Although further persecutionary edicts followed, compelling the arrest of the Christian clergy and universal acts of sacrifice, the persecutionary edicts were ultimately unsuccessful ; most Christians escaped punishment, and pagans too were generally unsympathetic to the persecution.

Although the Romans inflicted heavy losses on the enemy, two-thirds of the Caledonian army escaped and hid in the Scottish marshes and Highlands, ultimately preventing Agricola from bringing the entire British island under his control.

Although they escaped this predicament unharmed, stormy weather served to drive Eleanor's ship far to the south ( to the Barbary Coast ), and to similarly lose her husband.

Although Catesby and Percy escaped the executioner, their bodies were exhumed and decapitated, and their heads exhibited on spikes outside the House of Lords.

Although badly outnumbered, he escaped destruction from pursuing Bolshevik forces and laid siege to Ekaterinodar, the capital of the Kuban Soviet Republic, on 10 April.

Although the economic impact was small, the psychological impact on slaveholders of an informal network to assist escaped slaves was immense.

Although he was as responsible for the defeat as Burnside, Meade escaped immediate censure.

Although he escaped, he was subsequently re-captured by the Italians, who took great delight in the embarrassment this caused to their German allies.

Although the Yellowstone Expedition was an ultimate failure and expensive to the U. S. Treasury, the Johnsons escaped political ill will in their home district because the venture was seen as a peacekeeping endeavor on the frontier.

Although major flooding occurred along the Kickapoo River again in 2007 and 2008, the village escaped major damage by virtue of the relocation.

Although the Vapheio tholos, south of Sparta, had been robbed, two cists in the floor had escaped notice.

Although Raynald's pirates were taken to Cairo and beheaded, Raynald himself escaped to the Moab.

Although Chamberlain's reputation never recovered from Munich, and his supporters such as R A Butler suffered throughout their later careers from the " appeasement " tag, Dunglass largely escaped blame.

Although around 20 of the European party escaped, about ten others surrendered and were subsequently massacred at the insistence of Te Rangihaeata as utu for the shooting of his wife.

Although Capone escaped unharmed, the hotel attack traumatized him: he called for a truce.

Although Tarleton escaped, the Americans captured all his supplies and equipment, including the officers ' slaves.

Although Xue Li soon gave up the city and escaped, Liu Yao's subject Fan Neng and others had regrouped their forces and launched a renewed attack on Niuzhu.

Although " honorably acquitted " at his trial, he was still thought to be guilty by many and with assistance from his fellow Freemasons escaped to St. Stephen, in Charlotte County, New Brunswick where he was one of the earliest British settlers.

Although there were some sightings, they probably stem from captive-bred lynx which have escaped or were released to the wild, or may be lynx moving in from Germany, since several of the sightings reported during the 1980s and 1990s were around the Reichswald area.

Although they escaped unharmed, Alexandra's father fell ill with pleurisy, probably contracted as a result of the shipwreck.

Although they escaped unharmed, the Duke fell ill with pleurisy, probably contracted as a result of the shipwreck.

Although Cambridge escaped virtually undamaged from the widespread bombing destruction of World War II, the Union's building was hit by a bomb dropped during one attack.

Although he had been close to several Girondists, Boissy d ' Anglas escaped arrest after François Hanriot's insurrection of 2 June 1793, and he was one of several centrist deputies who supported Maximilien Robespierre during the early stages of the Reign of Terror.

Although the name is that of a female, Antjie Somers is traditionally a male figure ( often an escaped slave who fled persecution by cross-dressing ).

Although it was played occasionally as early as the late 19th century, the King's Indian was considered inferior until the 1940s when it was featured in the games of Bronstein, Boleslavsky, and Reshevsky.

Although progress has been made in America's system of libraries it still falls short of what is required if we are to maintain the standards that are needed for an informed America.

Although this classification was widely accepted, further infrageneric classification was ( and still is ) needed to differentiate this widely diverse group.

Although Louis XIV wanted peace he wanted it on reasonable terms ; for that, he needed victory in the field and to convince the Allies that his resources were by no means exhausted.

Although he was not a member of the ASCAP, the society paid for any medical care he needed during his last two years.

Although clearly both genetic and environmental input is needed for a child to develop normally, considerable debate remains about how genetic information might guide cognitive development.

Although a longbow achieves comparable accuracy and faster shooting rate than an average crossbow, crossbows release more kinetic energy and can be used effectively after a week of training, while a comparable single-shot skill with a longbow takes years of strength training to overcome the draw strength of the longbow, as well as years of practice needed to use it with skill.

Although Xenakis could well have composed this music by hand, the intensity of the calculations needed to transform probabilistic mathematics into musical notation was best left to the number-crunching power of the computer.

( Although the pressures needed may be around a thousand times smaller for sandy soil and some clays.

Although no more than 250 men were employed on the site, a prodigious amount of exacting preparatory work was entailed: the drawing office produced 1, 700 general drawings and 3, 629 detail drawings of the 18, 038 different parts needed.

Although Greenpeace had stated that efficiency was its primary concern, as early as 2001, statements from March and April 2005 also continued to express concern over human health and environmental safety Greenpeace has opposed releasing golden rice to fields as opposed to farming in greenhouses, which according to golden rice developer Ingo Potrykus, limits the amount of material needed for human safety testing.

Although the maximum rate of fire was increased by firing multiple projectiles simultaneously, these weapons still needed to be reloaded after each discharge, which for multi-barrel systems like the mitrailleuse was cumbersome and time-consuming.

Although it was originally planned for the corniche road along Doha Bay, Pei convinced project coordinators to build a new island to provide the needed space.

Although stylistically their music had little in common, he clearly felt that he needed, and benefitted from, Webern ’ s acute perfectionism.

Although some proponents of mobile warfare — such as J. F. C. Fuller — advocated building " tank fleets ", others — such as Heinz Guderian in Germany, Adna R. Chaffee Jr. in the United States, and Mikhail Tukhachevsky in the Soviet Union — recognized that tank units required close support from infantry and other arms, and that these supporting arms needed to maintain the same pace as the tanks.

Although a lot of work is still needed, the researchers believe that it points to a new direction of using nanotechnology to treat infectious disease.

Although the cost of producing the gold standard can be quite high, automatic evaluation can be repeated as often as needed without much additional costs ( on the same input data ).

Although he initially needed Watson to share the rent of his comfortable residence at 221B Baker Street, Watson reveals in " The Adventure of the Dying Detective ", when Holmes was living alone, that " I have no doubt that the house might have been purchased at the price which Holmes paid for his rooms ," suggesting he had developed a good income from his practice, although it is seldom revealed exactly how much he charges for his services.

* Although the Union of South Africa was not among the Dominions that needed to adopt the Statute of Westminster for it to take effect, two laws, the Status of the Union Act, 1934, and the Royal Executive Functions and Seals Act of 1934 were passed to confirm South Africa's status as a sovereign state.

Although Norway was in a legislative union with Sweden, it was a sovereign state, and needed educated people to run it.

Although the King was always received with open arms by several befriended manufacturers, he needed his own residence in Tilburg.

Although there were several small skirmishes that provided the defenders with much needed optimism, they had little real impact.

Although Hamilton understood that adjustment might be needed from time to time as precious metal prices fluctuated, he believed that if the nation's unit of value was defined only by one of the two precious metals used for coins, the other would descend to the status of mere merchandise.

According to political scientist Richard F. Bensel in his study of the 1896 Democratic convention, " Although the silver men knew they would win this fight, they nonetheless needed someone to tell them — and the gold men — why they must enshrine silver at the heart of the platform.

Although this arrangement provided a neat physical coupling between the controller and the disk, single-sector internal transfers and dependence on the speed of the host machine to transfer data to memory meant that a trial-and-error approach was still needed to set the disk interleave correctly to ensure optimum transfer rates.