Though she is one of the few gods of the Greek Pantheon to be actually married, she is frequently unfaithful to her husband.

Though there were few initial changes to the service, usage increased and the network became profitable.

Though the merger process was traumatic and the new party suffered a few years of extremely poor poll results, it gradually found much greater electoral success than the Liberal Party had done in the post-war era.

Though no significant damage was reported to most of the few Berkeley buildings of the time, the 1868 quake did destroy the vulnerable adobe home of Domingo Peralta in north Berkeley.

" Though apparent to very few historians at the time, these defeats were the beginning of the decline of Europe as the center of world politics.

Though he did take in a few students, Gauss was known to dislike teaching.

Though the TeX typesetting language has an equivalent, the CTAN ( and in fact the CPAN's name is based on the CTAN ), few languages have an exhaustive central repository for libraries.

Though conditions have improved somewhat over the past few years, the Khadem are still stereotyped by mainstream Yemenese society, considering them lowly, dirty, ill-mannered, immoral and untouchables.

Though Haitians place a high value on education, few can afford to send their children to secondary school.

Though few in the new congress wanted to debate a possible Bill of Rights ( for the next century, most thought that the Declaration of Independence, not the first ten constitutional amendments, constituted the true Bill of Rights ), Madison pressed the issue.

Though most of her concerts were recorded during her solo career, few have been officially released, resulting in being heavily bootlegged.

Though his name was then a household word ( as was " existentialism " during the tumultuous 1960s ), Sartre remained a simple man with few possessions, actively committed to causes until the end of his life, such as the May 1968 strikes in Paris during the summer of 1968 during which he was arrested for civil disobedience.

Though by the close of the 1989 season the team boasted a powerhouse bullpen in the AL Cy Young Award winner Bret Saberhagen ( set franchise record with 23 wins in ), two time All-Star Mark Gubicza ( 15 game winner in 1989 ) and 1989 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Tom Gordon ( won 17 games in 1989 ), the organization felt they were still missing a few pieces that would give the divisional rivals Oakland Athletics a run for their money.

Though for a time phosphates gave Nauruans one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, few other resources exist with most necessities being imported, including some fresh water from Australia.

Though it is generally accepted nalidixic acid is to be considered the first quinolone drug, this has been disputed over the years by a few researchers who believe chloroquine, from which nalidixic acid is derived, is to be considered the first quinolone drug, rather than nalidixic acid.

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 ".

The most prominent examples of transcendental numbers are π and e. Though only a few classes of transcendental numbers are known ( in part because it can be extremely difficult to show that a given number is transcendental ), transcendental numbers are not rare.

Though few historical records are left from that period, Western Sahara's modern history has its roots linked to some nomadic groups ( living under Berber tribal rule and in contact with the Roman Empire ) such as the Sanhaja group and the introduction of Islam and the Arabic language the end from the 8th century AD.

Though the companies merged, the Justice Department required Warner to produce and release a few films each year under the First National name until 1938.

Though elected pope a few days after the death of St. Agatho ( 10 January 681 ), he was not consecrated till after the lapse of a year and seven months ( 17 August 682 ).

Though there are many points of intersection between Cubism and architecture, only a few direct links between them can be drawn.

Though technically superior when compared to tape-based mediums, VCDs have a few minor flaws.

Though in most species at least part of the disc is needed for complete regeneration, in a few species of sea stars a single severed arm can grow into a complete individual over a period of several months.

Though the incident was mentioned in Lawrence's autobiography Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a few historians have conjectured that this event never happened.

Though King Wu died just a few years after the Battle of Muye, the Duke of Zhou assisted the young and inexperienced King Cheng in consolidating power for the Ji line: he managed a war against rebellious Zhou princes in the eastern lowlands ( allied with feudal rulers and Shang remnants ); formulated the Mandate of Heaven doctrine to counter Shang claims to a divine right of rule ; founded Chengzhou as an eastern capital ; and set up the fengjian " feudal " system designed to maintain Zhou authority as it expanded its rule over a larger amount of territory.

Though there is still-controversial evidence that Aristarchus of Samos possessed distinct values for the sidereal and tropical years as early as c. 280 BC, the discovery of precession is usually attributed to Hipparchus ( 190 – 120 BC ) of Rhodes or Nicaea, a Greek astronomer.

Though the UK is mostly under the influence of the maritime tropical air mass from the south-west, different regions are more susceptible than others when different air masses affect the country: Northern Ireland and the west of Scotland are the most exposed to the maritime polar air mass which brings cool moist air ; the east of Scotland and north-east England are more exposed to the continental polar air mass which brings cold dry air ; the south and south-east of England are more exposed to the continental tropical air mass which brings warm dry air ( and consequently most of the time the warmest summer temperatures ); Wales and the south-west of England are the most exposed to the maritime tropical air mass which brings warm moist air.

Though less biologically diverse than rainforests, tropical dry forests are home to a wide variety of wildlife including monkeys, deer, large cats, parrots, various rodents, and ground dwelling birds.

Though the " clammy " aspect of " fever ", the excessive ripeness associated with tropical climates, intrude into the poem, these elements, less prominent than in Keats's earlier poetry, are counterbalanced by the dry, crisp autumnal air of rural England.

Though the majority are tropical, members of the family occur on every continent except Antarctica.

Though its heartwood may present in a shade of purple, Manilkara bidentata should not be confused with another tropical tree widely known as " purpleheart ", Peltogyne pubescens.

Though Grace was classified as a tropical cyclone, it still held onto some extratropical characteristics.

Though like most of Thailand, it has a tropical savanna climate, its relatively high altitude and latitude contribute to more pronounced seasonal temperature variation, with cooler winters than the other regions.

Though it originates in India, vetiver is widely cultivated in the tropical regions of the world.

Though rarely captured, they are found in cold, deep tropical to subtropical waters worldwide.

Though primarily tropical, it is an admixture of tropical South China Sea and temperate Chinese forms because of the seasonal fluctuations of warm and cold water and monsoon weather conditions.

Though not a true cloud forest, in that it is not tropical, it bears many of the hallmarks of true cloud forest, with abundant moss and fern cover under thick low canopy.

Though set in a tropical hotel with palm trees, sunshine and beautiful beaches, for practical reasons all interiors scenes-and the bulk of exterior scenes-were shot at the Ten Network's studios in Nunawading, Melbourne.

Though there were officially five tropical cyclones in the season, hurricane scholar Michael Chenoweth assessed two of the cyclones as being the same storm.

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 ).

* Processes: Though these systems have many technological components, business processes lie at its core.

Though some new cable car systems were still being built, by 1890 the cheaper to construct and simpler to operate electrically-powered trolley or tram started to become the norm, and eventually started to replace existing cable car systems.

Though typically accessed by a DBMS through the underlying Operating system ( and often utilizing the operating systems ' File systems as intermediates for storage layout ), storage properties and configuration setting are extremely important for the efficient operation of the DBMS, and thus are closely maintained by database administrators.

Though typically accessed by a DBMS through the underlying Operating system ( and often utilizing the operating systems ' File systems as intermediates for storage layout ), storage properties and configuration setting are extremely important for the efficient operation of the DBMS, and thus are closely maintained by database administrators.

Though the different systems are at equilibrium, there is still water passing through the semipermeable membrane.

Though the system can have variations in local, regional, and country level, the similarities-in systems or even in ideas-that schools share also enable the exchange among students at all levels which are also playing an increasingly important role in globalization process.

Though it is the responsibility of municipal governments to provide people with healthy water supply, the Hungarian government and the European Union offer subsidies to those who wish to develop water supplies or sewage systems.

Though the Internet has allowed the global explosion of collectively authored comedy, its precursors existed on bulletin boards, corporate messaging systems, and even through such low-tech mechanisms as the facsimile since at least the 1970s.

Though correct in some details about the belief systems of various groups, Irenaeus ' main purpose was to warn Christians against Gnosticism, rather than catalog those beliefs.

Though the exact definition varies between scholars, natural language can broadly be defined in contrast on the one hand to artificial or constructed languages, such as computer programming languages like Python and international auxiliary languages like Esperanto, and on the other hand to other communication systems in nature, such as the waggle dance of bees.

Though regarded as one of the most capable SDI systems, the Brilliant Pebbles program was canceled in 1994 by the BMDO.

Though he insisted that animals are not capable of language, he expanded the purview of semiotics to include non-human signaling and communication systems, thus raising some of the issues addressed by philosophy of mind and coining the term zoosemiotics.

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 such increases may be temporary, long-term conflicts between motorists and light rail operations can be alleviated by segregating their respective rights-of-way and installing appropriate signage and warning systems.

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

Though the noise level of 16-bit audio systems ( such as CD players ) is commonly quoted ( on the basis of calculations that take no account of subjective effect ) as − 96 dB relative to FS ( full scale ), the best 468-weighted results are in the region of − 68 dB relative to Alignment Level ( commonly defined as 18 dB below FS ) i. e. − 86 dB relative to FS.

Though quarter-comma meantone is the most common type, other systems that flatten the fifth by some amount, but that still equate the major whole tone ( 9 / 8 in just intonation ) with the minor whole tone ( 10 / 9 in just intonation ), are also called meantone systems.

Though modern centrifigal braking systems help to control backlash, using a bait casting reel still requires practice, and a certain amount of finesse on the part of the fisherman for best results.

Though the canal nominally crosses the watersheds of five river systems, in reality the variation between these is so low that it has only a single summit section.

Though the term dates from the 1990s, instant messaging predates the Internet, first appearing on multi-user operating systems like Compatible Time-Sharing System ( CTSS ) and Multiplexed Information and Computing Service ( Multics ) in the mid-1960s.