Though several types of Sentinels have been introduced, the typical Sentinel is three stories tall, capable of flight, projects energy blasts, and can detect mutants.

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

" Though Sigil is commonly held to be located " at the center of the planes " ( where it is positioned atop the infinitely tall Spire ), some argue that this is impossible since the planes are infinite in all dimensions, and therefore there can never truly be a center to any of them, let alone all of them.

Though tall and apparently gangly, Lendl was very fast on the court.

Though they are far larger than the average Skaven ( about 10 foot tall ), female Skaven can't take care of themselves and rely on eunuchs to feed and protect them.

Though only 189 feet ( 55m ) tall, it benefits from a technique known as forced perspective.

Though not the oldest redwood in the forest, this large tree is over 950 years old, and is currently around tall, though originally it was much taller.

Though their exact size is unknown, if Mr. Barlowe's account is correct, they would be tall.

Though the style follows these more modest characteristics, items such as steeply pitched roofs, half-timbering often infilled with herringbone brickwork, tall mullioned windows, high chimneys, jettied ( overhanging ) first floors above pillared porches, dormer windows supported by consoles, and even at times thatched roofs, gave Tudor Revival its more striking effects.

Though he stands five feet, nine inches tall, Cammalleri's teammates have argued his small stature is not a drawback.

Though quiet by nature, he took the uncharacteristic step of urging Xerox executives to keep their California research center, Xerox PARC, afloat when the parent company was suspicious that its research center would amount to little.

Though he has been released and cleared, since 2002 he has been out of the public eye and is currently living a quiet life in Islamabad.

Though some more traditional Muslims may keep quiet about their vegetarian diet, the number of vegetarian Muslims is increasing.

Though some residents consider it an active part of the Downtown District, others prefer to consider this quiet section of town as its own special part of the community.

Though it has somewhat supplanted the musically unsatisfactory Highland practice chanter as a relatively quiet rehearsal instrument for Highland pipers, it has gained wide currency as a session instrument, for both the Highland and Border pipe repertoires.

Though he insists he wants for nothing in his quiet life, she is bound by duty to pay off her debt to him.

Though comparatively quiet, there was some action with the attack on Dutch Harbor ( 3 – 5 June 1942 ), the Japanese seizure of the islands Kiska and Attu ( June 1942 ), Battle of Attu ( Operation Landcrab, May 1943 ), and " invasion " of Kiska ( August, 1943 ) ( see Aleutian Islands campaign ).

Though Paris had been quiet during the night, it had not been asleep.

Though cloisters served functions of quiet meditation or a study garden, the uses of the surrounding buildings in the St. Gall plan, each entered only through the covered porches, show how central the cloister was to the communal life: on the eastern side stood the calefactoria or warming room, the sole heated space, with above it the dormitory ; on the south side the refectory, with above it the vestiarium (" vestiary "); on the west side the cellar for wines and beer with above it the larder.

Though she continued her weekly " drawing rooms ", she preferred quiet evenings of reading, composing music and verse, and playing her harp.

Though he had removed the jacket and placed it under his arm before entering the courthouse, a police officer witnessed the jacket and slogan in the corridor and arrested him for " willingly and unlawfully and maliciously disturbing the peace and quiet by engaging in tumultuous and offensive conduct.

Though largely quiet during the day, Bourbon Street comes alive at night, particularly during the French Quarter's many festivals.

Though he was a very quiet and shy guy, people were able to cause him to use extremely foul language to the boss without any hesitation.

Though now primarily known for his quiet introspective work with Dead Can Dance, Perry's first musical forays were in a markedly different style.

Though the school is one of the largest in the country, the university stresses quiet during exam week.

Though the band has never officially disbanded, it has been remarkably quiet since a performance at SEMA ( Swedish Electronic Music Awards ) in 1999 when the band promised nothing new would ever be released under the name Page.

Though after 1680 he led a quiet and retired life, he was recognized widely by the scholars of his time, such as Thomasius and Bayle, Jean Le Clerc and Walch, as a man of great learning ; and his zealous participation in the cause of Antoinette Bourignon did not injure his good name as a devout mystic and an honorable man.

Though still used in some places, the term is now obsolete in many common law jurisdictions, in which possession and title are contested via the actions of eviction and quiet title, respectively.

Though he was aware that some of his subordinates — most notably Claus von Stauffenberg, his Chief of Staff — were planning an assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler, he remained quiet.

Though he was regarded on the ice as one of toughest players in the game, he was also quiet.

Though Stuart might have said it only to stop the rumors of an English version or to keep quiet about it.

Though they tried to keep it quiet, word spread and eventually led to a strike of law students.

Though she has kept quiet, Dr. Leidner realises that she may eventually crack.

Though quiet, Abalone is not peaceful ; wealthy rancher Clinton Stark ( Arthur O ' Connell ) has inside information that a railroad is coming to town, and he is scheming to buy up the place while the land is cheap.

Though Findley had declared his homosexuality as a teenager, he married actress / photographer Janet Reid ( born 1930 ) in 1959, but the union lasted only three months and was dissolved by divorce or annulment two years later.

Though Kölzig was born in South Africa, he grew up in several cities across Canada and his family moved to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia when he was a teenager.

Though still a teenager, Matthews became one the most important players in a dominant Hawthorn team in 1971.

Though they'd been estranged for many years, after Lilimae virtually abandoned Valene as a teenager in her quest to become a country singer, Lilimae reappeared in Valene's life during Season 1.

" Though he criticized Duff's " thin " voice, Lamb noted, " While Britney and Jessica have turned toward a more adult, risque image, 17-year-old Hilary Duff shows us that a significant part of being a teenager is simply having fun hanging out with friends.

Though the resolution is historically significant, Hideaki Uemura, professor at Keisen University in Tokyo and a specialist in indigenous peoples ' rights, commented that the motion is " weak in the sense of recognizing historical facts " as the Ainu were " forced " to become Japanese in the first place.

Though interpretations vary, most theologians see this passage as referring to Jesus, after his death, going to a place ( neither heaven nor hell in the ultimate sense ) where the souls of pre-Christian people waited for the Gospel.

" Though Heraclitus " quite deliberately plays on the various meanings of logos ", there is no compelling reason to suppose that he used it in a special technical sense, significantly different from the way it was used in ordinary Greek of his time.

< sup > δ </ sup > Though this term is non-standard usage – by " left ", agorists mean " left " in the general sense used by left-libertarians, as defined by Roderick T. Long, as "... an integration, or I'd argue, a reintegration of libertarianism with concerns that are traditionally thought of as being concerns of the left.

Though single employer market power is unlikely to exist in most labor markets in the sense of the traditional ' company town ,' asymmetric information, imperfect mobility, and the ' personal ' element of the labor transaction give some degree of wage-setting power to most firms.

Though Data's striving for humanity and desire for human emotion is a significant plot point ( and source for humor ) throughout the series, he continually shows a nuanced sense of wisdom, sensitivity, and curiosity.

Though reserved, Ravel was sensitive and self-critical, and had a mischievous sense of humor.

Though these tunnels are sometimes referred to as " cocoons ", they are not literally cocoons in the entomological sense.

Though virtual currencies are not ' local ' in the tradition sense, they do cater to the specific needs of a particular community, a virtual community.

Though the reality was that the Stonewall riots themselves, as well as the immediate and the ongoing political organizing that occurred following them, were events fully participated in by lesbian women, bisexual people and transgender people as well as by gay men of all races and backgrounds, historically these events were first named Gay, the word at that time being used in a more generic sense to cover the entire spectrum of what is now variously called the ' queer ' or LGBT community.

Though not all Method actors use the same approach, the " method " in Method acting usually refers to the practice, influenced by Constantin Stanislavski and created by Lee Strasberg, in which actors draw upon their own emotions and memories in their portrayals, aided by a set of exercises and practices including sense memory and affective memory.

Though the term common name is not much used in this context, it would mean a noun ( or a noun phrase ) that is not a proper name ( Swiss cheese, and the common noun bluebird, are both common names in this sense ).

Though a sense of nationalism pervaded his earliest surreal landscapes and Head of a Catalan Peasant, it wasn ’ t until Spain ’ s Republican government commissioned him to paint the mural, The Reaper, for the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exhibition, that Miró ’ s work took on a politically charged meaning.

Though the playwright romanticizes Antigone's sense of honor and duty to what is morally right, in this case resisting the Nazi forces, it can also be said that Anouilh, like Sophocles before him, makes a convincing argument for Creon ’ s method of leadership.

Though such additions meant that the program did not truly examine every node within its search depth ( so it would not be truly brute force in that sense ), the rare mistakes due to these selective searches was found to be worth the extra time it saved because it could search deeper.

Though there was some criticism in the final evaluations of her performance as governor general, mostly for a perceived aloofness and sense of self-importance which her closing of the Rideau Hall estate to the public came to symbolise Sauvé was also described as having been elegant, charming, and a person who could mingle well with common Canadians especially children while also maintaining a sense of the dignity of state.

Though the literal meaning of the words could include anyone who fights for the cause of freedom, in common use it may be restricted to those who are actively involved in an armed rebellion, rather than those who campaign for freedom by peaceful means ( though they may use the title in its literal sense ).

Though he possessed great charm and charisma and a sense of humour, as he aged he presented himself as, and came to be seen as, cantankerous and irascible.

Though he maintained a façade of social activity in school, he claimed he had no natural sense of how to develop friendships.

Though he was well versed in the new logic and dialectical rhetoric of the university, John's views imply a cultivated intelligence well versed in practical affairs, opposing to the extremes of both nominalism and realism a practical common sense.

Though this was true, he was generally portrayed in a more negative light than Archie ; Archie was portrayed in a more sympathetic sense, while Michael was portrayed as loudmouthed and at times, demanding.

Though differences can be wide and varied between both branches and traditions, the primary difference is that Westernised forms use systematised hand-placements rather than relying on an intuitive sense of hand-positions ( see below ), which is commonly used by Japanese Reiki branches.

Though the word " omen " is usually devoid of reference to the change's nature, hence being possibly either " good " or " bad ," the term is more often used in a foreboding sense, as with the word " ominous ".