While the battle raged in the bay, the two straggling British ships made strenuous efforts to join the engagement, focusing on the flashes of gunfire in the darkness.

While both types of gun were effective against wooden ships, neither had the capability to pierce the armour of ironclads ; due to reports of slight problems with the breeches of the Armstrong gun, and their higher cost, the older muzzle-loaders were selected to remain in service, instead.

While the matter is being discussed, the Saxons board their ships, and, leaving their wives and children behind, set sail back to Germania.

While Ibn Battuta visited a mosque on shore, a storm arose and one of the ships of his expedition sank.

While most large, modern cruise ships cannot pass through this canal due to clearance limits under bridges, MS Norwegian Dream has special funnels and masts that can be lowered for passage.

While most longships held a length to width ratio of 7: 1, the Karvi ships were closer to 4. 5: 1.

While earlier times had seen larger and taller longships in service, by this time the authorities had also gone over to other types of ships for warfare.

While the ports of Burlington, Vermont ; Port Henry, New York ; and Plattsburgh, New York are little used nowadays except by small craft, ferries and lake cruise ships, they had substantial commercial and military importance in the 18th and 19th centuries.

While under his leadership Naval construction yards produced fewer ships than the 1970s, greater emphasis was placed on technology and qualitative improvement.

While a diplomatic conference is hosted by Earth on the planet Babel, Romulans, using drone ships with holographic emitters ( mimicking any ship ) stir up trouble with the Andorians and Tellarites.

While the battleship had evolved primarily around engagements between armoured ships with large-caliber guns, the torpedo allowed torpedo boats and other lighter surface ships, submersibles, even ordinary fishing boats or frogmen, and later, aircraft, to destroy large armoured ships without the need of large guns, though sometimes at the risk of being hit by longer-range shellfire.

While reactor accidents have not sunk any US Navy ships or submarines, two nuclear-powered submarines, and were lost at sea.

While battles at sea were rare, they would occasionally occur when Viking ships attempted to board European merchant vessels in Scandinavian waters.

* While trying to enter by surprise in the harbor of Ceuta to sink Muslim ships, the Portuguese admiral D. Fuas Roupinho is spotted and killed.

While paddles and sails are still used on some smaller boats, most modern ships are propelled by mechanical systems consisting a motor or engine turning a propeller, or less frequently, in jet drives, an impeller.

While the ships first appear with a red and grey Republic color scheme, the Venator at the movie's end is gray and white ; this lack of color signifies the Empire's rise to power.

While Bell had hoped his new Photophone could be used by ships at sea and to also displace the plethora of telephone lines that were blooming along busy city boulevards, his design failed to protect its transmissions from outdoor interferences such as clouds, fog, rain, snow and such, that could easily disrupt the transmission of light.

While this technique makes the assumption that artists scaled the models appropriately, it is useful to get some sense of how large these ships and boats may have been in real life.

While Roberval waited for artillery and supplies, he gave permission to Cartier to sail on ahead with his ships.

While this put Thrawn in a strong position, he was confronted by the Imperial Navy's lack of ships.

While political intrigues on Coruscant delayed a Republic response, Thrawn seized all but 21 of the ships, and crewed them with his massive new army of clones.

While waiting for the other ships, Grenville established relations with the Spanish there while simultaneously engaging in some privateering against them, and also built a fort.

While most of his beliefs were still unsettled, he knew that he did not believe in killing.

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

While observing the operations of our Government in various parts of the world, I have felt that in many situations where our policies were good we have tended to ignore minor problems which spoiled our main effort.

While expensive in time and involving a great deal of adaptation on the part of the worker ( in terms of his willingness to leave the sanctity of his office and enter actively into the client's life ), techniques of accompaniment were found to be of tremendous value when in the service of specific preventive objectives.

While they were told that there were some normal people who reacted differently than they had, they were also informed that there were other normals who reacted as they had.

While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.

While the factories were always the center of the labor market, they were often on the city's periphery.

While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.

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 neighbor women assumed some of the dead mother's duties, fund-raising events were being planned by a homeowners association and a student council for the hard-hit Henry Kowalski family, 34220 Viceroy.

While Communists were undermining United Nations efforts to rescue the Congo from chaos, two other Communist offensives stirred the Eisenhower Administration into emergency conferences and serious decisions.

While Republicans were discouraged, Democrats were energized and did especially well in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and New York.

While Durkheim and others examined the state of modern societies, Mauss and his collaborators ( such as Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz ) drew on ethnography and philology to analyze societies that were not as ' differentiated ' as European nation states.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

While White and Black children were both instructed in ASL, only Black teachers were permitted to instruct Black deaf children.

While it would be rash to assert positively that no existing gems were the work of Gnostics, there is no valid reason for attributing any or all of them to such an origin.

While at Jerusalem, Absalom built support for himself among the populace by promising justice for all " if only I were appointed judge in the land ", and by showing humility by kissing those who approached him rather than accepting supplication.

While a principle-based approach might claim that lying is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, lying might or might not be illegal or unethical.

While the condemned is lying on a bench, a device holds an axe head in position above the neck.

While in 1950 agriculture and farming shaped the landscape of the territory ( 42. 4 % of the working force vs 30. 5 % in industry and construction ), the trend shifted gradually during the 60s and 70s on the grounds of a growing industrial activity in the Alavese Plains ( Llanada Alavesa ), with the main focus lying on the industrial estates of Vitoria-Gasteiz ( Gamarra, Betoño and Ali Gobeo ) and, to a lesser extent, Salvatierra-Agurain and Araia.

While lying on the beach, Jane plays in the sand while Blanche lies there wrapped in a blanket.

" While hunting along Sucker Creek, he discovered gold lying on the ground.

While Paret was lying on the floor being attended to Griffith told a television interviewer " I'm very proud to be the welterweight champion again ... and I hope Paret is feeling very good.

While shooting the scene where Vivian is lying down on the floor of Edward's penthouse, watching re-runs of I Love Lucy, in order to achieve a genuine laughter, Garry Marshall had to tickle Roberts's feet ( out of camera range ) to get her to laugh so hysterically, which is featured in the film.

* While attempting to emulate Spider-Man, Monty was bitten by a radioactive ladybug and became Ladybugman, whose superpowers include ladybug senses ( the ability to sense when and where rainbows will form, which caterpillars are aggressive, when a leprechaun is lying, and when somebody is crabby and needs a nap ), a hard shell, the ability to sew, the ability to instill guilt in others, the ability to flutter through the air, and the ability to emit a malodorous fluid (" Actually ... he's always had that ability "-Dave-7 ).

While in the process of developing his Reiki system, Usui summarised some of the emperor's works into a set of ethical principles ( called the " Concepts " 概念 Gainen ), which later became known as the Five Reiki Precepts ( 五戒 Gokai, meaning " The Five Commandments ", from the Buddhist teachings against killing, thievery, sexual misconduct, lying, and intemperance ).

While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws ; the greatest of these is an almost pathological delight in lying, even when it cannot benefit her.

While she showed to the heroes the way to the nearest well, she left the child behind lying in a meadow, which during her absence was killed by a dragon.

While his reasons for leading a military expedition south remain unclear, it seems that he wanted to seal his newly secured grip on Burgundy, now threatened by Umayyad occupation of several cities lying in the lower Rhone, or maybe it provided the excuse he needed to intervene in this territory ruled by Gothic and Roman law, far off from the Frankish centre in the north of Gaul.

While in a local diner, Callahan sees a bank robbery in progress and, alone with his revolver, he kills two of the robbers and wounds a third, challenging the man lying near a loaded shotgun:

While lying in the sun on May 30, 2002, Barker experienced a stroke, and was hospitalized ; six weeks later, on July 11, Barker underwent prostate surgery.

While Shelley's " vast and trunkless legs of stone " owe more to poetic license than to archaeology, the " half sunk ... shattered visage " lying on the sand is an accurate description of part of the wrecked statue.

While women are comforting Djula and start singing again, he slides down from a big haystack on which he has been lying unnoticed – as if he fell from the sky.

While loading a general cargo vessel, they use dunnage, which are pieces of wood ( or nowadays sometimes strong inflatable dunnage bags ) set down to keep the cargo out of any water that might be lying in the hold or are placed as shims between cargo crates for load securing.

While cleaning out her hideaway ( an old janitor's closet ), Andy confronts her, accusing her of lying about the rape.

While lying on the ground waiting for an ambulance he said to his platoon sergeant: " Kiss me, Chudleigh.

While lying down in the back seat Meazza told them of love filled night and said he felt like a lion.

While they are waiting, the children occupy themselves by continuing to investigate the knick-knacks lying around the cave, some of which seem to be connected to the V. F. D.

While the basic space-like passage of a static black hole cannot be traversed, Penrose diagrams for rotating and / or electrically charged black holes reveal " inner event horizons " ( lying in the future ) and vertically oriented singularities, which open up what is known as a " time-like wormhole " allowing passage into future universes.

While lying on the ground, he urged his platoon on, until he was carried off to an aid station.