While Portuguese and Spanish activity in the region had weakened, the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands, ten to twenty kilometres from the main Banda Islands.

While known for most elements, either or both of these measurements is still undetermined for some of the radioactive elements available in only tiny quantities.

While there are alleged non-physical differences between men and women, major reviews of the academic literature on gender difference find only a tiny minority of characteristics where there are consistent psychological differences between men and women, and these relate directly to experiences grounded in biological difference.

While many of the world's flowers are pollinated by bees ( Hymenoptera ) or butterflies / moths ( Lepidoptera ), cacao flowers are pollinated by tiny flies, Forcipomyia midges in the order Diptera.

While the government provided tools and materials and their work was managed by agencies such as the Soil Conservation or Forest Service, " the historic peace churches funded all the expenses for the men, including food, administrative costs, and a tiny monthly stipend of $ 2. 50.

While Ohiopyle has a tiny year-round population, it is often filled with tourists on the weekend, who come take advantage of outdoor recreation opportunities at the surrounding Ohiopyle State Park.

While still a student, Harris rented the tiny " off-West End " Irving Theatre, and there directed his own production of Clifford Odets's play Winter Journey ( The Country Girl ).

While on one hand the Heian period was indeed an unusually long period of peace, it can also be argued that the period weakened Japan economically and led to poverty for all but a tiny few of its inhabitants.

While his reign never achieved the grandeur of his father, Louis II left an indelible imprint on the tiny principality.

While larger companies like Opel and VW took advantage of economies of scale and kept their prices low to gain market share, Borgward's cost structure was even higher than necessary for its size, as it basically operated as four tiny independent companies and never implemented such basic cost reduction strategies as joint development and parts sharing between the company's makes.

While the tiny sizes of most micrometeoroids limits the damage incurred, the high velocity impacts will constantly degrade the outer casing of spacecraft in a manner analogous to sandblasting.

While convincing Philip Baker Hall to do the film by explaining the significance of the rain of frogs, the actor told him a story about when he was in the mountains of Italy and got caught in bad weather — a mix of rain, snow and tiny frogs.

* While cantennas are useful for extending a wireless local area network ( WLAN ), the tiny design makes them ideal for mobile applications such as wardriving.

While there, Rabin invented the Miller-Rabin primality test, a randomized algorithm that can determine very quickly ( but with a tiny probability of error ) whether a number is prime.

While the Higgs field is postulated to confer mass on quarks and leptons, it causes only a tiny portion of the masses of other subatomic particles, such as protons and neutrons.

While they are waiting, Ms Frizzle accidentally pushes a small lever which turns the bus into a tiny beehive and the class ( including Ms Frizzle ) into bees.

While Chiao unraveled various lengths of cable from a caddy device, Barry spent time practicing the hookup of the various cables in the rigid umbilical to connectors in the bay, testing his ability to manipulate tiny bolts and screws in weightlessness.

While reading each page of a script, Amanda Conner does tiny thumbnail sketches with stick figures corresponding to the story indicated on each page, in order to help her design the page's layout.

" While his unusual physique was considered an oddity at the time, his large head, tiny feet, short legs and broad, flat face are now recognized as hallmarks of the Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

While not the first fuel-injected car-Mercedes engineers who had developed the principle for the DB 601 fighter aircraft engine had used fuel injection in the tiny 2-stroke Gutbrod they had designed after the War-it was the first to inject fuel directly into the cylinders.

While Luigi made few demands on him, allowing him considerable time for his own musical pursuits, he paid him the tiny salary of only five scudi a month, about which Marenzio complained in the dedication ( to Bianca Capello, Grand Duchess of Tuscany ) of his Libro terzo a sei ( 1585 ).

While he and Hata were the most experienced administrators, they decided to name Morihiro Hosokawa, leader of the tiny Japan New Party, as coalition leader.

While many kits were sold they often proved to be beyond the abilities of most homebuilders to complete and even when finished the tiny aircraft require a very competent pilot to fly them safely.

While the two are apparently not related as they have different surnames, they do look like identical twins and can only be told apart by the shape of their moustaches ( Thomson's moustache flares out a tiny bit on each side at the bottom ).

While the traditional snail mail pen pal relationship has fallen into a decline due to modern technology closing the world's communication gap, prison pen pal services have combined technology with traditional letter writing.

While Kombo editor David Oxford commented that some people felt Waluigi was an unoriginal character intended to " fill a gap no one ever saw ", he found Waluigi to be one of the " funniest characters in the franchise.

While as many as 25 businesses operated within " the gap ", as locals commonly refer to it, the population and the business activity slowly dwindled to roughly nine businesses in 1980 and a population of 269 in 1990.

While the surcoat was being phased out, small plates of various forms and sizes ( and not always made in pairs, i. e., the plate for the sword-arm often being smaller and lighter than its the one for the off-hand ) were attached to the armour in front of the shoulders, to defend the otherwise vulnerable points where the plate defenses left a gap.

While men in the trenches could fire through a gap beneath the palings of the palisade, others on an earth bank behind the trenches could fire through gaps in the palings, while a third line of fire could be effected from the taumaihi.

However, the gap between rich and poor widened in most nations-the OECD journalist resource ( 2011-05 ) entitled " Growing Income Inequality in OECD Countries " states that with the exceptions of only France, Japan and Spain, wages of the 10 % best-paid workers have risen relative to those of the 10 % least-paid workers and the differential between the top and bottom 10 % varies greatly from country to country: “ While this ratio is much lower in the Nordic countries and in many continental European countries, it rises to around 14 to 1 in Israel, Turkey and the United States, to a high of 27 to 1 in Chile and Mexico .”

While UK and EU law presently only allow promotion of underrepresented groups if a candidate is equally qualified, there is an ongoing debate whether more “ positive action ” measures should be implemented, particularly to tackle the gender pay gap.

While Labour did retain its lead, the gap between Labour and National closed by a larger extent than the seat count would indicate.

While King Frederick and General von Zieten reorganised the Prussian infantry in the south for another attack, the generals Hautcharmoy and Bevern spotted the gap in the Austrian line and started to filter infantry into the gap.

While James Clerk Maxwell was the first person to prove electromagnetic waves existed, in 1887 a German named Heinrich Hertz demonstrated these new waves by using spark gap equipment to transmit and receive radio or " Hertzian waves ", as they were first called.

While the material which makes up a quantum dot defines its intrinsic energy signature, the nanocrystal's quantum confined size is more significant at energies near the band gap.

While the neighbouring 80th Brigade stopped the advance, the 84th Brigade was broken giving a two mile gap in the line.

While SAM's collections of modern and ethnic art are notable, its collection of more-traditional European painting and sculpture is quite thin, and the Museum relies on traveling exhibitions rather than its own collection to fill that notable gap.

While often referred to as the Battle of the Falaise Gap, Saint-Lambert was the last village in the narrowing gap between the Canadians and Polish forces advancing southwards from Falaise and Trun, and the American and Free French forces pushing northwards from Argentan and Chambois.

:" While the type is identified as Homo erectus, there are modifications that suggest it is filling a gap between Homo erectus and the Neanderthal.

While the gap was partially filled by non-state stores which started to appear in the mid 1980s, the prices in non-state stores were often 5-10 times higher than in state stores and were often out of reach for the general population.

While 14 clubs is a maximum, it is not a minimum ; players are free to use any lesser number of clubs they think will be useful, so substitutions for the common omissions above are not always made ; a player may simply choose to play without a 5-wood or 2-4 irons, instead using a 4-wood and moving directly to their 5-iron as desired distance decreases ( a 4-wood in a skilled golfer's hands averages 200 yards ; a 5-iron in the same player's hands would be about 160, which is a large gap but not unplayable ).

While admitting that Epistle to Diognetus does not contain the only quotation known from Quadratus ' address, Holmes defends this identification by noting " there is a gap between 7. 6 and 7. 7 into which it would fit very well.

While lattice computations have suggested that Yang-Mills theory indeed has a mass gap and a tower of excitations, a theoretical proof is still missing.

While this article focuses on the achievement gap in the United States, various gaps exist between groups in other nations as well.

While results differ depending on the instrument, estimates of the black-white gap range from slightly less than half a standard deviation to slightly more than 1 standard deviation.

While the various early systems of spark transmitters worked well enough to prove the concept of wireless telegraphy, the primitive spark gap assemblies used had some severe shortcomings.

While Mrs. Higgin's Singer is nearly 100 years old, the gap between early 20th century and 17th century manufacturing technology and techniques is vast — particularly for under-experienced would-be twin engineers not yet in high school.