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While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.
While they were told that there were some normal people who reacted differently than they had, they were also informed that there were other normals who reacted as they had.
While the interpretations that have been given are inferences only, they gain support from such comments as the following, which was made by one of the Kohnstamm-negative subjects who did not, on the first trial, perceive the tilt illusion.
While high anxiety children achieve significantly less well ( Af ) in the unstructured school than do low anxiety children, they appear to do at least as well as the average in the structured classroom.
While the particular limits of these groupings may seem artificially arbitrary, they do fairly express a corresponding grouping of more variable material, and they eventuate also in five classes, along a similar scale, containing approximately equal numbers of cases, namely 19, 14, 15, 11, 12 in Athabascan.
While costs on this order are sometimes separately charged for in residential and commercial rates, in the form of a mere `` service charge '', they are more frequently wholly or partly covered by a minimum charge which entitles the consumer to a very small amount of gas or electricity with no further payment.
While the factories were always the center of the labor market, they were often on the city's periphery.
While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.
While they were away Blanche came into the office every morning, running things as she had always run them for Stanley, going through the week in a dazed stupor, getting things done automatically, out of habit.
The Japanese want to increase exports to the U.S. While they have been curbing shipments, they have watched Hong Kong step in and capture an expanding share of the big U.S. market.
While in Asia, Aristotle traveled with Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos, where together they researched the botany and zoology of the island.
) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.
While the two are heading a caravan from Salalah, Oman, they cross the border into Yemen and find the unexplored desert area that the Necronomicon calls " Roba el Ehaliyeh " or " Roba el Khaliyeh " — presumably a reference to the Empty Quarter or " Rub al Khali ".
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 many of Alcott's ideas continue to be perceived as being on the liberal / radical edge, they are still common themes in society, including vegetarian / veganism, sustainable living, and temperance / self-control.
While both the Anglo-Saxons and the Danes attacked settlements to seize wealth and other resources, they employed very different strategies.
While AA has pamphlets that suggest meeting formats, groups have the autonomy to hold and conduct meetings as they wish " except in matters affecting other groups or A. A. as a whole ".
While comparatively inefficient for low speed use, they are very lightweight and powerful, capable of generating large accelerations and of attaining extremely high speeds with reasonable efficiency.
While in the southern colonies, they could farm almost year round, in the northern colonies, the growing seasons were very restricted.
While they can be a human safety hazard, it is productive for these ecosystems to burn out every once in a while so that new organisms can begin to grow and thrive.

While and are
While white is the coolest summer shade, there are lots of pastel hues along with tintable fabrics that will blend with any wardrobe color.
While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.
While there are now allegations of the withholding of `` favorable evidence developed at the hearing '' and a denial of a `` full and fair hearing '', no such claim was made by petitioner at any stage of the administrative process.
While 2-year-olds are still gaining most of the attention at the track, green horses are starting to go a bit, and Jimmy Cruise has several that can really make it.
While individual sportsmen are aware of this situation, too many of our political, social, educational and even religious leaders too often forget it.
While some suppression and some denial are not only necessary but healthy, the worker's clinical knowledge must determine how these defenses are being used, what healthy shifts in defensive adaptation are indicated, and when efforts at bringing about change can be most effectively timed.
While there are many different possibilities for the timing of casework intervention, the experiments recently reported from a variety of traditional settings all point up the importance of an immediate response to the client's initial need for help.
While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.
While ATP appears to be necessary for the occurrence of contraction, its presence and enzymatic hydrolysis of it by the muscle protein myosin are not the only criteria for contraction.
While there are still many bugs to be ironed out, the technique is fast developing.
While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.
Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.
While patent suits are still among the most complex and expensive forms of litigation, these rules have saved litigants uncounted sums of money.
While details are still to be worked out, Ratcliff said he expects to tell home folks in Dallas why he thinks Berry's proposed constitutional amendment should be rejected.
While availability of mortgage money has been a factor in encouraging apartment construction, the generally high level of prosperity in the past few years plus rising consumer income are among the factors that have encouraged builders to concentrate in the apartment-building field.
While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.
While we are filling outer space with scientific successes, for many the `` inner '' space of their soul is an aching void.
While there is general agreement on these six families, there are some points of disagreement among linguists who study Afroasiatic.
While most alphabets have letters composed of lines ( linear writing ), there are also exceptions such as the alphabets used in Braille, fingerspelling, and Morse code.

While and port
While Duck Hunt does not have a traditional multiplayer mode, the manual states that a second player may plug in a standard NES controller in the other controller port and control the duck that appears.
While this port shares the FMV scenes and most of the Redbook audio music from the other CD-ROM versions, it has some new music tracks.
While a home video game also titled Street Fighter: The Movie was released for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn, it is not a port but a separately produced game based on the same premise.
While in port, Harding reviewed the U. S. naval fleet and visited the Bell Street Pier.
While the British maintained their forces spread across the Caribbean between Portobelo and Cartagena, in Spain there was an event that would have a decisive value after: started from the gallego port of Ferrol Galicia vessels and San Carlos carrying Lieutenant General of the Royal Armies gift Sebastián de Eslava y Lazaga would replace Don Pedro Hidalgo as governor of Cartagena de Indias.
While such interfaces as Ethernet, FireWire, and USB all send data as a serial stream, the term " serial port " usually identifies hardware more or less compliant to the RS-232 standard, intended to interface with a modem or with a similar communication device.
While once a major port, it is now two miles from the sea, its historic centre preserved.
While Skylab already featured a second docking port, it were these two Salyut stations that would become the first that actually utilized two docking ports: This made it possible for two Soyuz spacecraft to dock at the same time for crew exchange of the station and for Progress spacecraft to resupply the station, allowing for the first time a continuos (" permanent ") occupation of space stations.
While Miletus was apparently still open then, according to recent geoarchaeological research Priene had already lost the port and open connection to the sea in about the 1st century BCE.
While the port of Redwood City, to the south, and the town of Belmont, to the north, both grew quickly in the late 19th century, San Carlos ' growth was much slower.
While poised to grow, river access to the community was stymied by a massive and ancient log jam in the river which prevented large ships from being able to port.
While the grapes used to produce port produced in Portugal are strictly regulated by the Instituto do Vinho do Porto, wines from outside this region which describe themselves as port may be made from other varieties.
While port is produced from grapes grown in the Douro valley, until 1986 it could only be exported from Portugal from Vila Nova de Gaia near Porto, Portugal's second-largest city.
While crusted port is required to be aged in bottle for at least three years before it is released to the market, most producers keep the bottles for considerably longer ; so they are ready to be drunk when sold, and may be enjoyed by consumers who have no space to cellar bottles.
While it is by far the most renowned type of port, from a volume and revenue standpoint, vintage port actually makes up only a small percentage of the production of most shippers.
While a vintage is simply the year in which a wine is made, most producers of vintage port restrict their production of year-labeled bottlings to only the best years, a few per decade.
While all versions were nearly identical in terms of gameplay, the EGA PC port had upgraded graphics ( there was also a CGA version ), although the C64 boasted the best sound.
While the intro is removed from this port, the intro music is still in this port.
While cyclists were free to pass through the port zone, she was arrested and detained because she was a pedestrian and under suspicion of being a terrorist.
" While many Lancaster B. IIs had retained the FN64 ventral turret, a small number of Halifax and Lancaster bombers were unofficially fitted with a single machine gun installation in either a ventral turret or a makeshift port directly under the mid-upper gunner station.
While the canal helped shape the communities around it in a number of ways, its plan came too late to influence the development of port facilities further south, which were already committed to a course of growth centered on the railroads.
While in the Navy, Wilson's commanders reported that he was the " best officer on ship but the worst in port.

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