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Though Fox had little interest in the actual exercise of power and spent almost the entirety of his political career in opposition, he became noted as an anti-slavery campaigner, a supporter of the French Revolution, and a leading parliamentary advocate of religious tolerance and individual liberty.
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Though his movement attracted disdain from some, others such as William Penn and Oliver Cromwell viewed Fox with respect.
* Though Fox used the Bible to support his views, Fox reasoned that, because God was within the faithful, believers could follow their own inner guide rather than rely on a strict reading of Scripture or the word of clerics.
Though he continued to script for National / Detective Comics, Inc., Fox became the head writer for All-American.
Though not owning the broadcasting rights to show first-run movies from 20th Century Fox, Showtime has been able to show independent films the studio owns the home video rights to, even if they did not release them theatrically, most notably being Mel Gibson's 2004 film, The Passion of the Christ.
Though his proposal failed, many reformers in Parliament came to regard him as their leader, instead of Charles James Fox.
Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.
Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.
Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light.
Though there were few developments in France after 1792 that Fox could positively favour ( the guillotine claimed the life of his old friend, the duc de Biron, among many others ) Fox maintained that the old monarchical system still proved a greater threat to liberty than the new, degenerating experiment in France.
Though Fox would die before abolition was formalised, he oversaw a Foreign Slave Trade Bill in spring 1806 that prohibited British subjects from contributing to the trading of slaves with the colonies of Britain ’ s wartime enemies, thus eliminating two-thirds of the slave trade passing through British ports.
' Though he became increasingly dishevelled and fat in middle age, the young Fox had been a very fashionable figure ; in particular, he had been the leader of the ' Maccaroni ' set of extravagant young followers of Continental fashions.
Though the substance of the disagreements is unclear, by 1656 Fox and Nayler were hardly on speaking terms.
Though they share call letters, WFLA radio and WFLA television are not longer affiliated ; the TV station provided weather information for the radio station's newscasts for nearly 20 years until the local Fox television affiliate, WTVT, became the radio station's weather partner in June 2009.
Though some studios like MGM and Fox sold vast tracts in the ' 60s and ' 70s, many historical sets continue to be razed even now as there seems to be little interest in their preservation.
Though having gone to separate high schools, Barnes was a friend of fellow Fox News personality Brit Hume in high school, and at The University of Virginia.
Though several film companies showed strong interest in acquiring the film, 20th Century Fox acquired the film for release in July 1945 so as not to compete with Fox's A Bell for Adano released earlier.
Though the Star Fox Team is able to infiltrate the base and destroy a large amount of Aparoids, and the first shield, a second shield is formed and laser power is useless against it.
Though Fox received no official notification from Viacom that the affiliation would be canceled, the unofficial signs were enough for Fox to agree in principle to buy WGBS-TV ( channel 57, now WPSG ) and move its programming there.
Though " Skullface " was able to foil another arson attempt by the False Face Society with the help of Robin ( Tim Drake ), he was unable to stop Black Mask's new right-hand man, Tattoo, from kidnapping Lucius Fox, the " mastermind " behind the Wayne bailout.
Though Fox had introduced 4-track stereo magnetic sound as part of the CinemaScope system in 1953, the technology had proved to be expensive and unreliable.
Though still produced by WTWO, the broadcast once again featured a separate news set, graphics package ( the same used by many Fox owned-and-operated stations and affiliates ), and the news music package Extreme by Stephen Arnold Music.
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Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
Though the four boys and two girls, the youngest nineteen years of age, the oldest twenty-four, came from varying backgrounds and had different professional and personal interests, there was surprising agreement among them.
Though it did not become known to the writer for some time, a nucleus group had sprung up within the class.
Though little democracy had ever been practised in this region, and much of it was still ruled by feudalistic means, it was taken for granted that at least the forms of Western democracy would be established in this area and Western capitalism preserved within it.
Though it is not easy to apply the evidence of the Iliad to any specific era, this marvelous product of the epic tradition had certainly taken definitive shape by 750.
Though Bob Carroll seemed to have had his head practically blown off by the exploding grenade, he lived.
Though such works as Coming of Age in Samoa and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword remain popular with the American public, Mead and Benedict never had the impact on the discipline of anthropology that some expected.
Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.
Though Nobel remained unmarried, his biographers note that he had at least three loves.
Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.
Though she had taken away Alexander's sword, they feared to set about the deed until she threatened to wake him.
Though he was destined to be a strongly counter-reforming emperor, Alexander had little prospect of succeeding to the throne during the first two decades of his life, as he had an elder brother, Nicolas, who seemed of robust constitution.
Though his party won the governor's race and control of the legislature, Johnson still had to overcome considerable opposition from the conservatives in both parties.
Though most BBS software had been written in BASIC or Pascal ( with some low-level routines written in assembly language ), the C language was starting to gain popularity.
Though associated with the Sassanid Persians and with Mithradates VI Eupator ( who for a time incorporated the city into his empire ), by the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.
Though a practicing Christian, he had been born into a Jewish family with origins from Portugal, and had converted at a young age.
Though the merger process was traumatic and the new party suffered a few years of extremely poor poll results, it gradually found much greater electoral success than the Liberal Party had done in the post-war era.
Though the Balkan allies had fought together against the common enemy, that was not enough to overcome their mutual rivalries.
Though Havana, which had become the third-largest city in the Americas, was to enter an era of sustained development and closening ties with North America during this period, the British occupation of the city proved short-lived.
Though Gauss had up to that point been financially supported by his stipend from the Duke, he doubted the security of this arrangement, and also did not believe pure mathematics to be important enough to deserve support.
Though conquerors, the Chaldeans were rapidly and completely assimilated into the dominant Babylonian culture, as the Amorites before them had been, and after the fall of Babylon in 539 BC the term " Chaldean " was no longer used to describe a specific race of people, but rather a " socio-Economic " class, regardless of ethnicity.
Though Chiang had achieved status abroad as a world leader, his government deteriorated as the result of corruption and inflation.
Though fascinated by the narrative elements of some of the pictures, particularly the Biblical themes of the massive paintings of Benjamin West, at this point Beaux had no aspirations of becoming an artist.
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