While the arithmetic mean is often used to report central tendencies, it is not a robust statistic, meaning that it is greatly influenced by outliers.

While the amount of winter snowfall varied greatly, the Ancient Pueblo depended on the snow for most of their water.

While manufacturing and service industries are easy to standardize, natural resources vary greatly by region.

While coming to terms with who he was, Mather read Robert Boyle ’ s book “ The Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy .” Mather read Boyle ’ s work closely throughout the 1680s and his early works on science and religion borrowed greatly from it.

While at the close of the First World War the Foreign Legion's prestige was at a high, the Foreign Legion itself had suffered greatly in the trenches of the First World War.

While motivation can often be used as a tool to help predict behavior, it varies greatly among individuals and must often be combined with ability and environmental factors to actually influence behavior and performance.

While many of the World Bank mission's recommendations were much argued both locally and internationally this proposal was widely accepted as it was clear that both political and economic advancement depended on greatly improved land, sea and air transport.

While the light romantic comedy of A Good Year was not greatly received, Crowe seemed pleased with the film, telling STV in an interview that he thought it would be enjoyed by fans of his other films.

While doing laboratory work in biochemistry, Pirsig became greatly troubled by the existence of more than one workable hypothesis to explain a given phenomenon, and, indeed, that the number of hypotheses appeared unlimited.

While Harthacnut was "... a noble knight and stalwart of body, and he greatly loved knighthood and all virtues.

While the productivity of domesticated animal-breeding greatly exceeded that of the settled agricultural societies, the pastoral economy also needed supplemental agricultural produce, and stable nomadic confederations developed either symbiotic or forced alliances with sedentary peoples – in exchange for animal produce and military protection.

While typical owls ( hereafter referred to simply as owls ) vary greatly in size, with the smallest species, the Elf Owl, being a hundred times smaller than the largest, the Eurasian Eagle-Owl and Blakiston's Fish Owl, owls generally share an extremely similar body plan.

While his unaided performance was poor, his enhanced performance riveted the onlookers and greatly impressed Dr. Crusher.

While not strictly evil, Mishibizhiw was greatly feared, and often said to cause drowning deaths.

While greatly influential, including inspiring much of the language of the United States Declaration of Independence, Oliver Cromwell would later have the Leveller leaders executed.

While in late 2009 the civic heart of Cookstown, the Burn Road has benefited greatly from an Environmental Improvement Scheme.

While white flight and other demographic changes in nearby Indianapolis greatly enlarged the city of Carmel and the town of Fishers in Hamilton County, especially since the imposition of Unigov in 1970, Zionsville had remained a much smaller locale until growth began to pick up into the mid to late 1990s.

While the development enjoyed an almost isolated location for many years, real estate development during the 1990s greatly increased the population.

While demand has been trending down in North America in recent years, the rapid economic expansion of such Asian countries as China and India greatly benefited the print newspaper, and thus their newsprint suppliers.

While it is undisputed that his Torah im Derech Eretz was his real innovation, the exact implementation has been greatly debated.

While science fiction and magical realism both bend the notion of what is real, toy with human imagination, and are forms of ( often fantastical ) fiction, they differ greatly.

While seabirds vary greatly in lifestyle, behaviour and physiology, they often exhibit striking convergent evolution, as the same environmental problems and feeding niches have resulted in similar adaptations.

While negative affectivity significantly predicted BPD symptoms, this relationship was greatly reduced when thought suppression was introduced into the model.

While the original 100-m design would not exceed the angular resolving power of interferometric telescopes, it would have exceptional light-gathering and imaging capacity which would greatly increase the depth to which humankind could explore the universe.

While the inclusion of 2600 hardware is required to maintain compatibility with the older system, this drove up production costs and reduced available space on the 7800 ’ s motherboard.

While professional grading has reduced the number of counterfeits foisted upon investors and has improved buyer confidence substantially, the goal of creating a sight-unseen market for coins remains somewhat elusive.

While they are travelling, the distance between successive wave fronts is reduced ; so the waves " bunch together ".

While the community was skeptical that this new method could possibly outperform hand-coding, it reduced the number of programming statements necessary to operate a machine by a factor of 20, and quickly gained acceptance.

While there are many sources of error with performance ratings, error can be reduced through rater training and through the use of behaviorally-anchored rating scales.

While they arise quite naturally when modeling many phenomena, they are particularly useful since many non-linear equations may be reduced to linear equations by assuming that quantities of interest vary to only a small extent from some " background " state.

While Arab Christian families continued to live in Nazareth, its status was reduced to that of a poor village.

While the risk to those working in ceramics is now much reduced, it can still not be ignored.

While long-distance inland calls have been offered by calling cards, by the mid-2000s conventional carriers reduced their rates to be competitive ; however in many countries calling-card type indirect services can be much cheaper than normal calls.

While providing for increased human development, the project both reduced the inflow of freshwater and ended all natural nutrient-rich silt from entering the eastern Mediterranean at the adjacent Nile Delta.

While the Belgian interest soon concentrated on the Congo River, the British and Germans focused on Eastern Africa and in 1886 partitioned continental East Africa between themselves ; the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now reduced to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, remained independent, for the moment.

While this reduced their potential delegate count going into the Democratic National Convention, each of these three candidates hoped that the other leading contenders would stumble in the primaries, thus causing the convention's delegates to choose him as a " compromise " candidate acceptable to all factions of the party.

While Henry was reduced to being a figurehead king, de Montfort broadened representation to include each county of England and many important towns — that is, to groups beyond the nobility.

While it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

While this law reduced the number of people who could be on the city council, the introduction of a secret ballot procedure in 1764 and measures against vote-buying in 1774 allowed more and more non-patrician burghers to join the council.

While almost every airliner will be reduced to scrap ( the exceptions end up as museum pieces or flown by collector groups ) they may pass through many owners before they are retired.

While flowing from the sluices, coarse material is deposited first and then finer material is deposited ( fine material has a slower terminal velocity thus takes longer to settle, see Stoke's Law ) as the flow velocity is reduced towards the center of the dam.

While some of the programs have been eliminated or had their funding reduced, many of them, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Older Americans Act and federal education funding, continue to the present.

While both of their land bases were exceedingly reduced by what would eventually became the state of Connecticut, they continue to exist to the present.

While Menem and de la Rúa simply reduced their funding, Kirchner has effected an " ideological cleansing ", removing a large portion of the top ranks and replacing them with younger leaders with an explicit commitment to preserve human rights and submit to the decisions of the civilian government.

While remaining a fortnightly newspaper, it doubled the number of pages to 16 and reduced to A4 in size, introducing a basic theory section, dedicated business and public sector pages and an increased story count.

While Hasselvander played on the entire album, his contribution was reduced to drums on five songs, with Paul Whaley re-recording the drum parts on the balance of the album.

While this has slightly reduced traffic within the historic town centre, congestion has greatly increased elsewhere.