Though it was a great relief when the big brains on these shows turned out to be frauds and phonies, it did irreparable damage to the ego of the editor and many another intelligent, well-informed American.

Though far from completion, these studies indicated beyond a doubt that savings would result which would be of unprecedented benefit to the railroads concerned, their investors, their customers, their users, and to the public at large.

Though there is obviously nothing new about these techniques, they do challenge the worker's skill to articulate them precisely on the spot and on the basis of quick and accurate diagnostic assessments.

Though the sales gains these two dealers are experiencing are above average for their business, farm equipment sales are climbing in most rural areas.

Though the service is no longer offered, these laws remain in force.

Though most of these laws have been relaxed or repealed in most states, they are still strictly enforced in some other states.

Though these machines are early forerunners to computer engineering, the calculator failed to be a great commercial success.

Though there are a variety of positions in which the outfield ( non-goalkeeper ) players are strategically placed by a coach, these positions are not defined or required by the rules of the game.

" Though apparent to very few historians at the time, these defeats were the beginning of the decline of Europe as the center of world politics.

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 virtually any game in which there are winning and losing outcomes can be wagered on, these games are specifically designed to make the betting process a strategic part of the game.

Though these sees are now seven ( Ostia and Velletri having been separated in 1914 ), there are only six cardinal bishops, since the Dean always adds the title of Ostia to his original suburbicarian diocese.

Though sufficient for many purposes, these descriptions are not precisely correct.

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 the structures found in the ruins of Mohenjo-daro were walled, it is far from clear that these structures were defensive against enemy attacks.

* Processes: Though these systems have many technological components, business processes lie at its core.

Though outside the limits of the Roman Empire, these depictions appear to be derived from Classical prototypes.

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 in theory subject directly to the pope, these rulers had been practically independent or dependent on other states for generations.

Though may differ in nature and functionality, these various types typically have to comply with the usability requirements below to comply as databases.

Though it is unclear when these groups of hunters and gatherers turned to agricultural cultivation, pollen samples from Petén and the Pacific coast indicate maize cultivation as early as 3500 BC.

Though it was initially envisaged that these cellular automata would run on special computers, such as MIT's " Cellular Automata Machine-8 " ( CAM-8 ), by 1996 it was realised that the model originally proposed, which required cellular automata with thousands of states, was too complex to be realised in hardware.

Though not in wide use, these methods frequently appeal to homeowners who may become actively involved in the construction process.

Though the original armiger may have placed particular meaning on a charge, these meanings are not necessarily retained from generation to generation.

Though the civil clock incorporates local adoptions of various conventions such as time zones, standard times and daylight saving, these have no place in the Jewish scheme.

Though still plagued by pirate raids, the island was continually populated from this point onward.

Though men who have sex with men are included in anti-HIV efforts, gay relationships are censored from television and movies, and police raids continued in 2010 ( see LGBT history in China ).

Though initially paying homage to the English, Owain and Llywelyn soon broke with Henry III in protest over the ruthless raids being conducted on the Welsh borders.

Though touted as a success story by the US and Mexican governments during the program's first few years, the operation became controversial, and was eventually terminated, when reports surfaced of its ineffectiveness and corruption ( as some drug trafficking organizations were paying Mexican officials for protection from the raids and for restricting the raids to the fields of competing organizations ).

Though it is on the left wing of Palestinian politics, its character is primarily nationalist rather than social democratic.

Though Jefferson left the cabinet voluntarily, Washington never forgave him, and never spoke to him again.

< sup > δ </ sup > Though this term is non-standard usage – by " left ", agorists mean " left " in the general sense used by left-libertarians, as defined by Roderick T. Long, as "... an integration, or I'd argue, a reintegration of libertarianism with concerns that are traditionally thought of as being concerns of the left.

Though Jean encourages Cyclops to return to Madelyne, he finds their house abandoned and assumes that Madelyne has left him and taken their infant son ; Cyclops returns to X-Factor and he and Jean continue their relationship.

Though not taking up an academic career, he was left with an enduring and deep love for Oxford.

Though the band's drug use included cocaine, heroin, LSD and many others, Cris ' use of heroin and crack cocaine became so bad he rarely left his house except to obtain more drugs.

Though there were hints, it was deliberately left vague.

Though Englehart and Starlin soon left as the creative talent for the title, its success grew once writer Doug Moench and artist Paul Gulacy, began collaborating in issues # 22.

Though Nancy was a controversial First Lady, 56 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of her when her husband left office on January 20, 1989, with 18 percent having an unfavorable opinion and the balance not giving an opinion.

Though fighting was mostly left to the boys and men, occasionally women fought with them, especially if the tribe was severely threatened.

Though the progressive Christianisation of the Roman Empire in the 4th century did not confer upon bishops civil authority within the state, the gradual withdrawal of imperial authority during the 5th century left the pope the senior imperial civilian official in Rome, as bishops were increasingly directing civil affairs in other cities of the Western Empire.

Though he left no handbooks, his speeches (" Antidosis " and " Against the Sophists " are most relevant to students of rhetoric ) became models of oratory ( he was one of the canonical " Ten Attic Orators ") and keys to his entire educational program.

Though he left most of the game ( including the distribution of letters ) unchanged, Brunot slightly rearranged the " premium " squares of the board and simplified the rules ; he also changed the name of the game to " Scrabble ," a real word which means " to scratch frantically.

Though most of the pattern is removed from PAL and NTSC-encoded signals with a comb filter ( designed to segregate the two signals where the luma spectrum may overlap into the spectral space used by the chroma ) by modern displays, some can still be left in certain parts of the picture.

Though few historical records are left from that period, Western Sahara's modern history has its roots linked to some nomadic groups ( living under Berber tribal rule and in contact with the Roman Empire ) such as the Sanhaja group and the introduction of Islam and the Arabic language the end from the 8th century AD.

Though the Asian Financial Crisis struck in the late 1990s and left many crippled, the economy of the region has started to pick up again at a more sustainable rate as demand from the United States and People's Republic of China soar.

Though established by Otto I, the exact details of the diocese's boundaries were left to Otto II and his aides.

Though Slayers and vampires retain their powers, witches for example are left entirely powerless.

Though a minor character, he very notably arrests Fitz in " To Say I Love You " when he refuses to leave Judith alone after she has left him and gone to her parents ' house.

Though Holbein retained his position as King's Painter, Cromwell's death left a gap no other patron could fill.

Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.

Though Herodotus was skeptical about the physical existence of Oceanus, he rejected snowmelt as a cause of the annual flood of the Nile river ; according to his translator and interpreter, Livio Catullo Stecchini, he left unsettled the question of an equatorial Nile, since the geography of Sub-Saharan Africa was unknown to him.