Though some view the hat as strange and immature, Jughead considers it a good luck charm and when it is taken from him, misfortune comes his way.

Though Kaye ( 1991 ) would exclude English-speakers in the context of a Yeshiva, studying the Talmud, from code-switching where he considers the terms " Yiddish English " or " Yiddishized English " ("= Yinglish ") may be more appropriate.

Though Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum by Adam of Bremen considers Hemming and Gudfred to be " patruelis ", paternal cousins.

Though he spends only one month a year in Colombia, he considers himself the " most Colombian artist living " due to his insulation from the international trends of the art world.

* Mrs. Trottville – She is Fatty's mother and Fatty simply adores her. She is very lenient with him which Mrs. Hilton doesn't approve of. Unlike the Hiltons she does not take Mr. Goon seriously and even considers him a nuisance. It is made out in the books that she enjoys going out with her husband for bridge parties. Though she does not like the children falling into adventure as she considers it dangerous she does not interfere much.

Though Spider initially considers Callahan to be the lesser evil when compared to " The Beast ", his investigation into Callahan's past and his ties with a right-wing hate group ( who provided him with a genetically cloned Vice President ) ultimately leads to the murder of Vita Severn, the Smiler's politically naive campaign manager, to whom Spider had taken a rare liking.

Though technically still a member, Whitesides claims that she " burst " out of the Church and her marriage in 1993, and now considers herself a practitioner of Native American philosophies.

Though he sometimes feels " regret " about his earliest murders — he considers the murder of Dickie Greenleaf " a youthful, dreadful mistake ", and that of Freddie Miles " stupid " and " unnecessary " — he can't remember the number of his victims.

Though the mainstream pop market considers the team a one-hit wonder for " It's Raining Men " ( though the song did not make the Top 40 in the US, peaking at # 46 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), they recorded three songs which peaked at # 2 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart under the " Two Tons o ' Fun " name: " Earth Can Be Just Like Heaven " ( 1980 ); " Just Us " ( 1980 and also made # 29 on the US R & B chart ); and the Hi-NRG song " I Got the Feeling " in 1981.

Though his work with bass and guitar has been praised by some critics, Rutherford has described his playing as average and said that he considers himself a songwriter first and foremost.

Though famous for fiction, Harrison considers himself first and foremost a poet.

Though he considers himself retired, he accepts students for the purpose of passing on his understanding of Nim Lik to ensure its survival.

Though Forché is sometimes described as a political poet, she considers herself a poet who is politically engaged.

Though she considers herself dignified and ladylike, she's prone to throwing tantrums and acting childish when she's excited.

Though the term " bioidentical " has been used in FDA packaging inserts since before 1998, the FDA considers " BHRT " to be a marketing term and does not recognize its use.

Though she has performed in many facets of the adult entertainment field, she considers stripping her favorite venue.

Though hers have disabled missiles, floored large attackers and assaulted the ship and all its contents, Catalina considers her powers to be " nothing " compared to the really skilled Saturnians who are known to shatter buildings with a single sonic blast.

Though Mandodari considers Sita inferior to her in beauty and ancestry, Mandodari acknowledges Sita's devotion to Rama and compares her to goddesses like Sachi and Rohini.

Though most RAM employees consider themselves to be good, much of the solar system considers the organization to be corrupt and evil.

Though he coined the term " polyartist " to characterize people who excel at two or more nonadjacent arts, he considers that, since nearly all his creative work incorporates language or literary forms, it represents Writing reflecting polyartistry.

Though she considers returning to New York for school, she decides to go to Boston instead to attend the fictional Boston Bay College with Jack.

Though the Ptolemaic period Egyptian historian Manetho considers him the sole member of the Twenty-fourth dynasty, modern scholars include his father Tefnakht in that dynasty.

Though technically referred to as a special operations force, COMSUBIN is somewhat different in that it considers itself a naval specialisation.

Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

Though there is obviously nothing new about these techniques, they do challenge the worker's skill to articulate them precisely on the spot and on the basis of quick and accurate diagnostic assessments.

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 Steiner saw that spiritual vision itself is difficult for others to achieve, he recommended open-mindedly exploring and rationally testing the results of such research ; he also urged others to follow a spiritual training that would allow them directly to apply the methods he used eventually to achieve comparable results.

Though most of the ministries are seated in Berlin, some of them, as well as some minor departments, are seated in Bonn, the former capital of West Germany.

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 witnesses against them were numerous, the evidence cited was nearly all hearsay or outright fabrications.

Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland and to unite them under a tightly centralized Legalist government seated at Xianyang ( close to modern Xi ' an ).

Though both policies are presented in the Honor Code Handbook given to new members of the Caltech Community, some undergraduates regard them as a slight against the Honor Code and the implicit trust and respect it represents within the community.

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

Though belonging to the same Semitic ethnic group, they are to be differentiated from the Aramean stock ; and the Assyrian king Sennacherib, for example, is careful in his inscriptions to distinguish them.

Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.

Though physical confrontations between the two species are usually dominated by the larger wolves, coyotes have been known to attack wolves if they outnumber them.

Though conditions have improved somewhat over the past few years, the Khadem are still stereotyped by mainstream Yemenese society, considering them lowly, dirty, ill-mannered, immoral and untouchables.

Though he maintains his distaste for abortions, he continues Dr. Larch's legacy of honoring the choice of his patients, and he dreams of the day when abortions are free, legal, and safe, so he'll no longer feel obliged to offer them.

Though both substances are high explosives, there is little similarity between them.

Though it is unlikely that she had plotted with the rebels, some of them were known to have approached her.

Though both men professed ' sadness ' at having to do this, private conversations and letters show them both perfectly happy to sacrifice their " blue-eyed German ".

Though he had many children, none of them would ever become emperor.

Though unable to directly write policies or carry them through to the government, Roland was able to influence her political allies and thus promote her political agenda.

Though closely linked to them, he was never actually a member of the brotherhood itself.

Though gematria is most often used to calculate the values of individual words, psukim ( Biblical verses ), Talmudical aphorisms, sentences from the standard Jewish prayers, personal, angelic and Godly names, and other religiously significant material, Kabbalists use them often for arbitrary phrases and, occasionally, for various languages.

Though many of the Philippine languages do not have a fully codified grammar, most of them follow the verb aspects that are demonstrated by Filipino or Tagalog.

Though the Quakers lost influence after the Glorious Revolution, which deposed James II, the Act of Toleration 1689 put an end to the uniformity laws under which Quakers had been persecuted, permitting them to assemble freely.