Although careful programmers were coming to realize that use of incompatible extensions caused expensive portability problems, and were therefore using programs such as The PFORT Verifier, it was not until after the 1977 standard, when the National Bureau of Standards ( now NIST ) published FIPS PUB 69, that processors purchased by the U. S. Government were required to diagnose extensions of the standard.

Although the United States Census Bureau reported that as of the last year of the 20th century, the population of Columbia had been only 10, 311 people, by 2010 this figure had grown to 10, 400.

Although county lands were open to homesteading from 1862 to 1934, the U. S. Bureau of Land Management still owns more than three million acres ( 12, 000 km² ), or 62 % of the lands within the county boundaries.

Although the Bureau states there is no water, the lake covers about 1600 acres ( 6. 5 km² or 2. 5 sq mi ).

Although many of the town's residents travel to nearby commercial and business centers in Tilton, Concord or Manchester for employment, nearly a thousand people work in Northfield, according to the NH Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau.

Although Lone Oak changed from a town to a city in November 1890, the change was not recognized by the Census Bureau until June 2007 ; consequently, it was listed as a town at the 2000 census.

Although the Census Bureau listed it as a town in 2000, it is classified ( along with all other municipalities with populations between two and ten thousand ) as a city by state law.

Although stuffed to the gills with ex-Doctor Who guest stars, only one of them was actually playing the same character: the story was built around Caroline John's Dr Elizabeth Shaw, the Doctor's companion in the seventh season of Doctor Who, now depicted as an investigator for PROBE ( the " Preternatural Research Bureau ").

Although English is the official language of Ghana, Ga is one of 16 languages in which the Bureau of Ghana Languages publishes material.

Although some of their subordinate agents were unscrupulous or incompetent, the majority of local Bureau agents were hindered in carrying out their duties by the opposition of former Confederates, the lack of a military presence to enforce their authority, and an excessive amount of paperwork.

Although the Minatomirai Line runs entirely underground, it is separate from the Yokohama Municipal Subway, which is operated by the Yokohama City Transportation Bureau.

Although it is clear that the parents do not accept the existence of the gremlins, they did include them as members of the family, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, when being interviewed by a member of the U. S. Census Bureau.

Although it has " bureau " in its name, the Better Business Bureau is not affiliated with any governmental agency.

Although Go-Toba retained veto power over the poems included in the anthology as well as the order in which they were presented, he assigned the task of compilation to six of the Fellows of the Bureau of Poetry.

Although not himself a flyer, Moffett became known as the " Air Admiral " for his leadership of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics from its creation in 1921.

Although it was selected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for use in the field following the 1986 F. B. I.

Although the line was originally proposed in 1968, construction did not begin until the 1980s, partly due to the right-of-way to Meguro with Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation's Mita Line.

Although not tracked by the Census Bureau, Cherry Creek has been assigned the ZIP code of 57622.

Although the Diplomatic Security Service ( DSS ) is an organization within the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, it is the primary conduit utilized by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security for the majority of all law enforcement and security matters.

Although DS was by then a Bureau within the State Department, overseas the vast majority of RSOs continued to report to the Administration Officer.

Although not on the group's coordinating committee ( the Weather Bureau ), Gilbert did act as a regional leader, spending at least some of these years in Colorado.

Although the Act stated that these certificates – as well as similar “ certificates of identity ” later created by the then newly formed Bureau of Immigration to document all Chinese who were actually exempt from the Exclusion and subsequent Geary Acts ( for example merchants, teachers, travelers, and students ) – were supposed to serve as “ indubitable proof of legal entry ”, the documents did not function to protect legal immigrants and residents from government harassment.

Although it is not an incorporated municipality, for statistical purposes, the U. S. Census Bureau defines the area immediately surrounding the lake as a census-designated place named Hubbard Lake.

Although police never charged anyone with the attempted murder, police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation believed Merlino was behind the shooting to avenge an earlier plot by Scarfo Sr. on Merlino's father.

Although most familiar to viewers of 1960s TV, she was also famous for her multilingual skills, speaking Italian, Spanish, French and German.

Although the Constitution did not envisage it, India is now a multilingual federation.

Although ruled by the church, the academy provided students with educational standards close to universities of Western Europe ( including multilingual training ) and became the foremost educational center, both religious and secular.

Although the phrase " Arabic numeral " is frequently capitalized, it is sometimes written in lower case: for instance, in its entry in the Oxford English dictionary.

Although the various Baltic tribes were mentioned by ancient historians as early as 98 B. C., the first attestation of a Baltic language was in about 1350, with the creation of the Elbing Prussian Vocabulary, a German to Prussian translation dictionary.

Although Tsolyáni is the only Tekumeláni language that has had a full grammar book, dictionary, pronunciation tapes ( on CD ) and a primer, publicly released, it is not the only language for this world that Barker developed.

Although the statutes did not explicitly limit the definition of marriage to male-female pairs, the court held that both the common dictionary definition of marriage, in addition to the legislative intent ( the relevant statutes were enacted in 1945 ) favored the interpretation of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Although " collectable " is the spelling listed first for the adjective by the Oxford English Dictionary and is standard spelling in British English, the dictionary observes that the "- ible " form is also valid and this has come to be the common spelling in the United States.

Although the social classes of Oceania interact little, the protagonist, Winston Smith, attends an evening at the cinema, where proles and members of the Outer and Inner Party view the same film programme ; he patronises a proletarian pub without attracting notice ( or so he thinks ); and visits the flat of Inner Party man O ' Brien, on pretext of borrowing the newest edition of the Newspeak dictionary.

Although a nonspecialist dictionary might define radiography quite narrowly as " taking X-ray images ", this has long been only part of the work of " X-ray departments ", radiographers, and radiologists.

Although Creel cautioned about the complications of determining which early Chinese exonyms were derogatory, the first character dictionary, Xu Shen's ( 121 CE ) Shuowen Jiezi, provides invaluable data about Han Dynasty usage.

Although this effort was, in his own words, " totally unscientific ", it has led to the recent publication of an " etymological dictionary of the Hebrew language ".

Although dictionary makers often see their work as purely descriptive, their dictionaries are widely used as prescriptive authorities by the community at large.

Although the dictionary was never again revised or expanded, an abridged edition with new words, The New Century Dictionary ( edited by H. G.

Although existent only in fragments, the geographer Stephanus of Byzantium wrote a geographical dictionary in the 6th century which influenced later European compilers of gazetteers by the 16th century.

Although jieju can also mean xishuai 蟋蟀 " cricket ", Li concludes it means the snake-controlling wugong " centipede " that the Fangyan dictionary ( 11 ) also calls maxian 馬蚿 " horse / giant millipede " or juqu 蛆蟝.

Although not the first comprehensive Chinese character dictionary ( the Erya predates it ), it was still the first to analyze the structure of the characters and to give the rationale behind them ( sometimes also the etymology of the words represented by them ), as well as the first to use the principle of organization by sections with shared components, called radicals ( bùshǒu 部首, lit.

Although the Shuowen Jiezi has had incalculable value to scholars and was traditionally relied upon as the most important Chinese etymological dictionary, many of its analyses and definitions have been eclipsed as vague or inaccurate since the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions in the late 19th century.

Although most of these Tang dictionary redactions were believed lost, some fragments were discovered among the Dunhuang manuscripts and manuscripts discovered at Turpan ; and in 1947 a nearly complete manuscript of the 706 edition was found in the Palace Museum.

Although the origins of The Devil's Dictionary are normally placed in 1881 ( the point at which Bierce himself said it began ) the idea started in August 1869 when Bierce, short of topics to write about and having recently bought a new copy of Webster's Unabridged dictionary, suggested the possibility of writing a < nowiki >" Comic Dictionary "</ nowiki >.

Although the MLS also lists property rentals, the rental market has become so popular that the acronym MRLS, a term meaning Multiple Rental Listing Service has been added to the Real Estate dictionary.

Although this order helps readers more easily find articles, this was not meant to be a dictionary or encyclopaedia in the same totalizing way of D ' Alembert's project.

Although this is an acceptable dictionary definition of the word civil, it is not what is intended here.

Although the vocabulary coverage was small by today's standards, it was the largest English dictionary at the time.

Although superseded, the Imperial remains a much sought after favorite among collectors and dictionary lovers.

Although historians assert that its origins may span as far back as the Zhou Dynasty ( 1050 BC – 221 BC ), the earliest texts to describe the device are the Ji Jiu Pian ( 急就篇 ) dictionary of 40 BC, Yang Xiong's text known as the Fangyan of 15 BC, as well as the Xin Lun written by Huan Tan about 20 AD ( during the usurpation of Wang Mang ).

Although his dictionary does contain some errors and occasional speculations on possible relationships for which no evidence was known to Fr.