Although principally a museum of cultural art objects and antiquities today, the British Museum was founded as a " universal museum ".

Although the service sector has recently overtaken agriculture as the leading employer of Dominicans ( due principally to growth in tourism and Free Trade Zones ), agriculture remains the most important sector in terms of domestic consumption and is in second place ( behind mining ) in terms of export earnings.

Although not principally known for his landscapes, Reynolds did paint in this genre.

Although this rule was not principally intended to prevent leg theory, it diluted the potency of short-pitched leg theory, as it allowed for fewer catching positions on the leg side.

Although Seymour I. Rubinstein was the principal owner of the company, Rob Barnaby was the sole author of the early versions of the program ; starting with WordStar 4. 0, the program was built on new code written principally by Peter Mierau.

Although later versions of CATIA V4 implemented NURBS, V4 principally used piecewise polynomial surfaces.

Although the rebels ' grievances were wide-ranging, the most significant was the suppression of the monasteries, blamed on the King's " evil counsellors ", principally Cromwell and Cranmer.

Although the Bouffes-Parisiens played to full houses, the theatre was constantly on the verge of running out of money, principally because of what his biographer Alexander Faris calls " Offenbach's incorrigible extravagance as a manager ".

Although principally deployed against communists, the Smith Act was also used against right-wing political threats such as the German-American Bund, and the perceived racial disloyalty of the Japanese-American population, ( cf.

Although concerned principally with ecclesiastical affairs, the Historia, scholars agree, is as one of the ablest and most valuable writings of its kind.

Although, his name derives principally from Heinz 57, it is an interesting coincidence that Nayland Smith in the Fu Manchu books was " Agent 56 ".

Although popularly imagined as wholly preoccupied with " Society ", for the first several decades of her married life " Lina " Astor was principally occupied with raising her five children and running her household, typical of women of her class in mid 19th century New York City.

Although the cubical model of the atom was soon abandoned in favor of the quantum mechanical model based on the Schrödinger equation, and is therefore now principally of historical interest, it represented an important step towards the understanding of the chemical bond.

Although the exact composition is a secret, Plasticine is composed of calcium salts ( principally calcium carbonate ), petroleum jelly, and long-chain aliphatic acids ( principally stearic acid ).

Although used in connection with various Christian traditions, the term has traditionally been principally associated with the Anglican tradition.

Although the sporty compacts were a commercial success for most automakers, some auto executives, however, principally Ford's Lee Iacocca, believed that sporty versions of mundane compact cars only scratched the surface of the potential market.

Although DSS schools are required to offer principally a curriculum targeting local students and prepare its students to sit for local examinations, certain DSS schools are currently offering or are set to offer the International Baccalaureate Programme.

Although principally ride cymbals, they can also serve as exotic crash cymbals, particularly in the smaller sizes and at higher volumes.

Although the Kwun Tong Line tracks had already been laid for the station in 1979, Prince Edward was not opened until the Tsuen Wan Line opened on 10 May 1982, since the station was designed principally for the purpose of interchanging to ease the expected overcrowded interchange at Mong Kok Station.

Although they have been largely replaced by diode-pumped solid state lasers and laser diodes, they are now used principally for specialized applications such as interferometry and holography due to their long coherence length and Gaussian irradiance profile.

Although De Tomaso is principally known as a maker of high-performance sports cars, the firm also produced luxury coupés and saloons in tiny number throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Although the accident killed fewer than other accidents, it exposed the major stewardship shortcomings of the privatised national railway infrastructure company Railtrack and the failings of the regulatory oversight which the company displayed in its initial years ( principally a failure to ensure that the company had a sound knowledge of the condition of its assets ) and ultimately triggered its partial renationalisation.

Although too brittle to be used by itself, carnauba wax is often combined with other waxes ( principally beeswax ) to treat and waterproof many leather products where it provides a high-gloss finish and increases leather's hardness and durability.

The logo was redesigned with red and silver accents to depict a more powerful, aggressive falcon, which now more closely resembles the capital letter F. Although the Falcons still wore black helmets, the new uniforms featured jerseys and pants with red trim down the sides.

Although he had other sponsors during his career, his No. 3 is associated in fans ' minds with his last sponsor, GM Goodwrench, and his last color scheme — a predominantly black car with bold red and silver trim.

Although England's first away kits were blue, England's traditional away colours are red shirts, white shorts and red socks.

Although no " Hopkinson flags " exist from the time period, it is believed that his flag contained 13 red and white stripes and 13 white stars arranged symmetrically on a field of blue.

Although Esau sold Jacob his own birthright, which was his blessing, for " red pottage ", Esau still hated Jacob for receiving his blessing that their father Isaac unknowingly had given to him.

Although he had an eclectic mix of supporters, Kemp's campaign began borrowing against anticipated Federal matching funds because it had quickly spent itself into the red, which may have been due to the use of expensive direct mail fundraising techniques.

Although it is a deep and pure red color, spots of laser light are so intense that cameras are typically overexposed and distort their color.

Although color gamut can be expressed as three pairs of numbers, the XY coordinates within color space of the reddest red, greenest green, and bluest blue, it is usually expressed as a ratio of the total area within color space that a display can show relative to some standard such as saying that a display was " 120 % of NTSC ".

Although most Southern-style conjure bags are made of red flannel material, most seasoned conjurers use color-symbolism.

Although red pandas are protected by national laws in their range countries, their numbers in the wild continue to decline mainly due to habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and inbreeding depression.

Although lower mass stars normally do not burn off their outer layers so rapidly, they can likewise avoid becoming red giants or red supergiants if they are in binary systems close enough so that the companion star strips off the envelope as it expands, or if they rotate rapidly enough so that convection extends all the way from the core to the surface, resulting in the absence of a separate core and envelope due to thorough mixing.

Although it is believed that the name " Tekka ", meaning ' red hot iron ', alludes to the color of the tuna flesh or salmon flesh, it actually originated as a quick snack to eat in gambling dens called " Tekkaba " (), much like the sandwich.

( Although, white wines can be made from red or dark-skinned grapes ) ruling out the use of dark-skinned grapes such as Syrah, and no known descriptions of this wine's taste and character indicate any similarity whatsoever with red wines from the Rhône.

Although its best incarnations will age for decades, less-extracted styles may be enjoyed young for their lively red and blueberry characters and smooth tannin structure.

Although the movie's initial script and novelization describe the X-wings as belonging to " Blue squadron ", limitations in bluescreen photography led to the markings on the filming models, as well as the fictional squadron affiliation being changed to red.

Although the slime was usually green, other colors, such as red, blue, yellow, and even black and white, were occasionally used.

Although the resulting red waves are an unusual sight, they contain toxins that not only affect all marine life in the ocean, but the people who consume them, as well.

Although the German press had once " swooned over him ", the new German authorities now made a mockery of Chagall's art, describing them as " green, purple, and red Jews shooting out of the earth, fiddling on violins, flying through the air ... representing assault on Western civilization ".

Although this has traditionally been thought to refer to the salt water inlet located between Africa and the Arabian peninsula, known in English as the Red Sea, this is a mistranslation from the Greek Septuagint, and Hebrew suph never means " red " but rather " reeds.

Although red tabby and white is the classic van color, the color on a van's head and tail can be one of the following: Red, Cream, Black, Blue, Red Tabby, Cream Tabby, Brown Tabby, Blue Tabby, Tortoiseshell, Dilute Tortoiseshell ( also known as blue-cream ), Brown Patched Tabby, Blue patched Tabby and any other color not showing evidence of hybridization with the pointed cats ( Siamese, Himalayan, etc.

Although the projection of Biocolour prints did provide a tolerable illusion of true colour, it suffered from noticeable flickering and red and green fringing when the subject was in rapid motion.