Though rarely used by modern conventional military units, abatises are still officially maintained in United States Army and Marine Corps training.

Though he expressed the conventional fears of the danger from the Turks, Gregory XIII's attentions were more consistently directed to the dangers from the Protestants.

Though a radiological dispersal device ( RDD ) would be designed to disperse radioactive material over a large area, a bomb that uses conventional explosives would likely have far more lethal effect than the radioactive material.

Though hybrid cars consume less gas than conventional cars, there is still an issue regarding the environmental damage of the hybrid car battery.

Though the vessels are mostly used for conventional trade ( legal and illegal ) around the Alpha and Gamma quadrants, some of the more powerful companies in the Ferengi Alliance use them to attack colonies or other ships, stealing technology or supplies which they can resell.

Though the usage of the term as a kind of shorthand to designate the work of certain Post-war " schools " employing relatively specific material and generic techniques has become conventional since the mid-1980s, the theoretical underpinnings of Postmodernism as an epochal or epistemic division are still very much in controversy.

Though Blake was influenced by his grand and mystical cosmic conception, Swedenborg's conventional moral structures and his Manichean view of good and evil led Blake to express a deliberately depolarized and unified vision of the cosmos in which the material world and physical desire are equally part of the divine order, hence, a marriage of heaven and hell.

Though facing the challenge of competitiveness versus conventional guns ( and sometimes railgun alternatives ), coilguns are being researched for weaponry.

Though recognized as tough and fair, his insistence on developing cadets past conventional limits caused one parent to quip, " Buckner forgets that cadets are born, not quarried.

Though there is practically no argument about the unity of structure within Winesburg, Ohio, few scholars have concluded that it fits the standards of a conventional novel.

Though a conventional blues arrangement, " Moonlight Drive "' s defining feature was its slightly off-beat rhythm and, more significantly, Robby Krieger's ' Bottle-neck ' guitar which creates an eerie sound.

Though he quit conventional education, he attracted the attention of the middle class, upper middle class and numerous Bengali intellectuals.

Though he may not have been of a woman born in the conventional sense ( thus fulfilling the prophecy ), Macduff ultimately originates from woman, asserting that he was “ from his mother ’ s womb.

Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.

Though the application by itself is fairly new with respect to conventional methods such as XRF or ICP, it has proven to be less time consuming and a cheaper option to test element concentrations.

Though preferring not to use magic, Granny Weatherwax has, on several occasions, been seen to display several ' conventional ' forms of power in abundance ; including psychokinesis ( Lords and Ladies ) and pyrokinesis (" The Sea and Little Fishes "), as well as a number of ' less conventional ' forms of power ; including the ability to fade into the background of a room, to defer physical injury to a later point in time ( Witches Abroad, Maskerade ), and to make people believe they have been turned into animals such as frogs.

Though Parker's central focus is free improvisation, he has also occasionally appeared in more conventional jazz contexts, such as Charlie Watts's big band and Kenny Wheeler's ensembles, and participated in Gavin Bryars's recording After the Requiem, performing the composition " Alaric I or II " as part of a saxophone quartet.

Though the bike was new, it kept the antiquated air-cooling and conventional suspension fork.

Though the nuclear part of the bomb is safe, we see the pavilion explode as the conventional explosive goes off, killing Wren and two others.

Though the trunk shot can be produced by placing the camera inside the trunk, the considerable bulk of a conventional movie camera and camera operator makes this difficult.

Though the Oilers chose first to maintain split AHL affiliations in 2005-06 and 2007-08, then make a conventional agreement with the Springfield Falcons for the next three seasons, they retained the rights to the dormant Road Runners franchise.

Though conventional thermal reactors also produce excess neutrons, fast reactors can produce enough of them to breed more fuel than they consume.

Though the quality of integral instant film is not as good as conventional film, peel apart black and white film, and to a lesser extent colour film approached the quality of traditional film types.

Though theologies and religions typically do not claim to be irrational, there is often a perceived conflict or tension between faith and tradition on the one hand, and reason on the other, as potentially competing sources of wisdom, law and truth.

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 the common wisdom is that a serf owned " only his belly " — even his clothes were the property, in law, of his lord — a serf might still accumulate personal property and wealth, and some serfs became wealthier than their free neighbours, although this was rare.

Though he was one of those generals who had served under Moreau, and who therefore, as a rule, disliked and despised Napoléon Bonaparte, Soult had the wisdom to show his devotion to the ruling power ; in consequence he was in August 1803 appointed to the command-in-chief of the camp of Boulogne, and in May 1804 he was made one of the first marshals of the Empire.

Though lacking an official scripture, the practice of Deism is described by Thomas Paine in The Age of Reason: " The true Deist has but one Deity, and his religion consists in contemplating the power, wisdom, and benignity of the Deity in his works, and in endeavoring to imitate him in everything moral, scientifical, and mechanical.

" Jewish and Islamic sources describe a similar book, intended to preserve “ the primordial wisdom of paradise for Adam and his generations ” and also “ the genealogy of the entire human race " Described elsewhere in the LDS canon ( D & C 107: 53-56 ) is the story of how Adam gathered his posterity three years prior to his death, and “ predicted whatsoever should befall his posterity unto the latest generation .” Though unknown in the Bible, similar stories are told in several ancient pseudepigraphal sources.

Though black sociologist E. Franklin Frazier had already introduced the idea in the 1930s, Moynihan ’ s argument defied conventional social-science wisdom.

Though several years my senior he never allowed the intervening years or the wisdom for which these stood, to create the slightest impression of conscious superiority.

Though a pious Shi ' ite Muslim, he was also, like many Indian musicians, regardless of religion, a devotee of Saraswati, the Hindu Goddess of wisdom and arts, and often played at Hindu temples, including the famous Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, on the banks of the river Ganges.

Though the wisdom writers regard the miracles of the ancient times ( referred to particularly in Wisdom 16-19 ) as historical facts, they say nothing about a miraculous element in the lives of their own time.

Though they are often heard clairaudiently, as if a voice were speaking them, in other cases they are apprehended visually as symbols: a slope to signify the name `` Hill '', for instance.

Though simple and compound walls were often used, Great Houses were primarily constructed of core-and-veneer walls: two parallel load-bearing walls comprising dressed, flat sandstone blocks bound in clay mortar were erected.

Though often referred to without quotations, the correct title is " Love and Theft ".

Though herbicides are chemicals, they are often grouped with biological warfare and chemical warfare because they may work in a similar manner as biotoxins or bioregulators and also because the Army Biological Laboratory tested them and the Army's Technical Escort Unit which all chemical, biological, radiological ( nuclear ) materials.

Though DeMille was respected by his peers, his individual films were often criticized by them.

Though parts of Acadiana are well suited to cattle or dairy farming, beef is not often used in a pre-processed or uniquely Cajun form.

Though Beaux was an individualist, comparisons to Sargent would prove inevitable, and often favorable.

Though the closing argument is often considered the deciding moment of a trial, effective cross-examination wins trials.

Though there are several methods for doing so, cDNA is most often synthesized from mature ( fully spliced ) mRNA using the enzyme reverse transcriptase.

Though " planned economy " and " command economy " are often used as synonyms, some make the distinction that under a command economy, enterprises need not follow a comprehensive plan of production.

Though each environment served different users, they often required much of the same stored data.

Though Dilbert and his office-mates often find themselves baffled or victimized by the whims of managerial behavior, they never seem to question it openly.

Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sanctity of marriage, the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death.

Though often described as, and to a great extent is a declarative language, SQL also includes procedural elements.

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 deists rejected atheism, they often were called " atheists " by more traditional theists.

Though by no means a certainty, déjà vu occurs often enough during seizures that researches have reason to suspect a link.

Though German was spoken in each realm, sharing the same language and culture more often than not pushed Austria-Hungary and Germany apart.

Though nearly all modern mathematicians consider nonconstructive methods just as sound as constructive ones, Euclid's constructive proofs often supplanted fallacious nonconstructive ones — e. g., some of the Pythagoreans ' proofs that involved irrational numbers, which usually required a statement such as " Find the greatest common measure of ..."

Though discouraging, the failure of choice to lead to overall improvement often seems to reflect weaknesses in the way that choice is implemented rather than a failure of the basic principle itself.

Though this drink is often given to women who are nursing, the sweetness and smooth texture make it a comfort drink for anyone who enjoys its flavor.

Though some historians have criticised Elizabeth on similar grounds, Raleigh's verdict has more often been judged unfair.

Though the EPR paper has often been taken as an exact expression of Einstein's views, it was primarily authored by Podolsky, based on discussions at the Institute for Advanced Study with Einstein and Rosen.

Though film noir is often identified with a visual style, unconventional within a Hollywood context, that emphasizes low-key lighting and unbalanced compositions, films commonly identified as noir evidence a variety of visual approaches, including ones that fit comfortably within the Hollywood mainstream.