Though the makeshift airports were ready, the York State Guard flyers proved unable to keep any kind of mail schedule.

Though unable to directly write policies or carry them through to the government, Roland was able to influence her political allies and thus promote her political agenda.

Though the Wissenschaftslehre demonstrates that such an Anstoss must occur if self-consciousness is to come about, it is quite unable to deduce or to explain the actual occurrence of such an Anstoss — except as a condition for the possibility of consciousness.

Though the ACLU had taken on the trial as a cause, in the wake of Scopes ’ conviction, they were unable to find any volunteers to take on the Butler law and by 1932, the ACLU gave up.

Though the club showed strength in the early going, the team proved unable to keep pace with the surging Oakland Athletics in the second half and fell out of contention in September.

Though the sickle claw did penetrate the abdominal wall, it was unable to tear it open.

Though the invaders were unable to take control, the political system remained unstable.

Though Spielberg was interested in casting Ford in the lead role from the start, Lucas was not, due to having already worked with the actor in American Graffiti and Star Wars, but he eventually relented after Tom Selleck was unable to accept.

Though the Romans send ambassadors to Ptolemy V, they are unable to lend him any serious assistance against Antiochus III.

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 Bane assured Gunray that Sidious would compensate him for the loss of his fleet, Gunray demanded that Bane transmit him the data from the Holocron, but Bane had been unable to open it thus far.

Though Demers had presided over the resurgence of the Detroit Red Wings in the 1980s and helmed a Stanley Cup run in Montreal in 1993, he was unable to change the team's fortunes, and the Lightning ended up losing 55 games.

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 he was unable to reach the Khanate of Khiva the results of the journey afforded a great deal of political, geographical and military information, especially as to the advance of Russia in central Asia.

Though a local educated worker at the Jiangyong Cultural Office ( Zhou Shuoyi ) had collected, studied and translated many Nüshu texts into standard Chinese, he was unable to draw outside attention to the script until a report was submitted to the central government on this subject in 1983.

Though he was unable to compete with the burgeoning rock and roll sound that was increasing in popularity, he managed to maintain a small, devoted audience.

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 unable to effect a durable peace with the Basotho, or to realise his ambition for the creation of one powerful Boer republic, Pretorius saw the Free State begin to grow in strength.

Though, according to TIME Magazine, Hunter " chose to float in his hotel pool, a bottle of hooch in hand, while the great fight took place, and he was unable to file anything.

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 unable to learn anything from the insensate victim, the detectives agree that the killer has planned these crimes for more than a year.

Though the friendship goes back to normal, the attempt fails as Jerry is unable to perform.

Though unable to recall past memories or form new ones, Wearing is still able to play, conduct, and sing along with music learned prior to the onset of his amnesia, and even add improvisations and flourishes.

Though accompanied to Earth by his father, King Cold, Frieza is unable to avenge his loss.

Though Norway tried to halt this process it was forced to relent after the Black Death decimated its population.

Though construction came to a virtual halt during the mid 1960s, by the early 1970s development was beginning again.

Though judged unprepared by French tacticians, the American Expeditionary Force ( AEF ) was committed to combat in the spring of 1918 in a desperate attempt to halt a German advance toward Paris.

Though war officially ended after only a couple of weeks, resistance continued in northern Burma until 1890, with the British finally resorting to a systematic destruction of villages and appointment of new officials to finally halt all guerrilla activity.

Though currently a terminating halt, a planned line extension would see the stop used as a connecting station between the existing Luas Green line and the planned Luas BXD line-projected to open in 2017.

Though conversational, much of his dialogue could often halt the metre while still staying on track.

Though Devastator appeared to have the upper hand at first, the Dinobots did manage to finally knock him down and halt his movements ; taking him out of the fight.

With no other option available to him, Elliot reluctantly agrees to play Dick Grayson's puppet, posing as Bruce Wayne, and thus keeping the public from realizing that he is dead Though this has prevented Elliot's original plan of sapping the Wayne fortune, he has not allowed it to halt his scheming altogether.

Though China's golden age of animation would come to a complete halt when the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong introduced the Cultural Revolution.

Though some passenger trains halts here, most of the express trains do not halt at Malur.

Though technically a vote on whether the bill can proceed, the bill's supporters usually claimed that the vote was a vote on the bill itself, providing opportunities to the minority party to, at the least, force the majority party to be put on record as opposing a popular bill.

Though interpretations vary, most theologians see this passage as referring to Jesus, after his death, going to a place ( neither heaven nor hell in the ultimate sense ) where the souls of pre-Christian people waited for the Gospel.

Though the duchy's territory officially became an integral part of the Netherlands by the 1867 Treaty of London, the text passage remained unchanged when the Deutschlandlied was declared the national anthem of the Weimar Republic in 1922.

Though he actually intended to conquer Ming China, Hideyoshi had been communicating with the Koreans since 1587 requesting unmolested passage into China.

Though narrow at first, he was able to squeeze through the passage and discovered an ethereal utopia, where the people led an ideal existence in harmony with nature.

Though Meredith was legally entitled to register, the Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett, tried to block him by having the Legislature pass a law that “ prohibited any person who was convicted of a state crime from admission to a state school .” The law was directed at Meredith, who had been convicted of “ false voter registration .” Since passage of its 1890 constitution, the state had voter registration rules that effectively disfranchised black voters.

Though movie director George Lucas may claim American Graffiti was his youth in Modesto, thousands of Valley teenagers claimed " Van Nuys Blvd cruise night " as a vital teenage right of passage.

Though they successfully broke through the enemy's lines, they ended up scattered around the Westfold, giving Saruman clear passage into Rohan.

Though khutba isn't mentioned directly in the Qur ' an, one passage uses the word " khutubah " when referring to Qit ' aal.

Though Portuguese was Montemor's native language, he only used it for two songs and a short prose passage in the sixth book of the Diana.

Though, at times, the river is not high enough to allow for passage.

Though it contained other provisions, like minimum wage and maximum hours, its most significant passage was, " Employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representative of their own choosing, and shall be free from the interference, restraint, or coercion of employers.

Though the " Solid South " had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery prior to the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 ( triggering the Dixiecrats ), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.

Though only wide at the narrowest point ( between the Point Wilson and Admiralty Head lighthouses ), it is through this passage that nearly all the seawater flows into and from Puget Sound during daily tidal variations.

Though the details of his professional life are widely known, Eltinge's personal life is shrouded in mystery ; mystery partly due to the passage of time, but really more likely to Eltinge's own hand.

Though the number of aids to navigation increased substantially during Putnam's reign from 11, 713 to 24, 000, mostly buoys and small lights, arguably two of his most significant achievements were the passage of the Retirement Act for lighthouse personnel in 1918 and the introduction in 1921 of the radiobeacon as an aid to navigation.

Though after he left office, his efforts, as well as the works of the Progressive-era leaders, provided for the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1912.

Though it was defeated, the passage of this directive, in the minds of those who fear eco-imperialism, would give Western nations the vehicle through which they could project their environmental agendas on the developing world.

Though a civilian contractor was retained to clear a navigable passage through the wrecks, it wasn't until a year later that headway was made in the effort to return Massawa to military duties.

Though unsuccessful, she continued to campaign for changes to existing laws, and was involved in the passage of Proposition 89, which allowed the governor of the state to overturn decisions made by the Board of Prison Terms.

Though it was meant to decrease immigration, the 1913 law likely had relatively little actual impact on Japanese farmers, and in fact, after the passage of the 1913 law, their numbers rose.

Though the Wafd secured guarantees of a permanent national labor council, no significant labor laws were enacted ; those that did gain passage were not enforced ; and the Wafd was unable to effect any substantial change in the fiercely anti-union policy of the government.

Though grateful for the income this work provided, he complained while working on Spartacus how pointless it was " to tinkle a few notes on the celeste " when the notes are also doubled by several other instruments, all for a passage presented to the audience under sound effects and actors ' voices.

Though Clement of Alexandria, Sextus Empiricus, and Diogenes Laertius all quote the same passage from Timon, where Socrates is termed a laxoos or lithoxoos in ancient Greek, Timon's work is polemical and not a serious attempt to transmit literal, historical facts.

Though we watched carefully, we saw no sign of the passage of any egg down the ovipositor, but after a few seconds it was seen to be being slowly withdrawn, the withdrawal being considerably more rapid than the entry. From first point of insertion to complete withdrawal occupied ten minutes.