In her review in The New York Times, Janet Maslin said, " Even when it becomes unmistakably lightweight, Mighty Aphrodite remains witty, agile and handsomely made.

Even though Rome abandoned its Britannic provinces around 400 AD, the Germanic mercenarieswho had largely become instrumental in enforcing Roman rule in Britanniaacquired ownership of land there and continued to use a mixture of Roman and Teutonic Law, with much written down under the early Anglo-Saxon Kings.

Even outside the Acme :: hierarchy, some modules are still written largely for amusement ; one example is Lingua :: Romana :: Perligata, which can be used to write Perl programs in a subset of Latin.

Even in less-developed parts of the world, communications satellites are used largely for point-to-multipoint applications, such as video.

Even in Europe, which was still largely neolithic during the same period of time, the builders of megaliths were constructing giant monuments of their own.

Even though they shared the same king, Norway was largely independent of Sweden, except Sweden controlled foreign affairs.

Even putting aside the many Eastern rites in use, the Latin liturgical rites alone include the Ambrosian Rite, the Mozarabic Rite, and the Cistercian Rite, as well as other forms that have been largely abandoned in favour of adopting the Roman Rite.

Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, John C. Frémont, reported after the gunfight, " Many of the very best law-abiding and peace-loving citizens Tombstone have no confidence in the willingness of the civil officers to pursue and bring to justice that element of out-lawry so largely disturbing the sense of security ... opinion is quite prevalent that the civil officers are quite largely in league with the leaders of this disturbing and dangerous element.

Even before the late 18th-19th century, " metropolitan France " was largely a patchwork of local customs and regional differences that the unifying aims of the Ancien Régime and the French Revolution had only begun to work against, and today's France remains a nation of numerous indigenous and foreign languages, of multiple ethnicities and religions, and of regional diversity that includes French citizens in Corsica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and elsewhere around the globe.

Even Paul ’ s decision to send a Cossack army to take British India, bizarre as it may seem, makes a certain amount of sense: Britain itself was almost impervious to direct attack, being an island nation with a formidable navy, but the British had left India largely unguarded and would have great difficulty staving off a force that came over land to attack it.

Even this relationship, however, is marked by Alan ’ s open contempt for her, and it is apparent that her affection towards him is largely unreturned and that his relationship with her is mainly based on the boost to his ego that their 14-year age gap provides ( which he is frequently heard boasting about ).

Even after thousands of years, this area is largely devoid of plants due to excessive porosity ( meaning water drains through quickly ) and poor soil composed primarily of regolith.

Even when a body is decomposed, embalming treatment can still be achieved ( the arterial system decays more slowly ) but would not restore a natural appearance without extensive reconstruction and cosmetic work, and is largely used to control the foul odors due to decomposition.

Even today, the neoconservative movement is best described as an extended family based largely on the informal social networks patiently forged by these two patriarchs .”

Even after their 1975 divorce ( due largely to Jones ' alcoholism ), their professional collaboration continued with regularity through 1980 ; years later in 1995, they made a reunion album entitled One.

Even if the new Dáil had sought to use the old Parliament House, it is highly unlikely that the Bank of Ireland, then with a largely Unionist board ( some of whom being directly descended from members of the former Irish Parliament ), would have supplied the building for such a use, not least because it was also a working bank and the Bank's then headquarters.

Even so, her extravagant lifestyle and ill-considered investments left her largely penniless by the time she died.

Even with these modernizations, Big Sur was spared the worst excesses of development, due largely to residents who fought to preserve the land.

Even if the grammar of a language is stated largely in symbols, those symbols will have to be defined ultimately in a natural language.

Even though its population was transient and largely dependent on mining, Barkerville was becoming less of a service town and more of a real community.

Even after independence, Bolivian music was largely based on European forms.

Even further, " AT-class " became a term describing any machine which supported the BIOS functions, 16-bit expansion slots, keyboard interface, and other defining technical features of the IBM PC AT ; in the case of the expansion slots, the term is largely synonymous with " ISA " ( when the latter is not applied as a retronym to XT-class machines, as in the phrase " 8-bit ISA slot ".

Even before her first novel was published, her literary reputation was already high, largely on the strength of her story " A Night Among the Horses ," which was published in The Little Review and reprinted in her 1923 collection A Book.

Even though many nobles who had supported the Provisions of Oxford remained active in English politics throughout Henry's reign, the conditions they had laid down for regular parliaments were largely forgotten, as if to symbolise the historical development of the English Parliament via convention rather than statutes and written constitutions.

Even though Emperor Fei was an adult, he did not have actual power, as not only were governmental matters largely in the hands of his granduncle Sima Yu the Prince of Kuaiji, but Sima Yu himself was not fully able to make decisions, as the paramount general Huan Wen imposed many of his own decisions on the imperial government, which had no choice but to accept.

Even after Chiang turned on the Soviet Union and massacred the Communists, he still continued anti merchant activities, and promoting revolutionary thought, accusing the merchants of being reactionaries and counterrevolutionaries.

Even though Nobuyuki and his supporters were still at large, Nobunaga decided to bring an army to Mino Province to aid Saitō Dōsan after Dōsan's son, Saitō Yoshitatsu, turned against him.

Even so, Göring was reported to have disliked Himmler to the last days of the war and even turned down honorary SS rank since he did not want to be subordinate to Himmler in any way.

" Even today some American creationists, fighting in courts and state legislatures to demand that creationism be taught on an equal footing with evolution in the schools, have claimed that it was Mencken's trial reports in 1925 that turned public opinion against creationism.

Even the less damaged buildings in entire city blocks were torn down by the order of occupational authorities and large swaths of land turned into public parks.

Even so, he was offered the Mastership of Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1789, by the Bishop of Ely, but he turned it down, being content with his life in Carlisle, and not wishing to disrupt his children's education.

" Even before the War, this change significantly turned over the ways of the royalty.

Even though Luther and Calvin had very similar theological teachings, the relationship between their followers turned quickly to conflict.

Even as he turned to economics, his ethical views continued to be a dominant force in his thinking.

Even more curiously, we often find both * þ and * d as reflexes of PIE * t in different forms of one and the same root, e. g. * werþanan ' to turn ', preterite singular * warþ ' he turned ', but preterite plural and past participle * wurd-( plus appropriate inflections ).

Even the embryonic art of the motion picture turned to Pierrot before the century was out: he appeared, not only in early celluloid shorts ( Georges Méliès's The Nightmare, The Magician ; Alice Guy's Arrival of Pierrette and Pierrot, Pierrette's Amorous Adventures ; Ambroise-François Parnaland's Pierrot's Big Head / Pierrot's Tongue, Pierrot-Drinker ), but also in Emile Reynaud's Praxinoscope production of Poor Pierrot ( 1892 ), the first animated movie and the first hand-colored one.

" Even the Jewish community was turned off by the film ; the B ' nai B ' rith Messenger of Los Angeles branded the film as " tall with the reputation that Disney is making for himself as an arch-reactionary.

Even what was widely accepted as the largest ever " accurately " measured snake, that being Colossus, a male kept at the Highland Park Zoo ( now Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium ) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the 1950s and early 1960s, with a peak reported length of, recently turned out to be wrong.

Even though he was composing music and writing music criticism in his spare time, Cui turned out to be an extremely prolific composer and feuilletonist.

Even several of the other works by Moberg have been turned into films and TV series in Sweden over the years.

Even after the battle had clearly turned against the Turks, groups of Janissaries still kept fighting with all they had.

Even when it looked at times like something bad had happened, it soon turned back again to something positive.

* Even if I do get caught, I will not be turned in and prosecuted.

Even though she was always in demand as a training jockey, her applications for a license were turned down in state after state.

Even the usually-dependable Treveri cavalry arriving to support the Romans looked at the seemingly hopeless situation and promptly turned for home to report the disaster.

Even in Czechoslovakia, where the party's pursuit of socialist equality was thorough, the " classless " society turned out to be highly diverse.

Even now, roughly ten percent of the town's population according to some estimates adhere to this ancient religion, and though their Atashkadeh ( Fire Temple ) was turned into a mosque after the Islamic Conquest of Persia, a dignified new fire temple was inaugurated thirteen hundred years later.

Even Davis and Gish turned down the parts more than once before being persuaded to star in the film.

Even the SEG's revised estimates turned out to be too low, and the fence's final cost is estimated at $ 224, 566, 830.