Americans.

While a number of interesting celestial objects are readily identified by the naked eye, sometimes with the aid of a star chart, many others are so faint or inconspicuous that technical means are necessary to locate them.

While Nicomachus ' algorithm is the same as Euclid's, when the numbers are prime to one another it yields the number " 1 " for their common measure.

While many indigenous Amazonian people say they received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits, researchers have devised a number of alternative theories to explain its discovery.

While any combination and number of string instruments is possible in a section, a traditional string section sound is achieved with a violin-heavy balance of instruments.

While most urban and suburban transport in Bulgaria is composed of buses ( using an increasing number of CNG vehicles ), around a dozen cities also have trolley bus networks.

While they are not major teratogens, uncertainty remains as to whether they cause cleft palate in a small number of babies and whether neurobehavioural effects occur as a result of prenatal exposure ; they are known to cause withdrawal symptoms in the newborn.

While the detailed particle physics mechanism responsible for inflation is not known, the basic picture makes a number of predictions that have been confirmed by observation.

While professional grading has reduced the number of counterfeits foisted upon investors and has improved buyer confidence substantially, the goal of creating a sight-unseen market for coins remains somewhat elusive.

While he supported the idea of government by an all-powerful sage, ruling as an Emperor, his ideas contained a number of elements to limit the power of rulers.

While aiding the return of nutrients in fecal matter to the soil, it can carry and spread a number of human pathogens.

While an exact number has not been determined, thousands of Canadians have purchased and used what they contend to be grey market radio and television services, licensed in the United States but not in Canada.

While at university, Gauss independently rediscovered several important theorems ; his breakthrough occurred in 1796 when he showed that any regular polygon with a number of sides which is a Fermat prime ( and, consequently, those polygons with any number of sides which is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2 ) can be constructed by compass and straightedge.

While the number of cardinals was small from the times of the Roman Empire to the Renaissance, and frequently smaller than the number of recognized churches entitled to a cardinal priest, in the 16th century the College expanded markedly.

While the overall structure of archaeal pseudopeptidoglycan superficially resembles that of bacterial peptidoglycan, there are a number of significant chemical differences.

While clearly attributable to the presence of the opportunistic pathogens of the genus Candida, candidiasis describes a number of different disease syndromes that often differ in their causes and outcomes.

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 the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

While it is clear that the Christmas tree originates in Renaissance and early modern Germany, there are a number of speculative theories as to its ultimate origin.

While there were still a number of loud / fast songs, much of the music featured an eclectic mix of instruments including trumpets and synthesizers.

While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

While every computable number is definable, the converse is not true: the numeric representations of the Halting problem, Chaitin's constant, the truth set of first order arithmetic, and 0 < sup >#</ sup > are examples of numbers that are definable but not computable.

While stressing the philosophical differences, the Free Software Foundation comments:

While most IKEA stores operate under the direct purview of Ingka Holding and the Ingka Foundation, the IKEA trademark and concept is owned by an entirely separate Dutch company, Inter IKEA Systems.

While stressing the philosophical differences, the Free Software Foundation comments:

While four of the listed rouge states met all these transgressions, Cuba, though still known for severely abusing its citizens and its strident criticism of the United States, no longer met all the transgressions required for a rogue state and was put on the list solely because of the political influence of the American Cuban community and specifically that of the Cuban American National Foundation.

The Heritage Foundation stated that: " While elements of the Somoza National Guard tortured political opponents, they did not employ psychological torture.

While Mozilla Organization ( the forerunner of the Mozilla Foundation ) initially continued to use the NGLayout name ( Gecko was a Netscape trademark ), eventually the Gecko branding won out.

While the term " Foundation Series " can be used specifically for the seven Foundation books, it can also be used more generally to include the Robot series ( four novels ) and Empire series ( three novels ), which are set in the same fictional universe, but in earlier time periods.

While the first Foundation has developed the physical sciences, the Second Foundation has been developing the mental sciences.

While the Reagan Doctrine enjoyed strong support from the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute opposed the Reagan Doctrine, arguing in 1986 that " most Third World struggles take place in arenas and involve issues far removed from legitimate American security needs.

While the doctrine benefited from strong support from the Reagan administration, the Heritage Foundation and several influential Members of Congress, many votes on critical funding for resistance movements, especially the Nicaraguan contras, were extremely close, making the Reagan Doctrine one of the more contentious American political issues of the late 1980s.

While apparently living modestly in exile, Duvalier does have supporters, who founded the François Duvalier Foundation in 2006 to promote positive aspects of the Duvalier presidency, including the creation of most of Haiti's state institutions and improved access to education for the country's black majority.

While there he became a First Team Consensus All-American selection in 1958 ( Elgin Baylor, Bob Boozer, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Guy Rodgers and Don Hennon comprised the first team selections ) and a Second Team Consensus All-American in 1959, while being named to the United Press International and Helms Foundation first teams that season.

While this started with his building in New York, the buildings in Marfa ( now The Block, Judd Foundation ) allowed him to install his works on a larger scale.

While not a resident of Round Rock, his business is based there and has had a tremendous impact on the community through its workforce and the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation.

While pursuing other interests, Burke was also deeply involved in community work, assisting The Crippled Children's Foundation for blind and underprivileged children, while personally being responsible for more than 120 adopted children.

While the Critical Edition of the Symphony until recently has shown the Scherzo as preceding the Andante moderato, the Kaplan Foundation has recently published articles suggesting that the order should be as follows ( which is to appear in a future edition ):

While the converged Unix from the Sun and AT & T alliance ( that spawned the Open Software Foundation or OSF ), released late 1986, put BSD features into System V, DEC took the best from System V and added it to a BSD base.

( While the same term could potentially also be used as a title within other disciplines, in Japanese its most common meaning is specific to the Aikikai Foundation.

While it has working relationships with individuals such as U. S. Representative Ron Paul and organizations like the Foundation for Economic Education, it does not seek to implement public policy.

While on a tour to the United States of America as a member of the Gandhi Peace Foundation delegation, in September 1962 Rajaji visited American President John F. Kennedy at the White House.

While Mageau survived the attack, Ferrin was pronounced dead on arrival at Kaiser Foundation Hospital.

While the Tzu Chi Foundation has Buddhist origins and beliefs, the organization is also popularly known for its selfless contributions to society in numerous ways in the areas of Charity, Medicine, Education, and Culture.