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Although genus types with vertical extent are often considered a single family, the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) further distinguishes towering vertical clouds as a separate group by specifying that these very large cumuliform and cumulonimbiform types must be identified by their standard names or abbreviations in all aviation observations ( METARS ) and forecasts ( TAFS ) to warn pilots of possible severe weather and turbulance.

Although the Yunjing distinguishes 36 initials, they are placed in 23 columns by combining palatals, retroflexes, and dentals under the same column.

Although the chassis concepts for the Mini 4WDs remain the same for the models of the series, the body which can be made out of hard plastic or soft, transparent polyvinyl carbonate ( PVC ) for special or limited editions, which attaches with a catch-type lock at the back of the car, distinguishes one model from another ; additionally, the wings on the plastic bodies allow for improved down force and stability.

Although normally considered to be a Class 101, Daisy is always depicted with the distinctive valances around the buffer beams that distinguishes the lightweight prototype units.

Although often Ansai is criticized for his ' torturous rationalizations " found in Suika Shinto, Ooms argues that what distinguishes Ansai from other Neo-Confucian scholars of his time was the " systematic structure of his thought.

Although one meets with occasional extremists like Zachrisson or, very recently, Arthur Wade-Evans the majority of scholars have taken a middle position between the extremes of scepticism and gullibility.

Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.

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 Miller noted in 1907 that a difference in the pleural blood supply existed between animals, nowhere in his published works is it found that he did a comparative study of the intrapulmonary features of various mammalian lungs other than in the dog and cat ( Miller, '13 ; ;

Although the standard deviation values on which spread of the lines is based are relatively larger for those centers which begin to ossify early ( Table 1 ), there are considerable differences in this value between centers having the closely timed Onsets.

Although I have emphasized the barriers which an aroused nationalism has raised against relations between Christians and non-Christians in Asia, the fact is that this development has also widened the gulf between certain Afro-Asian religions themselves.

Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".

Although single genes have little effect on complex traits and interact heavily both between themselves and with the external factors, research is underway to unravel possible molecular mechanisms underlying anxiety and comorbid conditions.

Although the range and precise application of defenses varies between jurisdictions, the following represents a list of the defenses that may apply to all levels of assault:

Although the increased contact brought by trade between the Japanese and the Ainu contributed to increased mutual understanding, sometimes it led to conflict, occasionally intensifying into violent Ainu revolts, of which the most important was Shakushain's Revolt ( 1669 – 1672 ).

Although there have been attempts to show that the Ainu language and the Japanese language are related, modern scholars have rejected that the relationship goes beyond contact, such as the mutual borrowing of words between Japanese and Ainu.

Although he described his method as translating " sometimes word for word, sometimes sense for sense ," Alfred's translation actually keeps very close to his original, although through his choice of language he blurred throughout the distinction between spiritual and secular authority.

Although there were low levels of preexisting antibiotic-resistant bacteria before the widespread use of antibiotics, evolutionary pressure from their use has played a role in the development of muiltidrug resistance varieties and the spread of resistance between bacterial species.

Although clubs from other states were at times invited, the final was almost always between the premiers from the two strongest state competitions of the time — South Australia and Victoria — and the majority of matches were played in Adelaide at the request of the SAFA / SAFL.

Although he used the usual French terms " avant J .- C ." ( before Jesus Christ ) and " après J .- C ." ( after Jesus Christ ) to label years elsewhere in his book, the Byzantine historian Venance Grumel used negative years ( identified by a minus sign, −) to label BC years and unsigned positive years to label AD years in a table, possibly to save space, without a year 0 between them.

Although some plants do prefer slightly basic soil ( including vegetables like cabbage and fodder like buffalograss ), most plants prefer a mildly acidic soil ( pH between 6. 0 and 6. 8 ), and alkaline soils can cause problems.

Although no military coups occurred during the 67 years of the Brazilian Empire, the Republican period experienced 4 military coup d ' états in the 75 years between 1889 and 1964.

Although a Conservative, Disraeli was sympathetic to some of the demands of the Chartists and argued for an alliance between the landed aristocracy and the working class against the increasing power of the merchants and new industrialists in the middle class, helping to found the Young England group in 1842 to promote the view that the landed interests should use their power to protect the poor from exploitation by middle-class businessmen.

Although the Nebel stream lay between Fugger's and Marsin's squadrons, the French were forced to change front to meet this new threat, thus forestalling the chance for Marsin to strike at Marlborough's infantry.

Although the book has been historically classified as " prophetic ", the style of writing is apocalyptic which was popular between 200 BCE and 100 CE.

Although Emlyn Hooson held on to the seat of Montgomeryshire, upon Clement Davies death in 1962, the party lost its other Welsh five Welsh seats between 1950 and 1966.

Although historically inaccurate, the legend of the Greek messenger Pheidippides running to Athens with news of the victory became the inspiration for this athletic event, introduced at the 1896 Athens Olympics, and originally run between Marathon and Athens.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.

Although contacts between Cubans and foreign visitors were made legal in 1997, extensive censorship has isolated it from the rest of the world.

Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.

Although Afrikaans adopted words from languages such as Malay, Portuguese, the Bantu languages, and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95 percent of Afrikaans vocabulary is ultimately of Dutch origin.

Although this passage is only three words in the original Hebrew, it is quoted three times in the New Testament.

Although he must have been familiar with the ancient name, Balcia, meaning a supposed island in the Baltic Sea, and although he may have been aware of the Baltic words containing the stem balt -, " white ", as " swamp ", he reports that he followed the local use of balticus from baelt (" belt ") because the sea stretches to the east " in modum baltei " (" in the manner of a belt ").

Although the definitions of words and ideas might broaden, continuity ( preservation ) requires retention of their original arete ( excellence, virtue, goodness ).

Although the word " chalcogen " is literally taken from Greek words being " copper-former ", the meaning is more in line with " copper-ore former " or more generally, " ore-former ".

Although the content of the document file is arranged in a format that the word-processing program understands, the user is able to choose the name and location of the file and provide the bulk of the information ( such as words and text ) that will be stored in the file.

Although Judaism provides Jews with a word to label God's transcendence ( Ein Sof, without end ) and immanence ( Shekhinah, in-dwelling ), these are merely human words to describe two ways of experiencing God ; God is one and indivisible.

Although the words written in it are close enough to Italian and Latin for the non-Corsican speaker with a language background to follow, the pronunciation of those letters in English, French or Italian is not a guide to the pronunciation of Corsican, which follows complex rules.

Although Kronecker had conceded, Hilbert would later respond to others ' similar criticisms that " many different constructions are subsumed under one fundamental idea " — in other words ( to quote Reid ): " Through a proof of existence, Hilbert had been able to obtain a construction "; " the proof " ( i. e. the symbols on the page ) was " the object ".

Although the letter ⟨ t ⟩ is pronounced by some speakers with aspiration at the beginning of words, this is never indicated in the spelling, and, indeed, this phonetic detail is probably not noticeable to the average native speaker not trained in phonetics.

Although the acronym ECU is formed from English words, écu is also the name of an ancient French coin.

Although the Estonian orthography is generally guided by phonemic principles, with each grapheme corresponding to one phoneme, there are some historical and morphological deviations from this: for example the initial letter ' h ' in words, preservation of the morpheme in declension of the word ( writing b, g, d in places where p, k, t is pronounced )

Although the Estonian and Germanic languages are of very different origins, one can identify many similar words in Estonian and English, for example.

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 the words " oils ", " fats ", and " lipids " are all used to refer to fats, " oils " is usually used to refer to fats that are liquids at normal room temperature, while " fats " is usually used to refer to fats that are solids at normal room temperature.

Although his surviving works amount to some 3 million words, this is thought to represent less than a third of his complete writings.

Although Japanese is written using Chinese characters, and has historically imported many words of Chinese origin, the two languages are not considered to have a genealogical relationship.

Although theological differences and various modes of worship divide Christians, according to Fuller Seminary professor Clayton Schmit, " there is a sense of solidarity in knowing that Christians around the globe are praying together ..., and these words always unite us.

* A separate lexicon: Although Occitan is midway the between Gallo-Romance and Ibero-Romance language groups, it has " around 550 words inherited from Latin that do not exist in the langue d ' oïl or in Franco-provençal " ( Bec, 1963, 20, 21 ).

Although born from the same history of Unix, Internet free software, and the hacker culture as the free software movement launched by Richard Stallman and his Free Software Foundation, the Open Source Initiative was formed and chose the term open source, in Michael Tiemann's words, to " dump the moralizing and confrontational attitude that had been associated with ' free software ' in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape.

Although the average Martian surface atmospheric pressure is less than one percent of Earth's, the much lower gravity on Mars increases the atmosphere's scale height ; in other words, Mars's atmosphere is expansive and does not drop off in density with height as sharply as Earth's.

Although most native speakers do not notice this, in most English dialects the " c / k " sounds in these words are not identical: in cat and kit the sound is aspirated, while in school and skill it is unaspirated ( listen to U. S. pronunciations of and ).

Although Miller claims he invented the words " epismetology " ( metathesis of epistemology ) and " pompatus ", all of his song-writing demonstrates strong rhythm and blues influences, and a 1954 song called " The Letter " by the Medallions had the lines: