Although there are few examples of such systems competitive with traditional analysis techniques, potential advantages include size / portability, speed, and cost.

Although most early codices were made of papyrus, papyrus was fragile and supplies from Egypt, the only place where papyrus grew and was made into paper, became scanty ; the more durable parchment and vellum gained favor, despite the cost.

Although all rebellions were eventually put down at enormous cost and casualties, the central imperial authority was seriously weakened.

Although no cable company released data as to what such a monitoring service would cost, the end-result was that no cable company elected to carry the station, either, leaving many Arabic-speaking Canadians using free-to-air satellite dishes to watch the station.

Although not as flexible or powerful as either the Fairlight CMI or the Synclavier, its lower cost and portability made it popular.

Although land, as at Ludgate Circus and Lewisham, had been reserved for the second stage, the rising cost led to the project's indefinite postponement in the early 1980s.

Although sunlight is free and abundant, solar electricity is still usually more expensive to produce than large-scale mechanically generated power due to the cost of the panels.

Although a decision was yet to be reached, on 13 July 2007 EU countries discussed cutting € 548m ($ 755m, £ 370m ) from the union's competitiveness budget for the following year and shifting some of that cash to other parts of the financing pot, a move that could meet part of the cost of the union's Galileo satellite navigation system.

Although opportunity cost can be hard to quantify, the effect of opportunity cost is universal and very real on the individual level.

Although the uniforms were supposed to debut with the opening of Miller Park, an accident involving one of the cranes damaging the new ballpark, which cost the lives of three workers, delayed the opening of Miller Park one year, so the uniforms spent one year at County Stadium, the old ballpark's last year.

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 the cost of producing the gold standard can be quite high, automatic evaluation can be repeated as often as needed without much additional costs ( on the same input data ).

Although its high cost precluded uses other than photojournalism and professional photography, commercial digital photography was born.

Although a capitalist economy would avoid discrimination in order to avoid extra cost, this can be avoided in other ways.

Although numerous technical, political, and financial problems had been overcome, the final cost was more than double the original estimate.

Although analog carrier systems existed that multiplexed multiple analog voice channels onto a single transmission medium, digital transmission allowed lower cost and more channels multiplexed on the transmission medium.

Although ATM initially cost money, rather than coming free with the operating system, it became a de facto standard for anyone involved in desktop publishing.

Although a lot across Sixth Street from Independence Hall was offered without cost by James Logan, its owner, the Trustees realized that the building erected in 1740, which was still vacant, would be an even better site.

Although cultivated since antiquity, it was the invention of the cotton gin that so lowered the cost of production that led to its widespread use, and it is the most widely used natural fiber cloth in clothing today.

Although the tone of fiberglass models tends to be thinner and less " warm " ( earning them the nicknames " Plastic Bugle ", " White Trash ", " Toilet Bowels ", and " Tupperware " among players in some ensembles ), it is considered acceptable by the high schools in which the instrument is most common due to the tradeoff in durability, cost, and weight.

Although other forms of storage are viable ( such as magnetic tape and solid-state drives ) disk drives have continued to offer the best fit for cost, performance, and capacity.

Although servers can be built from commodity computer parts, mission-critical enterprise servers are ideally very fault tolerant and use specialized hardware with low failure rates in order to maximize uptime, for even a short-term failure can cost more than purchasing and installing the system.

Although the strong civil rights plank adopted at the Convention cost Truman the support of the Dixiecrats, it gained him many votes from blacks, especially in large northern cities.

Although with the cost of lives and the capture and execution of assassin dai Ahmad ibn Hattash, the hashashins managed to hold their ground and repel the attacks until the Mongol invasion.

Although for instance the EU ( as well as many other developed countries ) has a balanced monetary balance of trade, its physical trade balance ( especially with developing countries ) is negative, meaning that a lot less material is exported than imported.

Although the waters surrounding the Dominican Republic abound with fish, the fishing industry is comparatively undeveloped, and fish for local consumption are imported.

Although many kinds of minerals were extracted throughout the country, most mineral resources had to be imported in the postwar era.

Although Japanese is written using Chinese characters, and has historically imported many words of Chinese origin, the two languages are not considered to have a genealogical relationship.

Although spices have been imported to Morocco for thousands of years, many ingredients, like saffron from Tiliouine, mint and olives from Meknes, and oranges and lemons from Fez, are home-grown.

Although there was no full-scale PAL region release of the system, imported PC Engine consoles were largely available in France and Benelux through major retailers thanks to the unlicensed importer Sodipeng ( Société de Distribution de la PC Engine, a subsidiary of Guillemot International ).< ref >

Although madrigals were initially dramatic settings of unrequited-love poetry or mythological stories in Italy, they were imported into England and merged with the more dancelike balletto, celebrating carefree songs of the seasons, or eating and drinking.

Although originally developed in England since 1748 to compete with imported porcelain, bone china is now made worldwide.

Although the bulk of its repertoire consists of music imported from Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, many local Chinese orchestras also regularly perform Malay folk tunes with various local composers making a definite effort to absorb elements of surrounding musical cultures, especially Malay, into their compositions.

Although this is on the decline, in part due to the growth of chain stores that desire national distribution networks and cheap wholesales prices — prices driven down by the low cost of imported produce.

Although the variety of the wheat there is diverse, it is not extensively grown there, and thus must be imported.

Although most fire ant species do not bother people and are not invasive due to biological factors, Solenopsis invicta, known in the United States as the red imported fire ant ( or RIFA ) is an invasive pest in many areas of the world, notably the United States, Australia, the Philippines, China and Taiwan.

Although the red imported fire ant is native to South America, it has become a pest in the southern United States, Australia, Taiwan, Philippines, and the southern Chinese provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Hong Kong.

Although modern rifles were imported into Ethiopia during the 19th century, contemporary British historians noted that along with slingshots the elderly used matchlock rifle weapons for self-defense and by the militaries of the Ras.

Although only one case of melioidosis has ever been reported in Bangladesh, at least five cases have been imported to the UK from that country, which suggests that melioidosis is endemic to that country and that there is a serious problem of underdiagnosis or under-reporting, most likely due to a lack of adequate laboratory facilities.

Although the earlier Colt had been imported in limited numbers, this generation, in 1. 6L coupe form only, was the first model to establish the Mitsubishi brand in New Zealand from 1971 when newly-appointed distributor Todd Motors, which also imported and assembled Chrysler and Hillman, started selling a small number of Japanese-assembled cars to supplement its mainstream Hillman Avenger and Hunter models.

Although the series originated in Japan, they were imported and dubbed in other languages for broadcast in several other countries.

Although Sphinx products were historically imported to the United States by SILE corporation, and until 2008 by SABRE Defense Industries, Sphinx products are not presently being imported into the US.

Although most of Brooks Brothers ' clothing is imported, many of the firm's suits, sport coats, shirts, and some accessories are manufactured in the United States.

Although the Ford Zephyr never saw American production, a very limited amount were imported into the U. S. and the name itself has appeared on other American Ford-related cars.

Although Nissan did not officially sell S-Tune in UK, Nissan Motor ( GB ) Ltd. imported 1 S-Tune GT to UK

Although Brazil is a major producer of cocoa beans, it is believed that the creation and success of the truffle was a combination of opportunities: the multinational corporation Nestlé, which introduced chocolate powder and condensed milk ; the creators who named it after the famous politician, the need to find a replacement to imported sweets ; and its ease of manufacture.