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 despite Knowlton's attempts to show that the house was locked up tighter than a drum, this was not true.

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 the institutional equivalence result establishes the motive for comparative institutional analysis and suggests the means by which institutions can be compared ( according to their respective abilities to economize on transaction costs ).

And the total number of jobs increase in both countries since those workers in the origin country that lost their job can move to higher-value jobs in which their country has a comparative advantage.

And she also conducted a comparative study between some of the native languages and Lumee slang words.

And, because of the incidence of rapid change, the methodology of comparative statics has fewer applications than in the theory of international trade, and empirical analysis is more widely employed.

* And guest-starring .... Robin Hood Large comparative study of Qpid and three other Robin Hood-related TV episodes.

And though the strong and unbalanced, or " overpowered " players commonly are vigorous in denial of any lack of balance, the comparative media equality among all player brings change quickly, to further a sense of balance.

And I select this sentence as its pertinent summation: `` in essence the drama of his ( Eisenhower's ) Presidency can be described as the ordeal of a nation turned conservative and struggling -- thus far with but limited and precarious success -- to give effective voice and force to that conservatism ''.

The countrywide success of `` Lazybones '' and `` And The Angels Sing '' could only lead to Hollywood, where, besides Harold Arlen, Mercer collaborated with Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen, Richard Whiting, Walter Donaldson, Jerome Kern, and Arthur Schwartz.

And, contrary to many popular assertions, the goal-values chosen do not seem to us to be primarily oriented to materialistic success nor to mere conformity.

And you wonder if that is why the little man lost his job and his car and stayed drunk about a year before he straightened out and moved to St. Louis, where he got to be a big unhappy success.

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

The success of the pairing prompted both acts to record repeatedly through 1950, producing such rhythmically comical fare as " The Woody Woodpecker Song " ( based on the frisky bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons, and another Billboard hit for the quartet ), " Put ' em in a Box, Tie ' em with a Ribbon ( And Throw ' em in the Deep Blue Sea )," " The Big Brass Band from Brazil ," " It's a Quiet Town ( In Crossbone County )," " Amelia Cordelia McHugh ( Mc Who?

The band did find some success at the American Music Awards, as Dr. Feelgood was nominated twice for Favorite Hard Rock / Metal Award, losing once to Guns N ' Roses ' Appetite for Destruction, but winning the following year, beating out Aerosmith's Pump and Poison's Flesh And Blood.

And, given the ability for the right brand choices to drive preference and earn a price premium, the future success of a merger or acquisition depends on making wise brand choices.

Campbell-Lyons subsequently worked as a solo artist and issued further albums: Me And My Friend, 1973, The Electric Plough, 1981, and The Hero I Might Have Been, 1983, though these did not enjoy commercial success.

And I realise that basically I was quite a good clown … and the one and only chance I ever had to prove that was in Oblomov when I clowned my way out of what was a very bad script … I clowned it into a West End success and uh, we kept changing it all the time.

And the Packers offensive line was also big reason for the team's success, led by All-Pro guards Jerry Kramer and Thurston, along with Forrest Gregg.

And Jones fired the two men that brought previous success to Dallas: its founding president Tex Schramm and its famed personnel man Gil Brandt.

Following the success of their cover of The Kinks ' " All Day And All Of The Night ", a UK No. 7 hit in 1988, The Stranglers released another ' 60s cover, " 96 Tears " as their first single from 10 ; it reached No. 17 in the UK.

And the success of those graphic novels made our ideas more acceptable.

And I now cheerfully and gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to the officers and men of my command whose zeal, fidelity and unflinching bravery have been the great source of my past success in arms.

And increased possibility of success of counterforce attacks mean that the opponent has to act before their ability to do so is reduced, which increases the risk of a large scale response to misinterpreted signals.

After their rise to fame with their second album " International Velvet ", and subsequent success with third release " Equally Cursed And Blessed " they returned in 2001 with their fourth studio album Paper Scissors Stone.

And though it was a troublesome shoot with a number of directors, the film would turn out to be a major success.

And, by extension, this has been key to the success of the Republican Party.

And it is his ambition and intelligence, combined with Tenar's budding wish for freedom and a wider world, that leads to their success.

... And Justice for All opened to critical acclaim and box office success.

Montoya has also become a crossover race winner by winning races ( starting in each case in his rookie year ) in Formula One, CART, IndyCar, Grand-AM and NASCAR equalling in that respect Mario Andretti's caliber of success ( except for the F1 World Championship ); And shares honors as well with Dan Gurney in being IndyCar / F1 / NASCAR race winner.

And while he had concepts for full-length features, it was not until the success of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ( 1937 ) that the stodgy Paramount executives realized the value of an animated feature as Fleischer had been proposing for the previous three years.

And yet neither did this empirical success of Newton's theory verify Newton's theory.