Though both ended up as rogue governments and did not follow through on their constitutional promises, they began as responses from the Athenian elite to what they saw as the inherent arbitrariness of government by the masses ( Plato in the Seventh Epistle does remark that the Thirty made the preceding democratic regime look like a Golden Age ).

Though Common Lisp is not as popular as some non-Lisp languages, many of its features have made their way into other, more widely used programming languages and systems ( see Greenspun's Tenth Rule ).

Though he made initial preparations for the war, Constantine fell ill and sent Constantius east to take command of the eastern frontier.

Though this is true when comparing a single crochet swatch with a stockinette swatch, both made with the same size yarn and needle / hook, it is not necessarily true for crochet in general.

Though the combination of both companies ' PC manufacturing capacity initially made it the number one, it soon lost the lead and further market share to Dell which squeezed HP on low end PCs.

Though the original draft was written in 1761, he made additions to it year after year until his death twenty-three years later.

Though a further version was planned, it never made it out of beta and was eventually canceled due to programmer time constraints.

Though it made Poe a household name almost instantly, he was paid only $ 9 for its publication.

Though firearms and their ammunition are made to exacting specifications and tolerances and designed to function reliably, malfunctions of firearms and ammunition do happen.

Though others made a similar innovation elsewhere, the large scale introduction of this was the work of William Murdoch, an employee of Boulton and Watt, the Birmingham steam engine pioneers.

Though he certainly did not support it ( which he made clear at the time ), he was purposely trying to antagonize the pro-slavery faction of Congress into an open fight on the matter.

Though it is often called a whale today, the Hebrew, as throughout scripture, refers to no species in particular, simply sufficing with " great fish " or " big fish " ( whales are today classified as mammals and not fish, but no such distinction was made in antiquity ).

Though Berry only made a partial recovery, he remained a high-profile example for patients with traumatic brain injury.

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 much has been made of the fact that Lindh did meet Osama bin Laden, his association with bin Laden was only a passing encounter and not an affiliation.

Though inflation spiked again after Russia ’ s 1998 currency devaluation, Moldova made great strides in bringing it under control: 18. 4 % in 2000, 6. 3 % in 2001, and 4. 4 % in 2002.

Though his research interests were always in line with those of the German historicists, with a strong emphasis on interpreting economic history, Weber's defence of " methodological individualism " in the social sciences represented an important break with that school and an embracing of many of the arguments that had been made against the historicists by Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian School of economics, in the context of the academic Methodenstreit (" debate over methods ") of the late 19th century.

Though it was not intended, these new modes made the 68020 very suitable for page printing ; most laser printers in the early ' 90s had a 68EC020 at their core.

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 not necessarily made as a vehicle, it houses the Matoran Universe, a whole system of continents and oceans.

Though Panama has made enormous advances in social mobility and racial integration, it is still true that much of Panama's economic and social life is controlled by a small number of families.

Though Pope Pius X's revision made few corrections, omissions and additions to the text of the prayers in the Roman Missal, there were major changes in the rubrics, changes which were not incorporated in the section entitled " Rubricae generales ", but were instead printed as an additional section under the heading " Additiones et variationes in rubricis Missalis ".

Though the Round Table itself is not mentioned until Wace, the concept of Arthur having a marvellous court made up of many prominent warriors is much older.

Though the series has not been available in broadcast syndication for many years, it has recently been made part of the lineup at AOL's new in2TV online broadcasting site.

Though much of the highest caste converted readily, forced baptisms and forced tithing made enemies of the lower orders.

Though distinctive, each is visually equal in importance, and they are linked with a series of open-air arcades that are the front facades of student accommodations.

Though they often have their own quarters, their accommodations are not usually as comfortable as those reserved for the family members.

Though Amer allowed some liberalization of the economy in order to appease Syrian businessmen, his decision to rig the elections of the National Union ( the single party which replaced the Ba ' ath ), with the help of Colonel Abdul Hamid Sarraj ( a Syrian army official and Nasser sympathizer ), sent Ba ' ath leaders into a frenzy.

Though, in accounting for the anger of the Gods, no sharp distinction is made between moral offences and a ritualistic oversight or neglect, yet the stress laid in the hymns and prayers, as well as in the elaborate atonement ritual prescribed in order to appease the anger of the Gods, on the need of being clean and pure in the sight of the higher powers, the inculcation of a proper aspect of humility, and above all the need of confessing one's guilt and sins without any reserve — all this bears testimony to the strength which the ethical factor acquired in the domain of the Religion.

Though extreme care is practiced in that industry, the potential for disaster suggested by incidents such as those at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl pose a lingering specter of public mistrust.

Though Seoul completed a " Peace Dam " on the Pukhan River to counteract the potential threat of Pyongyang's dam project before the 1988 Olympics, the North Korean project apparently still was in its initial stages of construction in 1990.

Though the first submersible vehicles were tools for exploring under water, it did not take long for inventors to recognize their military potential.

Though bilateral trade was $ 11. 7 million in 2007 relations show " great potential ".

Though companies like MOSAIC Threat Assessment Systems sell products and services designed to identify potential threats, a thorough study of all United States school shootings by the U. S. Secret Service warned against the belief that a certain " type " of student would be a perpetrator.

Though ' God-Building ' was suppressed by Lenin, Gorky retained his belief that " culture "— the moral and spiritual awareness of the value and potential of the human self — would be more critical to the revolution ’ s success than political or economic arrangements.

Though this could be justified as improving the supply situation of the northern French army, its potential as a starting point for a Flemish campaign was not lost on the Spanish.

Though there is potential for this type of farming, this is not popularly practiced.

Though increasingly common, RPS is considered a potential " squick " for slash readers.

Though given explicit instructions to stay away from coastal settlements, Frémont soon broke the agreement by taking his team to Monterey, a potential military target.

Though most civic leaders and journalists had been optimistic -– one reporter claimed " almost every indicator of economic, population, and civic growth points to the fact that Moline's potential for growth is greater than ever.

Though biosolids have the potential to improve soils and lead to improved tree growth barriers to adoption include regulation and inertia.

Though the album's subject matter again led to Gordy advising to Gaye of its potential of damaging his core fan base, Motown issued the album that May.

Though the committee's final report did not blame comics for crime, it recommended that the comics industry tone down its content voluntarily ; possibly taking this as a veiled threat of potential censorship, publishers developed the Comics Code Authority to censor their own content.

Though Pickford was considered a good actor, he was seen as someone who never lived up to his potential.

Though Richard Jewell was hailed as a hero for his role in discovering the bomb and moving spectators to safety, four days after the bombing, and shortly after a brief, mistaken detainment of two juvenile persons of interest at the Kensington MARTA station, news organizations reported that Jewell was considered a potential suspect in the bombing.

Though successful in predicting the timing and qualitative features of the action potential, it nevertheless failed to predict a number of important features such as adaptation and shunting.

Though many in the US Government at that time recognized Saddam as a dictator or a potential dictator, they viewed him as the " lesser evil " when compared with the damage the Iraqi Communist Party might do with its planned nationalization measures and other reform programs that would probably have run counter to U. S. interests.

Though never a member of the National Fascist Party ( and rejected for not being a member ), or the Italian Social Republic, and constantly criticizing fascism and declaring he was an anti-fascist Evola regarded his position as that of a sympathetic right-wing intellectual, saw potential in the movement and wished to reform its errors, to a position in line with his own views.

Though the sale fell through, Stieglitz's promotion of the potential sale drew extensive media attention.

Though oil nationalization became one of AD's main objectives, the economy was not stable enough to handle potential boycotts by foreign oil companies and would have left Venezuela fiscally vulnerable.

Though sampling had the potential to produce much more realistic sounds, each sample required much more data in memory.

Though there is no evidence to suggest that the Appeal specifically informed or inspired Turner, the two events, which occurred just a few years apart, intensified white anxiety in the South about the potential for future insurrections and inaugurated the adoption of laws designed to strip free blacks of what little rights they enjoyed.

Though HFCs and PFCs are non-ozone depleting, many have global warming potential that is thousands of times more than CO2.