While in government work, he helped develop the metric system to secure uniformity of weights and measures throughout France.

While not without criticism ( e. g. by Neusner, 1998 ), the Steinsaltz edition is widely used throughout Israel, the United States and the world.

While this prohibition remained in force in general throughout the middle and early modern ages, this is no longer the case and Western women are often seen wearing trousers, ties, and men's hats.

While he continued to be prolific throughout the 1930s and 1940s, he is probably best known for his 1956 film The Ten Commandments ( which is very different from his 1923 film of the same title ).

While citizenship has varied considerably throughout history, and within societies over time, there are some common elements but they vary considerably as well.

While ratings for Coronation Street remained consistent throughout the decade, EastEnders regularly obtained higher viewing figures.

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 marriage is honored among Christians and throughout the Bible, it is not seen as necessary for everyone.

While individual equations present a kind of puzzle and have been considered throughout history, the formulation of general theories of Diophantine equations ( beyond the theory of quadratic forms ) was an achievement of the twentieth century.

While motions of censure are periodically proposed by the opposition following government actions that it deems highly inappropriate, they are purely rhetorical ; party discipline ensures that, throughout a parliamentary term, the government is never overthrown by the assembly.

While the loss of traditional folk music in the face of the rise of popular music is a worldwide phenomenon, it is not one occurring at a uniform rate throughout the world.

While its morphological categories have been fairly stable over time, morphological changes are present throughout, particularly in the nominal and verbal systems.

While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.

While the progressive elongation of the neck and limbs can be found throughout the giraffid lineage, it became more pronounced in genera such as Giraffokeryx, Palaeotragus ( possible ancestor of the okapi ), Samotherium and Bohlinia.

While the tactics of modern guerrilla warfare originate in the 20th century, irregular warfare, using elements later characteristic of modern guerrilla warfare, has existed throughout the battles of many ancient civilizations but in a smaller scale.

While the Scottish Enlightenment is traditionally considered to have concluded toward the end of the 18th century, disproportionately large Scottish contributions to British science and letters continued for another 50 years or more, thanks to such figures as the mathematicians and physicists James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and the engineers and inventors James Watt and William Murdoch, whose work was critical to the technological developments of the Industrial Revolution throughout Britain.

While there was no separate Polish state at all, the idea of Polish independence was kept alive throughout the 19th century and led to more Polish uprisings and other warfare against the partitioning powers.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.

While cardio-focused, rowing also stresses many muscle groups throughout the body anaerobically, thus rowing is often referred to as a strength-endurance sport.

While the children are not participants in the tutoring program, they do show marked improvement in their reading and writing skills throughout the semester, due in part to the admiration and respect they gain for their college reading buddy.

While Merlot is grown throughout the state, it is particularly prominent in Napa, Monterey and Sonoma County.

While the early French explorers that encountered the sites made no use of the metals due to the difficulties in transporting it, the copper was eventually traded throughout the continent along major river routes.

While stereotyped as rural music, the Country music format is common and popular throughout the United States and in some other countries ( particularly Canada and Australia, both of which share much of the same Anglo-Saxon and Celtic roots as the United States ).

While often buying her clothes, she continued to borrow and sometimes keep designer clothes throughout her time as first lady, which came to light in 1988.

While the names of saloon and public bar may still be seen on the doors of pubs, the prices ( and often the standard of furnishings and decoration ) are the same throughout the premises, and many pubs now comprise one large room.

While the earliest artifacts date to the Middle Neolithic era, there have been documented habitations in Attica from the Early Neolithic ( 6th millennium BC ).

While the date of composition varies wildly among scholars, ranging from the era of Plato and Aristotle to the seventh century CE.

While several fantasy businesses had migrated to the internet in the mid-1990s, the watershed era for online fantasy sports was in 1997 when two web sites made their debut that forever changed the fantasy sports industry: Commissioner. com and RotoNews. com.

While fantasy sports were fueled by the dot-com boom of the Internet, there was a turbulent period when many of the high-flying Internet companies of the era crashed in 2001.

While he had been in the vanguard with The Byrds and the Burrito Brothers, Parsons was now perceived as being too authentic and traditional in an era dominated by the stylings of the Eagles, whose sound Parsons disdained ( although he did maintain cordial relations with Bernie Leadon, a former member of the Eagles who left the group in 1975 ).

While the earlier era was characterized by a dramatic use of the major and minor scale systems, impressionist music tended to make more use of dissonance.

While it retains traditional references to a personal redeemer and prayers for the restoration of the Davidic line in the liturgy, Conservative Jews are more inclined to accept the idea of a messianic era:

While many other rifles of its era used an integral box magazine loaded by a charger or stripper clip, the magazine of the Krag-Jørgensen was integral with the receiver ( the part of the rifle that houses the operating parts ), featuring an opening on the right hand side with a hinged cover.

While these arts are based on historical traditions of folklore, they are not " historical " in the sense that they reconstruct or preserve a historical system from a specific era.

While modern identification of mushrooms is quickly becoming molecular, the standard methods for identification are still used by most and have developed into a fine art harking back to medieval times and the Victorian era, combined with microscopic examination.

While most of these provided access to the most basic of amenities ( like picnic tables, playgrounds, toilet facilities and supplies ), fewer than a quarter offered cottages in the pre-Depression era, and the vast majority required travellers bring their own tents.

While many ports reopened after the war, they ( and coastal shipping in general ) faced huge pressure from rail ( presumably now offering improved freight rates compared to the 1910 era ).

While the traditional majority view in religious Judaism has been that the teachings of Kabbalah were revealed by God to Biblical figures such as Abraham and Moses and were then transmitted orally from the Biblical era until its redaction by Shimon ben Yochai, modern academic analysis of the Zohar, such as that by the 20th century religious historian Gershom Scholem, has theorized that De Leon was the actual author.

While in France during the Rococo era Jean-Baptiste Greuze was the favorite painter of Denis Diderot ( 1713 – 1785 ), and Maurice Quentin de La Tour ( 1704 – 1788 ), and Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun were highly accomplished Portrait painters and History painters.

While standard versions of ramen are available throughout Japan since the Taisho era, the last few decades have shown a proliferation of regional variations.

While the Greeks of the classical era understood themselves to belong to a common Greek genos their first loyalty was to their city and they saw nothing incongruous about warring, often brutally, with other Greek city-states.

While Stoddard had originally intended the calliope to replace bells at churches, it found its way onto riverboats during the paddlewheel era.

While evidence of settlement at present-day Wiesbaden dates back to the Neolithic era, historical records document continuous occupancy after the erection of a Roman fort in 6 AD which housed an auxiliary cavalry unit.

While there is no architectural evidence from this era, archaeologists have found tools, such as flint and basalt hand-axes, knives and scraping implements.

While in town, Valentino met actor Norman Kerry, who convinced him to try a career in cinema, still in the silent film era.

While relations have improved and an intentional nuclear exchange is more unlikely, the decay in Russian nuclear capability in the post Cold War era may have had an effect on the continued viability of the MAD doctrine.

While the Tudor era presents an abundance of material on the women of the nobility — especially royal wives and queens — historians have recovered scant documentation about the average lives of women.

While she could not change her past, she and her teammates were able to change the directives of all the Sentinels of the era to preserve all life, thereby ending the genocide that had prevailed for years.

While there are not many Gold Rush era ghost towns still in existence, the remains of the once-bustling town of Shasta have been preserved in a California State Historic Park in Northern California.

While prochronisms such as this may not be noticed by the uninformed, other prochronisms are intentionally comic ( e. g. a 10th-century peasant earnestly explaining his village as an " anarcho-syndicalist commune " in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, or a Beatlesque band called the " Bedbugs " appearing in the American Civil War era TV comedy F-Troop ).