Though by the close of the 1989 season the team boasted a powerhouse bullpen in the AL Cy Young Award winner Bret Saberhagen ( set franchise record with 23 wins in ), two time All-Star Mark Gubicza ( 15 game winner in 1989 ) and 1989 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up Tom Gordon ( won 17 games in 1989 ), the organization felt they were still missing a few pieces that would give the divisional rivals Oakland Athletics a run for their money.

Though Alexander's body had a missing finger and a different appearance from Lex at the time of his death, 52 editor Stephen Wacker has confirmed that the body found in Gotham is indeed Alex, and that Luthor had it altered before the police discovered it.

Though he had subjugated seventy other kings, his name is missing in the list of city kings in Joshua xii.

Though a myriad of bones was available by 1969, many important ones were missing or hard to interpret.

Though Euclidean geometry is both affine and metric geometry, in general affine spaces may be missing a metric.

Though they never again won the league championship, the New England Whalers were a successful team, never missing the playoffs in the WHA's history, and finishing first in its division three times.

Though the case did not seem to have any grounds for federal involvement ( kidnapping then being classified as a local crime ), Hoover declared that he would " move Heaven and Earth " to recover the missing child.

Though the hardware required to create a Dynabook is here today, Alan Kay still thinks the Dynabook hasn't been invented yet, because key software and educational curriculum are missing.

Though Cole scored in four successive games during the winter, including an important opening goal in United's 2 – 0 defeat of title rivals Newcastle United on 27 December, Cole was badgered by fans and critics alike across much of the season for only scoring 14 times and missing many chances.

Though Sam Neill is very good as Lindy Chamberlain's tormented husband, Miss Streep supplies the guts of the melodrama that are missing from the screenplay.

Though released as binary only, disassembly revealed the missing details and allowed reimplementation of the algorithm in higher-level programming languages.

Though it did not last past issue # 3, a collected edition was published by Eternity Comics in 1987 that included the " missing " issue 4.

Though wounded in the Vietnam War, Puller's name is not listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which is reserved for those died or who are listed as missing in action.

Though this method of test design can uncover many errors or problems, it might not detect unimplemented parts of the specification or missing requirements.

Though they escaped Galbatorix and the Forsworn, they were handicapped: Glaedr's left foreleg was missing, and Oromis was greatly weakened by an incurable disease, and the fact that he had been captured by Galbatorix's minions, who broke something in Oromis, meaning that he could not control large amounts of magic.

Though this episode is missing, the scene is shown at the start of the first episode of Series 2 in which there are recriminations, guilt and an official enquiry which is intended to get rid of Quist.

Though the remains had been scattered by scavengers, they were undoubtedly Ruth's: many of Ruth's personal effects were found at the scene, including a pistol ( not missing any shells ) and the metal pins used to mend his broken bones.

Though the team finished in last during the first half of the season, the Diablos came alive in the second half, finishing in third and just missing the playoffs.

Though he initially protests, he finds that her free-wheeling lifestyle adds the spark that has been missing in his life.

Though Nelson's lawyer James Herbert Stitt attempted to portray Nelson as mentally ill and therefore not responsible for his crimes, the jury found Nelson guilty of the Winnipeg slaying of Emily Patterson, found strangled underneath her own bed by her husband who had knelt by the bed to pray for her safe return after finding her missing on the afternoon of June 9.

Though newspapers have been accused of missing the internet " revolution ", in the early 1990s, Torstar became a pioneering investor in the early internet via its purchase of shares in JCI Technologies which created Jobmatch, Automatch and Realtymatch ( an MLS search service ).

Though this last problem is solved by shaving the actresses, the larger remains: how to stimulate when the means are missing.

Though completely overshadowed by Tom Richardson, the mere fact of missing the good wickets in May and June caused Lohmann to actually beat Richardson in the averages, though his batting ( seen as an important part of his county cricket up to 1892 ) was completely insignificant.

Though the surviving pages are well-preserved, the text is not complete and it is clear from what was found that the Gospel of Mary contained nineteen pages ; pages 1-6 and 11-14 are missing entirely.

Though it is difficult to be certain of much of the aspects of Norn grammar, documents indicate that it may have featured subjectless clauses, which were common in the West Scandinavian languages.

Though there are not documents to prove this story, Hagbard himself generally told people that he was an engineer building a dam during his time with the Mohawk because he was ashamed at having been a lawyer.

Though Peter was referred to by contemporary chroniclers as the earl of Richmond, the title seems not to appear in any official documents.

Though the period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Muslim conquest is not well known ( due to lack of documents ), there is clear evidence of Byzantine presence in the city, as indicated by mosaics found in the oldest parts of the Cathedral, which was in early medieval times a paleo-Christian temple.

Though University members may borrow some books from dependent libraries ( such as the Radcliffe Science Library ), the Bodleian operates principally as a reference library and in general documents may not be removed from the reading rooms.

Though the common usage is ghetto, the Nazis most often referred to these areas in documents and signage at their entrances as Jüdischer Wohnbezirk or Wohngebiet der Juden ( German ); both translate as Jewish Quarter.

Though he initially denied any involvement by his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, eventually he claimed that she knew of her husband's dealings and typed some documents for him.

Though it is undergoing a checkup, some of the documents have been destroyed.

Though the meeting at Båhus Castle forged historic ties to the old elective monarchy in Norway, the acclamation documents created by the Council of the Realm stipulated that Haakon was to rule over only parts of Norway, and it was also carefully documented that if he would die without a legitimate son the Norwegian Law of Succession would apply, thereby ensuring that the hereditary monarchy would be upheld in Norway.

* Though it is mentioned in various constitutional documents, the precise nature of the office of the Prime Minister operates mostly according to understood, uncodified British conventions.

Though usually multiple documents may be in the pipe at once.

Though space within these walls was limited, surviving documents show that there were animals, fruit trees and kitchen gardens inside the city limits.

Though the book is not considered an historical account of the Khazar's conversion to Judaism, British scholar D. M. Dunlop postulated that R ' Yehuda Halevi had access to Khazar documents upon which he loosely based his work, however in this case the pagan is just a stereotype rather than using actual quotes.

Though Hofmann's " discoveries " of important Mormon documents often appeared to bolster the Tanners ' own arguments, Jerald had, by early 1984, concluded there was significant doubt as to the Salamander Letter's authenticity, and " to the astonishment of a community of scholars, historians and students, published an attack on the so-called Salamander Letter.

Though apprenticed to a carpenter, he eventually abandoned this trade due to extremely poor eyesight – later in life, faced with difficulty reading official documents, he would insist on spoken reports rather than written ones.

Though Hofmann's " discoveries " of important Mormon documents appeared to bolster the Tanners ' arguments, by early 1984 Jerald Tanner had concluded there was significant doubt as to the Salamander Letter's authenticity.

Though confidential draft " Request for Proposal " documents relating to the bid process allegedly provided by Dave Basi were found in Bruce Clark's home no charges were laid against him.

Though Adhemar of Chabannes called Ebalus Manzer his successor, no contemporary documents evidence Ebalus in Auvergne, though he certainly had a claim to it.

Though popular culture states that the Vatican canonized her as a saint in 1862, there are no historical documents that prove this.

Though the meanings are similar, neither of these terms has been found in any German documents of the time.

Though, via adopting the Statute of Westminster and the Imperial Laws Application Act 1988, these constitutional documents as they apply to New Zealand now lie within the full control of the New Zealand parliament, New Zealand also agreed not to change its rules of succession without the unanimous consent of the other realms, unless explicitly leaving the shared monarchy relationship ; a situation that applies symmetrically in all the other realms, including the United Kingdom, and has been likened to a treaty amongst these countries.

Though, according to the documents that remained intact, some of the residents ( those who escaped into the castle ) survived and new residents settled in the area and soon started rebuilding the town, it lost its leading role.

Though the World Wide Web was invented thirty years after The Gutenberg Galaxy was published, McLuhan may have coined and certainly popularized the usage of the term " surfing " to refer to rapid, irregular and multidirectional movement through a heterogeneous body of documents or knowledge, e. g., statements like " Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.

Though the subject of an ongoing linguistic and grammatical debate for being a bizarre form of a suffixed noun affixed with a second suffix, the term nonetheless gained wide if not universal currency among students and professors, that even a secondary publication was named " The Wesleyanian " and the term has been used repeatedly to refer to its community in a number of publications, speeches and even in official documents.