While a character with Pattern, Logrus or Conjuration can acquire virtually any object, players can choose to spend character points to obtain objects with particular virtues-unbreakability, or a mind of their own.

While containment of biological warfare transmission is less of a concern for certain criminal or terrorist organizations, it remains a significant concern for the military and civilian populations of virtually all nations.

While Belarusian and Southern Russian form a continuous area, making it virtually impossible to draw a line between two languages.

While a truly characteristic euphonium sound is rather hard to define precisely, most players would agree that an ideal sound is dark, rich, warm, and velvety, with virtually no hardness to it.

While the possible colors are virtually limitless, breeders have identified and named a number of specific categories.

While the vast majority of nurse-midwives work in hospitals, some nurse-midwives and virtually all direct-entry midwives work within the community or home.

While the cathedral was virtually the only building to survive the massacres of the Thirty Years ' War, it nevertheless suffered damage in World War II.

While virtually all Nichiren Buddhist schools regard him as a reincarnation of the Lotus Sutra's Bodhisattva Superior Practices, Jōgyō Bosatsu ( 上行菩薩 ), some schools of Nichiren Buddhism's Nikkō lineages regard him as the actual Buddha of this age, or the Buddha of the Latter day of the Law.

While virtually all Pentecostal denominations trace their origins to Azusa Street, the movement has experienced a variety of divisions and controversies.

While the constitution grants Congress power to extend copyright terms in order to " promote the progress of science and useful arts ," CTEA granted precedent to continually renew copyright terms making them virtually perpetual.

While many of the characters and scenes are Wilson's invention, virtually all of the dialogue in the finished film was written by Bolt.

While the statute ( 35 USC § 101 ) virtually poses no limits to patenting whatsoever, courts have decided in binding precedents that abstract ideas, natural phenomena and laws of nature are not patentable.

While flood damage can be virtually eliminated by moving away from rivers and other bodies of water, since time out of mind, people have lived and worked by the water to seek sustenance and capitalize on the gains of cheap and easy travel and commerce by being near water.

While voters have virtually no instrumental incentive to vote, they do have an expressive interest in voting.

While branding and store advertising will differ from company to company, the layout of a supermarket remains virtually unchanged.

While rules vary from country to country, most series require that the competitors start with a standard body shell, but virtually every other component may be allowed to be heavily modified for racing, including engines, suspension, brakes, wheels and tires.

While there are multiple ways that federal courts can review state court decisions for violations of state law, in practice, there is virtually no federal court review of state courts in civil cases, and there is in practice, very little meaningful federal court review of state courts in criminal cases where the death penalty is not imposed.

While some teen magazines focus almost exclusively on music and film stars, others feature more extensive coverage of lifestyle issues and are virtually junior versions of magazines such as Cosmopolitan or Cleo.

While they do show strong local preferences for certain prey, Golden Eagles are first and foremost opportunists and virtually any small to mid-sized animal may be predated if encountered.

While researching the history of Route 66, Lasseter met Seligman barber Angel Delgadillo, who told him how traffic through the town virtually disappeared on the day that nearby Interstate 40 opened.

While the nation had pushed to the western coast, the land the Fickert family settled in 1869 was still isolated and remote ... a rich, virtually hidden valley.

While most of the hail that precipitates from the clouds is fairly small and virtually harmless, there have been cases of hail greater than 2 inches diameter that caused much damage and injuries.

While singers, producers, and musicians have come and gone, Gaudio and Valli remain the group's constant ( with each owning fifty percent of the act and its assets, including virtually all of its recording catalog ).

While the view of one president and the Socrates team was that technology made it virtually possible for both to exist simultaneously, the industrial policy vs. free market debate continued as later under the George H. W. Bush administration, Socrates was labeled as industrial policy and de-funded.

While the Freien Ämter often had independent lower courts, they were forced to accept the Confederation's sovereignty.

While " there is an intentional editorial unity with a cohesive purpose and message in the canonical form of the book ," Job contains many separate elements, some of which may have had an independent existence prior to being incorporated into the present text.

While early German tanks, Stuka dive-bombers and concentrated forces were used in the Polish campaign, the majority of the battle was conventional infantry and artillery based warfare and most Luftwaffe action was independent of the ground campaign.

While a board may have several committees, two -- the compensation committee and audit committee -- are critical and must be made up of at least three independent directors and no inside directors.

While they can be considered completely independent intellectual pursuits, increasingly scholars are interested in the areas of critique where the two overlap.

While Britannicas authors have included writers such as Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Leon Trotsky, as well as notable independent encyclopaedists such as Isaac Asimov, some have been criticised for lack of expertise:

While Julia Maesa tried to position herself as the power behind the throne and thus the most powerful woman in the world, Elagabalus would prove to be highly independent, set in his ways, and impossible to control.

While the North American and European regions are technically independent of each other, today many issues within EFnet are handled at a global level.

... While often employing concepts shared with Hinduism and Buddhism, the result of a common cultural and linguistic background, the Jain tradition must be regarded as an independent phenomenon.

While these institutes have their own independent curriculum as well as examination systems, the final degree is offered by Jadavpur University.

While these results originally seemed too simple or too technical to warrant independent interest, they have turned out to be central to the theories in which they occur.

While the law, on its face, promises workers the right to strike and to organize, in practice it makes it difficult or impossible for independent unions to organize while condoning the corrupt practices of many existing unions and the employers with which they deal.

While having relinquished some of his formerly absolute power, the Prince of Monaco remains head of state and retains most of the country's governing power ; however, the principality's judicial and legislative bodies may operate independent of his control.

While the Academic Senate is an independent body, it is required to make recommendations to the university Council in relation to matters outside its delegated authority.

While Murad was besieging the city, the Byzantines, in league with some independent Turkish Anatolian states, sent the sultan's younger brother Mustafa ( who was only 13 years old ) to rebel against the sultan and besiege Bursa.

While this seems restrictive at first, it allows the code that does the rendering to be completely independent of the operating system it is running on, allowing cross-platform development.

While some forms are capable of independent movement and can swim hundreds of meters vertically in a single day ( a behavior called diel vertical migration ), their horizontal position is primarily determined by the surrounding currents.

While most of the settler colonies and the smaller states of the Caribbean retained this system, it was rejected by the newly independent countries in Africa and Asia, which revised their constitutions and became republics.

While early radical feminists posited that the root cause of all other inequalities is the oppression of women, some radical feminists acknowledge the simultaneous and intersecting effect of other independent categories of oppression as well.

While the Liberals took only two seats from Labor, Askin got the support of the two independent members, Douglas Darby ( Manly ) and Harold Coates ( Hartley ), giving him enough support to end Labor's 24-year run in power.

While the Belgian interest soon concentrated on the Congo River, the British and Germans focused on Eastern Africa and in 1886 partitioned continental East Africa between themselves ; the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now reduced to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, remained independent, for the moment.

While the public sphere is generally an integral component of social interpretations of the Enlightenment, numerous historians have brought into question whether the public sphere was bourgeois, oppositional to the state, independent from the state, or egalitarian.

While it is widely believed that the usage of x to represent an independent or unknown variable can be traced back to the Arabic word šay < nowiki >'</ nowiki > شيء = “ thing ”, there are no sources to support this claim.

While a degree of democracy still existed in some of the remaining independent Greek cities, many scholars see this age as marking the end of classical Greece.