Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

Though no longer able to turn out his protoplasmic pen-and-ink sketches ( several old favorites are scattered through the present volume ) Thurber has retained unimpaired his vision of humor as a thing of simple, unaffected humanness.

Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.

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 Western culture contained several polytheistic religions during its early years under the Greek and Roman empires, as the centralized Roman power waned, the dominance of the Catholic Church was the only consistent force in Europe.

Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas ( having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century ), Columbus's voyages led to the first lasting European contact with America, inaugurating a period of European exploration and colonization of foreign lands that lasted for several centuries.

Though several later authors have referred to Conan as " Germanic-looking ", Howard imagined the Cimmerians as a proto-Celtic people with mostly black hair and blue or grey eyes.

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

Though she abandons the ship several times during the course of the series, her attachment to the crew always brings her back.

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 heraldic forms initially were broadly similar across Europe, several national styles had developed by the end of the Middle Ages, and artistic and blazoning styles today range from the very simple to extraordinarily complex.

Though Symmes himself never wrote a book about his ideas, several authors published works discussing his ideas.

Though all these works have their roots in Chrétien, several contain pieces of tradition not found in Chrétien which are possibly derived from earlier sources.

Though these harmonicas produced a less distinctive ( and, to many ears, inferior ) sound than their metallic counterparts due to their plastic reeds, Magnus harmonicas, as well as several imitators, soon became commonplace, particularly among children.

Though no state conditioned ratification of the constitution on a bill of rights, several states came close, and the issue almost prevented the constitution from being ratified.

Though Forth delivered several advantages over the interpreted BASIC used on all other contemporary home computers, the weak box and small initial memory kept the sales low despite technical interest.

Though the team would bounce back with winning records during the next several years, the disastrous season would symbolically come to mark the beginning of the end of Kansas City's relevance in professional baseball.

Though regarded as a commercial failure in the States, it nevertheless went on to be nominated for and won several industry awards for its brilliant animation quality.

Though there were craftsmen in several cities ( such as Antwerp, Brussels, and Ghent ), the major handicraft center for this cordwain was Mechelen, where it was mentioned as early as 1504.

Though now dated, several sources estimate the costs and suitability of deacidification treatment.

Though he remains the head of state, some of his former power is now devolved to several advisory and legislative bodies.

Though the concept of a shared universe was not new or unique to comics in 1961, writer / editor Stan Lee, together with several artists including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created a series of titles where events in one book would have repercussions in another title and serialized stories would show characters ' growth and change.

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 the two species are never seen together, several references are made to the Rutan Host, an equally militaristic race with whom the Sontarans have been at war for more than 50, 000 years (" The Poison Sky ").

Though polysaccharides are also biopolymers, it is not so common to talk of ' sequencing ' a polysaccharide, for several reasons.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

Though may differ in nature and functionality, these various types typically have to comply with the usability requirements below to comply as databases.

Though many types of improvised explosive devices (" IEDs ") can technically be classified as land mines, the term land mine is typically reserved for manufactured devices designed to be used by recognized military services, whereas IED is used for makeshift devices assembled by paramilitary, insurgent, or terrorist groups.

Though Ichijō already had an empress, a daughter of Michitaka, he claimed there were two types of empresshood and therefore it was legal for an emperor to have two empresses at the same time.

Though this defensive loophole slightly narrows the types of cases which may be prosecuted for perjury, the effect of this statutory defense is to promote a truthful retelling of facts by witnesses, thus helping to ensure the reliability of American court proceedings just as broadened perjury statutes aimed to do.

Though there is no well-defined minimum explosive size for a " supervolcano ", there are at least two types of volcanic eruption that have been identified as supervolcanoes: large igneous provinces and massive eruptions.

Though the terminology originates with the Japanese publishers, cultural differences with the West mean that labelling in English tends to vary wildly, with the types often confused and mis-applied.

Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery, most plastic surgery is not cosmetic: plastic surgery includes many types of reconstructive surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment of burns.

Though not dependent on " language dependent Enterprise Java Beans ( EJB )", it is a more general form of EJB, providing four component types instead of the two that EJB defines.

Though the traditional categories of deixis are perhaps the most obvious, there are other types of deixis that are similarly pervasive in language use.

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

Though the lower-echelon units of a combined arms team may be of similar types, a balanced mixture of such units are combined into an effective higher-echelon unit, whether formally in a table of organization or informally in an ad hoc solution to a battlefield problem.

Though modern warmbloods are descended from heavier agricultural types systematically upgraded by hotblood influence, the term does not imply that Warmbloods are direct crosses of " cold " and " hot ".

Though untouched areas adjacent to the original excavations were left undisturbed awaiting a more precise dating of Roman pottery types, the " Baths of the Swimmer ", named for the mosaic figure in the apodyterium, were meticulously excavated, in 1966 – 70 and 1974 – 75, in part as a training ground for young archaeologists and in part to establish a laboratory of well-understood finds as a teaching aid.

Though an alternate view is that the term was coined by the Czech art historian Antonin Matějček in 1910, as the opposite of impressionism: " An Expressionist wishes, above all, to express himself ... ( an Expressionist rejects ) immediate perception and builds on more complex psychic structures ... Impressions and mental images that pass through mental peoples soul as through a filter which rids them of all substantial accretions to produce their clear essence are assimilated and condense into more general forms, into types, which he transcribes through simple short-hand formulae and symbols.

Though not the complete process that would be performed by a professional dry cleaner, they allow the convenience of home laundry and work for certain types of garments.

Though it is not known how much the Emishi population changed as Japanese settlers and frontiersmen began to live in their territories even before the conquest, the existence of Emishi Kofun types attests to some form of ethnic mixing.

Though there are areas covered with other soil types, these are of limited extent.

Though increasingly criticised ( for a review of the debate on the Three worlds of Welfare Capitalism see Art and Gelissen and Ferragina and Seeleib-Kaiser ), these classifications remain the most commonly used in distinguishing types of modern welfare states, and offer a solid starting point in such analysis.

Though there are several other types of digital recorder still in use, hard disk systems are rapidly becoming the preferred method for studio recording.

Though the San people's artworks are predominantly paintings, the beliefs behind them can perhaps be used as a basis for understanding other types of rock art, including petroglyphs.

Though basslines may be played by many different types of instruments and in a broad musical range they are generally played on bass instruments and in the range roughly at least an octave and a half below middle C. In classical music such as string quartets and symphonies, basslines play the same harmonic and rhythmic role ; however, they are usually referred to as the " bass voice " or the " bass part.

Though the bells were used on various types of animals, they are typically referred to as " cowbells " due to their extensive use with cattle.

Though it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish between these types, they do not necessarily have the same etiology.