Although a skillful politician and a courageous and honest man, Mr. Nixon, Mr. White believes, ignored his own top-level planners, wasted time and effort in the wrong regions, missed opportunities through indecision and damaged his chances on television.

Although this was the first time that Helva had seen unshelled people, she took this experience calmly.

Although specialized and experienced amateur astronomers tend to acquire more specialized and more powerful equipment over time, relatively simple equipment is often preferred for certain tasks.

Although controversial at its time, the 13 principles laid out by the 12th century Spanish Jewish philosopher Maimonides are now considered mostly normative.

Although Dio is the earliest writer to mention them, Ammianus Marcellinus used the name to refer to Germans on the Limes Germanicus in the time of Trajan's governorship of the province shortly after it was formed, circa 98 / 99.

Although he had some trouble with the peasantry, the lands and treasures of the church enabled him to propitiate the nobles and for a time to provide for the expenses of the court.

Although Andronikos was at that time fifty-six years old, age had not diminished his charms, and Theodora became the next victim of his artful seduction.

Although metics had no direct political influence many were wealthy business owners who could, and sometimes did, influence policy by not allowing their citizen employees time off to attend the assembly, as well as having the simple expedient of wealth.

Although cheap and effective in enabling use of some software that only used official ROM entry points for text output, this solution proved very slow because the Electron had to be placed into an 80-byte-pitch display to be able to get anywhere near to reproducing mode 7 and the CPU spent a lot of time drawing approximations of mode 7 characters and graphics that in a hardware solution would be achieved without any CPU processing.

Although there have been periodic initiatives to revive their use, airships have seen only niche application since that time.

Although works of precious gems and metals usually do not survive the ravages of time, some fine pieces of Assyrian jewelry were found in royal tombs at Nimrud.

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

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 the duty of Abbreviators was originally to make abstracts and abridgments of the apostolic letters, diplomas, etc., using the legal abbreviations, clauses, and formularies, in course of time, as their office grew in importance they delegated that part of their office to their substitute and confined themselves to overseeing the proper expedition of the apostolic letters.

Although it was innovative and unique for its time, gamers found the Atari Lynx to be quite large and bulky, even the 2nd version of the unit.

Although these instruments have slow response time and low accuracy, they were sometimes used in measuring radio-frequency current.

Although these effects are unpleasant and in some cases harmful, they were at one time, along with akathisia, considered a reliable sign that the drug was working.

Although Arab Muslim intellectual life was still centered in Baghdad, Shi ' a Islam, predominated in the Samanid areas at this time.

Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.

Although influential for a time their popularity did not generally survive the horrors of ideological warfare, as the competing ideologies utilized their systems in their platforms.

Although Bede is mainly studied as a historian now, in his time his works on grammar, chronology, and biblical studies were as important as his historical and hagiographical works.

Although Benedictines do not take a vow of silence, hours of strict silence are set, and at other time silence is maintained as much as is practically possible.

Although tradition holds that it was written by Joshua, it is probable that it was written by multiple editors and authors far removed from the time.

Although they are second-line agents, benzodiazepines can be used for a limited time to relieve severe anxiety and agitation.

" Although many evangelicals allow that conversion can be a process, generally they see it as a specific, identifiable moment of time when a person simply and sincerely trusts in Jesus Christ as savior.

Although he is perhaps most famous as the founder of Shi ' a Islamic fiqh, known as Ja ' fari jurisprudence, he had many other accomplishments.

Although these different tariqas are all under the Shi ' a banner there are some major doctrinal differences between them and especially between all the different Shi ' a tariqas with their last Imams in The Occultation and the Shi ' a Ismailis who by definition have to have a present and living Imam until the end of time.

Although the oldest surviving textual examples of surviving ci are from 8th century CE Dunhuang manuscripts, beginning in the poetry of the Liang Dynasty, the ci followed the tradition of the Shi Jing and the yuefu: they were lyrics which developed from anonymous popular songs into a sophisticated literary genre ; although in the case of the of ci form some of its fixed-rhythm patterns have an origin in Central Asia.

Although big Shi ' a academies existed in Qom dating back as early as 10th century CE, the hawza of the city became prominent at the time of the Safavids when Shi ' a Islam became the official religion of Iran.

Although he was later charged with arrogance, in 1688 the Kangxi Emperor received Shi in audience in Beijing and allowed him to sit in the imperial presence, reiterating his confidence in him.

Although most Turks follow the Sunni sect of Islam, the Azeris of Azerbaijan are distinct in that they follow the Shi ' a school.

Although there were no casualties in the attack, the bombing leveled the mosque and caused unprecedented anger amongst the Shi ' a majority, prompting death squads, largely from the Mahdi Army, to roam the streets of Baghdad and other major cities, attacking Sunni mosques, killing Sunni civilians and murdering Sunni clerics.

Although it carries an Islamic title, the group combines Islamism with Iraqi nationalism, and has been labelled as " resistance " by Iraq's Sunni Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi despite regular attacks against Iraqi soldiers and policemen, as well as Shi ' ite militias such as the Mahdi Army and the Badr Organization.

Although many kings of the Shang and Zhou dynasties ruled beforehand, in 221 BC, the ruler of the State of Qin, Qin Shi Huang, was the first to conquer the different nations of the Zhou Confederation, as well as other non-sinicized states.

Although the vast majority of Pakistani Shi ' a Muslims belong to Ithna ' ashariyah school, there are significant minorities: Nizari Ismailis ( Agha Khanis ) and the smaller Mustaali Dawoodi Bohra and Sulaimani Bohra branches.

Although the author speaks of the mythological Fu Xi, a passage of his writing gives hint that the waterwheel and trip-hammer were in widespread use by the 1st century AD in China ( for water-powered Chinese metallurgy, see Du Shi ):

Although Kasravi had written an important book called Shari ' at Ahmadi on the osul and foru ' of Islam and Shi ' ism, he gradually began to question not only the role and legitimacy of the clergy, but even the basis of Shi ' ism.

Although the event of Umar setting fire to Fatima's house is widely recorded in many Sunni and all Shi ' ite histories, there is disagreement among the sources about what happened next.

Although Emplates are considered the " living dead ", Bishop took her to the New York Stark / Fujikawa building inhabited by the Witness in order to attempt to save her life by transmitting her essence into a holographic matrix ( a technology of Shi ' ar origin, akin to that used in the X-Men's Danger Room ).

Although there have been many disagreements there is a consensus amongst Sunni and Shi ' a Muslims, that the " Ahl al Kisa " hadith refers specifically to Ali, Fatimah, Hasan and Husayn.

Although the region's population was dominated by Sunni Muslims, it also contained sizable populations of Shi ' a, Alawite and Ismaili Muslims, Syriac Orthodox, Maronite, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholics and Melkite Christians, Mizrahi Jews, and Druzes.

Although he was a Shi ' a Muslim, he promoted harmony and educational equality with the minority Sunni Muslims.