Although rare, deposits of native chromium exist.

Although female roles were performed by castrati in some of the papal states, this was increasingly rare ; by 1680, they had supplanted " normal " male voices in lead roles, and retained their position as primo uomo for about a hundred years ; an Italian opera not featuring at least one renowned castrato in a lead part would be doomed to fail.

Although this is a relatively rare instance of a female Confucian voice, Ban Zhao almost entirely accepts the prevailing views concerning women's proper roles ; they should be silent, hard-working, and compliant.

Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles originally planned on a main hall of the Hagia Sophia that measured 230 feet by 250 feet, making it the largest church in Constantinople, but the original dome was nearly 20 feet lower than it was constructed, “ Justinian suppressed these riots and took the opportunity of marking his victory by erecting in 532-7 the new Hagia Sophia, one of the largest, most lavish, and most expensive buildings of all time .” Although Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles were not formally educated in architecture, they were scientists that could organize the logistics of drawing thousands of laborers and unprecedented loads of rare raw materials from around the Roman Empire to create the Hagia Sophia for Emperor Justinian I.

Although carbonaceous chondrites are thought to be rare, some are very large and the suspected " dinosaur-killer " may have been a carbonaceous chondrite.

Although lanthanum belongs to the element group called rare earth metals, it is not rare at all.

Although its FPU performance fit scientific users quite well, its limited integer performance and high cost dampened appeal for most users, and the R8000 was in the marketplace for only a year and remains fairly rare.

Although neon is a very common element in the universe and solar system ( it is fifth in cosmic abundance after hydrogen, helium, oxygen and carbon ), it is very rare on Earth.

Although neodymium is classed as a " rare earth ", it is no rarer than cobalt, nickel, and copper ore, and is widely distributed in the Earth's crust.

Although it belongs to the rare earth metals, neodymium is not rare at all.

Although rare now, in the past there were bowlers who used the off-break action who deliberately did not impart any considerable spin on the ball but relied on line and length to frustrate batsmen.

Although in practice such instances are rare, they do exist.

Although encountering the flaw was extremely rare in practice ( Byte magazine estimated that 1 in 9 billion floating point divides with random parameters would produce inaccurate results ),< ref > both the flaw and Intel's initial handling of the matter were heavily criticized.

Although classified as a rare earth element, samarium is the 40th most abundant element in the Earth's crust and is more common than such metals as tin.

Although in rare cases, a court may change the terms of the trust due to unexpected changes in circumstances that make the trust uneconomical or unwieldy to administer, under normal circumstances an irrevocable trust may not be changed by the trustee or the beneficiaries of the trust.

Although the acute porphyrias may cause episodes of confusion and psychiatric disturbance, dementia is a rare feature of these rare diseases.

Although plantain and banana allergy is not among the top five food allergies, it cannot be considered as a rare allergy, neither in children nor in adults.

Although the standards permit any type of environment, it is fairly rare to see low level languages like C used.

Although rare, such cases do exist and may sometimes be referred to as mixed-endian or middle-endian.

Although the great white is typically regarded as an apex predator in the wild, it is in rare cases preyed upon by the larger orca ( also known as the killer whale ).

Although corals first appeared in the Cambrian period, some, fossils are extremely rare until the Ordovician period, 100 million years later, when rugose and tabulate corals became widespread.

Although < sup > 4 </ sup > He continues to be produced by other mechanisms ( such as stellar fusion and alpha decay ) and trace amounts of < sup > 1 </ sup > H continue to be produced by spallation and certain types of radioactive decay ( proton emission and neutron emission ), most of the mass of these isotopes in the universe, and all but the insignificant traces of the < sup > 3 </ sup > He and deuterium in the universe produced by rare processes such as cluster decay, are thought to have been produced in the Big Bang.

Although after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.

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 there are many sound reasons for adopting uniform and coordinated fiscal years in Rhode Island, there are also certain difficulties encountered.

Although there were no startling developments in shotgun design this year, a number of new models and variations of existing models did hit the market.

Although the site may not contain the features themselves, there are often opportunities to include them as additional interest to the site.

Although the play does show a certain structural amateurishness ( there are eleven acts varying in length from twenty-five seconds to an hour and a half ), the statement it makes concerning the ceaseless yearning and searching of youth is profound and worthy of our attention.

Although there were only four fluids tested, it was apparent that there were two distinct types.

Although there is no question but that the process of washing fabrics involves a number of phenomena which are related together in an extremely complicated way and that these phenomena and their interrelations are not well understood at the present, this section attempts to present briefly an up-to-date picture of the physical chemistry of washing either fabrics or hard surfaces.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

Although the standard deviation values on which spread of the lines is based are relatively larger for those centers which begin to ossify early ( Table 1 ), there are considerable differences in this value between centers having the closely timed Onsets.

Although no drugs act exclusively on the hypothalamus or a part of it, there is sufficient specificity to distinguish drugs which shift the hypothalamic balance to the sympathetic side from those which produce a parasympathetic dominance.

Although the Brandywine population is still predominantly rural, `` there are indications of a consistent and a statistically significant trend away from the older and relatively isolated rural communities.

Although there was no doubt in my mind and we've been handling it as one I'm glad to have it made official ''.

Although there are landscapes in the show ( one of the strongest is a vista of `` Gloucester Harbor '' in 1915 ), the human element was the compelling factor in Sloan's art.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

Although Crete had contacts with Mari from 2000 BC, there is no evidence that the ecstatic prophetic art existed during the Minoan and Mycenean ages.

Although some speculate that it is related to Latin algēre, " be cold ", there is no known reason to associate seaweed with temperature.

Although MND refers to a specific subset of pathologically similar diseases ; there are numerous other afflictions of motor neurons that are pathologically distinct from MND and have a different clinical course.

Although there are variations from place to place, most of the world's architects are required to register with the appropriate jurisdiction.

Although there is no reference to reincarnation in the Talmud or any prior writings, according to rabbis such as Rabbi Avraham Arieh Trugman, reincarnation is recognized as being part and parcel of Jewish tradition.

Although there are 10 mm in 1 cm, there are 100 mm < sup > 2 </ sup > in 1 cm < sup > 2 </ sup >.