Though Hutton circulated privately a printed version of the abstract of his Theory ( Concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration, and Stability ) which he read at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 4 July 1785 ; the full account of his theory as read at the 7 March 1785 and 4 April 1785 meetings did not appear in print until 1788.

Though he saw his " principle of variation " as explaining the development of varieties, Hutton rejected the idea of evolution originating species as a " romantic fantasy ".

Though Barbara Hutton was portrayed in the press as the " lucky " young woman who had it all, the public had no idea of the psychological problems she lived with that led to a life of victimization and abuse.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Though a socialist, Attlee still believed in the British Empire of his youth.

" Though Jahangir believed it to be the work of the slave who presented it to him, Sayyid Ahmad and Henry Beveridge suggest that it was of European origin, and possibly showed the Transfiguration.

Though Crinkley rejected Ogburn's thesis, he believed that one merit of the book lay in the way it focused attention on what is not known of Shakespeare.

Though OMIM is a major resource for gathering information on the relationship between mutations and natural variation in gene sequence and susceptibility to hundreds of diseases, a sophisticated search strategy is required to extract diseases associated with defects in transcriptional control where the promoter is believed to have direct involvement.

Though folkloric vampires were believed to be more active at night, they were not generally considered vulnerable to sunlight.

Though capable of turning into any animal they wished, it was commonly believed that such people preferred to turn into a wolf.

Though not noted as a religious painter, Wilkie made the trip with a Protestant agenda to reform religious painting, as he believed that: " a Martin Luther in painting is as much called for as in theology, to sweep away the abuses by which our divine pursuit is encumbered ", by which he meant traditional Christian iconography.

Though Al thought Ava the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen, he believed the test was a disaster and was completely surprised by what he saw in the screening room.

Though many believed it was entirely the support of the queen that enabled them to secure their positions, in truth it was mostly that of Finance Minister Jacques Necker.

Though outnumbered and without any heavy cavalry, Charles had tough, battle-hardened infantry which believed in him implicitly.

Though they may have " believed " for a while, they never experienced regeneration.

Though the fork's early history is obscure, the fork as a kitchen and dining utensil is generally believed to have originated in the Roman Empire, or perhaps in Ancient Greece ( though there are some evidence of its use in Mesopotamia ).

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will, which she won in 1905.

Though it is believed to have been a major political and military event, there is no certainty about its date, location or the details of the fighting.

Though these species are sometimes known as " pygmy hippopotami " they are not believed to be closely related to C. liberiensis.

Though the consonants differ little from the text generally accepted in the early 2nd century ( and also differ little from some Qumran texts that are even older ), it has numerous differences of both greater and lesser significance when compared to ( extant 4th century ) manuscripts of the Septuagint, a Greek translation ( made in the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE ) of the Hebrew Scriptures that was in popular use in Egypt and Israel and that is believed by scholars to be the source often quoted in the New Testament.

Though purported to be one of the dialogues of Greek philosopher Plato, the Sisyphus is generally believed to be apocryphal, possibly written by one of his pupils.

Though the preface to the poem promises both joyous and dark tales ahead, the Nibelungenlied is by and large a very tragic work, and these four opening verses are believed to have been a late addition to the text, composed after the body of the poem had been completed.

Though it was never proven, the Athenians at the time believed it was the work of saboteurs, either from Syracuse or Spartan sympathizers from Athens itself.

Though these forms had been pursued by earlier writers, Hu believed that modern writers first needed to learn the basics of substance and quality, before returning to these matters of subtlety and delicacy.

Though Salisbury wished to subordinate the needs of West Africa to the requirement of establishing British supremacy on the Nile, Chamberlain believed that every territory was worth competing for.

Though Heaven's Gate was not the first film to have animals killed during its production, it is believed that the film was largely responsible for sparking the now common use of the " No animals were harmed ..." disclaimer and more rigorous supervision of animal acts by the AHA, which had been inspecting film production since the 1940s.

Though he was believed to have perished in the explosion of Canard Tower, he was later revived by F. O. W. L.

Though uniformitarianism dominated ideas from the 1840s onwards, Catastrophism remained a major paradigm in geology until replaced by new models that allowed for both cataclysms ( such as meteor strikes ) and gradualist patterns ( such as ice ages ) to explain observed geologic phenomena.

Though Hitler was originally against the idea ( but later convinced ), Drexler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Workers ' Party ( Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP ) early in 1920.

Though she did not categorically confirm that she was approached to do the reboot, Morris is not opposed to the idea, provided that production would not interfere with her Glee duties.

Though the idea that brain size is unrelated to race and intelligence was popularized in the 1980s, studies continue to show significant correlations.

Though he refused to attend church with his Episcopalian parents ( not being enthused by " the idea of sitting in a stuffy room wearing a little tie "), Jarmusch credits literature with shaping his metaphysical beliefs and leading him to reconsider theology in his mid-teens.

Though the idea for a bill of rights had been suggested at the end of the constitutional convention, the delegates wanted to go home and thought the suggestion unnecessary.

Though he resigned the position the following year, and entertained the idea of taking up conducting posts elsewhere, he based himself increasingly in Vienna and soon made his home there.

Though it is true that mathematics finds diverse applications in many areas of research, a mathematician does not determine the value of an idea by the diversity of its applications.

Though cognitive scholars have made some attempts to take on board the idea that different languages have evolved radically different concepts and conceptual metaphors, they have on the whole remained tied up in the somewhat reductive concept of worldview which derives from the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.

Though strongly in favour of the extension of individual legal rights, he opposed the idea of natural law and natural rights, calling them " nonsense upon stilts ".

Though the Bible has Joseph buried in Shechem ( the present-day Palestinian city of Nablus ), Jewish aggadic tradition conserved the idea that he wished to be interred at Hebron, and the Islamic version may reflect this.

Though this explanation gives an idea of eye color delineation, it is incomplete, and all the contributing factors towards eye color and its variation are not fully understood.

Though the term Noumenon did not come into common usage until Kant, the idea that undergirds it, that matter has an absolute existence which causes it to emanate certain phenomena, had historically been subjected to criticism.

Though initially cool to the idea of a commoner queen, the Swedish press quickly warmed to Queen Silvia and soon began publishing admiring articles about how easily she fit into the country's expectations of queenly deportment.

Though he was Presbyterian ( Calvinist, Huguenot, Puritan ), he was against the Presbyterian idea of allowing the congregation ( people ) to elect their presbyters ( church officials ) since it undermined his absolutism ( according to the Divine Right ).

Though he had mentioned the basis of his idea beforehand in private letters, he officially announced the corollary in 1905, stating that he only wanted the " other republics on this continent " to be " happy and prosperous ".

Though Wolf himself was obsessed with the idea that to compose only short forms was to be second-rate, his organization of lyrics of particular poets ( Goethe ; Mörike ; Eichendorff ; Heyse & Geibel in the Spanish and Italian Songbooks ) into semicyclical anthologies, finding connections between texts not explicitly intended by the poets he set and his conceptions of individual songs as dramatic works in miniature, mark him as a talented dramatist despite having written only one not particularly successful opera, Der Corregidor.

Though the Bill was not extreme, only raising the age of consent from ten to twelve, Tilak took issue with it ; he did not object per se to the idea of moving towards the elimination of child marriage, but rather to the idea of British interference with Hindu tradition.

Though these proposals lost out to the Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS ), their strength made NASA further explore the idea.

Though the idea of this " game " may seem simple, the actual strategy needed to win is not.

Though the idea behind this law was probably to secure a constant number of peasant soldiers, it later was widely regarded as the ultimate subjugation of the Danish peasantry.

Though this idea has come under a number of interpretations, in a primary masochism the masochist undergoes a complete, not just a partial, rejection by the model or courted object ( or sadist ), possibly involving the model taking a rival as a preferred mate.

Though Tajiri acknowledged that the character was relatively popular with both boys and girls, the idea of Pikachu as the mascot was not his own, and stated he felt the human aspect of the series was overlooked by Japanese children who embraced Pikachu by itself more readily.