In spite of its dated image and being the subject of negative jokes, the Škoda remained a common sight on the roads of UK and Western Europe throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

" Because of strong video sales, the studio continued to make these films in spite of negative critical reaction ; 2001's Cinderella II: Dreams Come True received a rare zero-percent rating from the review-aggregating website Rotten Tomatoes.

In addition, an epoch optionally prefixed by " J " and designated as a year with decimals ( 2000 + x ), where x is positive or negative and quoted to 1 or 2 decimal places, has come to mean a date that is an interval of x Julian years of 365. 25 days away from the epoch J2000 = JD 2451545. 0 ( TT ), still corresponding ( in spite of the use of the prefix " J " or word " Julian ") to the Gregorian calendar date of 2000 Jan 1 at 12h TT ( about 64 seconds before noon UTC on the same calendar day ).

The ad hominem can be a similar appeal to a negative emotion, but differs from it in directly criticizing the villain — that is unnecessary in an appeal to spite, where hatred for the villain is assumed.

His claim was enthusiastically supported by the German princes and people, and in spite of the negative attitude of Austria and Prussia the federal assembly at the initiative of Otto von Bismarck decided to occupy Holstein pending the settlement of the decree of succession.

* Using a metaphor from the Eastern Front in WW II, Ted Hughes considered negative capability to be what enables verse to continue to function in spite of mud.

The Joint Chiefs insisted on massive expansion of FANK to over 200, 000 men, despite concerns at the severe negative effect this would have on Cambodia's economy, while the Military Equipment Delivery Team, led by General Theodore C. Mataxis, demanded the ' Americanisation ' of the army's French-influenced internal structures, in spite of the chaos this caused in the supply chain.

Gramophone's talking machine manufacturer, Eldridge R. Johnson, being left with a large factory and thousands of talking machines with no records to play on them, filed suit that year to be permitted to make records himself, and won, in spite of the negative verdict against Berliner.

Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe received negative media attention after he decided to personally appoint candidate Nöel Tremblay to run in the riding of Chicoutimi-Le Fjord in spite of the Bloc's riding association's selection of Sylvain Gaudreault to run in the riding.

Self-discipline can be defined as the ability to motivate oneself in spite of a negative emotional state.

In spite of the often negative connotations of the term, peer pressure can be used positively.

" But in spite of all these negative aspects, there was something in National Socialism that attracted Evola: the concept of a state ruled by an Order, which he felt was embodied by the SS.

In spite of the negative USSR diplomatic reaction, the next flight of the U-2 spyplane from Peshawar airport was planned to take place on 29 April.

Thus in spite of the Second Law Inequality which might lead you to expect that the average would decay exponentially with time, the exponential probability ratio given by the FT exactly cancels the negative exponential in the average above leading to an average which is unity for all time!

Chirac became Prime minister and became the leader of the UDR in December 1974, in spite of the negative opinions of many historical Gaullist personalities ( Michel Debré, Jacques Chaban-Delmas, etc .).

In spite of its known negative health effects, Sharad Pawar made a remark that Endosulfan is not yet proved dangerous.

In spite of its sales success, Mission Earth was lambasted by critics, receiving many negative reviews.

At his wife's request, Prigent attended the first rave party held in Rennes, in 1993, in spite of his negative prejudice.

In spite of the advantages, the road had also very negative impacts on the ecological system, which is still very important for people's daily survival.

In spite of the controversy and negative reviews, Sex sold 150, 000 copies on the day of its release in the USA alone.

In spite of efforts by the Government of Canada to retain these immigrants for Canada, very few remained because of Canada's somewhat restrictive land policies at that time and negative stories being told about Canada from U. S. land agents deterring Norwegians from going to Canada.

On the contrary, a " negative " test has a very low predictive accuracy, as many patients may improve after a shunt in spite of lack of improvement after CSF removal.

In spite of the negative reception, the Wii version has had some positive reception.

Within the field of social evolution, spite is used to describe those social behaviors that have a negative impact on both the actor and recipient ( s ).

In spite of these first impressions, the game has generally received positive reviews: Lafayette, for example, goes on to say that it is " really hard to fault GURPS Bunnies & Burrows ", as it is educational, realistic, whimsical and clever, while the game has also been described as a " work of genius ".

In spite of this, Deicide's eighth studio album The Stench of Redemption album received rave reviews.

Introduced in 1989, the Volant skis proved expensive to produce, and in spite of numerous positive reviews the company never able to become profitable.

Deep Purple had originally agreed to open the entire U. S. leg of the tour, but Cream's management removed them after only three shows, in spite of favourable reviews and good rapport between the bands.

In spite of the positive reviews, sales on Windows were slow.

In spite of encouraging reviews, Delius's orchestral music was not heard again in an English concert hall until 1907.

After returning to Britain, Moore published new poetry but in spite of good reviews and good sales, he was growing disillusioned with writing poetry and he began to consider writing novels, a genre made increasingly popular by the success of Walter Scott.

In spite of the film's limited release outside of Australia, Bana's performance received positive reviews.

In spite of this designation, Soap ranked # 13 for the 1977-78 season and went on to garner positive critical reviews and high ratings over the rest of its four-year run.

It did not get as much attention as its predecessors, in spite of the overwhelmingly positive reviews, with most praising the improvements in gameplay and toning down of the difficulty level.

Even in spite of the mixed reviews, the game sold 1. 44 million units in the United States alone, making it one of the GameCube's highest selling games.

In spite of all the enthusiastic reviews, the original editions failed to achieve the same degree of commercial success, and only about 3, 000 hardcover and 10, 000 paperback copies of each novel ever found a buyer.

A Boeing report noted that " numerical control has proved it can reduce costs, reduce lead times, improve quality, reduce tooling and increase productivity .” In spite of these developments, and glowing reviews from the few users, uptake of NC was relatively slow.

In spite of some critical reviews by established historians, most of his books have sold well.

Both failed, but her lead role in Kishore Sahu's Hamlet, paired opposite Pradeep Kumar, fetched her rave reviews in spite of it failing at the box office.

In spite of glowing reviews (" Wonderfully crafted songsmithery ’’ ( Time Out ) ‘’ A soft-spoken masterpiece ’’ ( The Times ).

In spite of the varied reviews of A Key to Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin, it sold quite well.