Although Cairo avoided Europe's stagnation during the Late Middle Ages, it could not escape the Black Death, which struck the city more than fifty times between 1348 and 1517.

Although he avoided defining the term directly, Derrida sought to apply Martin Heidegger's concept of Destruktion or Abbau, to textual reading.

Although the effort avoided by these ploys is tiny, it is still a significant component of the overhead of performing each step of the search, which is small.

Although he obtained numerous privileges for his see and Honorius always spoke encouragingly to him, Honorius avoided having to make a decision that might alienate the powerful archbishops of Canterbury.

Although a capitalist economy would avoid discrimination in order to avoid extra cost, this can be avoided in other ways.

Although he wrote war poems, he avoided the graphic edge that characterises the work of Sassoon or Wilfred Owen, and his memoirs of war service, though beautifully written, lack the immediacy of those of Sassoon or Robert Graves.

Although vitamin A is necessary for fetal development, most women carry stores of vitamin A in their fat cells, so oversupplementation should be strictly avoided.

Although the cost of using blood glucose meters seems high, it is believed to be a cost benefit relative to the avoided medical costs of the complications of diabetes.

Although newer pads can be made of ceramics, Kevlar, and other plastics, inhalation of brake dust should still be avoided regardless of material.

Although Garner avoided incorporating his story into Arthurian mythology, the benevolent wizard in the novel, Cadellin Silverbrow, does have a link to the Arthurian mythos, in that " Cadellin " is one of the many names by which Culhwch invoked Arthur's aid in the Mediaeval Welsh Arthurian romance about Culhwych and Olwen. Philip 1981. p. 23.

Although the Spurs avoided any major deals, they still made a mid-season trade to acquire Kurt Thomas from Seattle.

Although Plant avoided performing Led Zeppelin songs through much of this period ( he occasionally would improvise his unique Zeppelin screams into his set ), his tours in 1983 ( with drummer Phil Collins ) and 1985 were very successful, often performing to sold-out arena-sized venues.

Although a bad reputation should be avoided, it is sometimes necessary to have one.

Although Bush frequently spoke about FMA on the campaign from February and November 2004, he avoided mention of the phrase " civil unions " until an ABC News interview of October 26, 2004, aired one week before the election.

Although Pirch ' Corps was sent to trap Grouchy, the latter avoided being surrounded and managed to retreat in good order to Namur on the 19th and 20th, and entered France on the 21st with his force of nearly 30, 000 organised French soldiers with their artillery.

Although Mexico ceded Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuejiijij o Mexico, the text of the treaty did not list territories to be ceded, and avoided the disputed issues that were causes of war: the validity of the 1836 secession of the Republic of Texas, Texas's unenforced boundary claims as far as the Rio Grande, and the 1845 Texas Annexation by the US.

Although the term " sentience " is avoided by major artificial intelligence textbooks and researchers, it is sometimes used in popular accounts of AI to describe " human level or higher intelligence " ( or strong AI ).

Although a socialist, Senghor avoided the Marxist and anti-Western ideology that had become popular in post-colonial Africa, favouring the maintenance of close ties with France and the western world.

Although some argue that the high-end VSes and their successors should qualify as mainframes, Dr. Wang avoided this term.

" Although economic competition does have its advantages, being the driving force behind technical progress, these were " gained at the expense of an enormous waste of human life and labour, which might be avoided by regulation.

Although Weinberg was found to have previously engaged in numerous felonious activities, he avoided a three-year prison sentence and was paid $ 150, 000 in connection with the operation.

Although contact is normally avoided, many elements of stage combat, such as sword fighting, martial arts, and acrobatics required contact between performers in order to facilitate the creation of a particular effect, such as noise or physical interaction.

Although Church Stretton avoided the aerial bombing of the war, the Long Mynd was considered to be a potential landing place for German parachutists.

Although Pitigliano had avoided engaging the French directly, news of the battle reached him by that evening, and the majority of his forces had deserted by morning.

Although it avoided the bottom spot in other individual categories, the poor score achieved by the brakes left the Viva with the highest overall rate of failure of the 34 passenger cars included in sufficient numbers to feature in the reports of the Swedish test results.

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 these things are true, the government also wanted more tax money from breweries, as using wooden barrels means that a significant amount of sake is lost to evaporation ( somewhere around 3 %), which could have otherwise been taxed.

Although sometimes carrying a spearman along with the charioteer ( driver ), such heavy proto-chariots, borne on solid wooden wheels and covered with skins, may have been part of the baggage train ( e. g., during royal funeral processions ) rather than vehicles of battle in themselves.

Although the wooden type was more durable under the mechanical rigors of handling, repeated printing wore the character faces down, and the types could only be replaced by carving new pieces.

Although the surface area of the parachute design appears to be too small to offer effective resistance to the friction of the air and the wooden base-frame is superfluous and potentially harming, the revolutionary character of the new concept is obvious.

Although not original, this last wooden elevator was built in the 1980s.

Although not specifically used for only back scratching, young Chiricahua men in training and women going through a puberty ritual traditionally had to use a ceremonial wooden scratcher made from a fruit bearing tree instead of scratching with their fingernails or hands.

Although many cameras of the mid nineteenth century were wooden and " boxy " in appearance with a brass fitted lens on the front they should not be confused with the mass produced box cameras that exploded in popularity after the introduction of the first Kodak.

Although they resemble plain wooden sticks, they are soft enough to be chewed on.

Although they were only armed with wooden sticks, Li and his band managed to ambush a group of government soldiers sent to arrest them, and obtained their first real weapons.

Although the new materials do enable harder shots, the improved durability and lighter materials can make the transition from wooden to composite stick more difficult for less experienced players.

Although there has been much debate about the etymology of the word and, thus, the recipe's origins, it is now widely accepted that it is derived from the Old French verb " brier ", ' a Norman dialectical form of " broyer ", to work the dough with a " broye " or " brie " ( a sort of wooden roller for kneading ); the suffix "- oche " is a generic deverbal suffix.

Although Sumter was a masonry fort, there were wooden buildings inside for barracks and officer quarters.

Although a stone bridge was planned, difficulties in raising investment meant that a cheaper wooden bridge was built instead.

Although dangerous and unpopular, the bridge was the last surviving wooden bridge on the Thames in London, and was the subject of paintings by many significant artists such as J. M. W. Turner, John Sell Cotman and James McNeill Whistler, including Whistler's Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge, and his controversial Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket.

Although Julian Lewis was repeatedly listed as amongst the lowest-claiming MPs ( ranked 566th out of 647 in 2008 / 09 ), the Sunday Telegraph alleged in May 2009 that he had tried to claim the £ 6, 000 cost of a wooden floor in his second home.

Although the hidden prize is always called " the coin ", in recent years a greater variety of items have been used as the " coin ", including a compact disc, a fragment of a meteorite, a snowglobe, a lump of charcoal, and a wooden cube.

Although the search is otherwise unproductive, the crew spots a large wooden cross on the island itself and Tintin believes that the reference in Sir Francis ' parchments to " the Eagle's cross " could refer to it as the marker for the treasure's location.

" Although the actual wooden gates into Tenby no longer exist, the Five Arches at the edge of old town give an insight into what the merchants would have marvelled at as they entered.

Although initially built as a wooden fortification it was rebuilt as a stone structure around 1246 by Richard de Clare, Lord of Glamorgan.

Although oil is sometimes shipped in 55 US gallon drums, the measurement of oil in barrels is based on the 42 US gallon wooden barrels of the 1870s ; which is about 35 imperial gallons.

Although traditions may vary slightly between clans, they share a common sense of identify and traits such as living in distinctive mud defensive compounds, using poisoned bows and arrows to fend off attackers, a sharing of initiation rites and animist beliefs that vigorously pay reverence to the spiritual world, families that are often determined by female lineage, and their craftsmenship of wooden statues which are often worshipped.

Although the " typical " family dining experience is at a wooden table or some sort of kitchen area, some choose to make their dining rooms more comfortable by using couches or comfortable chairs.

Although the use of stirrups, in combat at least, cannot be verified, representations of heavy cavalrymen of the Wei-Jin period appear to show them with their legs encased in heavy wooden sideboards to stabilize them on top of the horse.

Although now nonexistent wooden residential towers, watchtowers, and pagodas predated it by centuries, the Songyue Pagoda built in 523 is the oldest extant pagoda in China ; its use of brick instead of wood had much to do with its endurance throughout the centuries.