Though Finland is not currently pursuing any measures to reclaim Karelian lands ceded to Russia, the " Karelian Question " is still a topic present in Finnish politics, but it has never been discussed officially.

" ( Though Kariya began the season centred by Kurri, the Finnish veteran did not often play on the top line in his lone season with the team.

Though Finnish written language could be said to exist since Mikael Agricola translated the New Testament into Finnish in the 16th century as a result of the Protestant Reformation, few notable works of literature were written until the 19th century, which saw the beginning of a Finnish national Romantic Movement.

Though the river is only 77 km long, in terms of volume discharged it is the second largest river flowing into the Finnish Gulf.

Though at first glance authentic, the patterns on these gáktis are not traditional anywhere in Sápmi ( area ) | Sapmi The Finnish tourist industry is notorious for displaying fake " sami culture " for tourists.

Though he was a known teacher and was on many boards of directors, his compositions were not particularly noted until he was made " Professor of Arts for Life " by the Finnish government, giving him money so he could focus more on composition.

Though dropping to 8th in the league, in 2004 MyPa won a third Finnish Cup, and the next season won their first Finnish championship.

Though only few fragments of encrypted correspondence remain, and the archives were burned to protect the members later implicated in what the crown considered to be nefarious plots, such as the Anjala conspiracy, it is thought that the meetings of the Walhalla-orden may have been the first discussions in which Finnish independence was proposed as a serious idea.

Though the majority of students at the British School of Washington are American or British, the school still hosts over forty different nationalities including Irish, Dutch, American, English, Kazakh, Italian, Botswanan, Nigerian, Finnish, Australian, Egyptian, German, Venezuelan, Bruneian, Indian, Iraqi, French, New Zealand and Sri Lankan.

Though Australia has a small population, the sheer number of venues that bands could play in, mainly along the Eastern coast, meant that a band could tour extensively, often playing every night for long periods.

Though the Velvet Underground were a commercial failure in the late 1960s, the group has gained a considerable cult following in the years since its demise and has gone on to become one of the most widely cited and influential bands of the era .< ref name =" HoF ">

Though these bands had a regional touch to their output, the overall sound was a homogenized mixture of Polish styles.

Though progressive metal was, and has remained, primarily an album-oriented genre, this mainstream exposure increased the genre's profile, and opened doors for other bands.

Though mainstream audiences in the early sixties preferred a clean-cut style – epitomised by the acts that appeared on the Nine Network pop show Bandstand – there were a number of ' grungier ' guitar-oriented bands in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne, who were inspired by American and British instrumental and surf acts like Britain's The Shadows – who exerted an enormous influence on Australian and New Zealand music prior to the emergence of The Beatles – and American acts like guitar legend Dick Dale and The Surfaris.

Though the rock scene in the 2000s is not as strong, newer bands such as Bump of Chicken, Sambomaster, Flow, Orange Range, Remioromen, Uverworld, Radwimps and Aqua Timez, which are considered rock bands, have achieved success.

Though they were pioneers in the fusion of these particular music styles, influencing many bands, they have never achieved substantial commercial success.

Though others had earlier used similar techniques, Thin Lizzy are widely recognised as one of the first hard rock bands to employ double lead guitar harmony sound – a technique pioneered by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and Wishbone Ash in the UK, whilst independently in the USA by Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers Band.

Though influenced by artists such as the New York Dolls, Roxy Music and David Bowie, both albums were widely dismissed by the UK music press as being distinctly outmoded at a time when punk and New Wave bands were in ascendence.

Though Big Star's initial early 1970s career met with no commercial success, they developed an avid cult following and members of later bands like R. E. M.

Though the ODJB and the NORK seem to be the two leading white bands of the day, their musical styles were very different.

Though NORK and ODJB were not by any stretch of the imagination the first white jazz bands ( there were many others that played around Chicago and New Orleans ), they were some of the first to make recordings and one of the first white jazz bands that made mixed race recordings ( Jelly Roll Morton was creole ).

Though not initially created in Norway, Norwegian bands and musicians have helped to develop the genre.

Though the band's initial run was short-lived, Yazoo continues to influence and inspire many of today's bands, including LCD Soundsystem, Shiny Toy Guns, Blaqk Audio, Hercules and Love Affair, La Roux and Gil Mantera's Party Dream.

Though these industries declined in the 20th century, Barnsley's local culture remains rooted in this industrial heritage ; Barnsley has a tradition of brass bands, originally created as social clubs for its mining communities.

Though widely famous for its role in military and civilian pipe bands, the Great Highland Bagpipe is also used for a solo virtuosic style called piobaireachd, a. k. a. pibroch.

Though the band had various indy influences, with bands like Sonic Youth and Big Black, the album ended up having a Metallica influenced proto-grunge sound.

Though both artists ' main bands were still active at the time, The Postal Service supported the album with a successful concert tour and has stated its intention to tour again in the future.

Though CBGB was utilized as a hot spot for touring bands to hit when they came through New York, the scene that kept the bar alive during the 1980s was New York's underground hardcore punk scene.

Though they achieved little commercial success, they are considered by Allmusic to be " one of the more influential bands of their era, and certainly one of the most influential underground ones.

Though he majored in American History, his true avocation was musical, and it was there that he first began playing in bands, on a college mixer and fraternity circuit later immortalized in National Lampoon's Animal House.

Though they will consume large amounts of carrion, they tend to prefer fresh meat.

Though the European democracies tend to support broad, universalistic interpretations of international law, many other democracies have differing views on international law.

Though many of her contraptions tend to blow up, or self-destruct, she dislikes machines that have meaningless functions.

Though much remains unknown about Shaka's personal appearance, sources tend to agree he had a strong, muscular body and was not fat.

" Though omnipresent, these correspondences tend to become obvious to us only in the case of the most startling coincidences.

Though there is some overlap between the two aspects, they can usually be distinguished ; modern professional historians tend to be skeptical about speculative philosophy of history.

Though Nimnul is an intelligent and creative scientist, his plans often lack any trace of logic and tend to be extremely convoluted.

Though they tend to lag their gas counterparts in productive capacity, an advantage to electric griddle construction is the relative simplicity of the system that tends to limit failure modes and can result in long life expectancy for these products.

Though corn muffins can simply be muffin shaped cornbread, corn muffins tend to be sweeter.

Though many casual observers tend to generalize " traditional " African art, the continent is full of people, societies, and civilizations, each with a unique visual special culture.

Though these singers may release solo albums, their performances in film soundtracks tend to be more noticed due to the widespread appeal of movies.

Though they have very high eccentricities ( 0. 65 to 0. 75 ), their orbits are not as eccentric as those of most Damocloids and comets, which tend to have eccentricities around 0. 9.

Though the artists themselves tend to eschew the genre title, " Dunedin Sound " artists include the following bands and soloists.

Though very kinetically slow without any catalysts ( most esters are metastable ), pure esters will tend to spontaneously hydrolyse in the presence of water, so when carried out " unaided ", high yields for this reaction is quite unfavourable.

Though people are likely to overestimate their control when the situations are heavily chance-determined, they also tend to underestimate their control when they actually have it, which runs contrary to some theories of the illusion and its adaptiveness.

Though there is no maximum length, other rules set indirect limits on these dimensions, and nearly every aspect of the car carries size regulations ; consequently the various cars tend to be very close to the same size.

Though neuroethological subjects tend not to be traditional neurobiological model systems ( i. e. Drosophila, C. elegans, or Danio rerio ), neuroethological approaches emphasizing comparative methods have uncovered many concepts central to neuroscience as a whole, such as lateral inhibition, coincidence detection, and sensory maps.

Though they frighten many, they are harmless but tend to take up habitation within the home.

Though the breed shows a strong hunting instinct in the field, and can be quite driven, these dogs tend to be more relaxed in the home than many of the hunting breeds.

Though the Party never established itself as an electoral success, given the need in Sri Lanka for small parties to ally themselves with larger groupings that tend to swamp their individual identity, it has continued to have an impact as a think-tank.

Though other Orcs tend to look down on Black Orc intelligence, Black Orcs are, if not smarter, at the very least more well-organized.

Though younger pace bowlers tend to rely exclusively on speed, as bowlers age they tend to develop this more sophisticated art of swing bowling.

Though its paper size is that of a tabloid, its content and presentation is more traditional than stereotypical tabloids, which tend to sensationalize stories.