Though recently the club has enjoyed relatively sustained success, there have also been prolonged stretches of mediocrity, along with two instances when the club's ownership threatened to move the team away from San Francisco.

Though Buddhism initially enjoyed wide acceptance, even being supported as the state ideology during the Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, Balhae, and Goryeo periods, Buddhism in Korea suffered extreme repression during the Joseon Dynasty.

Though the Pistons enjoyed a solid local following, their city's small size made it difficult for them to be profitable.

Though Brock was noted as a handsome man who enjoyed the company of women, he never married.

Though never again the railroad boomtown of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the community enjoyed a growth spurt in the 1950s and 1980s, celebrating its centennial in 1987.

Though married four times, Louis discreetly enjoyed the company of both African-American and European-American women, including Lena Horne, Sonja Henie and Lana Turner.

Though Maria Duce's membership probably did not much exceed one hundred, its monthly journal Fiat enjoyed a fairly wide circulation in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Though Barnes never married, he enjoyed a relationship for over two decades with Dinah Mary Mondet.

Though exploited, Tom Thumb enjoyed his job and had a good relationship with Barnum free of bitterness.

Though the prestige Tu-144 programme enjoyed top level support until 1973, as did the important Tu-154 airliner, the favored position the Tupolev Design Bureau enjoyed through Tupolev ’ s personal political connections was largely eclipsed by Ilyushin.

Though they had never enjoyed an easy relationship, Douglas-Home recognised his colleague's stature, and felt his loss politically as well as personally.

Though he died in 1841, his pedagogy enjoyed a renaissance of sorts in the mid -

Though the policy initially enjoyed the support of most Albertans, disregard for it was sufficiently widespread that effective enforcement proved impossible.

Though Glass enjoyed loyalty from the New Republic staff, his reporting repeatedly drew outraged rebuttals from the subjects of his articles, eroding his credibility and leading to private skepticism from insiders at The New Republic.

Though it initially enjoyed wide acceptance, even being supported as the state ideology during the Goryeo period, Buddhism in Korea suffered extreme repression during the Joseon Dynasty, which lasted for over five hundred years.

Though the siege ultimately failed, what early success the allies enjoyed was largely due to the combination of cool-headed leadership and dashing bravado of Bayard.

Though on the retreat, the Taira enjoyed the distinct advantages of being in friendly, home territories, and of being far more adept at naval combat than their rivals.

Though the company enjoyed high levels of public awareness and generally positive attention from industry press, it ran into fierce competition, first from Microsoft ( whose Pen Services for Windows were later the subject of an FTC investigation and patent violation suits by GO ), and later from Apple's Newton project, and others.

Though the label had enjoyed some early hits with The Mar-Keys and Booker T. & The M. G.

Though there is no evidence to suggest that the Appeal specifically informed or inspired Turner, the two events, which occurred just a few years apart, intensified white anxiety in the South about the potential for future insurrections and inaugurated the adoption of laws designed to strip free blacks of what little rights they enjoyed.

Though Paige has enjoyed a long career in musical theatre, she rarely goes to watch musicals, much preferring to watch films or plays.

Though Sanford enjoyed some support for his effort, most of the faculty were against the proposal, the largest concern being that the facility would be a monument to Nixon rather than a center of study.

Though Sanford enjoyed his time as Duke's president, he still harbored political ambitions.

Though he enjoyed foreign languages to a certain extent, Leavis felt that his native language was the only one on which he was able to speak with authority, thus his reading in the classical languages is not particularly evident in his critical publications ( Bell 3 ).

Though celebrities come from many different working fields, most celebrities are typically associated with individuals that come from the fields of sports and entertainment or a person who is a public figure in that is commonly recognizable in mass media.

Though native speakers of English have been working in non-English speaking countries in this capacity for years, it was not until the last twenty-five years or so that there was any widespread focus on training particularly for this field.

Though representing himself as a spokesman for the common man, he often appeared out of place with real working people.

Though proving a breach of a non-disclosure agreement against a former employee who is legally working for a competitor can be very difficult.

Though coalition and minority governments have been an occasional feature of parliamentary politics, the first-past-the-post electoral system used for general elections tends to maintain the dominance of these two parties, though each has in the past century relied upon a third party to deliver a working majority in Parliament.

Though Wagner was working on his epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, he found himself intrigued by the legend of Tristan und Isolde.

Though in England the villas were abandoned, looted, and burned by Anglo-Saxon invaders in the fifth century, in other areas large working villas were donated by aristocrats and territorial magnates to individual monks, often to become the nucleus of famous monasteries.

Though the family was working class, it was not as impoverished as London's later accounts claimed.

Though the King and Queen spent the working day at Buckingham Palace, partly for security and family reasons they stayed at night at Windsor Castle about west of central London with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret.

Though Welk was occasionally rumored to be very tight with a dollar, he paid his regular band members top scale-a very good living for a working musician.

Though their presence is never explained, these silent nameless characters have been interpreted variously as being a Greek chorus, a jury or a lynch mob, all standing in silent judgment of the Birlings and representing the powerless working class masses that are excluded from and exploited by the Birling ’ s lives and working practices.

Though a few make fun of him, with the help of sympathetic townspeople, and using his own ingenuity and determination, Kip puts the suit ( which he dubs " Oscar ") back into working condition.

Though the Greeks had working planetaria, the first orrery that was a planetarium of the modern era was produced in 1704, and one was presented to the Earl of Orrery — whence the name came.

Though Wise worked only as editor on Citizen Kane, it is likely that while working on the film he became familiar with the optical printer techniques employed by Linwood Dunn, inventor of the practical optical printer, to produce effects for Citizen Kane such as the image projected in the broken snowglobe which falls from Kane's hand as he dies.

Though selective reduction seems to be working, mothers of multiples who undergo this procedure are at a higher risk of miscarrying compared to that of an unreduced multiple pregnancy.

Though receiving mixed reviews, the band described the album as " diverse ", " experimental " and " spontaneous " and that the writing and recording process was " very different " as the band were working under pressure.

Though no longer a working dock, Limehouse Basin basin with its marina remains a working facility.

Though Warshaw had spent over a year working on consecutive development schedules for games ( seven months working on Yars ' Revenge and then six months on Raiders of the Lost Ark ), he accepted the offer based on the challenge of completing a game in a short time frame and at Spielberg's request.

Though he had claimed to be retiring after Three Colors, at the time of his death Kieślowski was working on a new trilogy co-written with Piesiewicz, consisting of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory and inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy.

Though the Kildare Street side car park was restored for use quickly, a considerable increase in staff numbers and media numbers working in the Leinster House required that the temporary car park on Leinster Lawn remain in use.

Though frequent performing and other activities prevented them from working together for several years, Sasha and Digweed announced that they would reunite for a few Australian performances, starting in November 2006.

Though occasionally teaming up with ' Daddy ', she tends to prefer working with Barbella.