And he was handsome, despite the long thin scar that slanted across his cheek.

And yet, despite some disappointment with the performance of this first year of the new decade, 1960 has been a good year in many ways, with many overall measures of business having reached new peaks for the year as a whole.

And so, despite warnings, Enki consumes the other seven fruit.

And yet, despite the imagination and brilliance of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, it is still quite easy to identify the saint depicted because the traditional attribute and appearance of Peter is still present.

And, despite being cognizant of the fact that they were speaking, they could neither stop themselves nor understand their own words.

And despite some changes, the magazine has kept much of its traditional appearance over the decades in typography, layout, covers and artwork.

And, despite continued denials by the band, it settled a five-year legal battle with Hudson, paying him $ 600, 000 after he proved he held the copyright to the song " Thug " which appeared on Eliminator.

And despite the advent of alternative forces, Durkheim argued that no replacement for the force of religion had yet been created ,.

And, despite rumors of ill-gotten wealth, Garfield could afford no horse and buggy to park in the White House stable, but accepted Hayes ' offer of his own quite used-up rig.

And we do, despite its lackadaisical pace and disappointing ending.

And in Tirpitz, who was still very influential in the Navy despite having retired in 1917 started to speak of Raeder as an ideal man to head the Navy.

And, despite its protestations of nonalignment, Uganda remained far more closely linked, both economically and politically, to the capitalist than to the socialist bloc.

And in 2010, despite bad weather conditions, the Taiwan gay parade " Out and Vote " attracted more than 30, 000 people, making it the largest such event in Asia.

And although time with its gradual decaying processes is as destructive to nature's works as to man's, even so this edifice survives undamaged, despite being subjected to the pressure of so many tree-roots and the strain of bearing the weight of such a huge forest.

And despite some initially enthusiastic users, FrameMaker never really took off in the academic market, because of the company's unwillingness to incorporate various functions ( such as support of endnotes or of long footnotes split across pages ), or to improve the equation editor.

And in October of the years 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, he was made the King of Boomerroyalty in which each weekend despite being infamous, the channel " Boomerang " showed 2-hour installments of Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo and The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show all month.

And this, despite the fact that in the documents prepared for the rendezvous in Geneva, apart from a few minor improvements, a basic approach has been maintained equating Israel with a racist country rather than a democracy.

The follow-up singles fared no better despite some imaginative promotion, which included an offer for Otway to come to a buyer's house and perform the 1979 single, " Frightened And Scared ", if their copy was one of only three copies from which the vocal had been omitted.

And, despite the love of Peter I of Brazil for the music – he was also author of some musical pieces like the Brazilian Independence Anthem – the difficult financial situation didn't allow many luxuries.

And despite the difference, they are the same stories.

And despite his relatively advanced age, his win-loss percentage during the open era was around 80 % for singles, which places him seventh on the open era list behind Björn Borg, Rafael Nadal, Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, John McEnroe and Roger Federer but ahead of Pete Sampras.

In Southern's final programme, And It's Goodbye From Us, a song was featured, composed and performed by Richard Stilgoe, deriding the incoming TVS as Portakabin TV and mocking TVS for choosing Maidstone as a production base in the newly-enlarged dual region despite the fact that Southern itself had already purchased the site in Vinters Park, Maidstone, for a planned studio complex which Southern would have built had it retained its franchise.

And since her position depended on Kaikeyi's status at Court, Manthara lost no opportunity to feed the young Kaikeyi's insecurity and jealousy of Kaushalya, despite Dasaratha's obvious enchantment and love for all of his wives.

And like the banking bill, it passed through Congress almost instantly — despite heated protests by some congressional progressives.

And in its engineers' frantic attempts to achieve maximum dynamic impact and earsplitting brilliance, the recording sounds as though it had been `` doctored for super-high fidelity ''.

And, as Christianity was seen as alien, attempts were made to recreate the ancient religion.

And if they were somehow able to get their hands on and kill the man who attempts to release and lead them up, wouldn't they kill him?

* Carnage teams up with and later turns against the Joker during Spider-Man And Batman # 1, the two men meeting when behavioral psychiatrist Cassandra Briar attempts to use the two men — regarded as humanity's most twisted minds — as tests for a chip she has developed that will allegedly ' lobotomise ' their homicidal instincts.

And King Silseong of Silla sent his son in 402 ; both were attempts to secure military aid from Yamato Japan so that the two nations could continue campaigns they had begun prior to the requests.

And, also, Italy's attempts to renew traditional Roman control of Mediterranean and North Africa.

And indeed, the majority of usurpation attempts came from the Asian province of Syria, and the Rhine and Danube provinces, frontier provinces with large military presence.

And Corran is called the destroyer of Ithor by the New Republic, despite his attempts to save the planet.

During No Man's Land, Batman attempts to regain Gordon's trust by revealing himself, but Gordon refuses to look at him, stating that if he wanted to know Batman's identity, he could have figured it out years ago, and even cryptically saying, " And for all you know, maybe I did.

And yet, much contemporary academic theorizing consists precisely of attempts to blur these obvious truths — the utter absurdity of it all being concealed through obscure and pretentious language.

And after two days of heavy fighting, with no ammunition or food rations remaining, further attempts at a breakout for the Poles became impossible.

" And “ How does the knowledge women produce about themselves differ from that produced by patriarchy ?” ( Bartowski and Kolmar 2005, 45 ) Feminist theorists have also proposed the “ feminist standpoint knowledge ” which attempts to replace “ the view from nowhere ” with the model of knowing that expels the “ view from women ’ s lives ”.

" And foreseeing the growth of North American expansionism, ( he was absolutely convinced of the inevitable victory of Cuban Arms ), he expressed in a letter to a friend of arms: " That ( country ) which attempts to seize Cuba, will gather the dust of its ground soaked in blood, if he does not perish in fight.

And like all attempts to command success for the chronically unsuccessful, it petered out.

And sometimes in my attempts to steer homewards, upon nautical principles, by fixing my eye on the pole-star, and seeking ambitiously for a north-west passage, instead of circumnavigating all the capes and headlands I had doubled in my outward voyage, I came suddenly upon such knotty problems of alleys, such enigmatical entries, and such sphinx's riddles of streets without thoroughfares, as must, I conceive, baffle the audacity of porters, and confound the intellects of hackney-coachmen.

And in one last defining moment, Mosp attempts to kill Horribus so Torg can free the Goddess of Goodness from the Demon King's freezer, but she aimed just a little bit too high and missed Horribus ' dark soul.

Plutarch, consistently with his heterosexual message, then goes on to tell how love also inspires women to great courage: " And here, methinks, we have very opportunely mentioned Alcestis ; for although the temper of women has little to do with Mars, Love many times drives them to daring attempts beyond their own nature, even to death.