Even a winter torch relay featured a dragonboat when the torch was ferried over False Creek in Vancouver during the final leg of the longest Olympic torch relay ever, leading up to the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Games.

Even though Burke, Vic Spencer and John Davidson offered the good-faith bond to the WIFU in 1952, the idea of having a Vancouver team was rejected when both Winnipeg and Regina voted against the idea of a fifth team.

Even though the franchise is based in Vancouver and the " Lions " name was based on a local landmark and legend, Annis Stukus decided to reject the idea of naming the team as the Vancouver Lions.

Even though by 1922 the RCN had been cut back to 366 men and had paid off its last remaining cruiser HMCS Aurora, the Navy kept two destroyers donated by the Royal Navy, HMCS Patriot and HMCS Patrician, until they were replaced in the late 1920s by two other ex-Royal Navy vessels HMCS Champlain and HMCS Vancouver, and thereby maintained ships in service throughout the lean years.

Even considering its proximity to Central Park-a very lush, wooded park with trails to Swangard Stadium ( home to the Vancouver Whitecaps soccer team ), the station is primarily used by local residents in the area.

Even the Fredericton Express, in a city not far from Saint John and in the same province, used a logo closely resembling that of one of its two NHL affiliates, the Quebec Nordiques ( the other affiliate of the Express was the Vancouver Canucks ).

" Anything goes on television these days " wrote Tony Purnell in The Daily Mirror the following day " Even passing wind passes for entertainment ".

According to Robert Giroux, Even though the police decided, after severe questioning, that Peavey was not the murderer, the Hollywood correspondent of the New York Daily News, Florabel Muir, came to a private conclusion that Peavey was the murderer.

Even so, a Los Angeles Daily News article published on October 9, 2005 quoted Ratt drummer Bobby Blotzer saying that the band was " very close " to reuniting with Pearcy.

Both Billington and Paul Taylor ( in The Independent ) give the production 4 out of 5 stars, while Charles Spencer, reviewing the production in The Daily Telegraph, like other critics making inevitable comparisons with the original production, rates it as " equally fine, with Michael Gambon and David Bradley rising magnificently to the benchmark set by their illustrious predecessors ," but points out that he too does not feel that he fully understands it: " Even after three decades I cannot claim fully to understand this haunting drama that proves by turns funny, scary, and resonantly poetic, but I have no doubt that it is one of the handful of indisputable modern classics that Pinter has written, and a piece that will haunt and tantalise the memory of all who see it.

Carell was a correspondent for The Daily Show from 1999 until 2005, with a number of regular segments including " Even Stevphen " with Stephen Colbert and " Produce Pete " on the Daily Show.

Even after the secession of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965, Sin Chew Daily still operated with its headquarter in Singapore under the management of successors of Aw Brothers.

Even after the Daily News changed ownership in 1991, WQCD was retained by the Newss former corporate parent, the Tribune Company.

Upon hearing that Leanne would be returning as a hooker, Danson told the Daily Mirror: " Even for Leanne it's quite a radical storyline ," she says.

Even though there had been efforts by temples of the Nikkō-lineage in the late 19th century to unify into one single separate Nichiren-School the Kommon-ha, today's Nichiren Shōshū comprises only the Taiseki-ji temple and its dependant temples.

Even before the late 18th-19th century, " metropolitan France " was largely a patchwork of local customs and regional differences that the unifying aims of the Ancien Régime and the French Revolution had only begun to work against, and today's France remains a nation of numerous indigenous and foreign languages, of multiple ethnicities and religions, and of regional diversity that includes French citizens in Corsica, Guadeloupe, Martinique and elsewhere around the globe.

Even as rules become stricter, the necessities of war become more numerous ; in addition to food, shelter, and ammunition, today's militaries require fuel, batteries, spare mechanical parts, electronic equipment, and many other things.

Even in today's world of automation and mass production, most Belgian chocolate is still made by hand in shops using original equipment.

Even though Cordus committed suicide, his work survived prompting Tacitus to deride " the stupidity of people who believe that today's authority can destroy tomorrow's memories.

" Even two Latin inscriptions around 350 from today's Algeria testify to the keeping and admiration of small particles of the cross.

Even today's gels can burn out ( to lighten in color starting in the center ) easily, rendering them useless.

Even the few mediocre sketches on the show are better than 99 % of today's sketch comedy.

Even with today's process technology providing what was formerly considered impossible numbers of gates on a single chip, gate counts remain one of the most important overall factors in the end price of a chip.

Even though today's MASINT is often on the edge of technologies, many of them under high security classification, the techniques have a long history.

Even today's personal sousveillance technologies like camera phones and weblogs tend to build a sense of community, in contrast to surveillance that some have said is corrosive to community.

Even though the Lutheran and Reformed regional churches of Baden merged in 1821 with strong support from his side, into today's Evangelische Landeskirche, his position as the prelate of the unified Protestant church was not endangered.

Even with today's computational power it is not possible to process functions with more than 4 or 5 dimensions.

Even though today's yields are several times higher, diminishing returns on seeding rates remains an important consideration in farming.

Even with the benefit of today's technology ( aftermarket rods and stroker cranks ), the real limit of a Y-block is about 348 in³, while the Chevrolet could be modified well past the factory limit of 400 in³.

Even some of today's trusses use metal springs to apply pressure to the hernia, via a pad which can be quite hard, and usually bulges into the hernia.

Even by today's commonplace high standards, however, the look and feel of the six Fallen Angels films seem transportingly authentic and sensuous, stylized in ways that evoke the milieu without spoofing it.

Even with today's miniaturisation making this possible, it is quite expensive to make these missiles since the sophisticated electronics within the missile are inevitably destroyed upon impact.

Even assuming a speed one hundred times faster than any of today's spaceprobes and a target planet within a couple of hundred light years would lead to a journey lasting several thousand years.

Even in today's world, it continues to amaze people with its simple but meaningful stories and many people are still inspired by the tales of Hitopadesha.

Even during the pleistocene snowlines were not much lower as in today's Alps.

Even though classical vocalists generally embark on successful performing careers as soloists by seeking out opera engagements, a number of today's most prominent singers have built their careers primarily by singing art songs, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Thomas Quasthoff, Ian Bostridge, Matthias Goerne, Susan Graham, and

Even today's professional United States Army, which is augmented by the Army Reserve and Army National Guard has a similar system of organization with a permanent, professional core and additional units which can be called upon in time of war or emergency.

Even in today's underground you aren't going to find a more devastating band than The Accused.

Even Hemingway, for all his efforts to formulate a naturalistic morality in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell To Arms never maintained that sex was all.

Even without this, the slowdown to a month-long day would still not have been completed by 4. 5 billion years from now when the Sun will evolve into a red giant and likely destroy both the Earth and Moon.

Even spacecraft directly orbiting the Sun do so in planes close to the ecliptic because a direct launch into a high-inclination solar orbit would require a prohibitively large launch vehicle.

Even if it generated zero revenue for IBM, the net present value of Sequent from IBM's viewpoint was higher inside IBM than inside Sun.

Even if the discussion is limited to the solar system, the Sun is not at the geometric center of any planet's orbit, but rather approximately at one focus of the elliptical orbit.

Sun Quan reminded his men, " Even though Zhang Liao is sick, he is still unrivalled.

Even his father's name is unrecorded, although a folk tradition gives it as Sun Zhong ( 孫鍾 ).

Even after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925, for sixty years, the KMT controlled all five branches of the government ; none were independent.

Even the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Museum's grandiose facade off Caine Road is easy to miss, perched as it is upon Castle Road which turns up through Mid-levels, surrounded by modern blocks.

Even though Sun Quan regarded him as an older brother, Zhou Yu always respected Sun as his lord and served him with humility and care.

Even though he carried the regent title, true power was in Sun Xiu's hands.

Even following the adoption of Copernicus's heliocentric model of the universe, new versions of the celestial sphere model were introduced, with the planetary spheres following this sequence from the central Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth-Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

Even so, it radiates about as much energy in 20 seconds as does the Sun in a year.

Even as Sedna nears its perihelion in mid 2076, the Sun would appear merely as a very bright star in its sky, only 100 times brighter than a full Moon on Earth, and too far away to be visible as a disc to the naked eye.

Even though the coma can become quite large, its size can actually decrease about the time it crosses the orbit of Mars around 1. 5 AU from the Sun.

Even, Saayana does not claim that to his own but says that " ii is remembered that the Sun ( light ) travels at a speed of 2, 202 yojanas per half a nimesha ".

Even Tsutomu Hata, disillusioned after his leadership battle with Ozawa, seceded to form the Sun Party in 1996.

' Even Abbey's new friend Edward Hoagland -- who had first written to him on March 19, 1970 praising Desert Solitaire -- lamented in the New York Times Book Review that Black Sun was " not a masterpiece " like Desert Solitaire, complaining that " he does not always finish his books but publishes next-to-last drafts.

Even though it has just 1. 4 times the mass of the Sun, this wide envelope gives it a luminosity of roughly 468 times the Sun's.

Even the Devas were subordinate to him-his son Meghanada had earned the name of Indrajit by defeating Indra, the King of heaven, in battle ; and even the Sun had to obey the rakshasa king.

Even though Pang Juan had tricked Sun Bin and maimed him by removing his knee caps, Sun Bin felt very sad to see his former classmate dead.

* Sarah 407 East River Pipe, Even The Sun Was Afraid, 1995