Though this application was hailed upon its release for ease of use, it sold only 10, 000 copies ; not enough to cover the development expenses.

Though her elegant fashions and wardrobe were hailed as a " glamorous paragon of chic ", they were also controversial subjects.

Though the Tribune had been hailed by former City Newsers as a savior of CNB, on December 1, 2005, the Tribune informed the 19 employees of City News Service that their jobs were being eliminated as part of cost-cutting measures going on throughout the Tribune Company.

Though differing with Whistler on several points, including his insistence that poetry was a higher form of art than painting, Oscar Wilde was generous in his praise and hailed the lecture a masterpiece: " not merely for its clever satire and amusing jests … but for the pure and perfect beauty of many of its passages.

Though Richard Jewell was hailed as a hero for his role in discovering the bomb and moving spectators to safety, four days after the bombing, and shortly after a brief, mistaken detainment of two juvenile persons of interest at the Kensington MARTA station, news organizations reported that Jewell was considered a potential suspect in the bombing.

Though he has received criticism for never staying in any one place for very long, Brown is hailed as one of basketball's greatest teachers, and is well known for turning losers into winners.

Though this has been refuted by the Oxford dictionary and hailed as " nothing apart from local folklore ... after all, the phrase isn't ' a local Ashbourne '.

Though hailed as a hero by the villagers for ridding them of Kryton, and finally achieving some of the glory and acclaim he had always wanted, he then has to deal with the consequences and grief of knowing he took a human life, even if the man he killed was evil and arguably deserved his fate.

Though she was hailed as " the first lady of Motown ", Wells was technically Motown's third female signed act: Claudette Rogers of Motown's first star group The Miracles, has been referred to by Berry Gordy as " the first lady of Motown Records " due to her being signed as a member of the group, and in late 1959 Detroit blues-gospel singer Mable John signed to the then-fledging label a year prior to Wells ' arrival.

Though the Merediths were Anglo-Irish, his paternal grandmother was from a prominent Catholic family in Ireland, and as such the Catholic population in Ontario had initially hailed Meredith as one of their own.

Though critically hailed, Hu's later films were ostensibly less successful than his first two films.

Though hailed as a great success in the 1970s, the movement lost momentum during the 1980s as economic situation and political environment in South Korea changed rapidly.

Though he was a Hindu monk and was hailed as the first Hindu missionary in modern times, he exhorted his followers to be true to their faith but respect all religions of the world as his Guru Sri Ramakrishna had taught that all religions are pathways to God.

Though not a critical success, it was a box office favorite, and De Carlo was hailed as an up-and-coming star.

Though the album was praised by critics as " fresher and more immediate than has been in a long time ," hailed for " strong " music and songwriting and nominated for a Grammy, fans clearly rejected the album's alt-rock, mid-tempo feel.

Though hailed as national heroes, Paulding and the others did see their reputations impugned by some.

Though the general strike collapsed because labor leadership viewed it as a misguided tactic from the start, Mayor Hanson took credit for ending the five-day strike and was hailed by the press.

Though a writer from Physics World hailed it as “ brilliant theatre ,” a Charles Spencer, of the Daily Telegraph, wrote, “ I felt that my brain was being stretched to breaking point -- well beyond breaking point, in fact .”

Though the local newspapers hailed him as a returning war hero, the Continental Congress was less than pleased with his disobedience to orders and his loss of his original commission, which had been confiscated by the French during his brief stay in their prison.

Though hailed by Thomas Carlyle as “ the writer's best book ” and despite its commercial success, initial critical reactions to The Conduct Of Life were mixed at best.

Though many hailed it as an important step for the development of club basketball in the Balkans region, many others felt that it brings no new quality and that it is not worth dismantling three domestic leagues.

Though widely hailed as the wonder of the age, the 1858 cable failed after only about a month of fitful service, a victim of hasty manufacture and the excessive signaling voltages used by Whitehouse.

Though obviously talented at the piano, Ravel demonstrated a preference for composing.

Though he attracted much attention during his life for his irascible, aggressive personality, editorship of famous periodicals, and friendship with the talented and famous, he is remembered mainly for his multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves, which was banned in countries around the world for its sexual explicitness.

Though at times done in by his own despotic tendencies, Justinian was a talented and perceptive ruler who succeeded in improving the standing of the Byzantine Empire.

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.

Though thought of in the early stages of his career as only " a moderately talented player ", at one point losing his Test place to his brother Mark, Waugh went on to become one of the leading batsmen of his time.

Though a talented musician, Ray's personal life is a shambles.

Though interested ( and talented ) in physics and mathematics, Jacob was horrified at the prospect of spending two additional years in " an even more draconian regime " to prepare for higher study at the Polytechnique.

Though Montana was a talented player, under Notre Dame policy in 1974 freshmen were not permitted to practice with or play on the varsity team, and consequently Montana played only in a few freshman team games.

Though he has become famous for recording his own compositions in a modern style, he is also able to perform all the " standards " of the traditional típico repertoire and is a talented, jazzy improviser.

Though pretty and talented, Mary was not a great success.

Though a very talented actor and a prominent star of the 1950s and 1960s in Bollywood, he often took on roles of tragic musicians in the movies.

Though she was once overshadowed by her popular brother, critical opinion now tends to view Gwen as the more talented of the two.

Though only and barely, he emerged as a talented striker, helping to define the modern role of target man.

Though Amber was clearly the more talented of the two, she is named first runner up to Rebecca, with Leslie Miller, a ditzy, whorish, but sweet cheerleader for the Mount Rose Muskies, coming in third.

Though she was talented at a number of sports, she settled on cross-country skiing.

Though artistically talented, the liberal-minded Laney is oblivious to popular fashion and prefers to focus her artworks on darker subjects inspired by her interest in world affairs.

Though highly talented, she sometimes struggled with her place in both society and the field.

Though the draft produced talented players such as Shawn Kemp, Glen Rice, Sean Elliott, Nick Anderson, Dana Barros, Tim Hardaway, Cliff Robinson, B. J.

Though these films were weak in the production sector, French cinema did create a high proportion of influential films largely due to the talented people in the industry in the 1930s who were working on them.

Though he highly praised the film's special effects as being " sharp and impactful without being at all obtrusive ", and noted the film had a talented cast, he heavily panned the story for being unrealistic and lacking genuineness.

Though not excluded from commerce as is often thought, the talented among the Canadiens preferred to pursue gentlemen's professions of the Ancien Régime ; remaining on their Seigneuries or entering law, politics and the Church.

Though they're apparently talented when it comes to coding and creating video games ( proven in a strip where it's mentioned that their games usually get good reviews ), they spend more time creating ripoffs of established franchises or other schemes to make a quick buck.

Though she is a talented student and officer at the Imperial Academy, she believes she is continually passed over for promotion simply because of her gender.

Though he was talented in writing essays, he objected to the conventional form of the essay which was required in every exam at that time.