While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

While his comrades cocked the trap, that one behaved as if it was some dull maneuver.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

While I was sitting at one of the rewrite telephones with my derby and my great beard, Arthur Brisbane whizzed in with some editorial copy in his hand.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

While driving the cow back home the woman was assaulted by a servant maid of Gorton.

While he was at it, the philosopher of the Kremlin contributed an additional assist to the rule of reason by bellowing at those in the west who can't appreciate coexistence thru suicide.

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 she was thus engaged, McFeeley questioned her about her whereabouts the previous day, any recollections she had of people hanging around, of overcurious delivery boys or repairmen, of strange cars cruising the neighborhood.

While she was settling the teacart, he went back across the hall to their bedroom, opened one of the suitcases, and took out powdered coffee and sugar.

While the regulations formerly required that the hearing officer's report be placed in the registrant's file, this requirement was eliminated in 1952.

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 Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar.

`` While Henry Morgan was escorting Miss Vera Green from the church social last Saturday night, a savage dog attacked them and bit Mr. Morgan on the public square ''.

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 the Cold War raged it was easy to blame it all on Yalta.

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 he was in custody his wife divorced him.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

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.

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 previous wars were fought for social, religious, even cultural reasons, Clausewitz taught that war is merely " a continuation of politics by other means.

While on the Peleliu, he signed confession documents while he was held by the United States Marine Corps and informed his interrogators that he was not merely Taliban but al-Qaeda, though his father later asserted he was not involved in, and unaware of, al-Qaeda.

While the exact relationship of the short and apparently primitive text of Q1 to the later published texts is not resolved, Hardin Craig among others has suggested that it may represent an earlier draft of the play and hence would confirm that the play referred to in 1589 is in fact merely an earlier draft of Shakespeare's play.

While the term " Postmodern " and its derivatives are freely used, with some uses apparently contradicting others, those outside the academic milieu have described it as merely a buzzword that means nothing.

While ATMs ( as well as the remote memory systems discussed below ) use the card merely to identify the associated account and record changes in a central database, stored value systems make a physical alteration to the card to reflect the new balance after a call.

While the patent was initially rejected by the patent office as being a purely mathematical invention, following 12 years of appeals, Pardo and Landau won a landmark court case at the CCPA ( Predecessor Court of the Federal Circuit ) overturning the Patent Office in 1983 — establishing that " something does not cease to become patentable merely because the point of novelty is in an algorithm.

While English law recognised simony as an offence, it treated it as merely an ecclesiastical matter, rather than a crime, for which the punishment was forfeiture of the office or any advantage from the offence and severance of any patronage relationship with the person who bestowed the office.

While the successor ZX81 used a semi-custom chip ( a ULA or Uncommitted Logic Array ), this merely combined the functions of the earlier hardware onto a single chip — the hardware and system programs ( except the BASIC versions ) were very similar, with the only significant difference being the NMI-generator necessary for slow mode in the ZX81.

While each speaker merely tries to reach her or his own communicative goals, she or he uses language in a particular way.

While it was rumoured that Williams would reunite with Take That on 12 November 2009 for a Children In Need charity concert at The Royal Albert Hall, they merely greeted each other warmly on stage between performances.

While these result in some contradictions and lack completeness in a mathematical sense ( being based on axioms that are " merely " self-evident, but not robust under the stresses of radical scepticism ), the paradoxes can nonetheless be analysed rationally using the subatomic applications of quantum cosmology-particularly through the employment of the Schrödinger wave equations.

* While most superhero costumes merely hide the hero ’ s identity and present a recognizable image, parts of the costume ( or the costume itself ) have functional uses.

While animal models are acknowledged to model merely aspects of depressive illness, human and animal brains are very similar at a molecular level, enabling detailed study of the molecular mechanisms involved in ECT.

While neorealists agree that the structure of the international relations is the primary impetus in seeking security, there is disagreement among neorealist scholars as to whether states merely aim to survive or whether states want to maximize their relative power.

While their products leave much to be desired, Acme delivery service is second to none ; Wile E. can merely drop an order into a mailbox ( or enter an order on a website, as in the Looney Tunes: Back in Action movie ), and have the product in his hands within seconds.

While it is not completely clear whether the aggregates are the cause or merely a reflection of the loss of protein homeostasis, the balance between synthesis, folding, aggregation and protein turnover, the recent European Medicines Agency approval of Tafamidis or Vyndaqel ( a kinetic stabilizer of tetrameric transthyretin ) for the treatment of the transthyretin amyloid diseases suggests that it is the process of amyloid fibril formation and not the fibrils themselves that causes the degeneration of post-mitotic tissue in human amyloid diseases.

While it is possible to construct analogies to the Penrose triangle with other regular polygons to create a Penrose polygon, the visual effect is not as striking, and as the sides increase, the object seems merely to be warped or twisted.

While merely informing others of the new name is enough for it to take legal effect, those whose births are registered in Scotland or have been legally adopted there can optionally apply to the Registrar General for Scotland to have their birth certificate amended to show the new name and have the respective register updated.

While at Feyenoord Gullit became the focus of a race row as manager Thijs Libregts was alleged to have referred to Gullit as " blackie " and criticised him for being lazy, though Libregts defended himself by claiming that it was merely a nickname.

While the president is abroad on a state visit the President of the Bundesrat does not assume all of his responsibilities but may deputise for the president, performing on the president's behalf merely those tasks that require his or her physical presence, such as the signing of documents.

While the crack in the bell appears to end at the abbreviation " Philad < sup > a </ sup >" in the last line of the inscription, that is merely the 19th century widened crack which was filed out in the hopes of allowing the bell to continue to ring ; a hairline crack, extending through the bell to the inside continues generally right and gradually moving to the top of the bell, through the word " and " in " Pass and Stow ", then through the word " the " before the word " Assembly " in the second line of text, and through the letters " rty " in the word " Liberty " in the first line.

While there are still certain peculiarities in the latter ( especially in terms of intonation, accent and choice of words ), proper Malaysian English is merely a normal variation in the way English is spoken and does not deviate significantly from common English.

While traditional psychologists specializing in close relationships have focused on relationship dysfunction, positive psychology argues that relationship health is not merely the absence of relationship dysfunction.

While some believe that he died but will return as the Messiah, others believe that he is merely " hidden.