Although it's increasingly common for couples – particularly younger couples – to have " power neutral " relationships and / or play styles, activities and relationships within a BDSM context are often characterized by the participants ' taking on complementary, but unequal roles ; thus, the idea of informed consent of both the partners becomes essential.

Although the counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed VI, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

Although he attempted to regulate his daily routine to maintain more control over his results, his decision to avoid the use of participants sacrificed the external validity of the study despite sound internal validity.

Although a counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

Although he was stunned by the upheaval by participants in the Annual Reminder in 1969, he later observed, " By the time of Stonewall, we had fifty to sixty gay groups in the country.

Although the Falles is a very traditional event and many participants dress in medieval clothing, the ninots for 2005 included such modern characters as Shrek and George W. Bush, and the 2012 Falles included characters like Barack Obama and Lady Gaga.

Although few participants would accept the hippie label, Burning Man is a contemporary expression of alternative community in the same spirit as early hippie events.

Although the primary participants ' military forces never clashed directly, they expressed this conflict through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, extensive aid to states deemed vulnerable, proxy wars, espionage, propaganda, a nuclear arms race, and economic and technological competitions, such as the Space Race.

Although this transoceanic flight had been attempted by many others, most notably by the unfortunate participants in the 1927 Dole Air Race which had reversed the route, her trailblazing flight had been mainly routine, with no mechanical breakdowns.

Although they have become participants in those countries ' market economies, some seek to retain practices linked to an adapted form of gift economy, such as reciprocal gifts of money, or remittances back to their home community.

Although the term has come to prominence through its use by participants in the global justice / anti-globalization movement of the 1990s onwards, the word has been used for at least 60 years ; for instance Martin Buber's 1949 book ' Paths in Utopia ' includes the line ' Power abdicates only under counter-power '.

Although Māori are generally involved, most participants are Pākehā.

Although Strauss dropped the word " libertarian " from the title ( to indicate that it was open to all participants ), the strong libertarian perspective of the contributors remained.

Although not always the case, participation in deliberation has often been found to shift participants opinions in favour of Green positions, and can even cause a favourable change of voting intention.

Although there have been concerns that statins might increase cancer, several meta-analyses have found no relationship to cancer, the largest of which as of 2006 included nearly 87, 000 participants.

Although treatments were available, participants in the study did not receive them.

Although not a formal FSM reunion, many FSM leaders were on the panels and other participants were in the audience.

Although there are claims that participants in the Crossroads tests were well protected against radiation sickness, the Oscar-nominated documentary Radio Bikini showed footage of Navy sailors wearing little or no protection during their inspection of the target ships only hours after the explosions, even though some of the observer ships were caught in the fallout of the Baker explosion.

Although these " unwritten " rules are sometimes stretched, they have generally held up for four decades, with only minor dissimilarities and adjustments, like the occasional requests to avoid works of explicit sexual nature, calls for projects with specific participants, or the recent trend to display digital documentation on blogs and websites instead of personally sending printed paper to contributors.

Although it is unknown whether Nixon had foreknowledge of his re-election committee's " dirty tricks " campaign against Democratic presidential candidates that led to the break-in, he was aware of it after the fact and paid money to keep the participants quiet.

Although the stated aim is to consume one drink at each of the 27 stops, most participants stop at a handful of stations, usually beginning at Paddington and moving anti-clockwise towards Temple.

Although focusing only on participants that were in Manhattan on 9 / 11, the recollections of those closer to the World Trade Center were more vivid than those who were farther away.

Although the researchers found that memory for the event decreased over time for all participants, looking at images had a profound effect on participants memory.

Although several hospital rules disallowed administering the drug under the circumstances, 25 out of the 26 nurses would have given the patient an overdose of medicine.

Although counties had existed prior to 1849, after 1849 they replaced the district systems in administering local government and courts in Ontario.

Although DLA had received responsibility for administering most defense contracts in 1965, the military services had retained responsibility for administering most major weapons systems and overseas contracts.

Although scores of mostly mild seismic shocks were recorded in 1986, volcanic eruptions ceased thousands of years ago.

Although an earthquake-prone region, as of early 1989 no severe shocks had been recorded for several centuries.

If the teacher asked whether the learner might suffer permanent physical harm, the experimenter replied, " Although the shocks may be painful, there is no permanent tissue damage, so please go on ".

* In this case the gas ahead of the shock is supersonic ( in the laboratory frame ), and the gas behind the shock system is either supersonic ( oblique shocks ) or subsonic ( a normal shock ) ( Although for some oblique shocks very close to the deflection angle limit, the downstream Mach number is subsonic.

Although computer calculations have predicted the existence and structure of such shocks for some time, previous observations have not been able to prove the theory.

Although they were forced to maintain a sharper watch, this activity enabled them to ride in and rack their broncs without any particular attention being paid them.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Although this kind of wholesale objection came at first from some men who were not technically Puritans, still, once the Puritans gained power, they climaxed the affair by passing the infamous ordinance of 1642 which decreed that all `` public stage-plays shall cease and be forborne ''.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

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

Although the elections were for local officials, it was not necessary to conduct the elections so as to prevent parties from publicly identifying their candidates.

Although the monarch had frequently asserted that the elections were to be without party significance, his action was an implicit admission that party identifications were a factor.

Although Rhode Islanders were preparing for the state elections, they watched John Brown's trial with extreme interest.

Although we enjoyed our rounds of the government offices in Vientiane, with officials offering tea and pleasing conversation in French, we were getting nowhere.

Although federal and city narcotic agents sometimes worked together, Sokol continued, rivalries developed when they were `` aiming at the same criminals ''.

Although he later broke with the churches because he believed that they were insufficiently outspoken against social evils, he remained a devout Christian.

Although they " were expecting to see activity in the brain's reward centers ", based on the idea that " people perform altruistic acts because they feel good about it ", what they found was that " another part of the brain was also involved, and it was quite sensitive to the difference between doing something for personal gain and doing it for someone else's gain ".

The Turkish language and the Islamic religion were gradually introduced as a result of the Seljuk conquest, and this period marks the start of Anatolia's slow transition from predominantly Christian and Indo-European and Semitic-speaking, to predominantly Muslim and Turkish-speaking ( Although some ethnic groups such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Georgians retained Christianity and their native languages ).

Although the Indian and Greek concepts of the atom were based purely on philosophy, modern science has retained the name coined by Democritus.

Although Romanticism and Neoclassicism were philosophically opposed, they were the dominant European styles for generations, and many artists were affected to a greater or lesser degree by both.

Although Andean Amerindian peoples crafted ceremonial jewelry of gold and other metals the mineralizations of the Andes were first mined in large scale after the Spanish arrival.

Although at least three pads were planned, only two, designated A and B, were completed in October 1965.

Although the proposal seemed to have been approved, the plans of the British were thwarted by the uprising of Dost Muhammad's son Muhammad Akbar Khan, who defeated and annihilated the British-Indian garrison at Gandamak on its retreat from Kabul in January 1842.

Although some of his lands were restored to the control of his relatives, his safe return could not be arranged, and Hasan Ali Shah was forced to remain a permanent resident of India.