While Ignatius of Antioch offers the earliest clear description of monarchial bishops ( a single bishop over all house churches in a city ) he is an advocate of monepiscopal structure rather than describing an accepted reality.

The EPR paper ends by saying: While we have thus shown that the wave function does not provide a complete description of the physical reality, we left open the question of whether or not such a description exists.

While the description of strong and weak interactions within the Standard Model is based on gauge symmetries governed by the simple symmetry groups SU ( 3 ) and SU ( 2 ) which allow only discrete charges, the remaining component, the weak hypercharge interaction is described by an abelian symmetry U ( 1 ) which in principle allows for arbitrary charge assignments.

While these behaviors are not formally part of the job description, performing them can certainly influence performance appraisals.

While Lippman's journalistic philosophy might be more acceptable to government leaders, Dewey's approach is a better description of how many journalists see their role in society, and, in turn, how much of society expects journalists to function.

While microscopy is a central tool in the documentation of biological specimens, it is, in general, insufficient to justify the description of a new species based on microscopic investigations alone.

While the original Syriac retained the original description which Mani created, the transformation of the deities through other languages and cultures produced incarnations of the deities not implied in the original Syriac writings.

While most specimens are found crushed, enough fossils exist to put together a detailed description of the animal.

While the term refactoring originally referred exclusively to refactoring of software code, in recent years code written in hardware description languages ( HDLs ) has also been refactored.

While they give a general description of the political situation in the region at the time, their information on whether this particular conflict took place is limited.

While Camus acknowledges that Kafka's work represents an exquisite description of the absurd condition, he maintains that Kafka fails as an absurd writer because his work retains a glimmer of hope.

While there, Robert speaks with Mr. Dawson and receives a brief description of all that is known about Lucy's background.

While in many cases a story is cut off with the hero in danger of losing his life or another kind of deep trouble, in some parts of the full text Scheherazade stops her narration in the middle of an exposition of abstract philosophical principles or complex points of Islamic philosophy, and in one case during a detailed description of human anatomy according to Galen — and in all these cases turns out to be justified in her belief that the king's curiosity about the sequel would buy her another day of life.

While the Qur ' anic description of Heaven includes natural imagery, Willey argues that no Nizari fida ' i would seriously believe that he was witnessing Paradise simply by awakening in a beauteous garden.

( 2 ) While one can single out a single thing by a description, this description is not equivalent with a proper name of this thing.

( While the story of Julius Caesar was dramatised repeatedly in the Elizabethan / Jacobean period, none of the other plays known are as good a match with Platter's description as Shakespeare's play.

While matriarchy has mostly fallen out of use for the anthropological description of existing societies, it remains current as a concept in feminism.

While both the ancient Greeks and Romans knew of algae, and the ancient Chinese even cultivated certain varieties as food, the scientific study of algae began in the late 18th century with the description and naming of Fucus maximus ( now Ecklonia maxima ) in 1757 by Pehr Osbeck.

While its origins are disputed, it is " clearly of foreign derivation .... Gifford, in a note in his edition of Ben Jonson, tells us that ' Pimlico is sometimes spoken of as a person, and may not improbably have been the master of a house once famous for ale of a particular description.

While the term ' anticonvulsant ' is a fair description of AEDs, the use of this term tends to lead to confusion between epilepsy and non-epileptic convulsions.

While a clear description of the algorithm on computers appeared in 1946 in an article by John Mauchly, the idea of using a sorted list of items to facilitate searching dates back at least as far as Babylonia in 200 BC.

While the Qur ' anic description of Heaven includes natural imagery, Willey argues that no Nizari fida ’ i would seriously believe that he was witnessing Paradise simply by awakening in a beauteous garden.

While the common meaning of the word " lift " assumes that lift opposes gravity, lift in its technical sense can be in any direction since it is defined with respect to the direction of flow rather than to the direction of gravity.

While there is a real theorem that a random variable will reflect its underlying probability over a very large sample, the law of averages typically assumes that unnatural short-term " balance " must occur.

While Diophantus is concerned largely with rational solutions, he assumes some results on integer numbers ; in particular, he seems to assume that every integer is the sum of four squares, though he never states as much explicitly.

While Cranston travels the world, Allard assumes his identity in New York.

While the state of consecrated life is neither clerical or lay, institutes themselves are classified as one or the other, a clerical institute being one that " by reason of the purpose or design intended by the founder or by virtue of legitimate tradition, is under the direction of clerics, assumes the exercise of sacred orders, and is recognized as such by the authority of the Church ".

While the conventional theory of price discrimination generally assumes that prices are set by the seller, there is a variant form in which prices are set by the buyer, such as in the form of pay what you want pricing.

** While the active partner lies on their back, the man assumes the missionary position but adjusted forward.

While folk etymology sometimes assumes the name is a portmanteau of parsley and turnip, it actually comes from Middle English pasnepe, alteration ( influenced by nep, turnip ) of Old French pasnaie ( now panais ) from Latin pastinum, a kind of fork, whose ending was changed to-nip by analogy with turnip because it was assumed to be a kind of turnip.

While the proof of the existence of a basis for any vector space in the general case requires Zorn's lemma and is in fact equivalent to the axiom of choice, the uniqueness of the cardinality of the basis requires only the ultrafilter lemma, which is strictly weaker ( the proof given below, however, assumes trichotomy, i. e., that all cardinal numbers are comparable, a statement which is also equivalent to the axiom of choice ).

While the gameplay and engine varies between the three different versions, the story is roughly the same: the player assumes the role of Mario, who uses a time machine to return various artifacts, which had been stolen by Bowser, to their correct points in time.

While most of the study of airmail assumes transport by fixed-wing aircraft, the fields of balloon mail, dirigible mail, zeppelin mail, missile mail, and rocket mail are active subspecialties.

While Freudian psychoanalysis assumes that the repressed material hidden in the unconscious is given by repressed sexual instincts, Analytical psychology has a more general approach.

While the story can stand on its own, independent of Matsumoto's other works, it mostly assumes that the viewer has seen the other Harlock titles, especially Galaxy Express 999 ( the TV series and the movies ), which featured Maetel, Emeraldas ' sister, but had the occasional appearance of Emeraldas ( Note: Maetel, for some reason in the English dub is referred to as Mataire, possibly as a translation error ).

While not outrightly disawowing the movement's struggle for land reform as such, it has been noted that Brazilian media assumes a moralizing instance towards the MST: " to deplore the invasion of productive land, the MST's irrationality and lack of responsibility, the ill-using of distributed land parcels and to argue for the existence of alternate peaceful solutions ".

While Geneon Entertainment still retains the license, Funimation Entertainment assumes exclusive rights to the manufacturing, marketing, sales and distribution of select titles.

While initially one of the phantoms projected by the Lotharians to fight off the Green Martian attacks on Lothar, he assumes a corporeal form after Carthoris and Thuvia leave Lothar, and turns out to have been a real Lotharian from the distant past.

While Mallory assumes that Lescovar has recognized him, too, he and Barnsby are nevertheless taken to the partisans.

While running from the police, Violet assumes the following disguises:

While Brook assumes this makes Obadiah Bulan's grandson, the Hebrew phrase is less definitive and may allude to a more remote descent.

While Josephine is waiting for Otis in front of Hitsville, she sees him with another woman, and assumes that they are having an affair, and storms off.

While in the city, Kuros assumes several disguises of wizard, knight, and thief, in order to travel through town undetected and build strength and skill, rescue damsels, and prepare for his battle with Malkil.

While the first assumes the acceptance of Buddhism, the second and third actually oppose it.

While eating, Angela and Gerard tell his parents that they aren't a couple, when his father assumes that the two are.

While in his cell at the police station, Molloy casually mentions that he assumes Homer and the cops probably want to know where he hid all of his loot.