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Despite this incident, the 1983 season was also notable for some transitional changes.
Despite coup attempts in 1980, 1983, and 1988, Gayoom's popularity remained strong, allowing him to win three more presidential terms.
Despite the economy's general expansion after 1983, however, inflation threatened its modest gains, as did serious fiscal and balance-of-payments deficits and the growing debt.
Despite these difficulties, over the summer of 1978 ( shortly after the end of the Lib-Lab pact ) most opinion polls showed Labour ahead, and the expectation grew that Callaghan would call an autumn election that would have given him a second term in office until autumn 1983.
Despite the basic importance of the foreign language requirement, a completely dialogueless film such as Le Bal ( 1983 ) was still able to get nominated in the Foreign Language Film category.
Despite their regular season success, the Spurs were unable to win any NBA championships, losing in the Western Conference playoffs to the Houston Rockets in the first round of the 1981 and the Los Angeles Lakers in in 4 games 1982 and in 6 games in the 1983 Western Finals despite getting both wins at the Forum in the 1983 series.
Despite being released during the North American video game crash of 1983, the arcade game, as well as the industry, were not affected.
Despite the cancellation in 1983 of the experimental Shanghai Y-10, China is still developing its civil aerospace industry.
Despite the CART / USAC divide, from 1983 to 1995 the race was run in relative harmony.
Despite becoming SDP President, she lost her seat in the 1983 general election.
Despite its name, Washington Mutual ceased being a mutual company in 1983 when it demutualized and became a public company on March 11.
Despite not winning a PGA Tour event in 1983, Nicklaus finished 10th on the PGA Tour money list, and passed a significant milestone by becoming the first player to eclipse the $ 4 million level in career earnings.
Despite initial success, Mission of Burma disbanded in 1983 due to Miller's development of tinnitus caused by the volume of the band's live performances.
Despite being found guilty of bribery in 1983, Tanaka in the early-to-mid-1980s remained a power behind the scenes through his control of the party's informal apparatus, and he continued as an influential adviser to the more internationally minded Nakasone.
Despite this, the arrondissement elected and was represented by the anti-immigration Front National politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, as a municipal councilor from 1983 to 1989.
The band used the label to release and distribute a number of cassettes and booklets by themselves ( see also Cassette Culture ), including their early demo recordings Be Happy Despite It All ( 1983 ), Another Year Of The same Old Shit ( 1984 ) and the ' cassette single ' " Common Ground " ( 1984 ), which was a benefit for striking miners ( see UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 )).
Despite earlier support by the late Ricardo Balbín, de la Rúa was defeated by Raúl Alfonsín for the UCR nomination for the presidency in 1983.
Despite constant illness, he produced a large amount of music, including important works such as the Second ( 1980 ) and Third ( 1983 ) String Quartets and the String Trio ( 1985 ); the Faust Cantata ( 1983 ), which he later incorporated in his opera Historia von D. Johann Fausten ; the ballet Peer Gynt ( 1985 – 1987 ); the Third ( 1981 ), Fourth ( 1984 ) and Fifth ( 1988 ) Symphonies ( the last of which is also known as the Fourth Concerto Grosso ) and the Viola ( 1985 ) and 1st Cello ( 1985 – 1986 ) concertos.
Despite the expansion of the auditorium to seat 12, 000 in 1983, seven Sunday services were insufficient to accommodate the entire membership.
Despite also touting a 900cc prototype water-cooled twin at the 1983 National Exhibition Show to attract outside investment, Triumph Motorcycles ( Meriden ) Ltd itself became bankrupt on 23 August 1983.
Despite being handsomely paid " under the table ", Botha was of the opinion that he could earn more in professional sport and thus he travelled to the United States in 1983 on the invitation of the American football team the Dallas Cowboys in order to try out as a placekicker.

Despite and constitutional
Despite the democratic, constitutional framework, the military has exercised substantial power and interfered repeatedly in civilian leadership since multi-party elections were instituted in 1994.
Despite this, Madison still feared that the states would compel congress to call for a new constitutional convention, which they had the right to do.
Despite its growing dominance in the constitutional hierarchy, the Premiership was given little formal recognition ; the legal fiction was maintained that the Sovereign still governed directly.
Despite extensive constitutional protections, the Karimov government has actively suppressed the activities of political movements, continues to ban unsanctioned public meetings and demonstrations, and continues to suppress opposition figures.
Despite the fading of bitter wartime memories, the general public, according to opinion polls, continued to show strong support for this constitutional provision.
Despite the constitutional provisions, a 1998 government decree limited citizens ' right to express their own opinion.
Despite this written requirement, the possibility exists that the filibuster could be changed by majority vote, but only on the 1st day of the session in January or March, using the so-called nuclear option, also sometimes called the constitutional option by proponents.
Despite its name, City Hall is neither located in nor does it serve a city ( as recognised by English constitutional law ), often adding to the confusion of Greater London with the City of London, whose headquarters is in the Guildhall, north of the Thames.
# Despite the legal precedent set by ex parte Quirin, " the president lacked inherent constitutional authority as commander in chief to detain American citizens on American soil outside a zone of combat.
Despite his vow to act as a constitutional monarch who would defer to the power of the parliamentary government, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi increasingly involved himself in governmental affairs.
Despite the defeat of constitutional revision, Edge was able to accomplish much of his program.
Despite having the socially advanced constitution of 1940, Cuba was plagued with corruption and the interruption of constitutional rule by autocrats like Batista.
Despite his short time on the bench, Goldberg played a significant role in the Court's jurisprudence, as his liberal views on Constitutional questions shifted the Court's balance toward a broader construction of constitutional rights.
Despite its " Republic " moniker, the Centauri Republic is a nominal constitutional monarchy ruled by an Emperor, or, in the event of an interregnum, a Regent.
" The Atlas Society also reviewed the book, writing " Despite its occasional lack of focus, Restoring the Lost Constitution is a succinct and accurate distillation of libertarian constitutional theory — and it convincingly shows that this phrase is largely redundant.
Despite the fact that these ideas were debated and discussed seriously on both sides of the Atlantic, it appears no Congressional demand for this constitutional development was sent to Westminster.
Despite a continuing commitment to progressive reform, Gregory's performance as attorney general provoked enormous controversy because of his collaboration with postmaster general Albert S. Burleson and others in orchestrating a campaign to crush domestic dissent during World War I. Gregory helped frame the Espionage and Sedition Acts, which compromised the constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and press, and lobbied for their passage.
Despite the challenge to the Bill, a Fianna Fáil spokesperson was quoted as saying that there was " broad support " within the party for the legislation, while the Taoiseach and the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Dermot Ahern reaffirmed the constitutional compatibility of the proposed law.
Despite near-unanimous support from the country's political leaders, this second effort at constitutional reform was rejected in a nation-wide October 1992 referendum.
Despite his age, he also actively campaigned, for the " no " side, in the June 2006 referendum on a constitutional reform.
Despite that the constitutional right to hold a popular referendum has existed since the Italian constitution was approved in late 1947, the necessary legislation detailing the bureaucratic procedures needed to have them was not approved until the early 1970s.
Despite Washington's call to only change the Constitution through amendments, he warns the American people that groups seeking to overthrow the government may seek to pass constitutional amendments to weaken the government to a point where it is unable to defend itself from political factions, enforce its laws, and protect the people's rights and property.

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