Although many scholars today consider the Treatise to be Hume's most important work and one of the most important books in Western philosophy, the critics in Great Britain at the time did not agree, describing it as " abstract and unintelligible ".

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 Greek-language-origin prefix geo refers to Earth, " geology " is often used in conjunction with the names of other planetary bodies when describing their composition and internal processes: examples are " the geology of Mars " and " Lunar geology ".

Although English largely separates tense and aspect formally, its generally recognized aspects do not correspond very closely to the traditional notion of perfective vs. imperfective aspectual distinction originally devised to classify aspect in most Classical and Slavic languages ( those languages for which the concept of aspect was first proposed in describing non-tense handling of verbal " viewpoint ").

" Although Marrow may have been using some artistic license in describing his bank robbing exploits, he also stated he was glad the United States justice system has a statute of limitations, which had likely expired when Marrow admitted to his involvement in multiple Class 1 Felonies in the early-to mid-1970s.

Although Ferrigno and Bixby did not share lines on camera ( except for one episode, " King of the Beach "), the two were friends, with Ferrigno describing Bixby as a " mentor " and " father figure " who took Ferrigno under his wing.

" Although this clove hitch with knotted ends is a workable binding knot, Burgess was not actually describing the constrictor knot.

Although it called the story " pretty good ", the graphics " fantastic " and the audio effects " just right ", it complained that the level design " succumbs to the Dark Side ", describing " illogical and frustrating situations ".

Although the historicity of Pelayo is beyond doubt, the historical narrative describing him includes many folktales and legends.

Although it had historical precursors, this idea derived its main impetus from a famous report by Scoville and Brenda Milner describing the results of surgical destruction of the hippocampus ( in an attempt to relieve epileptic seizures ), in a patient named Henry Gustav Molaison, known until his death in 2008 as H. M.

Although echinococcosis has been well known for the past two thousand years, it wasn ’ t until the past couple of hundred years that real progress was made in determining and describing its parasitic origin.

Although the German press had once " swooned over him ", the new German authorities now made a mockery of Chagall's art, describing them as " green, purple, and red Jews shooting out of the earth, fiddling on violins, flying through the air ... representing assault on Western civilization ".

Although men in general verbally expressed satisfaction with their vasectomy, the authors of one review reflected " many men were probably describing feelings which have been distorted as part of an attempt to cope with their private concerns about the consequences of the operation ".

Although McClellan was assuaged by supportive comments Lincoln made to him, in time he saw the change of command very differently, describing it as a part of an intrigue " to secure the failure of the approaching campaign.

Although the audience was enthusiastic, press reports were hostile, one describing the work as " no better than that of a gifted fourteen-year-old boy.

Although the Indians were probably describing the land of the Maya in Yucatan, the nameand legends about Boinca's fountain of youthbecame associated with the Bahamas instead.

Although the term savanna is believed to have originally come from an Arawak word describing " land which is without trees but with much grass either tall or short " ( Oviedo y Valdes, 1535 ), by the late 1800s it was used to mean " land with both grass and trees ".

Although there is no one criterion or set of criteria for describing a group as a " new religious movement ," use of the term usually requires that the group be both of recent origin and different from existing religions.

Although he also used the term " hypersexuality " in that book, he was describing conditions that would now be called premature ejaculation.

Although this controversy has been widely reported since as being due to the use of a jet engine, the FIA rules describing a qualifying car as being " driven through its wheels ", the only issue raised seriously at the time was over the number of wheels, hence the FIM acceptance.

Although there is presently no consensus for a psychological definition of forgiveness in the research literature, agreement has emerged that forgiveness is a process and a number of models describing the process of forgiveness have been published, including one from a radical behavioral perspective.

Although McClellan was assuaged by supportive comments Lincoln made to him, in time he saw the change of command very differently, describing it as a part of an intrigue " to secure the failure of the approaching campaign.

Although the equation was extremely successful in describing electron dynamics, it possesses a rather peculiar feature: for each quantum state possessing a positive energy E, there is a corresponding state with energy-E. This is not a big difficulty when an isolated electron is considered, because its energy is conserved and negative-energy electrons may be left out.

Although these various concepts have significant differences, a result of the disciplines from which they emerged and the topics to which they ’ re applied, they are functionally comparable in that they satisfy a similar conceptual function of describing dynamic and generative interaction between two or more variables in a system.

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 film was less than successful at the box office in the wake of 9 / 11, it reached cult film status after the DVD release, inspiring numerous websites devoted to unraveling the plot twists and meanings.

Although Ireland was one of her two kingdoms, Elizabeth faced a hostile — and in places virtually autonomous — Irish population that adhered to Catholicism and was willing to defy her authority and plot with her enemies.

Although most of the gameplay reflects a distinctly fantasy genre, the overarching plot of the series has something of a science fiction background.

Although it was marketed as a true story to attract a wider audience and as a subtle commentary on the era's political climate, its plot is entirely fictional ; however the character of Leatherface and minor plot details were inspired by the crimes of real-life murderer Ed Gein.

Although time travel has been a common plot device in science fiction since the late 19th century and the theories of special and general relativity allow methods for forms of one-way travel into the future via time dilation, it is currently unknown whether the laws of physics would allow time travel into the past.

Although a typical plot might easily require a few thousand paper motions, back and forth, the paper doesn't slip.

Although Germany was able to plot a sample of V-1s which had radio transmitters, which confirmed that they had fallen short, the telemetry was disregarded in favour of the human intelligence.

Although usually called a novel, it has no unified plot.

Although no formal script had been completed or leaked, Leone came up with the opening scene and basic plot.

Although the plot does not appear to have been especially well formulated, it caused widespread panic, and military assistance was drafted in from St. Thomas.

Although he attended performances of Wagner's operas, he was much more interested in the music than the plot.

Although the plot spans one year, the film is narrated by Lester at the moment of his death.

Although titled Iolanthe all along in Gilbert's plot book, for a time the piece was advertised as Perola and rehearsed under that name.

Although the novel's fantasy elements ( voodoo and black magic, tarot readings and precognition, ghosts and mysticism ) are secondary to the brutal murder that is the focus of the plot, it is set in the same milieu as Asprin's Griffen McCandles novels ( Dragons series ), Dragons Luck and Dragons Wild.

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

Although they decided to drop the murder plot, Allen and Brickman made a murder mystery many years later: 1993's Manhattan Murder Mystery, also starring Diane Keaton.

Although Annas is not mentioned by name in the plot to kill Lazarus, several 19th Century writers such as Johann Nepomuk Sepp and the Abbé Drioux, considered that there may be a concealed reference to Annas in the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus which points at a " Rich man " with five sons.

Although wavelength dispersive spectrometers are occasionally used to scan a wide range of wavelengths, producing a spectrum plot as in EDS, they are usually set up to make measurements only at the wavelength of the emission lines of the elements of interest.

Although the Wild Hunt does not appear in the sequel, it is frequently referred to as a major plot point.

His biographer Gordon A. Craig observes that this work gave few indications of his promise as a gifted writer: " Although the theme of incest, which was to occupy Fontane on later occasions, is touched upon here, the mawkishness of the tale ... is equaled by the lameness of its plot and the inertness of the style in which it is told, and characters Clärchen and her brother are both so colorless that no one could have guessed that their creator had a future as a writer.

" Although the books share little in terms of plot and narrative, they all examine the lives of middle-aged men, exploring the sordid, debauched, and post-apocalyptic undercurrents of life in late 20th-century Britain.

Although Janet Maslin of The New York Times admitted the film's plot was " demented ", she wrote that the film " has done a great deal to ensure the series ' longevity.