Although usually described as a song cycle rather than a concept album, the songs do, when considered in their totality, seem to link together as one long song, forming an " intangible narrative of unreachable worlds " and delivered with what one writer calls " a masterpiece of virtuoso singing ".

Although in economic theory all goods are considered tangible, in reality certain classes of goods, such as information, only are in intangible forms.

Although a number of commentators have expressed enthusiasm over the increasing " propertization " of intellectual property ( that is to say, the increased application of real property doctrines to intangible property ) and the extension of the trespass to chattels doctrine to computer networks, a number of detractors have expressed concern over the ramifications of extending the theory to protect electronic communications that do not actually damage the computer systems in question but only cause nominal damage due to their content.

Although intangible, he is capable of many impossible feats, from mind-reading, possession, to even sexual intercourse or murder.

Although secondary to its hack and slash gameplay, Castle of the Winds has a plot loosely based on Norse mythology, told with setting changes, unique items, and occasional passages of text.

Although the 18-20 early schools of Buddhism are sometimes loosely classified as Hīnayāna in modern times, this is not necessarily accurate.

Although the former five remained loosely affiliated to varying degrees, the last — Nikkō — made a clean break by leaving Kuon-ji in 1289.

Although often viewed in the context of infectious disease, prions are more loosely defined by their ability to catalytically convert other native state versions of the same protein to an infectious conformational state.

Although loosely based on the game, with similar characters and plot elements, there are some big differences.

Although loosely based on the Andersen story, it was also said to have been inspired by the real-life meeting of Sergei Diaghilev with the British ballerina Diana Gould.

Although it was in 1867 that Stasov first referred to the ' kuchka ' (' The Five ') of Russian composers loosely grouped around Balakirev, Mussorgsky was by then ceasing to seek Balakirev's approval and was moving closer to the older Alexander Dargomyzhsky.

Although the Spanish were loosely allied with the American colonists, they were more interested in advancing their power at the expense of the British.

Although loosely structured, the film is concerned mainly with four topics: Chełmno, where gas vans were first used to exterminate Jews ; the death camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz-Birkenau ; and the Warsaw Ghetto, with testimonies from survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators.

Although " tefillin " is technically the plural form ( the singular being " tefillah "), it is loosely used as a singular as well.

Although based loosely on what is known of the historical figure of Aguirre, the film's story line is, as Herzog acknowledged years after the film's release, a work of imagination.

Therefore if taken literally, they mean ‘ to walk straight back and forth .’ Although it can be translated loosely as meditative walking or walking meditation.

Although sometimes loosely expressed simply as the number of new cases during some time period, it is better expressed as a proportion or a rate with a denominator.

Although " pediculosis " in humans may properly refer to lice infestation of any part of the body, the term is sometimes used loosely to refer to pediculosis capitis, the infestation of the human head with the specific head louse.

Although these relational concepts are mathematically defined, those definitions map loosely to traditional database concepts.

Although the game loosely follows the events portrayed in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in many cases, the outcome is altered in Liu Bei's favour against the various other warlords of the period.

Although English accounts call the area a " kingdom '" it was loosely organized.

Although sometimes only loosely affiliated, Frankfurt School theorists spoke with a common paradigm in mind, thus sharing the same assumptions and being preoccupied with similar questions.

Although the name is often used loosely to refer to that part of Gloucestershire between the Severn and Wye, the Forest of Dean proper has covered a much smaller area since medieval times.

Although they are loosely modeled after the traditional English Inns, American Inns of Court do not include any real property.

Although like-minded on slavery, the Radicals were loosely organized and disagreed with one another on other issues such as the tariff and currency issues.

Although the protagonists were not intended to represent any specific individuals, the character of the American was loosely based on chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer, while elements of the story may have been inspired by the chess careers of Russian grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Anatoly Karpov.

Although the narrative voice is omniscient, it is loosely grounded in Rahel's perspective, and all of the episodes of the novel progress towards the key moments in Rahel's life.

Although the term may be loosely applied to any sunrise or sunset light seen on the mountains, true alpenglow is not direct sunlight and is only observed after sunset or before sunrise.

Although some measure of truth lies within the tale, it is largely an idealized account written by author Bigelow Paine and loosely based on McDonald's statements, published in Paine's classic book Captain Bill McDonald: Texas Ranger in 1909.

Although he was committed to maintaining what the church had defined at Nicaea, Constantine was also bent on pacifying the situation and eventually became more lenient toward those condemned and exiled at the council.

Although the candela is now defined in terms of the second ( an SI base unit ) and the watt ( a derived SI unit ), the candela remains a base unit of the SI system, by definition.

Although all group 16 elements of the periodic table, including oxygen, are defined as chalcogens, oxygen and oxides are usually distinguished from chalcogens and chalcogenides.

Although Cantor himself defined the set in a general, abstract way, the most common modern construction is the Cantor ternary set, built by removing the middle thirds of a line segment.

Although the fluxion is defined here as a function of time, the symbols and respectively standing alone are not defined here.

Although most often used for matrices whose entries are real or complex numbers, the definition of the determinant only involves addition, subtraction and multiplication, and so it can be defined for square matrices with entries taken from any commutative ring.

Although the Ediacaran Period does contain soft-bodied fossils, it is unusual in comparison to later periods because its beginning is not defined by a change in the fossil record.

Although ephemeris time was defined in principle by the orbital motion of the Earth around the Sun, it was usually measured in practice by the orbital motion of the Moon around the Earth.

Although the words faith and belief are sometimes erroneously conflated and used as synonyms, faith properly refers to a particular type ( or subset ) of belief, as defined above.

Although that instrument still survives in working order, it is no longer in use and now the meridian of origin of the world's longitude and time is not strictly defined in material form but from a statistical solution resulting from observations of all time-determination stations which the BIPM takes into account when co-ordinating the world's time signals.

: Although its syntax closely resembles that of SGML, HTML5 has abandoned any attempt to be an SGML application and has explicitly defined its own " html " serialization, in addition to an alternative XML-based XHTML5 serialization.

Although the Holy See, as distinct from the Vatican City State, does not fulfil the long-established criteria in international law of statehood — having a permanent population, a defined territory, a stable government and the capacity to enter into relations with other states — its possession of full legal personality in international law is shown by the fact that it maintains diplomatic relations with 179 states, that it is a member-state in various intergovernmental international organizations, and that it is: " respected by the international community of sovereign States and treated as a subject of international law having the capacity to engage in diplomatic relations and to enter into binding agreements with one, several, or many states under international law that are largely geared to establish and preserving peace in the world.

Although the practice of Holy Communion was first alluded to in the Christian Bible and defined by theologians in the 1st centuries AD, it was around the time of the appearance of the first Christianised Grail literature that the Roman church was beginning to add more ceremony and mysticism around this particular sacrament.

Although a Jedi class is usually defined by the color of the lightsaber, a Jedi can choose to make his / her lightsaber any color they see fit.

Although the changes gave the president the power to dissolve parliament, it also more clearly defined the parliament's powers.

Although the changes gave the President the power to dissolve Parliament, it also more clearly defined Parliament's powers.

Although the metre is now defined as the path length travelled by light in a given time, the practical laboratory length measurements in metres are determined by counting the number of wavelengths of laser light of one of the standard types that fit into the length, and converting the selected unit of wavelength to metres.

Although this group is also defined by effect rather than mechanism, there is at least a preliminary understanding of the mechanism of most of the anticonvulsants used in the treatment of mood disorders.

Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently ( for example, see Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in the United States ), an international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ), and its World Commission on Protected Areas, has defined " National Park " as its Category II type of protected areas.

Although most historians have dismissed the terms of the Indenture as being highly ambitious and fanciful, R. R. Davies noted that certain internal features underscore the rootedness of Glyndŵr's political philosophy in Welsh mythology: in it, the three men invoke prophecy, and the boundaries of Wales are defined according to Merlinic literature.

Although the psychology of ostracism takes this further, where it has been defined as “… any behaviour in which a group or individual excludes and ignores another group or individual ”.

Although these are defined in English as leavening agents, they leaven by chemical reaction, not by biological fermentation.

Although not well defined in the Tanakh, Sheol in this view was a subterranean underworld where the souls of the dead went after the body died.

Although the press kit released to the media for the film explicitly defined a replicant as, " A genetically engineered creature composed entirely of organic substance ", a question commonly posed is the physical make-up of the replicants themselves.