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 her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Though the Cayman Islands are involved in no major international disputes, they have come under some criticism due to the use of their territory for narcotics trafficking and money laundering.

Though there were craftsmen in several cities ( such as Antwerp, Brussels, and Ghent ), the major handicraft center for this cordwain was Mechelen, where it was mentioned as early as 1504.

Though Orthwein's period as owner was short and controversial, he did oversee major changes to the team, first with the hiring of former New York Giants coach Bill Parcells in 1993.

" Though the press showed up, no major news organization published the story.

Though OMIM is a major resource for gathering information on the relationship between mutations and natural variation in gene sequence and susceptibility to hundreds of diseases, a sophisticated search strategy is required to extract diseases associated with defects in transcriptional control where the promoter is believed to have direct involvement.

Though a major commercial failure on release, some argue the film has gone on to become a cult favourite.

Though Pope Pius X's revision made few corrections, omissions and additions to the text of the prayers in the Roman Missal, there were major changes in the rubrics, changes which were not incorporated in the section entitled " Rubricae generales ", but were instead printed as an additional section under the heading " Additiones et variationes in rubricis Missalis ".

Though metallic sodium has some important uses, the major applications of sodium use it in its many compounds ; millions of tons of the chloride, hydroxide, and carbonate are produced annually.

Though Hassan threatened to drive the Christians into the sea, he committed the first attack by launching his first major military offensive with his 1, 500 Dervish equipped with 20 modern rifles on the British soldiers stationed in the region.

Though table tennis players grip their rackets in various ways, their grips can be classified into two major families of styles, penhold and shakehand.

Though their project, like others in the state, had to contend with the Great Depression and World War II, work continued as Colonial Williamsburg became a major tourist attraction.

Though trouble in Southeast Asia was shown in Jack L. Warner's Brushfire ( 1961 ), and Marshall Thompson's A Yank in Viet-Nam ( 1964 ) and To the Shores of Hell ( 1966 ), the major Hollywood studios refused to make any Vietnam War films with the exception of John Wayne's The Green Berets based on the best-selling book by Robin Moore and using the theme song " Ballad of the Green Berets ".

Though able to record the majority of their work themselves, they also used major commercial studios ( including Abbey Road Studios in London ) for some sessions.

Though quarter-comma meantone is the most common type, other systems that flatten the fifth by some amount, but that still equate the major whole tone ( 9 / 8 in just intonation ) with the minor whole tone ( 10 / 9 in just intonation ), are also called meantone systems.

Though he wrote no major works for the organ, his improvisation sessions sometimes yielded ideas for the symphonies.

Though historically a predominantly Afrikaner settlement, Bloemfontein was officially founded in 1846 as a fort by British army major Henry Douglas Warden as a British outpost in the Transoranje region, at that stage occupied by various groups of peoples including Cape Colony Trek Boers, Griqua and Basotho.

Though initially the major market for the PC was for business applications, games capability became an important factor motivating PC purchases as prices decreased.

Though silk was certainly the major trade item from China, many other goods were traded, and various technologies, religions and philosophies, as well as the bubonic plague ( the " Black Death "), also traveled along the Silk Routes.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will, which she won in 1905.

Though their power was restricted to nominating colonists to fill vacancies on the three major governmental councils, these electoral colleges provided a setting for political agitation by the planters.

Though musicological study of popular music has vastly increased in quantity recently, Middleton's assertion in 1990 — that most major " works of musicology, theoretical or historical, act as though popular music did not exist "— holds true.

Though other sources describe the apparently positive blessings he delivers upon the Israelites, he is reviled as a " wicked man " in the major story concerning him.

Though it is believed to have been a major political and military event, there is no certainty about its date, location or the details of the fighting.

Though his work crossed many stylistic boundaries, his involvement with the other major figures of Impressionism and their exhibitions, his dynamic paintings and sketches of everyday life and activities, and his bold color experiments, served to finally tie him to the Impressionist movement as one of its greatest artists.