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Although and trend
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 the NATO countries did not adopt an intermediate-power round, they continued the trend toward shorter and lighter magazine-fed battle rifles.
Although some European film-makers picked up the trend towards using dialogue titles, they did not pick up on the move towards cutting them into the scene at the point at which they were actually spoken until a few years later.
Although in 1899 Standard Oil controlled more than 85 % of the oil production in the older oil regions in the Appalachian Basin and the Lima-Indiana trend, it never controlled more than 10 % of the oil production in the new Gulf Coast province.
Although new trade theory can explain the growing trend of trade volumes of intermediate goods, Krugman's explanation depends too much on the strict assumption that all firms are symmetrical, meaning that they all have the same production coefficients.
Although the law remained in effect only eight years, it set the trend for New Deal social programs during the Great Depression.
Although results vary widely within regions and countries, the trend indicates that the world as a whole can meet the goal of halving the percentage of people living in poverty.
Although in 2004 violent crime in Memphis reached a record low for over a decade, that trend subsequently reversed.
Although decentralization is the current trend in Philippine local governance, the country remains a unitary state and the National Government continues to have strong influence over local government units.
Although not fully realized, the trend toward party politics was well established.
Although this gender specific naming trend is common for assigning fragrance concentrations, it does not directly have anything to do with whether a fragrance was intended for men or women.
Although there is drying trend in summer, rain is still abundant, just not as wet as the rest of the year.
Although Handel continued to write and present operas, the trend towards English-language productions became irresistible as the decade ended, and after three performances of his last Italian opera Deidamia in January and February 1741, he abandoned the genre.
Although modern critics of Carson have argued that the bird deaths were caused by other factors such as mercury poisoning in the soil, spraying against elm bark beetles declined very rapidly after 1962, a trend aided by fungicides without dangerous side-effects being discovered for the first time after many years of research.
Although popular works, including popular poems or collections of poems, were already being distributed for private reading and study in manuscript form, there can be little doubt that the introduction of cheap printing technologies accelerated this trend considerably.
Although the trend was short-lived, the penny-farthing became a symbol of the late Victorian era.
Although not as popular as other sites in the region, Beaumaris formed part of this trend and was visited by the future Queen Victoria in 1832 for an Eisteddfod festival and it was painted by J. M. W. Turner in 1835.
Although " floaty " skirts were most closely associated with the boho look of mid-decade, short skirts also featured in some outfits, and in London, for example, minis were more widespread during the hot summer of 2006 than for several years before, a trend that continued through the mild autumn and winter and even five years later have not yet lost their popularity with bare legs becoming more common in 2011 for the first time in some years.
Although sales of SUVs and light trucks were booming in the U. S., Japan's car manufacturers dismissed the idea that such a trend could occur in their own country.
Although no longer than its predecessor, the Mark III was a heavier car, reflecting a trend towards improving secondary safety by making car bodies more substantial.
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 navel exposure has become a recent trend in fashion in Japan, annual belly button festivals ( Heso Matsuri ) have been held in Japan since the late 1960s.
Although the trend in mainland China clearly is toward greater media autonomy and diversity and away from government control and intimidation, crosscurrents of resistance persist.
-Age distributions not reflective of the general population instead favoring older more conservative age groups ( Although the over all effect of this is unknown as approval and disapproval varied significantly throughout age groups without clear trend towards changing attitudes with age ).

Although and ridge
Although there is currently both Muslim and Jewish housing in the area, archeological digs are ongoing under many of the homes and it is proposed to make the entire ridge into an archaeological park.
Although the word latent means hidden or invisible, in modern usage for forensic science the term latent prints means any chance or accidental impression left by friction ridge skin on a surface, regardless of whether it is visible or invisible at the time of deposition.
Although a village did not exist in what was to become Munster's town boundaries, a trail along the dry sandy ridge now known as Ridge Road was well traveled by the tribe.
Although the Spessart forms a roughly circular mountain range, its main ridge extends from the southwest to the northeast.
Although it was not more than two yards wide, and the slope was one of 75 percent, we gave it all kinds of pleasant names: the corridor, the gallery, the railroad, & c., & c ." They imagined all difficulties were at an end ; but a rock couloir, which they had hitherto not observed, lay between them and the final bit of ridge, where progress would be perfectly easy.
Although Johann Rudolf Meyer claimed to have reached the summit on an attempt in 1812 with guides Arnold Abbühl, Joseph Bortes and Aloys Volker, it is now accepted — after the research of John Percy Farrar in the Alpine Journal — that Jakob Leuthold and Johann Währen ( guides to Franz Joseph Hugi ) were the first to reach the summit via the north-west ridge on 10 August 1829 ( Hugi and others remained just below the top ).
Although already wounded, Corporal Manuel Medina of Castañeda's platoon took over a recoilless rifle detachment and personally fired along the ridge at Support Company killing three Paras, including Private Peter Heddicker, who took the full force of the 105 mm round, and wounding three others.
Although the Watchungs commonly are described in terms of their east-west ridge arrangement ( First, Second, and Third Watchung Mountain ), they also are divided into smaller mountain ranges, as well as various named ridges.
Although, the fish-eating European White-tailed Eagles ( Haliaeetus albicilla ) could have caught fish in the River Trent, which lies a mere 4 miles south-east of Arnold, on the other side of the Mapperley Plains ridge.
Although graded Moderate ( the lowest grade now in use in the British grading system ), with good holds, the ridge is narrow and exceptionally exposed.
Although he had no tanks or artillery to support him, he immediately surmised the importance of holding the ridge as the only Allied force between the Germans and their unhindered exploitation of the exposed left flank of the 45th Division and the thinly held right flank of the 1st Division.
Although it is lower than the 7412 m summit, which Cooke did not ascend, it was considered at the time, and may still be considered, to be Kabru's highest point ; the higher summit was considered to be an unnamed summit along the ridge to Kangchenjunga.
Although of minor significance Pianet Knott on the eastern side of the ridge also has a very striking appearance from lower down the valley.
Although the jade examples do not appear to have been intended for use in actual combat, their morphology closely imitates that of the battle-ready bronze version, including a sharp central ridge which reinforces the blade.
Although the ridge system runs down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the ridge is located away from the center of other oceans.
Although initially forecast to continue to the west-northwest, Francelia slowed and turned to the west-southwest on September 1 due to ridge higher pressures to its north.
Although the Iraqis used a relatively successful defensive strategy by deploying their armor behind the ridge, this was not properly repeated through the rest of the war.
Although the tongue starts out in a sub-apical retroflex position, trilling involves the tip of the tongue and causes it to move forward to the alveolar ridge ; this means that the retroflex trill gives a preceding vowel retroflex coloration the way other retroflex consonants do, but the vibration itself is not much different from an alveolar trill.
Although this event is considered a Simoom, due to the unusually long time for which the temperature remained extremely high, coupled with the fact that it was in part generated due to hot air passing over the top of the mountain ridge from the normally much hotter, drier interior valley and becoming super heated as it descended to the higher pressures found at sea level, it may not entirely fit into the definition of a Saharan Simoom.

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