While there are numerous variations, stockless anchors consist of a set of heavy flukes connected by a pivot or ball and socket joint to a shank.

While competitive basketball is carefully regulated, numerous variations of basketball have developed for casual play.

While slight variations on the standard code had been predicted earlier, none were discovered until 1979, when researchers studying human mitochondrial genes discovered they used an alternative code.

While some identical types are clearly used on other pages, other variations, subjected to detailed image analysis, suggested that they could not have been produced from the same matrix.

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

While there have been many variations in overall focus, gameplay and features in MUDs, some distinct sub-groups have formed that can be used to help categorize different game mechanics, game genres and non-game uses.

While slight variations on the standard code had been predicted earlier, none was discovered until 1979, when researchers studying human mitochondrial genes determined that they used an alternative code.

While many variations have been discovered between early copies of biblical texts, almost all have no importance, as they are variations in spelling, punctuation, or grammar.

While interrelations are acknowledged in both directions between the model elements, in the last instance the purpose is to explain variations in the power and reach of organized crime in the sense of an ultimately unified organizational entity.

While sociobiology is predicated on the observation that genes do affect behavior, it is perfectly consistent to be a sociobiologist while arguing that measured IQ variations between individuals reflect mainly cultural or economic rather than genetic factors.

While standard ' superglue ' is 100 % ethyl cyanoacrylate, many custom formulations ( e. g .,, 91 % ECA, 9 % poly ( methyl methacrylate ), < 0. 5 % hydroquinone, and a small amount of organic sulfonic acid and variations on the compound N-butyl-cyanoacrylate's for medical applications ) have come to be used for specific applications.

While the basic drink is simply the two ingredients, there are many variations.

While fictional, it is generally faithful to the spirit and flavor of the best-known variations of the original story.

While many variations of the sport exist, triathlon, in its most popular form, involves swimming, cycling, and running in immediate succession over various distances.

While the standard modern English spelling of the word is barbecue, local variations like barbeque and truncations such as bar-b-q or bbq may also be found.

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 there are many variations in the recipe, it usually contains chicken strips in broth, onions, vegetables ( mainly carrots, cabbage and celery ), and macaroni noodles.

While the standard formation for a square dance is four couples in a square, there are many variations on the theme.

While there are other items found among the Dead Sea Scrolls not currently in the Hebrew Bible, the texts on the whole testify to the accuracy of the scribes copying down through the ages, though many variations and errors occurred.

While the evolution of paramedicine described above is focused largely on the US, many other countries followed a similar pattern, although often with significant variations.

One last words reference work provides at least four distinct historical claims to his last words ( and additional variations of these ) – While many include the phrase " un grand peut-être " (" a Great Perhaps ") – all are listed as " doubtful " due to lack of documentation.

While the most commonly seen hexaflexagons have either three or six faces, variations exist with four, five, and seven faces.

While all resemble each other with their stone fronts and common size, slight variations such as porches and window placement differed on each house, making each one slightly different.

While there are only four possible types of payoff symmetric 2x2 games ( of which one is trivial ), the five different best response curves per player allow for a larger number of payoff asymmetric game types.

While working in the FBI New York office, Pitts had access to " a wide range of sensitive and highly classified operations " that included " recruitment operations involving Russian intelligence officers, double agent operations, operations targeting Russian intelligence officers, true identities of human assets, operations against Russian illegals, defector sources, surveillance schedules of known meet sites, internal policies, documents, and procedures concerning surveillance of Russian intelligence officers, and the identification, targeting, and reporting on known and suspected KGB intelligence officers in the New York area.

While open source projects rarely have schedules, nonetheless they can reach a state in which they are called " late " by their sponsors, participants, and users.

While JetBlue used the local noise ordinance to turn Long Beach Airport into a miniature fortress hub, it quickly reached maximum capacity and has since been forced to rework flight schedules and direct future growth to other Los Angeles area airports.

* While maintaining separate schedules through 1969, the leagues agreed to play an annual AFL-NFL World Championship Game, matching the championship teams of each league, beginning in January 1967, a game that would eventually become known as the Super Bowl.

While schedules vary from class to class, most courses consist of around 30 hours of lecture, along with additional time spent in the laboratory, studying audio-visual media, or other activities.

While in Chicago, Ribicoff coped with school and work schedules and was permitted to enter the university's law school before finishing his undergraduate degree.

While it was no surprise that the ABC did not make an immediate announcement about the show's fate-many Australian television series will often miss a year due to actor's schedules and production demands-it was eight months before an announcement was made.

While there is no barbed wire on the fence surrounding the camp, the prisoners have schedules and each one must work.

While tight budgets and shooting schedules compromised the quality of some of them, others-such as When the Bough Breaks ( 1947 )-proved to be among the most politically interesting films of the period.

While the majority of Commonwealth students identify as politically liberal, Mr. Wharton frequently schedules conservative speakers such as Charles Fried, former Assistant US Attorney General Jack Goldsmith, and William Kristol.

* While maintaining separate schedules through 1969, the leagues agreed to play an annual AFL-NFL World Championship Game beginning in January 1967.

While " themes " ( inherited narrative subunits for representing familiar classes of event, such as the " arming the hero ", or the particularly well-studied " hero on the beach " theme ) do exist across Anglo-Saxon and other Germanic works, some scholars conclude that Anglo-Saxon poetry is a mix of oral-formulaic and literate patterns, arguing that the poems both were composed on a word-by-word basis and followed larger formulae and patterns.

While some have theorized that unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area, such anomalies have not been found.

While most implementations let light propagate on straight lines, applications exist to simulate relativistic spacetime effects.

While integrating garbage collection into the language's compiler and runtime system enables a much wider choice of methods, post hoc GC systems exist, including some that do not require recompilation.

While substantial water was detected spectroscopically, it was not as much as predicted beforehand, meaning that either the water layer thought to exist below the clouds was thinner than predicted, or that the cometary fragments did not penetrate deeply enough.

While most scholars agree that one or more of these terms refer to handheld mechanical weapons, there exist disagreement whether these were flexion bows or torsion powered like the recent Xanten find.

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 the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

While similar lifeforms have been known to exist in shallower ocean trenches (> 7, 000 m ) and on the abyssal plain, the lifeforms discovered in the Challenger Deep possibly represent taxa distinct from those in shallower ecosystems.

While the conceptual and external levels design can usually be done independently of any DBMS ( DBMS-independent design software packages exist, possibly with interfaces to some specific popular DBMSs ), the internal level design highly relies on the capabilities and internal data structure of the specific DBMS utilized ( see the Implementation section below ).

While masculine, feminine, and neuter genders are recognized, nouns do not normally decline for gender, though some nouns, especially Latin words and personal names, exist in multiple forms corresponding to different genders: Alumnus ( male, singular )/ Alumna ( female, singular ); Andrew / Andrea, Paul / Paula, etc.

While thousands of isolated bones have been collected from 19th century Funk Island to Neolithic middens, only a small number of complete skeletons exist.

While clear categories do exist, it is sometimes difficult to choose which category some individual heads of state belong to.

While a number of private railroads exist and provide mostly commuter-type services, the national railway, Ferrovie dello Stato, also provides sophisticated high-speed rail service that joins the major cities of Italy from Naples through northern cities such as Milan and Turin.

While the Ithaca Hour continues to exist, in recent years it has fallen into disuse.

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 a variety of views regarding homosexuality as an inclination or status exist within the Orthodox Jewish community, Orthodox Judaism generally prohibits homosexual conduct.

While they still exist, they are not as centralized or integrated as they were before the 1990s.

While the first generation of literate programming tools were computer language-specific, the later ones are language-agnostic and exist above the programming languages.

While the identification of memes as " units " conveys their nature to replicate as discrete, indivisible entities, it does not imply that thoughts somehow become quantized or that " atomic " ideas exist that cannot be dissected into smaller pieces.

While " the South " exists as a geographical region of the United States, it is also said to exist as " a place of the imagination " of writers.

While examples of embryonic stages show that molecular features of ancestral organisms exist, the theory of recapitulation itself has been viewed within the field of developmental biology as a historical side-note rather than as dogma.

While relying on a heap is a common way to implement priority queues, for integer data, faster implementations exist.