Although she weighed only 108 pounds when she visited him, Carroll permitted her to go on a 10-day fast in which she took nothing but water.

Although Pearson disbelieved almost everything Lizzie said, and read a sinister purpose into almost everything she did, he happily accepted her statement about Bridget as the whole truth.

Although quiet when they brought her in, she'd suddenly turned violent and had to be knocked out.

Although popular from her first appearance in 1930, Jane Marple had to wait thirty-two years for her first big-screen appearance.

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

Although he had crowned his son John II Komnenos co-emperor at the age of five in 1092, John's mother Irene Doukaina wished to alter the succession in favor of her daughter Anna and Anna's husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.

Although a committed Christian, she has characterised the issue as one of life and death on which her view had been the same when she was agnostic.

Although she knows she still isn't out of her shell, Fay angrily swears to go it alone.

Although Bardot got the role, the film was cancelled, but it made her consider becoming an actress.

Although Holly had already begun to become disillusioned with Norman Petty before meeting Maria Elena, it was through her and her aunt Provi, the head of Latin American music at Peer-Southern, that he began to fully realize what was going on with his manager, who was paying the band's royalties into his own company's account.

Although she was provided with private art lessons, Potter preferred to develop her own style, particularly favouring watercolour.

Although Potter was aware of art and artistic trends, her drawing and her prose style were uniquely her own.

Although they were childless, Potter played an important role in William ’ s large family, particularly enjoying her relationship with several nieces whom she helped educate and giving comfort and aid to her husband ’ s brothers and sisters.

Although not always seen, her mourning call is heard, usually at night when someone is about to die and usually around woods.

Although the state inherited much of Austro-Hungary's military arsenal, including the entire fleet, the Kingdom of Italy moved rapidly to annex the state's most western territories, promised to her by the Treaty of London of 1915.

Although a concubine could produce heirs, her children would be inferior in social status to " legitimate " children.

Although extremely intelligent, Ed is still a child, and looks up to the crew of the Bebop as members of her family.

Although the Ann McKim was the first large clipper ship ever constructed, it cannot be said that she founded the clipper ship era, or even that she directly influenced shipbuilders, since no other ship was built like her ; but she may have suggested the clipper design in vessels of ship rig.

Although officially classified as a torpedo boat in 1898 by the US Navy, the, a long all steel vessel displacing 165 tons, was described by her commander, LT. John C. Fremont, as "... a compact mass of machinery not meant to keep the sea nor to live in ... as five sevenths of the ship are taken up by machinery and fuel, whilst the remaining two sevenths, fore and aft, are the crew's quarters ; officers forward and the men placed aft.

Although all bridges were destroyed, the historical center of Ansbach was spared during World War II and it has kept its baroque character.

Although vegetation holds the dunes in place in the Kanem region, farther north they are bare and have a fluid, rippling character.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

Although all of these behaviors merge into each other seamlessly in various bonding situations so that there is no clear line to be drawn between them, nevertheless behaviors of atoms become so qualitatively different as the character of the bond changes quantitatively, that it remains useful and customary to differentiate between the bonds that cause these different properties of condensed matter.

Although rumors of drug use and other " problems on the set " swirled around her dismissal, the producers were adamant that the pregnancy was the only reason her character was written out.

Although opinions differ as to his character there is no dispute over his great achievements: he helped to save the Habsburg Empire from French conquest ; he broke the westward thrust of the Ottomans, liberating central Europe after a century and a half of Turkish occupation ; and he was one of the great patrons of the arts whose building legacy can still be seen in Vienna today.

Although the Fortune Deck works as a randomizer, the results obtained by it are entirely arbitrary and subjective, and the GM's absolute power over the game is further emphasized by the three resolution systems: Karma ( the higher character ability wins, modified by situation ), Drama ( the GM decides what happens, by what they think most appropriate ), and Fortune ( more or less the same as the above, with interpretation flavored by a card draw ).

Although Villaggio's movies tend to bridge trash comedy with a more elevated social satire ; this character had a great impact on Italian society, to such a degree that the adjective fantozziano entered the lexicon.

Although this was regarded as a character flaw in older academic research, his delaying tactics are now viewed as a means of coping with political challenges in far-flung territorial possessions.

Although highly disparaging toward most of the Patriots, British newspapers routinely praised Washington's personal character and qualities as a military commander.

Although not attested in the Biblical account of the Partriarch's life, it became an important aspect of Abraham's character in later Jewish tradition.

Although the despotic character of his measures is contrary to modern sensibilities, he was indeed a " nursing father " of the Church.

Although most felt the Russian Revolution was working class in character, they believed that, since capitalist relations still existed ( because the workers had no say in running the economy ), the Soviet Union ended up as a state capitalist country, with the state replacing the individual capitalist.

Although Luthor would not appear until two years after Superman's debut, a central theme to his character — a dichotomy of science versus superpowers — was in place.

" Although Lex only appeared a few times after the first season, he is mentioned a great deal throughout the rest of the seasons which reveals him as still a very important character.

Although spun out of licensed properties, Shang-Chi is a Marvel-owned character and has been firmly established as a part of the Marvel Universe with guest appearances in numerous other titles, such as Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Knights and X-Men.

" Although its avantgarde character, according to the student strike organizers, was a threat to the " higher aims of the strike ", and notwithstanding attempts by the strike committee to censor it, the gazette became rapidly very popular among the students.

Although Paramount considers only the onscreen, live-action Trek episodes and movies to be official canon, Janeway has nonetheless continued as a character in the Star Trek novels.

Although the character of Torres was twenty-five years old when the series began, Dawson was actually thirty-six.

Although the character was written with Cromwell in mind, Tom Hanks, a big fan of Star Trek, was approached for the role by Paramount first, but he had already committed to the film That Thing You Do!

Although Roddenberry wanted Kelley to play the character of ship's doctor, he didn't put Kelley's name forward to NBC ; the network never " rejected " the actor as Roddenberry sometimes suggested.

Although most council communists felt the Russian Revolution was working class in character, they believed that the Soviet Union was a state capitalist country, with the state replacing the individual capitalists ( an additional argument in favour of that was the continued existence of capitalist relations, as manifested e. g. in the New Economic Policy ).

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 he is originally portrayed as a somewhat malevolent character, Skinner eventually becomes a close friend of Mulder and Scully.

Although Pluto is a neutral character at the beginning of the story, he becomes antagonistic in the narrator ’ s eyes once the narrator becomes an alcoholic.