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Though it never eclipsed the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, Dodona gained a reputation far beyond Greece.
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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 only slightly injured himself the big hoodlum never returned to those parts.
Though he struggled with philosophy all his life, he never got much beyond the pessimism of his twenties ; ;
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 a world championship match between Karpov and Fischer was highly anticipated, those hopes were never realised.
Though she never became a nun, she spent the rest of her days there in prayer.
Though Todd's last name has never been mentioned in the series, it was revealed in This Book Sucks.
Though God is never explicitly mentioned in the Book of Esther, some Christians believe that his influence during the story is implied.
Though enjoined by royal mandate in 1501 for general use within the realm of Scotland, it was probably never widely adopted.
Though a demo was completed, the project never reached fruition.
Though DeMille completed the film, it proved to be his last, for he never fully recovered, and died on January 21, 1959 of heart failure.
Though the model showed no significant changes to the climate in areas other than the Tropics, this may not be the case since the model has possible errors and the results are never absolutely definite.
Though Dilbert and his office-mates often find themselves baffled or victimized by the whims of managerial behavior, they never seem to question it openly.
Though Ike and his tank crews never saw combat, he displayed excellent organizational skills, as well as an ability to accurately assess junior officers ' strengths and make optimal placements of personnel.
Though a further version was planned, it never made it out of beta and was eventually canceled due to programmer time constraints.
Though widely used, it differs in form from the nominative only in the masculine singular of the second declension ( that is, never in the plural, never in the feminine or neuter, and never in any declension other than the second ).
Though Bung never sold backup enabled V64s many re-sellers would modify the units themselves.
Though he never won the Oscar for directing, he was nominated five times in the category.
Though closely linked to them, he was never actually a member of the brotherhood itself.
Though he was never ordained into the Catholic priesthood, Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in history.
Though Jefferson left the cabinet voluntarily, Washington never forgave him, and never spoke to him again.
Though he participated at the Diet of Worms, April 1521, he never saw or spoke with Martin Luther.
Though and eclipsed
Though it has been largely eclipsed by California's production, the area still produces significant quantities of tomatoes, green beans, corn, soy beans — Queen Anne's County is the largest producer of soy beans in Maryland — and other popular vegetables.
Though the prestige Tu-144 programme enjoyed top level support until 1973, as did the important Tu-154 airliner, the favored position the Tupolev Design Bureau enjoyed through Tupolev ’ s personal political connections was largely eclipsed by Ilyushin.
Though the Oda were effectively eclipsed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi following Nobunaga's death, it is not often known that the Oda continued to be a presence in Japanese politics.
Though increasingly debated in academic circles, this approach has remained outside the range of official efforts to resolve the conflict as well as mainstream analysis, where it is eclipsed by the two-state solution.
Though he ranked third in team scoring, Crawford has recalled that by the end of the season, Näslund and Bertuzzi had been eclipsed by Daniel and Henrik Sedin as the team's offensive leaders.
Though he spoke the only lines of dialogue in the first strip and was one of the strip's primary figures in its first few years, he was mainly utilized as a " straight man " for Charlie Brown and soon began to be eclipsed by newer characters who were more developed, such as Linus and Lucy.
Though Lauds or the Morning Office has now eclipsed the Office of Readings or Vigils, it is because Lauds, once but a part of Matins, drew to itself the solemnity, probably on account of the hour at which it was celebrated, permitting all the faithful to be present.
Though this orchestra ’ s ascendancy in the 1920s was short-lived, at that time it completely eclipsed the Phil.
Though his reputation has been eclipsed since, Fletcher remains an important transitional figure between the Elizabethan popular tradition and the popular drama of the Restoration.
Though Gowen's powers as president were eclipsed by the appointment of receivers, his position as the one receiver who had close knowledge of the overall operations of the combined rail and coal businesses placed him in the middle of revitalization efforts.
Though and Apollo
Though sometimes referred to as A88k, the Apollo PRISM is not related to the Motorola 88000.
Though Paris was indeed born before nightfall, he was spared by Priam ; Hecuba, too, was unable to kill the child, despite the urging of the priestess of Apollo, one Herophile.
Though the Hall & Oates original ( recorded in a Memphis-soul style ) was never released as a single, it remains a fan favorite on the duo's greatest hits albums and was featured on their Apollo Theater CD in 1985, and is frequently featured in their live set to this day.
Though the name Aegina betokens a goat-nymph, such as was Cretan Amalthea, she was given a mainland identity as the daughter of the river-god Asopus and the nymph Metope ; of their twelve or twenty daughters, many were ravished by Apollo or Zeus.
Though this Doctor ultimately repented his crimes, Apollo killed him with his eye-beams.
Though it has always been known to have belonged to Giuliano della Rovere before he became pope, as Julius II, its placement has been confused until as recently as 1986: Cardinal della Rovere, who held the titulus of San Pietro in Vincoli, stayed away from Rome for the decade during Alexander VI's papacy ( 1494 – 1503 ); in the interim, the Apollo stood in his garden at SS.
Though Horner's previous work comprised mostly high-budget studio films – including Titanic ( 1997 ), Braveheart ( 1995 ), The Mask of Zorro ( 1998 ), and Apollo 13 ( 1995 ) – producer Bonnie Curtis approached him to score The Chumscrubber because " You never know until you ask.
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Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;
Though far from completion, these studies indicated beyond a doubt that savings would result which would be of unprecedented benefit to the railroads concerned, their investors, their customers, their users, and to the public at large.
Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.
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 the accused raised many other objections, he did not object on this crucial point at any stage of the proceedings.
Though his inner thoughts cringed at it, he forced himself to think back, recreating the scene in which Mae claimed to have caught him molesting the child.
Though the subject -- segregation in her native South -- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm her place at the very top of modern American writing.
Though he was glad she got on well with his young folks, she ought to be welcome at the finest house in the land, too.
Though Nobel remained unmarried, his biographers note that he had at least three loves.
Though the only accounts of his lectures seem to show a sort of eccentric style and approach, he was said to have been good friends with many other masters at the school in Paris, and taught there, as well as some time in southern France, into his old age.
Though the resolution is historically significant, Hideaki Uemura, professor at Keisen University in Tokyo and a specialist in indigenous peoples ' rights, commented that the motion is " weak in the sense of recognizing historical facts " as the Ainu were " forced " to become Japanese in the first place.
Though the general structure of all antibodies is very similar, a small region at the tip of the protein is extremely variable, allowing millions of antibodies with slightly different tip structures, or antigen binding sites, to exist.
Though his father wanted him to continue his training as a goldsmith, he showed such a precocious talent in drawing that he started as an apprentice to Michael Wolgemut at the age of fifteen in 1486.
Though Rudolf Steiner studied natural science at the Vienna Technical University at the undergraduate level, his doctorate was in epistemology and very little of his work is directly concerned with the empirical sciences.
Though the resolutions followed the " interposition " approach of James Madison, Jefferson advocated nullification and at one point drafted a threat for Kentucky to secede.
Though at first well received in political circles, it was eventually doomed by well-organized opposition from conservatives, the American Medical Association, and the health insurance industry.
Though a practicing Christian, he had been born into a Jewish family with origins from Portugal, and had converted at a young age.
Though Naomi was a destitute widow at the time she re-entered Bethlehem, yet by the end of the narrative, we see her embracing her grandson as her foster-child.
" Though apparent to very few historians at the time, these defeats were the beginning of the decline of Europe as the center of world politics.
Though the article was signed pseudonymously by " X ," it was well known at the time that the true author was George F. Kennan, the deputy chief of mission of the United States to the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, under ambassador W. Averell Harriman.
Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland and to unite them under a tightly centralized Legalist government seated at Xianyang ( close to modern Xi ' an ).
Though it is detached from the star field, it is not concentrated at its center at all.
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.
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