While the precise identity of the author is debated, the consensus is that this work was composed by a ( Koine ) Greek speaking Gentile writing for an audience of Gentile Christians.

While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide ( CPPCG ).

While the concept of heaven ( malkuth hashamaim מלכות השמים, the Kingdom of Heaven ) is well-defined within the Christian and Islamic religions, the Jewish concept of the afterlife, sometimes known as olam haba, the World-to-come, is not so precise.

While the first-order experiments could be explained by a modified stationary aether, more precise second-order experiments were expected to give positive results, however, no such results could be found.

While constructed languages are also artificial languages designed from the ground up with a specific purpose, they lack the precise and complete semantic definition that a programming language has.

While the precise meaning of this term changed over time, including free retainers of an aristocrat and small landholders, it always referred to commoners.

While these are all associated with medieval hunting, over time various dog breeds were selected for very precise tasks during the hunt, reflected in such names as pointer and setter.

While flexible units offer some movement and give between the shafts, rigid couplings are the most effective choice for precise alignment and secure hold.

While conceptually it is mean solar time at 0 ° longitude, precise measurements of the Sun are difficult.

While precise calculation of positronium energy levels uses the Bethe-Salpeter equation, the similarity between positronium and hydrogen allows for a rough estimate.

While the precise definition of an inverse element varies depending on the algebraic structure involved, these definitions coincide in a group.

While baseball rules provide a precise definition for the strike zone, in practice it is up to the judgment of the umpire to decide whether the pitch passed through the zone.

While this precise terminology —" by faith alone "— does not appear in English Bible translations other than in where it has been claimed that the author seems to reject the notion that a person is justified by God solely on account of faith, other Catholic authorities also used " alone " in their translation of Romans 3: 28 or exegesis of salvation by faith passages, and it is claimed to summarize the teaching of the New Testament, and especially the Pauline epistles such as, which systematically reject the proposition that justification before God is obtained due to the merit of one's obedience to the Law of Moses ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ), or Abraham's circumcision and works.

While different in terms of storyline and precise gameplay, all of the different races ' campaigns are structured similarly.

While Ruffini and Abel established that the general quintic could not be solved, some particular quintics can be solved, such as ( x − 1 )< sup > 5 </ sup >= 0, and the precise criterion by which a given quintic or higher polynomial could be determined to be solvable or not was given by Évariste Galois, who showed that whether a polynomial was solvable or not was equivalent to whether or not the permutation group of its roots – in modern terms, its Galois group – had a certain structure – in modern terms, whether or not it was a solvable group.

While this term is a more precise translation, it is neither standard nor widely used in English.

While the Masoretic Text defines the books of the Jewish canon, it also defines the precise letter-text of these biblical books, with their vocalization and accentuation known as the Masorah.

While coterminous U. S. and conterminous U. S. have the same precise meaning as contiguous U. S. ( all three adjectives meaning " sharing a common boundary "), other terms commonly used to describe the 48 contiguous states have a greater degree of ambiguity.

While there is general disagreement about precise origin of the wave, most stories of the phenomenon's origin, suggest that the wave first started appearing at North American sporting events during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

While the statistical area has boundaries defined by the U. S. Census Bureau, there are no precise boundaries for the corresponding community.

While the name's origin, honoring Seth Warner, is clear, the charter does nothing to specify precise usage.

While universally considered a masterpiece, its precise classification and influence in both Western and Eastern canon has been a matter of debate.

While snoRNA part basepair with the target RNA and thus position the modification to precise site, the protein part performs the catalytical reaction.

While the precise mechanism of action is still poorly understood, there is evidence that application of gel sheeting may reduce the incidence of abnormal scarring.

While the earliest artifacts date to the Middle Neolithic era, there have been documented habitations in Attica from the Early Neolithic ( 6th millennium BC ).

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

While the date of composition varies wildly among scholars, ranging from the era of Plato and Aristotle to the seventh century CE.

While not rigorous, the empirical evidence to date supports this belief ".

While the team didn't wear the throwback uniform exactly on Thanksgiving Day in those two years, Dallas wore them on a date around Thanksgiving for those two years.

While contemporaneous accounts are clear that the handshake took place on Saturday, some historians have changed the date of the merger to Sunday, January 1, 1832.

While it was once thought that Locke wrote the Treatises to defend the Glorious Revolution of 1688, recent scholarship has shown that the work was composed well before this date, and it is now viewed as a more general argument against absolute monarchy ( particularly as espoused by Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes ) and for individual consent as the basis of political legitimacy.

While the date of his death is not known, " Dowland's last payment from the court was on 20 January 1626, and he was buried at St Ann's, Blackfriars, London, on 20 February 1626.

While earliest known fossils of anatomically modern humans date from around 195, 000 years ago, the matrilinear most recent common ancestor shared by all living humans ( dubbed Mitochondrial Eve ), is dated to about 120-150 thousand years ago.

While some Eastern Orthodox national churches have accepted the Gregorian calendar dates for feast days that occur on the same date every year, the dates of all movable feasts ( such as Easter ) are still calculated in the Eastern Orthodox churches by reference to the Julian calendar.

While still uncertain of exactly how and when the new material would be released, at the time he projected a tentative Spring 2011 release date.

While some archaeologists argue that Rome was indeed founded in the middle of the 8th century BC ( the date of the tradition ), the date is subject to controversy.

While reincarnation has been a matter of faith in some communities from an early date it has also frequently been argued for on principle, as Plato does when he argues that the number of souls must be finite because souls are indestructible, Benjamin Franklin held a similar view.

While tying it to one fixed date would serve to underline the belief that Easter commemorates an actual historical event, without an accompanying calendar reform it would also break the tradition of Easter always being on a Sunday, established since the 2nd century AD and by now deeply embedded in the liturgical practice and theological understanding of almost all Christian denominations.

While commercially made slingshots date back to at least 1918, with the introduction of the Zip-Zip, a cast iron model, it was not until the post World War II years saw a surge in the popularity, and legitimacy, of slingshots.

" While it is clear that the Cryptic Corporation has chosen to share this information publicly, no further confirmation — nor any context as to the roles of " Chuck " and " Bob " in the group, or if these names are, indeed, the names of the group's members — appears to have been issued to date.

While not her highest chart debut, debut sales for From the Choirgirl Hotel are Amos's best to date, selling 153, 000 copies in its first week.

While there is no clear answer as to why, this custom of leaving pebbles may date back to biblical days when individuals were buried under piles of stones.

While November 26 is the official date, theologically, the pontificate began in August when he was ordained as Bishop of Rome.

While the term " think tank " originated in the 1950s, such organizations date to the 19th century.

While archaeologists can use the technique to date the piece of wood and when it was felled, it may be difficult to definitively determine the age of a building or structure that the wood is in.

While the earliest extant sketches date from December 1856, it was not until August 1857, however, that Wagner began devoting his attention entirely to the opera, putting aside the composition of Siegfried to do so.

While it forms an integral part of the Christian calendar, particularly in Catholic regions, some carnival traditions may date back to pre-Christian times.