Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

Though put in rather maudlin terms, Steele's defense of himself has a reasonable basis.

Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

Though the spread of this type of decoration in the Aegean has not yet been precisely determined, it seems to appear first in the Cyclades, which were among the leading exporters of pottery throughout the century.

Though brief, it has a sharp dramatic edge and great poignancy.

Though there has been some avant garde indication that contemporary furniture might go back to the boxy look of the '20's and '40's, two manufacturers chose to take the approach of the sophisticated, but warm look in contemporary.

Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.

Though the subject -- segregation in her native South -- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm her place at the very top of modern American writing.

Though the are has fallen out of use, the hectare is still commonly used to measure land:

Though there was no Bronze Age city on the site, archaeology has detected human activity that is evident from the earliest Iron Age, circa 1100 BC.

Though the U. S. federal government has no official language, English is the common language used by the federal government and is considered the de facto language of the United States because of its widespread use.

Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.

Though wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.

Though cloning is still possible even with digital technologies, the cost of wireless service is so low that the problem has virtually disappeared.

Though Todd's last name has never been mentioned in the series, it was revealed in This Book Sucks.

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Though no doubt also motivated by an affection towards Ruth, in marrying her he has to pay a cost in money and uncertainty.

* " Though the hippopotamus has no sting, the wise man would prefer to be sat upon by the bee.

" Though she claims thousands of followers, mostly in Germany, there has been no verification that any have lived for extended periods without food.

Though much attention has been focused on the security and military aspects of Colombia's situation, the administration also is spending significant time on issues such as expanding international trade, supporting alternate means of development, and reforming Colombia's judicial system.

Though astronomers are not sure what has caused this ring of new stars, some hypothesize that it is from shock waves caused by a bar that is thus far invisible.

Though the Church is prohibited by the Manual from publishing membership figures, the number of branch churches in the United States has fallen steadily since World War II.

" Though at the time considered a disappointing follow-up to the blockbuster Raising Hell, the album has grown in stature.

Though no one doubted Carl's innocence, King Frederick I had grown tired of the composer's pranks.

Though the ice-harvesting industry had grown immensely by the turn of the 20th century, pollution and sewage had begun to creep into natural ice, making it a problem in the metropolitan suburbs.

Though her death did not end his personal influence with George II, who had grown loyal to the Prime Minister during the preceding years, Walpole's domination of government continued to decline.

Though the local area is known for tea cultivation, this crop is no longer grown nor processed in Ooty.

Though the Comics Code Authority had grown more lenient by the late 1960s, and was officially revised starting in 1971, some comic creators were including non-explicit innuendo or otherwise implied in stories that some characters were gay, though often in a negative light.

Though originally a teachers ' college, ISU has grown into a university offering a range of programs at the bachelor, master, and doctoral levels.

Though he was somewhat less influential among younger Hmong-Americans who have grown up primarily in the United States, he generally was considered an influential leader of U. S .- based Hmong, enjoying great loyalty for his position of leadership and respect for his military accomplishments.

Though the city over the century had grown around the River Liffey, its buildings as in many other mediæval centres backed onto the river, often allowing for the dumping of household waste directly into the river, it being a form of collective sewer.

* The prophet of " Though I have seen my head ( grown slightly bald ) brought in upon a platter / I am no prophet-and here's no great matter " ( 81-2 ) is John the Baptist, whose head was delivered to Salome by Herod as a reward for her dancing ( Matthew 14: 1-11, and Oscar Wilde's play Salome ).

Though he had been reluctant to marry her, the king had grown quite fond of his wife, and it is said that he was “ so grieved by mortal illness … that he could neither eat nor sleep ”.

Though initially conceived as party music that was played on daily mixed radio programs and played at parties given by cliquish, Detroit high school clubs, it has grown to be a global phenomenon.

Though initially conceived as party music that was played on daily mixed radio programs and played at parties given by cliquish, Detroit high school clubs, it has grown to be a global phenomenon.

Though few in number, the ranks of the Risen have grown considerably faster in recent years than they have in the past.

Though the empire has grown to include hundreds of thousands of different sentient species and worlds, the Shi ' ar race controls and governs the empire.

Though virtually nothing is known about his childhood or young adulthood, there are vague hints that he may have grown up in a traumatic or emotionally straining environment.

Though in public British leaders continued to point to Singapore as the lynchpin of the Far Eastern defenses, already they had grown concerned that the “ Malay Barrier ” of Malaya, Sumatra and Java could not be held in the event of a Japanese attack.

Though extremely wealthy, Savarone Fontini-Cristi has grown to abhor the Fascist regime of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini.

Though paddy rice and maize are the major crops, other crops include cotton, jowar, sunflower, tomatoes ( most of the tomatoes supplied to Hyderabad are grown here ), chillies, brinjals, bitter gourd, and lot more.

Though the opium poppy is legal for culinary or æsthetic reasons, poppies were once grown as a cash crop by farmers in California, the law of poppy cultivation in the United States is somewhat ambiguous.

Though technically perennials that normally produce the edible flower only during the second and subsequent years, certain varieties of artichoke can be grown from seed as annuals, producing a limited harvest at the end of the first growing season, even in regions where the plants are not normally winter-hardy.

Though bilateral trade has continuously grown, India faces massive trade imbalance heavily in favor of China.

Though the independent stations NBC contacted continued to air programs not shown on WSVN, the network grew increasingly annoyed at having to resort to such an arrangement in what had grown into a major market.

Though Peter is disappointed that she has grown up, Wendy assures him that she has not really changed.