While they have a total of of shoreline, measured along the outer edge of the reef, there are no ports or harbors, only offshore anchorage.

While the brown bear's range has shrunk and it has faced local extinctions, it remains listed as a least concern species by the IUCN with a total population of approximately 200, 000.

While there is not a large body of academic work examining the relationship, Hironaka's statistical study found a correlation that suggests that every major international anti-secessionist declaration increased the number of ongoing civil wars by + 10 %, or a total + 114 % from 1945 to 1997.

While the popular vote total was close, with Cleveland winning by just one-quarter of a percent, the electoral votes gave Cleveland a majority of 219 – 182.

While there are 68 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ), 162 of 177 medals at the IIHF World Championships have been taken by these seven nations: Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States.

While European immigrants accounted for nearly 60 % of the total foreign population in 1970, they accounted for only 15 % in 2000.

While the Hungarian team narrowly missed winning the Bronze medal, Polgár finished 10 / 13 for the second highest points total of any player in the Olympiad and a rated performance level of 2772.

While early scholars considered the Testimonium to be a total forgery, the majority of modern scholars consider it partially authentic, despite some clear Christian interpolations in the text.

While the content of the letters was subtle in their inferred goal of securing his authority, when read in total, his goal becomes more obvious:

While meetings of collective organs, such as the Politburo, could become very lively, the liveliness always ended when Stalin entered the discussions – he was in total control.

While all primitive recursive functions are total, this is not true of partial recursive functions ; for example, the minimisation of the successor function is undefined.

The Bills and the Giants entered the game using contrasting styles: While the Bills led the league in total points scored ( 428 ), the Giants led the league in fewest points allowed ( 211 ).

While an urban legend, a 1999 television documentary, part of the Modern Marvels ' Engineering Disasters sub-series, argued that — even if there was no specific plan to make alcohol to beat Prohibition — there may have been some general idea of increasing the volume at the last minute so as to prepare in case total alcohol prohibition might occur.

While this is intuitively false and is also false according to Carnap's theory of induction, observing non-ravens ( according to that same theory ) causes us to reduce our estimate of the total number of ravens, and thereby reduces the estimated number of possible counterexamples to the rule that all ravens are black.

While crustaceans composed only 4. 5 % of the total marine products in 2004 by volume, they accounted for 21 % of the total value.

While Pol Pot was in power, between one and three million people died out of a total population of eight million.

According to OECD, " While European-born immigrants accounted for nearly 60 % of the total foreign-born population in 1970, they accounted for only 15 % in 2000.

While such claims are denied by Toshiba, they have agreed to settle alongside several other manufacturers for a total of $ 571 million.

While its oil reserves in the North Sea are of little importance, the Netherlands is presently the second largest natural gas producer in Europe and the ninth in the world, accounting for more than 30 % of EU total annual gas production and about 2. 7 % of the annual world total.

While the number of marine mammals is small compared to those found on land, their total biomass is large.

While the POWER6 features a dual-core processor, each capable of two-way simultaneous multithreading ( SMT ), the IBM POWER7 processor has eight cores, and four threads per core, for a total capacity of 32 simultaneous threads.

While the adult human skull is about 1 / 8 of the total body length, the newborn's is about 1 / 4.

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 both sexes state that kindness is the most preferable trait in a partner there is some evidence that men place less value on this than women and that women may not be more altruistic in presence of an attractive man.

While humans and other organisms generally place less value on future costs / benefits as compared to those in the present, some have shorter time horizons than others and these people tend to be less cooperative.

While some purists consider luck not to be a desirable component of a game, others counter that elements of luck can make for far more diverse and multi-faceted strategies, as concepts such as expected value and risk management must be considered.

While the mass of a black hole can take any positive value, the charge and angular momentum are constrained by the mass.

While long integrated into Kei Island society, residents of these settlements continue to value the historical origins of their ancestors.

While Clausewitz was intensely aware of the value of intelligence at all levels, he was also very skeptical of the accuracy of much military intelligence: " Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory ; even more are false, and most are uncertain ....

While Ricardo accepted Smith's labour theory of value, he acknowledged that utility could influence the price of some rare items.

While Scandinavian sagas describe events in 9th century Britain, their value as sources of historical narrative, rather than documents of social history, is disputed.

While Scandinavian sagas describe events in 10th-century Britain, their value as sources of historical narrative, rather than documents of social history, is disputed.

While the increased numbers of malaria victims since DDT usage collapsed document its value, many other factors contributed to the rise in cases.

While there is no scientific basis in Darwinism for the Darwin Awards, the stories are nevertheless entertaining, and can be thought of as an example of schadenfreude – deriving entertainment value out of the misfortune of others.

While this may result in some loss of specificity, the remaining element value ( without the qualifier ) should continue to be generally correct and useful for discovery.

While ecosystem goods have traditionally been recognized as being the basis for things of economic value, ecosystem services tend to be taken for granted.

While many have shared Burckhardt's assessment, particularly with reference to the Life of Constantine, others, while not pretending to extol his merits, have acknowledged the irreplaceable value of his works which may principally reside in the copious quotations that they contain from other sources, often lost.

However, these images are still mediated by the same factors as traditional film, such as the “ moving camera, composition, editing, lighting, and all varieties of sound .” While acknowledging the value in inserting positive representations of women in film, some critics asserted that real change would only come about from reconsidering the role of film in society, often from a semiotic point of view.

While wideband FM uses more bandwidth, it can improve the signal-to-noise ratio significantly ; for example, doubling the value of, while keeping constant, results in an eight-fold improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio.

While the soft value of ⟨ g ⟩ varies in different Romance languages ( in French and Portuguese, in Catalan, in Italian and Romanian, and in Castilian Spanish, and in other dialects of Spanish ), in all except Romanian and Italian, soft ⟨ g ⟩ has the same pronunciation as the ⟨ j ⟩.

While a large number of 20th century biblical critics argue that the teaching found in John does not go back to the historical Jesus, they usually agree that gospel is not entirely without historical value.

While this does not lessen the actual value of a currency, it is called redenomination or revaluation and also happens over time in countries with standard inflation levels.

While a large linear table seems a bit arcane, it can be of great value, as one can quickly search without wandering across the disk ( thus reducing seek time ).

While useful, even crucial to the production process, these bring no value to that process.

* Diversification: While this may hedge a company against a downturn in an individual industry it fails to deliver value, since it is possible for individual shareholders to achieve the same hedge by diversifying their portfolios at a much lower cost than those associated with a merger.

While all normal play impartial games can be assigned a nim value, that is not the case under the misère convention.