Though losses in the 2001 legislative elections made the DPP the largest single party in the Legislative Yuan, the pan-blue coalition retained a narrow majority over the pan-green coalition.

Though Cao Cao eventually withdrew, Yuan Tan came to resent Yuan Shang even more during course of the battle, which led to open warfare between the brothers.

Though he was outwitted and defeated by Cao Cao, Yuan Shao's decisions might not have been so foolish as numerous traditional historians and commentators have said.

Though Yuan Shao's army was of comparable size, it consisted almost entirely of infantry.

Though technically a private organization, it is funded by the government and controlled by the Mainland Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan.

Though usually associated with juvenile settings such as schools, there are notable incidents that take place in more official locations, such as the food fight at a lunch meeting of the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan.

Though these companies were supposedly treated the same as local Chinese companies by the Government, the President of the Yuan legislature in Nanjing, Cheng Kung-po, complained that this was untrue to the Kaizo Japanese review.

Though unable to conclusively defeat the Yuan forces, the Japanese fought hard and inflicted heavy casualties.

Though Kim Busik was apparently ignorant of, or scorned to quote, Japanese histories, he lifts generously from the Chinese dynastic chronicles and even unofficial Chinese records, most prominently the Wei shu ( 魏書, Book of Wei ), Sanguo Zhi ( 三國志 ), Jin Shu ( 晉書 ), Jiu Tangshu ( 舊唐書, Old history of Tang ), Xin Tangshu ( 新唐書, New history of Tang ), and the Zizhi Tongjian ( 資治通鑑, Comprehensive mirror for aid in government ).

Though she didn't release new album for years, she was still invite to perform at 9th Asia Song Festival which was held in Yeosul, Korea on 4th Augest. In September, she will be involved in another china drama Tun Shu Xi Jiang about revolution occurring in Xinjiang with Hong Kong actor Bowie Lam and Chinese director Zhang Jizhong.

Though one of the kid's faces is not shown, it appears that the kid who is shown, is none other than Shu, the star of the anime series.

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 he had a happy childhood surrounded by his many siblings, his family knew Francis was likely to be a future Emperor ( his uncle Joseph had no surviving issue from either of his two marriages ), and so in 1784 the young Archduke was sent to the Imperial Court in Vienna to educate and prepare him for his future role.

Though the Dienststelle Ribbentrop concerned itself with German foreign relations with every part of the world, a special emphasis was put on Anglo-German relations, as Ribbentrop knew that Hitler favoured an alliance with Britain.

Though Bushnell knew Atari lacked the capacity to manufacture 150, 000 units, he agreed.

Though he knew repealing the laws would mean the end of his ministry, Peel decided to do so.

Though brought up a Lutheran, Queen Anne had in her youth lived with a niece of the Emperor Charles V, and not only knew something of the faith, but had frequently been present at mass with her former friend.

Though the performances were in English, of which Berlioz knew virtually none, he was still able to grasp the grandeur and sublimnity of Shakespeare's language along with the richness of the plays ' dramatic design.

Though Peake was an artist and poet who knew many years of perfect health and happy productivity, his paralysis caused by the Parkinson's disease that afflicted him during the last years of his life, is an undeniable influence on the novels.

Though Narita confessed that he knew nothing about Star Trek, Meyer replied that he did not want him to have any preconceived notions about the look of the series.

Though he initially denied any involvement by his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, eventually he claimed that she knew of her husband's dealings and typed some documents for him.

Though Cage Rage promoter Andy Geer said that the UFC show would not affect ticket sales for CR21, the signing of Sapp was a clear sign that the company knew it would need a superstar draw in order to successfully compete with the American promotion.

Though Bentley had never been accused of attacking any of the police officers, who were shot at by Craig, for him to be convicted of murder as an accessory in a joint enterprise it was necessary for the prosecution to prove that he knew that Craig had a deadly weapon when they began the break-in.

Though he only knew a handful of guitar chords and improvised the majority of his lyrics ( as opposed to committing them to paper ), Suzuki was asked to perform with the band that same night.

* Though virtually nothing of the Jackal's past history is explored, he finds several of his underworld contacts through an old friend whom he knew in Katanga, indicating he is an ex-mercenary with a military or quasi-military background.

Though regarded by those who knew him personally as an intellectual heavyweight, he presented himself as a lightweight, semi-comic politician-the " clown prince " of Irish politics, in the words of long-time friend and journalist John Healy.

Though the two only knew each other for a few years, Hōnen entrusted Shinran with a copy of his secret work, the Senchakushū.

Though Casanova knew his table and claimed in his memoir to have been compiling a ( never completed ) dictionary of cheeses, his comment has been taken to refer mistakenly to a grana cheese very similar to the " Parmigiano ", the Grana Padano, is produced in the Lodi area.

" As one author later noted, " Though no one knew it at the time, Sister Teresa had just become Mother Teresa ".

Though the police were never informed, the family knew that Harry, Katherine's son, beat his mother to death in a drunken rage-which explains why her dogs did not sound an alarm-they knew the murderer.

Though he never knew the name of his father, he commented “ I suspect I know who he was ”.

Though he knew he needed the book to sell sufficient copies to make £ 2, 500 before he saw any profit, Edgar was confidently aware this would be achieved in the first three months of the book going on sale, hopelessly underestimating the expenses.

Though Harriman might be able to control the preferred stock, Hill knew the company bylaws allowed for the holders of the common stock to vote to retire the preferred.

Though agents in the GID knew there was a gap between what the radicals promised in their rhetoric and what they were capable of accomplishing, they nevertheless told Palmer they had evidence of plans for an attempted overthrow of the U. S. government on May Day 1920.

Though critics and viewers interpret meaning and mood in these cityscapes, Hopper insisted “ I was more interested in the sunlight on the buildings and on the figures than any symbolism .” As if to prove the point, his late painting Sun in an Empty Room ( 1963 ) is a pure study of sunlight.

Though marked along the zodiac, they are defined by the movement of the Moon in a lunar month rather than the Sun in a solar year.

Though the follow-up was the unsuccessful single, " Black Veils of Melancholy ", they had a hit again the same year with the poppy, Marty Wilde penned " Ice in the Sun ", which climbed to Number 8.

Though in 1911 at the provisional government welcome ceremony, Sun Yat-sen said, " The revolution is not yet successful, the comrades still need to strive for the future.

Though not originally called " suncakes ", they were given the name by the owner of " Sun Booth ", one of the most famous pastry shops that sells them.

Though spacially within the Near Umbra, the Shard Realms of the Sun, Mercury, Venus, and Mars remain beyond the Horizon.

Though the plan was directed at the powerful Wei state, the ultimate aim of reunifying the empire of the fallen Han Dynasty necessitated the eventual destruction of Sun Quan's regime of Wu in the east.

Though winless in bowl games as a player, Riley has a 5 – 1 NCAA football bowl record as a head coach, having won the 2003 Las Vegas Bowl, 2004 Insight Bowl, 2006 Sun Bowl, 2007 Emerald Bowl, and 2008 Sun Bowl.

Though the day had at times been partly cloudy, and although mere kilometres away in Thevenard the view was still clouded over, the southwestern sky where the Sun and Moon were located was clear from Ceduna itself at the time of the total solar eclipse, late in the afternoon.

Though sunspots had been observed since ancient times, it was only when the telescope came into use that they were observed to turn with the Sun, and thus the period of the solar rotation could be defined.

Though Variations was well received in a number of countries, Farah's reputation was cemented by his most famous novel, Maps ( 1986 ), the first part of his Blood in the Sun trilogy.

Though only some Nations ' Sun Dances include the piercings, the Canadian Government outlawed that feature of the Sun Dance in 1895.

Though he aids Hardman back to some amount of strength he soon continues onwards on his travels south, with little idea of an aim or objective, a " second Adam searching for the forgotten paradise of the reborn Sun '.

Though 18 Scorpii is only slightly more metal-rich overall than the Sun, its lithium abundance is about three times as high ; for this reason, Meléndez & Ramírez ( 2007 ) have suggested that 18 Scorpii be called a " quasi solar twin ", reserving the term solar twin for stars ( such as HIP 56948 ) that match the Sun, within the observational errors, for all parameters.

Though it was impossible to break the Sun temple of Konark, the stone walls of which are of to thick, he somehow managed to displace the Dadhinauti ( Arch stone ) and thus made a way for the temple to collapse.