Though the proposed route of the motorway at Tara has been the subject of an international outcry from academics, historians, environmentalists and others, the Irish government under the then Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and his successor Brian Cowan, publicly supports the plans, and condemned those who criticise them.

Though simple and compound walls were often used, Great Houses were primarily constructed of core-and-veneer walls: two parallel load-bearing walls comprising dressed, flat sandstone blocks bound in clay mortar were erected.

Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have been played for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and in Northern Africa.

Though some of the areas that were cleared during modern excavations have sanded over again, the Great Ziggurat is fully cleared and stands as the best-preserved and most visible landmark at the site.

Though their project, like others in the state, had to contend with the Great Depression and World War II, work continued as Colonial Williamsburg became a major tourist attraction.

As Catherine the Great ’ s advisor Potemkin posited, this adoration was due to the fact that she was “ the only woman who looked truly fine, and completely a man … As she was tall and powerful, male attire suited her .” Though the balls were by far her most personally beloved and lavish events, Elizabeth often threw children ’ s birthday parties and wedding receptions for those affiliated with her Court, going so far as to provide dowries for each of her ladies-in-waiting.

Though, the United States participated in the Great War, according to Woodrow Wilson, to:

Though not fully enclosed, the court formed before the Downing College is perhaps largest in Cambridge or Oxford ( a title contested with Trinity College's Great Court ).

Though poorly equipped compared to the better armed Japanese, Song led the 29th army to resist the aggression in a war known as the Defense of the Great Wall ( 熱河長城之戰 ).

Though the identity of the Šahíya is not known, many Great Plains tribes assume it means Cree or some other people who spoke an Algonquian language related to Cree and Cheyenne.

Though human, he is a citizen of the Empire because his social-climbing father bought a title in one of the less reputable of the 17 Dragaeran Great Houses.

Though no pure Vanyar ever set foot in Middle-earth after the Great Journey, save for those who fought in the War of Wrath, some of their Noldorin descendents did.

Though seen as a Baby Doozer in " The Great Radish Famine ," she was introduced in " All Work and All Play " when she rejected the pressure placed on her to take the helmet, and ran away to become a Fraggle.

Though the park effectively killed the then-lagging industry in the late 1930s, it spurred the development of one of the largest tourist resorts in the United States of America, as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is now the most visited national park in the country.

Though the majority of their children attended Great Neck schools, they did not integrate into the existing Ashkenazi synagogues, instead starting their own Iranian synagogues, where they could follow Mizrahi traditions.

Though the development was initially successful, the Great Depression halted most of the area's growth.

Though the town was touched by the Great Depression in the early 1930s, by the late 1930s oil activity had revived in the area, and the town continued to grow.

Though Gwen is thoroughly convinced that he is Peter Parker from another universe, May is still cautious, until Peter relates how he had lost his Uncle Ben and begins the quote, " With Great Power ..." in which May finishes with " Comes Great Responsibility.

Though he died in Gorodets, Alexander was laid to rest in the city of Vladimir, in the Great Abbey at The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God.

Though no barometric or temperature readings for Ireland ( population in 1740 of 2. 4 million people ) survive from the Great Frost, English people were using the mercury thermometer invented 25 years earlier by the German pioneer Fahrenheit.

Though its electorate was a small part of the population ( as elsewhere in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ), those Irish privileged to vote up continued until the mid-1880s to vote for the two major British political parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, with more votes and seats going to the latter, even though it had been the party of government during the Famine.

Though not a monarchist himself, Griffith advocated such an approach for the Anglo-Irish relationship, namely that Ireland should become a separate kingdom alongside Great Britain, the two forming a dual monarchy with a shared monarch but separate governments, as it was thought this solution would be more palatable to the British.

Though widely famous for its role in military and civilian pipe bands, the Great Highland Bagpipe is also used for a solo virtuosic style called piobaireachd, a. k. a. pibroch.

Though the Great Depression had struck America, Scribner agreed to publish her book, and a printing of 3, 010 copies were released on October 7, 1932.

Though each country is also represented individually at the Commonwealth Games, there is a single ' Team GB ' ( for Great Britain ) that represents the UK at the Olympic Games.

Though the subject -- segregation in her native South -- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm her place at the very top of modern American writing.

Though Gondwana was still intact in the beginning of the Cretaceous, it broke up as South America, Antarctica and Australia rifted away from Africa ( though India and Madagascar remained attached to each other ); thus, the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans were newly formed.

Though unable to halt the bill's passage, his campaign was successful in drawing attention to the grievances of Indians in South Africa.

Though the plan exaggerated regional divisions, the development of exports — coal from the North, rice from the South — and the importation of French manufactured goods stimulated domestic commerce.

Though Saba ' dominated in the earlier period of South Arabian history, Minaic inscriptions are of the same time period as the first Sabaic inscriptions.

Though anti-slavery sentiments were widespread by the late 18th century, the colonies and emerging nations that used slave labor continued to do so: French and English territories in the West Indies, South America, and the South of the United States.

Though none of the men were found guilty by the all-white jury ( as blacks had been disfranchised under the South Carolina constitution, they could not serve on juries ), Thurmond was congratulated by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) and the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) for his efforts.

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 Lord Kitchener, commanding British forces in South Africa, was eager to make peace with the Boers, Milner was content to wait until the Boers sought peace terms themselves.

Though trailer parks appear throughout the United States, they are often associated with the Deep South and rural areas.

Though most battles were fought in the South, skirmishes between Kansas and Missouri continued until culmination with the Lawrence Massacre on August 21, 1863.

Though population remained steady throughout the 20th century, Wellington experienced moderate growth in the 1990s and 2000s, rendering it a sort of bedroom community for the city of Fort Collins, which lies 10 miles to the South.

Though he was originally buried in an above ground tomb in Brooklyn's South Cemetery, his remains had to be moved due to excessive visitors.

Though tactically defeated, the Americans all but destroyed Cornwallis ' army as an effective fighting force and gained a permanent strategic advantage in the South.

( Though named the Buzz and an affiliate of the Twins, the team in the movie was based in South Carolina, where it was filmed.

Though North Korea rapidly abandoned the general use of hanja soon after independence, the number of hanja actually taught in primary and secondary schools is greater than the 1, 800 taught in South Korea.

Though many of his songs had Southern themes, Foster never lived in the South and visited it only once, in 1852 by river-boat voyage on his honeymoon, on his brother Dunning's steam boat, the Millinger, which took him down the Mississippi to New Orleans.

Though it had never been a full critical success relative to other Rodgers and Hammerstein productions such as South Pacific and The King and I, it inspired another generation of Asian Americans to re-imagine the musical.

Though the US and the UN enacted an arms embargo against South Africa, as President Carter ’ s UN ambassador, Andrew Young vetoed economic sanctions.

" Though widely reported, and followed by an anonymous political flyer featuring a doctored photo supposedly showing Hoover and Mrs. Booze dancing together, which was circulated throughout the South, the story did not prevent Hoover from being elected President of the United States the following month.

Though the 24th and 25th Infantry Divisions were able to hold their ground against the Chinese 9th Chinese People's Volunteers ( CPV ) Army Corps, the South Korean 6th Infantry Division, to the east, was destroyed by the 13th CPV Army Corps, which penetrated the line and threatened to encircle the American divisions.

Though the Old South was hit hard, the Cotton Belt was dealt the worst blow.

Though no territorial changes came of it, it had the effect that Prime Minister Knud Kristensen was forced to resign after a vote of no confidence because the Folketing did not support his enthusiasm for incorporating South Schleswig into Denmark.