Though Bork claims to believe Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he considered resigning to avoid being " perceived as a man who did the President's bidding to save my job.

Though Áras an Uachtaráin is possibly not as palatial as other European royal and presidential palaces, with only a handful of state rooms ( the state drawing room, large and small dining rooms, the President's Office and Library, a large ballroom and a presidential corridor lined with the busts of past presidents ( Francini Corridor ), and some fine eighteenth and nineteenth century bedrooms above, all in the main building ), it is a relatively comfortable state residence.

Though Bork claims that he believed Nixon's order to be valid and appropriate, he considered resigning to avoid being " perceived as a man who did the President's bidding to save my job.

Though the anthem remained in place during these six months, a new flag was adopted and Rhodesia's national holidays, largely based around colonial figures and milestones, were replaced by alternatives intended to be more inclusive: President's Day, Unity Day and Ancestors Day.

Though he is unable to get Logan to confess to his crimes, he places a micro transmitter in the President's pen, which leads to his downfall.

Though the second film ended with the question about page 47 of the President's book of secrets, Turteltaub responded in a press interview that the idea was not set in stone as the basis for National Treasure 3.

Though constrained by various other laws passed by Congress, the President's executive branch conducts most foreign policy, and his power to order and direct troops as commander-in-chief is quite significant ( the exact limits of what a President can do with the military without Congressional authorization are open to debate ).

Though the title " abbot " is not given in the Western Church to any but actual abbots of monasteries today, the title archimandrite is given to " monastics " ( i. e., celibate ) priests in the East, even when not attached to a monastery, as an honor for service, similar to the title of monsignor in the Western / Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church.

Though often referred to without quotations, the correct title is " Love and Theft ".

Though these sees are now seven ( Ostia and Velletri having been separated in 1914 ), there are only six cardinal bishops, since the Dean always adds the title of Ostia to his original suburbicarian diocese.

Though lawyers in the United States do not customarily use such a title, the law degree in that country is the Juris Doctor, a professional doctorate degree, and some J. D.

Though there is little evidence supporting Aksumite control of the region at that time, his title, which includes king of Saba and Salhen, Himyar and Dhu-Raydan ( all in modern-day Yemen ), along with gold Aksumite coins with the inscriptions, " king of the Habshat " or " Habashite ," indicate that Aksum might have retained some legal or actual footing in the area.

Though the FA Cup is the oldest domestic football competition in the world, its trophy is not the oldest ; that title is claimed by the Youdan Cup.

Though Englehart and Starlin soon left as the creative talent for the title, its success grew once writer Doug Moench and artist Paul Gulacy, began collaborating in issues # 22.

Though the concept of a shared universe was not new or unique to comics in 1961, writer / editor Stan Lee, together with several artists including Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, created a series of titles where events in one book would have repercussions in another title and serialized stories would show characters ' growth and change.

Though generally considered doctors but not physicians, chiropractors use the physician title in some countries.

Though not fully enclosed, the court formed before the Downing College is perhaps largest in Cambridge or Oxford ( a title contested with Trinity College's Great Court ).

Though the position of Holy Roman Emperor was an elected one, the title often passed from father to son.

Though only Eleanor de Montfort can be definitively shown to have used the title, several consorts of native Welsh princes of Wales were theoretically princesses of Wales while their husbands were on the throne.

Though human, he is a citizen of the Empire because his social-climbing father bought a title in one of the less reputable of the 17 Dragaeran Great Houses.

Though the title of Earl was nominally equal to the continental duke, unlike them earls were not de facto rulers in their own right.

Though Charles Martel chose not to take the title King, as his son Pepin III the Short would, or Emperor, as his grandson Charlemagne would be titled, he was absolute ruler of virtually all of today's continental Western Europe north of the Pyrenees.

Though it is mentioned frequently as the patronymic title of Isaiah, the name Amoz appears nowhere else in the Bible.

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

Though still struggling financially, however, he was heartened by the attention and admiration he received from the younger generation of English and American painters who made him their idol and eagerly adopted the title " pupil of Whistler ".

Though Henry III once again managed to regain the ducal title in 985, Carinthia upon his death in 989 fell back to the Imperial Ottonian dynasty of Bavaria.

Though the title of Paramedic is a generic description of a category of practitioners, provincial variability in regulatory methods accounts for ongoing differences in actual titles that are ascribed to different levels of practitioners.

Though the literal meaning of the words could include anyone who fights for the cause of freedom, in common use it may be restricted to those who are actively involved in an armed rebellion, rather than those who campaign for freedom by peaceful means ( though they may use the title in its literal sense ).

Though the club mounted title challenges finishing fourth in 1974 – 75 under manager Billy Bingham, and under manager Gordon Lee, third in 1977 – 78 and fourth the following season.

Though outnumbered and without any heavy cavalry, Charles had tough, battle-hardened infantry which believed in him implicitly.

Though DES was initially formulated for the Spalart-Allmaras model ( Spalart et al., 1997 ), it can be implemented with other RANS models ( Strelets, 2001 ), by appropriately modifying the length scale which is explicitly or implicitly involved in the RANS model.

" Though General Halder's notes did not record any mention of Jews, the German historian Andreas Hillgruber argued that because Hitler's frequent statements at the same time about the coming war of annihilation against " Judeo-Bolshevism ", that his generals would have implicitly understood Hitler's call for the total destruction of the Soviet Union as also comprising a call for the total destruction of the Jewish population of the Soviet Union.

Though he had asserted a desire to remain with the Astros, Beltrán signed a long-term contract with the New York Mets on January 9, 2005.

Though candid in expressing his admiration for Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and, later, Fidel Castro Ruz, Jagan in power asserted that the PPP's Marxist-Leninist principles must be adapted to Guyana's own particular circumstances.

Though impressed with the newcomer, the Britons asserted that they could not agree to his demands without conferring with their people.

Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.

Though they asserted their prerogative to rule, their hereditary, God-given right, and their usual alliance with the Church, they were unable to stem the principle of electoral monarchy and their propagandism failed them in the long run.

Though today the Basilica is asserted to be dedicated in honor of the 58, 000 who lost their lives during the war, the decree of the Assemblée nationale, 24 July 1873, responding to a request by the archbishop of Paris by voting its construction, specifies that it is to " expiate the crimes of the Commune ".

Though the prosecution asserted Johnson's mental illness was caused by the events of the trial, Johnson had admitted to them that she was mentally ill beforehand.

Though he did not express disagreement with the Court's First Amendment analysis, he believed that the asserted government interest was only valid when the nation was in a state of war as declared by Congress ( which had not been the case since World War II ).

Though it cannot claim to be the oldest continually-published paper in North America, others have asserted that neither can the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, which also ceased publication during the Siege of Quebec in November 1775 ;

Though she asserted that she did not support same-sex unions or question that they contravened Virginia public policy, she believed that the dissent's rationale would cause the court to question other sections of Virginia law that incidentally conferred benefits upon those involved in same-sex unions as " disguised efforts " to legitimize those unions.