While Bilbo initially comes across as a timid, easily-flustered bumbler, he grows wiser and more confident as the story progresses.

While males can be territorial with each other, they become timid around other, more aggressive fish.

While Cordelia makes coffee, Barney makes a call to his associate, Hank, and, dropping the timid, sensitive act, reveals that it is he who stole the horn from the Kungai demon.

While sugar cane dramatically increased Spain's earnings on the island, large numbers of the newly imported slaves fled into the nearly impassable mountain ranges in the island's interior, joining the growing communities of cimarrónes — literally, ' wild animals '.

While horses in the wild covered large areas of terrain, they usually did so at relatively slow speeds, unless being chased by a predator.

While horses in the wild mate and foal in mid to late spring, in the case of horses domestically bred for competitive purposes, especially horse racing and various futurities, it is desirable that they be born as close to January 1 in the northern hemisphere or August 1 in the southern hemisphere as possible, so as to be at an advantage in size and maturity when competing against other horses in the same age group.

While recent evidence suggesting that American Ivory-billed Woodpeckers may still exist in the wild has caused excitement in the Ornithology community, no similar evidence exists for the Cuban Ivory-billed bird, believed to be extinct since the last sighting in the late 1980s.

While purists recognize only those letterboxes planted in the wild, many new variations exist.

While it is certainly true that a game with too many wild cards can become so random that all skill is lost, the occasional use of wild cards is a good way to add variation to a game and add opportunities for skillful play.

While in custody, Mason takes Womack hostage to escape, and takes a Hummer H1, while Goodspeed steals a Ferrari F355 and after the wild chase around the streets, Mason escapes.

While millets are indigenous to many parts of the world, millets most likely had an evolutionary origin in tropical western Africa, as that is where the greatest number of both wild and cultivated forms exist.

While wild cats, dogs, feral pigs, black rats, Polynesian rats and mice are present, the island has no known populations of possums, mustelids ( weasels, stoats or ferrets ), hedgehogs, brown rats or deer, thus being a relative haven for native bird and plant populations.

While luxury establishments may boast the fact that wild animals can be seen at close range on a daily basis, the leopard's camouflage and propensity to hide and stalk prey typically make leopard sightings rare.

While domesticated species are increasing in numbers, the African wild ass and another relative, the Onager, are endangered.

While several Manihot species are wild, all varieties of M. esculenta are cultigens.

While the collection of the eggs of wild birds by amateurs was considered a respectable scientific pursuit in the 19th Century and early 20th Century, from the mid 20th Century onwards it was increasingly regarded as being a hobby rather than a scientific discipline.

While the wild form is usually orange-red, various colours are found in cultivation, ranging from nearly a true scarlet through oranges to yellow.

While many captive bred reptiles and amphibians are offered for sale at pet stores and reptile shows such as bearded dragons, corn snakes and leopard geckos, many animals sold are still removed from the wild.

While there apparently is not written proof of this specific event, Father Hennepin did write in his journals about the fruit orchards and wild animals on Grosse Ile, so historians assume that, at the very least, he explored the island first-hand.

While domesticated rats are not so far removed from their wild counterparts as to justify a distinct subspecies ( compare Canis lupus familiaris and Capra aegagrus hircus ), there are several significant differences that set them apart, the most apparent of which is colouring.

While random colour mutations may occur in the wild, these are rare — most wild R. norvegicus are a dark brown colour, but fancy rats may be anything from white to blue.

While commercially bred neon tetras have adapted well to a wide range of water conditions, in the wild they inhabit very soft, acidic waters that are usually cooler than the 25 ° C ( 77 ° F ) at which most tropical aquaria are maintained.

While A. lamarckii is known to be of North American origin, probably from eastern Canada, it is not known to occur naturally in the wild in North America.

However, Mr Allworthy is ultimately forgiving of Tom's sowing his wild oats: ' While he was angry, therefore, with the incontinence of Jones, he was no less pleased with the honour and honesty of his self-accusation.

While most of the wild trees have white bracts, some selected cultivars of this tree also have pink bracts, some even almost a true red.

While bodyline was successful as a tactic ( England regained the Ashes with a 4 – 1 margin ), Australian crowds regarded it as vicious and unsporting.

While containing mostly nasty caricatures of fans and fandom, some fans take them with good humor ; others consider them vicious and cruel.

" While she may have held such views, it has been argued that they were normal for British people of her generation and upbringing, who had experienced two vicious wars with Germany.

While secular courts often treated suspects ferociously, Will and Ariel Durant argued in The Age of Faith that many of the most vicious procedures were inflicted upon pious heretics by even more pious friars.

While many city-states throughout the Greek world broke down into vicious cycles of civil war and reprisal, Athens remained united and democratic, without interruption, until near the end of the 3rd century BC, and democracy, albeit interrupted several times by conquest or revolution, continued there until Roman times, several centuries later.

While Richard B. Dier in The Afro-American was " thoroughly disgusted " by the film for being " as vicious a piece of propaganda for white supremacy as Hollywood ever produced ," Herman Hill in The Pittsburgh Courier felt that Song of the South would " prove of inestimable goodwill in the furthering of interracial relations.

While the German took a vicious battering against the ropes in the tenth, the referee leapt in to stop the fight.

While he inveighs against Catiline's depraved character and vicious actions, he does not fail to state that the man had many noble traits, indeed all that a Roman man needed to succeed.

While classical economics was at a loss to explain the vicious business cycles, London was awash in societies and clubs that proposed alternatives.

" While he favored a policy of political non-intervention overseas, he opposed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 which he charged was " one of the greatest and most vicious isolationist policies this government has ever enacted.

While Tunney's heavyweight fights against Gibbons, Carpentier, and Dempsey featured his fleet-footed movement and rapid-fire jabbing, his earlier bouts, especially the five against Harry Greb, demonstrated his vicious body punching and willingness to fight toe-to-toe.

While their history is wracked with many vicious civil wars and tensions along the Liao border – much of the League ’ s territory there originally having belonged to the Capellan Confederation – the dawn of the Clan invasion changed their role in the galaxy considerably as one of the two untouched nations and – until Operation Serpent – neutral faction in the war.

While en route to New York from Liverpool amidst a vicious storm, the Atlantic attempted to make port at Halifax when a concern arose that the ship would run out of coal before reaching New York.

* Team Rebellion Captain ( Fung Min Hun ): While he appears to be a polite, soft-spoken young man, in reality he is a vicious mobster who wields a crescent wrench and steel mallet as weapons, which he hides in his shorts.

While Jake portrays himself as an easygoing man out for a good time, he has a vicious temper when drinking.

" While most emotions are morally neutral, some are inherently virtuous ( e. g. pity ) and some are inherently vicious ( e. g. envy ).

While analyst Benedict Carey writing in The New York Times agrees political analysts tend to agree that government will continue to be divided and marked by paralysis and feuding, there was research suggesting that humans have a " profound capacity through which vicious adversaries can form alliances ," according to Berkeley professor Dacher Keltner.

While traveling through the Aldheorte forest, they save a young servant girl and her sister from vicious hounds.

While The Revenger's Tragedy was apparently performed by an adult company at the Globe Theatre, its bizarre violence and vicious satire mark it as influenced by the dramaturgy of the private playhouses.

While it taught me how vicious a campaign can be against those who speak out for peace and social justice, it is gratifying that support for our stand came from organizations and trade unions across the globe.

While Yoshida is not disciplined, Kaji helps to seal his fate by refusing to rescue the vicious soldier when both men are trapped in quicksand while in pursuit of Shinjo, who finally seized the opportunity to desert.

While Belch is sent straight to hell ( his soul merged with that of his vicious dog Raptor by the explosion, making him a half-boy half-dog creature ,) Meg's perfect balance between good and evil earns her a chance to redeem herself and get blue in her Aura.

While passing a mountain guarded by a vicious, fire-breathing dragon, Donkey tries to talk the dragon guard into allowing him and Shrek to pass and compliments the dragon, whom he discovers is a female, and the dragon is greatly pleased by Donkey's flattering and lets them pass.

Wang insisted the film not only posed “ vicious vilification ” toward Chinese people, but it was also “ anti-Party and anti-socialism .” Wang also criticized the “ blue sea civilization ” that was promoted in the film as “ bandit civilization and bandit logic .” While some party leaders supported Wang ’ s view, Zhao Ziyang, backed up by Yang Shangkun, argued that artistic work like Heshang conveyed cultural rather than political implications, so it should not be discussed at a political meeting.