Although Sears associates the conflict theory approach with Marxism, he argues that it is the foundation for much " feminist, post-modernist, anti-racist, and lesbian-gay liberationist theories.

Although today the Sears Tower in Chicago is the United States's tallest building, there was a time when Montgomery Ward's headquarters was similarly distinguished.

Although discount stores and department stores have different retailing goals and different markets, a recent development in retailing is the " discount department store ", such as Sears Essentials, which is a combination of the Kmart and Sears formats, following the companies ' merger as Sears Holdings Corporation.

Although there are some notable exceptions, most product names are based on a special naming system developed by IKEA.

* Steve McConnell ( for Hungarian ): " Although the Hungarian naming convention is no longer in widespread use, the basic idea of standardizing on terse, precise abbreviations continues to have value.

Although the tria nomina convention is often seen as the classic Roman naming convention, in fact it was only predominant from the mid-republican period to the early Empire, and then only amongst the elite.

Although the battle actually took place close to Allenstein ( Olsztyn ), General Erich Ludendorff's aide, Colonel Max Hoffmann, suggested naming it after Tannenberg, in the interest of Pan-German ideology, to counter the defeat of the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald ( Tannenberg ) in 1410 by the Poles, Lithuanians and Tatars.

My father was an athletic, creative, intelligent filmmaker and writer, and the only thing he had in common with Homer was a love of donuts " Although Groening has stated in several interviews that Homer's namesake is his father, he also claimed in several 1990 interviews that a character in the 1939 Nathanael West novel The Day of the Locust was the inspiration for naming Homer.

Although Halley's naming error was pointed out by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1756, the name continues to be used.

Although the coincidence would suggest that Standish had something to do with the naming of Duxbury, Massachusetts, no records exist to indicate how the town was named.

Although this gender specific naming trend is common for assigning fragrance concentrations, it does not directly have anything to do with whether a fragrance was intended for men or women.

Although Trygve and Aud filed a complaint against Nederland involving money and naming rights in 2005, Frozen Dead Guy Days is still alive ; the most recent celebration was held March 4 – 6, 2011, and the next is scheduled for March 2-4, 2012.

Although knowledge of this species is limited, we consider its naming to be justified based on the diagnostic morphology of ultimate fourth premolars in ptilodontids generally ( Krause 1982, 1987 ) and the unique structure of these teeth.

Although it was the oldest of the tria nomina commonly used in Roman naming conventions, by the late republic, most praenomina were so common that most people were called by their praenomina only by family or close friends.

Although variants also exist, as in the Parodius series, and button naming can differ depending on the controller used, the classic Famicom or NES combination is: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A.

Although he was separated from his wife, Dorothy Dunbar, at the time of their affair, Dunbar threatened divorce proceedings, naming Harlow as a correspondent for " alienation of affection ", a legal term for adultery.

Although the pope acknowledged his merits, by naming him " the Athlete of Christ ", no anti-Ottoman coalition materialized.

Although Valachi's disclosures never led directly to the prosecution of many Mafia leaders, he was able to provide many details of its history, operations and rituals, aiding in the solution of several uncleared murders, as well as naming many members and the major crime families.

Although the entire route is usually referred to as the M74, more than half of its length is officially designated as the A74 ( M ); see naming confusion below.

Although it has been suggested that Neris is the primeval name of the river, while name Viliya is of a secondary extraction, the dual naming most probably emerged from the confluence of rivers Neris ( now known as Narach River, leaving Lake Narach ) and Velja, in the historical Slavic / Baltic borderland, each ethnos choosing their own name for the river starting at the confluence.

Although Edna may not be able to name the fear that has driven her out of her own house, she appears to be quite capable of naming the things that other people are doing wrong in their lives.

Although the canonical naming convention for the file is ChangeLog, it is sometimes alternatively named as CHANGES or HISTORY ( NEWS is usually a different file reflecting changes between releases, not between the commits ).

Although the Milwaukee Road was the first to design such locomotives, naming them Baltics, they didn't get built until after the NYC's Hudsons.

Although Cal Poly Pomona is now part of the California State University, its naming convention does not follow that of most campuses within the system ( for example, the CSU campus in San Diego bears the full official name " San Diego State University " and the CSU campus in Fullerton uses the name " California State University, Fullerton ").

Although the current PC platform architecture has replaced the PCI bus backbone with faster I / O backbones, the bridge naming convention remains.

Although in reality biologists may examine many specimens ( when available ) of a new taxon before writing an official published species description, nonetheless, under the formal rules for naming species ( the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature ), a single type must be designated, as part of the published description.

Although CHCH had been available on cable in many Ontario markets for years, the station's broadcast signal coverage was expanded throughout Ontario with repeaters in 1997, in an effort to compete with the reach of Global's Ontario station CIII, as well as the Baton Broadcast System, a group of mostly CTV-affiliated stations which served most of the province .< Ref > In turn, WIC renamed the station ONtv, as in " Ontario Television ", in line with the naming pattern of many of its other stations ( such as BCTV, ITV, and RDTV ).

Although we have no measures of its strength or intensity, the heritage of the doctrine of inalienable rights is retained.

Although he saved his life by turning informer, he was condemned to partial loss of civil rights and forced to leave Athens.

Although Tasmanian AFL Bid has been ongoing, the AFL's focus has become gaining marketshare in lucrative and broadcasting rights in two populous Australian states, introducing clubs on the Gold Coast, Queensland ( Gold Coast Football Club ) and in Greater Western Sydney ( Greater Western Sydney Football Club ).

Although Locke did not develop a theory of natural rights, he envisioned individuals in the state of nature as being free and equal.

Although the counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed VI, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

Although women in Djibouti enjoy a higher public status than in many other Islamic countries, women's rights and family planning face difficult challenges, many stemming from poverty.

Although both acts were much weaker than subsequent civil rights legislation, they constituted the first significant civil rights acts since 1875.

Although President Obiang signed a national anti-torture decree in 2006 to ban all forms of abuse and improper treatment in Equatorial Guinea and commissioned the renovation and modernization of Black Beach prison in 2007 to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners, human rights abuses continue. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other non-governmental organizations have documented severe human rights abuses in prisons, including torture, beatings, unexplained deaths and illegal detention.

Although political freedom is often interpreted negatively as the freedom from unreasonable external constraints on action, it can also refer to the positive exercise of rights, capacities and possibilities for action, and the exercise of social or group rights.

Although leftist guerrillas and right-wing death squads also engaged in summary executions, forced disappearances, and torture of noncombatants, the vast majority of human rights violations were carried out by the Guatemalan military and the PACs they controlled.

Although the administration made progress on such issues as taking state responsibility for past human rights cases and supporting human rights in international fora, it failed to show significant advances on combating impunity in past human rights cases, military reforms, a fiscal pact to help finance peace implementation, and legislation to increase political participation.

Although ideas of rights and liberty have existed in some form for much of human history, they do not resemble the modern conception of human rights.

Although accepted by the signatories to the UDHR, most do not in practice give equal weight to the different types of rights.

Although many of the legal principles governing intellectual property rights have evolved over centuries, it was not until the 19th century that the term intellectual property began to be used, and not until the late 20th century that it became commonplace in the majority of the world.

Although the relationship between intellectual property and human rights is a complex one, there are moral arguments for intellectual property.

Although Locke had never explicitly stated that natural right applied to products of the mind, it is possible to apply his argument to intellectual property rights, in which it would be unjust for people to misuse another's ideas.

Although hated by the educated in Herat and often accused of human rights abuses, Ismail Khan's regime provided security, paid government employees, and made investments in public services.

Although Kemp tried to appeal to the conservatives, his libertarian philosophies of tolerance and individual rights and his commitment to supporting minorities, women, blue-collar workers and organized labor clashed with conservative voters ' social and religious values.

" Although Muslims, as well as Jews and Eastern Christians, had virtually no rights in the countryside, where they were essentially the property of the crusader lord who owned the land, tolerance for other faiths was in general higher than that found elsewhere in the Middle East.