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Though he remained firmly neutral, each side accused him of siding with the other, perhaps because of his neutrality.
Though he had frequently been accused of and associated with terrorism, in speeches on 13 and 14 December Arafat accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242, Israel's right " to exist in peace and security " and repudiated ' terrorism in all its forms, including state terrorism '.
Though it presents a generally contemptuous attitude towards magic ( Muhammad was accused by his detractors of being a magician ), the Qur ’ an distinguishes between apparent magic ( miracles sanctioned by Allah ) and real magic.
Though the raiders disrupted lives and stole cattle, law-enforcement officers were also accused of excessive violence and unjust practices.
Though the President has never personally been accused of corruption, and has managed to virtually end the grabbing of public land rampant in the Moi and Kenyatta eras, he is yet to adequately contain Kenya's endemic corruption.
Though the Catholic Church was not unanimously supportive of Duplessis, as some Catholic Unions and members of the clergy including Montreal Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau criticized Duplessis, the bulk of the small-town and rural clergy supported the premier, sometimes quoting the Union Nationale slogan Le ciel est bleu, l ' enfer est rouge ( The sky ( Heaven ) is blue, Hell is red ) — referring to the colours of the Union Nationale ( blue ) and the Liberals ( red ), the latter accused often of being pro-communist.
Though Jean Riolan ( 1577 – 1657 ) contradicted these comments and accused Vesalius of ungratitude, it is certain that the frustrations that Vesalius experienced were the basis for which he later traveled to Padua and became a famous anatomist himself.
Though Bentley had never been accused of attacking any of the police officers, who were shot at by Craig, for him to be convicted of murder as an accessory in a joint enterprise it was necessary for the prosecution to prove that he knew that Craig had a deadly weapon when they began the break-in.
Though accused of being intolerant towards minorities by opponents, multiple visible minorities ran as Reform Party candidates.
Though his work has frequently been accused of inaccuracy, this charge is somewhat misguided.
Though he stayed with Walpole to the end, Newcastle was later accused by many of Walpole's supporters of undermining him.
Though enslaved by some absurd prejudices, and though liable to strange fits of caprice, he cannot be accused of having deviated from the path of right in search either of unlawful gain or of unlawful pleasure.
Though Greene was popular with readers, critics accused him of excessive sentimentality, heavy writing and repetitive coverage of the same subject, most notably the Baby Richard child custody saga.
Though sometimes disparaged as a case of " physics envy " or accused of introducing false rigor into a discipline that is more literary theory than hard science, there is also something of a sense of humor in Lacan's formulas: of one ' sigla which I have introduced in the form of an algorithm ', Lacan himself has declared that ' it is created to allow for a hundred and one different readings, a multiplicity that is admissible as long as the spoken remains caught in its algebra '.
Though the term " cash for questions affair " is used to refer to the events that followed the publication of The Guardians story, it was not the first time that a British newspaper had accused MPs of taking bribes to table questions.
Though Anarres in fact does have its own brand of politics ( which play an important role in the book's plot ), the term " politician " is highly derogatory and anyone accused of being one would hotly deny it.
Though a poor orator, McCarthy, during the early 1950s, accused politicians and individuals of being either communists or communist sympathizers.
Though McKinsey was not accused of any wrongdoing, the convictions were embarrassing for the firm, for which integrity and protecting client confidentiality is a major premise of its business.
Though the UDHR enshrines some fair trial rights, such as the presumption of innocence until the accused is proven guilty, in Articles 6, 7, 8 and 11, the key provision is Article 10 which states that:
Though the women who initially accused Stephan of sexual misconduct later recanted, he was never restored to his position.
Though some members of the Haitian Army have been accused of horrible crimes, one should not condemn the entire Army of Haiti with one brush.
Though raised to the highest dignity it was in the power of the citizens of the Commonwealth to bestow he was never accused or suspected of employing any unworthy arts to gain the popular favor nor of obtruding himself on the public as a candidate for places of power and trust.
Though Kunti had not physically given birth to the baby, she was unwilling to be accused of being an unmarried mother and so with the help of her maid Dhatri, she placed the baby Karna in a basket and set him afloat on ' Ashwa ' a tributary of the holy river Ganges, the Ashwanadi, in the hope that he would be taken in by another family.
Though the back of the ticket states the motorist has up to 15 days to enter their pleas, the courts do not generally convict the accused for up to 45 days depending on the court.

Though and raised
Though not actually crewel embroidery, it has that look with its over-stitched raised pattern in blue, pink, bronze and gold and a sauterne background.
Though Elizabeth followed a largely defensive foreign policy, her reign raised England's status abroad.
Though containing some Egyptian and French neo-Classicist features, the design was basically a huge Greek temple in the Doric style, loosely modelled on the Parthenon in Athens, though raised up on an enormous geometric plinth and flanked by numerous obelisks ( the Egyptian element ).
Though baptized Roman Catholic, he was raised Anglican and in his later life he returned to the Roman Catholic faith.
Though each possible answer to this raised question contradict one another, they are both correct.
Though he raised the glory of Ferrara to its highest point, and was the patron of Torquato Tasso and Giovanni Battista Guarini, favouring the arts and sciences, as the princes of his house had always done, the legitimate line ended in 1597 with him.
Though text-based cybersex has been in practice for decades, the increased popularity of webcams has raised the number of online partners using two-way video connections to " expose " themselves to each other online — giving the act of cybersex a more visual aspect.
" Though raised a pagan, she became an ardent Christian in her teenage years, having received a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, in which the Blessed Virgin gave Catherine to Jesus in mystical marriage.
Though he died in Padua, he was born and raised in a wealthy family in Lisbon.
Though none of the original buildings remain, the unusual layout ( raised inner mounds, but no outer defensive ditch ) is still clearly visible.
Though born in Traverse City, actor David Wayne was raised in Bloomingdale.
Though the Tokugawa forces had a distinct advantage in numbers, Yoshinobu abandoned his army in the midst of the fight once he realized the Satsuma and Choshu forces raised the Imperial banner, and escaped to Edo.
( Though born in New York, John was raised in a suburb of Philadelphia and attended Temple University ) Then, on December 11, both Hall and Oates appeared on the year's last episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Though they weren't raised in the same household until Thomas was a grown-up and despite the fact that Ridge never legally adopted her, Hope and Ridge considered each other father and daughter.
Though born in Northampton, England, in 1929, she was raised in Ireland.
Though a British national, Scott was born in East Africa, where she was raised speaking English and Swahili, before moving to live in Ghana, West Africa.
Though born and raised in their parents ’ country of habitual residence, they lack formal recognition of their existence.
Though raised at 69, Rue de Courcelles, in Paris, Antoine continued to oversee the Bibesco estates in Craiova until after World War II.
Though he was born in Kansas City, Missouri, Holden was raised on a farm in the Ozarks near Birch Tree.
Though born in Florida, Thomas was raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area.
Though Reynolds agreed with Félibien about the natural order of the genres, he held that an important work from any genre of painting could be produced under the hand of genius: " Whether it is the human figure, an animal, or even inanimate objects, there is nothing, however unpromising in appearance, but may be raised into dignity, convey sentiment, and produce emotion, in the hands of a painter of genius.
Though European academies usually strictly insisted on this hierarchy, over their reign, many artists were able to invent new genres which raised the lower subjects to the importance of history painting.
Though ' raised ' air beds are off the ground they are not designed for full time use, as the base of the bed is an air chamber and not a solid foundation.
Though the concept was raised as early as 1938, plans were not submitted to Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring until 1942.

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