While the British were in charge, the prisoners created their own governance and culture.

While preparations were under way for a renewed advance on Kabul, the new Governor-General Lord Ellenborough ordered British forces to leave Afghanistan after securing the release of the prisoners from Kabul and taking reprisals.

While thousands of political prisoners and many dissidents were released in the spirit of glasnost, Gorbachev's original goal of using glasnost and perestroika to reform the Soviet Union was not achieved.

While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of extrajudicial punishment.

* While incarcerated on Robben Island prison, Nelson Mandela recited the poem to other prisoners and was empowered by its message of self-mastery.

While the extent of Prince Asaka's responsibility for the massacre remains a matter of debate, the ultimate sanction for the massacre and the crimes committed during the invasion of China were issued in Emperor Hirohito's ratification of the Japanese army's proposition to remove the constraints of international law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners on August 5, 1937.

While the British fleet lay at Lagos Bay, in Portugal, the Spanish prisoners received from the four prizes, numbering about 3000, were landed.

While over 5, 000 U. S. airmen had been killed and over 1, 000 more were either missing in action ( MIA ), or captured ( prisoners of war / POW ); the USAF 100th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing had flown approximately 3, 435 UAV missions during the war, at a cost of about 554 UAVs lost to all causes.

While Prince Asaka's responsibility for the Nanking Massacre remains a matter of debate, the ultimate sanction for the massacre and the crimes committed during the invasion of China might be found in the ratification, made on August 5, 1937 by Emperor Hirohito, of the proposition of the Japanese army to remove the constraints of international law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners.

While prohibiting public assemblies, the government released all religious prisoners.

While he is in prison, however, the emperor of Catchfools declares a celebration, and all prisoners are set free.

While underground leaders were sentenced to long prison terms, assurances that political prisoners would be released and that Soviet forces and security would leave failed to be supported by concrete safeguards or implementation plans.

While the prison system was in use ( 1852 – 1953 ), inmates included political prisoners ( such as 239 republicans who opposed Napoleon III's coup d ' état in 1851 ) and the most hardened of thieves and murderers.

While participating in ruthless counter-insurgency operations, Mesrine's duties are said to have included the killing of prisoners.

While in San José, Árbenz had to lead squads of soldiers which were escorting chain gangs of prisoners ( including political prisoners ) to perform forced labor.

While Lee's army was enduring strong attacks by the Army of the Potomac outside Sharpsburg, Maryland, Hill's Light Division had been left behind to process Union prisoners at Harpers Ferry.

While incarcerated on Robben Island prison, Nelson Mandela recited the poem " Invictus " to other prisoners and was empowered by its message of self-mastery.

While in prison, Szenes used a mirror to flash signals out of the window to prisoners in other cells and communicated using large cut-out letters that she placed in her cell window one at a time and by drawing the Magen David in the dust.

While the last prisoners of the Civil War were released in 1924, the Free State retained extensive emergency powers to intern and even execute political opponents, under a series of Public Safety Acts ( 1923, 1926 and 1931 ).

While in a prisoner-of-war camp in Mississippi ( 1944 – 1946 ), he started a " camp university ", where he held law courses for the prisoners.

While outside the city King Syphax has been captured, Maciste and Fulvius are swept up with other prisoners within Cirta ’ s city walls.

While being hurt one time, Carmichael began singing to the guards, “ I ’ m gonna tell God how you treat me ” to which the rest of the prisoners joined in.

While seven million prisoners and forced laborers left Germany, over 10 million German speaking refugees arrived there from Eastern Europe as living conditions were harsh.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

While the phonemes can be very easily stated, no one is likely to be satisfied with the statement until phonemic occurrences can be related in some way to morphemic units, i.e. until the morphophonemics is worked out, or at least far enough that it seems reasonable to expect success.

While emphasizing that technical details were not fully worked out, Pelham said his resolution would seek to set aside the privilege resolution which the House voted through 87-31.

While details are still to be worked out, Ratcliff said he expects to tell home folks in Dallas why he thinks Berry's proposed constitutional amendment should be rejected.

While I worked, Nadine sat and cried.

While Smith was always an artist who worked in several very different media, it is possible to identify three distinct periods in which one form of art had precedence over the others.

While the reliability of these sources has increasingly been called into question, it is known that during his brief reign, Caligula worked to increase the unconstrained personal power of the emperor ( as opposed to countervailing powers within the principate ).

While still in high school, he worked as a cub reporter for the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, covering courts, the high school, the mortuary and civic organizations.

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 at Cornell, he worked as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun with classmate Allison Danzig, who later became a sportswriter for The New York Times.

While with the firm, he also worked on two other family projects: the All Souls Church in Chicago for his uncle, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, and the Hillside Home School I in Spring Green for two of his aunts.

While she continued to practice her singing, she worked many non-singing jobs in the years after high school, including a job at Bamberger's department store.

While their old lands were being worked by slaves, the peasants were often forced into idleness in Rome where they had to subsist on hand outs due to a scarcity of paid work.

While Melville worked, his wife managed to wean him off alcohol, and he no longer showed signs of agitation or insanity.

While in Breslau, he worked on a commission that studied how children's mental ability declined during the school day.

While his younger brother began composing and " plugging " in Tin Pan Alley from the age of eighteen, Ira worked as a cashier in his father's Turkish baths.

While in Dallas, Texas, where the insurance company he worked for was based, he spoke to John F. Kennedy as the presidential candidate and his running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, who were touring the city during the 1960 Presidential election campaign.

While cars were known to jump the tracks more than once during these excursions, the system seems to have worked fairly well.

While Tom Matano, Mark Jordan, Wu Huang Chin, Norman Garrett and Koichi Hayashi worked on the final design, the project was moved to Japan for engineering and production details.

While in Syria, he met Amal, a young Palestinian woman, who worked there in the planning bureau.

While recuperating at Youpon Dunes, a home owned by Elizabeth Patterson, in Myrtle Beach, he worked on the charter for a group of Sufis, which he named Sufism Reoriented.

While radar was being developed during World War II, there arose an urgent need for a high-power microwave generator that worked at shorter wavelengths ( around 10 cm ( 3 GHz )) rather than the 150 cm ( 200 MHz ) that was available from tube-based generators of the time.

While this same approach worked for Mach's ports as well, under Mach the operating system was assumed to be much more fluid, with ports appearing and disappearing all the time.

While some Jewish organizations, such as Chabad have worked to promote the observance of the Noachide laws, there are no figures for how many actually do.