Though he knew no more about military science and tactics than any other desk officer, he managed to get transferred to the combat forces.

Though his character is broader and more comically rounded than the don, he gives it a firmness and toughness -- a sort of peasant dignity -- too.

Though the Republican legislative candidates won more popular votes, the Democrats won more seats, and the legislature re-elected Douglas to the Senate.

Though the preface initially states Luke ’ s intentions for writing, by closely examining the contents of the work as a whole, scholars have surmised that Luke ’ s purpose is much more complex.

Though some explain Housman's unexpected failure in his final exams as a result of Jackson's rejection, most biographers adduce a variety of reasons, indifference to philosophy, overconfidence in his praeternatural gifts, a contempt for inexact learning, and enjoyment of idling away his time with Jackson, conjoined with news of his father's desperate illness as the more immediate and germane causes.

Though much more expensive than steel, there are now aluminium alloys available that will not corrode in salt water, and an aluminium boat built to similar load carrying standards could be built lighter than steel.

Though a minimum of three bishops participating is desirable ( there are usually several more ) in order to demonstrate collegiality, canonically only one bishop is necessary.

Though Common Lisp is not as popular as some non-Lisp languages, many of its features have made their way into other, more widely used programming languages and systems ( see Greenspun's Tenth Rule ).

Though the Bengals ran it with some success, like the West Coast Offense the scheme became more successful elsewhere, in this case with the rival Pittsburgh Steelers, where LeBeau has served two stints as defensive coordinator.

Though Beaux admired Eakins more and thought his painting skill superior to Sartain's, she preferred the latter's gentle teaching style which promoted no particular aesthetic approach.

Though they wanted a more democratic society, their proposed franchise did not extend to women or to the lowest orders of society.

Though a large body of research exists for this method it is more complex, less intuitive, and not more effective than the ERM method.

Though deists rejected atheism, they often were called " atheists " by more traditional theists.

Though German was spoken in each realm, sharing the same language and culture more often than not pushed Austria-Hungary and Germany apart.

Though direct imaging may become more important in the future, the vast majority of known extrasolar planets have only been detected through indirect methods.

Though some historians have criticised Elizabeth on similar grounds, Raleigh's verdict has more often been judged unfair.

Though more than 99 % of the dry atmosphere is IR transparent ( because the main constituents — N < sub > 2 </ sub >, O < sub > 2 </ sub >, and Ar — are not able to directly absorb or emit infrared radiation ), intermolecular collisions cause the energy absorbed and emitted by the greenhouse gases to be shared with the other, non-IR-active, gases.

Though an excellent opera, it is rarely heard uncut today, as the original score runs more than four hours in performance.

Though Palestrina represents late Renaissance music well, others such as Orlande de Lassus ( a Franco-Flemish composer who also spent some of his early career in Italy ) and William Byrd were arguably more versatile.

Though this has never been proven, many observers in the press and academia believe that the US has not provided convincing answers to several of the more suspicious details surrounding the coup, such as the circumstances under which the US obtained Aristide's purported letter of " resignation " ( as presented by the US ) which, translated from Kreyol, does not actually read as a resignation.

Though it is of more recent vintage ( dated to the 3rd century ) than that with Iolaus, it had themes of mentoring in the ways of a warrior and help finding a wife in the end.

Though followers of Zwingli and Calvin were more severe in their rejection, Lutherans tended to be moderate: many of their parishes displayed statues and crucifixes.

Though it previously held a more eurosceptic stance than is usually articulated by most other green parties in Europe, the party backed the Lisbon Treaty with support from two thirds of the party.

Though geographically surrounded by Indo-European Romance languages, Basque is classified as a language isolate.

Though geographically also located in the northeastern part of China, other provinces such as Hebei are not considered to be a part of " the Northeast ".

Though geographically closer to the Maryland city of Baltimore, the residents are almost equally divided in supporting the Pennsylvania professional sports teams from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Though geographically considered a range of hills, geologically they are a part of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Though geographically contiguous with heartland Russia, Siberia provided both remoteness and a harsh climate.

Though now established as one legal city, Temiskaming Shores is not fully integrated geographically — there exists a noticeable demarcation between New Liskeard / Dymond and Haileybury / North Cobalt.

Though geographically closer to Yamaguchi, the capital of Yamaguchi Prefecture, it is situated in Shimane Prefecture.

Though not technically part of the Kawarthas due to its shallow depths, it is often geographically linked to them.

Though geographically Melanesian, the music of Fiji is more Polynesian in character.

Though these genres were geographically limited, they were modernized and mixed with more mainstream styles, evolving into popular zydeco music by the middle of the century ( Broughton and Kaliss, 558 ).

Though not geographically discrete, they were and are most often found in the three British ' presidency ' towns of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras, now the cities of Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai.

Though it is already an interior town, it is geographically at the center of the province.

Though the provincial seat of government for Palawan, the city itself is one of 38 independent cities within the Philippines not controlled by the province in which it is geographically located and is therefore an independent area located within Palawan.

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 unified in their desire to keep magic alive, the magic practiced by different Traditions are often wildly different and entirely incompatible with one another.

Though by no means a unified movement with a set of shared axioms or methodologies, Post-structuralism emphasizes the ways in which different aspects of a cultural order, from its most banal material details to its most abstract theoretical exponents, determine one another ( rather than espousing a series of strict, uni-directional, cause and effect relationships – see Reductionism – or resorting to Epiphenomenalism ).

Though the Spanish monarchy is independent of the government, it is important that royal speeches are compatible with government foreign policy to project a unified diplomatic effort.

Though Blake was influenced by his grand and mystical cosmic conception, Swedenborg's conventional moral structures and his Manichean view of good and evil led Blake to express a deliberately depolarized and unified vision of the cosmos in which the material world and physical desire are equally part of the divine order, hence, a marriage of heaven and hell.

Though they expected some resistance to his rule, the fragmented Seljuqs were met with continued solidarity amongst the Ismailis, who remained unified under Muhammad ’ s command.

Though regarded by Chinese authors as a single unified polity, some modern scholars suspect that Funan may have been a collection of city-states that sometimes warred with one another and at other times constituted a political unity.

Though treated by Chinese historians as a single unified empire, according to some modern scholars Funan may have been a collection of city-states that sometimes warred with one another and at other times constituted a political unity.

Though it has grown up on an ad hoc basis since the beginning of the twentieth century, from 2007 reforms were put in place to build a unified system with recognised judicial authority, routes of appeal and regulatory supervision.

Though the Porte had more than two decades of peace with Europe, and Russia had faced financial ruin in the Seven Years ' War the peace had fostered division, rebellion, and internal corruption in the Ottoman Empire compounded by the re-emergence of a unified Persian leadership.

Though the IC characterizes itself as a " federation " of its member elements, its overall structure is better characterized as a confederation due to its lack of a well-defined, unified leadership and governance structure.

During the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, all forms of regional culture were suppressed in favor of a unified " Spanish culture ", which was heavily based on Andalusian culture ( Though Franco himself was Galician ).

Though the anti-corporate globalization movements may be viewed as unified, there exists numerous movements.

Though Kublai Khan eventually won the battle against Ariq Boke, the succession war essentially marked the end of the unified Mongol empire.

Though there was no unified government and thus no formal policy towards irredentism, individual militia leaders clashed with Ethiopian troops between 1998 and 2000.

Though he retired in the grade of Master Sergeant ( E-8 ), his retirement pay was calculated using the pay rate he earned during his tenure as SMA, in accordance with 10 USC § 1406 ( i )( 1 ) which dictated that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, commanders of unified combatant commands, and the senior enlisted member of each service ( SMA, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, and Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ) calculate their retired pay at no less than the pay held while serving in one of the aforementioned positions.

Though Pakistan is a Muslim country and its constitution declares Shar ' iah as the law, there is not a unified consensus on what is shariah and what is not.

Though all different in their theories and psychologies, they appear to be unified by their common concern for psyche.

' Though subtle, the result is a neighborhood that feels aesthetically unified.

Though Thihathu eventually built his new capital at Pinya a few miles east inland in 1313, Thihathu's great-grandson Thadominbya, who unified the Sagaing and Pinya kingdoms in September 1364, chose the site of Inwa as his new capital.

Though Sree Muthappan is worshiped as a single deity, it actually represents an integrated or unified form of two gods: Vishnu ( with a fish-shaped crown ) and Shiva ( with a crescent-shaped crown ).

Though all different in their theories and psychologies, they appear to be unified by their common concern for the psyche — the soul.