Though Maryland traditionally votes Democratic and had not elected a Republican Governor in almost 40 years, Townsend lost the race, gaining 48 % of the vote to Ehrlich's 51 % and Lancaster's 1 %.

Though he resigned the position the following year, and entertained the idea of taking up conducting posts elsewhere, he based himself increasingly in Vienna and soon made his home there.

Though he attempted to defend the duchy against French encroachment for nearly a year, lack of resources and money meant he could do little but husband what little territory the English still controlled, and he resigned the command in September 1371 and returned to England.

Though he thereafter resigned his cabinet post, Massey was still included in the Canadian delegation to the 1926 Imperial Conference, where was drafted the Balfour Declaration that would ultimately lead to vast constitutional changes in the role of the monarch and his viceroys throughout the former empire.

Though retaining its two seats at the 2004 European elections, in a smaller field of 7 ( Scotland up until then had 8 MEPs ) the Scottish press and certain elements within the Fundamentalist wing of the Party depicted the result as a disaster for the SNP putting further pressure on Swinney who resigned soon afterwards on 22 June 2004.

Though he was elected to Parliament for Manchester in 1839, it was without his consent and he resigned in the following year.

Though this had been internally suspected since 1973, Brandt accepted responsibility and resigned.

Though highly admired, he resigned after members of the audience jeered Maria Callas during a run of operas from February, 16 to April 27, 1956.

Though he completely supported American participation in the First World War, he resigned from Columbia on Oct. 8, 1917, charging that " the University is really under the control of a small and active group of trustees who have no standing in the world of education, who are reactionary and visionless in politics, narrow and medieval in religion.

Though Nixon resigned in 1974, the effects of the Act he passed had positive effects on America years after his resignation.

Though the party not only recovered many seats but also gained more votes overall than Devine's Progressive Conservatives, he fell short of defeating the government and resigned in 1987 to be succeeded by Roy Romanow.

Though McLeish could not have personally benefited financially from the oversight, he undertook to repay the £ 36, 000 rental income, and resigned to allow the Scottish Labour Party a clean break to prepare for the 2003 Parliamentary elections.

Though the events finally stabilized during the 2000 – 01 season, the USAD administration changed dramatically that year when the program's executive director, James Alvino, resigned.

Though he resigned in 1980, his term was marked by the formation of many Malian sports organizations.

Though he had been elected to the Senate in 1887 ( serving March 4, 1887 to June 10, 1891 ), he resigned to become chairman of the Railroad Commission of Texas at the behest of his friend, Governor James Stephen " Jim " Hogg, who had run on a platform of state regulation of railroads, and chaired it until 1903 .< ref name =" JOHN H. Reagan "> </ span ></ font ></ ref >

Though he opposed secession, Tattnall resigned his commission on 21 February 1861.

Though Gowen remained as president, and Smith resigned from the board, the incident forced Gowen's 1876 annual report to approximate frankness.

Though the ORP passed the NSW Electoral Office's political party registration process in June 2006, allowing it to contest the 2007 New South Wales state election, Jenkins resigned his seat shortly before the election.

Though he never stated why he left the team there were rumours that he was to join the Senators, whose former owner and manager, Tommy Gorman, resigned on the same day from the New York Americans.

Though Sadanobu resigned from his position on the senior council, he continued to keep up with political affairs, especially keeping in close touch with Matsudaira Nobuaki ( his successor in the senior council ), as well as the rector of the Shogunate's college, Hayashi Jussai, whom he had personally installed in that position.

Though her interests lay in developing her Waterbending skills, she resigned herself to cooking and cleaning duties while her brother, Sokka, trained to become a warrior.

Though equipped with limbs and the ability to breathe air, most still had a long tapering body and strong tail.

Though the period of his caliphate was not long, it included successful invasions of the two most powerful empires of the time, a remarkable achievement in its own right.

Though the New Zealand leg of the tour did not take long in comparison to the number of Australian games, the British and Irish experienced considerable difficulty across the Tasman after white-washing the Australians.

Though Guam is a United States territory, some U. S. long distance plans and courier services list Guam as an international location.

Though early birth puts the tiny newborn marsupial at a greater environmental risk, it significantly reduces the dangers associated with long pregnancies, as there is no need to carry a large fetus to full-term in bad seasons.

Though set long after his time frame for the life of " Merlin Ambrosius ", he tries to assert the characters are the same with references to King Arthur and his death as told in the Historia Regum Britanniae.

Though he never attended college, Webster's father was intellectually curious and prized education ; his mother spent long hours teaching Noah and his siblings spelling, mathematics and music.

Though Australia has a small population, the sheer number of venues that bands could play in, mainly along the Eastern coast, meant that a band could tour extensively, often playing every night for long periods.

Though the original rules of Reversi were such that each player was limited to using no more than half of the disks ( those in possession at the start ), this rule has long been out of common practice ; and, if using a physical board and pieces, the player whose turn it is simply retrieves a disk that is in possession of the opponent as needed.

Though the code of chivalry crucial to later continental romances dealing with the Round Table is mostly absent from the earlier Welsh material, some passages of Culhwch and Olwen seem to prefigure it, for instance when Arthur explains the ethos of his court, saying " e are nobles as long as we are sought out: the greater the bounty we may give, the greater our nobility, fame and honour.

Though all serials have long switched to being taped, extensive post production work and multiple takes, while possible, are not feasible due to the tight taping schedules and low budgets.

Though steel had been produced by various inefficient methods long before the Renaissance, its use became more common after more efficient production methods were devised in the 17th century.

Though singular they is widespread in everyday English and has a long history of usage, debate continues about its acceptability.

Though the first submersible vehicles were tools for exploring under water, it did not take long for inventors to recognize their military potential.

Though its contract with the University of California was initially intended to be temporary, the relationship was maintained long after the war.

* Lord Longford, Peace by Ordeal ( Though long out of print, it is available in libraries )

Though the qilin (), a creature in Chinese mythology, is sometimes called " the Chinese unicorn ", it is a hybrid animal that looks less unicorn than chimera, with the body of a deer, the head of a lion, green scales and a long forwardly-curved horn.

Though the term is commonly used to refer to spinning or spin-cast rods and tackle, fly rods in smaller line weights ( size # 0-# 3 ) have also long been utilized for ultra-light fishing, as well as to protect the thin-diameter, lightweight end section of leader, or tippet, used in this type of angling.

By producing analgesia and sedation, opioids may be appropriate in carefully selected patients with pain-associated insomnia. Though, dependence on opioids can lead to suffering from long time disturbance in sleep.

Though they are widely distributed throughout the Pacific, many breadfruit hybrids and cultivars are seedless or otherwise biologically incapable of naturally dispersing long distances.

Though the colors vary from school to school, the normal uniform for boys is shorts or long pants in the specified color and material, with a short-sleeved shirt ( often white ) while girls ' uniforms include pinafores or skirts, with blouses and shorts underneath.

Though tags up to a half-inch long have been seen, they are typically the size of a grain of rice.

Though the settlement became known as Ludlow, Fouke le Fitz Waryn a 13th-century poem states that it was called Dinham " for a very long time ".

Though there is no archaeological evidence of it, Knossos may well have had a port at the site of Heraklion as long ago as 2000 BC.

* Though Isaac Asimov was best known for his long and illustrious career as a science fiction author, his writing came second to his academic career early in his life.