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 the tiny gap between cylinder and barrel on most revolvers is insignificant to the internal ballistics, the seal is especially effective when used with a suppressor, and a number of suppressed Nagant revolvers have been used since its invention.

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 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 opinions and speculation abound on exact reasons for standardized paper sizes, the most revealing feature of popular sizes ( such as Letter and ISO 216 sizes ) is that they conform not to some arbitrary device dimension, but that the length of the paper is chosen to be the width of the page times the square root of two (≈ 1. 414 ).

While paper sizes " may " have been chosen based on the size of original frames, the frames themselves were chosen to make page reduction efficient without distorting the aspect ratio of the pages regardless of final size chosen.

While larger fluorescent lamps have been mostly used in commercial or institutional buildings, the compact fluorescent lamp is now available in the same popular sizes as incandescents and is used as an energy-saving alternative in homes.

While at one time or another a variety of medium format film sizes were produced, today the vast majority of medium format film is produced in the 6 cm 120 and 220 sizes.

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 the colours and sizes of all of the new notes are the same as previous designs, text on the notes is larger than before.

While S gauge is fairly consistent at 1: 64 scale, O gauge trains represent a variety of sizes.

While they often showed relative sizes, these models were usually not built to scale.

While the original flavor introduced in 1845 was licorice, since then the company has begun to produce Twizzlers in strawberry, chocolate, cherry, and watermelon flavors, and a variety of shapes and sizes.

While no single dimensional standard governs pallet production, a few different sizes are widely used.

While sizes of children's, men's and women's shoes can be compared directly, this is not necessarily true for different types of shoes that require a different amount of " wiggle room.

While a 22. 25 mm was common in the first modern prostheses, now even larger sizes are available 38 – 54 +.

While they also make action figures in a variety of sizes, as well as banks, busts, statues and prop replicas, many of their licensed properties are released in the form of Minimates, which has helped make Minimates one of the most prolific and diverse block figure toy lines in the world.

While the board sizes have to be 6 × 6, 8 × 8, 10 × 8, 10 × 10 or 12 × 8 and the pieces in a custom variant have to be chosen from a limited list, this allows ChessV to play hundreds or thousands of variants of each game it directly supports.

While in the dark, Jackie can summon countless legions of Darklings and incredibly strong tentacles of various shapes and sizes to eviscerate his opponents, interact with or manipulate the environment, and lift large objects such as vehicles and throw them across long distances with great speed and force.

While the timbre of the E tubax is more focused and compact than that of the full-sized contrabass saxophone, it still blends well with other sizes of saxophones and can be played with great agility due to its air-efficient bore design.

While each has unique features, generally they include: shaped trees, landscape elements from mountains through hills, various sizes of rivers or streams to scale, small circular ponds, larger ponds with islands within them, stands of bamboo, " rockeries " or

While most collets are hardened, " emergency " collets are available that can be machined to special sizes or shapes by the user.

The hypothesis itself is as follows: “ animals of different sizes tend to move in dynamically similar fashion whenever the ratio of their speed allows it .” While the dynamic similarity hypothesis may not be a truly unifying principle of animal gait patterns, it is a remarkably accurate heuristic.

While feature sizes may be drawn as 65 nm or less, the wavelengths of light used for lithography are 193 nm and 248 nm.

While section 3's reach has been expanded to cover the sizes of constituencies, it has not been extended to guarantee the right to vote in a referendum.