Although the government maintains a pro-Western stance, it has had trouble pursuing structural reforms and has made little progress on the International Monetary Fund's program to attract external financial resources.

Although there was a brief public outcry regarding the high salary in comparison to the size of the country governed, the government's firm stance was that this raise was required to ensure the continued efficiency and corruption-free status of Singapore's " world-class " government.

Although there are doctrinal and technical differences between sparring in the two main styles and among the various organizations, the art in general emphasizes kicks thrown from a mobile stance, employing the leg's greater reach and power ( compared to the arm ).

Although Willkie had initially supported the draft, he waffled and reversed his stance when polls showed that opposition to entering another world war was a popular issue for the Republicans.

Although Vermont initially supported the American Revolutionary War and sent troops to fight John Burgoyne's British invasion from Quebec in battles at Hubbardton and Bennington in 1777, Vermont eventually adopted a more neutral stance and became a haven for deserters from both the British and colonial armies.

Although the On-Guard position is a good overall stance, it is by no means the only one.

Although it was primarily a quadruped, its footprints show that it was capable of assuming a bipedal stance.

Although he is considered popular with the general public, his pro-European views conflict with the Conservative Party's Euro-sceptic stance.

Although this stance was solid Orthodox theology, Palamas took issue with Barlaam's argument in support of it.

Although Chantal Mouffe and Jacques Ranciere differ in their stance on what the conditions of the political are ( for Mouffe, this is an internal reorganization of existing social arrangements in what are called ' articulations ), for Ranciere, it is the incursion of an externality which had not yet been accounted for.

Although he was best known in the West for his generally pro-modern stance and importance as a negotiator, Li antagonized the British with his support of Russia as a foil against Japanese expansionism in Manchuria and fell from favor with the Chinese after their loss in the 1894 Sino-Japanese War.

Although Congregationalism eventually adopted Stoddard's stance on communion, Mather remained a formidable opponent.

Although he was wary of the developing situation, the beginning of his active stance against the Nazis did not begin until the dismissal of Karl Planck, a well-known experimental physicist.

Although there is resistance to change within the ranks of the Jogye order, with the last three Supreme Patriarchs ' stance that is in accordance with Seongcheol, there has been a gradual change in the atmosphere of Korean Buddhism.

Although there was considerable unofficial support for the Formosan resistance movement in Peking, the Qing government's official stance was one of punctilious adherence to the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, as considerable diplomatic efforts were then underway to persuade Japan to relinquish the Liaotung Peninsula, which had also been ceded to Japan under the treaty.

Although of the same height and build, and similarly attired and coiffed, the six Caryatids are not the same: their faces, stance, draping, and hair are carved separately ; the three on the left stand on their right knee, while the three on the right stand on their left knee.

Although downshifting is primarily motivated by personal desire and not by a conscious political stance, it does define societal overconsumption as the source of much personal discontent.

Although the official hardline stance on sex is that its natural purpose is purely procreative, many hardliners justify recreational sex within the context of committed relationships as potentially procreative by opting not to use artificial contraceptives.

Although there is no clear record of Joseph Smith teaching of Heavenly Mother publicly, several of Smith's contemporaries attributed the theology to him either directly, or as a consequence of his theological stance.

Although Mallory was hardly alone, his political opponents later used his perceived pro-Union stance as an excuse to attack him.

Although the party was initially Eurosceptic as it was part of the Eurosceptic group within the European Parliament, Alliance for Europe of the Nations, it has since then changed its stance on Europe and left the group in 2009 after adopting several pro-European and pro-NATO policies.

Although Cooper was left-handed, he used the " orthodox " stance, with his left hand and foot forward, rather than the reversed " southpaw " stance more usually adopted by a left-handed boxer.

Although, on 21 January 2011, Jumblatt said he supported Hizbollah and Syria stance.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

Although Faulkner was the heir in his own family to this tradition, he did not have Stark Young's inclination to romanticize and sentimentalize the planter society.

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 after much trouble he did manage to get it back, he discovered there was no trade to be had.

Although he did not attend any celebrated schools or universities, he was a master of Greek and Hebrew and could read the Bible in the original.

Although the fort was evacuated in the face of the force of Cornwallis, Morgan and his men did have a chance to take another swing at the redcoats.

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 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 it was a mere fragment of the victim's remains, it was enough.

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

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr., a steady state was not reached, and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

Although the Taylor Scale was designed as a group testing device, in this study it was individually administered by psychologically trained workers who established rapport and assisted the children in reading the items.

Although the crystal semiconductor diode was popular before the thermionic diode, thermionic ( vacuum tube ) diodes and solid state ( semiconductor ) diodes were developed in parallel.

Although the atomic structure of glass shares characteristics of the structure in a supercooled liquid, glass tends to behave as a solid below its glass transition temperature.

Although there is no obvious restriction that any given regular polygon cannot be a face of a Johnson solid, it turns out that the faces of Johnson solids always have 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 sides.

Although air and other gas-based lubricants are known, e. g., in fluid bearings ), liquid and solid lubricants dominate the market, especially the former.

Although Collins had several solid seasons as the Giants quarterback, he experienced his share of struggles.

Although the oar can be conveniently thought of as a lever with a " fixed " pivot point in the water, the blade moves sideways and sternwards through the water, so that the magnitude of the propulsion force developed is the result of a complex interaction between unsteady fluid mechanics ( the water flow around the blade ) and solid mechanics and dynamics ( the handle force applied to the oar, the oar's inertia and bending characteristic, the acceleration of the boat and so on ).

Although the country is the most beautiful they have ever seen, every feature of the landscape ( including streams of water and blades of grass ) is unyieldingly solid compared to themselves: it causes them immense pain to walk on the grass, and even a single leaf is far too heavy for any to lift.

Although crystals were once loaded into glass capillaries with the crystallization solution ( the mother liquor ), a modern approach is to scoop the crystal up in a tiny loop, made of nylon or plastic and attached to a solid rod, that is then flash-frozen with liquid nitrogen.

Although a difficult political issue domestically, Serbia has established a solid working relationship with UNMIK and has released all disputed ethnic Albanian prisoners from Kosovo to the competent UN bodies.

Although a supersolid is a solid, it exhibits so many characteristic properties different from other solids that many argue it is another state of matter.

Although vacuum tubes are far more resistant to EMP than solid state devices, other components in vacuum tube circuitry can be damaged by EMP.

Although sometimes carrying a spearman along with the charioteer ( driver ), such heavy proto-chariots, borne on solid wooden wheels and covered with skins, may have been part of the baggage train ( e. g., during royal funeral processions ) rather than vehicles of battle in themselves.

Although harvestmen can digest solid food, the guts of most modern chelicerates are too narrow for this, and they generally liquidize their food by grinding it with their chelicerae and pedipalps and flooding it with digestive enzymes.

Although this employs analytic expressions which in principle can be solved, calculating the thermal conductivity of a dense fluid or solid using this relation requires the use of molecular dynamics computer simulation.

Although he stood only 5 ' 10 ", Bobby had a solid build and his playing weight was 185 pounds.

Although Paul approached the Gibson Guitar Corporation with his idea of a solid body electric guitar, they showed no interest until Fender began marketing its Esquire which later had a second pick-up added and became known as the Telecaster.

Although not yet in commercial production, many groups around the globe are engaged in research on solid polymer electrolytes involving PEG, with the aim of improving their properties, and in permitting their use in batteries, electro-chromic display systems, and other products in the future.

Although the distinction between the two is best described as a continuum rather than a solid line, it is not to be confused with Jamaican Patois.

Although solid deflagrants such as nitrocellulose, the most commonly used propellant in firearms, and ammonium perchlorate / aluminum / synthetic rubber, widely used in military and spacecraft boosters, could be thought of as monopropellants, the term is usually reserved for liquids in engineering literature.

Although Packard was in solid financial shape as the war ended, they had not sold enough cars to pay off the cost of tooling for the 1941 design.

Although some people might think that solid waste management is free ( because they are not billed specifically for MSW services ), others might overestimate its cost.

Although the resulting clip was much less solid than the strap, in the case of a forward fall the boot would rotate up and out of the cup, releasing the leg.

Although they begin to take solid food within two weeks, they are not fully weaned until 13 to 19 weeks after birth.

Although a biological joint can resemble a man-made joint in being a hinge or a ball and socket, the engineering problems that nature must solve are very different because the joint works within an almost completely solid structure, with no wheels or nuts and bolts.