While the 320 pixel modes theoretically enable the 7800 to create games at higher resolution than the 256 pixel wide graphics found in the Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Master System, the intense processing demands of MARIA typically meant that programmers created their games using the lower 160 pixel modes.

While this was OK for Europe, it meant that GSM could not cover large, sparsely populated rural areas of Australia cost effectively.

While the latter part was a boom and bust cycle, the Internet boom is sometimes meant to refer to the steady commercial growth of the Internet with the advent of the world wide web, as exemplified by the first release of the Mosaic web browser in 1993, and continuing through the 1990s.

While the Finnish political and intellectual elite mostly understood the term to refer more to the foreign policy problems of other countries, and meant mostly for domestic consumption in the speaker's own country, many ordinary Finns considered the term highly offensive.

While the entire metaplot has always been meant to be altered as each play group sees fit, Ascension provided multiple possible endings, with none of them being definitive ( though one was meant to resolve the metaplot ).

While many examples of Chardonnay can benefit from a few years of bottle aging, especially if they have high acidity, most Chardonnays are meant to be consumed in their youth.

While originally meant simply as a neutral ethno-linguistic classification, it was later used for ideologically motivated racism in Nazi and neo-Nazi doctrine, as well as in occultism and white supremacism in particular.

While most treatments are meant for people who have a true disorder, the techniques discussed above will work well for any person dealing with nightmares.

While this meant that offices, such as emperor, king, and elector could only be legally occupied by one dynast at a time, holders of such other titles as duke, margrave, landgrave, count palatine, and prince could only differentiate themselves by adding the name of their appanage to the family's original title.

" While we know this island today as Vancouver Island the English explorer had not intentionally meant to name such a large body of land solely after himself.

While he did check some himself, the sheer number of objects meant Dreyer had to accept them as published for purpose of his compilation.

While the interpretation of this event varied from tribe to tribe, one consensus was universally accepted: the powerful earthquake had to have meant something.

While PS's ability to display fonts on " low resolution " devices was good, " low resolution " meant something on the order of 300 dpi, not the 96 dpi that a NeXT screen used.

While Kennett acceded to their demands, his perceived poor treatment of Savage and Davies in the previous parliament meant that they held a position that they would never agree to support a Liberal Party minority government while Kennett remained leader.

While the Varangian Guard was primarily meant to function as the emperor's bodyguard, Harald was found fighting on " nearly every frontier " of the empire.

While obviously meant to take place in the mid-Fifth century, Foster incorporated anachronistic elements: Viking Longships, Muslims, alchemists and technological advances not made before the Renaissance.

While this has stunted the population growth in a significant way, in the modern day it has meant that many people visit the area to trace their family roots and background.

While dim sum ( literally meaning: touch the heart ) was originally not a main meal, only a snack, and therefore only meant to touch the heart, it is now a staple of Chinese dining culture, especially in Hong Kong.

While solemn vows once meant those taken in what was called a religious order, " today, in order to know when a vow is solemn it will be necessary to refer to the proper law of the institutes of consecrated life.

While much less expensive and more convenient than kinescope, the high cost of 3M Scotch 179 and other early videotapes ($ 300 per one-hour reel ) meant that most broadcasters erased and reused them, and ( in the United States ) regarded videotape as simply a better and more cost-effective means of time-delaying broadcasts than kinescopes.

While Birger's direct involvement in the foundation of the city remains speculative, it probably was no accident it was founded on the location at this time, as there were alternative passages into Mälaren during the preceding Viking Era ; as Crusades, a kind of Viking raids in a Christian disguise, had proven increasingly unsuccessful ; and as taking control over the location, traditionally where men supposedly gathered before the ledung, meant old offensive military traditions could be replaced by more " modern " commercial efforts directed towards Lübeck.

While all other objectives had been achieved, the failure to secure the Arnhem road bridge over the Rhine meant that the operation failed in its ultimate objective.

While Fretilin had sought the return of the Portuguese Governor, pointedly flying the Portuguese flag from government offices, the deteriorating situation meant that it had to make an appeal to the world for international support, independently of Portugal.

While welcomed at first as liberators, the Austrians quickly disenchanted the inhabitants by imposing rigid administrative, fiscal, judicial and political reforms which were meant to centralize and integrate the territory ( antagonizing both ends of the social spectrum: withdrawing privileges from the nobility and enforcing taxes for peasants ).

While long-distance trains can be run by any railway company, the companies also receive no subsidies from the government.

While the capital cost of electrifying track is high, electric trains and locomotives are capable of higher performance and lower operational costs than steam or diesel power.

While previously this station had an infrequent service, there are now some 20 trains per day stopping here.

While the Amtrak ride time is similar to New York and to Philadelphia, the commuter-train ride to New York – via New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor Line — is generally much faster than the equivalent train ride to Philadelphia, which involves a transfer to SEPTA trains in Trenton.

While Wolverine trains are faster, South Shore Lines are cheaper and run more frequently.

While the canal was supplanted by the railroads, the town was bypassed by the trains.

While the station could accommodate diesel trains, the curvature of the tracks as proceeding north to Pleasantville made the construction at Thornwood of an elevated platform, necessary for electric trains, impractical.

While passenger traffic was sparse, the line was heavily used for freight, especially coal, and goods trains ran from the north and East Midlands to the former Marylebone freight depot which used to adjoin the station.

While this took some of the pressure off the route through Rugby, the GN would not allow passengers into London on Midland trains.

: While acting as a volunteer aide, at a critical moment when the lines were broken, rallied enough fugitives to hold the ground under heavy fire long enough to effect the escape of wagon trains and batteries.

While tilting trains had been in development in other countries for some years, and even seen service, so-called ' pendular tilt ' had not been particularly satisfactory.

While the latter and some of the regional trains going to Barcelona have been without service since 20 October 2007.

While locomotive-hauled trains are rarely seen in commuter traffic nowadays, they are still the usual in intercity traffic.

While passenger services no longer operate to Charing Cross on the Jubilee Line, the old line is used regularly to reverse trains when the eastern part of the line is closed due to engineering works.

While the area was under Soviet occupation, Finnish passenger trains running between Helsinki and Turku were still allowed to cross the area, but with windows closed by shutters, and photography prohibited.

While travel on the express train is relatively easy ( it stops only at Oshawa and Dorval ), the 68 and 69 trains can be tedious as they stop at most stations between these two large cities.

While the main section of the line under Nathan Road in Kowloon started service in 1979, trains did not reach Tsuen Wan until 10 May 1982.

While passenger carrying was contracted out, locomotive coal trains were either paid by the ton, contractors providing their own fuel, which meant they tended to use the cargo, or by fixed wages, which meant they did not bother to economise.

While the UK railway system persisted until post-nationalisation in 1948 with " unfitted " ( discontinuously braked ) trains and loose couplings ( the final unfitted trains ran in the 1980s ), other systems, such as the North American adoption of the Janney coupler, overcame the same railway safety issues in a different manner.

While the twice-a-day service on the Ballybrophy / Limerick line is poor, Nenagh is only 37 km from Thurles, which is on the main Dublin / Cork line, and which has around 18 trains daily in each direction, including non-stop services to and from Dublin.

While dining cars are less common today than in the past ( having been supplemented, or in some cases replaced altogether by other types of food-service cars ) they still play a significant role in passenger railroading, especially on medium-and long-distance trains.

While the Epping to Ongar branch was normally operated as an isolated section of the Central Line, for two days every year trains were run from London to terminate at North Weald.