Although he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

Although open to the general public it is not overcrowded ; ;

Although we have no measures of its strength or intensity, the heritage of the doctrine of inalienable rights is retained.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

Although Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.

Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

`` Although it is not the best of which he is capable '', said Shelley as he closed the book, `` it is still poetry of a high order ''.

Although Sam Rayburn affects a gruff exterior in many instances, nevertheless he is fundamentally a man of warm heart and gentle disposition.

Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.

Although much of the Industrial Division's promotional effort is devoted to securing new locations and expansions by major industries, small business is also afforded considerable attention.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

Although many interpretations of this have been offered, it is impossible to tell whether this was true, and if so, what exactly the signal meant.

Although the perception by the public may be that the " central bank " controls some or all interest rates and currency rates, economic theory ( and substantial empirical evidence ) shows that it is impossible to do both at once in an open economy.

Although the Hebrew Bible has many references to capital punishment, the Jewish sages used their authority to make it nearly impossible for a Jewish court to impose a death sentence.

Although enthalpy is commonly used in engineering and science, it is impossible to measure directly, as enthalpy has no datum ( reference point ).

Although it is now recognized that precise determination of cohesion is impossible because is not a fundamental soil property, the Mohr-Coulomb theory is still used in practice today.

Although winters are generally cold and clear, there are occasional blizzards that do not deposit much snow but cover the grasses with enough snow and ice to make grazing impossible, killing off tens of thousands of sheep or cattle.

Although Escher did not have mathematical training — his understanding of mathematics was largely visual and intuitive — Escher's work had a strong mathematical component, and more than a few of the worlds which he drew are built around impossible objects such as the Necker cube and the Penrose triangle.

U. S. journalist Paul Hoeffel in an article written for the Boston Globe concluded that, " Although there is widespread reluctance to use the term, it is now impossible to ignore the fact that civil war has broken out in Argentina.

Although it was illegal to offer or accept bribes exchange for votes, effective enforcement of this prohibition proved impossible.

Although it is computationally easy for the intended recipient to generate the public and private keys, to decrypt the message using the private key, and easy for the sender to encrypt the message using the public key, it is extremely difficult ( or effectively impossible ) for anyone to derive the private key, based only on their knowledge of the public key.

Although the Doctor dismisses this as impossible, at the conclusion of the episode, he opens and closes the doors by doing just that, eschewing the need for a key.

Although the relationship that developed between the two young men was certainly very close, its exact nature is impossible to determine.

It is possible to extend the definition of the negative binomial distribution to the case of a positive real parameter r. Although it is impossible to visualize a non-integer number of “ failures ”, we can still formally define the distribution through its probability mass function.

Although Nasser made secret contacts with Israel in 1954 – 55, he concluded that peace with Israel would be impossible, considering it an " expansionist state that viewed the Arabs with disdain.

" Although most Jews believe that " God can be experienced ," it is understood that " God cannot be understood " because " God is utterly unlike humankind " ( as shown in God's response to Moses when Moses asked for God's name: " I Am that I Am "); all anthropomorphic statements about God " are understood as linguistic metaphors, otherwise it would be impossible to talk about God at all.

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Although the area is generally flat and open with less than a variation in altitude, Horrocks, commander of XXX Corps recalled that " The country was wooded and rather marshy which made any outflanking operation impossible.

Although GMOs are excluded from organic farming, there is concern that the pollen from genetically modified crops is increasingly penetrating organic and heirloom seed stocks, making it difficult, if not impossible, to keep these genomes from entering the organic food supply.

Although visibility was impossible due to thick fog, a KLM 747 pilot did not wait to be cleared for takeoff and collided with the Pan Am airplane on the runway.

Although his upbringing in England had inculcated a love of English literature and of cricket, during the Thatcherite 1980s he found it impossible to support the English cricket team.

Although their heyday was relatively brief, nickelodeons played an important part in creating a specialized spectator, " the moviegoer ", who could now integrate going to the movies into his or her life in a way that was impossible before.

Although medieval peasants who seldom if ever traveled far from their villages could not conclusively say that it was impossible that, for example, an ogre could live a day's travel away, distant continents were necessary from the Renaissance onwards for such fantastic speculation to be plausible, until finally, further exploration rendered all such terrestrial fantasy lands implausible.

Although software tools are available for testing hardware stability, it is generally impossible for any private individual to thoroughly test the functionality of a processor.

Although Packard was still in fair financial shape, Studebaker was not, struggling with high overhead and production costs and needing the impossible figure of 250, 000 cars a year to break even.

Although Spee had an easy victory, destroying two enemy armoured cruisers for just three men injured, the engagement also cost him half his supply of ammunition, which was impossible to replace.

Although a lens can precisely focus at only one distance at a time, the decrease in sharpness is gradual on each side of the focused distance, so that within the DOF, the unsharpness is imperceptible under normal viewing conditions.

Although genres are not always precisely definable, genre considerations are one of the most important factors in determining what a person will see or read.

Although the older technique of EEG had long been used to study the brain activity underlying selective attention by cognitive psychophysiologists, the ability of the newer techniques to actually measure precisely localized activity inside the brain generated renewed interest by a wider community of researchers.

Although the 2006 Encyclopædia Britannica reflects Herodotus, stating, " They Cimmerians probably did live in the area north of the Black Sea, but attempts to define their original homeland more precisely by archaeological means, or even to fix the date of their expulsion from their country by the Scythians, have not so far been completely successful ," in recent research academic scholars have made use of documents dating to centuries earlier than Herodotus, such as intelligence reports to Sargon, and note that these identify the Cimmerians as living south rather than north of the Black Sea.

Although the parts were simple, they had to be precisely manufactured if they were fit each other correctly, so they were assembled into a test – bridge at the factory to make sure of this.

Although the details have not been precisely established, casualty figures were high for both sides: the French amounting to at least 7, 000 killed and wounded ; the Allies are estimated as 10, 000 to 12, 000.

Although it now known that endotoxin binds to CD14 and that CD14 then interacts with TLR4, the molecular details concerning precisely how this contributes to the generation of the septic syndrome are currently the subject of active research.

Although the age of the craters has not yet been determined precisely, it is believed they are about 10, 000 years old, placing them at the start of the Holocene.

Although the criterion argument applies to both deduction and induction, Weintraub believes that Sextus ' argument " is precisely the strategy Hume invokes against induction: it cannot be justified, because the purported justification, being inductive, is circular.

Although influential, in more recent times this distinction has been questioned as anachronistic in its failure to represent precisely the exact claims and methodologies of the philosophers it categorises.

Although the official language of Venezuela is Castilian, the majority language in Colonia Tovar is the alemannisch: alemannic, Alemán Coloniero precisely.

Although in concept, these approaches are in a sense nothing more than the traditional, commonsense idea of " profit ", the utility of having a separate and more precisely defined term such as EVA is that it makes a clear separation from dubious accounting adjustments that have enabled businesses such as Enron to report profits while actually approaching insolvency.

Although measurements between whole hands are usually expressed in what appears to be decimal format, the subdivision of the hand is not decimal but is in base 4, that is, subdivisions after the radix point are in quarters. Thus, a horse 62 inches high, precisely between 15 and 16 hands, is not 15. 5, but rather is 15. 2 hands high: likewise, 64 inches high is not 15. 4, but rather is 16. 0.

Although the launch was accompanied by the slogan " New Cortina is more Cortina ", the car, at precisely long, was fractionally shorter than before.

Although it was unclear precisely what caused the blast, many Americans believed it to be the work of a Spanish mine, an attitude encouraged by the yellow journalism of Hearst and Pulitzer.

Although the speed of plugging cannot be controlled precisely, practical considerations will provide limits that can be used to determine worst-case conditions.

Although not precisely definable as music, there are signals played on the trembita ( a type of alpenhorn, to signify death, birth, a marriage or another significant event ) by the Hutsuls in the Carpathian mountains.

:" Although I cannot prove this precisely, I sense that the Aztec goal was military glory and staving off the collapse of the universe, whereas the Teotihuacan aim seems to have been the creation of paradise on earth.

Although it is difficult to evaluate precisely the effect of the market on the location of manufacturing activities, two considerations are involved: the nature of and demand for the product and transportation costs.

Although it was unclear precisely what role foreign powers played in the toppling of Shevardnadze, it emerged shortly afterwards that both Russia and the United States had played a direct role.

Although British officials, and some historians, described Malcom as acting in defiance of the law, John Phillip Reid argued that Malcom's actions were lawful — so precisely lawful, in fact, that Reid speculated that Malcom may have been acting under the advice of his lawyer, James Otis.

Although the term " formula " may be used for written marks ( for instance, on a piece of paper or chalkboard ), it is more precisely understood as the sequence being expressed, with the marks being a token instance of formula.

Silver, illustrated by native drawings, published in London in 1867 Although it is not known precisely when this day started to be celebrated, it was probably during the reign of the Empress Suiko ( 593 – 628 A. D .).

Although it remains unknown precisely how this evolution occurred, the Ancients have confirmed that they were responsible for the species ' emergence.