Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.

In spite of all the pitfalls, there is a certain amount of agreement on some of the giants.

The original D minor seems to symbolize blindness, inescapable in spite of all attempts to move away from it.

Never forget that you can still do your share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and frustrations and disappointments.

The opening track, "' Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum ', includes many references to parades in Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where participants are masked, and " determined to go all the way " of the parade route, in spite of being intoxicated.

In spite of the name Cernunnos being attested nowhere else, it is commonly used in Celtological literature as describing all comparable depictions of horned deities.

In spite of all this variety, destroyers adopted a largely similar pattern.

If in spite of all his advice someone persisted in making idols, he would have them punished by the Patingatis ( Parava headsman ) by exile .... One day when he heard that idols had been worshipped in the house of a Christian, he ordered the hut to be burnt down as a warning to others.

When discipline was restored, in spite of assurances that Spaniards who wished to remain would enjoy freedom of religion and full civil rights, almost all villagers decided not to run the risk of staying and left in exile.

While not featuring the censoring mosaics of the original Japanese version, the US release of La Blue Girl was edited during the initial VHS release and all scenes featuring Miko's companion Nin-Nin engaged in a sexual act were removed, probably to avoid the charge of pedophilia, in spite of the fact that the character is not a minor but a dwarf ninja.

Israel dismantled 18 settlements in the Sinai Peninsula in 1982, and all 21 in the Gaza Strip and 4 in the West Bank in 2005, but continues to both expand its settlements and settle new areas in the West Bank in spite of the Oslo Accords which barred both Israeli and Palestinians from undertaking unilateral actions that would alter the status quo.

Eventually, beset by delays and in spite of all of the media coverage and apparent demand for the machine, the project ultimately went under when Konix ran out of cash without a completed system ever being released.

The Adi-parva includes the snake sacrifice ( sarpasattra ) of Janamejaya, explaining its motivation, detailing why all snakes in existence were intended to be destroyed, and why in spite of this, there are still snakes in existence.

Although all the other lights were extinguished, that light burned oil, in spite of the fact that it had been kindled first.

In spite of the agreement, all the parties of the trial: prosecution, defendant and the victim as an auxiliary prosecutor ( in Poland, the victim may declare that he wants to act as an " auxiliary prosecutor " and consequently gains the rights similar to official prosecutor )-have the right to appeal.

In spite of the metaphysical subject, the Commedia is deeply rooted in the cultural and social milieu of turn-of-the-century Florence: Dante's rise to power ( 1300 ) and exile ( 1302 ), his political passions call for a " violent " use of language, where he uses all the registers, from low and trivial to sublime and philosophical.

Four days later, pope and cardinals had to flee from Rome before the imperial prefect of the Eternal City, and at Terracina, in spite of all protests, Victor laid aside the papal insignia and once more retired to Monte Cassino, where he remained nearly a whole year.

In spite of this, Brecht never envisioned a version of the play in Germany, intending it for the American stage all along.

In spite of all the evidence, people underappreciate or, more often, ignore the political implications of the therapeutic character of Nazism and of the use of medical metaphors in modern democracies.

In spite of this, Lauda's move is seen as one of the bravest examples in motor racing, especially since it lost the title for Ferrari of all teams.

The Huntington Library retained the Nuremberg Laws in a basement vault in spite of a legal instruction in 1969 by the general's family to turn over all of his papers to the Library of Congress.

Still in spite of all his blunders, it is clear that, for a short time at least, middle-class opinion was, on the whole, favourable to him ; and had he been wise, he might perhaps have been able to defy any hostile combination.

But in spite of all the efforts of the Antiochene party, the representatives of the envoys whom the council was eventually allowed to send, with the legate Philip, to the Court, persuaded the emperor to accept Cyril's council as the true one.

Hill and his men worked in spite of all obstacles — including a presidential veto of a bill that would have allowed Hill legally to build through American Indian territory ( the law preventing Hill from laying track across Indian territories was later repealed under President Grover Cleveland, who like Hill was a Bourbon Democrat ).

The nose was big enough to appear so in spite of the expanse that surrounded it.

Schwarzschild concluded the letter by writing: " As you see, the war treated me kindly enough, in spite of the heavy gunfire, to allow me to get away from it all and take this walk in the land of your ideas.

In spite of their best efforts, the wide electron beams simply could not focus tightly enough to hit the individual dots, at least over the entirety of the screen.

Subsequently, in letters to Leibniz, Varignon and others, Bernoulli complained that he had not received enough credit for his contributions, in spite of the fact that l ' Hospital acknowledged fully his debt in the preface of his book:

The incident investigators discovered that the rod connecting the pins to the handle was weak enough that it could be bent with repeated operation and some force being applied, allowing the baggage handler to close the handle with his knee in spite of the pins interfering with the torque tube flanges.

In spite of the ruling of the magistrate that Mr. Clegg had put forward quite enough, if true, to damage Mrs. Dyson's credibility, he continued to press her as to her authorship of these notes and letters, but Mrs. Dyson was firm in her repudiation of them.

Nevertheless, the French aeronautical industry proved itself incapable of delivering enough aircraft that the annual fiscal budgets had called for, in spite of the fact that Hitler had come to power in January 1933 and, by March 1935, was defying the Allies ( and the Treaty of Versailles ) openly by announcing the existence of the Luftwaffe.

In spite of the fact that the Berdyansk spit-populous enough territory, its fauna differs of big variety.

What I need at that moment is to know that you care enough about me and the work I do to tell me that you loved it, not " in spite of its flaws ", not " even though everyone else seems to have a problem with it ", but simply, plainly, " I loved it.

Although rightly regarded by most people as a mountain in its own right, there are compilers of lists who consider that it does not in fact have enough prominence to separate it from its parent Allt-fawr in spite of over 110m of re-ascent and a distance of more than 4 km.

In spite of a roomy interior, the Strada failed to convince enough buyers to forget reliability issues from previous models was withdrawn from North America in 1982.

In spite of changes made by Hollingworth to rectify the soap opera's early problems ( ratings improved over the course of the show's run, as did the quality of the storylines ), it was claimed that this was not enough to justify its continued production, and incoming Controller of BBC1 Alan Yentob cancelled the programme, which had been commissioned by his predecessor Jonathan Powell.

In spite of its monumental proportions, it was once considered for demolition for not being large enough to accommodate the growing county.

" In spite of this, Dwyer ’ s enthusiasm was enough that he learned drums especially in order to play in the as-yet-unformed band, and Cope has subsequently credited him as the group ’ s original driving force.

Barefoot children begged for bread " adding " But it wasn't only the poverty, though that was bad enough, it was the recrimination, the malice, the spite, the ill-will and the hatred.

Pratt was a prolific and generous generator of ideas, but in spite of this was heard to complain that “ it was utterly impossible for him to talk fast enough to get out his ideas, so rapidly did they grow in his fertile brain .”

Depleted uranium also contains less U-235, but in spite of its half-life that is much shorter than the one of U-238, the concentration of U-235 in natural uranium is low enough ( about 0. 7 %) so that the U-235 depletion does not result in a significant reduction in radioactivity.

But in spite of all the suffering which Portugal had brought upon the Jews, there yet remained enough patriotism in the hearts of her rejected Jewish sons to cause them to help their former oppressors to preserve their old possessions on the Moroccan coast and to gain new ones.

Now signed to The Groundhogs ' management company, Egg finished the year with an increased touring schedule, but in spite of accumulating enough material for a third album, were unable to secure another record deal, and called it a day in July 1972.

It is also stated in the script the weed is fierce enough to flourish in spite of the conditions that forced the aliens to find refuge on a new world.

Nevertheless, this last Hammer vampire outing has a real energy, in spite of being a mish-mash, and is different enough to get by on sheer novelty alone.

There were a few bits of tantalizing chatter that the FBI managed to record in spite of the background sound of rock and disco music, such as Angelo Sepe telling an unidentified man about "... a brown case and a bag from Lufthansa ..." or his telling his girlfriend, Hope Barron, "... I want to see ... look where the money's at ... dig a hole in the cellar rear lawn ..." But this was not enough to connect Sepe and his crew to the theft.

Because the syringe contained a paralyzing drug that would have led to his death, Sam steps in and treats him in spite of the prisoners ' threats, saying she is going to make sure he doesn't die regardless of what they say ; Steve makes his partners back off long enough for Sam to intubate Luka.