Though the band's drug use included cocaine, heroin, LSD and many others, Cris ' use of heroin and crack cocaine became so bad he rarely left his house except to obtain more drugs.

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 neither side intended to start a nuclear war, and, in fact, were extremely concerned about the possibility of it, neither side adopted strategies to calm things down, so sure were they of their adversaries ' bad faith.

Though a clever and well-educated man and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, he failed at the bar due to his bad temper.

Though he had a very bad opinion of Marius, he consented to Marius ' return upon understanding that Marius came at Cinna's request and not of his own accord.

Though the word " omen " is usually devoid of reference to the change's nature, hence being possibly either " good " or " bad ," the term is more often used in a foreboding sense, as with the word " ominous ".

Though they found the little vessel was in a bad state when they were on the north-west coast, and though serious danger was escaped until they were close to home, they were nearly wrecked off Botany Bay.

Though Rupert and others felt this was a bad idea, they went through with it anyway, purposely allowing Morgan to win.

Though he had many friends, he was on bad terms with some daimyo that were known as good warriors, including Hideyoshi's relatives Fukushima Masanori and Katō Kiyomasa.

Though the news saddens us as much as we are sure it does you, we feel it is important to reassure everyone that things ended amicably and there is no bad feelings between anyone concerned.

Though George creates new shows, including the kid-friendly but poorly named " Uncle Nutzy's Clubhouse " which he hosts, the workload and bad debt of the station get to him.

Though maybe not seen as an enemy, he is portrayed as more of a bad influence toward Nemo which eventually ends up with Flip influencing Nemo to opening the forbidden door which releases the Nightmare King.

Though it offered regular " public " attendance, this left hundreds of regular, long-standing press attendees from magazines and newspapers around the world with bad feelings toward the show.

Though the arrangement protected sharecroppers from the negative effects of a bad crop, many sharecroppers ( both black and white ) were economically confined to serf-like conditions of poverty.

Though it has been suggested that soy consumption is associated with a reduction in low-density lipoprotein (" bad cholesterol ") and triglycerides, a 2006 study of a decade of soy protein consumption found no association between soy intake and health benefits such as cardiovascular health or cancer rates, and no benefit for women undergoing menopause.

Though hesitant to loan anyone money because of a bad experience with her first serious boyfriend, Chance agrees to give him the money for playing along with her charade for her mother.

Though, road conditions on the way to the village Ban Chom Ong Thai ( from where it is possible to get to the cave marching about an hour ) are very bad, especially in the rainy season.

Though the Count referred to him as a " rather bad servant ," he was pleased enough with Figaro to write him a recommendation to the Bureau in Madrid, where he was given a job as an assistant veterinary surgeon, much to his disappointment.

Though his potential was appreciated by SNL creator / producer Lorne Michaels, Mohr was impatient with his progression to full cast member, and left the show on bad terms.

Though a bad segment from the investors point of view millions of visitors are enjoying Sega's arcades each year and surely the Amusement Machines segment could not make its huge profits without those facilities.

Though his salvage business never quite broke even during the course of the salvage of the German fleet ( he was ten thousand pounds out of pocket at the sale of his interests ), his scrap metal business offset the loss by turning considerable profit ; whilst Cox was frequently assumed to be a poor businessman who did not understand business efficiency, it is also true that he suffered from an astonishing amount of bad luck in the varying degrees of difficulty of ship salvage that ensures that no two lifts are ever the same.

Though the incarceration was brief, Sherira was now in very bad health.

Though not always the case, in professional wrestling, the color commentator is usually a " heel sympathizer " ( or a supporter of the " bad guys ") as opposed to the play-by-play announcer, who is more or less the " voice of the fans " as well as supporters of the " good guys " ( or babyfaces ).

Though humans cannot generally tell individual crows apart, crows have been shown to have the ability to visually recognize individual humans, and to transmit information about " bad " humans by squawking.

Though Walter Ulbricht, by grace of Soviet tanks, may be head man in East Germany, that does not give him any right to usurp the government of East Berlin or to absorb that semi-city into the Soviet zone.

Though Watson carefully ignored the man, he could not deny his presence.

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

Though frank in places, Gaskell was selective about which details she revealed ; she suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Heger, a married man, as being too much of an affront to contemporary morals and source of distress to Charlotte's still-living father, husband and friends.

Though representing himself as a spokesman for the common man, he often appeared out of place with real working people.

Though lies seem to present Marlow as a depraved hypocrite, Conrad intends them to show an enlightened and willful man who desires to undo the darkness caused by others.

Though his name was then a household word ( as was " existentialism " during the tumultuous 1960s ), Sartre remained a simple man with few possessions, actively committed to causes until the end of his life, such as the May 1968 strikes in Paris during the summer of 1968 during which he was arrested for civil disobedience.

Though there is a popular myth that one must be a 40 year old Jewish man, and learned in the Talmud before one is allowed to delve into Kabbalah, Chaim Vital says exactly the opposite in his introduction to Eitz Chaim.

Though his earliest publications date from his mid-twenties, Valéry did not become a full-time writer until 1920, when the man for whom he worked as private secretary, a former chief executive of the Havas news agency, Edouard Lebey, died of Parkinson's disease.

Unready to inherit the throne, Nicholas reputedly said, " I am not ready to be Tsar ...." Though an intelligent and kind-hearted man, lacking any preparation to rule, he continued his father's harsh polices.

Though in some ways unsuccessful in his forays in England, he was brushed aside by the " Iron Duke " ( Duke of Wellington ), the then British Foreign Secretary, and reported bitterly to Jardine of being insulted by an arrogant and stupid man.

Though it has been stated that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a " one-opera man " who could never repeat his first success, this is inaccurate.

Though in 1813 she at last permitted him to live with her, the arrangement soon failed: a year later Johanna asked her son to leave the house following a heated argument between the two of them over Johanna's friendship with her lodger, a younger man named Georg von Gerstenbergk.

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

Though Edgar was not a particularly peaceable man, his reign was a peaceful one.

Though Frowde was by no means an Oxford man and had no social pretensions of being one, he was a sound businessman who was able to strike the magic balance between caution and enterprise.

Though, like all things which God has made, the Yetzer is good: for without it, man would never marry, beget a child, build a house, or trade.

Though Bork claims to believe Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he considered resigning to avoid being " perceived as a man who did the President's bidding to save my job.

Though a peaceful man, he was known to be well-versed in many types of combat ; he and Morticia fenced with foils sometimes.

Though other sources describe the apparently positive blessings he delivers upon the Israelites, he is reviled as a " wicked man " in the major story concerning him.

For example, when speaking of whether or not someone may ever want to marry Katherina, Hortensio says " Though it pass your patience and mine to endure her loud alarums, why man, there be good fellows in the world, and a man could light on them, would take her with all faults and money enough " ( 1. 1. 125 – 128 ).

Though he was not actually defeated, his death in the pass, while on his way back to Toledo, occurred in circumstances which showed that no man could be what he claimed to be — " king of the men of the two religions.

Though the terms of the contract would vary, essentially a free man pledged himself as a bond slave ( nexus ) as surety for a loan.