There are also similarities to our modern world of course -- even though Monte clearly takes place sometime around 600 years ago -- and how easily we dismiss those who are different from us, to distract ourselves from our own insurmountable issues.
Though Del Monte brings to mind canned corn and sliced peaches, today some of its fastest-growing and most powerful brands are in the pet food category.
Again, though, it's Real del Monte that has a better claim to have seen the first Mexican pasties, and where there are paste shops on every street.
Ms. Monte's production slogs on, though her take on the middle-aged lovers of the title as the two greatest celebrities of their time is rife with resonance for our time.
A comparison between the solutions obtained though SIA and Monte Carlo method is finally conducted to demonstrate the robustness of the SIA method.
Though The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers author Alexandre Dumas was of partial black descent, race is an explicit topic in only one of his novels: Georges (1843).
Ultimately, though, like the streetside game of three-card monte that features prominently in episode two, the Stan Lee branding is a feint.
What is more, even though it was worried about Monte dei Paschi's weak risk management, it did not have the power to fire bank directors, despite Mr. Draghi requesting such authority from the last Berlusconi government.
Kesselring tried to preserve the monastery of Monte Cassino by avoiding its military occupation even though it offered a superb observing point over the battlefield.
In Brazil, for instance, the construction of the Belo Monte dam, which will flood a huge area, is going ahead even though it will force the displacement of indigenous Amazon tribes, threatening their very survival.
But Barclays did not disclose to Del Monte that it knew that Vestar and K.K.R. were working together, even though this constituted a violation of the private equity firms' agreements with Del Monte.
