Though Mopti's location, once a Bozo village named Sanga, had long been inhabited, rapid expansion began under Seku Amadu's Massina Empire around 1820.

Institutionalization Though undoubtedly all six processes are operative within the whole social system and its subsystems, two processes that are of crucial importance to this study will be singled out for particular emphasis.

Though they are often heard clairaudiently, as if a voice were speaking them, in other cases they are apprehended visually as symbols: a slope to signify the name `` Hill '', for instance.

Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.

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 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 Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

Though the prokaryotic cyanobacteria ( commonly referred to as blue-green algae ) were traditionally included as " algae " in older textbooks, many modern sources regard this as outdated as they are now considered to be bacteria.

Though the prison chaplain accuses the state of stripping Alex of free will, the government officials on the scene are pleased with the results and Alex is released into society.

Though anarcho-capitalists are known for asserting a right to private ( individualized or joint non-public ) property, some propose that non-state public or community property can also exist in an anarcho-capitalist society.

Though the are has fallen out of use, the hectare is still commonly used to measure land:

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 rarely used by modern conventional military units, abatises are still officially maintained in United States Army and Marine Corps training.

Though they admit that plants must be destroyed for the sake of food, they accept such violence only inasmuch as it is indispensable for human survival, and there are special instructions for preventing unnecessary violence against plants.

Though, theoretically, all life forms are said to deserve full protection from all kinds of injury, Jains admit that this ideal cannot be completely implemented in practice.

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 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 intentional walks are recorded as such in the records of the official scorer, they are combined with standard, non-intentional walks when calculating a player's on-base percentage, and have only received a separate column in a player's statistics since 1955.

Though much more expensive than steel, there are now aluminium alloys available that will not corrode in salt water, and an aluminium boat built to similar load carrying standards could be built lighter than steel.

Though his films are predominantly set in the United States, Jarmusch has advanced the notion that he looks at America " through a foreigner's eyes ", with the intention of creating a form of world cinema that synthesizes European and Japanese film with that of Hollywood.

Though historically a predominantly Afrikaner settlement, Bloemfontein was officially founded in 1846 as a fort by British army major Henry Douglas Warden as a British outpost in the Transoranje region, at that stage occupied by various groups of peoples including Cape Colony Trek Boers, Griqua and Basotho.

Though the group is predominantly based in the United Kingdom, the sovereign and those amongst her relations who do not meet the requirements of Canadian citizenship law are still considered Canadian ; as early as 1959, it was recognized that the Queen was " equally at home in all her realms.

Though predominantly found in computer devices, DVI is also present in some consumer electronics such as television sets.

Though less common,. 20 and. 25 caliber ( 5. 0 mm and 6. 4 mm ) guns also exist and are used predominantly for hunting.

Though the concept had not been given a name, Gandhi advocated for small, local and predominantly village-based technology to help India's villages become self-reliant.

Though initially feeling isolated and uncertain among her predominantly white peers, she soon proved her oratorical talents once more with a speech entitled " Side by Side " in 1896.

Though predominantly black, the throat, breast and neck are a blackish-brown in colour, with a faint purple gloss.

" Though the surviving Dickson test involves live-recorded sound, certainly most, and probably all, of the films marketed for the Kinetophone were shot as silents, predominantly march or dance subjects ; exhibitors could then choose from a variety of musical cylinders offering a rhythmic match.

Though the government initiated the legislation process for reforming the land and the education sectors, they were considered as infringements over the rights by the school managements and landowners, who were predominantly Saint Thomas Christians and Nairs.

Though he was predominantly a painter, he also worked with sculpture, ceramics and printmaking in his later life.

Though predominantly male, the casual meetings of the Edelweißpiraten even offered German adolescents an opportunity for sexual experimentation with the opposite sex.

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 numerous examples of Late Antique portraits featured each figure in a standing position, the Evangelists were predominantly depicted in a seating position at a writing desk or with a book or scroll, both in reference to the Gospels.

Though largely ignored by books and the Internet, and sometimes confused with the predominantly white Fundamental Baptist Fellowship of America, this association of churches does exist, with churches mostly in the midwestern United States.

Though VLF signals were predominantly generated from lightning discharges, it was found that an observable ELF component ( slow tail ) followed the VLF component in almost all cases.

Though predominantly known as a starting pitcher, Smoltz was converted to a reliever in 2001, following his recovery from Tommy John surgery, and spent four years as the team's closer before returning to a starting role.

Though she resides predominantly in the United Kingdom and it is uncertain whether or not a monarch is subject to his or her own citizenship laws, the Queen of Canada is considered to be Canadian.

Though there are buses to Clondalkin and Ballyfermot, and Dún Laoghaire, Tallaght is not well connected to Dublin's other towns and suburbs, as public transport predominantly runs through Dublin city centre ; this has led to high levels of car dependence.

Though usually viewed as predominantly spiritual in nature, elements of psychotherapeutic practice can be recognized in the entheogenic or shamanic rituals of many cultures.

Though predominantly Protestant the party opposed the Kulturkampf, but approached to Bismarck when during the Long Depression the chancellor began to implement protectionist policies by restricting corn imports from Russia and the United States.

Though Westbury is often described as a very “ English village ”, the first European settlers were predominantly Irish ; ex Irish convicts, retired soldiers and free settlers, many fleeing the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s.

Though published predominantly in Japan by Japanese, noted examples of the genre have also been penned by foreign scholars, journalists and residents.

Though predominantly a composer of frottolas, a light secular form and ancestor of the madrigal, he also wrote a few sacred pieces, including a three-voice Salve Regina ( one of the Marian Antiphons ) as well as seven laude spirituali.