While most alphabets have letters composed of lines ( linear writing ), there are also exceptions such as the alphabets used in Braille, fingerspelling, and Morse code.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

While living in the home, Louisa began writing in earnest and was given her own room.

While the precise identity of the author is debated, the consensus is that this work was composed by a ( Koine ) Greek speaking Gentile writing for an audience of Gentile Christians.

Some scholars believe that the apologetic view of Luke ’ s work is overemphasized and that it should not be regarded as a “ major aim of the Lucan writings .” While Munck believes that purpose of Luke ’ s work is not that clear-cut and sympathizes with other claims, he believes that Luke ’ s work can function as an apology only in the sense that it “ presents a defense of Christianity and Paul ” and may serve to “ clarify the position of Christianity within Jewry and within the Roman Empire .” Pervo disagrees that Luke ’ s work is an apology and even that it could possibly be addressed to Rome because he believes that “ Luke and Acts speak to insiders, believers in Jesus .” Freedman believes that Luke is writing an apology but that his goal is “ not to defend the Christian movement as such but to defend God ’ s ways in history .”

While at Canterbury he promoted the cult of Dunstan, ordering the writing of the second Life of Dunstan, which Adelard composed between 1006 and 1011.

While historians disagree over the exact authorship of the work, the writing contains clear indications of Allen's style.

While critics point to the common practice of pseudonymous writing in the ancient world, they usually fail to point out that this practice, though common in the culture, was not common in personal letters, and was categorically rejected by the early church ( cf.

While he had programmed extensively in machine code in the 1950s, he was known for his low opinion of the GOTO statement in computer programming, writing a paper in 1965, and culminating in the 1968 article " A Case against the GO TO Statement ", regarded as a major step towards the widespread deprecation of the GOTO statement and its effective replacement by structured control constructs, such as the while loop.

While living at the Cecil House, Edward's daily studies consisted of dancing instruction, French, Latin, cosmography, writing exercises, drawing, and common prayers.

While some women chose a militant, and often violent, path, others chose to influence events through writing, publications, and meetings.

" While writing, he says, the show's creators imagined Ted and Dougal as " just two people who happen to be ".

" While most other modern critics have little positive to say about the story's writing, Ralph 124C 41 + is still considered an " essential text for all studies of science fiction.

While this saved computer memory it also saved time in reading and writing programs from cassette tape.

While he was in Düsseldorf, Brahms participated with Schumann and Albert Dietrich in writing a sonata for Joachim ; this is known as the " F – A – E Sonata " ().

While griots still compose in the traditional way ( without writing scores ), some Western musicians began to write partitures for the kora and adopted the Keur Moussa notation system at the beginning of the 1980s.

While in graduate school at UC Berkeley, Wall and his wife were studying linguistics with the intention afterwards of finding an unwritten language, perhaps in Africa, and creating a writing system for it.

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 writing that the series fulfills the norms of mass-market fiction, as mentioned above, magazine writer Michelle Goldberg characterized the books as an attack on Judaism and liberal secularism, and suggested that the near-future " end times " in which the books are set seem to reflect the actual worldview of millions of Americans, including many prominent conservative leaders.

While the types of writing systems in Mesoamerica range from minimalist " picture-writing " to complex logophonetic systems capable of recording speech and literature, they all share some core features that make them visually and functionally distinct from other writing systems of the world.

While still legally married to Upshaw and needing income for herself, Mitchell got a job writing feature articles for The Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine.

While the language was chosen as a medium of prestige in records and official statements along with Latin in the early 13th century, Occitan faced competition from the rising local Romance vernacular, the Navarro-Aragonese, both orally and in writing, especially after Aragon's territorial conquests south to Saragossa, Huesca and Tudela between 1118 and 1134.

While the traditional snail mail pen pal relationship has fallen into a decline due to modern technology closing the world's communication gap, prison pen pal services have combined technology with traditional letter writing.

While very little in the way of Pictish writing has survived, Pictish history since the late 6th century is known from a variety of sources, including Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, saints ' lives such as that of Columba by Adomnán, and various Irish annals.

While studying at the Conservatory, Puccini obtained a libretto from Ferdinando Fontana and entered a competition for a one-act opera in 1882.

While it has not proved to be as immensely popular as the Verdi works that immediately preceded it, namely Aida and Otello, Falstaff has long been an admired favorite with critics and musicians because of its brilliant orchestration, scintillating libretto and refined melodic invention.

While in America Britten wrote his first music drama, Paul Bunyan, an operetta ( to a libretto by Auden ).

While composing the music, Tchaikovsky actively edited the libretto, changing some of the text and adding his own lyrics to two arias.

While primarily known as a poet, McGrath has also written a play, " The Autobiography of Edvard Munch " ( produced by Concrete Gothic Theater, Chicago, 1983 ); a libretto for Orlando Garcia's experimental video opera " Transcending Time " ( premiered at the New Music Biennalle, Zagreb, Croatia, 2009 ); collaborated with the video artist John Stuart on the video / poetry piece " 14 Views of Miami " ( premiered at The Wolfsonian, Miami, 2008 ); and translated the Aristophanes play The Wasps for the Penn Greek Drama Series.

While still in Marseilles, Audran wrote a half dozen operettas, the most successful of which was Le grand mogol ( 1877 ), with a libretto by Henri Chivot and Alfred Duru.

While it was not Verdi's first grand opera for Paris ( the first being his adaptation of I Lombardi in 1847 under the new title of Jerusalem ), the libretto which Verdi was using had been written about 20 years before at the height of the French grand opera tradition, which " meant that Verdi was writing his first ( original ) opéra at a point at which the genre was in a state of flux ".

While receiving generally favorable reviews, however, the album did not achieve the crossover success Parton had hoped for.

While we do not know Palestrina's compositional motivations, he may have been quite conscious of the need for intelligible text, however, this was not to conform with any doctrine of the Counter-Reformation, because no such doctrine exists.

While individual members continued to produce work of importance, however, the collaborative activity that marked the heyday of the society was noticeably absent.

While the first-order experiments could be explained by a modified stationary aether, more precise second-order experiments were expected to give positive results, however, no such results could be found.

While in the beginning only Pashtuns were allowed to participate in the Jirgas, later other ethnic groups like Tajiks and Hazaras were allowed to participate as well, however they were little more than observers.

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 CIA Factbook in 2006 stated that the " US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system ", ( in addition to non-industrialised Burma / Myanmar, Liberia ), the actual situation, however, is more complicated than the CIA Factbook would suggest-in the United Kingdom, for example, although metric is the official system for most regulated trading by weight or measure purposes, the pint is the official unit for milk in returnable bottles and for draught beer and cider in British pubs, and miles, yards and feet remain the official units for road signage.

While Burma's presence in ASEAN was seen as a test of the organisation's philosophy of constructive engagement, the presence of Burma in ASEAN however has started to be seen as an embarrassment to the organisation, because of Burma's human rights record and lack of democracy.

While their Roman predecessors were well-educated and had been experienced in warfare, the European nobility of the early medieval period were not renowned for their education, however from the 12th century it became more common for them to read.

While Gilbert emphasizes the similarities however, he agrees with all other commentators that Machiavelli was particularly novel in the way he used this genre, even when compared to his contemporaries such as Baldassare Castiglione and Erasmus.

While they were escaping, however, Odysseus foolishly told Polyphemus his identity, and Polyphemus told his father, Poseidon, that Odysseus had blinded him.

While long-distance inland calls have been offered by calling cards, by the mid-2000s conventional carriers reduced their rates to be competitive ; however in many countries calling-card type indirect services can be much cheaper than normal calls.

While dealing with serious topics in what are now known as anthropology, sociology and psychology, he introduced a satirical approach, " based on the premise that, however serious the subject under review, it could be made more interesting and thus achieve greater effect, if only one leavened the lump of solemnity by the insertion of a few amusing anecdotes or by the throwing out of some witty or paradoxical observations.

While many Buddhists may spend a lifetime exclusively on sutra practices, however, an amalgam of the two to some degree is common.

While technically a UFO refers to any unidentified flying object, in modern popular culture the term UFO has generally become synonymous with alien spacecraft ; however, the term ETV ( ExtraTerrestrial Vehicle ) is sometimes used to separate this explanation of UFOs from totally earthbound explanations.

While it is not required to attend the week-long festivities and seminars, it is thought by some that those in the running for the Gold Award may advance their cause by displaying professionalism and hard work at that time ; judges for the contest, however, refute this, as the judging is done blindly in advance of the week-long pre-awards event and most judges don't arrive on site until the last day of the workshop.

While Mormons do not believe such groups had the fullness of the gospel ( often meaning priesthood authority of the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods ), and neither considering themselves Protestant, they do however believe that such groups had many righteous leaders and members who could be considered saints because they followed the light of Christ and sought to follow Him.

While the earliest extant sketches date from December 1856, it was not until August 1857, however, that Wagner began devoting his attention entirely to the opera, putting aside the composition of Siegfried to do so.

While marching to reclaim the city in 1002, however, Otto III suffered a sudden fever and died in a castle near Civita Castellana at the age of 21.

While still in central Italy, however, Otto II suddenly died on November 7, 983, and was buried in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

While almost every contemporary postmark includes a location as well as a date, in 2004 New Zealand Post announced plans to eliminate the location on their postmarks and include only the date ; however, information about this can be determined by a three-number code on the postmarks.

While a person might labor for the benefit of others, he will work harder for the benefit of himself ; however, each person ’ s needs are being supplied by many other people.

While in France, however, Isabella conspired with the exiled Roger Mortimer to have the king deposed.

While there were many non-communist members of the NLF, they were subject to the control of the party cadres and increasingly side-lined as the conflict continued ; they did, however, enable the NLF to portray itself as a primarily nationalist, rather than communist, movement, despite being in almost direct control by the Northern regime.

< http :// www. jstor. org / stable / 25111383 >.</ ref > While Caesar's empirical objective can be considered strictly political, however, Cleopatra's is explicitly erotic ; she conquers carnally — indeed, " she made great Caesar lay his sword to bed ;/ He plough'd her, and she cropp'd " ( 2. 2. 232-233 ).