Though there remained a nominal Zhou king until 256 BC, he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.

Though the office was usually held after the quaestorship and before the praetorship, there are some cases with former praetors serving as aediles.

Though women's meetings had been held in London for the last ten years, this was an innovation in Bristol and the north-west of England, which many there felt went too far.

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 it previously held a more eurosceptic stance than is usually articulated by most other green parties in Europe, the party backed the Lisbon Treaty with support from two thirds of the party.

Though confident they could secure the stadium, their hopes were dashed when Sheldon Silver and Joseph L. Bruno, both of whom held veto power over the stadium construction, refused to support the project, alleging it would hurt rather than help the development of the West Side.

Though the building was incomplete, the Capitol held its first session of United States Congress on November 17, 1800.

Though the broad outline of the process is generally agreed, there is a considerable diversity of views held by specialist scholars on detailed issues concerning the development, categorization and meaning of the arabesque.

Though the nominal ruler of Germany, Otto III's minor status ensured his various regents held power over the Empire.

Though once held in very high regard Cymbeline has lost favour over the past century.

" Though Sigil is commonly held to be located " at the center of the planes " ( where it is positioned atop the infinitely tall Spire ), some argue that this is impossible since the planes are infinite in all dimensions, and therefore there can never truly be a center to any of them, let alone all of them.

Though many sophists were apparently as religious as their contemporaries, some held atheistic or agnostic views ( for example, Protagoras and Diagoras of Melos ).

:" Though Friday has always been held an unlucky day in many Christian countries, still in the Hebrides it is supposed that it is a lucky day for sowing the seed.

Though the cavalry held on in the wood through the night of 14 July, they had to withdraw the following day.

Though the election had been held in May, Parliament did not resume sitting until October, one of the longest break periods in Confederation.

Though only in New York for four and a half seasons, Henderson set the Yankees ' franchise record with 326 stolen bases ; the previous high ( 248 ) had been held by Hal Chase.

Though he could be droll and flippant about social and political matters, he always was serious about art and often invited public controversy and debate to argue for his strongly held theories.

Though they pulled the twentieth annual SummerSlam, which would have been held at the Garden on August 26, 2007 ( it was held at the Continental Airlines Arena instead ), WWE continues to make regular appearances.

Though the current Pumpkin Festival is held at Juan Bautista de Anza Park in Calabasas, the original festival was meant to have taken place where, according to legend, a traveling wagon carrying pumpkins overturned and started the area's first pumpkin patch.

Though the police were authorized to search the vehicle and found narcotics in suitcases held in the trunk of the Baroness's car, Judge Christie of the Delaware Superior Court ruled that the unlawful detention of the pair, and the beating of Monk, rendered the consent to the search void as given under duress.

Though Nietzsche was critical of theories concerning what could not be observed, he believed that theories ought to be capable of being falsified: while arguing against what he held to be the negative influence of the Kantian noumenon in the philosophy and science of his day, Nietzsche roughly approximated the scientific philosopher Karl Popper's assertion that falsifiability was the basis of scientific knowledge:

Though nothing remains of the mill ( now on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit, Michigan ), Mansfield has held onto several other historic landmarks.

Though West Berlin held close ties to the West German Federal Republic of Germany, it was legally never part of it.

Though Bonifacio already considered the Katipunan to be a government, he acquiesced and presided over elections held during the Tejeros Convention in Tejeros, Cavite on March 22, 1897.

Though closely related, the two disciplines are not necessarily the same.

Though belonging to the same Semitic ethnic group, they are to be differentiated from the Aramean stock ; and the Assyrian king Sennacherib, for example, is careful in his inscriptions to distinguish them.

Though this is true when comparing a single crochet swatch with a stockinette swatch, both made with the same size yarn and needle / hook, it is not necessarily true for crochet in general.

Though each environment served different users, they often required much of the same stored data.

Though German was spoken in each realm, sharing the same language and culture more often than not pushed Austria-Hungary and Germany apart.

Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between " epigram " and " elegy " is sometimes indistinct ( they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets ); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise.

Though the scene did not initially generate the same enthusiasm as An American in Paris, it subsequently overtook the earlier film to occupy its current pre-eminent place among critics and filmgoers alike.

Though considerably changed in detail and expanded over the years, this system remains essentially the same as when formally implemented in 1920.

Though of course hotels have always been built in popular destinations, the defining characteristic of a resort hotel is that it exists purely to serve another attraction, the two having the same owners.

Though the same chemical substance, ground-level ozone should not be confused with stratospheric ozone, or the ozone layer, which protects the earth from harmful ultraviolet rays.

Though sharing the same goal as Madison, most other delegates reacted strongly against such an extreme change to the status quo.

Though by then she was no longer an active member of science fiction fandom, she was interviewed by phone during Wiscon ( the feminist science fiction convention in Madison, Wisconsin ) in 2006 by her friend and member of the same cohort, Samuel R. Delany.

Though conquest was one of Jahangir's many goals, he was a naturalist and lover of the arts and did not have quite the same warrior ambition of the Persian king.

Though loquats are not botanically related to kumquats, the terms originate in the same Chinese word designating " orange ".

Though times for non-winners were not recorded, in 1973 Sham finished second, two and a half lengths behind Secretariat in the same race.

Though the two scripts – Linear A and B – share some of the same symbols, using the syllables associated with Linear B in Linear A writings produces words that are unrelated to any known language.

Though relatively little of this has survived, it bears resemblance to the similar endeavours of other Germanic tribes of northern and central Europe from the same era.

Though Oblique illumination suffers from the same limitations as bright field microscopy ( low contrast of many biological samples ; low apparent resolution due to out of focus objects ), it may highlight otherwise invisible structures.

Though the general form remains the same, various definitions become changed and different constants appear at different places.

Though Ichijō already had an empress, a daughter of Michitaka, he claimed there were two types of empresshood and therefore it was legal for an emperor to have two empresses at the same time.

Though set long after his time frame for the life of " Merlin Ambrosius ", he tries to assert the characters are the same with references to King Arthur and his death as told in the Historia Regum Britanniae.

Though Molokans are somewhat similar to the European Quakers and Mennonites — for their pacifism, communal organization, spiritual meetings, and sub-groupings — they are ethnically much closer to Doukhobors and Sabbatarians ( Subbotniki ) because they evolved from the same Russian Spiritual Christian movement of Khristovers and Ikonobors ( icon-wrestlers ), and migrated together with some intermarriage.

Though in the United States, naturism and nudism have the same meaning, in Britain there is a clear distinction.

Though it is not required, it is understood that the different methods will also produce similar results ( for example, returning values of the same type ).

Though these characters and items were not presented in the same context, their general traits survived the transition.