Although President Obiang signed a national anti-torture decree in 2006 to ban all forms of abuse and improper treatment in Equatorial Guinea and commissioned the renovation and modernization of Black Beach prison in 2007 to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners, human rights abuses continue. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other non-governmental organizations have documented severe human rights abuses in prisons, including torture, beatings, unexplained deaths and illegal detention.

Although his daughter, Elizabeth, was born at the beginning of July, for unexplained reasons Oxford did not learn of her birth until late September.

Although defined as a mononeuritis ( involving only one nerve ), patients diagnosed with Bell ’ s palsy may have " myriad neurological symptoms " including " facial tingling, moderate or severe headache / neck pain, memory problems, balance problems, ipsilateral limb paresthesias, ipsilateral limb weakness, and a sense of clumsiness " that are " unexplained by facial nerve dysfunction ".

Although Sunnydale has long been familiar with demons and monsters who have inhabited the town and fed off of its residents, in this episode the conventions by which society functions are so disrupted by the unexplained silence that significant chaos results, enough to warrant both Riley and Buffy going on patrol to keep order.

Although the circumstances are very different ( planet flyby vs. deep space cruise ), the overall effect is similar — a small but unexplained velocity change is observed on top of a much larger conventional gravitational acceleration.

Although several explanations have been put forward the exact identity of the creatures remains unexplained to this day.

Although lyrically, the song has been unexplained, however many over viewers have subjected that the song talks about Kylie being consumed by love.

Although not published in his lifetime, a manuscript form of Ad locos planos et solidos isagoge ( Introduction to Plane and Solid Loci ) was circulating in Paris in 1637, just prior to the publication of Descartes ' Discourse.

Although technically even modern paperbacks are codices, the term is now used only for manuscript ( hand-written ) books which were produced from Late antiquity until the Middle Ages.

Although a letter from her publisher indicates that Emily was finalizing a second novel, the manuscript has never been found.

Although Quimper's journal of the voyage does not refer to the mountain, one of Haro's manuscript charts includes a sketch of Mount Baker.

Although Italy's dominance as a centre of manuscript production began to decline, especially after the Gothic War ( 535 – 554 ) and the invasions by the Lombards, its manuscripts — and more important, the scripts in which they were written — were distributed across Europe.

Although the manuscript tradition broke off, some of Sappho's poetry has been discovered in Egyptian papyri fragments from an earlier period, such as those found in the ancient rubbish heaps of Oxyrhynchus, where a major find brought many new but tattered verses to light, providing a major new source.

Although parts of the Codex are scattered across four libraries around the world, most of the manuscript today resides within the British Library.

Although the book was published years before Patriot Games, there are repeated references to it, which strongly suggests that The Hunt for Red October was in fact written after the Patriot Games manuscript ( or at least the first draft of the novel ) was completed.

Although he made use of his manuscript of the Zohar, many ideas presented in his works contradict or ignore ideas mentioned in the Zohar.

Although Tamar was canonized by the Georgian church much later, she was even named as a saint in her lifetime in a bilingual Greco-Georgian colophon attached to the manuscript of the Vani Gospels.

Although named after Dutch astronomer Willebrord Snellius ( 1580 – 1626 ), the law was first accurately described by the Arab scientist Ibn Sahl at Baghdad court, when in 984 he used the law to derive lens shapes that focus light with no geometric aberrations in the manuscript On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 984 ).

Although Parker bequeathed most of his library to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, the Cotton manuscript was not included.

Although watercolor painting is extremely old, dating perhaps to the cave paintings of paleolithic Europe, and has been used for manuscript illumination since at least Egyptian times but especially in the European Middle Ages, its continuous history as an art medium begins in the Renaissance.

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 Child concentrated his collections on manuscript texts with a view to determining their chronology, he also gave a sedulous but conservative hearing to popular versions still surviving.

Although only in manuscript, Copernicus ' ideas were well known among astronomers and others.

N > B > Although there are some recognisable 9 note pipe tunes included in Skene's manuscript of 1715, his collection appears to be of fiddle music, rather than pipe music

Although only some movements of the work can be specifically identified as being reused from earlier music, some scholars such as Joshua Rifkin believe, on the basis of manuscript evidence and compositional models, that the majority of the music was reused.

Although this made them significantly cheaper than manuscript Bibles, most students, priests or other people of ordinary income would have been unable to afford them.

Although offering a unique and quite non pareil portrayal of the immense personalities and problems facing the men who led the Union to ultimate victory, the first edition ( published in 1911 ) suffers from rewrites by Welles himself and after his death, by his son ; the 1960 edition is drawn directly from his original manuscript.

Although it bears his name, this particular opening was included in the Göttingen manuscript, which dates from around 1490.

Although there is no definitive Mahāyāna canon as such, the printed or manuscript collections in Chinese and Tibetan, published through the ages, have preserved the majority of known Mahāyāna sutras.

Although it is dated to be from the 6th, 7th, and 8th centuries, it has survived only in 13th-and 14th-century manuscript copies.

Although the four readers largely concerned themselves with correcting mistakes or emending the manuscript for clarity, there are also remarks about the Book's substance.

Although the title might indicate otherwise, it is indigenous in content and contemporary in scope.

Although the census provides a useful way of obtaining statistical information about a population, such information can sometimes lead to abuses, political or otherwise, made possible by the linking of individuals ' identities to anonymous census data.

Although generally disallowed, hiders could place caches on private property without adequate permission ( intentionally or otherwise ), which encourages cache finders to trespass.

Although, in the United Kingdom ( UK ), the pejorative noun " anorak " ( similar to the Japanese " otaku ", meaning a geek or enthusiast ) is often applied to people who obsessively pursue a particular hobby that is otherwise considered boring.

Although geographically part of Guangdong Province, the Macau Special Administrative Region is directly under the authority of the central government of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, which controls the foreign affairs and defence of Macau but otherwise grants the region " a high degree of authority.

Although he had previously been confined to Sickbay or the Holodeck, the mobile emitter allowed the Doctor to move about freely, making him ideal for missions where the environment would be harmful or otherwise fatal to the crew.

Although this condition does not otherwise harm a person's health, it is disfiguring and usually permanent.

) Although these things are true, the government also wanted more tax money from breweries, as using wooden barrels means that a significant amount of sake is lost to evaporation ( somewhere around 3 %), which could have otherwise been taxed.

Although relying solely on security through obscurity is almost always a very poor design decision, keeping secret some of the details of an otherwise well-engineered system may be a reasonable tactic as part of a defense in depth strategy.

Although these cracks are used by legal buyers of software, they can also be used by people who have downloaded or otherwise obtained pirated software ( often through P2P networks ).

( Although the processors were otherwise consistently little-endian, displacements in the instruction stream were stored in big-endian order.

Although as the above makes clear there is no confirmed etymological connection, it might be noted that these older meanings are synonymous with the modern expression " bull " otherwise generally considered, and intentionally used as, a contraction of " bullshit ".

Although ADSL and RADSL modulations do not use the voice-frequency band, nonlinear elements in the phone could otherwise generate audible intermodulation and may impair the operation of the data modem in the absence of low-pass filters.

Although this was terrible news for the islands as a whole, as Isaac Dookhan has pointed out, this did mean that the value of land plummeted sharply, and enabled the newly free black community to purchase land where otherwise it might not have been able to do so.

Although modern day Bloemfontein has a reputation for its flowers in an otherwise arid region, the origin of the city's name is unclear.

" Although most Jews believe that " God can be experienced ," it is understood that " God cannot be understood " because " God is utterly unlike humankind " ( as shown in God's response to Moses when Moses asked for God's name: " I Am that I Am "); all anthropomorphic statements about God " are understood as linguistic metaphors, otherwise it would be impossible to talk about God at all.

Although her birth certificate states otherwise, she believed that her birthday was a day earlier, on Bastille Day.

Although the two terms are used almost interchangeably, there is an important distinction: Wold Newton Family members-those who are descended from or otherwise related to the individuals exposed to the meteor strike ; and Wold Newton Universe members, unrelated to the family, who have met one or more family members in crossovers.

Although it was the Danish king's summer residence from time to time, it remained otherwise a sleepy provincial town of about 2, 000 inhabitants.

Although he was able to participate in activities like parasailing during the group ’ s trip to Hawaii, the cast grew more worried about him nonetheless, often covering up for him during their weekly " confessional " interviews with the producers by telling them that Zamora was doing fine when they knew otherwise.

Although the area has lost farming households throughout many decades, many farms have been turned into horse ranches, hobby farms, or simply homesteads for commuters who wish to have more area than they would otherwise have in town.

Although the school has been moved from its original location, its structure and furnishings are otherwise intact.

Although gender preference originated for other reasons, the modern science of genetics has made it possible to recognize that a strict gender preference in succession rules leads to heirs who share considerably more DNA with the distant ancestors who precede them in the line than would otherwise be the case.

Although the social policy of the Forestry Commission is a thing of the past, its social impact on upland areas remains large, with many hamlets and small villages in what would otherwise be deserted or near deserted valleys.