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Though only slightly injured himself the big hoodlum never returned to those parts.
Though initially unenthusiastic about acting, he returned from service, auditioned for a Broadway play, and was offered a role.
Though details of genealogy differ from one ancient author to another, the cultural significance of the mythic theme, that the descendants of Heracles, exiled after his death, returned after some generations in order to reclaim land that their ancestors had held in Mycenaean Greece, was to assert the primal legitimacy of a traditional ruling clan that traced its origin, thus its legitimacy, to Heracles.
Though Benedict IX soon returned, and forced Sylvester III to retire to his See of Sabina, he never gave up his claims to the papal throne, and through his political allies contrived apparently to keep some hold on a portion of Rome.
Though there is no explicit record of this, it is usually assumed that Sappho returned from exile at some point and that she spent most of her life in Lesbos.
" Though Oldham dressed the band in identical suits, the band returned to wearing casual clothes at public appearances.
Though Garfield was properly questioned for buying the stock, he had returned it to the seller.
Though Otto I was crowned Emperor in 962 and returned to Germany in 965, the political situation in Italy remained unstable.
Though baptized Roman Catholic, he was raised Anglican and in his later life he returned to the Roman Catholic faith.
Though most of the State enterprises privatized during his tenure remain in private hands, perhaps the most significant economic legacy of his administration, private pension funds, have since largely been returned to the public sector.
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 many predicted the WFL was dead, the league returned for the 1975 season with a new leader, commissioner Chris Hemmeter, former co-owner of the 1974 Hawaiians franchise.
Though the silver coins are the payment to the Kohen under torah law and are one of the twenty-four kohanic gifts, they are sometimes returned by the Kohen to the family as a gift for the child, athough halachic authorities stipulate that-for the Pidyon to be valid-the choice of returning the coins as a gift rest entirely upon the Kohen whereas pressuring the kohen to do so would render the redemption invalid.
Though it returned rather poor pictures by later standards, the historic, never-before-seen views of the far side of the Moon caused excitement and interest when they were published around the world, and a tentative Atlas of the Far Side of the Moon was created after image processing improved the pictures.
Though they are still together when Jack is initially recruited for his first mission through the Stargate, by the time he returned she had left him.
Though he was extremely popular and widely credited with bringing about a revolution in French opera, Gluck's mastery of the Parisian operatic scene was never absolute, and after the poor reception of his Echo et Narcisse he left Paris in disgust and returned to Vienna to live out the remainder of his life.
Though control of the confiscated area had been returned to the city in the 1950s, complex lease agreements with the Port Authority gave it little influence on its management.
Though James sued for peace and Pope Clement attempted to mediate it, Peter returned to Barcelona prepared to invade Roussillon and Cerdagne.
Though this first trip to India by way of the southern tip of Africa was only a modest success, the Portuguese quickly returned in greater numbers and eventually gained much greater control of trade on the Arabian sea.
Though she was exiled by the king's illegitimate half-brother John of Austria the Younger, she returned to the court after John's death in 1679.
Though Blake later returned for a short period he later left the Brigade to join another commando.
Though the operation was successful, the cancer returned.
Though Magee's love was not returned, he remained friends with Elinor and her family through to the end of his life.
Though we had passed over not less than four-and-twenty miles of very rugged ground, and had a Highland dance on the top of Dùn Can, the highest mountain in the island, we returned in the evening not at all fatigued, and piqued ourselves at not being outdone at the nightly ball by our less active friends, who had remained at home.
Though he returned to Rome, the deteriorating papal relations with Napoleon and the city's subsequent occupation by General Miollis in 1808 necessitated Mai's withdrawal to Milan, where in 1813 he was made custodian of the Ambrosian library.

Though and Moscow
Though Philby claimed publicly in January 1988 that he did not regret his decisions, and that he missed nothing about England except some friends, Colman's mustard, and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce, his KGB-appointed wife Rufina later described Philby as " disappointed in many ways " by what he found in Moscow.
Though his primary goal was Moscow, the strength of his forces was sapped by the cold weather ( the winter of 1708 / 09 being one of the most severe in modern European history ) and Peter's use of scorched earth tactics.
Though his father wished him to continue in either the military or the civil service, Bakunin abandoned both in 1835, and made his way to Moscow, hoping to study philosophy.
Though Wu Chih-hui did not try to dissuade him, Wu was a key figure of the right-leaning and anti-Communist " Western Hills Group " of the Kuomintang, which help to realize the purge of the Communist and the KMT break with Moscow.
Though Pravda was officially started on 5 May 1912, which indeed also was the birth anniversary of Karl Marx, its origins traces back to 1903 when it was founded in Moscow by a wealthy railway engineer V. A Kozhevnikov.
Though Rostropovich's last home was in Paris, he maintained residences in Moscow, St. Petersburg, London, Lausanne, and Jordanville, New York.
Though influenced strongly by the Soviet Union, Kádár enacted a policy slightly contrary to that of Moscow, for example, allowing considerably large private plots for farmers of collective farms.
Though they did not give any assurances, they did promise to inform Moscow.
Though North Idaho is at the same longitude as southern Idaho, the reasons for the different time zones are: one, because the commercial and transportation center for the region was in Spokane, ( and now the media market ); and two, there are many cross-border towns and cities that are connected, led by Spokane with Coeur d ' Alene, followed by Pullman ( WSU ) with Moscow ( UI ), and Clarkston with Lewiston.
Though one stream of the National Awakening was at first centered in Tartu, moved to St. Petersburg, and later shifted to Moscow, in the late 1860s Lettophiles finally succeeded in establishing themselves in Latvia, by founding a relief fund for victims of the famine in Estonia and Finland in 1867 and receiving permission to establish the Riga Latvian Association a year later.
Though born in Kiev, Pavel and his family moved to Moscow in 1922.
Though this has been staged, notably by Boris Pokrovsky's Moscow Chamber Musical Theatre, in Moscow and at the Brighton Festival ( 1993 ), it may best be judged an oratorio on the lives of Russian saints.

Though and attend
Though he did not attend high school, the young Hoover attended night school and learned bookkeeping, typing, and mathematics.
Though he refused to attend church with his Episcopalian parents ( not being enthused by " the idea of sitting in a stuffy room wearing a little tie "), Jarmusch credits literature with shaping his metaphysical beliefs and leading him to reconsider theology in his mid-teens.
Though the French and the Italians were serious about Mussolini's peace plan, which called for an immediate ceasefire and a four-power conference à la Munich to consider Poland's borders, the British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax stated that unless the Germans withdrew from Poland immediately, then Britain would not attend the proposed conference.
Though he did not attend personally, he sent delegates to the First Council of Ephesus of 431, in which the Nestorians were condemned.
Though struggling to make ends meet, Jardine's older brother David provided him with money to attend school.
Though humans and primates can look in one direction but attend in another, there may be an underlying neural circuitry that links shifts in covert attention to plans to shift gaze.
Though most of Roslyn Heights belongs to the Roslyn School District, portions of the school-aged population are enrolled in the East Williston school district, and attend The Wheatley School from eighth through twelfth grades.
Though controversial at its inception, this non-traditional schedule allows for increased teacher training and curriculum development, and reduces the need for students to miss school to attend athletic contests and other extracurricular activities on Fridays.
Though she was initially determined to pursue her art, she succumbed to his determined courting and they married in August 1875, with a reception at the house of Lawrence Alma-Tadema whose pupil she had been, visiting his parents, who did not attend the registry office wedding, at the end of their honeymoon in Devon and Cornwall.
Though Nixon could not attend the meeting because of his work schedule, he arranged that no election of a leader for the proposed boycott would take place until his return.
Though her mother wished her to return home after the completion of her education at White's, Zitkala-Ša decided instead to continue on and attend Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana after receiving a scholarship in 1895.
Though she was unable to attend the service, she delivered her condolences to Nancy.
Though Vanier had earlier hosted the French president at Government House, neither de Gaulle nor any representative was sent to attend the funeral, which was read by Canadian diplomatic officials as a hint that there had been a change in Canada – France relations and instigated the chain of events that would culminate in de Gaulle's " Vive le Québec libre " speech in Montreal later that year.
Though Martin had intended to attend Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, he instead remained with his newspaper work, where his future prospects seemed promising.
Though he is achieving some success with his local high school team ( Joliet Catholic ), he lacks the grades and money necessary to attend Notre Dame, as well as talent and physical stature.
Though taken to Davy Jones's Locker at the end of the previous film, Sparrow, who is a Pirate Lord of the Caribbean, must attend the meeting, as he failed to bequeath his " piece of eight ", a pirate lord's identification marker, to an heir.
Though her fiction often seems feminist, with women as the usual leads, she was bitterly opposed to feminists in the Church, and claimed that since the change from the Tridentine Mass she could barely bring herself to attend on Sundays.
Though they do not live within the drawing area, a number of secondary school age children from Byron currently attend Oakridge Secondary School, located in the Oakridge suburb of London.
Though other offers were available, Martin decided to remain close to home and attend Pittsburgh.
Though he never officially was elected as a New York State officer, he did attend Lincoln ’ s funeral as a Chamber delegate.
Though not legally binding, the Republican National Committee ( RNC ) used both signed Loyalty Oaths and spoken Loyalty Pledges as a requirement to attend certain 2004 re-election campaign speeches, a possible first in U. S. election history.
Though it is somewhat more fair in that it gives all students an opportunity to attend games without forcing them to give up time waiting in lines, it has come under fire by students for several reasons.
Though Coddington was elected President of the united colony in 1648, he would not attend the meeting, and complaints against him prompted the presidency to go to Jeremy Clarke.
In, the Boston Red Sox selected DiNardo in the 10th round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft, but he did not sign, opting to attend Stetson University instead .< ref >" Though winged by injuries, Angels still aloft.

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