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.

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, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

And this occurs now, at the refrain of Jacoby's song -- at the point, in fact, of the name `` Lizzy '' -- ; ;

In The Law Of Civilization And Decay Brooks Adams traced this evolution, always pointing to the fact that although the forms became more rational, the substance remained unchanged.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

And it is also a fact of life that there will always ( be youngish half-educated people around, who will be dazzled by the glitter of what looks like a literary movement.

And the few must win what the many lose, for the opposite arrangement would not support markets as we know them at all, and is, in fact, unimaginable.

And this fact may explain some of the disagreements among the experts as to the more rational formulas for the apportionment of total costs among different units of service.

And the fact remains that there are today few shining examples of Negroes in positions of intellectual leadership.

And many advertisers have been happy with the results of letting a Negro disc jockey phrase the commercial in his own words, working only from a fact sheet.

And in fact, since the 120 limit was enacted, no conclave has been held with even a full 120 entitled to participate.

And in the top of the fifth inning, second baseman Bill Wambsganss executed the first ( and only, so far ) unassisted triple play in World Series history, in fact the only Series triple play of any kind.

And it is a fact, that Ethics aims at discovering what are those other properties belonging to all things which are good.

And in fact, the struggle is not yet completely won.

:" And so, sir, in the lonelier and perhaps even more disheartening moments which come to any national leader, I hope there will be a corner of your mind and heart which takes cheer from the fact that you have an admiring friend, a staunch friend that will be all the way with LBJ.

And those who hate us can take solace in the fact that they aren't subsidizing Bill's bombast ; we payers of the BBC license fee don't enjoy that peace of mind.

And in 1815, the chemist William Prout concluded that the hydrogen atom was in fact the fundamental mass unit from which all other atomic masses were derived.

* In the second verse of the hit song " Rocket Man " ( 1972 ), Elton John sings " Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids / In fact it's cold as hell / And there's no one there to raise them / If you did ".

And so far, every one thus tested has in fact been the sum of two primes.

And in fact, Cantor's diagonal argument is constructive, in the sense that given a bijection between the real numbers and natural numbers, one constructs a real number which doesn't fit, and thereby proves a contradiction.

And the fact that the brain and mind are one makes the separation artificial anyway ".

And Émile Durkheim, whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology, laid down the principle: " The determining cause of a social fact should be sought among social facts preceding and not among the states of individual consciousness ".

And the severity of the blow is greatly aggravated in moral effect by the fact that it is dealt only to a handful of individuals.

And in fact there was fairly extensive intermarriage between the Gaelic Irish aristocracy and Anglo-Norman lords beginning not long after the invasion and continuing right through into modern times.

I would say that I am exceptionally skeptical about the thing, but I wouldn ’ t discount it 100 % until I see the details, which haven ’ t been published as far as I know ... every few years we hear something like this from him ... And the fact that it ’ s on National Geographic doesn ’ t mean much.