While this and the many other theories offer their own measure of plausibility, attesting at least to the wit of later partisans and historians, if not of the French people at the time of this term's origin, " no one of the several theories advanced has afforded satisfaction.

While the term is still widely used by those who keep such animals, it is too ambiguous to be of any scholarly usefulness, especially since the meaning of hawk differs between America and Europe ; thus, the term's propriety ( or lack thereof ) depends entirely upon context.

While popular on the Confederate side during the war, the term's popularity fell in the immediate aftermath of the South's failure to gain independence.

While folk etymology identifies it with " cape ", other suggestions suggest it to be connected to the Latin word caput (" head "), and thus explain it as meaning " chief " or " big head ".

While this Hebrew name is not the etymology of Essaioi / Esseni, the Aramaic equivalent Hesi ' im known from Eastern Aramaic texts has been suggested.

While Delphi is actually related to the word (" womb "), many etiological myths are similarly based on folk etymology ( the term " Amazon ", for example ).

While the etymology is Greek, the oldest extant record of the word itself is the New Latin form ontologia, which appeared in 1606, in the work Ogdoas Scholastica by Jacob Lorhard ( Lorhardus ) and in 1613 in the Lexicon philosophicum by Rudolf Göckel ( Goclenius ); see classical compounds for this type of word formation.

While it is frequently thought that he was the originator of the word, he wrote a short letter in reference to an article in the Oxford English Dictionary etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual inventor .< ref >

While he assembled the accounts of many Western travelers, the author failed to explain the etymology of the term Assassin.

While this was probably just folk etymology made popular by Pliny the Elder, it was well known by the time the term came into common use.

While Karel Čapek's play introduced the word " robot " into languages around the globe but he later wrote a letter to the Oxford English Dictionary of etymology in which he named his brother, painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its true inventor.

While the last element of the city's name comes from Danish ø which means " island " (), the etymology of the first element is uncertain.

While he assembled the accounts of many Western travelers, the author failed to explain the etymology of the term Assassin.

While the name may refer to black and white outfits once worn by European advocates or lawyers, the actual etymology is unknown.

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 primarily known as a poet, he also translated Dante's Divine Comedy, wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, and directed the Bread Loaf Writers ' Conference in Vermont.

While Barton is a common English place-name, the etymology of Barton-on-Sea is unique.

While the exact etymology is unknown, it is possible that the name is derived from several Greek and Latin phrases that meant " the valley of many cellars ".

While by itself the character fěn () means powder, it etymology is probably related to diàn fěn (), which means " starch " the substance from which the noodles are made.

While the term was first described in 1751 as student slang, its etymology is unknown.

While Flip is usually used inoffensively, the folk etymology of the term is that it is an acronym for " fucking little island people " which was allegedly coined by American soldiers during World War II.

While other conditions might be even more effective in bringing about a change from immobility to mobility in Kohnstamm reactivity, it is our hypothesis that all such conditions would have as a common factor the capacity to induce an attitude in the subject which enabled him to divorce himself temporarily from feelings of responsibility for his behavior.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

While the city council suggested that the Legislative Council might perform the review, Mr. Notte said that instead he will take up the matter with Atty. Gen. J. Joseph Nugent to get `` the benefit of his views ''.

While one-third of alternative treatments have some published literature supporting their use, research on alternative medicine is frequently of low quality and methodologically flawed, which might cause these results to be exaggerated.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

While the NA continues to this day, he saw it as a tool to end threats from smaller rivals who might some day want to expand in other territories and threaten his league's dominance.

While many scientific experts might agree on a common definition of the term " coast ", the delineation of the extents of a coast differ according to jurisdiction, with many scientific and government authorities in various countries differing for economic and social policy reasons.

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 this might suggest that the Earth is at the center of the Universe, the Copernican principle requires us to interpret it as evidence for the evolution of the Universe with time: this distant light has taken most of the age of the Universe to reach and shows us the Universe when it was young.

While cyberspace should not be confused with the Internet, the term is often used to refer to objects and identities that exist largely within the communication network itself, so that a Website, for example, might be metaphorically said to " exist in cyberspace.

While playing golf one afternoon he realized that it might be fun for the kids on his playground if they played " golf " with frisbees.

While the sedimentation event itself might be relatively short-lived, the ecological disruption caused by the mass die off often persists long into the future.

While some other, extinct Homo species might have been ancestors of Homo sapiens, many were likely our " cousins ", having speciated away from our ancestral line.

While some software might always be free, there would be a growing amount of software that was for sale only.

While the gospel is written as a historical narrative, many of the facts portrayed therein are based on previous traditions of the recorded Gospel story and not on what some might consider to be historical record.

While some might argue that, by this logic, humans should also express hairy shoulders given that these body parts would putatively be exposed to similar conditions, the protection of the head, the seat of the brain that enabled humanity to become one of the most successful species on the planet ( and which also is very vulnerable at birth ), was arguably a more urgent issue ( axillary hair in the underarms and groin were also retained as signs of sexual maturity ).

While on the surface it appears the broker represents the buyer ( not the insurance company ), and typically counsels the buyer on appropriate coverage and policy limitations, in the vast majority of cases a broker's compensation comes in the form of a commission as a percentage of the insurance premium, creating a conflict of interest in that the broker's financial interest is tilted towards encouraging an insured to purchase more insurance than might be necessary at a higher price.

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 some family stability might be desirable as helping to keep slaves tractable and pacified, anything approaching a legal marriage was not.

While some individuals might deliberately use a biased sample to produce misleading results, more often, a biased sample is just a reflection of the difficulty in obtaining a truly representative sample.

While maintaining this balance, the amygdala and parahippocampal cortex might be less intensely activated.