Though Ike and his tank crews never saw combat, he displayed excellent organizational skills, as well as an ability to accurately assess junior officers ' strengths and make optimal placements of personnel.

Though unaware of the British intention to settle Norfolk Island, which was not announced until 5 December 1786, Forster referred to “ the nearness of New Zealand ; the excellent flax plant ( Phormium ) that grows so abundantly there ; its incomparable shipbuilding timber ”, as among the advantages of the new colony.

Though the individual fibers conduct heat very well, when pressed into rolls and sheets, their ability to partition air makes them excellent heat insulators and sound absorbers.

Though not natural, steel wool makes excellent tinder and can be started with steel and flint, or a 9 volt battery without difficulty.

Though slightly insecure about taking over in light of his predecessor, Robert proves to be an excellent leader.

Though his velocity decreased in later years ( to the 89 – 93 range on his fastball ), his control remained excellent, and he is currently second in career strikeout to walk ratio.

Though their efficacy is questionable, their high mercury content provided an excellent tracer by which archaeologists have been able to track the corps ' actual route to the Pacific.

Though his fielding suffered in his later years, Crawford was an excellent fielder in his prime.

Though the movie features excellent songs they all depict the situation like nothing else could, like a prisoner singing an ode to an imprisoned bird, " O Panchhi Pyare " sung by Asha Bhosle and Asha Bhosle's touching, ' Ab ke Baras Bhej Bhaiya ko Babul ' composed in ' Raga Pilu ', excellently uses the folk idiom of a traditional song of a newly married girl longing for her maternal home, ( maika ), but being sung by a prison inmate of Kalyani, immediately conveys the irony in its placement.

Though then-Mayor Pam Iorio declared that Davis would be an " excellent " successor, it was speculated that the defeat of the rail referendum by voters left Davis with no platform to run for Mayor on.

Though more a batsman than a bowler he could seam and swing the ball, was a useful third paceman even at Test level and was an excellent fielder anywhere.

" Though playing the role of " terrestrial dinosaur " in the " Archaeoraptor " affair, Microraptor, showing wings and clear traces of rectrices, is generally assumed to have had at least a gliding capacity and is itself an excellent example of a transitional fossil.

Though the island has been a sheep farm for more than a century, excellent management has preserved its varied habitat and mature tussac grows in replanted coastal paddocks.

WuChang of Sputnikmusic gave the album a 4 out of 5, with a summary: " An excellent and criminally underrated debut that gives the listener a different perspective on Marshall Mathers ;" Though thinking that the production was good, he said he could understand if the listeners were not " feeling it.

Though he had not himself played the game at the top level he had a keen interest in team psychology and had achieved excellent results at Wests from 1978 – 81 and helped that struggling club to produce consistent on-field results.

Though his goal tally was not excellent by any means, his willingness to play any role on the pitch and his tireless efforts to save " The Whites " from relegation was greatly appreciated by the Leeds fans.

Though the education she received there was excellent, Helena often also studied on her own.

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Though the original manuscripts are not in Music School archives today, excellent early copies of ca.

Though Morris described the land itself as " a wilderness of stagnant water and muddy slopes ", the Sporting Mail considered it " very favourably situated for obtaining easy communication with the city and many of the suburbs, and will be served by an excellent service of electric cars, while the provision of a railway station close at hand is also considered as within the bounds of possibility.

Though being excellent at turns and tricks, she is the slowest character of all.

Though it was generally considered an excellent fan film, it could not be entered into The Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards because it was much longer than the contest's upper time limit, and that Lucasfilm only accepts parodies or documentaries as part of the competition.

" Though Whitney declined to endorse Duke's resegregation plan, his foreword supported the value of the book, despite the reputation of Duke, as a collection of scientific evidence, describing it as " a painstakingly documented, academically excellent work of sociobiological-political history ... provid on the order of a thousand references and footnotes.

Though both struggled with injuries causing them to miss significant chunk of the season, Vieri still managed to produce excellent form when fit to play with 24 goals in 24 league appearances, while Juninho struggled to make similar impact with only 6 goals in 23 league appearances.

Though it was Rossini's first opera, written when he was thirteen or fourteen, the work was not staged until the composer was twenty years old, premiering as his sixth official opera.

Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

Though panoplied with all the pomp and mystical trappings of a Wagnerian opera, its message was as blunt and brutal as a lead pipe: We, the Herrenvolk, are the new invincible gods!

Though Clementi noted in subsequent publications of his sonata that it had been written ten years before Mozart's opera — presumably to make clear who was borrowing from whom — Clementi retained an admiration for Mozart, as reflected in the large number of transcriptions he made of Mozart's music, among which is a piano solo version of the " Zauberflöte " overture.

Though he was extremely popular and widely credited with bringing about a revolution in French opera, Gluck's mastery of the Parisian operatic scene was never absolute, and after the poor reception of his Echo et Narcisse he left Paris in disgust and returned to Vienna to live out the remainder of his life.

Though Gluck wrote no operas in German, his example influenced the German school of opera, particularly Weber and Wagner, whose concept of music drama was not so far removed from Gluck's own.

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.

** Less visible motion blur, thanks in large part to very high refresh rates and a faster response time, contributing to superior performance when displaying content with significant amounts of rapid motion ( Though newer LCD screens have similar refresh rates, that also introduces the soap opera effect ).

Though German had little experience with opera or choral music, Richard D ' Oyly Carte invited him to finish Arthur Sullivan's The Emerald Isle for the Savoy Theatre after Sullivan's death in 1900.

Though told she has no chance, she perseveres and after three years becomes the lead dancer in an opera company.

Though Bizet's Carmen ( 1875 ) was the first gutsy slice-of-life opera, true Verismo came to the fore a decade and a half later in Italy, with the historic premiere ( 1890 ) of Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana.

Though la Castafiore is obviously Italian, her pet aria is from a French opera ( Faust was composed by Charles Gounod ) rather than the Verdi, Puccini, or Donizetti one might expect from a star of La Scala.

Though originally set to an Italian libretto, Orfeo ed Euridice owes much to the genre of French opera, particularly in its use of accompanied recitative and a general absence of vocal virtuosity.

Though Berg began work on the opera in 1914, he was delayed by the start of World War I and it was not until he was on leave from his regiment in 1917 and 1918 that he was able to devote his attention to it.

Though he began in Germany, Giacomo Meyerbeer was more famous for his contributions to Italian and ( especially ) French opera.

Though pitch standards were not fixed in the eighteenth century, this rare note is also heard in the opera Esclarmonde by Jules Massenet and Les contes d ' Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach.

Though the music of the symphony is based on that of the opera, the material is developed symphonically ; the symphony is therefore absolute rather than programmatic.

Though a Court returned to Lisbon in 1640, it preferred, for one hundred and fifty years, Italian opera and French plays to vernacular representations.

Though Elisabet is nearly catatonic when the film begins, she does react with extreme panic upon seeing Thích Quảng Đức's suicide on television, and laughs mockingly at Alma's radio soap opera.

" Though Peri's Dafne was the first performed opera, its music has been lost to the centuries.

Though generally well crafted and full of humorous satire and grand opera parodies, plots and characters in his works were often interchangeable.

Though Cushman was an incredibly great student and achieved much academically, she left school to pursue a career in the opera.

Though other supercouples came before them, Luke and Laura are the best known outside of the soap opera medium and are credited with defining the term " supercouple " and leading other soap operas to try to duplicate their success.