Though Alexander and his successor, John XXIII, gained widespread support, especially at the cost of the Avignon pope, the schism remained, now involving not two but three claimants: Gregory XII at Rome, Benedict XIII at Avignon and John XXIII.

Though he expressed the conventional fears of the danger from the Turks, Gregory XIII's attentions were more consistently directed to the dangers from the Protestants.

Though certainly a strong partisan of the Hildebrandine reforms, Desiderius belonged to the moderate party and could not always see eye-to-eye with Pope Gregory VII in his most intransigent proceedings.

Though of ancient origin, Blois is first distinctly mentioned by Gregory of Tours in the 6th century, and the city gained some notability in the 9th century, when it became the seat of a powerful countship with « Blesum castrum » (« Le château de Blois »).

Though Gregory of Tours made a version, mainstream Christian tradition rejects the Acts of Thomas as pseudepigraphical and apocryphal, and for its part, the Roman Catholic Church finally confirmed the Acts as heretical at the Council of Trent.

Though he died in the same year as its publication, this translation was principally the work of Gregory Martin, formerly Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, close friend of Saint Edmund Campion.

Though John Gregory Smith succeeded Perham as president on January 5, 1866, groundbreaking did not take place until February 15, 1870, at Thompson Junction, Minnesota, west of Duluth, Minnesota.

Though other space trading games appeared earlier, including " DECWAR " 1974 and " MegaWars " 1983, Sherrick states that he was unfamiliar with either game, and conceived his game as a cross between Dave Kaufman's BASIC program " Star Trader " 1974, the board game " Risk ", and Gregory Yob's " Hunt the Wumpus " 1972.

Though never publicly performed, it was released as the film " Vanya on 42nd Street " by Gregory and Louis Malle.

Though the Greek liturgical rite was used in many of its churches, Albania was part of the patriarchate of Rome until 731, when Byzantine Emperor Leo III, in reprisal for the opposition of Pope Saint Gregory III to the emperor's iconoclast policy, attached the whole of eastern Illyricum to the patriarchate of Constantinople.

Though following the order of The Sentences, the commentaries of Capreolus are a calm, learned, and penetrating exposition of the teaching of St. Thomas, as well as a comprehensive defence against sundry opponents and critics, including Scotus, Henry of Ghent, John of Ripa, Guido the Carmelite, Aureolus, Durandus, Gregory of Rimini, William of Ockham, and other Nominalists.

Though the movie features excellent songs they all depict the situation like nothing else could, like a prisoner singing an ode to an imprisoned bird, " O Panchhi Pyare " sung by Asha Bhosle and Asha Bhosle's touching, ' Ab ke Baras Bhej Bhaiya ko Babul ' composed in ' Raga Pilu ', excellently uses the folk idiom of a traditional song of a newly married girl longing for her maternal home, ( maika ), but being sung by a prison inmate of Kalyani, immediately conveys the irony in its placement.

Though there might be blocs of opinion, sometimes enduring, on important matters, there were no political parties and likewise no government or opposition ( as in the Westminster system ).

Though at first well received in political circles, it was eventually doomed by well-organized opposition from conservatives, the American Medical Association, and the health insurance industry.

Though the term " democracy " is typically used in the context of a political state, the principles also are applicable to private organizations.

Though unable to directly write policies or carry them through to the government, Roland was able to influence her political allies and thus promote her political agenda.

Though women did not gain the right to vote as a result of the Revolution, they still greatly expanded their political participation and involvement in governing.

Though some still maintain that calling a Monarch Head of State is incorrect, it has now become a widespread political convention to attach the label to Monarchs, regardless of their political position.

Though he did vote against the admission of Missouri as a slave state, and though he would be the nominated presidential candidate of the Free Soil Party, an anti-slavery political party, in 1848, there was no ambiguity in his position on the abolition of slavery during his term of office.

Though today an Arabic-speaking people, that aspect constitutes for Egyptians a cultural dimension of their identity, not a necessary attribute of or prop for their national political being.

Though Oman is developing into a constitutional monarchy, political parties are not yet allowed in Oman.

Though Satsuma maintained strong influence over the islands, the Ryūkyū Kingdom maintained a considerable degree of domestic political freedom for over two hundred years.

Though it was not fully realized under Nobunaga's rule, he attempted to create a public, rational political authority.

Though a minority of WASG members opposed the merger of the two parties scheduled for June 2007, the new party – The Left – was on Germany's political stage before the federal elections.

Though Benedict IX soon returned, and forced Sylvester III to retire to his See of Sabina, he never gave up his claims to the papal throne, and through his political allies contrived apparently to keep some hold on a portion of Rome.

Though United States President Bill Clinton pressured Musharraf to ban the alleged group behind the hijacking — Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Pakistani officials refused because of fears of reprisal from political parties such as Jamaat-e-Islami.

Though Greece eventually lost political sovereignty, the Greek culture of training in public speaking was adopted virtually wholesale by the Romans.

Though the Federalists wanted neither Jefferson nor Burr to be president, Hamilton convinced his party that Jefferson would be a lesser political evil than Burr and that such scandal within the electoral process would undermine the new constitution.

Though decrees on mass media control were declared, the political skirmishes and rally happened.

Though their schools were segregated and underfunded, as were services, due to a lack of political representation, African Americans were able to create their own communities.

Though British political interest in the territories of the unravelling Ottoman Empire was as intense as in France, it was mostly more discreetly exercised.

Though Otto I was crowned Emperor in 962 and returned to Germany in 965, the political situation in Italy remained unstable.

Though the invaders were unable to take control, the political system remained unstable.

Though the ethnic Lithuanian nobility were the main converts to Catholicism — both paganism and the Orthodox rite remained strong among the peasants — the king's conversion and its political implications created lasting repercussions for the history of both Lithuania and Poland.

Though Nasser allowed former Ba ' ath members to hold prominent political positions, they never reached positions as high in the government as did the Egyptian officials.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

Though the accused raised many other objections, he did not object on this crucial point at any stage of the proceedings.

Though they are often heard clairaudiently, as if a voice were speaking them, in other cases they are apprehended visually as symbols: a slope to signify the name `` Hill '', for instance.

Though he knew no more about military science and tactics than any other desk officer, he managed to get transferred to the combat forces.

Though President John F. Kennedy was primarily concerned with the crucial problems of Berlin and disarmament adviser McCloy's unexpected report from Khrushchev, his new enthusiasm and reliance on personal diplomacy involved him in other key problems of U.S. foreign policy last week.

Though the only accounts of his lectures seem to show a sort of eccentric style and approach, he was said to have been good friends with many other masters at the school in Paris, and taught there, as well as some time in southern France, into his old age.

Though the name Area 51 is used in official Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) documentation, other names used for the facility include Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Home Base, Watertown Strip, Groom Lake, and most recently Homey Airport.

Though most of these laws have been relaxed or repealed in most states, they are still strictly enforced in some other states.

Though this enzyme is the most prolific creator of organic bromides by living organisms, other bromoperoxidases exist in nature that do not use vanadium.

Though his recordings sold well, he was not so influential on some younger blues singers of his generation, who could not imitate him as they could other commercially successful artists.

Though diverse, these views may be generally classified into those that hold Christ to be only divine and not differing from the Father hypostatically ; those that hold Christ to be less fully God than the Father ; in other forms being completely human and a messenger as the perfect created human.

Though Gondwana was still intact in the beginning of the Cretaceous, it broke up as South America, Antarctica and Australia rifted away from Africa ( though India and Madagascar remained attached to each other ); thus, the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans were newly formed.

Though the Shang did not have a concept of " medicine " as distinct from other fields, their oracular inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells refer to illnesses that affected the Shang royal family: eye disorders, toothaches, bloated abdomen, etc., which Shang elites usually attributed to curses sent by their ancestors.

Though Common Lisp is not as popular as some non-Lisp languages, many of its features have made their way into other, more widely used programming languages and systems ( see Greenspun's Tenth Rule ).

Though centered around Japan, the film was also shot in such other countries as Guinea Bissau, Ireland and Iceland.

Though it comes from the area of software development, it can be, has been, and continues to be widely applied as a general model of the maturity of process ( e. g., IT service management processes ) in IS / IT ( and other ) organizations.

Though in theory subject directly to the pope, these rulers had been practically independent or dependent on other states for generations.

Though normally distinguishing itself from other churches by calling itself the " Catholic Church ", it also uses the description " Roman Catholic Church ".

Though the model showed no significant changes to the climate in areas other than the Tropics, this may not be the case since the model has possible errors and the results are never absolutely definite.

Though Brewster duly finished his theological studies and was licensed to preach, his other interests distracted him from the duties of his profession.

Though widely used, it differs in form from the nominative only in the masculine singular of the second declension ( that is, never in the plural, never in the feminine or neuter, and never in any declension other than the second ).

Though they have no authority to direct the life of any congregation, the Regional Churches are analogous to the middle judicatories of other denominations.

Though he remained firmly neutral, each side accused him of siding with the other, perhaps because of his neutrality.

Though billed and marketed as an ELO album, the only returning member other than Lynne was Tandy, who performed on one track.

Though concentrated in London, the outbreak affected other areas of the country as well.