Though the title " abbot " is not given in the Western Church to any but actual abbots of monasteries today, the title archimandrite is given to " monastics " ( i. e., celibate ) priests in the East, even when not attached to a monastery, as an honor for service, similar to the title of monsignor in the Western / Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church.

Though most of the early Waldorf schools were teacher-founded, the schools today are usually initiated and later supported by an active parent community.

" Though overshadowed by Mary Cassatt and relatively unknown to museum-goers today, Beaux's craftsmanship and extraordinary output were highly regarded in her time.

Though still valid, the technology is in limited use today, primarily because it imposes some changes to system management and also because it is not widely understood.

Though an excellent opera, it is rarely heard uncut today, as the original score runs more than four hours in performance.

Though heraldic forms initially were broadly similar across Europe, several national styles had developed by the end of the Middle Ages, and artistic and blazoning styles today range from the very simple to extraordinarily complex.

Though Locke was associated with the influential Whigs, his ideas about natural rights and government are today considered quite revolutionary for that period in English history.

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 today read primarily by sociologists and social philosophers, Weber's work did have a significant influence on Frank Knight, one of the founders of the neoclassical Chicago school of economics, who translated Weber's General Economic History into English in 1927.

Though today many historians feel the possibility of France and Italy falling to the communists was remote, it was regarded as a very real possibility by American policy makers at the time.

Though hunting was banned in 1893, poaching continues today.

Though his work was widely reproduced, and over 200 copies, translations, and extracts survive today, the extent to which Vegetius affected the actual practice of warfare as opposed to its concept is unclear due to his habit of stating the obvious.

Though still used for historical renovations, and for heavy-duty applications, such as attaching boards to masonry walls, cut nails are much less common today than wire nails.

Though today an Arabic-speaking people, that aspect constitutes for Egyptians a cultural dimension of their identity, not a necessary attribute of or prop for their national political being.

Though the vast majority of Igbos today are Christian, many of them still use oracles.

Though some of these forts are today in ruins, a number of them have been preserved as national monuments.

Though this was the form of music most commonly considered " ragtime " in its day, many people today prefer to put it in the " popular music " category.

Though physical and biological scientists today avoid supernatural explanations to describe reality ( see naturalism ), many scientists continue to consider science and spirituality to be complementary, not contradictory.

Though widespread use of DC ultimately lost favor for distribution, it exists today primarily in long-distance high-voltage direct current ( HVDC ) transmission systems.

Though it is not uncommon for oil-filled transformers to have today been in operation for over fifty years, high temperature damages winding insulation, the accepted rule of thumb being that transformer life expectancy is halved for every 8 degree C increase in operating temperature.

Though the term today is used almost exclusively for ancient warships, modern historians also refer to medieval and early modern galleys with three banks of oars per side as triremes.

Though Gibbs's research on physical optics is less well known today than his other work, it made a significant contribution to classical electromagnetism by applying Maxwell's equations to the theory of optical processes such as birefringence, dispersion, and optical activity.

Though the Synclavier is no longer manufactured, around fifty systems are still in use today.

Though today we call most Greek religious buildings " temples ," the ancient pagans would have referred to a temenos, or sacred precinct.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

Though put in rather maudlin terms, Steele's defense of himself has a reasonable basis.

Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

Though the spread of this type of decoration in the Aegean has not yet been precisely determined, it seems to appear first in the Cyclades, which were among the leading exporters of pottery throughout the century.

Though brief, it has a sharp dramatic edge and great poignancy.

Though there has been some avant garde indication that contemporary furniture might go back to the boxy look of the '20's and '40's, two manufacturers chose to take the approach of the sophisticated, but warm look in contemporary.

Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.

Though the subject -- segregation in her native South -- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm her place at the very top of modern American writing.

Though the are has fallen out of use, the hectare is still commonly used to measure land:

Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.

Though the U. S. federal government has no official language, English is the common language used by the federal government and is considered the de facto language of the United States because of its widespread use.

Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.

Though wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.

Though cloning is still possible even with digital technologies, the cost of wireless service is so low that the problem has virtually disappeared.

Though Todd's last name has never been mentioned in the series, it was revealed in This Book Sucks.

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Though no doubt also motivated by an affection towards Ruth, in marrying her he has to pay a cost in money and uncertainty.

* " Though the hippopotamus has no sting, the wise man would prefer to be sat upon by the bee.

" Though she claims thousands of followers, mostly in Germany, there has been no verification that any have lived for extended periods without food.

Though much attention has been focused on the security and military aspects of Colombia's situation, the administration also is spending significant time on issues such as expanding international trade, supporting alternate means of development, and reforming Colombia's judicial system.

Though astronomers are not sure what has caused this ring of new stars, some hypothesize that it is from shock waves caused by a bar that is thus far invisible.

Though the Church is prohibited by the Manual from publishing membership figures, the number of branch churches in the United States has fallen steadily since World War II.