While drawing up the plans, he included a circular staircase leading directly from his office to the outside of the building which allowed him to escape the patronage-seekers waiting for him in his ante-chamber.

While Alexander was waiting for his guests to arrive, he stood by a window, watching a group of boys at play on the seashore below the house.

While it was waiting for realisations from its 2 year plan, the Limann government was interrupted by a Coup staged by Flt.

While waiting for the responses, the council also asked Servetus if he preferred to be judged in Vienne or in Geneva.

While waiting, De Molay and Clement discussed charges that had been made two years prior by an ousted Templar.

While waiting for this new high-end system to develop, Microsoft would still receive licensing money from Xenix and OS / 2 sales.

While waiting for the Marine Corps to assign him, he passed the Certified Public Accountant exam.

While waiting for a permanent stadium to be built in Nashville, the team played temporarily at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis for one season before moving to Nashville in 1998 and playing in Vanderbilt Stadium.

* September 17 – Iraq disarmament crisis: While waiting for access to a site, UNSCOM inspectors witness and videotape Iraqi guards moving files, burning documents, and dumping waste cans into a nearby river.

** While waiting at a bus stop, Ralph Baer an inventor with Sanders Associates, writes a four-page document which lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multi billion dollar industry.

* May 6 – Thirty Years ' War: While waiting for the Protestant forces of Christian of Brunswick to join them, Mansfeld and Georg Friedrich of Baden-Durlach split up their forces as a diversion for the Imperial army of Tilly.

* While the process is " waiting " it waits for the scheduler to do a so-called context switch and load the process into the processor.

While waiting for Conrad ’ s reply, Lucius decided to take matters into his own hands.

While waiting for the other bishops to arrive, they engaged in informal discussions which James Craigie Robertson characterizes as tending to " exasperate rather than heal their differences ".

While waiting for a friend in the Convent of San Giorgio he was studying Scripture when he suddenly conceived " about seven reasons " why the Church was about to be scourged and renewed.

While waiting for her Canadian citizenship to come through, Kate has been busy planning their wedding and the purchase of their first house, complete with a white picket fence.

While waiting for Amy, Thomas, Susan, Barry and many hippies, tree huggers, townspeople and animal enthusiasts stand up to the large crowd of developers who are waiting to start the excavation of the site.

While waiting for the completion of a new arena in Hartford, the Whalers played the first part of the season at The Big E Coliseum in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

While waiting for her scenes for several months, Cherrill had become bored and opening complained to Chaplin.

While waiting to receive his sentence from the regent Eudokia Makrembolitissa, he was summoned into her presence and advised that she had pardoned him and that furthermore she had chosen him to be her husband and the guardian of her sons as emperor.

While waiting for the other ships, Grenville established relations with the Spanish there while simultaneously engaging in some privateering against them, and also built a fort.

While waiting here for an opportunity to return in the capital, he was appointed magister militum per Orientem.

While Althea was waiting to go into labor, Tibbs's friend from the Philadelphia police force is murdered and he heads up to the “ big city ” to clear his friend's name, only to be arrested himself.

While Marshall enjoyed considerable success in working with Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he refused to lobby for the position.

While preparing to leave for the night, Stretch finds Chop Top ( Bill Moseley ) ( who was stationed in Vietnam during the first film and is the twin of the Hitchhiker from the first film ), waiting in the lobby.

While in his early 20s, he built his first airplane in the lobby of the hotel his mother managed, but was unable to fly it because he had no suitable engine.

While Jabotinsky continued to lobby the British Empire, the Irgun, under the leadership of people such as David Raziel and later Menachem Begin, fought politically against the Labour Zionists and militarily against the British for the establishment of a Jewish state, independent of any orders from Jabotinsky.

While waiting inside the lobby, Ash finds Murphy, who stands in one corner.

While in exile, he is known to have continued to lobby the US over the Akosombo dam project.

While the State Duma did much of the serious debates on Russian policy during this time, the Council became a lobby for regional interests, competing for federal attention.

While Ross's delegation continued to lobby Congress for relief, the worsening situation in Georgia drove members of the Treaty Party to Washington to press for a removal treaty.

While being a rail lobby group, what Rail Users Ireland admires most in other transit systems such as Munich's Münchner Verkehrs-und Tarifverbund and the Toronto Transit Commission is the integration rather than competition of various transport modes such as subway / metro, heavy rail, light rail and bus.

While the agrarian lobby demanded the market's extension and the hosts ' protection for the decreasing of the agrarian crisis.

While in the lobby of the hotel trying to secure a room of her own, she runs into Mr. Big, who runs to defend her against Aleksandr.

While managing the Angels, he once held a practice in the lobby of his team's hotel using only wiffle balls and bats ; the point was to demonstrate that his hitters were so weak, they could not break anything in the lobby.

While standing on either side of the entry lobby, one can distinctly hear people on the other side speaking in as low a voice as a whisper.

While the Count was in the lobby of the St. Regis Hotel waiting to present flowers and a proposal of marriage, she departed by a rear exit with Philip Van Valkenburgh, a prominent member of an old New York family ( but, obviously in need of some of her money, she would soon come to find out ).

While Rosencrantz and Guildenstern confront a mirror image of their future deaths in the metadramatic spectacle staged by the Players, they fail to recognize themselves in it or gain any insight into their identities or purpose.

While proceeding to Baton Rouge in August 1935 to confront the state government over a tax matter relating to his Urania Lumber Company, based in Urania, Hardtner, known as " the father of forestry in the South ," was killed in a car-train accident.

While accepting that under Glass-Steagall financial firms could still have “ made, sold, and securitized risky mortgages, all the while fueling a massive housing bubble and building a highly leveraged, Ponzi-like pyramid of derivatives on top ,” the New Rules Project concludes that commentators who deny the GLBA played a role in the financial crisis “ fail to recognize the significance of 1999 as the pivotal policy-making moment leading up to the crash .” The Project argues 1999 was Congress ’ s opportunity to reject 25 years of “ deregulation ” and “ confront the changing financial system by reaffirming the importance of effective structural safeguards, such as the Glass-Steagall Act's firewall and market share caps to limit the size of banks ; bringing shadow banks into the regulatory framework ; and developing new rules to control the dangers inherent in derivatives and other engineered financial products .”

While on a trip to the beach with his students, he finds Rosy and Doryan's footprints in the sand and tracks them to a cave ; later he finds a conch shell in Rosy's dresser, but refuses to confront her about it.

While McDowell was unveiling the poster during a press briefing in Ranelagh which was the site of his telegraph pole climb in the 2002 election ; constituency opponent John Gormley of the Green party turned up to confront McDowell on the issue of an accompanying pamphlet which made misleading claims about the Green party.

While Barrin led the force against the unholy alliance of angels and Phyrexians, refugees boarded the Weatherlight, and Urza went to Serra's sanctum to confront the mad archangel, Radiant, who commanded Serra's angels.

While the lethargic Mycroft rests, Holmes and Watson confront Latimer and Sophy in their compartment with Kemp absent.

While social debates in drama were nothing new, the problem play of the 19th century was distinguished by its intent to confront the spectator with the dilemmas experienced by the characters.

While Reeve's team battles the Deepground soldiers and attempt to destroy the Mako reactors which serve as a means to revive Omega, Vincent heads to Deepground's centre of operations to confront Weiss.

While trying to define and quantify normality is a good start, all definitions confront the problem of whether we are even describing an idea that even exists since there are so many different ways of viewing the concept.

While choosing to confront Serano because of this file, he never discovered the origin, despite searching for several years.

While Cortes left for Veracruz to confront Spaniards looking to arrest him, Pedro de Alvarado learned of a plan to attack the Spaniards, and staged a pre-emptive attack on the Aztecs in the Sacred Precinct while they celebrated a religious festival.

While the Toa distracted the Visorak, Matau, who believed he was responsible for Vakama's turning, would confront him while Keetongu fought Sidorak and Roodaka.

While Ashtray and Loc Dog head to buy some snacks, Toothpick and his posse confront Ashtray and hold him at gunpoint, until Loc Dog threatens them and they flee.

While Nilis and his new team struggle to confront ossified government and military institutions, they try to understand and to develop new and sometimes alien technologies: FTL computers, a gravastar shield to protect them from FTL foreknowledge, and a black hole gun, capable of disrupting a supermassive black hole's event horizon.

While Alejandro / Zorro sets off to save the mine workers, Diego heads to Montero's mansion to confront his old nemesis.

While Anna slept, Matthew planned to confront Donald.