Although he is perfectly willing to cooperate with Scotland Yard, Holmes has nothing but contempt for the intelligence and mentality of the police.

Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.

Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.

Although open to the general public it is not overcrowded ; ;

Although we have no measures of its strength or intensity, the heritage of the doctrine of inalienable rights is retained.

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 Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.

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 it is not the best of which he is capable '', said Shelley as he closed the book, `` it is still poetry of a high order ''.

Although Sam Rayburn affects a gruff exterior in many instances, nevertheless he is fundamentally a man of warm heart and gentle disposition.

Although a similar situs for tangible property is mentioned in the statute, this is cancelled out by the provision that definite kinds of property `` and all other tangible property '' situated or being in any town is taxable where the property is situated.

Although much of the Industrial Division's promotional effort is devoted to securing new locations and expansions by major industries, small business is also afforded considerable attention.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

Although King Alfonso X's authorship is debatable, his influence is not.

" Although Fortuyn did not advocate segregation, he brought it up as a debatable issue.

Although whether these channels of media provide the right source of direction to the public is debatable, it is factually true that many Koreans nowadays do recognize the change that the society is going through due to these media attention.

Although it is debatable whether University League Tables can accurately compare the quality of small specialised research institutions such as SOAS to general universities with tens of thousands of students and departments in nearly every academic discipline, or even to other specialised institutes with completely different kinds of focuses, in 2005, SOAS placed 4th among United Kingdom universities in a Guardian poll.

Although these trails are of debatable origin, some of them do resemble the trails made by living gastropods today.

Although some parts of book 5 are truly worthy of Rabelais, the last volume's attribution to him is debatable.

Although it is debatable as to which band was formed first, the Orange County native glam metal group Stryper was the most popular one.

Although this distance is still small compared to other interstellar distances, it is debatable whether Proxima is gravitationally bound to A and B.

Although the role of consciousness in strong AI / AGI is debatable, many AGI researchers regard research that investigates possibilities for implementing consciousness as vital.

Although the debate about working with leaders who have subversive agendas or are aimed at political racketeering remains ongoing, it is not debatable that his lack of developing relationships with them did not serve him well in politically explosive situations.

Although it is debatable as Mobile Suit Gundam is often considered the first anime to show a truly grittier side of science fiction, Ideon undeniably has a very distinct presentation and plot style which had never been seen before, specifically with the series ' emphasis on making the audience feel for the characters and their struggle against a hopeless scenario as opposed to just watching the Ideon do battle or feeling for the overall theme.

Although these figures must of course be taken with a pinch of salt ( in the sense that they are based upon data whose reliability is unproven and debatable to say the least ), a comparison between the two years ( 1873 and 1935 ) reveals

Although the artifacts are closely contemporary to Croesus, whether they should be directly associated with the legendary Lydian king or not remains debatable.

Although Thind argued that as an Indian he belonged to the Aryan and therefore the Caucasian race, the Court found that " the Aryan theory, as a racial basis, seems to be discredited by most, if not all, modern writers on the subject of ethnology ," and noted that " the Caucasic division of the human family is ' in point of fact the most debatable field in the whole range of anthropological studies.

Although legend attributes the game's creation to Stephen de Vignolles, also known as La Hire, a knight in the reign of Charles VII during the Hundred Years ' War, it may possibly have come into France from Spain because the words " pique " and " repique ", the main features of the game, are of Spanish origin.

Although there are currently over 4, 000 Chinese surnames (, xìng ) in use in China, the colloquial expression for the " Chinese people " is the Bǎi Xìng (, " The Hundred Names ") and a mere hundred surnames still make up over 85 % of China's 1. 3 billion citizens.

Although the park's name was taken from the area where the 19th century benefactors who created it lived, Finsbury Park had earlier been part of an area that bore the name as part of the Finsbury division of the Ossultone Hundred.

Although Cixi did nothing to stop the Hundred Days ' Reform from taking place, she knew the only way to secure her power base was to stage a military coup.

Although he resumed his functions as Director-General during the Hundred Days, he excused himself from taking his seat in the Council of State and was apparently not seriously compromised, for Louis XVIII confirmed his appointment as Director-General and made him a peer of France.

Although The Legion never fought autonomously and remained a part of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars ( 1804 – 15 ), it played a vital role in several campaigns, most notably the Walcheren Campaign, the Peninsular War, and the Hundred Days ( 1815 ).

Although part of Flintshire, Maelor Hundred was an exclave, surrounded by Cheshire, Shropshire and Denbighshire.

Although One Hundred Years of Solitude has come to be considered one of, if not the, most influential Latin American texts of all time, the novel and Gabriel García Márquez have both received occasional criticisms.

Although One Hundred Years of Solitude has had such a big impact on the literature world, and although this novel is the author's best selling and most translated around the world, there have been no movies produced about it.

Although Chinese culture is replete with lists of significant works or achievements ( e. g. Four Great Beauties, Four Great Books of Song, Four Great Classical Novels, Four Books and Five Classics, Five Elders, Three Hundred Tang Poems, etc.

Although many have stated that the novel has a similar feel to the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Salman Rushdie, and the book is in part a paean to New York City in the same way that Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude is a tribute to Garcia Marquez's Colombia, Helprin himself is on record ( in a letter to Keith Morgan, and elsewhere ) as stating that he " detests " magical realism, because " it is exhibitionistic, forced, self-conscious, and almost devoid of emotional content.

Although his works were admired by many during and since his lifetime, they were not accepted in the canonical tradition: none of his poems made their way into the popular anthologies such as the Three Hundred Tang Poems.

Although the dynastic struggles of the Hundred Years ' War and the international Black Death epidemic of the fourteenth century in many ways curtailed this creative production, the fifteenth century laid the groundwork for the French Renaissance.