While a catenary is the ideal shape for a freestanding arch of constant thickness, the Gateway Arch is narrower near the top.

While at Wham-O, Headrick redesigned the Pluto Platter reworking the rim height, disc shape, diameter, weight and plastics, creating a controllable disc that could be thrown accurately.

While the angle of the instrument may change as this motion follows the shape of the teeth and placement of the jaw, contrary to what many brass performers and teachers believe, the angle of the instrument does not actually constitute the motion Reinhardt advised as a pivot.

While old fashioned " straight skis " which had little side cut could carve turns, great leg strength was required to generate the enormous pressure necessary to flex them into a curved shape, a shape called reverse camber.

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 most possessed bilateral symmetry, the scales on the right and left side of Turrilepas wrightiana are different in shape and form.

While the airliner manufacturer will normally supply a standard product, airlines may choose to have bins of differing size, shape, or color installed.

While often very similar in shape, moored balloons have no propulsion and are tethered to the ground.

While attending the University of Wisconsin – Stout and living in an apartment in Menomonie, WI, Helder planned to plant pipe bombs in mailboxes across the United States to create a smiley face shape on the United States map.

While its name, meaning " three-headed ", can describe its shape as seen from the Bohinj area, the mountain was most probably named after the Slavic god Triglav.

While many of the mausoleums are in fine shape and well-maintained, others have fallen into disrepair.

While some assume that this boat followed the Banks dory shape, the Grand Banks cod fisheries for which the Banks dory was designed didn't start operating until the 1830s.

While considered very successful early on, carronades eventually disappeared as rifled naval artillery changed the shape of the shell and led to fewer and fewer close-range engagements.

While she can fly and possesses super-strength ( like Superman ), she also has psychokinetic, shape shifting and cloaking / invisibility powers.

While the Liberty Bell did not go to the Exposition, a great many Exposition visitors came to visit it, and its image was ubiquitous at the Exposition grounds — myriad souvenirs were sold bearing its image or shape, and state pavilions contained replicas of the bell made of substances ranging from stone to tobacco.

While these modern corsets and corset tops often feature lacing or boning and generally mimic a historical style of corsets, they have very little if any effect on the shape of the wearer's body.

While similar in shape to a Super Mushroom and 1-Up Mushroom, the poison variety will harm Mario if he touches it.

While some buildings still have mild damage, most often the occasional superficial pockmark from artillery and mortar fire, the city's façades are generally in good shape, due to extensive restoration in recent times, preserving the charm of its intricate Austro-Hungarian Baroque architecture in the older quarters of town.

While historians agree on the color of the 16th-century domes, their shape is disputed.

While observing the Nubecula Minor, he described it as a cloudy mass of light with an oval shape and a bright center.

While some of the Penal Laws were much older, they took their most drastic shape during the reign of Charles II.

While a technical achievement, the plane suffered a series of highly public failures, as the shape of the windows led to cracks due to metal fatigue.

While the shape and angle of leaf lobes vary somewhat within all Maple species, the leaf lobes of Norway Maple tend to have a more triangular shape, in contrast to the more squarish lobes often seen on Sugar Maples.

While the article specifically prohibits discrimination based on " sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status ", the last of these allows the court to extend to Article 14 protection to other grounds not specifically mentioned such as has been done regarding discrimination based on a person's sexual orientation.

While heralded by many as outstanding colour photographs, they were harshly criticized by Susan Sontag, who claimed in a review that they were further evidence of Riefenstahl ’ s “ fascist aesthetics ”.

While the relatively dimmer bodies, as well as the population as the whole, are reddish ( V-I = 0. 3 – 0. 6 ), the bigger objects are often more neutral in colour ( infrared index V-I < 0. 2 ).

While resolution can be estimated in pixels per unit area, the comparison is complex since most types of digital sensor record only a single colour at each pixel location, and different types of film have different effective resolutions.

While the Roman Rite adopts no special designation for this final part of Ordinary Time, some denominations do, and may also change the liturgical colour.

While the music of Les pêcheurs is atmospheric and deeply evocative of the opera's Eastern setting, in La jolie fille de Perth Bizet made no attempt to introduce Scottish colour or mood, though the scoring includes highly imaginative touches such as a separate band of woodwind and strings during the opera's Act III seduction scene.

While PagePlus is generally targeted at the " entry level " DTP user, some of the functionality present in the market leading applications ( Quark's XPress and Adobe's InDesign ) is present in PagePlus, such as working in the CMYK colour space, OpenType Feature support, and Optical margin alignment ( Optical Justification ).

While her plumage colour is not very different to that of male, the toning is more subtle, with less yellow and mottling.

While the colour of each individual pixel is encrypted, the overall image may still be discerned as the pattern of identically coloured pixels in the original remains in the encrypted version.

While random colour mutations may occur in the wild, these are rare — most wild R. norvegicus are a dark brown colour, but fancy rats may be anything from white to blue.

While former AGFAPHOTO, has disappeared, the surviving Belgian Branch of AGFA continues to produce, among other things, b / w, colour negative and colour reversal materials for aerial photography.

While the show started off being broadcast in ( genuine ) black-and-white, the show was one of the very first to be shown in colour on BBC Two in 1967.

While the crest consisted of a single colour only for most of the time, namely blue or red, the current ( 2008 ) crest is blue, red, and white.

While the Danish and Swedish variants are normally very light in colour, most of the Norwegian brands are matured in oak casks for at least one year, and for some brands even as long as 12 years, making them generally darker in colour.

While members of all three nations can be found to claim that " their " style of aquavit is the best as a matter of national pride, Norwegian akevitt tend to have, if not the most distinctive character, then at least the most overpowering flavour and deepest colour due to the aging process.

While this may or may not have been the case with older wooden or plain stone temples, it was definitely not the case with the more luxurious marble temples, where colour was used sparingly to accentuate architectural highlights.

While she certainly was not a beauty, her countenance was very expressive and showed extreme intelligence ; she was not tall, but had a slight, rather pretty figure ; her bright eyes sparkled with good humour and vivacity ; her mouth was large, but filled with white and even teeth ; and her hair was a beautiful light brown colour.

While his later works are admittedly more frequently faulty in form and draftsmanship than those of his earlier period, some of them at least ( the Bride's Toilet, 1837, for instance ) show a true gain and development in power of handling, and in mastery over complex and forcible colour harmonies.

While exposing his second spectrogram, he noticed " a marked increase in the brightness of the central region and an unusual white colour.

While the Millennium train concept is an evolution of the Tangara concept ( manufactured by Goninan ), the Millennium train introduced new features such as internal electronic destination indicators, automated digital voice announcements ( DVA ) for upcoming stops, a return to reversible seating, surveillance cameras, wider stairways, a new safety yellow colour scheme, and push-button opened internal doors.

While VHS and Beta tapes have a break-off tab to protect recordings from erasure ( as in audio Compact Cassettes and, once broken, the cavity left by the missing tab must be covered or filled before the tape can be reused ), VCCs employ a more elegant solution: a switch on the tape edge can be turned to red to protect the recordings, and back to black / brown ( depending on the colour of the cassette housing ) to re-record.