Though it was intended to encompass all nations, many never joined, or their time as part of the League was short.

Though Chuck Klein won the Most Valuable Player Award in 1932 and the National League Triple Crown in 1933, the team continued to flounder at the bottom of the standings for years.

Though an application for admittance to the Scottish Premier League was rejected, a successful application to the Scottish Football League secured Rangers a place in the Third Division for the 2012 – 13 season.

Though an application for membership of the Scottish Premier League was rejected, an application to the Scottish Football League was successful with member clubs deciding to place Rangers in the bottom division, the Third, for the start of the 2012-13 season rather than the First Division as had been proposed.

Though Parliament won, it was clear to the Scots that it was not going to uphold the Solemn League and Covenant by imposing Presbyterianism on England ( Puritanism wasn't quite Presbyterian ), so the New Model Army, Parliament and the Scots began falling apart.

Though not facing a majority, the inability of the Liberal parties ( themselves unable to form a single faction until 1934 ), the Conservatives and Agrarians to form a majority government pressed for a minority government led by Hansson, expecting support from the Farmers ' League through an agriculture policy favoring the interests of the League ( kohandeln ), although stopping short of inviting it into the cabinet.

Though enrolled in the Delian League it remained disaffected towards Athens, and in 477 had to be coerced by the establishment of a cleruchy on the island ; nevertheless, in 411 Andros proclaimed its freedom, and in 408 withstood an Athenian attack.

Though there was media criticism about Cantona's omission, as he was playing his best football in the Premier League, Jacquet stated that the team had done well without Cantona, and that he wanted to keep faith with the players who had taken them so far.

Though he was unable to halt Vale's immediate return to the bottom tier of the Football League, he succeeded in steadying the ship.

Though she ultimately became a conservative, as a college freshman in 1945 she joined the Young People's Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party of America, influenced by her grandfather who was a founder of the Populist and Socialist parties in Oklahoma.

Though the AL placed one of its expansion teams ( the Washington Senators ) in a previously existing Major League Baseball city ( Washington, D. C .), this was done to replace the original Senators team, which had relocated to Minneapolis-St. Paul and become the Minnesota Twins.

Though several Hall of Famers have had AFL, Canadian Football League, World Football League and United States Football League experience, and there is a division of the Hall devoted to alternative leagues such as this, to this point no players have made the Hall without having made significant contributions to either the NFL, AFL or All-America Football Conference.

Though Haifa was a seeded team for the UEFA Champions League second qualifying round, it drew the strong Swedish club, Malmö FF.

Though his. 282 batting average was low by the standards he would set later, Heilmann ranked among the American League leaders with 30 doubles ( seventh best ), 73 RBIs ( seventh best ) and 43 extra base hits ( eighth best ).

* Though not technically third jumpers, the Centenary of Rugby League celebrations left all teams with special jerseys for the Centenary round, and in 2009 several teams wore the same jerseys ( the Newcastle Knights, however, wore their foundation strip, in 2008 they wore a Newcastle Rebels jersey, which was the first Newcastle team in the NSWRL and played in the NSWRL's foundation season.

Though it is not considered as the original Muslim League, but the party is recognized as the continuing legal successor and personality of the All-India Muslim League, a founding party of the State of Pakistan ( See Pakistan Movement and the declaration Now or Never ).

Though the grip of the Communist League ( SKJ ), the only constitutionally allowed party in Yugoslav one-party political system, was not nearly as strong as it once was, DS members still feared the authorities ' reaction to the announcement of the DS party creation.

Though some of the League resent Batman's plans, they agree that the plans were created for the right reasons.

Though established independently of the United Nations through its own international treaty, the IAEA Statute, the IAEA reports to both the UN General Assembly and Security Council.

Though her husband lost a second bid for the Senate in 1970, President Richard Nixon appointed him the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, which enabled Barbara to begin forming relationships in New York with prominent diplomats.

Though the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security, signed in 1960, allows for the continued presence of American military bases in Japan, most of them on Okinawa, no formal agreement was ever set by which Japan officially relies on the United States, United Nations, or anybody else for its defense.

Though support for national treatment was expressed in several controversial ( and legally non-binding ) United Nations General Assembly resolutions, the issue of expropriations is almost universally handled through treaties with other states and contracts with private entities, rather than through reliance upon international custom.

Though it is in New York City, and part of the United States, the land used by the United Nations Headquarters is under the administration of the United Nations, while also being subject to most local, state, and federal laws.

Though there was never any permanent First Nations settlement in the area, there are over 200 archaeological remains of campsites and stone toolmaking sites.

Though elections were scheduled, the Soviet Union refused to cooperate with United Nations plans to hold general and free elections in the two Koreas, and as a result, a Communist state was permanently established under Soviet auspices in the north and a pro-Western state was set up in the south.

Though the Six Nations ( by then including the Tuscarora ), conquered the territory, they did not settle it, apart from a limited presence on the northern and western shores of Lake Ontario.

Though originally mandated for a total of 90 days, the operation was extended at the request of the United Nations until July 2004 and the Canadian forces returned home in August.

Though the argument is frequently, and incorrectly, used to justify free-trade policies, The Wealth of Nations was a rebuttal to the scale and effects of chartered monopoly.

Though after a win over the French and one over the Springboks, the Wallabies fell to the bottom of the 2005 Tri Nations Series table, losing all of their games.

Though racial discrimination was a tough barrier to break the United Nations set up a resolution that set up seven points to help end the discrimination in South Africa in the government and society.

Though the QTS / eligibility to teach only applies in the Home Nation it was awarded in, applying for QTS / eligibility to teach in either of the other two Nations is a formality and is nearly always awarded to PGCE holders.

Though only some Nations ' Sun Dances include the piercings, the Canadian Government outlawed that feature of the Sun Dance in 1895.

Though at times some 32, 000 to 35, 000 North Korean guerrillas were operating in United Nations controlled territory they ignored US air bases.

Though the other pieces in the incidental music are seldom played, Beethoven's overture to Egmont has been used in various modern-day cultural output, a famous United Nations film being one of them.

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 he had so frequently and eloquently argued for as little government intervention as possible, he now found himself assuming extraordinary powers in an attempt to enforce his policy.

Though the Italians were initially repulsed, subsequent German intervention drove 57, 000 Allied troops from the mainland.

Though impressed by certain passages, the eventual publisher, Cotta, initially rejected Schenker's manuscript but changed its mind after intervention from D ' Albert.

Though he was soon liberated through the intervention of Sir Moses Montefiore, it was upon the condition that he leave Romania.

Though Brown personally disapproved of Nicholas's actions, he nevertheless warned American leaders that Kossuth was a troublemaker, and argued that American intervention would be disastrous.

Though not a scientist himself, d ' Holbach was scientifically literate and he tried to develop his philosophy in accordance with the known facts of nature and the scientific knowledge of the day, citing, for example, the experiments of John Needham as proof that life could develop autonomously without the intervention of a deity.

The US and EU criticised the Kosovan government for acting without consulting international bodies. Though tensions between the two sides eased somewhat after the intervention of NATO's KFOR forces, they continued to remain high.

Though the intervention of the Great Powers prevented Muhammad Ali from realizing his grandiose ambitions of becoming sultan himself, obliging Egypt to remain technically part of the Ottoman Empire, Egypt's autonomy survived his death with the Porte recognizing the Muhammad Ali Dynasty as hereditary rulers of the country.

Though the image remained only two hours before the police suspended the intervention as a “ public nuisance ” it lingered in public awareness much longer.

Though Behe has avoided committing himself to the view that God intervenes directly in nature to create purportedly irreducibly complex structures, Darwin's Black Box briefly speculates that divine intervention might have caused the direct creation of a cell from which all of life evolved, supporting creationist views of miraculous acts of creation, but ironically echoing Darwin's stated " view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one ".

Though junior clubs, notable Connah's Quay Albion played in the town it was not until Tommy's intervention in July 1946 that Connah ’ s Quay Juniors, the fore-runner of the present-day Nomads club was formed.

Though some improvement was reported, results were not significantly higher than for any other intervention identified in the study, and were further compromised by the fact that 82. 9 % of those in the study were receiving more than one intervention.

Though it was vaulted over by 1524, the ambitious projects of its sculpture and the intervention of events, such as the temporary exile of the Medici ( 1527 ), the death of Giulio, now Pope Clement VII and the permanent departure of Michelangelo for Rome in 1534, meant that Michelangelo never finished it.

Though a combination of military intervention and negotiation ended the strike, the memory of it remained when the government, now a SAP-Unionist coalition government under the leadership of Jan Smuts, faced the 1924 South African general election, in which it was defeated by a National-Labour coalition.

Though sporadic wars continued with the Burmese and other neighbors, Chinese wars with Burma and European intervention elsewhere in Southeast Asia allowed the Thai to develop an independent course by trading with the Europeans as well as playing the major powers against each other in order to remain independent.