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 technically ' bong ' does not mean a device used for smoking mainly marijuana, drug-related connotations have been formed with the word itself ( partly due to punning with Sanskrit bhangah " hemp ").

While his traditional Arab enemies ( Saudi Arabia and Jordan ) still conspired to reduce his prominence or remove him altogether, Nasser maintained good relations with them following the Khartoum summit, partly because of financial dependence on Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

While the show's top prize nearly doubled ( partly to counter the high inflation of the era ) and the new feature allowed more celebrities the chance to participate in the end game, it also eliminated what effectively was Richard Dawson's " spotlight " feature.

While the former option was chosen as the most feasible one, the latter option was partly regarded as a means to foster the " inner reunification ".

While visitor numbers grew to around 700, 000, by 2005, and partly due to the negative impact on US tourism of 9 / 11, visitor numbers at Graceland had reportedly declined to around 600, 000 due to the rough surrounding neighborhood.

While it has been suggested that the giant sloth may have been partly carnivorous, this is a controversial claim.

While hurricanes ( or their remnants ) occasionally track through the area in late summer and early fall, they have often weakened by the time they reach Stephens City, partly due to the city's far inland location.

Of the package, Bob Neaverson wrote " While it certainly solved the song quota problem, one suspects that it was also partly born of The Beatles ' pioneering desire to experiment with conventional formats and packaging ".

While the railway line was in use trackside vegetation would have been partly controlled.

While he studied acting, he supported himself partly by competing in weekend motorcycle races and bought his first motorcycle with his winnings.

While that earlier novel had been based partly on people and events from Rand's experiences, the new novel was to focus on the less-familiar world of architecture.

While the exact role of zinc in dysgeusia is unknown, it has been cited that zinc is partly responsible for the repair and production of taste buds.

While in the U. S., she underwent an operation for the removal of cataracts from both eyes, but the operation was only partly successful.

While there have been cases of consoles becoming successful partly because they were the first ones released within a specific era ( most notably Sega with their Mega Drive during the 16-bit era ), success from being the “ first-mover ” is not always guaranteed.

While those fears were partly borne out in practice, as the Building Trades Department did acquire a great deal of practical power gained through resolving jurisdictional disputes between affiliates, the danger that it might serve as the basis for schism never materialized.

While Combs lost to Ford in the gubernatorial primary, Carroll won the separate primary for lieutenant governor, partly on the strength of the eastern Kentucky votes he gained from his association with Combs.

While hunting in the dark depths, elephant seals seem to locate their prey at least partly by vision ; the bioluminescence of some prey animals can facilitate their capture.

While still anchored to the mineral base they form a semi-cell bounded partly by the mineral base and partly by the membrane.

While most of the population of the region speaks standard Polish, some people in the upper river basin ( municipalities of Lipsk, Dąbrowa Białostocka and partly Sztabin ) speak a local dialect of Belarusian ( called by them prosty jazyk-" the simple language ").

While the national government and the City of Helsinki were ready to partly finance the extension from the 1990s, the Espoo municipal government continued to block the project and hold out for more funding.

While there is a fair degree of mutual intelligibility between some of the western and eastern variants of Punjabi, there are morphological and phonological differences between the two varieties, partly due to the use of a different scripture.

While the quasars above z = 6 showed a Gunn-Peterson trough, indicating that the IGM was still at least partly neutral, the ones below did not.

While the COP is partly a measure of the efficiency of a heat pump, it is also a measure of the conditions under which it is operating: the COP of a given heat pump will rise as the input temperature increases or the output temperature decreases because it is linked to a warm temperature distribution system like underfloor heating.

While other conditions might be even more effective in bringing about a change from immobility to mobility in Kohnstamm reactivity, it is our hypothesis that all such conditions would have as a common factor the capacity to induce an attitude in the subject which enabled him to divorce himself temporarily from feelings of responsibility for his behavior.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

While the city council suggested that the Legislative Council might perform the review, Mr. Notte said that instead he will take up the matter with Atty. Gen. J. Joseph Nugent to get `` the benefit of his views ''.

While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, the term was coined in the late 19th century in Germany as a more scientific-sounding term for Judenhass (" Jew-hatred "),

While one-third of alternative treatments have some published literature supporting their use, research on alternative medicine is frequently of low quality and methodologically flawed, which might cause these results to be exaggerated.

While these vehicles might be useful in a direct fire role, none were developed with this specifically in mind, reminiscent of the use of tank destroyers by the US military in the assault gun role during WWII.

While the NA continues to this day, he saw it as a tool to end threats from smaller rivals who might some day want to expand in other territories and threaten his league's dominance.

While many scientific experts might agree on a common definition of the term " coast ", the delineation of the extents of a coast differ according to jurisdiction, with many scientific and government authorities in various countries differing for economic and social policy reasons.

While a principle-based approach might claim that lying is always morally wrong, the casuist would argue that, depending upon the details of the case, lying might or might not be illegal or unethical.

While this might suggest that the Earth is at the center of the Universe, the Copernican principle requires us to interpret it as evidence for the evolution of the Universe with time: this distant light has taken most of the age of the Universe to reach and shows us the Universe when it was young.

While cyberspace should not be confused with the Internet, the term is often used to refer to objects and identities that exist largely within the communication network itself, so that a Website, for example, might be metaphorically said to " exist in cyberspace.

While playing golf one afternoon he realized that it might be fun for the kids on his playground if they played " golf " with frisbees.

While the sedimentation event itself might be relatively short-lived, the ecological disruption caused by the mass die off often persists long into the future.

While some other, extinct Homo species might have been ancestors of Homo sapiens, many were likely our " cousins ", having speciated away from our ancestral line.

While some software might always be free, there would be a growing amount of software that was for sale only.

While the gospel is written as a historical narrative, many of the facts portrayed therein are based on previous traditions of the recorded Gospel story and not on what some might consider to be historical record.

While some might argue that, by this logic, humans should also express hairy shoulders given that these body parts would putatively be exposed to similar conditions, the protection of the head, the seat of the brain that enabled humanity to become one of the most successful species on the planet ( and which also is very vulnerable at birth ), was arguably a more urgent issue ( axillary hair in the underarms and groin were also retained as signs of sexual maturity ).

While on the surface it appears the broker represents the buyer ( not the insurance company ), and typically counsels the buyer on appropriate coverage and policy limitations, in the vast majority of cases a broker's compensation comes in the form of a commission as a percentage of the insurance premium, creating a conflict of interest in that the broker's financial interest is tilted towards encouraging an insured to purchase more insurance than might be necessary at a higher price.

While Lippman's journalistic philosophy might be more acceptable to government leaders, Dewey's approach is a better description of how many journalists see their role in society, and, in turn, how much of society expects journalists to function.

While some family stability might be desirable as helping to keep slaves tractable and pacified, anything approaching a legal marriage was not.

While some individuals might deliberately use a biased sample to produce misleading results, more often, a biased sample is just a reflection of the difficulty in obtaining a truly representative sample.

While maintaining this balance, the amygdala and parahippocampal cortex might be less intensely activated.