Though Americans usually lived in groups segregated by national origin or religious belief, they liked to work and shop in the noise and vitality of downtown.

Though usually observed in the spring, the date varies, depending on climate and suitable planting season.

Though most of the early Waldorf schools were teacher-founded, the schools today are usually initiated and later supported by an active parent community.

Though a minimum of three bishops participating is desirable ( there are usually several more ) in order to demonstrate collegiality, canonically only one bishop is necessary.

Though the Shang did not have a concept of " medicine " as distinct from other fields, their oracular inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells refer to illnesses that affected the Shang royal family: eye disorders, toothaches, bloated abdomen, etc., which Shang elites usually attributed to curses sent by their ancestors.

Though the office was usually held after the quaestorship and before the praetorship, there are some cases with former praetors serving as aediles.

Though physical confrontations between the two species are usually dominated by the larger wolves, coyotes have been known to attack wolves if they outnumber them.

Though the fiber flow ( local inhomogeneities of the material's chemical composition generated during casting ) doesn ’ t follow the shape of the crankshaft ( which is undesirable ), this is usually not a problem since higher quality steels, which normally are difficult to forge, can be used.

Though this venue usually is reserved for juniors and seniors, Harold Scott insisted that Flockhart perform there in his production of William Inge's Picnic.

Though some Roman patrons ordered marble replicas of the specifically Anatolian " Diana " of Ephesus, where the Temple of Artemis stood, Diana was usually depicted for educated Romans in her Greek guise.

Though nearly all modern mathematicians consider nonconstructive methods just as sound as constructive ones, Euclid's constructive proofs often supplanted fallacious nonconstructive ones — e. g., some of the Pythagoreans ' proofs that involved irrational numbers, which usually required a statement such as " Find the greatest common measure of ..."

Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.

Though samples are usually food-related, some laboratories are equipped to analyze drugs, cosmetics, and radiation-emitting devices.

Though the rich usually led fashion, the increasing affluence of early modern Europe led to the bourgeoisie and even peasants following trends at a distance sometimes uncomfortably close for the elites — a factor Braudel regards as one of the main motors of changing fashion.

Though the thorn character ( whose appearance was usually similar to the modern " p ") was most common, the eth could equally be used.

Though " president " and various monarchic titles are most commonly used for heads of state, in some nationalistic regimes ( usually republics ), the leader adopts, formally or de facto, a unique style simply meaning " leader " in the national language, such as Nazi Germany's single party chief and head of state and government, Adolf Hitler Führer ( see that article for equivalents ).

Though states ( or increasingly, international organizations ) are usually the only ones with standing to address a violation of international law, some treaties, such as the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights have an optional protocol that allows individuals who have had their rights violated by member states to petition the international Human Rights Committee.

Though it previously held a more eurosceptic stance than is usually articulated by most other green parties in Europe, the party backed the Lisbon Treaty with support from two thirds of the party.

Though the composition of a bocadillo varies by region, it is usually a baguette filled with salad and a choice of meats, fish ( usually tuna ), or omelette.

Though moose are usually hunted by packs, there are cases in which single wolves have successfully killed healthy, fully-grown moose.

Though obsidian is usually dark in color similar to mafic rocks such as basalt, obsidian's composition is extremely felsic.

Though this usually goes unacknowledged, Optimality Theory was strongly influenced by Natural Phonology ; both view phonology in terms of constraints on speakers and their production, though these constraints are formalized in very different ways.

Though his absence from the 1958 conclave did not make him ineligible – under Canon Law any Catholic male may be elected – the College of Cardinals usually chose the new Pope from among themselves.

Though there is no explicit record of this, it is usually assumed that Sappho returned from exile at some point and that she spent most of her life in Lesbos.

Though much of the dialogue in Curb Your Enthusiasm is improvised, the plot was scripted, and the Seinfeld special that aired within the show was scripted and directed by Seinfeld regular Andy Ackerman, making this the first time since Seinfeld went off the air that the central cast appeared together in a scripted show.

Though this process is no longer commercially used, at the time of its invention it was of enormous industrial importance because it lowered the cost of production steel, leading to steel being widely substituted for cast iron.

Though he did well in the popular film Forever Amber ( 1947 ), Greene found himself cast in a series of swashbuckling roles.

Though the cast ultimately proved to be one of the film's greatest strengths, Friedkin had problems with casting choices from the start.

Though Hill did not figure prominently in the cast, he benefited from being part of an Oscar-winning film.

Though doubts have been cast on the historiographic reconstructions of this school ( particularly the notion of oral traditions as a primary ancient source ), much of its critique of biblical historicity found wide acceptance.

Though not familiar stars in 1959, the cast quickly became favorites of the first television generation.

Though Flower Drum Song is often called the first musical with an all-Asian cast, it was the 2002 revival of the play which was finally produced with an all-Asian cast of actor-singers.

" ( Though when confronted with the vampire's inexplicable inability to cast a reflection, she allows, " Maybe a little magic .... Just a touch.

Though this musical did not achieve the popularity of the team's five most famous musicals, it was nevertheless a success, and broke new ground by using a mostly Asian cast.

Though it went somewhat less far than the UFA would have liked — for example, it made no provision for recall of elected officials — it did allow for Albertans to call a referendum directly by submitting a petition including the names of eligible voters totalling ten percent of the votes cast in the previous provincial election, including at least eight percent in each of eighty-five percent of the province's ridings.

Though beautiful to behold, it too was evil at heart, being too eager to rush towards battle, and so, Ilmarinen broke the magic boat apart and cast back the pieces once more.

Though it was clad in white marble to look like a Renaissance palazzo, the building's cast iron construction permitted large plate glass windows.

Though often mistaken for or deceptively sold as elephant ivory, items made from the two-to-three-inch nut have none of the striations common to animal ivory, and sometimes the ivory-like nut flesh has a light yellow cast under a rough coconut-shell-like external covering.

Though they were happy together, the troubled political situation and constant threats of assassination cast a shadow over their lives together.

Though the rebellion is cast by many historians as a religious uprising, this does not address the issues of the discontent from the famine and overtaxation.

Though the film is never dull, and playing by the cast is spirited, it's actually a surprisingly gentle movie, with no big Full Monty-like finale to send auds buzzing into the street.

Though the universal use of iron was one shared feature among Dark Age settlements, it is still uncertain when the forged iron weapons and armour achieved superior strength to those that had been previously cast and hammered from bronze.

Though this seems to impress Hacker initially, the machine eventually gets unplugged by Inez, resulting an angry Hacker to cast Ledge away for his failure.

Though taking a 4 year break, Chris has been on the show the longest of the current cast and outstayed all of his family who either died or left.

Though he was hardly ever cast as the villain, notable exceptions were his roles as ' Old Man Clanton ' in the 1946 film My Darling Clementine opposite Henry Fonda, the 1962 Cinerama production How the West Was Won as the murderous Colonel Jeb Hawkins, and as Judge Roy Bean in The Westerner, for which he won his third best supporting actor Academy Award, in 1940.

Though Jungwirth originally designed The Spartan as a bronze statue, it had to be cast in terra cotta due to World War II rationing of bronze.

Though they were headed for marriage, the relationship ended when Leeves joined the cast of Frasier as Martin Crane's physiotherapist and Niles ' love interest, Daphne.

" Though this season pales for a lot of people because some of the supporting cast are either minimized or gone entirely, I appreciated the return to dealing with the core cast of characters after all this time.