Though the name came to be commonly used to refer to the whole of southern Mesopotamia, Chaldea proper was in fact the vast plain in the far south east formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris, extending to about four hundred miles along the course of these rivers, and about a hundred miles in average width.

Though he valued first-hand experience as part of a proper education, he did not intend to found a professional school, but advocated instruction in useful knowledge that combined elements of both professional and liberal education, writing that " The true and only practicable object of a polytechnic school is, as I conceive, the teaching, not of the minute details and manipulations of the arts, which can be done only in the workshop, but the inculcation of those scientific principles which form the basis and explanation of them, and along with this, a full and methodical review of all their leading processes and operations in connection with physical laws.

Though the term common name is not much used in this context, it would mean a noun ( or a noun phrase ) that is not a proper name ( Swiss cheese, and the common noun bluebird, are both common names in this sense ).

Though no battles were fought in Jacksonville proper, the city changed hands several times between Union and Confederate forces.

Though it is generally accepted that the area's proper name is " Mountain Top ", there has been some debate about whether it should actually be " Mountaintop ".

Though very seldom, a proper sequel, and not a reboot, may have exactly the same title as the original work, with none of the variations mentioned above.

Though the lofty and terrible was his proper sphere, Fuseli had a fine perception of the ludicrous.

Though most of his legal work was for the AFCEC and then the UGG, Brownlee also made contact with leaders of the UFA proper, including William Irvine, Irene Parlby, Herbert Greenfield, and, most importantly, Henry Wise Wood.

Though originally theological and directed towards the attitudes of the musicians, the Council ’ s decrees came to be thought of by church musicians as a pronouncement on proper musical styles.

Though Lucier had composed chamber and orchestral works since 1952, the composer and his critics count his 1965 composition Music for Solo Performer as the proper beginning of his compositional career.

Though this move was not approved by the proper channels, namely the Episcopal Conference with approval of Rome.

Though he was the eldest son, the Duchy of Kuyavia proper passed to his younger brother Ziemomysł after their father's death in 1267.

Though no proper series finale was created, the concept of Wildboyz was somewhat revisited during Jackass Number Two, which was filmed after Wildboyz had ended.

Though the technical content and number of techniques varies by lineage, the first Chart One was simply a collection of 15 upper-body dominant techniques Shimabuku felt were necessary for proper development.

Though she was not a political woman, as a queen known to be a staunch supporter of monarchy in its traditional conception, Maria Amalia was able to escape the suspicion of many of the French who worried that her husband's ideology was not monarchical enough and tended toward middle class, bourgeois, values at the expense of the proper treatment and conduct of royalty.

Though popular discourse both etic and emic as well as the discourse of scholarship with which it intersects, employ the term " Buddhism " for the Buddhadharma ( and often employ the term uncritically ), it is salient to be mindful that the Buddhadharma is not a monolithic tradition but a continuum of a number of sub-traditions and praxis-lineages ( or sadhana-lineages ), many of which tout a number of nondualities proper in various sub-traditions and ' vehicles ' ( Sanskrit: yana ); refer Wallace ( 2007: pp. 106 – 107 ).

Though the Supreme Court did not explicitly decide whether Benitez met the proper standard, its opinion nonetheless proceeded with an unfavorable analysis of his case.

Though most residents of the area live between Ogden and Provo ( a distance of 80 miles or 128 km ), which includes Salt Lake proper, the fullest built-out extent of the Wasatch Front is 120 miles ( 193 km ) long and an average of 5 miles ( 8 km ) wide.

Though it is not a proper verb, thrifting or to thrift has found place in modern American language out of necessity.

Though these, like jazz proper, were blamed for crime and delinquency, they had become mainstream by the 1930s.

Michelle Yeoh went on to star in a 1993 spin-off called Once a Cop or Project S. Though it features a cameo appearance by Jackie Chan and Bill Tung reprises his role as " Uncle " Bill, this film is not a proper part of the Police Story series.

Though author David Buckley has described the singer's previous record David Bowie ( Space Oddity ) as " the first Bowie album proper ", NME critics Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray have said of The Man Who Sold the World, " this is where the story really starts ".

# Though some, such as Moshe Gil, maintain that " Firanja " as used in this context refers to the Frankish-occupied areas of Italy, and not to France proper.

Club found it superior to Nas ' God's Son and stated, " Though essentially a collection of odds and ends, the disc sounds as cohesive and consistent as any of Nas ' proper studio albums.

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 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 there is no civilian definition within the U. S., any firearm utilizing a projectile greater than 1 / 2 inch (. 50 caliber or 12. 7 mm ) in diameter is legally defined as a " destructive device ," while anything. 50 caliber or less is normally considered " small arms.

Though melakhah is commonly translated as " work " in English, a better definition is " deliberate activity " or " skill and craftmanship ".

Though interpretations of sharia vary between cultures, in its strictest definition it is considered the infallible law of God — as opposed to the human interpretation of the laws ( fiqh ).

Though some choose to view the act as " anal sex ", it is clear the scene depicts a rape by definition because Jeane was screaming, crying hysterically, fighting him off and yelling the clear-cut " no ".

Though technically incorrect, the definition is sometimes widened to include the study of terrestrial animals in other arthropod groups or other phyla, such as arachnids, myriapods, earthworms, land snails, and

Though their accuracy and their ability to win are disputed, their use normally violates the rules of online cardrooms, so using them is, by definition, cheating.

Though no universally agreed upon boundary exists, a common definition includes the U. S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia.

Though almost all video cameras fit this definition, the term is most often applied to those used for surveillance in areas that may need monitoring such as banks, casinos, airports, military installations, and convenience stores.

Though the capital of the Southern Dynasties kingdoms was ( almost by definition ) Jiankang, in the location of modern Nanjing, in the province of Jiangsu ; nevertheless, the Zhejiang area was home to the major metropolis and cultural center of Hangzhou, formerly known as Qiantang, but renamed in 589.

Though this page chiefly treats del in three dimensions, this definition can be generalized to the n-dimensional Euclidean space R < sup > n </ sup >.

Though not strictly " demogroups " by definition, the scene always had various polyhistors who excelled in all areas of demomaking ; rather than gathering various other persons to aid them in a creative process, they perform all jobs of programming, musicmaking and visual art themselves.

Though none of these institutions entirely embraces all aspects of the postmodern movement in its most concentrated definition they all reflect, or borrow from, some of its core ideas.

Though historically a general consensus has been evident as to which laws of the Old Testament pertain to the category of moral law which Christians are enjoined to keep, certain laws can somewhat difficult, and may be vulnerable to subjective judgment, and a broad definition of antinomianism can also be exercised.

Though large group of singers and their listeners refer to Rabiz as music genre, the term is used widely as a definition for a lifestyle.

Though they delivered much better image quality, their overall operation was identical to their standard definition predecessors.

Though abstract, this definition of " projection " formalizes and generalizes the idea of graphical projection.

Though the inclusion of nondual bodies, genders and sexual designations and other biological florescence, are by definition qualified for inclusion in this article and such inclusion is rarefied, especially when understood as embodying a syncretic and holistic ideal, a " a one-sex / body, multi-gender model that reflected ancient gender norms " and which is metaphorically apt in many spiritual nondual traditions as Burrus & Keller ( 2006: p. 71 ) state:

Though legal definitions have provided an artificially broad definition and dictionary's often offer cycliar definitions, i. e. a bugger is someone who commits buggery, common usage remains generally restricted to a homosexual male.

Though there is no set definition of size, it is generally at least 4. 5 m ( 15 ft ) high at maturity, and with branches supported on a single main stem.

Though often called a " novel " by critics, such a definition is disputed, because all its parts had an independent life.

Though most would agree on the most basic definition of the working poor ( workers whose earnings fall below a given poverty threshold ), the meaning and significance of the term remains under dispute.

Though melakha is usually translated as " work " in English, the term does not correspond to the English definition of the term, as explained below.