Though the sales gains these two dealers are experiencing are above average for their business, farm equipment sales are climbing in most rural areas.

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 nondescript in most amateur telescopes, it presents bright clusters of young stars and many dark dust lanes in photographs.

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 the name Area 51 is used in official Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documentation, other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport.

Though most of the early Waldorf schools were teacher-founded, the schools today are usually initiated and later supported by an active parent community.

Though the Lind was not the first it was the most practical and best known anemometer of this type.

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 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Though most of these laws have been relaxed or repealed in most states, they are still strictly enforced in some other states.

Though most BBS software had been written in BASIC or Pascal ( with some low-level routines written in assembly language ), the C language was starting to gain popularity.

Though this enzyme is the most prolific creator of organic bromides by living organisms, other bromoperoxidases exist in nature that do not use vanadium.

Though most modern vendors serve only the bigger 1 / 4 " pearls, they still use " pearl tea " as the name.

Though Oceania's Ministry of Truth, Ministry of Plenty, and Ministry of Peace each have names with meanings deliberately opposite to their real purpose, the Ministry of Love is perhaps the most straightforward: " rehabilitated thought criminals " leave the Ministry as loyal subjects who have been brainwashed into genuinely loving Big Brother.

Though most of the Paronomasia is lost in translation, it is the equivalent of ‘ Ashdod shall be but ashes ,’ where the fate of the city matches its name.

Though no significant damage was reported to most of the few Berkeley buildings of the time, the 1868 quake did destroy the vulnerable adobe home of Domingo Peralta in north Berkeley.

Though cave wildlife may not always be immediately visible, it is typically nonetheless present in most caves.

Though celebrities come from many different working fields, most celebrities are typically associated with individuals that come from the fields of sports and entertainment or a person who is a public figure in that is commonly recognizable in mass media.

Though glamor and wealth certainly plays a role for only famous celebrities, most people in the sports and entertainments sphere, be it music, film, television, radio, modelling, comedy, literature etc.

Though nowadays most cardinals are also bishops, the term Cardinal bishops only refers to the cardinals that are titular bishops of one of the " suburbicarian " sees.

Though the most widely used map of " The Tube ," it preserves little of reality: it varies scale constantly and abruptly, it straightens curved tracks, and it contorts directions.

Though there are several methods for doing so, cDNA is most often synthesized from mature ( fully spliced ) mRNA using the enzyme reverse transcriptase.

Though early on targets were trees or fence posts in the woods, now courses are being cut out and under utilized parts of parks, schools, and private land are being used to make some of the most challenging and strategic courses around.

Though the term today is used almost exclusively for ancient warships, modern historians also refer to medieval and early modern galleys with three banks of oars per side as triremes.

Though each and every state chartered bank issued its own redeemable currency, because of its denomination in US dollars, each bank's currency was nominally the same as any other banks currency.

Though state banks were no longer allowed to issue notes, local bankers took advantage of less strict capital requirements ($ 10, 000 for state banks vs. $ 50, 000-200, 000 for national banks ) and opened new branches en masse.

Though the early tracks of settlements did show that the early residents of Arnhem descended from the forests on the hills, Arnhem was not built on the banks of the river Rhine, but a little higher along the Sint-Jansbeek.

Though almost all video cameras fit this definition, the term is most often applied to those used for surveillance in areas that may need monitoring such as banks, casinos, airports, military installations, and convenience stores.

Though it stood on the banks of the Yellowstone River only a couple of miles from the heart of present day Downtown Billings, the city of Billings never built on the land where Coulson once stood.

Though the law, by its language, was generally applicable to all banks not chartered in Maryland, the Second Bank of the United States was the only out-of-state bank then existing in Maryland, and the law was recognized in the court's opinion as having specifically targeted the U. S. Bank.

Though water levels rose once again in the early medieval period, by this time artificial banks protected the coastal settlements and the interior from further deposits of marine silts, though peats continued to develop in the freshwater wetlands of the interior fens.

Though the research proved to team owners that the move was a sensible decision, the banks were not impressed.

Though subsequently the territory passed to the Dukes of Burgundy, Hesdin remained one of a handful of French strongholds, until in 1553 Emperor Charles V ordered the utter destruction of the old fortified town on a rise of ground and built the present town the following year, some from the original site, on the banks of the Canche.

Though as has happened with many towns of a similar size a lot of shops have given way to business such as banks, building societies and travel agents

( Though it is the most common authentication method used by online banks.

Though the latter decision was unanimous, Cardozo did not join the opinion for the Court ( written by Chief Justice Hughes, and joined by Brandeis, Roberts, and the Four Horsemen ), and wrote a separate concurrence, joined by Stone, to state the view of why the delegated power of legislation in the code at issue was " not canalized within banks that keep it from overflowing.

Though most of the trail is along the banks of the Pindari River, the river is mostly hidden until after Khati.

Though a pious Shi ' ite Muslim, he was also, like many Indian musicians, regardless of religion, a devotee of Saraswati, the Hindu Goddess of wisdom and arts, and often played at Hindu temples, including the famous Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi, on the banks of the river Ganges.

Though stabbed and left at the banks of the Araxes, she survived and was found by some shepherds.

Though the stream is hardly the size generally designated a river, local boosterism in the late 19th century insisted that any stream holding scheduled commercial transport should be so called ; steamboat service to a local amusement park along its banks barely qualified, but the designation caught on.

Though upon the banks of the Scheldt, and having before him both the Duke of York and the Prince of Coburg, Kilmaine, with only twenty-four thousand ill-appointed troops, he dared not attempt to attack them.

Though the FDIC's action was considered precipitous by many, and its application of policies uneven, arbitrary and capricious — when FDIC later began applying its policies with similar severity to east coast banks, the politicians stepped in to stop them — the general political tide at the time was flowing against financial institutions in the southwest which had become concentrated first in the oil patch, and then in real estate.

Though in the mountainous Northern Oregon Coast Range, the Nehalem Highway itself is just winding, as it follows the banks of the Nehalem River all the way to Jewell, passing through Vernonia and Pittsburg.

Though such banks offer FDIC-insured deposits and are subject to FDIC and state regulator oversight, a debate exists to allow parent companies such as Wal-Mart to remain unregulated by the financial regulators.