Though he was promised an appointment, all positions were filled by others.

Though the composition of a bocadillo varies by region, it is usually a baguette filled with salad and a choice of meats, fish ( usually tuna ), or omelette.

Though oxygen was undoubtedly released by photosynthesis well back in Archean times, it could not build up to any significant degree until chemical sinks — unoxidized sulfur and iron — had been filled ; until roughly 2. 3 billion years ago, oxygen was probably only 1 % to 2 % of its current level.

Though the Russians claim to have improved their operations, they continue to use the same borehole, which has already been filled with kerosene.

Though Yuen Woo-ping was credited for the martial arts choreography on Kung Fu Hustle, Hung actually did the preliminary work but left the film midway through, and Yuen filled in to complete it.

Though successfully introduced into the encyclopaedia, Esrum-Hellerup appeared in the first printing only: soon exposed as a hoax, the entry was removed and the space filled with an illustration.

Though the number of travellers is lower than the main corridor route from Toronto to Montreal, Via still uses the assigned ' car ' – meaning in all likelihood there will be empty cars while others are filled with passengers.

The film received mixed reviews, gaining a " Rotten " rating at Rotten Tomatoes of 43 %, with the site's consensus stating " Though there's nothing that offensive about Big Fat Liar, it is filled with Hollywood cliches and cartoonish slapstick, making it strictly for kids.

Though a niche in either Classical or Gothic contexts may be empty and merely provide some articulation and variety to a section of wall, the cult origins of the niche suggested that it be filled with a statue.

Though not the focus of the test, calcification within the artery walls, located in the outer edges of atheroma within the artery walls, is sometimes recognizable on fluoroscopy ( without contrast injection ) as radiodense halo rings partially encircling, and separated from the blood filled lumen by the interceding radiolucent atheroma tissue and endothelial lining.

Though Celebrity is filled with beautiful and famous faces, it has plenty of opportunity to bog down between star turns, and some of the episodes about the Simons are astonishingly flat.

Though the dock itself was filled, the northern quayside, on which the cranes were situated, and the railway sidings are still intact, although disused.

Though the maps in the Stieler looked dense with information they were mainly filled out with information where space in the image allowed, and the cartographers had little choice what to depict by the lack of known phenomena.

Though Steepler quickly filled a nearly empty niche, the Western gaming market still was not interested in Russia at the time.

This has created resentment among many Hindus, as the sanctity of the Ganges has been greatly compromised for the generation of electricity. Though the officials say that when the reservoir is filled to its maximum capacity the flow of the river will again become normal.

Though filled with grief, Florante waited two months before he returned home.

Though the Hess's space was filled the next year by Filene's, the Kmart space stayed vacant, and the north end of the mall suffered in response.

Though she now filled the role of man ’ s peer in the workplace, she was also obligated to devote herself to being his helpmate in the home.

Though they destroy these vampires, the attack leads to an argument between the two and Marius, filled with anger, leaves Pandora.

Though he retired from the group in the summer of 2007, he came back to play " Trampolina " in the summer season of 2008, and filled in for Manabat as Trixie in spring 2011.

Though he was once an honorable samurai, said to be a part of a party of Braves ( a reference to Phantom Brave ), the circumstances of his death left him filled with an unnatural fury, allowing him to force his way into becoming Overlord.

Though the wharf is now filled in, the neighbouring Eglinton Street still bears his name.

Though she had known the first Engineer, she had not known about his involvement in the Changers until his death, when her home computer filled up with his nanotechnology notes and started linking it to her work in human-machine fusion.

Though initially the band made efforts to replace LaTour — Blake Abbey of the Daytona Beach, Florida band Abagnale sporadically filled in as a rhythm guitarist — they soon decided to continue on as a four piece and began writing songs for their first full-length record.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

Though their holding-power-to-weight ratio is significantly lower than admiralty pattern anchors, their ease of handling and stowage aboard large ships led to almost universal adoption.

Though it made Poe a household name almost instantly, he was paid only $ 9 for its publication.

Though modestly budgeted, at the high end of the B movie scale, Stranger on the Third Floor still lost its studio, RKO, $ 56, 000, almost a third of its total cost.

Though the common authorship of the three epistles is still almost universally accepted, scholars such as Heinrich Julius Holtzmann and C. H. Dodd have maintained that the epistle and the gospel were written by different authors.

Though no state conditioned ratification of the constitution on a bill of rights, several states came close, and the issue almost prevented the constitution from being ratified.

Though it was published almost ten years before Kim Stanley Robinson's acclaimed Mars trilogy and takes place in a different version of the future, Icehenge contains elements that should be familiar to readers of the Mars series.

Though these raids left the area almost entirely depopulated, the Saracens were expelled in 975, and by the 11th century the area was again populated by Ligurians.

Though Spain and the Emperor Rudolf II encouraged Alfonso II's illegitimate cousin, Cesare d ' Este, to withstand the Pope, they were deterred from giving him any material aid by Henry IV's threats, and a papal army entered Ferrara almost unopposed.

Though phrases and even sentences from many classical authors are inwoven here and there, the narrative flows easily, with no trace of the jolts and jerks which offend us in almost every line of an imitator of the classics like Sidonius.

Though the British government financially supports the use of English in Tanzania, its usage in the Tanzanian society has diminished over the past decades: In the seventies Tanzanian university students used to speak English with each other, whereas now they almost exclusively use Swahili outside the classroom.

Though the term today is used almost exclusively for ancient warships, modern historians also refer to medieval and early modern galleys with three banks of oars per side as triremes.

Though Poland-Lithuania was at that time the largest and one of the most populous states of Europe, Sobieski became a king of a country devastated by almost half a century of constant war.

Though not an inherent feature of logograms but due to its unique history of development, Japanese has the added complication that almost every logogram has more than one pronunciation.

Though perfectly willing to engage in almost any sexual act for the right price, the women of Old Town show no mercy to those who " break the rules " and back up their independence with lethal force.

Though existing since 1823, this council has only been mentioned since the revision of 1983 ; its constitutional powers as such are almost nil.

Though it was released almost two years after TIE Fighter: Collector's CD-ROM, XvT was actually developed under an attenuated schedule of approximately 14 months.

Though almost all video cameras fit this definition, the term is most often applied to those used for surveillance in areas that may need monitoring such as banks, casinos, airports, military installations, and convenience stores.

Though the capital of the Southern Dynasties kingdoms was ( almost by definition ) Jiankang, in the location of modern Nanjing, in the province of Jiangsu ; nevertheless, the Zhejiang area was home to the major metropolis and cultural center of Hangzhou, formerly known as Qiantang, but renamed in 589.

Though it shares no border with Concord, Martinez ( the county seat ) is located almost immediately adjacent to Concord on the northwest.

Though remote during this period, populated almost entirely by farmers, the rocky and craggy land that constituted much of the town kept the population low and new settlement at a minimum.

Though most civic leaders and journalists had been optimistic -– one reporter claimed " almost every indicator of economic, population, and civic growth points to the fact that Moline's potential for growth is greater than ever.

Though geographically closer to the Maryland city of Baltimore, the residents are almost equally divided in supporting the Pennsylvania professional sports teams from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Though the distance was only about 10 miles, the trip was dangerous because of blizzards coming up very quickly throughout that winter, and a person caught on the prairie during a blizzard had almost no chance of survival.