Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

( Though Lauds and Vespers for the Dead in which the people participate may be said.

Though glamor and wealth certainly plays a role for only famous celebrities, most people in the sports and entertainments sphere, be it music, film, television, radio, modelling, comedy, literature etc.

Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.

Though several later authors have referred to Conan as " Germanic-looking ", Howard imagined the Cimmerians as a proto-Celtic people with mostly black hair and blue or grey eyes.

Though he spent some of his money trying to clean up swamps and eradicate malaria, he was nonetheless sent to the guillotine during the Reign of Terror as an enemy of the people.

Though interpretations vary, most theologians see this passage as referring to Jesus, after his death, going to a place ( neither heaven nor hell in the ultimate sense ) where the souls of pre-Christian people waited for the Gospel.

Though representing himself as a spokesman for the common man, he often appeared out of place with real working people.

Though Garfield can be very cynical, he does have a soft side for his teddy bear, Pooky, food and sleep, but one Christmas he says " they say I have to get up early, be nice to people, skip breakfast, not play with mice ... I wish it would never end.

Though it is the responsibility of municipal governments to provide people with healthy water supply, the Hungarian government and the European Union offer subsidies to those who wish to develop water supplies or sewage systems.

Though difficult to obtain, values less than 7 % are recommended for people with T2DM.

Though Robinson and people who in the past might not have espoused her causes, fought a determined battle, Wood Quay was ultimately bulldozed and concreted over, to build the controversial Civic Offices.

Though he mentions that he does enjoy and recognize what is pleasant, he sees them of no utilization in terms of governing, or of the benefit of common people.

Though the average number of laureates per prize increased substantially during the 20th century, a prize may not be shared among more than three people.

Though his rule was rather short, his place among the rulers in the Valley is eminent for the various social and economic reforms such as the ' Sanskritization ' of the Valley people, new methods of land measurement and allocation etc.

Though today an Arabic-speaking people, that aspect constitutes for Egyptians a cultural dimension of their identity, not a necessary attribute of or prop for their national political being.

Though the term has fallen into disfavor among botanists as a formal way to categorize " useless " plants, the informal use of the word " weeds " to describe those plants that are deemed worthy of elimination is illustrative of the general tendency of people and societies to seek to alter or shape the course of nature.

Though slowly, Fictions work because it is a well known fact that people will accept a change in the form of a fiction while they would resist it to the end if the fact is out in the open.

" Though Spinoza has been called the " prophet " and " prince " of pantheism, in a letter to Henry Oldenburg Spinoza states that: " as to the view of certain people that I identify god with nature ( taken as a kind of mass or corporeal matter ), they are quite mistaken " For Spinoza, our universe ( cosmos ) is a mode under two attributes of Thought and Extension.

Though this was the form of music most commonly considered " ragtime " in its day, many people today prefer to put it in the " popular music " category.

Though rare, there are also documented cases of scurvy due to poor dietary choices by people living in industrialized nations.

Though Sinhala people in particular and Sri Lankans in general have migrated to the UK over the centuries beginning from the colonial times, the number of Sinhalese people in the UK cannot be estimated accurately due to inadequacies of census in the UK.

Though the filmmakers were careful about clues of Malcolm's true state, the camera zooms slowly towards his face when Cole says " I see dead people ".

Though narrow at first, he was able to squeeze through the passage and discovered an ethereal utopia, where the people led an ideal existence in harmony with nature.

Though Venice was famous for its navy, its army was equally effective.

Though it bears little resemblance to its namesake in Venice, the bridge connecting Third Court to New Court, originally known as New Bridge, is now commonly known as the Bridge of Sighs.

Though Sunny Isles may have once been promoted as The Venice of America, for the 21st century it has continued its penchant for allusions to more well known locations and has re-imagined itself with the promotional moniker Florida's Riviera ( presumably referencing either the French Riviera or the Italian Riviera but certainly not Riviera Beach, Maryland nor Riviera Beach, Florida would only confuse the matter ).

Though some his earliest biographers, Mattei and Villarosa, give 1748 as the year when Jommelli gave up his employment in Venice, his last compositions for the Incurabili are from 1746.

Though Venice was nominally a Republic, high office was reserved only for the city's wealthy noble elite.

Though she never scaled the heights of her contemporaries Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida, Mangano remained a favorite star between the 1950s and 1970s, appearing in Anna ( Alberto Lattuada, 1951 ), The Gold of Naples ( L ' oro di Napoli, Vittorio De Sica, 1954 ), Mambo ( Robert Rossen, 1955 ), Theorem ( Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968 ), Death in Venice ( Morte a Venezia, Luchino Visconti, 1971 ), and The Scientific Cardplayer ( 1972 ).

Though he was born and died in Venice, his paintings are distinctly Roman in style ; he moved to Rome in 1598, joining the Accademia di San Luca in 1607.

Though the artist advertised his Venetian origin in his constant signatures varying upon Carolus Crivellus Venetos (" Carlo Crivelli of Venice "), Crivelli seems to have worked chiefly in the March of Ancona, and especially in and near Ascoli Piceno ; there are only two pictures remaining in Venice, in the church of San Sebastiano.

Though most international observer organisations have a mandate to observe parliamentary elections, the Congress of the Council of Europe, in cooperation with the Venice Commission, is specifically mandated to monitor local and regional elections and is unique in this regard.

Though Ossat was appointed Bishop of Rennes ( on 9 September 1596 ) he remained at Rome, without any well-defined office, though he was charged with occasional missions to Venice and Florence ( 1598 ), and managed the French embassy in the absence of a noble ambassador, as professional diplomats traditionally do, and was always the enlightened and devoted representative of French interests.

Though Rossini first composed his opera for Venice with a happy ending in mind ( as required by the opera seria tradition ), he soon had the poet Luigi Lechi rework the libretto to emulate the original tragic ending by Voltaire and in this new ending, presented at the Teatro Communale in Ferrara in March 1813, Tancredi wins the battle but is mortally wounded.

Though Da Ponte is relatively unknown otherwise, the design for the Venice landmark defeated submissions by noted architects of the time, including Michelangelo.

Though not easily picked out among the mountains, its peak can be seen from Venice.

Though generally of slight elevation, it contains mountain ranges with peaks rising to Bordered N. W.

Though several configurations have been tried, particularly in the early experimental days of tank development, a standard, mature design configuration has since emerged to a generally accepted pattern.

Though bronze is generally harder than wrought iron, with Vickers hardness of 60 – 258 vs. 30 – 80, the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age ; this happened because iron was easier to find and easier to process.

Though there was much argument in the past, it is now generally accepted that brochs were roofed, probably with a conical timber framed roof covered with a locally sourced thatch.

Though diverse, these views may be generally classified into those that hold Christ to be only divine and not differing from the Father hypostatically ; those that hold Christ to be less fully God than the Father ; in other forms being completely human and a messenger as the perfect created human.

Though the model comes from the field of software development, it is also used as a general model to aid in business processes generally, and has been used extensively worldwide in government offices, commerce, industry and software-development organizations.

Though the estampie is generally monophonic, there are also two-voice compositions in the form of an estampie, such as the three for keyboard in the Robertsbridge Fragment.

Though ordinaries are not easily defined, they are generally described as including the cross, the fess, the pale, the bend, the chevron, the saltire, and the pall.

Though the team dropped out of contention from 1990 to 1992, the Royals still could generally be counted on to post winning records through the strike-shortened 1994 season.

Though he excelled at drawing, his grades were generally poor.

Though the elevated mood and energy level typical of hypomania could be seen as a benefit, mania itself generally has many undesirable consequences including suicidal tendencies.

Though generally considered doctors but not physicians, chiropractors use the physician title in some countries.

Though it is generally accepted nalidixic acid is to be considered the first quinolone drug, this has been disputed over the years by a few researchers who believe chloroquine, from which nalidixic acid is derived, is to be considered the first quinolone drug, rather than nalidixic acid.

Though generally quite young and less experienced than the tribuni angusticlavii, he served as second in command of the legion, behind the legate.

Though US daytime soap operas are not generally rerun by their networks, occasionally they are rebroadcast elsewhere.

Though such differences can be noticeable, all the dialects are generally mutually intelligible, and share some mutual intelligibility with the neighbouring Campidanese dialects.

Though the New Wave is generally considered to have begun in the 1960s, some of its tenets can be found in H. L. Gold's editorship of Galaxy, a science fiction magazine which began publication in 1950.

Though elements of their work necessarily relate to structuralism and are informed by it, these theorists have generally been referred to as post-structuralists.

Though the Spaghetti Westerns from Fistful of Dollars and on featured larger amounts of violence and killings compared to earlier American Western films, they generally shared the parental genre's restricted attitude toward explicit sexuality.

Though there is no specific authority on convictions of Unitarian belief aside from rejection of the Trinity, the following beliefs are generally accepted:

Though the warmer air temperature within the UHI is generally most apparent at night, urban heat islands exhibit significant and somewhat paradoxical diurnal behavior.

Though folkloric vampires were believed to be more active at night, they were not generally considered vulnerable to sunlight.

Though the broad outline of the process is generally agreed, there is a considerable diversity of views held by specialist scholars on detailed issues concerning the development, categorization and meaning of the arabesque.

Though varying considerably in appearance ( see gallery below ), these species generally have thick, stout stems and fleshy leaves, sometimes with leaf windows.