Though he was a soldier from a low middle-class background, Valentinian was not a barracks emperor ; he was elevated to the purple by a conclave of senior generals and civil officials.

Though Frederick III held the elevated status of a prince elector, this status was also gained by Maximilian I of Bavaria in 1623, during the Thirty Years ' War, also by the Elector of the Palatinate in the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ), and by Ernest Augustus of the House of Hanover in 1692.

Though these brothers left Rome empty handed in about 72 B. C., their plight was not forgotten and Lucullus now elevated one of them as Syrian king: Antiochus XIII known as Asiaticus owing to the time he had spent living in Roman Asia province.

Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude.

Though Brinkley was barred at the door, his appearance elevated his profile in the press, which eventually resulted in his own demonstration at a hospital in Chicago.

Though Castro was sentenced to join his brother in prison for 15 years, the trial elevated him to semi-heroic status on the island.

Though the Niles Center elevated service failed to prosper, the transit operator benefited from the construction of new shop facilities on vacant land along the southern part of the Skokie Valley line.

Though she had nearly two decades ' worth of film and television credits already, she first came to national prominence in the 1980s series It's a Living, a sitcom that elevated Jillian to sex symbol status in 1980.

Though the Baron still takes sadistic enjoyment in the suffering of others, he is portrayed as somewhat flamboyant, pompous and self-indulgent, with a tendency to speak in iambic pentameter when the mood strikes him.

Though critics and viewers interpret meaning and mood in these cityscapes, Hopper insisted “ I was more interested in the sunlight on the buildings and on the figures than any symbolism .” As if to prove the point, his late painting Sun in an Empty Room ( 1963 ) is a pure study of sunlight.

Though more research needs to be done of the effect of music therapy on adolescents with mood disorders, most research has been finding positive effects.

Though the English word mob denotes a crowd, often in a destructive or hostile mood, German, Spanish, Polish, Italian and several other European languages have adopted mobbing as a loanword to describe all forms of bullying including that by single persons.

Though he didn't know it, he was also suffering from diabetes and this led to ever more sudden mood swings, bouts of melancholia and, mercifully brief, periods of paranoid suspicion about his family.

Though influenced by such fantasy environments as The Lord of the Rings and Dungeons & Dragons, Eamon generally avoids stories, situations or other game elements that are particularly serious or complex, instead seeking to create an engaging, genial mood through quick play and in-jokes.

Though now neglected, he is interesting as the Dutch representative of the mood that in Germany produced Novalis.

Though she is eager to become pregnant immediately, Luis is hesitant, preferring to fully recover from the past few months ' drama before fathering a second child ; Fancy understands but privately fears that Luis believes that her violent mood swings will return.

Though more than 99 % of the dry atmosphere is IR transparent ( because the main constituents — N < sub > 2 </ sub >, O < sub > 2 </ sub >, and Ar — are not able to directly absorb or emit infrared radiation ), intermolecular collisions cause the energy absorbed and emitted by the greenhouse gases to be shared with the other, non-IR-active, gases.

" Though it had little impact on the American charts, The Who's mod anthem presaged a more cerebral mix of musical ferocity and rebellious posture that characterized much early British punk rock: John Reed describes The Clash's emergence as a " tight ball of energy with both an image and rhetoric reminiscent of a young Pete Townshend — speed obsession, pop-art clothing, art school ambition ".

Though her health declined as she entered her seventies, Parks continued to make many appearances and devoted considerable energy to these causes.

Though several types of Sentinels have been introduced, the typical Sentinel is three stories tall, capable of flight, projects energy blasts, and can detect mutants.

The Alcubierre drive, however, remains a hypothetical concept with seemingly insuperable problems: Though the amount of energy required is no longer thought to be unobtainably large, there is no method to create a warp bubble in a region that does not already contain one, and there is no method to move from the warp-bubble once having arrived at an intended destination.

Though useful, Ehrenfest's classification has been found to be an inaccurate method of classifying phase transitions, for it does not take into account the case where a derivative of free energy diverges ( which is only possible in the thermodynamic limit ).

Though he used the expression " one will ", it is apparent that he was no Monothelete, for he placed " one energy " and " two energies " on exactly the same footing.

Though both men had been neglected since their respective publications, Helmholtz's definitive 1847 declaration of the conservation of energy credited them both.

Though Romana reveals that the equipment will bring him back after 2 minutes, the Doctor asserts that it is enough time for Scaroth to stop the explosion of the Jagaroth ship, itself the source of the spark of energy that created the beginnings of life on Earth ; should Scaroth prevent the explosion, every native living being on the planet will never have existed.

Though there are numerous ways of measuring the energy of a recoil impulse, in general a 10 % to 50 % reduction can be measured.

Though it does not explicitly say so, this statement refers to closed systems, and to internal energy defined for bodies in states of thermodynamic equilibrium.

Though people can survive with no gut flora, the microorganisms perform a host of useful functions, such as fermenting unused energy substrates, training the immune system, preventing growth of harmful species, regulating the development of the gut, producing vitamins for the host ( such as biotin and vitamin K ), and producing hormones to direct the host to store fats.

Though not in all respects of his highest order of execution, this counts among the most obviously beautiful and attractive of Mantegna's works from which the qualities of beauty and attraction are often excluded, in the stringent pursuit of those other excellences more germane to his severe genius, tense energy passing into haggard passion.

Though held to the same cooking efficiency standards, energy efficiency standards are based on the utility, gas or electric, and products on this list are subject to rebates from local utility companies.

Though the WIND spacecraft is over 15 years old, it still provides the highest time, angular, and energy resolution of any of the solar wind monitors.

Though the cost of power switching and other factors can limit projectile energy, a notable benefit of some coilgun designs over simpler railguns is avoiding an intrinsic velocity limit from hypervelocity physical contact and erosion.

Though Vastu is conceptually similar to Feng Shui in that it also tries to harmonize the flow of energy, ( also called life-force or Prana in Sanskrit and Chi / Ki in Chinese / Japanese ), through the house, it differs in the details, such as the exact directions in which various objects, rooms, materials, etc.

“ What makes Modern Times decidedly different from Chaplin's previous three films are the political references and social realism that keep intruding into Charlie's world .” “ No comedian before or after him has spent more energy depicting people in their working lives .” “ Though there had been films depicting the lives of immigrants and urban workers, no filmmaker before Chaplin had created their experience so humanly and lovingly .”

Though Q goads Picard into punishing the Bandi, Picard refuses, instead ordering the Enterprise to fire a vivifying energy beam onto Farpoint after the station is evacuated.

Though some of their amplitudes have opposite phases, both quarks and anti-quarks have positive energy, and hence acquire the same phase as they move in space-time.

Though such actions may change the total energy or momentum of the bound system, these two changes cancel, so that there is no change in the system's invariant mass.

Though he is overall a brilliant scientist, his specialization is cloning and various energy rays.

Though it had little impact on the American charts, The Who's mod anthem presaged a more cerebral mix of musical ferocity and rebellious posture that characterized much early British punk rock: John Reed describes The Clash's emergence as a " tight ball of energy with both an image and rhetoric reminiscent of a young Pete Townshend — speed obsession, pop-art clothing, art school ambition ".

Though a conclusion to this error is considered that while in stasis lock, Prime's extensive life energy is connected to the Matrix.

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 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 these companies have successfully developed their software, they have not considered or defined or managed their processes as the CMM described as level 3 or above, and so would have fitted level 1 or 2 of the model.

Though the system can have variations in local, regional, and country level, the similarities-in systems or even in ideas-that schools share also enable the exchange among students at all levels which are also playing an increasingly important role in globalization process.

Though educational reform occurred on a local level at various points throughout history, the modern notion of education reform is tied with the spread of Compulsory education-education reforms did not become widespread until after organized schooling was sufficiently systematized to be ' reformed.

Though this was " fixed " at one level, another year passed before the Volunteers took an oath of allegiance to the Irish Republic and its government, " throughout August 1920 ".

Though technically the server may use any identity information established at any lower level, typically the server will use the identity information established by TLS.

Though there may therefore be variations to the following, the appointee will generally travel to Ottawa, there receiving an official welcome and taking up residence at 7 Rideau Gate, and will begin preparations for their upcoming role, meeting with various high level officials to ensure a smooth transition between governors general.

Though ultimately decided by personal taste, the extent to which a person will find something humorous depends upon a host of variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, intelligence and context.

Though the noise level of 16-bit audio systems ( such as CD players ) is commonly quoted ( on the basis of calculations that take no account of subjective effect ) as − 96 dB relative to FS ( full scale ), the best 468-weighted results are in the region of − 68 dB relative to Alignment Level ( commonly defined as 18 dB below FS ) i. e. − 86 dB relative to FS.

Though 97 % of Argentina's population self-identify as of European descent to this day a high level of multiculturalism remains a feature of Argentina's culture, allowing foreign festivals and holidays ( e. g. Saint Patrick's Day ), supporting all kinds of art or cultural expression from ethnic groups, as well as their diffusion through an important multicultural presence in the media ; for instance it is not uncommon to find newspapers or radio programs in English, German, Italian or French in Argentina.

Though this plan was unsuccessful due to costs and shortage of materials, debris was used to raise the level of the town centre.

Though oxygen was undoubtedly released by photosynthesis well back in Archean times, it could not build up to any significant degree until chemical sinks — unoxidized sulfur and iron — had been filled ; until roughly 2. 3 billion years ago, oxygen was probably only 1 % to 2 % of its current level.

Though not part of the official minor league system, its level of play is considered to be comparable to low A-level.

Though some landings went to the wrong beaches, this was immaterial because of the extremely low level of French opposition.

Though he had been undefeated since a loss against David Tua in 1996, the level of competition Ruiz had been facing was suspect and the only name he had beaten was a nearly 40 year old Tony Tucker.

Though the river could only be utilized by shallow draft steamboats while the water level was up, these two transportation routes proved vital to Jenks ' early development.

Though the prestige Tu-144 programme enjoyed top level support until 1973, as did the important Tu-154 airliner, the favored position the Tupolev Design Bureau enjoyed through Tupolev ’ s personal political connections was largely eclipsed by Ilyushin.

Though each damage level is associated with a wind speed, the Fujita scale is effectively a damage scale, and the wind speeds associated with the damage listed aren't rigorously verified.

Though it is unclear as to the level of their participation in " Let's Dance The Screw ", the ' real ' Crystals definitely began recording again under their own name in 1963.

Though the several states have never held a national constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing amendments, the 21st Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified not by the state legislatures, but by state level conventions after it was passed by Congress, as described as an alternate method of ratification in Article V of the US Constitution.

Though Wow added strings and horns to some songs, their basic sound remained consistent from the debut album, featuring tight harmonies, multiple guitars, imaginative songwriting, and a strong level of musicianship.

Though both boys and girls compete at the youth level and men compete in some amateur venues, in collegiate and professional ranks, it is primarily a rodeo event for women.