And although the situation is bleak, the mood isn't always.
Although the situation is a little better today, she still finds things depressing.
Although the situation then calmed down, an atmosphere of high tension still hangs in the air.
And there aren't many of those apps, although the situation is slowly improving.
The same is partially true for Mr. Romney, although the situation is not quite symmetrical.
Although the situation was rare, Dr. Olin had seen other patients with similarly twisted blood vessels.
She longed to return to Frades, although the situation there was hardly ideal.
Protests flared briefly in Oman in February, although the situation has since calmed down.
"[The disease] kills silently, and although the situation is improving we regard the [figures] as still unacceptably high," he says.
Syrian jitters have eased as an imminent attack has become less likely, although the situation is obviously still uncertain.
Shares rallied in Moscow, and on European stock markets across the region -- although the situation remains tense and fluid.
