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Though most of these laws have been relaxed or repealed in most states, they are still strictly enforced in some other states.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 there was much argument in the past, it is now generally accepted that brochs were roofed, probably with a conical timber framed roof covered with a locally sourced thatch.

Though Altha is a small community there are several spots that are well known locally.

Though organized locally by organizations all over the United States, there are two main youth soccer organizations working nationwide through affiliated local associations.

Though the nuances of appropriate technology vary between fields and applications, it is generally recognized as encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally controlled.

Though locally produced, the programs are also presented by hosts which are not associated in any way with the station's newsroom, or by a host who formerly anchored a station's newscasts and may be looking for an easier and less harried work schedule.

Though locally Bamford is described as being in the Hope Valley, it is technically in the Upper Derwent Valley.

Though no written account of this particular detail of Coote's attack on Wicklow is available, a small laneway, locally referred to as " Melancholy Lane ", is said to have been where this event took place.

Though the highway is commonly known as " US 311 " throughout the state, the highway does have other known names it uses locally in areas.

Though all those mountains cover a greater area than the plains, these are the most specific feature of the province, and locally, the word Gilan often refers to the plain areas or particularly to the central plain.

Though morning hours feature a locally produced news-and-comment program featuring Rosemary Chalmers, daytime hours are dominated by nationally known conservative Rush Limbaugh and local conservatives Dr. Corey Gold ( a former dentist ), and Charlie Freedman.

Though the pass was locally known in antiquity, it was not generally used until the early 13th century because it involved fording the turbulent Reuss, swollen with snowmelt during the early summer, in the narrow steep-sided Schöllenen Gorge ( the Schöllenenschlucht ), below Andermatt.

Though as a competitor he distinguished himself locally, winning both the Richmond City Championship and the Country Club of Virginia Championship many times and making many nearly successful campaigns for the Virginia State Championship, it was in the administration of golf organizations, running golf competitions, and writing and applying the rules of golf that he made his mark on the sport.

Though the listening area was limited only to RPI's freshman dorms, the station soon gained the WRPI moniker locally, and gradually added more equipment from donations and war surplus.

Though this office owned no imperium, meaning no lictors for protection, they were allowed to wear the toga praetexta.

Though the building is owned by Geneva, it is only being used for some music practice rooms.

Though less than 3 % of Native Americans owned slaves, divisions grew among the Native Americans over slavery.

Though less than 3 % of Native Americans owned slaves, bondage created destructive cleavages among those who were slaveholders.

Though the common wisdom is that a serf owned " only his belly " — even his clothes were the property, in law, of his lord — a serf might still accumulate personal property and wealth, and some serfs became wealthier than their free neighbours, although this was rare.

Though much of the area ( and the term ) is owned by a single developer, many of Beaufort's commercial properties and administrative uses have moved to this area.

Though a farmer, he also owned a mercantile business.

Though his father owned a small tea trading business in Taizhou, the family was relatively poor.

Though located in Hattingen, it is owned by Bochum and has a significant history.

Though the channel is owned by another subsidiary company operated as a joint venture, Lifetime and its cable networks remain under the co-ownership of The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation, though NBC Universal became partial owner of the Lifetime channels as well since NBCU already was a part owner of A & E Television Networks.

Though MBNA Canada Bank is not in any financial trouble, FIA Card Services ( owned by Bank of America Corporation ) is gradually scaling back its international credit operations, with eventual plans of a total removal from international credit management.

Though not overtly symbolic, this painting was owned by Cardinal Federico Borromeo and may have been appreciated for both religious and aesthetic reasons.

Though the land is owned by the Lower Colorado River Authority, it is leased to Travis County, whose Parks Department has administered the park since 1985.

Though dzi beads were not produced in ancient Tibet, but by an unknown culture, most ancient dzi beads are owned by Tibetans.

Though gentrification is sometimes cited as a reason for flight of poorer and non-white residents, the neighborhood has maintained racial and income diversity due to a large number of subsidized, publicly owned, or otherwise low-income housing units and a homeless shelter.

Though finances were not an immediate concern — the Kingston Trio partners Werber, Shane and Reynolds still owned an office building, a restaurant, other commercial real estate, and a variety of other lucrative investments — Shane wanted to return to a group environment and in 1969 secured permission from his partners to use the mutually-owned group name for another band, with Reynolds and Werber insisting only that Shane's group be musically as accomplished as its predecessors and that Shane append " new " to the band's title.

Though recently demolished, Fujiidera Stadium was owned and used by the now renamed Kintetsu Buffaloes, a Japanese baseball team with a large fan base in Osaka.

Though The Lucy Show was still hugely popular during the previous ( 1967 – 68 ) season, finishing in the top five of the ratings ( at # 2 ), Ball opted to end that series at the end of that season and create a new show, as she had just sold Desilu Productions ( which owned and produced The Lucy Show ), to Gulf + Western.

Though REI is owned by its membership and the board ostensibly serves at the members pleasure, there is no path to board membership without the approval of the Board Nomination and Governance Committee.

Though the XIT was the largest and one of the best known of the cattle ranches, the JA Ranch to its east covered portions of six counties, and more than 130 years after its founding by Charles Goodnight and John George Adair, the JA remains a working ranch owned by the Adair heirs.

Though they did not immediately continue working on the franchise ( Sierra Entertainment, the game's publisher, owned the rights ), the game did have a spin-off, Homeworld: Cataclysm, developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by Sierra.

Though the stadium is owned by the state of Louisiana, the New Orleans Saints ' lease gives the team the authority to sell the rights.

Though the CANA congregations, including the departing Truro, and their clergy decided to disaffiliate with the Episcopal Church in America ( TEC ) and unite with another demonitation, CANA, they sought to retain the historic church, meeting facilities and other property of the Episcopal Church, and claimed that they owned the facilities as congregations affiliated with the global Anglican communion, albeit under a different " branch ".

Though he has since sold the radio station, the car dealership is still owned by his family.