Although the membership of Sanbo Kyodan is small, 3, 790 registered followers and 24 instructors in 1988, " the Sanbõkyõdan has had an inordinate influence on Zen in the West ".

Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.

Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.

Although not much desiring the account, he had been appointed advertising head of Zenith.

Although the Kebra Nagast is the best-known account of this belief, the belief predates the document.

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 this theory has the Persians moving to the strategic offensive, this can be reconciled with the traditional account of the Athenians attacking the Persians by assuming that, seeing the Persians advancing, the Athenians took the tactical offensive, and attacked them.

Although 19th-century ethnologists saw " diffusion " and " independent invention " as mutually exclusive and competing theories, most ethnographers quickly reached a consensus that both processes occur, and that both can plausibly account for cross-cultural similarities.

Although computing a power spectrum from a map is in principle a simple Fourier transform, decomposing the map of the sky into spherical harmonics, in practice it is hard to take the effects of noise and foreground sources into account.

Although his name and history were taken from his early life with his adoptive Earth parents, everything about Clark was staged for the benefit of his alternate identity: as a reporter for the Daily Planet, he receives late-breaking news before the general public, has a plausible reason to be present at crime scenes, and need not strictly account for his whereabouts as long as he makes his story deadlines.

Although the existence of dark matter is generally accepted by the mainstream scientific community, several alternative theories have been proposed to try to explain the anomalies for which dark matter is intended to account.

Although magnesium and manganese are produced by weathering, exchanges between soil organic matter and living cells account for a significant portion of ecosystem fluxes.

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 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 size distinctions were taken account of, any grouping of men on a mission could collectively be called an impi, whether a raiding party of 100 or horde of 10, 000.

Although Josephus ' account of the method of death of James differs from that of the New Testament, this is seen as an indication that the Josephus account is not a Christian interpolation.

Although Schrödinger himself after a year proved the equivalence of his wave-mechanics and Heisenberg's matrix mechanics, the reconciliation of the two approaches and their modern abstraction as motions in Hilbert space is generally attributed to Paul Dirac, who wrote a lucid account in his 1930 classic Principles of Quantum Mechanics.

Although Baba had initially begun gaining public attention in the West as early as 1932 as the result of contacts with some celebrities of the time ( such as Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff and others ) and from the rather disillusioned account of Paul Brunton ( A Search in Secret India, 1934 ), he achieved additional attention over three decades later through the work of Pete Townshend of The Who.

Although a complete theory of evolution also requires an account of how genetic variation arises in the first place ( such as by mutation and sexual reproduction ) and includes other evolutionary mechanisms ( such as genetic drift and gene flow ), natural selection appears to be the most important mechanism for creating complex adaptations in nature.

Although Pius V is often credited with the origin of the Pope's white garments — supposedly because after his election Pius continued to wear his white Dominican habit — this claim must be regarded as legendary on account of the great number of contemporary portraits of earlier popes wearing the same white cassock he supposedly inaugurated.

Although aboriginal persons make up 3. 6 % of Canada's population, they account for 20 % of Canada's prison population.

Although no single Gospel gives an inclusive or definitive account of the resurrection of Jesus or his appearances, there are four points at which all four Gospels converge:

Although the short story is expressly defined by its length, the precise length of stories that can be considered ' short ' varies between critics and writers, especially when taking account of the diversity of the form across genres.

( Although along the southern coastline they account for 21 % of the population ), Kotokoli or Tem and Tchamba in the center, Kabye people in the north ( 22 %).

Although the police likely questioned Page, no written account of her statement has surfaced.

Although neither the Nazi Party nor Hitler himself had a cohesive architectural policy before they came to power in 1933, Nazi writers like Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg had already labeled the Bauhaus " un-German " and criticized its modernist styles, deliberately generating public controversy over issues like flat roofs.

Although bluetongue disease was already recognized in South Africa in the early 19th century, a comprehensive description of the disease was not published until the first decade of the 20th century.

Although he was under a Church interdict, Otto, already an excommunicate, decided to launch an attack rather than negotiate with the French.

Although attributed to Burns, the Selkirk Grace was already known in the 17th century, as the " Galloway Grace " or the " Covenanters ' Grace ".

Although the name Chordata is often attributed to William Bateson ( 1885 ), it was already in common use in by 1880.

Although items do not break with use, they may already be broken or rusted when found.

Although there is no time scheme for when the project will begin, the club is already far into the consultation phase and it appears would like to begin soon during 2012-13.

Although classical liberalism built on ideas that had already developed by the end of the 18th century, it advocated a specific kind of society, government and public policy as a response to the Industrial Revolution and urbanization.

Although by this time Diego de Almagro had already acquired sufficient wealth in the conquest of Peru and was living a luxurious life in Cuzco, the prospect of conquering the lands further south was very attractive to him.

Although Abel had already proved the impossibility of a " quintic formula " by radicals in 1824 and Ruffini had published a solution in 1799 that turned out to be flawed, Galois ' methods led to deeper research in what is now called Galois theory.

Although technically already ruling, after the election he would be crowned as emperor by the Pope.

Although Cephalus was already married to Procris, Eos bore him three sons, including Phaeton and Hesperus, but he then began pining for Procris, causing a disgruntled Eos to return him to her — and put a curse on them.

Although chips were already a popular dish in most Commonwealth countries, the thin style of French fries has been popularized worldwide in part by U. S .- based fast food chains such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and Arby's.

Although colloquially and literarily the expression " King of Spain " or " King of the Spains " was already widespread, and the two crowns were ruled by the same monarch, they retained their individual institutions and identity until 1812, with the enactment of the Spanish Constitution of 1812.

Although he batted cross-handed ( i. e., as a right-handed hitter, with his left hand above his right ), Aaron had already established himself as a power hitter.

Although he rejected the transcendental / metaphysical interpretation given to these phenomena outright, Braid accepted that these accounts of Oriental practices supported his view that the effects of hypnotism could be produced in solitude, without the presence of any other person ( as he had already proved to his own satisfaction with the experiments he had conducted in November 1841 ); and he saw correlations between many of the " metaphysical " Oriental practices and his own " rational " neuro-hypnotism, and totally rejected all of the fluid theories and magnetic practices of the mesmerists.

Although keen on becoming a pilot, there was already a surplus of trained aircrew and the Air Force instead put his mechanical skills to use as a flight mechanic, of which there was a wartime shortage.

" Although the laws criminalising union activity were outdated and had already been abolished in Great Britain, they were still on the books in Canada and police arrested 24 leaders of the Typographical Union.

Although he did not become a full member until 1946, he was already one of the senior leaders of the Soviet state.

Although the transformation from a city with its economic base in manufacturing has returned growth to Malmö, it has largely benefited the already somewhat well-off.

Although Pope accepted Blizzard's right to some control, he remained concerned about censorship of material that already existed in-game in some form.

Although the members of Monty Python had already encountered each other over the years, The Frost Report was the first time all the British members of Monty Python ( its sixth member, Terry Gilliam, was at that time an American citizen ) worked together.

Although spin and the Pauli principle can only be derived from relativistic generalizations of quantum mechanics the properties mentioned in the last two paragraphs belong to the basic postulates already in the non-relativistic limit.

Although Pen Saloth's family was of Sino-Khmer descent and Saloth Sar was named accordingly due to his fair complexion (" Sar " means white in Khmer ), the family had already assimilated themselves with mainstream Khmer society by the time Sar was born.