Though cloning is still possible even with digital technologies, the cost of wireless service is so low that the problem has virtually disappeared.

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 Greece eventually lost political sovereignty, the Greek culture of training in public speaking was adopted virtually wholesale by the Romans.

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Though obsidian was also available north of Jackson Hole, virtually all the obsidian spear points found are from a source to the south, indicating that the main seasonal migratory route for the Paleo-Indian was from this direction.

Though the performances were in English, of which Berlioz knew virtually none, he was still able to grasp the grandeur and sublimnity of Shakespeare's language along with the richness of the plays ' dramatic design.

Though Charles Martel chose not to take the title King, as his son Pepin III the Short would, or Emperor, as his grandson Charlemagne would be titled, he was absolute ruler of virtually all of today's continental Western Europe north of the Pyrenees.

Though, by 1929, Argentina was already home to over 400, 000 vehicles ( more than half the total in Latin America, at the time ), virtually all long-distance travel was done on the nation's vast railways.

Though the Tempest's transaxle was similar to the one in the Corvair, introduced the year before, it shared virtually no common parts.

Though he studied at the University of California, Berkeley, he was still virtually self-taught when he began writing music of his own, but in the early 1920s he had lessons from Arthur Bliss ( then in Santa Barbara ) and the senior American composer and researcher of American Indian ( then called " Red Indian ") music, Arthur Farwell.

Though the President has never personally been accused of corruption, and has managed to virtually end the grabbing of public land rampant in the Moi and Kenyatta eras, he is yet to adequately contain Kenya's endemic corruption.

Though some young birds hold this plumage until mid-winter, many quickly become virtually indistinguishable from adults, except for their paler bills.

Though it is known that he was trained as a lawyer, very few specifics are known about Petion ’ s early life, as he was virtually unknown prior to the French Revolution.

Though manifestly attracted by exceptional cases, by every kind of moral aberration, by the infamous and the terrible, his range is virtually unlimited.

Though always doing his best, he frequently receives a helping hand from his virtually superior brother ( Racer X ) when he falls short of his goals.

Though official documentation of the health effects of glyphosate spraying in Colombia are virtually non-existent, neighbouring Ecuador has conducted studies to determine the cause of mysterious illnesses amongst people living along the border of Colombia and has since demanded that no aerial sprayings occur within 10 km of the border because of the damages caused to the people, animals and environment in that area.

* Though virtually nothing of the Jackal's past history is explored, he finds several of his underworld contacts through an old friend whom he knew in Katanga, indicating he is an ex-mercenary with a military or quasi-military background.

Though many considered the NIRA a " dead statute " at this point in the New Deal scheme, the Court used its invalidation as an opportunity to affirm constitutional limits on congressional power, for fear that it could otherwise reach virtually anything that could be said to " affect " interstate commerce and intrude on many areas of legitimate state power.

Though Morrice reveals virtually nothing about himself in his diaries, his Entring Book is a particularly useful source document for London life and politics from the late 1670s to the early 1690s – as informative, in its own way, as the better known Diaries of Samuel Pepys.

Though two of Gary Thomas ’ recordings were highly rated by Down Beat he only had a contract with a small European company and his performance opportunities were virtually limited to Europe.

Though virtually all campaign media are sometimes used at all levels ( even candidates for local office have been known to purchase cable TV ads ), smaller, lower-budget campaigns are typically more focused on direct mail, low-cost advertising ( such as lawn signs ), and direct voter contact.

Though the 88 sedans and coupes were downsized and switched to front-drive for 1986, the Custom Cruiser station wagons would continue virtually unchanged through the 1990 model year and eventually become the only Oldsmobile models powered by an Olds Rocket V8 engine, for which production ended in 1990 after 42 years.

Though there is much in primary sources referring to folk music of the time, it is virtually all written by those who condemned the songs as uncouth.

Though they'd been estranged for many years, after Lilimae virtually abandoned Valene as a teenager in her quest to become a country singer, Lilimae reappeared in Valene's life during Season 1.

Though initially blind to the truth of matters thanks to her relations with Urquhart, Mattie eventually deduces that Urquhart and his associates are behind the unfortunate downfalls of Collingridge and all of Urquhart's rivals.

Though he was blind and compelled to keep to his bed, from which he gave audiences and transacted affairs of state, he surrounded himself with capable officials, many of them his Corsini relatives, but he did little for his family except to purchase and enlarge the palace built in Trastevere for the Riarii, and now known as the Palazzo Corsini ( the seat of the Regia Accademia dei Lincei ).

Though devoted to Krystle, Blake himself is too preoccupied with his company, Denver-Carrington, and blind to Krystle's predicament.

Though now totally blind, he continued to command the armies of Tábor.

Though the blind Sandman angle was his first " major " feud in ECW, his later, years-long feud against Raven that started in April 1995 is arguably his most memorable.

Chaucer also used Bayard in the Canterbury Tales ( c. 1286 ) to denote a randy stud in the Reeve's Tale and a blind, foolish horse in The Canon's Yeoman's Tale: " Though ye prolle ay, ye shul it nevere fynde.

" (" Though you search afar, you shall never find it ; Be you as bold as Bayard the blind, that blunders forth and perceives no peril.

Though blind in one eye, he was strikingly handsome in person, his demeanour was dignified and his manners full of grace and courtesy.

Though only a half-hour long ( as opposed to the standard hour time slot ), it was critically acclaimed, telling the story of a blind shepherd boy who longs to experience Christmas.

Though blindness in Japanese society has historically been stigmatized, “ as the result of a Buddhist interpretation of the condition as a form of karmic punishment ,” other factors also led to the marginalization and discrimination of blind musicians.

Though the family includes three genera of blind, subterranean, and troglobitic catfishes, Trogloglanis, Satan, and Prietella, none of these three genera are closely related.

Though blind, he took up swimming and diving, fighting cocks, playing cards, riding, and even hunting.

Though only six quarterly issues were produced, the tabloid-size venue — edited by author Neil Fineman — allowed Carson to make his first significant impact on the world of graphic design and typography — with ideas that were called innovative even by those that were not fond of his work, in which legibility often relied on readers ' strict attention ( for one feature on a blind surfer, Carson opened with a two-page spread covered in black ).

Though he has conflicting goals and values, Fitch's gratitude towards Dalton results in blind obedience and he smothers his conscience to accomplish Dalton's bidding.

Though they are successful, their shot-up airplane crashes on its return, and Bissell is wounded and becomes blind.

Though this does not hold true with the reference of the demiurge in gnosticism as blind and ignorant of his origin or the monad.

Though Miller was not known for his humor, this play uses a pointed comedic edge to intensify his observations about the dangers, as well as the benefits, of blind belief: political, religious, economic and emotional.

Though most of its powers are unknown and only a few have been seen in the show, the Jewel has the power to create a shield, blind enemies, destroy the spirits possessing soldier's armors, and banish Netherworld priests.

Though William suffered from asthma and was blind in one eye, he craved a life of adventure and in 1868 purchased a commission in the Scots Guards.

Though it was truly Shockwave disguised as Longarm who was the double agent, using Bumblebee's blind conviction to his own advantage.

Though Ranade criticised superstitions and blind faith, he was conservative in his own life.

Though he is now blind he had once been Sarath ’ s most challenging instructor.

Though she makes an attack against the Republic a short time later, General Garm Bel Iblis defeats her soundly and she makes a blind hyperspace jump ; though she is presumed dead, New Republic Intelligence refuses to take her off the threat list.

Though his employers were sometimes reluctant to hire him knowing that he was blind, his reputation grew as it became apparent that he was a capable mathematician and teacher.