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

" Metzger also criticized the addition of your into, so it becomes " Though it &# x5b ; the mustard seed &# x5d ; is the smallest of all your seeds ", avoiding any impression of Jesus's speaking a botanical untruth.

Though Kohl's election was done according to the Basic Law, some voices criticized the move as the FDP had fought its 1980 campaign on the side of the SPD and even placed Chancellor Schmidt on some of their campaign posters.

Though later historians criticized Melisende for not abdicating in favor of her son, there was little impetus for her to do so.

Though stylistically impressive, Dead Birds has been criticized with respect to its authenticity.

Though it was a crucial early contribution to geomorphology, many of Davis ' theories regarding landscape evolution, sometimes known as Davisian geomorphology, have been heavily criticized by modern geomorphologists.

Though this painting was criticized, it was greatly admired during the 19th century as an early example of Romanticism.

Though Dreiser has been criticized for his writing style and lack of formal education, Sister Carrie survived over a century and remains to this day an influential example of naturalism and realism.

Though some criticized the school for inducting a student-athlete who caused their Final Four achievement to be vacated, others saw it as a positive recognition of one of the school's best ever athletes.

Though Kieślowski believed the film's message was anti-authoritarian, he was criticized by his colleagues for cooperating with the government in its production.

Though a strong album lyrically, musically it has often been criticized for its softer, mellow sound, a departure from the edgier, more ambitious sound for which the band had become well-known ( and notorious ).

Though the Catholic Church was not unanimously supportive of Duplessis, as some Catholic Unions and members of the clergy including Montreal Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau criticized Duplessis, the bulk of the small-town and rural clergy supported the premier, sometimes quoting the Union Nationale slogan Le ciel est bleu, l ' enfer est rouge ( The sky ( Heaven ) is blue, Hell is red ) — referring to the colours of the Union Nationale ( blue ) and the Liberals ( red ), the latter accused often of being pro-communist.

Though Clampett's contribution to the Warner Brothers animation legacy was considerable and inarguable, he has been criticized by his peers as " a shameless self-promoter who provoked the wrath of his former Warner's colleagues in later years, for allegedly claiming credit for ideas which were not his.

Though criticized by Forkel in Germany and by the Spanish ex-Jesuit, Requeno, who, in his Saggj sul Ristabilimento dell ' Arte Armonica de ' Greci e Romani Canton ( Parma, 1798 ), attacks Burney's account of ancient Greek music, and calls him lo scompigliato Burney, the History of Music was generally well received.

Though hiding or defending key areas of the map, especially if done by a large group, makes it easier to survive enemy attacks, it is sometimes criticized.

Though there are many reasons to prefer local food ( for example freshness ), the use of food miles as a strict purchasing metric has been criticized.

Though Jackson opposed the excesses of Joe McCarthy ( who had traveled to Washington State to campaign against him in 1952 ), he also criticized Dwight Eisenhower for not spending enough on national defense, and called for more inter-continental ballistic missiles in the national arsenal.

Though reelected in 1975, his government was criticized sharply for failing to address the deep economic disparities between different sectors of the population, notably the Americo-Liberians, who had dominated the country since independence, and the various indigenous ethnic groups that constituted the majority of the population.

Though always a keen sympathizer with the Irish people in their misfortunes and aspirations and he had criticized severely the methods by which the Act of Union was passed, Lecky, who grew up as a moderate Liberal, was from the first strenuously opposed to William Ewart Gladstone's policy of Home Rule and, in 1895, he was returned to parliament as Unionist member for Dublin University in a by-election.

Though retaining its support for the president's government, the RPR criticized the executive duo composed of President Giscard d ' Estaing and Prime Minister Raymond Barre.

Though this move was criticized by some anti-spam activists, some legal commentators praised it, citing a heavily punitive California law seen as overbroad and a wave of dubious suits filed in Utah.

Though criticized by some for his use of photography, Remington often created depictions that slightly exaggerated natural motion to satisfy the eye.

Though many of Taguchi's concerns and conclusions are welcomed by statisticians and economists, some ideas have been especially criticized.

Though criticized for its long-distance comfort and lauded mainly for its raw acceleration, the Magna was the bike of choice for a Canadian grandmother who toured the world solo by motorcycle, without benefit of the support crew that usually accompanies riders in adventures depicted in such films as Long Way Round.

Though a losing season, this was a 26-game improvement over 2004, and sufficient for second place in a woefully weak NL West, five games behind the San Diego Padres.

Though the fact of the irregularity of the lunar orbit was known in the 1st century BC, the starts of the months were calculated using the mean motions of both the sun and moon until 619, the second year of the Tang dynasty, when chronologists began to use true motions modeled using two offset opposing parabolas ( with small linear and cubic components ).

Though widely used, it differs in form from the nominative only in the masculine singular of the second declension ( that is, never in the plural, never in the feminine or neuter, and never in any declension other than the second ).

Though the official language is Spanish, it is often the second language among the indigenous population.

Though India continues to have a military relationship with Russia, Israel has emerged as India's second largest military partner while India has built a strong strategic partnership with the United States.

Though this was Abraham's second son it was Sarah ’ s first and only child.

Though he later described his presidency as the unhappiest time of his life, scholars rate John Quincy Adams in the second quartile in the majority of historical presidential rankings.

Though he fell two votes short of the required winning margin of 187 in the second ballot, the result was sufficient to secure immediate concessions from his rivals.

Though times for non-winners were not recorded, in 1973 Sham finished second, two and a half lengths behind Secretariat in the same race.

Though the concept is ancient, the word did not appear in most dictionaries until the second half of the 20th century.

Though the Giants went into halftime down only 10 – 0, the Ravens dominated the second half.

Though generally quite young and less experienced than the tribuni angusticlavii, he served as second in command of the legion, behind the legate.

Though SI prefixes may also be used to form multiples of the second such as kilosecond ( one thousand seconds ), such units are rarely used in practice.

Though France was removed as a threat, Jefferson refused to recognize the new republic, the second in the Western Hemisphere, and imposed an arms and trade embargo against it.

Though the club showed strength in the early going, the team proved unable to keep pace with the surging Oakland Athletics in the second half and fell out of contention in September.

Though during most of the second half of the 2nd millennium BCE several regional powers competed relentlessly for hegemony, many developments occurred: there was new emphasis on grandiose architecture, new clothing fashions, vivid diplomatic correspondence on clay tablets, renewed economic exchanges, and the New Kingdom of Egypt played the role of the main superpower.

Though opinions vary about the identity of Bolesław I's second wife, a number of researchers still support the hypothesis of her being the daughter of Géza.

Though some critics thought it a failure, the film made money, and was the second highest-grossing film Altman had directed to that point.

Though European mariners, such as John Cabot and Alonso Sanchez in the 15th Century and the Norse 500 years still earlier, explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence the first European explorer known to have sailed up the St. Lawrence River itself was Jacques Cartier, during his second trip to Canada in 1535, with the help of Iroquoian chief Donnacona's two sons.

Though Hitler rejected Raeder's advice, Raeder spent the entire second half of 1941 persistently pressing for Germany to go to war with the United States.

Though he considered himself a teacher first and a writer second, he continued to write all his life, receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1957 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963.

Though the European reputation of Muzio Clementi was second only to Joseph Haydn in his day, his reputation languished for much of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Though Frodo was actually " his first and second cousin once removed either way ", the two regarded each other as uncle and nephew.

* Though Isaac Asimov was best known for his long and illustrious career as a science fiction author, his writing came second to his academic career early in his life.