* Though Ashcroft initially opposed the legislation, while he was governor, Missouri enacted its first hate crimes legislation, creating penalties for ethnic intimidation and crimes committed for motives based on race, color, religion, or national origin, and penalties for institutional vandalism for damages to ethnically-related buildings and property.

Though obsidian is usually dark in color similar to mafic rocks such as basalt, obsidian's composition is extremely felsic.

Though it is fairly certain that the etymology is indeed " white dish ", medieval sources are not always consistent as to the actual color of the dish.

Though the colors vary from school to school, the normal uniform for boys is shorts or long pants in the specified color and material, with a short-sleeved shirt ( often white ) while girls ' uniforms include pinafores or skirts, with blouses and shorts underneath.

Though his work crossed many stylistic boundaries, his involvement with the other major figures of Impressionism and their exhibitions, his dynamic paintings and sketches of everyday life and activities, and his bold color experiments, served to finally tie him to the Impressionist movement as one of its greatest artists.

Though this explanation gives an idea of eye color delineation, it is incomplete, and all the contributing factors towards eye color and its variation are not fully understood.

Though the telecast of Super Bowl III exists in full color, only half of the Super Bowl IV broadcast does ( the rest was preserved by Canadian television in black-and-white ), and the status of most of Super Bowl V remains unknown.

Though the traditional daffodil of folklore, poetry, and field may have a yellow to golden-yellow color all over, both in the wild species and due to breeding, the perianth and corona may be variously colored.

Though he did succeed in creating a cool glowing cloud by mixing crude phosphine and natural gas, the color of the light was green and it produced copious amounts of acrid smoke.

Though the glow was still greenish in color, Garlaschelli and Boschetti noted that under low-light conditions, the human eye can not easily distinguish between colors.

Though with the state winning in shorter hours for women, and the popular progressives being happy with the outcome, equal-rights feminists were against this because it worked so heavily on the separation of the sexes into two stereotyped gender-roles and restricted women's financial independence. This labor law gave women more protection however it excluded women of color, food processors, agricultural workers, and white collar educated women.

Though it was still the fastest as it edged the RIVA TNT2 by a small margin, the Voodoo3 lacked 32-bit color and large texture support.

Though at that time few games supported large textures and 32-bit color, and those that did generally were too demanding to be run at playable framerates, the features " 32-bit color support " and " 2048x2048 textures " were much more impressive on paper than 16-bit color and 256x256 texture support.

Though none were life threatening, he temporarily retired from active driving and became a color commentator for NHRA telecasts on TNN and for NBC.

Though it is not certain, the origins of Daruma ’ s traditional red coloring probably came from the color of priest ’ s robes.

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 the majority of specimens are almost or even totally black, ( with the exception of head and facial markings ), the color pattern may consist of a brown, gray, tan, yellowish-olive or blackish ground color, which is overlaid with a series of 10-17 dark brown to almost black crossbands.

Though the human visual system generally does maintain constant perceived color under different lighting, there are situations where the relative brightness of two different stimuli will appear reversed at different illuminance levels.

Though in theory any monochrome system could be adopted to a color system, in practice some of the original monochrome systems proved impractical to adapt to color and were abandoned when the switch to color broadcasting was made.

Though Rudolf Steiner studied natural science at the Vienna Technical University at the undergraduate level, his doctorate was in epistemology and very little of his work is directly concerned with the empirical sciences.

Though designed strictly as a mechanism to support " natural language conversation " with a computer, ELIZA's DOCTOR script was found to be surprisingly successful in eliciting emotional responses from users who, in the course of interacting with the program, began to ascribe understanding and motivation to the program's output.

Though Locke was associated with the influential Whigs, his ideas about natural rights and government are today considered quite revolutionary for that period in English history.

Though natural selection acts on individuals, the effects of chance mean that fitness can only really be defined " on average " for the individuals within a population.

Though the exact definition varies between scholars, natural language can broadly be defined in contrast on the one hand to artificial or constructed languages, such as computer programming languages like Python and international auxiliary languages like Esperanto, and on the other hand to other communication systems in nature, such as the waggle dance of bees.

Though small, this advantage appears to have been enough to drive natural selection in favour of a prime-numbered life-cycle for these insects.

Though OMIM is a major resource for gathering information on the relationship between mutations and natural variation in gene sequence and susceptibility to hundreds of diseases, a sophisticated search strategy is required to extract diseases associated with defects in transcriptional control where the promoter is believed to have direct involvement.

Though mathematics, statistics, and computer science are not considered natural sciences, for instance, they provide many tools and frameworks used within the natural sciences.

Though sometimes considered in conjunction with the earth sciences, due to the independent development of its concepts, techniques and practices and also the fact of it having a wide range of sub disciplines under its wing, the atmospheric science is also considered a separate branch of natural science.

Though strongly in favour of the extension of individual legal rights, he opposed the idea of natural law and natural rights, calling them " nonsense upon stilts ".

Though the ice-harvesting industry had grown immensely by the turn of the 20th century, pollution and sewage had begun to creep into natural ice, making it a problem in the metropolitan suburbs.

Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor.

Though they are supposed to have the same chemical makeup, there are more impurities in the natural indigo dye.

Though a natural at the piano, Basie preferred drums.

# Though the emission of ejaculate onto sleeping garments or bedclothes is yielded by the natural experience of copulation in a wet dream, the stain of the garment is perceived as real upon waking whilst the copulation and lovemaking was not true or real.

Though contemporary human rights is considerably different than the type of rights envisioned under natural law, Francisco de Vitoria, Hugo Grotius and John Locke offered the first accounts of universal entitlement to certain rights on the basis of common humanity.

Though scientists made headway in decreasing mercury and phosphorus levels in water, the natural environment of South Florida continued to decline in the 1990s, and life in nearby cities reflected this downturn.

Though the sawmill did not work out, the Livermores soon realized that the natural force of running water could provide enough power to transmit to Sacramento, and the Folsom Powerhouse, now a National Historic Landmark, was opened.

Though he maintained a façade of social activity in school, he claimed he had no natural sense of how to develop friendships.

Though there is substantial variation among universities, departments, and individuals, humanities and social science doctorates on average take somewhat longer to complete than natural science doctorates.

Though there are different interpretations of ital regarding specific foods, the general principle is that food should be natural, or pure, and from the earth ; Rastas therefore often avoid food which is chemically modified or contains artificial additives ( e. g., colour, flavourings, and preservatives ).

Though similar cheeses are produced elsewhere, European law dictates that only those cheeses aged in the natural Combalou caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon may bear the name Roquefort, as it is a recognised geographical indication, or has a protected designation of origin.