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 Callimachus was an opponent of " big books ", the Suda puts his number of works at ( a possibly exaggerated ) 800, suggesting that he found large quantities of small works more acceptable.

Though not an explicit pan-Germanist, Lueger advocated racist policies against non-German speaking minorities in Austria-Hungary and in 1887 voted for a bill proposed by his long-time opponent Georg von Schönerer to restrict the immigration of Russian and Romanian Jews.

After being sworn in on October 14, 1940, Ball stunned his fellow conservatives in his first speech on the Senate floor, calling for the United States to aid Britain as " a barrier between us and whatever designs Hitler and his allies may have on this continent ," Though he was an opponent of the New Deal, he supported FDR's foreign policy, voting in favor of the lend-lease program on March 8, 1941 in spite of letters from his constituents that ran " 25 to 1 against the bill ".

Though the latter lost to former National Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos, Estrada won the vice-presidency garnering more votes than his closest opponent, Ramon Mitra, Jr .' s running mate, Marcelo Fernan.

Though he signed the compact, Halifax claimed no share in the harsh terms imposed upon the Dutch, and henceforth became a bitter opponent of the policy of subservience to French interests and of the Roman Catholic claims.

Though a strong opponent of militarism, he publicly stated that foreign nations attacking Germany must not expect the help or the neutrality of the Social Democrats.

Though he had supported the death penalty while serving as district attorney, as Attorney General, and when first elected Governor, he later became an opponent of its use.

Though Hague was accommodating to labor unions during the first half of his mayoral career — Jersey City police were known for turning back strikebreakers, something unheard of during the period — he became a savage opponent of organizers in the 1930s.

Though initially a supporter, he came to be an opponent of the Federation of the West Indies and agitated for Jamaica to become an independent state.

" Though physicist and outspoken manned spaceflight opponent Robert L. Park stated that robotic spacecraft " are doing so well it's going to be hard to justify sending a human ," the vision announced by the President states that " robotic missions will serve as trailblazers — the advanced guard to the unknown.

Though Van Tillians do, at one point, " put themselves in the shoes " of the opponent, " for the sake of argument ", to demonstrate where that position would lead, they claim that they can only do so because this is actually God's world, and man is actually God's creature, made in God's own image, and as such can never completely shut God out ( in living or thinking ) — hence there is always a common basis for dialogue, even though it is, in the presuppositionalist's view, a basis which the opponent is not usually willing to acknowledge and which is decidedly biased rather than neutral.

Though his opponent, Edward Ward, was backed by the state's political elite, including Andrew Jackson, Hugh Lawson White and Joseph McMinn, Carroll gained the support of Jackson foes John Williams and Davy Crockett, and was able to harness the anti-establishment sentiment that had arisen in the wake of the financial crisis.

Though the Austrian House of Habsburg was the foremost opponent of the Ottomans in prior centuries, Austria deemed the Ottoman threat to be much less serious than a Russian advance along the Danube River.

Though Herbert Hoover and Charles Evans Hughes campaigned for his opponent, in the December 1926 special election Walsh won the right to complete the remaining two years of Lodge's term, defeating William Morgan Butler, a friend of Coolidge and head of the Republican National Committee.

Though her opponent suffered from Alzheimer's disease, Ghinwa was defeated.

Though the trichromatic and opponent processes theories were initially thought to be at odds, it later came to be understood that the mechanisms responsible for the opponent process receive signals from the three types of cones and process them at a more complex level.

Though she did not endorse Harriman's opponent, Nelson Rockefeller, the sudden disendorsement of Harriman — it came in the final edition of the Post on the day before the election — swung the vote in Rockefeller's favor, and helped to launch his political career.

" Though he had at first welcomed US President Franklin Roosevelt, Smith soon emerged as an opponent to the New Deal, which he dubbed as " the Jackass Age ," when he noticed that Roosevelt's programs were leading the Southern economy in a new direction.

Though by itself, this card does nothing to directly hurt the opponent, if the opponent employs a strategy that relies on one of at most three examplars of a card, as combo decks occasionally do, their entire deck strategy is rendered useless.

Though Masaki stumbles with the unfamiliar systems, Zeorymer eventually awakens fully, Masaki undergoes a strange and short-lived shift in personality, and with the spherical energy weapon on the back of Zeorymer's hand, and destroys its opponent in a single attack.

1989 – present: Though the Peronism replaced the radicals in central government amid a national financial crisis, the latter party continued to rule in Mar del Plata.

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 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.