Although the pause in the advance of general business activity this year has thus far been quite modest, it is hard to escape the conclusion that the softening process will continue into the first quarter of 1961 and possibly somewhat longer.

Although they are not perfectly stable, a relatively modest effort at station keeping can allow a spacecraft to stay in a desired Lissajous orbit for an extended period of time.

Although the Pixies produced relatively few albums, whose sales were modest, they had a significant influence on the alternative rock boom of the 1990s.

Although women were required to wear veils in many churches through at least the 19th century, the resurgence of the wedding veil as a symbol of the bride, and its use even when not required by the bride's religion, coincided with societal emphasis on women being modest and well-behaved.

Although Arafat lived a modest lifestyle, Dennis Ross, former Middle East negotiator for Presidents George H. W.

Although the Spanish takeover of the Louisiana territory ( which was not completed until 1769 ) had only modest repercussions, the British takeover of Spanish Florida resulted in the westward migration of tribes that did not want to do business with the British, and a rise in tensions between the Choctaw and the Creek, historic enemies whose divisions the British at times exploited.

Although it is described as a modest building, the chapel is considered to " complete the ensemble " of the castle.

Although the California Zephyr ran at full capacity and turned a modest profit from its 1949 inception through the late 1950s, by the mid-1960s the train was profitable only during the late spring, summer, and fall.

Although modest economic gains were being made, emigration still continued.

Although ecotourism is intended for small groups, even a modest increase in population, however temporary, puts extra pressure on the local environment and necessitates the development of additional infrastructure and amenities.

Although modest about his own abilities and generous in his praise of other cricketers, Bradman was fully aware of the talents he possessed as a player ; there is some evidence that he sought to influence his legacy.

Although approved for social phobia and posttraumatic stress disorder, sertraline leads to only modest improvement in these conditions.

Although they enjoyed only modest success compared to contemporaries such as The Who and The Rolling Stones, Faces have had considerable influence on latter-day rock revivalists.

Although moved by Vaughan's musical prowess, she was attracted to his charmingly modest personality.

Although Sky had received a modest amount of acclaim, including being produced by Rolling Stones producer Jimmy Miller, the band broke up without having any chart success.

Although the original videos were only a modest success outside of Texas, Barney became a major success when the character and format were revamped for the television series and were picked up by the Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ), debuting as Barney and Friends in 1992.

Although her income was modest during the last years of her life, she was widely honored for her publication of Ulysses and her support of aspiring writers during the 1920s.

Although he was a ruler of modest historical significance, Marko became a major character in South Slavic oral tradition.

Although he directly profited from a number of commercial deals, cattle sales, and land grants, he was modest in his dealings compared with most of his subordinates.

Although of modest size, they are capable of inflicting significant damage: during one study of the threat display, a grey reef shark attacked the researchers ' submersible multiple times, leaving tooth marks in the plastic windows and biting off one of the propellers.

Although boastful by nature, he learns to be more modest as his bragging causes the other children to become irritated.

Although Carleton concentrated most of his modest force at Fort St. Jean, he left small garrisons of British regular army troops at Montreal and Quebec.

Although Cornelius Vanderbilt always occupied a modest home, members of his family would use their wealth to build magnificent mansions.

Although it garnered modest sales, it is among the most successful and recognized arcade shooter ports of the 2000s.

Although inferior in electrical terms to antennas specifically designed for given frequency bands, or optimized for directionality, its all-around performance, relatively modest size, low cost, and the fact that it does not require any complex electronic matching to operate with a standard shortwave transmitter, have made it popular in professional shortwave communications.

Although the Sun is much denser than a GMC, the volume of a GMC is so great that it contains much more mass than the Sun.

This conjecture seems to be confirmed in the introduction of the first volume of the chronicles of Gallus Anonymus concerning the Pomeranians: Although often the leaders of the forces defeated by the Polish duke sought salvation in baptism, as soon as they regained their strength, they repudiated the Christian faith and started the war against Christians anew.

Although a contraption at Stephansplatz in Hamburg is now thought to have predated them by two years, it has often been stated that the first traffic lights in Continental Europe were erected at Potsdamer Platz on 20 October 1924, in an attempt to control the sheer volume of traffic passing through.

Although the volume of intelligence derived from this system was much smaller than that from Enigma, its importance was high because it produced primarily strategic level intelligence.

Although mass is easy to measure, the volume of an irregularly shaped sample can be more difficult to ascertain.

Although historically the images generated were in the axial or transverse plane, perpendicular to the long axis of the body, modern scanners allow this volume of data to be reformatted in various planes or even as volumetric ( 3D ) representations of structures.

Although the exact function of the oSDN is not fully known, its volume, length, and cell number seem to correlate with sexual orientation, and a dimorphism in its volume and of cells could bias the processing cues involved in partner selection.

Although after 1786 there is no further mention of Murdoch's work on Steam Carriages in Watt's or Boulton's correspondence, a volume of evidence exists that he continued to work on it without his employers ' support, and some argue that a full size version was built.

Although sequential descriptions of the Valar can be found in The Book of Lost Tales ( first begun as far back as 1916-7, but published in 1983 as volume 1 of The History of Middle-earth ), the earliest Valar-list that can be measured against Valaquenta is found in the text called Quenta Noldorinwa ( probably written in 1930, but first published in 1986 as part of The Shaping of Middle-earth, volume 4 of The History of Middle-earth ).

Although the company did raise about $ 30 million from the offering it is estimated that with the level of demand for the offering and the volume of trading that took place the company might have left upwards of $ 200 million on the table.

Although this volume is notable for featuring imagined histories by serious historians, the histories are presented in narrative form ( in most cases with a fairly whimsical tone ) without any analysis of the reasoning behind these scenarios, so they fall short of modern standards for serious counterfactual history and are closer to the fictional alternate history genre.

Although prostate specific antigen levels may be elevated in these patients because of increased organ volume and inflammation due to urinary tract infections, BPH does not lead to cancer or increase the risk of cancer.

Although this issue has not been fully resolved, it is likely that the mean span dimension and the hydrodynamic volume are strongly correlated.

Although similar individual multi-episode DVDs were released, it is now exclusively available as part of The Twilight Zone-The Definitive Edition, the first volume of which was released December 24, 2004.

Although the complete design is shown in the third volume of Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, published in 1725, the West Wing was not completed ( indeed, not even started ) when Vanbrugh died in 1726, despite his remonstration with the Earl.

Although it used 2000 transistors as opposed to 1250 tubes in the original, it occupied only half the volume, and used only 5 % as much power.

Although no accepted in vitro alternatives exist, a modified form of the Draize test called the low volume eye test may reduce suffering and provide more realistic results and this was adopted as the new standard in September 2009.

Although most modern editions of Rabelais's work place Pantagruel as the second volume of a series, it was actually published first, around 1532 under the pen name " Alcofribas Nasier ", an anagram of Francois Rabelais.

Although most volumes cover exactly one letter completely, the letters with exceptionally numerous entries (" C " and " S ") are divided between two volumes, while adjacent letters with relatively few entries (" J "–" K ", " N "–" O ", " Q "–" R ", " U "–" V ", and " W "–" Z ") share a volume.

( Although technically a biopsy involves removing some tissue, it is more frequently categorized as an-otomy than an-ectomy because the volume of tissue removed is minuscule.

Although the publishers Taylor and Hessey feared the kind of bad reviews that had plagued Keats's 1818 edition of Endymion, they were willing to publish the collection after the removal of any potentially controversial poems to ensure that there would be no politically motivated reviews that could give the volume a bad reputation.

Although he began a translation, it was Halley who finished it and included it in a 1706 volume with his restoration of De Spatii Sectione.

Although the Toronto – Montreal line is double tracked throughout its length ( a rarity in Canada ), the high volume of freight traffic on the line in recent years has reduced the percentage of passenger trains that arrive on time.