Although Ireland's political spectrum was traditionally divided along Civil War lines, rather than the traditional European left-right spectrum, Fine Gael is described generally as a centre-right, Christian democratic party, with a focus on law and order, enterprise and reward, and fiscal rectitude.

Although Mitchell suffered from the swing against Fine Gael in Dublin, he was not aided by the fact that Inchicore, which was considered his base in the constituency had been moved to Dublin South – Central.

Although MacDermot became a Vice-President of Fine Gael at its foundation, he differed from most of his party colleagues on issues such as the degree of emphasis to be given to Ireland's membership of the British Commonwealth.

Although Fine Gael increased its number of deputies, it crossed the Dáil chamber to the Opposition benches.

Although the majority of the party consisted of Fianna Fáil defectors, it mainly took seats from Fine Gael.

Although Fine was regarded as a serious contender for the World Chess Championship, he declined his invitation to participate in the six-player 1948 tournament, which was organized to determine the World Champion after the 1946 death of reigning champion Alexander Alekhine, and he virtually retired from serious competition around that time.

Although a Bachelor of Fine Arts is traditionally considered a four-year degree, a BFA program may take longer to complete because of the amount of studio course work required.

Although " Ode on a Grecian Urn " was completed in May 1819, its first printing came in January 1820 when it was published with " Ode to a Nightingale " in the Annals of Fine Art, an art magazine that promoted views on art similar to those Keats held.

Although he earned the Diploma with a Gold Medal, except for a short stint at a Fine Arts Institute in Thrissur he did not take up painting as a profession and instead turned his attention completely towards the political issues.

Although he was never a member of the act at the same time as Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard or Shemp Howard, he did cross paths with the Three Stooges on several occasions and would later join the New Three Stooges in the 1970s ( with official Stooge Joe DeRita ).

Although he painted only about 140 works, concentrations of his work can be found in the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C .; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA ; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA ; the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania ; the Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C .; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

Although the Commission of Fine Arts did not approve the FBI building's final design until November 1967, the first contract for land clearance and excavation was awarded in March 1965.

Although many artists refused to accept an African-American apprentice, in 1879 Tanner enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, becoming the only black student.

Although sustained by Mesureur, deputy chairman of the Council of Paris and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of France, by Frédéric Hattat, chairman of the Fine Art commission in the same council, by Albert Dubois-Pillet, commanding the Republican Guard, member of the Grand Orient de France, the beginning of the Company, considered as a nest of revolutionaries, were difficult.

Although rocks are never removed from the Mound, the Mound itself was moved from the upper campus to the lower campus in the 1970s when Darbeth Fine Arts Building was built on the original site of the Mound.

Although the American team including Reuben Fine, Samuel Reshevsky, Arnold Denker, and Isaac Kashdan, was badly beaten, Steiner scored 1½ – ½ against Igor Bondarevsky.

Although the Special School of Fine Arts was founded in 1845 as an independent entity, it was at the beginning under the inspection and monitoring of the Academy.

Although it did not benefit the party directly – Fine Gael gained only four seats in the 1989 general election, and did not form part of the subsequent government – Fine Gael maintain that this policy of cooperation between the opposition and the government laid the foundations for the Celtic Tiger economic boom of the 1990s – " A decision by the Fine Gael opposition to support all moves towards fiscal reform ... allowed the fierce spending and tax cuts that began to transform Ireland from a banana republic into a ' Celtic Tiger '.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

Although it was a mere fragment of the victim's remains, it was enough.

Although there were only four fluids tested, it was apparent that there were two distinct types.

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.

Although mostly nocturnal, they are occasionally active during the day.

Although at first the disagreement appeared to be minor and inspired by personal conflicts, for example, Lenin's insistence on dropping less active editorial board members from Iskra or Martov's support for the Organizing Committee of the Congress which Lenin opposed, the differences quickly grew and the split became irreparable.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

Although it serves as a rival to Confucianism, a school of active morality, this rivalry is compromised and given perspective by the idiom " practise Confucianism on the outside, Taoism on the inside.

Although the Earth ’ s active surface processes quickly destroy the impact record, about 170 terrestrial impact craters have been identified.

Although any preservation of this knowledge in literary sources from the Middle Ages is unknown, medieval masons and some military engineers maintained an active tradition of using hydraulic cement in structures such as canals, fortresses, harbors, and shipbuilding facilities.

Although Mobutu successfully maintained control during this period, opposition parties, most notably the Union pour la Démocratie et le Progrès Social ( UDPS ), were active.

Although his administrative abilities had been noticed, on the eve of the U. S. entry into World War II he had never held an active command above a battalion and was far from being considered by many as a potential commander of major operations.

Although Fresnel, who had also the satisfaction of being the first to put it into operation, perfected the dioptric apparatus independently, Brewster was active earlier in the field than Fresnel, describing the dioptric apparatus in 1812.

Although the idea was conceived in the 1950s, the design of good hash functions is still a topic of active research.

Although the new stitch is itself unsecured (" active " or " live "), it secures the stitch ( es ) suspended from it.

Although communist networks in Phnom Penh and in other towns under Tou Samouth's jurisdiction fared better, only a few hundred communists remained active in the country by 1960.

Although it is difficult to determine without invasive measures which exact parts of the brain become most active and important for language acquisition, fMRI and PET technology has allowed for some conclusions to be made about where language may be centered.

Although the last packaged release was in 2000, development is still active in the project's CVS.

Although the power of Athens was broken, it made something of a recovery as a result of the Corinthian War and continued to play an active role in Greek politics.

Although the proteasome normally produces very short peptide fragments, in some cases these products are themselves biologically active and functional molecules.

Although relatively weak up until the early 11th century under the Sancho III ( 1004 – 1035 ), Navarre took up a more active Christian role after the accession to the throne of the Jimenez lineage ( 905 ).

Although the volcano is quiescent at the present time, at the current active crater ( there are several former craters on Nea Kameni ), steam and carbon dioxide are given off.

Although Tobago is volcanic in origin, there are no active volcanoes.

Although Harding was committed to putting the " best minds " on his cabinet, he often rewarded those persons who were active and contributed to his campaign by appointing them to high federal department positions.

Although the extent-based nature of XFS and the delayed allocation strategy it uses significantly improves the file system's resistance to fragmentation problems, XFS provides a filesystem defragmentation utility (, short for XFS filesystem reorganizer ) that can defragment the files on a mounted and active XFS filesystem.

Although short, standing at 1. 67m ( 5 ft 6 in ) Prost was an active, athletic child, who enthusiastically took part in diverse sports, including wrestling, roller skating and football.

Although the exact mechanisms are not known, it is clear that dopamine and tonically active neurons play a key role here.

Although not usually a factor in the thermal radiation of stars, polarization is also present in radiation from coherent astronomical sources ( e. g. hydroxyl or methanol masers ), and incoherent sources such as the large radio lobes in active galaxies, and pulsar radio radiation ( which may, it is speculated, sometimes be coherent ), and is also imposed upon starlight by scattering from interstellar dust.

Although his pupils included Peter Philips and Thomas Tomkins, both of whom were active as keyboard composers, the native virginal school to which he had contributed so much went into sharp decline with a number of deaths in the 1620s and never recovered.