Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.

Though the period of his caliphate was not long, it included successful invasions of the two most powerful empires of the time, a remarkable achievement in its own right.

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

Though Guam is a United States territory, some U. S. long distance plans and courier services list Guam as an international location.

Though early birth puts the tiny newborn marsupial at a greater environmental risk, it significantly reduces the dangers associated with long pregnancies, as there is no need to carry a large fetus to full-term in bad seasons.

Though set long after his time frame for the life of " Merlin Ambrosius ", he tries to assert the characters are the same with references to King Arthur and his death as told in the Historia Regum Britanniae.

Though he never attended college, Webster's father was intellectually curious and prized education ; his mother spent long hours teaching Noah and his siblings spelling, mathematics and music.

Though Australia has a small population, the sheer number of venues that bands could play in, mainly along the Eastern coast, meant that a band could tour extensively, often playing every night for long periods.

Though the original rules of Reversi were such that each player was limited to using no more than half of the disks ( those in possession at the start ), this rule has long been out of common practice ; and, if using a physical board and pieces, the player whose turn it is simply retrieves a disk that is in possession of the opponent as needed.

Though the code of chivalry crucial to later continental romances dealing with the Round Table is mostly absent from the earlier Welsh material, some passages of Culhwch and Olwen seem to prefigure it, for instance when Arthur explains the ethos of his court, saying " e are nobles as long as we are sought out: the greater the bounty we may give, the greater our nobility, fame and honour.

Though all serials have long switched to being taped, extensive post production work and multiple takes, while possible, are not feasible due to the tight taping schedules and low budgets.

Though steel had been produced by various inefficient methods long before the Renaissance, its use became more common after more efficient production methods were devised in the 17th century.

Though singular they is widespread in everyday English and has a long history of usage, debate continues about its acceptability.

Though the first submersible vehicles were tools for exploring under water, it did not take long for inventors to recognize their military potential.

Though its contract with the University of California was initially intended to be temporary, the relationship was maintained long after the war.

* Lord Longford, Peace by Ordeal ( Though long out of print, it is available in libraries )

Though the qilin (), a creature in Chinese mythology, is sometimes called " the Chinese unicorn ", it is a hybrid animal that looks less unicorn than chimera, with the body of a deer, the head of a lion, green scales and a long forwardly-curved horn.

Though the term is commonly used to refer to spinning or spin-cast rods and tackle, fly rods in smaller line weights ( size # 0-# 3 ) have also long been utilized for ultra-light fishing, as well as to protect the thin-diameter, lightweight end section of leader, or tippet, used in this type of angling.

By producing analgesia and sedation, opioids may be appropriate in carefully selected patients with pain-associated insomnia. Though, dependence on opioids can lead to suffering from long time disturbance in sleep.

Though they are widely distributed throughout the Pacific, many breadfruit hybrids and cultivars are seedless or otherwise biologically incapable of naturally dispersing long distances.

Though the colors vary from school to school, the normal uniform for boys is shorts or long pants in the specified color and material, with a short-sleeved shirt ( often white ) while girls ' uniforms include pinafores or skirts, with blouses and shorts underneath.

Though tags up to a half-inch long have been seen, they are typically the size of a grain of rice.

Though the settlement became known as Ludlow, Fouke le Fitz Waryn a 13th-century poem states that it was called Dinham " for a very long time ".

Though there is no archaeological evidence of it, Knossos may well have had a port at the site of Heraklion as long ago as 2000 BC.

* 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.

Though Chrétien ’ s account is the earliest and most influential of all Grail texts, it was in the work of Robert de Boron that the Grail truly became the " Holy Grail " and assumed the form most familiar to modern readers.

Though it was published almost ten years before Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy and takes place in a different version of the future, Icehenge contains elements that should be familiar to readers of the Mars series.

Though Wise worked only as editor on Citizen Kane, it is likely that while working on the film he became familiar with the optical printer techniques employed by Linwood Dunn, inventor of the practical optical printer, to produce effects for Citizen Kane such as the image projected in the broken snowglobe which falls from Kane's hand as he dies.

Though some television series were already being filmed in Hollywood, most used the single-camera format familiar from movies, with a laugh track added to comedies to simulate audience response.

Though not familiar stars in 1959, the cast quickly became favorites of the first television generation.

Though incredibly similar to the familiar single-use cameras today, Photo-Pac failed to make a permanent impression on the market.

Though the signs now seem as familiar as the alphabet or the Hindu-Arabic numerals, they are not of great antiquity.

Though dark waters flow underneath his realm, its surface is hot and dry as the sands of Pelion, and those familiar with the realm of Nephythys there will see Ankhwugat as a twisted reflection of that one.

A. H. Weiler, film critic for The New York Times, wrote, " Though The Killing is composed of familiar ingredients and it calls for fuller explanations, it evolves as a fairly diverting melodrama.

The critical consensus was summed up as, " Though the movie treads familiar ground in the heist / caper genre, DeNiro, Norton, and Brando make the movie worth watching.

Though Dickens deplored the cost, the building is one of the most familiar landmarks of London.

Though there are familiar faces that serve as important characters in Xenosaga, others are more like self-parodies, so we don't really want Xenogears fans to overreact.

Though not without its critics — gentrification is still controversial, and often results in familiar patterns of poorer residents being priced out of urban areas into suburbs or more depressed areas of cities — urban renewal in its present form is generally regarded as a great improvement over the policies of the middle part of the 20th century.

Though showing herself a capable writer and poetess, Táhirih was forced to comply with familiar pressure and at the age of fourteen she was married to her cousin Muhammad Baraghani the son of her uncle.

Though he became a law clerk after his graduation, making as much in a month of radio as he did in a year of clerking convinced him to make broadcasting his career, changing his surname and becoming a familiar voice on all three major radio networks by 1940.

Though one must be careful about how much can be described of the original work, his apparent resistance to adding to his sources is noteworthy, as is the lack of moralising he introduces to those materials he is not familiar with.

Though this is most likely the real source of the name, the spelling " Sixes " was probably used by miners drawn to the Oregon gold rush who were familiar with the Chinook word " sikhs ".

Though there have been attempts to answer some of the objections to Handel's theory, quantum 1 / f noise is considered to be a non-existent effect by the majority of scientists that are familiar with its theory.

Though Pygmalion is the Greek version of the Phoenician royal name Pumayyaton, he is most familiar from Ovid's Metamorphoses, X, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.

Though ecclesiastical lavabos are ordinarily of metal, a familiar lavabo consists of a terra cotta tank with a faucet attached and a small basin below it.

Though never a star, she was a familiar face both on stage and screen.

Though the Justices who dissented from the remedial holding called this standard unworkable, the Court reasoned that a standard of " reasonableness " was familiar from other areas of the law.

Though not specifically stated in the treaty, the two imperial families used familiar terms with one another, with the Khitan Liao holding the status of being elder, which was of great symbolic importance in Chinese culture and somewhat humiliating to the Chinese.

Though the Wheelers claimed never to have been to Harmony, they seemed to be quite familiar with the town and its residents.