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Whilst and here
Whilst is only a conjunction, and so its use here would be incorrect.
Whilst still a student, in 1845, he met with Richard Wagner in Marienbad ; the composer, noting the young man's enthusiasm, invited him to Dresden to hear his opera Tannhäuser ; here Hanslick also met with Robert Schumann.
Whilst the radar facilities of the Clee Hills protect aircraft, both hills were once a hazard to aircraft, and a memorial commemorates the 23 Allied and German airmen killed here when their planes crashed into Brown Clee during World War II.
: Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele,
Whilst undeniably a rural line, a historic term in the Act of Parliament for the railways here and around Inverness means that one through service per week is operated from Aberdeen, whereas all other services start and finish at Inverness.
Whilst Cardiff South and Penarth was once viewed as one of the safest Labour seats in Britain, its majority has been progressively eroded here since 1997.
Whilst in Paris, Voisin worked as a freelance musician, and played in the first performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring ; here he also became friends with conductor Sergei Koussévitzky and played with the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire between 1920 and 1928.
Whilst here he represented the university at football, cricket, lawn tennis, real tennis and golf ( being a scratch golfer ), becoming a quadruple Blue.
Whilst the Hayfield branch is now closed, as is the tunnel ( though a stub of the old branch line through the tunnel was used for some years afterwards as a turnback siding for trains terminating here ), you can still travel most of its route, along what is now known as the Sett Valley Trail.

Whilst and was
Whilst Raymond and the other leaders often quarrelled with each other over the leadership of the crusade, Adhemar was always recognized as the spiritual leader of the crusade.
Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.
Whilst at Monmouth he was later, for a shorter period, also the Archbishop of Wales.
Whilst in Baghdad, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá composed a commentary at the request of his father on the Muslim tradition of " I was a Hidden Treasure " for a Súfí leader named ` Alí Shawkat Páshá.
Whilst these events around Blenheim and Lutzingen were taking place, Marlborough was preparing to cross the Nebel.
Whilst awaiting trial, Kidd was confined in the infamous Newgate Prison and wrote several letters to King William requesting clemency.
Whilst his early work was rooted in traditional late-19th century romantic Italian opera, he successfully developed his work in the ' realistic ' verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.
Whilst GATT was a set of rules agreed upon by nations, the WTO is an institutional body.
Whilst the general public was not aware of nature observation ( formally conducted as field research ) during the 1930s, practitioners of the hobby went on to become the pioneers of the conservation movement that flourished in the UK from 1965 onwards ; a movement that eventually became a global political movement within a generation's timespan.
Whilst this was primarily an English event, the so-called " Glorious Revolution " had a great impact on Scottish history.
Whilst members of the dynasty reigned over monarchies, and, eventually, the whole of the Holy Roman Empire, the Hohenstaufen coat of arms was used as a breast shield on the empire ’ s coat of arms.
Whilst Holt stated that his friendship with Johnson was reflected in the strong relationship between Australia and the US, former Australian diplomat and foreign affairs expert Alan Renouf was more cynical in his assessment of the situation.
Whilst Humayun succeeded in protecting Agra from Sher Shah, the second city of the Empire, Gaur the capital of the vilayat of Bengal, was sacked.
Whilst he was thus deeply engaged at a tavern, he was called on by a grenadier, who desired his immediate attendance on his colonel ; but no entreaties could prevail on the disciple of Aesculapius to postpone his sacrifice to Bacchus.
Whilst editor of the paper, Marx and the other revolutionary socialists were regularly harassed by the police, and Marx was brought to trial on several occasions, facing various allegations including insulting the Chief Public Prosecutor, committing a press misdemeanor, and inciting armed rebellion through tax boycotting, although each time he was acquitted.
Whilst at Cambridge, he was treasurer of the Cambridge University Socialist Society and canvassed for the Labour candidate for Cambridge in the 1931 election.
Whilst his work was far less political than key figures in Berlin Dada, such as George Grosz and John Heartfield, he would remain close friends with various members, including Hannah Hoch and Raoul Hausmann for the rest of his career.
Whilst there, he staged regular Merz recitals, including a performance of Silence, his first poem in English, but was apparently seen as a somewhat pathetic irrelevant figure by other artists at the camp.
Whilst this was dubious in terms of batting technique, it seemed the best way to cope with the barrage, and Bradman averaged 56. 57 in the series ( an excellent average for most, but well short of his career average of 99. 94 ), while being struck above the waist by the ball only once.
Whilst the Old Trafford pitch was not as suited to bodyline as the hard Australian wickets, Martindale did take 5 for 73, but Constantine only took 1 for 55.
Whilst the Soviet ambassador in Washington suspected that the Marshall Plan could lead to the creation of an anti-Soviet bloc, Stalin was open to the offer.
Whilst the amounts involved have not been publicly disclosed, it is believed that neither Daimler nor Sony recouped all of their original investments ( what Daimler managed to get was reportedly well short ).

Whilst and supporter
Whilst living in Toronto, Canada, he became a supporter of the baseball team Toronto Blue Jays and a fan of Major League Baseball in general, and has since spent his annual summer holidays in North America watching MLB games.
Whilst Marinetti was a strong supporter of violence, the oft-repeated links with Italian fascism remain problematic.

Whilst and German
Steven Zaloga states: “ Whilst Western accounts of the September campaign have stressed the shock value of the panzers and Stuka attacks, they have tended to underestimate the punishing effect of German artillery on Polish units.
Whilst the English term resembles the French marbre, most other European languages ( e. g. Spanish mármol, Italian marmo, Portuguese mármore, German, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish marmor, Armenian marmar, Dutch marmer, Polish marmur, Turkish mermer, Czech mramor and Russian мрáмор ) follow the original Greek.
Whilst at Bremen, Engels began reading the philosophy of Hegel, whose teachings had dominated German philosophy at the time.
Whilst in Jena, Rivers became fluent in German and attended lectures, not only on psychology but on philosophy as well.
Whilst its upper reaches carry little other than leisure traffic, further downstream it provides an important link in the German commercial waterway network, carrying traffic from the River Rhine and the North Sea to Berlin and Poland.
Whilst the British used armed passenger liners defensively for protecting their shipping, the German approach was to use them offensively to attack enemy shipping.
Whilst the town was always well preserved, it was notably grey and colourless under communist East German rule.
Whilst at TSV Munich, Jeremies gained the first of his 55 caps for the German national team on 15 November 1997 in a friendly against South Africa, playing the full 90 minutes in a 3 – 0 win, in Düsseldorf.
Whilst the reduction of the peacetime strength of the German army from 780, 000 ( 1913 ) to 100, 000 actually enhanced the quality of the Reichsheer ( only the best would be permitted to join the army ) the changing face of warfare meant that the smaller army was largely helpless without mechanised and aerial support, no matter how much effort was put into modernising infantry tactics.
Whilst the USSR is neutral, any German aggression in the East, including penetration of Balkan countries, triggers a Russian ( sic ) Reaction Roll, which may allow the Soviets to intervene and makes the eventual German attack of Summer 1941 less likely to achieve surprise ( in which Soviet armour have no Zone of Control and infantry defend only at face value ).
Whilst it pinned down the German forces facing it, the Canadian First Army and US Ninth Army made a pincer movement from north and south ( operations Veritable and Grenade ) which pierced the Siegfried Line in that area and cleared the remaining German forces west of the Rhine in conjunction with further American offensives in the south of the Rhineland.
Whilst some elements of First Army concentrated upon reducing the Ruhr pocket, others headed further east, creating another pocket containing the German Eleventh Army.
Whilst it is not in common usage in English it is used in a number of historical contexts involving German speakers:
* Whilst BMW Motorsport did not build any special versions of the E28 M5, the German tuner Hartge produced the Hartge H35S-24, a version of the E28 M5.
Whilst units under the command of General Pavel Belov, the 2nd Cavalry Corps made from Don, Kuban and Stavropol Cossacks spearheaded the counter-attack onto the right flank of the VIth German Army delaying its advance towards Moscow.
Whilst positioned in a slip trench he advanced on his opposite number after British shelling of the enemy lines, to find all the German soldiers killed.
Whilst among the humanists of Liège, he had adopted Protestant opinions, and entering the service of Cardinal du Bellay, was employed in the futile negotiations of the French court to make an alliance with the German Protestants against the Emperor Charles V. In 1542 he settled at Strasbourg.
Whilst escorting a bomber attack against German ground forces, ' Moke ' Miller is badly wounded and later dies in hospital.
Whilst there he founded a radio observatory, having obtained two German " Wurzburg " Radar mirrors from the war.
Whilst in Italy they were much misused and lost roughly 10 % of their strength clearing roadside bombs and boobytraps left by the retreating German army.

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