Though he was not enamored of the party's presidential nominee, Franklin Pierce, Johnson campaigned for him, but he failed to carry Tennessee.

Though his final session in Congress was uneventful, he did reintroduce seven resolutions, which failed, providing for rotation of federal appointees.

Though these machines are early forerunners to computer engineering, the calculator failed to be a great commercial success.

Though the single " Calling America " placed in the Top 30 in the United Kingdom ( number 28 ) and Top 20 in the States, subsequent singles failed to chart.

Though Bisky's candidacy was supported by the Greens and by some Christian Democratic and Social Democratic leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, after two failed votes the party decided to withdraw his nomination.

Though this failed to arouse great interest in 1850, it has since come to be recognised as his masterpiece.

Though at this point Polish – German relations were normalized, soon thereafter Henry II organized a failed assassination attempt on Bolesław I's life and relations between the two countries were severed.

Though in 1813 she at last permitted him to live with her, the arrangement soon failed: a year later Johanna asked her son to leave the house following a heated argument between the two of them over Johanna's friendship with her lodger, a younger man named Georg von Gerstenbergk.

Though these events diminished Walpole's popularity, they failed to shake his majority in Parliament.

Though Hitler failed to achieve his immediate stated goal, the event did give the Nazis their first exposure to national attention and a propaganda victory.

Though there were indications of deteriorating weather along the route, the weather briefings that Peterson received failed to relay the information.

Though hoping to pursue a career in the civil service, he failed the Imperial examinations twice, leading him to decide an entry into politics through the Huai Army, where many of his relatives served.

Though their experiments identified both the positron and the neutron, they failed to interpret the significance of the results and the discoveries were later claimed by Carl David Anderson and James Chadwick respectively.

Though the current line-item veto proposal is much weaker than the 1996 version, it has nevertheless failed to find strong support in the Congress.

Though he failed, he afterwards induced Totila to spare the lives of the people when he captured Rome in December 546.

Though the Casa de Contratación gave permission to Rodrigo de Bastidas ( 1460 – 1527 ) to again conduct an expedition as adelantado to this area, Bastidas explored the coast and discovered the Magdalena River Delta in his first journey from Guajira to the south in 1527, a trip that ended in the Gulf of Urabá, the location of the failed first settlements.

Though the WFL's Toronto establishment failed due to Canadian resistance, the Buffalo Bills ( with Canadian backing and special conditions ) are playing occasional home games in Toronto as of 2008, and the league's original intent to expand the game globally is being partially fulfilled by the NFL International Series.

Though the attack failed, the Dutch in January 1665 allowed their ships to open fire on English warships in the colonies when threatened.

Though a clever and well-educated man and a Fellow of New College, Oxford, he failed at the bar due to his bad temper.

Though his proposal failed, many reformers in Parliament came to regard him as their leader, instead of Charles James Fox.

Though bridges failed, vehicles broke and were sometimes stuck in mud, the convoy was greeted in communities across the country.

Though It failed commercially and fame was still elusive, the band continued to seek commercial success even to the point of recording a single, " Everybody's Problem "/" There Was ".

Though he failed to capture it, he did force the convoy to retreat.

Though lawyers argued that the House could intervene only after the lower courts had failed to remedy the case, the Lords decided in Skinner's favour in 1668.

Though the Senate passed its own version on September 2, 1914, by a vote of 46-16, the final version of the law ( written after deliberation between Senate and the House ), did not pass the Senate until October 5 and the House until October 8 of the same year.

For example, when speaking of whether or not someone may ever want to marry Katherina, Hortensio says " Though it pass your patience and mine to endure her loud alarums, why man, there be good fellows in the world, and a man could light on them, would take her with all faults and money enough " ( 1. 1. 125 – 128 ).

Though Meredith was legally entitled to register, the Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett, tried to block him by having the Legislature pass a law that “ prohibited any person who was convicted of a state crime from admission to a state school .” The law was directed at Meredith, who had been convicted of “ false voter registration .” Since passage of its 1890 constitution, the state had voter registration rules that effectively disfranchised black voters.

Though he was not actually defeated, his death in the pass, while on his way back to Toledo, occurred in circumstances which showed that no man could be what he claimed to be — " king of the men of the two religions.

Though not generally a wetland bird, they may pass through or hunt in marshes, normally while migrating or wintering.

Though an alternate view is that the term was coined by the Czech art historian Antonin Matějček in 1910, as the opposite of impressionism: " An Expressionist wishes, above all, to express himself ... ( an Expressionist rejects ) immediate perception and builds on more complex psychic structures ... Impressions and mental images that pass through mental peoples soul as through a filter which rids them of all substantial accretions to produce their clear essence are assimilated and condense into more general forms, into types, which he transcribes through simple short-hand formulae and symbols.

Though proud to have helped pass the Reform Bill, Macaulay never ceased to be grateful to his former patron, Lansdowne, who remained a great friend and political ally.

Though far west of the Cape of Good Hope, the islands were on the preferred route from Europe to the Indian Ocean in the 17th century ; ships first crossed the Atlantic to Brazil on the Northeasterly Trades, followed the Brazil Current south to pass the Doldrums, and then picked up the Westerlies to cross the Atlantic again, where they could encounter Tristan da Cunha.

Though the initial bill did not pass, the Republican party platform of June 1912 endorsed the establishment of the Federal Trade Commission.

Though in elected governments rule does not pass automatically by inheritance, political power often accrues to generations of related individuals even in Republics.

Though small, this is an extremely important part of the brain as the nerve connections of the motor and sensory systems from the main part of the brain to the rest of the body pass through the brain stem.

Though they may fail the exam, they might pass later.

Though he passed the county civil examination at age 20, Xu was never able to pass the provincial civil service examinations, even after attempting it eight times.

Though several years would pass before she became an outspoken feminist, the event left an impression on her.

Though somewhat unrefined by modern standards, the show achieved surprising effects like floating in the air or flying, performing impossible acrobatics, fighting against Martians, strange creatures, witches and all kinds of monsters, and, most often, to get the physical reduction effect thanks to his famous " pastillas de chiquitolina ", which Chapulín used with measure to pass under doors, reaching dangerous areas without attracting attention or solve any problem with the size-changing trick.

Though yet, in taken fire at my attempts to reduce practice to a greater easiness, plainness, and in the meantime letting the mountebank at Charing Cross pass unrailed at, they contradict themselves, and would make the world believe I may prove more considerable than they would have me.

Though shifting was criticized by some drivers ( Rusty Wallace stated it took away from ability to pass cars while Terry Labonte pointedly called it " a pain in the butt ") and some called for the Jerico to be banned on ovals, the practice continued until 2005 when a new gear rule eliminated the effectiveness of shifting.

Though Clarke was reluctant to abandon trial for appellate work, he felt he could not pass on such an honor and accepted.

Though the offense is run-oriented, pass opportunities can develop as defenses play close to the line.

Though Noret did not live to pass on his skills to the other Ginaz mercenaries, Chirox remained to train them into the greatest of all mercenaries, the Swordmasters, who will be the ultimate fighting force against the thinking machines.

Though rail tracks were held in place by wooden ties ( sleepers outside the U. S .) and the mass of the crushed rock ( ballast ) beneath them, each pass of a train around a curve would, through centripetal force and vibration, produce a tiny shift in the tracks.

Though burdened with a gravelly voice ( which he attributed to the surgery and said would soon pass ), Jack seemed on the road to recovery.

Though Orzeł reported the incident to the Admiralty, they were too concerned by the situation with Glowworm and the presumed German breakout to give it much thought and did not pass the information along.

Though the structure of DNA was established as a double helix in 1953, several decades would pass before fragments of DNA could be reliably analyzed for their sequence in the laboratory.