Sentence examples for though he gained from inspiring English sources

Babbitt, though he gained attention with a courageous promise to raise taxes to help reduce the swollen U.S. budget deficit, did not come across well on television.

He eventually returned, but thereafter he hated the Gonzaga court, which he maintained had undervalued and underpaid him, though he gained a raise in pay and a small pension for his success with L'Arianna.

From 1953, he was music director at Berkeley's pioneering FM station, KPFA, and though he gained a master's degree in 1956, he found that writing and broadcasting provided more than adequate compensation for being denied an academic career.

The beard is increasingly salt and peppery but, though he gained a fair amount of weight immediately after retiring from football, he is now looking formidably trim at 45.

But though he gained a reputation primarily as a highly theatrical bandleader, and his later recordings were sometimes over-indulged reprises of earlier successes, his musical legacy is considerable - both as an instrumental innovator and an inspiration to others.

He became the school's leading career rusher (3,432 yards) -- even though he gained only 645 yards as a senior because of an injured ankle -- and was a two-time nominee for the Doak Walker Award.

In Make and Break (1980) a salesman loses his humanity though he gains business success.

It would be in Glasgow, though, where he gained a global reputation.

In 1975, he ran for the Cincinnati board of education, and, though unsuccessful, he gained the backing of the Charter Committee, a traditional, local reform organization, in a run for the City Council two years later.

Whether Bach or Japanese classical gagaku, to him it was simply musicology, because, as he wrote in Musica Asiatica, which he co-edited from 1977 to 1984: "The musics of Asia and Europe constitute a single, historical continuum". Such enlightened thinking was not in vogue though, and he gained many enemies in the Cambridge music faculty who were creating an ethnomusicology department without him.

Rush was unique in early Australian sculling in that he provided opportunities for others to compete and excel, by organising regattas and other rowing events, though financially he gained little.