In spite of the changes, the fifth album's first single, " Little L ", reached # 1 in many charts worldwide becoming their best dance hit.

Nintendo Power also listed it as the 20th best NES video game, and praised it for its " unique vertically scrolling stages, fun platforming, and infectious 8-bit tunes ", in spite of its " unmerciful difficulty ".

Thus jet engines, with a better match between speed and jet exhaust speed ( such as turbofans )— in spite of their worse )— dominate for subsonic and supersonic atmospheric use, while rockets work best at hypersonic speeds.

In spite of his relative inexperience, however, he was to become known as " one of the best editors in the history of The Spectator ".

Over the following 60 years or so, he was involved in many of the major military conflicts of the 19th century — always in spite of his best efforts to evade his duty.

Nintendo Power listed Super Mario Bros. 2 as the eighth best Nintendo Entertainment System video game, mentioning that in spite of not being originally a Mario game, it was able to stand on its own merits and its unique takes on the series ' trademark format.

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.

In spite of having one of the best reputations among the Liverpool scene, " Everything's Alright " remained their only major hit, with only two other singles charting low in the UK Singles Chart in 1964.

In spite of Teagarden's best efforts, the band was not a commercial success, and he was brought to the brink of bankruptcy.

This campaign was as much a matter of personal spite as of racism – Wagner had learnt a great deal from Meyerbeer and indeed Wagner's early opera Rienzi ( 1842 ) was facetiously called by Hans von Bülow ' Meyerbeer's best opera '.

In spite of all the jokes and innuendo, they prove to be best friends willing to do anything for both their friends and each other.

The central theme of the novel may be the way in which human nature, perhaps because of its very propensity for violence and war rather than in spite of it, provides the best hope human beings have at defeating the alien enemy.

In spite of their best efforts, however, there have been two serious debris incidents on more recent Shuttle missions.

In spite of this, however, Jim considers Angel as one of his best, if most exasperating, pals.

His relief of Ciudad Rodrigo in the autumn of 1811 in spite of the presence of the British army was a great feat, and in the manoeuvring which preceded the battle of Salamanca he had the best of it.

After 1761, young Madhavrao Peshwa tried his best to rebuild the empire in spite of his frail health and reinstated the Maratha authority over North India, 10 years after the battle of Panipat.

Among his best parts were Herod the Great in Mariamne, Nero in Britannicus and similar tragic roles, in spite of the fact that he was short, stout, and lacking in good looks.

Sir Joseph Chitty was for sixteen years a popular judge, in the best meaning of the phrase, being noted for his courtesy, geniality, patience and scrupulous fairness, as well as for his legal attainments, and being much respected and liked by those practising before him, in spite of a habit of interrupting counsel, possibly acquired through the example of Sir George Jessel.

In spite of much effort, it was not till after the publication of Stuart's Athens, in 1761, and of Adam's Spalatro — a statistical description, with many plates, of the palace of Diocletian — in 1757, that the reign of pure and severe classicism began in England, although Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, and Sir John Vanbrugh had all done their best.

Nintendo Power listed it as the 13th best Nintendo Entertainment System video game, praising it as fun in spite of being a licensed video game.

Harry tells Tobias that if the circumstances were reversed, he and Edna don ’ t think they would allow Tobias and Agnes to live at their house, in spite of the fact that they are best friends.

In spite of her borderline-demented attitude and love of firepower, she does indeed love Ryunosuke and only wants what's best for him.

Afterwards, through the Bolshevik and Communist period, in spite of the forced ideology and fierce censorship, Tbilisi State University managed to maintain national ardour, devotion to public ideals, raised the best representatives of Georgian intelligentsia, many famous scientific schools in mathematics, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, historiography were also established on the University basis.

In spite of this, the finish-up brings up the best team-play from the Bears.

* 1911 – A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners in spite of rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.

" He acknowledged that, in spite of his efforts — in TV programs such as Dancing: A Man's Game ( 1958 ) for example — the situation changed little over the years.

Most of his political measures, indeed, stood the test of experience, but in ecclesiastico-political matters he witnessed with sorrow the gradual decline of Catholicism and the spread of Lutheranism within his dominions, in spite of his earnest efforts and forcible prohibition of the new doctrine.

In spite of concerted efforts to uphold the statute, it eventually failed due to competition among landowners for labour.

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.

In spite of the efforts of his Jacobin friends to save him, Babeuf was arrested, tried, and convicted for his role in the Conspiracy of the Equals.

In December 1866, the last of the French troops departed from Rome, in spite of the efforts of the pope to retain them.

He then escapes, in spite of the efforts of John's men.

In spite of her strenuous efforts to avoid publicity, Garbo paradoxically became one of the twentieth-century's most publicized women in the world.

In spite of these reverses, Irene's military efforts met with some success: in 782 her favoured courtier Staurakios subdued the Slavs of the Balkans and laid the foundations of Byzantine expansion and re-Hellenization in the area.

During Henry's reign, Protestantism became an important minority religion in France, in spite of his efforts to suppress it.

In spite of their joint efforts Rangi and Papa remain close together in their loving embrace.

In spite of the efforts of the engineer Ignaz Venetz to drain the growing lake, the ice dam collapsed catastrophically in June 1818.

In 1980, he described New Zealand as a country living on borrowed money, unable in spite of the record efforts of its exporters to pay its own way in the world.

In spite of their efforts, the fort only lasted a few years.

In spite of village board efforts, " progress " has resulted in higher density developments surrounding Kildeer while it remains an island of rural countryside.

In spite of Hitler's discouraging reserve, she did not abandon her efforts through all those years ".

In spite of Schmutzer's efforts, Cocke County continued to struggle with organized crime.

In spite of massive efforts to help the survivors with food and medical treatment, led by Brigadier Glyn Hughes, Deputy Director of Medical Services of 2nd Army, about another 9, 000 died in April, and by the end of June 1945 another 4, 000 had died ( after liberation a total of 13, 994 people died ).

In spite of tireless efforts to arrange funding no branch of the military was interested, as he later noted, " The Navy said it was a plane not a boat ; the Air Force said it was a boat not a plane ; and the Army were ' plain not interested '".

In 1691 he was received into the French Academy in spite of the determined efforts of the partisans of the " ancients ", especially Racine and Boileau, who on four previous occasions had ensured his rejection.

In spite of Blueprint's great lead-it was running when MSDA was still a paper project-Lotus eventually joined the MSDA efforts as it became clear that SQL would become the de-facto database standard.