Though there is no certain agreement as to their purpose, it is thought they were principally bell towers, places of refuge, or a combination of these.

Though he had joined the Liberal Unionists late on, he was more determined to maintain their separate status in the alliance with the Conservatives, perhaps hoping and wishing that he would be able to refashion the combination under his own leadership at a later date.

Though certainly not denying the racist issues confronted in the play, Sackler once said in an interview, " What interested me was not the topicality but the combination of circumstances, the destiny of a man pitted against society.

* Though the maximum score for a cribbage hand is 29, there is no combination of cards that adds up to 19 points.

Though the siege ultimately failed, what early success the allies enjoyed was largely due to the combination of cool-headed leadership and dashing bravado of Bayard.

Though they do not identify with Christian democracy directly, being Judaic, Israel's Shas ( orthodox Sephardic Orthodox party ) and United Torah Judaism ( orthodox Ashkenazi party ) are politically similar to Christian democratic parties, due to their combination of conservative social and religious policies with an emphasis on increased social spending.

Though his sympathies were with the reformers, he took no part in the combination of Protestant reformers in 1565, but he headed the armed force which took possession of Holyrood palace in March 1566 to effect the assassination of David Rizzio, and the leading conspirators adjourned to Morton's house while a messenger was sent to obtain Queen Mary's signature to the " bond of security ".

Though the combination of bill and longbow which England used was old, it could still hold its own against the pike and arquebus tactics used in Continental armies at this stage in the development of firearms.

Though if done intentionally, in a particular way ( such as once slowly or a few times in a row quickly ), while giving a sweet or suggestive look with the eyes, often with the head tilted or at an angle in combination with the shoulders, is known as to " bat an eyelash ", " bat / batting eyelashes ", or " flutter / fluttering eyelashes ".

Though some music critics thereby rejoined in the common criticism of his work, the unlikely combination was fairly well received by AOL's magazines Spinner. com and Popeater. com.

Though Ardent Studios created test pressings for the record in 1975, a combination of financial issues, the uncommercial sound of the record, and lack of interest from singer Alex Chilton and drummer Jody Stephens in continuing the project prevented the album from ever being properly finished or released at the time of its recording.

Though both bonds have same p-y combination bond A may be located on a more elastic segment of the p-y curve compared to bond B.

Though it didn't have an official leader like most other candidate lists, the first name on it was University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Sciences professor and anti-corruption campaigner Čedomir Čupić who described it as a " combination of youth and experience, knowledge and virtue ".

Though the slit lamp is a combination of these two developments, the first concept of the slit lamp dates back to 1911 credited to Alvar Gullstrand and his “ large reflection-free ophthalmoscope .” The instrument was manufactured by the company Zeiss and consisted of a special illuminator that was connected by a small stand base through a vertical adjustable column.

Though nearly all TV / VCR combination sets have monaural ( mono ) sound, there are a large number of TV / VCR combos with a stereo TV tuner, but a mono VCR ( some may even include a mono sound input alongside a composite video input.

Though not every feature was unique, its specific combination of a fog of war, mouse-based military micromanagement, and an economic model of resource-gathering and base-building became the hallmark of the RTS genre.

Though a combination of military intervention and negotiation ended the strike, the memory of it remained when the government, now a SAP-Unionist coalition government under the leadership of Jan Smuts, faced the 1924 South African general election, in which it was defeated by a National-Labour coalition.

Above all, the Consolazione ’ s pristine combination of cube, drum, dome and apses shows its origins in the sketches by Leonardo that were central to his development as an artist ( fig )… Though in most respects the ideas of Bramante are undeniably present, the flaccid orders on the exterior of this otherwise impressive church suggests that he may not have participated directly in its execution ” ( Ibid p44-45 )

Though his party won the governor's race and control of the legislature, Johnson still had to overcome considerable opposition from the conservatives in both parties.

Though both ended up as rogue governments and did not follow through on their constitutional promises, they began as responses from the Athenian elite to what they saw as the inherent arbitrariness of government by the masses ( Plato in the Seventh Epistle does remark that the Thirty made the preceding democratic regime look like a Golden Age ).

Though the anthem of the Church of England is analogous to the motet of the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches, both being written for a trained choir and not for the congregation, it is as a musical form essentially English in its origin and development.

Though the anticipated benefits to traffic flow were not as large as hoped, pedestrian injuries dropped dramatically and foot traffic increased in the designated areas ; the project was popular with both residents and businesses.

Though both investigators reported their findings, a series of confusing and contradictory statements by Kitasato eventually led to the acceptance of Yersin as the primary discoverer of the organism.

Though both policies are presented in the Honor Code Handbook given to new members of the Caltech Community, some undergraduates regard them as a slight against the Honor Code and the implicit trust and respect it represents within the community.

Though both are similar in appearance and have similar ecological roles, the New World and Old World Vultures evolved from different ancestors in different parts of the world and are not closely related.

Though the fact of the irregularity of the lunar orbit was known in the 1st century BC, the starts of the months were calculated using the mean motions of both the sun and moon until 619, the second year of the Tang dynasty, when chronologists began to use true motions modeled using two offset opposing parabolas ( with small linear and cubic components ).

Though this is true when comparing a single crochet swatch with a stockinette swatch, both made with the same size yarn and needle / hook, it is not necessarily true for crochet in general.

Though Herbert's novel Dune seems to describe Harkonnen's suspensor belt as simply enabling him to stand and walk upright rather than actually " fly ," both the 1984 film and the 2000 miniseries feature the Baron utilizing the suspensors to levitate off the ground and float through the air in a flying-like manner.

Though both substances are high explosives, there is little similarity between them.

Though his ambitions were great and he was able to buy both a country estate and a ship ( as well as civet cats to make perfume ), he was rarely out of debt.

Though neither of the album's two singles, "( Why Don't More Women Sing ) Honky Tonk Songs " and " Salt in my Tears ", charted, videos for both songs received significant airplay on CMT.

Though he intended Tin Machine to operate as a democracy, Bowie dominated, both in songwriting and in decision-making.

Though both men professed ' sadness ' at having to do this, private conversations and letters show them both perfectly happy to sacrifice their " blue-eyed German ".

Though one might assume that Franconia was the homeland of the Franks ( indeed in German, Franken is used for both modern day Franconians and the historic Franks ), this is not the case.

Though the gallon has ceased to be the legally defined primary unit, it can still be legally used in both the UK and Ireland as a supplementary unit.

Though by this time opposition to images was strongly entrenched in Judaism and Islam, attribution of the impetus toward an iconoclastic movement in Eastern Orthodoxy to Muslims or Jews " seems to have been highly exaggerated, both by contemporaries and by modern scholars ".

Though using both flat wooden panel and stretched canvas paintings, Catholics traditionally have also favored images in the form of three-dimensional statuary, whereas in the East statuary is much less widely employed.

Though established independently of the United Nations through its own international treaty, the IAEA Statute, the IAEA reports to both the UN General Assembly and Security Council.

Though his family originally lived in Hamburg, Jacob and his brother were both born in Spain.

Though Ribbentrop continued to argue that Britain and France were bluffing, both he and Hitler were prepared as a last resort to risk a general war by invading Poland.

Though it is the largest area of the city by both physical size and population, it has often been regarded by Southside citizens as Lansing's most overlooked and forgotten area, as most of Lansing's attention in recent decades has been put into the revitalization of the city's historic core located mostly on small parts of both the East and Westsides.