" Though already an apostle, Apollos was open to instruction on a fine point of Christian doctrine.

Though he certainly did not support it ( which he made clear at the time ), he was purposely trying to antagonize the pro-slavery faction of Congress into an open fight on the matter.

Though the influence of his mother's Calvinist religiosity is evident throughout Weber's life and work, and though he maintained a deep, lifelong interest in the study of religions, Weber was open about the fact that he was personally irreligious.

Though the Type A barges were capable of disembarking several medium tanks onto an open beach, this could be accomplished only at low tide when the barges were firmly grounded.

Though slowly, Fictions work because it is a well known fact that people will accept a change in the form of a fiction while they would resist it to the end if the fact is out in the open.

Though the sickle claw did penetrate the abdominal wall, it was unable to tear it open.

Though Mrs. Harding did keep a little red book of those who had offended her, the executive mansion was now once again open to the public, including the annual Easter egg roll.

Though the attack failed, the Dutch in January 1665 allowed their ships to open fire on English warships in the colonies when threatened.

Though Bane assured Gunray that Sidious would compensate him for the loss of his fleet, Gunray demanded that Bane transmit him the data from the Holocron, but Bane had been unable to open it thus far.

Though disputed, the Federal Highway Administration has claimed the section of I-70 through Glenwood Canyon, completed in 1992, was the last piece of the Interstate Highway system, as originally planned, to open to traffic.

Though the EU is still evolving, it already has many attributes of a federal government, such as open internal borders, a directly elected parliament, a court system, an official currency ( Euro ) and a centralized economic policy.

Though this body was meant to foster relations between the Tongs, open warfare periodically flared between the On Leong ( 安良 ) and Hip Sing ( 協勝 ) tongs.

Though originally distributed as proprietary software, some versions of Lex are now open source.

A commonly invoked analogy is the freezer whose door was left open accidentally: Though the ice in the freezer will melt, most of the food, consisting of solids, will certainly not melt (= turn into a liquid ) but thaw (= warm above the freezing point ).

* Though not as famous as George Boldt's Castle, Singer Castle on Dark Island is privately renovated and is open to tourists.

Though the proportion of people practising open defecation is decreasing, the absolute number has remained at over one billion for several years, due to population growth.

Though the open range was part of the western tradition, over time, open range was limited long before it was eliminated completely ; first came an obligation to keep cattle from roaming onto state and federal highways, where collisions with fast-moving cars and trucks created a public safety hazard.

Though Finnish bands tend to write their lyrics in English as to leave their music open to countries outside of native Finnish boundaries, in the 1990s bands such as Apulanta, Miljoonasade, Ultra Bra and the shamanic art-punk group CMX had found their share of success with Finnish lyrics.

Though Cao Cao eventually withdrew, Yuan Tan came to resent Yuan Shang even more during course of the battle, which led to open warfare between the brothers.

Though Leamington the river is surrounded almost entirely by parks, after passing an open area of grass and woodland called Newbold Comyn, the river widens dramatically into Jephson Gardens, the main municipal park in Leamington Spa.

Though he was selected in the Test squad that toured New Zealand in 1998, he did not get to play a single game as Ajay Jadeja was preferred over Laxman to open the innings with Sidhu.

Though the Christian Unity Association shared much in common with fellow mountain Baptists, they differed from the majority of them in three important points: ( 1 ) falling from grace ; ( 2 ) open communion ; and ( 3 ) women preachers.

Though the Agnihotra ritual was originally performed exclusively by upper caste married men, accompanied by their wife, the modern form it is open to both genders and all varnas and castes.

Though Liszt may have been an open disciple of the ideas of the Omnitonic and Omnirhythmic, the influence of such thinking can perhaps be seen most clearly in the music of Brahms, where hemiola and mixing of time signatures is a common occurrence.

Though authors are not allowed to charge for access to copies of their work, downloading a copy from the ACM site requires a paid subscription.

Though he could not afford to buy Wilson's work, Audubon used it to guide him when he had access to a copy.

Though a Segway-focused organization, Disability Rights Advocates for Technology, advocates for Segway PT sidewalk and facility access as an ADA issue, Segways cannot be marketed in the US as medical devices: they have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a medical device and Johnson & Johnson claims exclusive rights to the medical uses of the balancing technology found in the iBOT and Segway.

Though the original release was made under a license that did not provide any access to the program's source code, it is now released under the GNU General Public License.

Though Bourdieu might agree with Coleman that social capital in the abstract is a neutral resource, his work tends to show how it can be used practically to produce or reproduce inequality, demonstrating for instance how people gain access to powerful positions through the direct and indirect employment of social connections.

Though protected from access by another app, a well-written app still needs to protect itself against failures and device loss caused by other applications.

Though much of the park is located in the neighboring town of Seaside, California, access for the park is located in Marina.

Though the Agua Caliente Resort and Casino was just outside the border of Rancho Mirage in an unincorporated area, the City of Rancho Mirage included the property as part of the city in an agreement with the tribe so they would have access to police and firefighting services.

Though authors do not enjoy profits from publishing, subscribing to the journals themselves can be expensive and thus publishers limit access to these intended communal gifts of information.

Though with the advent of electronic exchanges these calls are now often mixed with ordinary telephone traffic, they still may be able to access circuits that other traffic cannot.

Though the services offered vary from local branch to local branch, public libraries in Canada are not only places to read and borrow books ; they are also hubs of community services, such as early reading programs, computer access, and tutoring and literacy help for children and adults.

Though the bill granted Native Americans citizenship it did not grant them the right to vote and Zitkala-Ša continued to work for civil rights and better access to health care and education for Native Americans up until her death in 1938.

Though there is a paved road up to The Old and The New batteries, access is on foot, from a car park.

Though considered less harsh than other blocs, inmates in the Torani bloc have no access to television or newspapers.

Though this may improve overall welfare, by giving more consumers access to the market, such price discrimination can also transfer consumer surpluses to the producer.

Though the King does not grant them access to his palace ( they are forced to camp outside ), each of the courtiers falls in love with one of her handmaidens, and the King falls in love with the Princess herself.

Though live television viewing is prohibited, Twin Oaks ' members have access to the Internet as well as to public computers.

Though still the most dominant provider of telephone services, it has had competition from the sole cable provider in the country ( since September 2006 ), Hot, which offers a cables based telephone and internet access services as of 2005, and with 012 Smile and more recently 013 netvision and Orange.

Though they are independent roads, separate from National Routes, there are a series of access roads toward the archipelago of the city.

Though the book is not considered an historical account of the Khazar's conversion to Judaism, British scholar D. M. Dunlop postulated that R ' Yehuda Halevi had access to Khazar documents upon which he loosely based his work, however in this case the pagan is just a stereotype rather than using actual quotes.

Though farther from Iran, telephone connections with the home country and access to the international press were far better than in Iraq.

Though reporters did not then have access to Kuwait, her testimony was regarded as credible at the time and was widely publicized.

Though color management software, such as that built in to image editing applications, will pick the closest in-gamut approximation, changing lightness, chroma, and sometimes hue in the process, author Dan Margulis claims that this access to imaginary colors is useful, going between several steps in the manipulation of a picture.

Though these set important legal precedents by prohibiting polygamy, expanding women's access to divorce, and raising the age at which girls could marry to 17 years old – he simultaneously banned women's rights groups from organizing.

Though their primary focus and issue currently is the Constitutional Equality Amendment, they also deal with reproductive issues and abortion access as well as ending violence against women, combating racism, economic justice and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender rights ( LGBT ).