While I fully agree with Sir Anthony's contention, I think that we must carry the analysis farther, bearing in mind that while common peril may be the measure of our need, the existence or absence of a positive sense of community must be the measure of our capacity.

While he was busy with the burial ceremonies for his brother, the Danes defeated the English in his absence at an unnamed spot, and then again in his presence at Wilton in May.

While an organism with complete absence of melanin is called an albino ( American English, or British English ) an organism with only a diminished amount of melanin is described as albinoid.

While disc players and drives may have capabilities beyond the standards, enabling them to read and write nonstandard discs, there is no assurance, in the absence of explicit additional manufacturer specifications beyond normal Compact Disc logo certification, that any particular player or drive will perform beyond the standards at all or consistently.

While Amlaíb and Auisle were in north Britain, the Annals of Ulster record that Áed Findliath, High King of Ireland, took advantage of their absence to destroy the longphorts along the northern coasts of Ireland.

While Henry was dallying in France, Catherine, who was serving as regent in his absence, and his advisers were left to deal with this threat.

While some archaeologists interpret the absence of pig bones from the highland sites as an indicator of ethnicity, this is not certain.

While Sunni Islam was the state religion, there was not widespread pressure to convert ; indeed, Jahangir specifically warned his nobles that they " should not force Islam on anyone .” In the first century of Islamic expansion this attitude was taken partially because of concerns that an absence of non-Muslims would deprive the state of a valuable source of revenue.

While Patterson sought publicity, Gimlin was conspicuous by his absence.

While gravitropic response of Arabidopsis root organs is their predominant tropic response, specimens treated with mutagens and selected for the absence of gravitropic action showed negative phototropic response to blue or white light, and positive response to red light, indicating the roots also show positive phototropism.

While the thinner shell wall and absence of a central tube allowed the shell to carry far more bullets, it had the disadvantage that the bursting charge separated the bullets from the shell casing by firing the case forward and at the same time slowing the bullets down as they were ejected through the base of the shell casing, rather than increasing their velocity.

While indomethacin has historically been the most commonly used NSAID, an alternative, such as ibuprofen, may be preferred due to its better side effect profile in the absence of superior effectiveness.

* While Alexander is fighting in Asia, Agis III of Sparta, profiting from the Macedonian king's absence from Greece, leads some of the Greek cities in a revolt.

While preparing for yet another offensive against Bulgaria in 1195, Alexios Angelos, the Emperor's older brother, taking advantage of the latter's absence from camp on a hunting expedition, proclaimed himself emperor, and was readily recognised by the soldiers as Emperor Alexios III.

While several compositions on 1964's Beatles for Sale, as well as " I'll Cry Instead " from A Hard Day's Night, had leaned in a country and western direction, McCartney's " I've Just Seen a Face " was almost pure country, taken at such a fast tempo that it might have been bluegrass if not for the absence of banjo and fiddle.

While Brown was campaigning for President in 1980, Davis ran California in Brown's absence though Davis would later claim that " we always did what he thought Brown would have done.

While the absence of plentiful primary sources makes it hard for us to map out Isaac ’ s life, piecing together the sources we do have along with the works he wrote give us a good picture of just how popular this Franco-Flemish composer was in his time.

While such freedom mostly implies the absence of interference from an overreaching state, its preservation may be sought through constitutional or other legal protections.

While traditional psychologists specializing in close relationships have focused on relationship dysfunction, positive psychology argues that relationship health is not merely the absence of relationship dysfunction.

While an arrest will not necessarily lead to a criminal conviction, it may nonetheless in some jurisdictions have serious ramifications such as absence from work, social stigma, and in some cases, the legal obligation to disclose an arrest when a person applies for a job, a loan or a professional license.

While the Socrates presented in the dialogues is often taken to be Plato's mouthpiece, Socrates ' reputation for irony, his caginess regarding his own opinions in the dialogues, and his occasional absence from or minor role in the conversation serve to conceal Plato's doctrines.

While serving as acting governor in Fordice's absence, Musgrove was a model of political restraint, limiting his activities to signing proclamations, processing extraditions, declaring weather-related emergencies and making appointments recommended by Fordice's staff.

While there is no evidence to suggest that a simple absence of a sound or sequence in one language's phonological inventory makes it difficult to learn, several theoretical models have presumed that non-native speech perceptions reflect both the abstract phonological properties and phonetic details of the native language.

While trying to purify the enzyme responsible for splicing reaction, he found that intron could be spliced out in the absence of any added cell extract.

While the probability of encountering food, potential sexual partners, or predators is the same in all directions for animals floating freely in the water, there is a clear difference on the seafloor between the sides facing toward and away from the substrate, and between their orientation and the vertical direction perpendicular to the substrate.

While measuring the spin of these entangled particles along parallel axes will always result in opposite ( i. e., perfectly anticorrelated ) results, measurement at perpendicular directions will have a 50 % chance of matching ( i. e., will have a 50 % probability of an uncorrelated result ).

While motorcyclists frequently ride at speeds higher than 20 m / s ( 45 mph ), the perpendicular impact speed of the helmet is usually not the same as the road speed of the motorcycle, and the severity of the impact is determined not only by the speed of the head but also by the surface it hits and the angle of impact.

While heavily armoured, it is not built to withstand forces from perpendicular directions.

While smoking, the hollow part of the tube is usually compressed to make two perpendicular flat surfaces, for the sake of convenience.

While the lake has a similar geologic structure ( a very long, narrow valley ) to the Finger Lakes to the east, it is not considered one of the Finger Lakes ; its direction runs perpendicular to the westernmost of those lakes ( much like an opposable thumb ), lies in a different watershed, and was likely formed by a different process.

While wood has a commonly quoted R-value of about 1. 25 per inch ( depending on the species and moisture content ), that only applies if the heat flow is perpendicular to the grain, such as occurs in common wood frame construction.

While the city council suggested that the Legislative Council might perform the review, Mr. Notte said that instead he will take up the matter with Atty. Gen. J. Joseph Nugent to get `` the benefit of his views ''.

While his paternal family was from the town of Velletri, about from Rome, Augustus was born in the city of Rome on 23 September 63 BC.

While in the city, there are many buses and taxi services one can take to get from place to place, but most of the locals choose to walk to their destinations.

While the emperor's palace no longer exists, the church built by Charlemagne is still the main attraction of the city.

While previously held elsewhere within or near the capital city, since 1918 it has been held on the Champs-Élysées, with the evident agreement of the Allies as represented in the Versailles Peace Conference, and with the exception of the period of German occupation from 1940 to 1944.

While Ignatius of Antioch offers the earliest clear description of monarchial bishops ( a single bishop over all house churches in a city ) he is an advocate of monepiscopal structure rather than describing an accepted reality.

While in Fort Worth, Wills added the " rowdy city blues " of Bessie Smith and Emmett Miller to a repertoire of mainly waltzes and breakdowns he had learned from his father, and patterned his vocal style after that of Miller and other performers such as Al Bernard.

While David Kessler and Peter Temin consider ancient Rome to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first to have exceeded a population of over 1 million, George Modelski considers medieval Baghdad, with an estimated population of 1. 2 million at its peak, to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first with a population of over one million.

While the city withstood a siege, Heraclius campaigned deep into Persian territory and briefly restored the status quo in 628, when the Persians surrendered all their conquests.

While maintaining much diversity in class, race, and age, it became harder and harder for those who grew up in the city to be able to afford to stay.

While the ride was originally founded with the idea of drawing attention to how unfriendly the city was to bicyclists, the leaderless structure of Critical Mass makes it impossible to assign it any one specific goal.

Egypt's capital was permanently moved to Cairo, which was eventually expanded to include the ruins of Fustat and the previous capitals of al-Askar and al-Qatta ' i. While the Fustat fire successfully protected the city of Cairo, a continuing power struggle between Shawar, King Amalric I of Jerusalem, and Zengid general Shirkuh led to the downfall of the Fatimid establishment.

While en route to Chongqing, the Nationalist army intentionally started the " fire of Changsha ", which lasted for three days, destroyed two thirds of the city, killed twenty thousand civilians, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

While raising Chicago, and at first improving the health of the city, the untreated sewage and industrial waste now flowed into the Chicago River, then into Lake Michigan, polluting the primary source of fresh water for the city.

While there are no ski slopes within Carson City, the city is located close to Heavenly Mountain Resort, Diamond Peak and Mount Rose skiing areas.

While the group was in Osaka, Japan, a typhoon hit the city.

While Eugene has long been the second-largest city in Oregon, it was briefly surpassed by Salem between 2005 and 2007 .< ref >

While Greek culture placed a greater emphasis on prowess and power, Paris chose to award the apple to Aphrodite, thereby dooming his city, which was destroyed in the war that ensued.

While the Romans did not wish to come to the aid of soldiers who had unjustly stolen a city from its rightful possessors, and although they were still recovering from the insurrection of Campanian troops at Rhegium in 271, many were also unwilling to see Carthaginian power in Sicily expand even further.

While all this is happening, Mothra is heading through the city, directly towards the hotel.

While visiting Greece in 126, Hadrian attempted to create a kind of provincial parliament to bind all the semi-autonomous former city states across all Greece and Ionia ( in Asia Minor ).

While technologically and culturally the city dwellers were more advanced, they could do little militarily to defend against the mounted hordes of the steppe.

While initial talk existed of a race to Berlin by the Allies, after Stalin successfully lobbied for Eastern Germany to fall within the Soviet " sphere of influence " at Yalta, no plans were made by the Western Allies to seize the city by a ground operation.