Despite playing in five losing Grand Finals, four between 1989 – 1995, its fans waited 44 years until it won another premiership — an AFL-record 119-point victory in the 2007 AFL Grand Final.

Despite his all-out effort to reduce the public-sector deficit, the overall ratio of fiscal deficit to the GDP in 1990 showed little change from that in 1989.

Despite declarations by the Callejas government in 1989 of its intent to increasingly address social issues, including land tenure and other needs of small farmers, the early 1990s were jolted by increased conflicts between peasants and the Honduran security forces.

Despite these problems, the number of visitors arriving in Honduras rose from fewer than 200, 000 in 1987 to almost 250, 000 in 1989.

Despite announcing his retirement from acting in 1980, Brando subsequently gave supporting performances in movies such as A Dry White Season ( for which he was again nominated for an Oscar in 1989 ), The Freshman in 1990 and Don Juan DeMarco in 1995.

Despite being renamed to CSG, all chips produced were still stamped with the old " MOS " logo until 1989.

Despite ongoing and potential disputes, however, it was unlikely in 1989 that Romania's borders would be redrawn in the foreseeable future.

Despite the clear electoral victory for the Sandinistas, the Contras continued their violent attacks on both state and civilian targets, until 1989.

Despite the disappointing reaction to Y Kant Tori Read, Amos still had to comply with her six-record contract with Atlantic Records, who in 1989 wanted a new record by March 1990.

Despite the emergence of the Popular Front and the Supreme Soviet as a new lawmaking body, since 1989 the different segments of the indigenous Estonian population had been politically mobilized by different and competing actors.

Despite these problems, Price Waterhouse signed BCCI's 1989 annual report, largely due to Zayed's firm commitment to propping up the bank.

Despite these personnel changes, PSV went on to win their 21st title, making it the third time in the history of the league that a team won four championships in a row, after HVV Den Haag ( 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903 ) and PSV ( 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 ).

Despite the exhibitions, history, number of artists and global sweep of the artistamp movement, the medium had long been ignored by major institutions and derided by the arts establishment: before his death in 1989, Bidner attempted to donate his definitive collection to several major Canadian institutions but was turned down by every one.

Despite the renewed activity of the band, neither release was financially successful and they officially disbanded again in 1989.

Despite Jerry Miller, Bob Mosley and Peter Lewis continuing to release solo records in the 1990s and 2000s, Moby Grape has not released an album of new material since the release of Legendary Grape in 1989.

Despite a frequency of more than one train every two minutes, made possible by the installation of digital signalling in 1989, and the partial introduction of double-decker trains since 1998, the central stations of Line A are critically crowded at peak times.

Despite the communists ' defeat in 1960, communist leader Chin Peng renewed the insurgency in 1967 ; it lasted until 1989, and became known as the Communist Insurgency War.

Despite the modest chart success of those singles and of Upstairs at Eric's ( which reached No. 92 on the album chart ), by 1989 ( seven years after its release ), word of mouth helped to push the album to platinum status for sales of over one million copies.

Despite the fact that they were expected to sing their first song in their hometown Timişoara, the city that sparked the Romanian Revolution of 1989 that eventually led to the downfall of the Communist regime, their first post-1989 concert took place in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

Despite the delayed launch, BSB continued to invest heavily in marketing in 1989 to minimize the effects of Sky ’ s timing advantage.

Despite the album's success, tension between Mascis and Barlow began interfering with the band's productivity, and in 1989, after touring in support of Bug, Barlow was kicked out of the band.

Despite a bone marrow transplant from his brother, he died of leukemia in 1989 at age 32.

Despite his libertarian leanings, Davíð also supported the Reykjavik City Theatre, in particular the building of a new theatre house which was opened in 1989.

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.

Despite his ongoing commitment to Hezbollah, in 1989 Nasrallah resumed his efforts to become a religious jurist by returning to the Iranian city of Qom to further his studies.

Despite the bailout, Russia's monthly interest payments still well exceeded its monthly tax revenues.

Despite generating revenues in excess of $ 24. 3 million for the year ending in March 2010, the facility lost more than half of a million dollars during the same period.

Despite the losses in tax revenues owing to construction of the bypass, the local government continues to operate through cost-saving, cooperative efforts with Middle Paxton Township.

Despite a no-cost stadium lease, all revenues from parking, concessions, and TV, as well as a reported $ 25M Maryland subsidy, Modell's ownership of the Ravens resulted in continual financial hardships, and the NFL stepped in and directed Modell to sell his franchise.

Despite consistently growing revenues, management consultancy also consistently attracts a significant amount of criticism, both from clients as well as from management scholars.

Despite short-and medium-term setbacks, such as shortage of hotel rooms, tourism revenues are expected to surge by 42 % from 2007 to 2017.

Despite forcing the abbot to apply revenues to debt repayment and to sell many of the estates, he was only partly successful.

Despite a BD30 million ( US $ 80 million ) cost to the business through fuel price rises during the year, Gulf Air recorded a profit of BD1. 5 million ( US $ 4. 0 million ) in the calendar year to December 2004, on revenues up 23. 8 % to BD476. 3 million ( US $ 1. 26 billion ) ( 2003: BD 384. 6 million / USD1, 020. 2 million ).

Despite this measure, factors such as a growing population, the division of plots among descendants, peasant debts and enduring reliance on revenues from working on estates, together with the widespread speculation of estate leaseholders and instances where political corruption was detrimental to the allocation of land, made the reform almost completely ineffectual on the long term, and contributed to the countryside unrest which culminated in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1907.

Despite considerable differences in the abilities of states to generate revenues, there is no federal program in the United States that aims explicitly at reducing the disparities in state fiscal capacity.

Despite this economic upswing, which translated into increased fiscal revenues, the Dutch regents showed little enthusiasm for maintaining the high level of military expenditures of the middle 1630s.

Despite dismal box-office revenues, the film garnered widely-varied criticism -- if any -- over topics such as the effects of war on humanity, ethnic differences and technical merits.

Despite the fact that the tax revenues were reduced, government expenditures remained high.

Despite the improved facilities and larger capacity ( and resultant larger ticket revenues ), this move was unpopular with many of the club's fans.

Despite the challenges involved in raising the revenues to pay for the war, Edward's military successes brought an influx of plundered wealth to many parts of England and enabled substantial building work by the king.

Despite some failures, the company revealed growing revenues though shrinking profits in the early 1990s, also attributed to the recession in the French economy.

Despite the additional casino at the Encore ( which added 97 tables and 857 slot machines to the original 190 tables and 2000 slots ) net casino revenues for the combined resort were lower than the first quarter of 2008 when only The Wynn was operating.

Despite increasing digital sales, the largest record labels have all reported a considerable decline in overall revenues from sales of recorded music to consumers in the first decade of the 21st century.

Despite a strong rise in revenues to $ 165 million, the company posted its fourth year of losses, of about $ 40 million.

Despite the furor, the new office opened in Orlando in 1997, during a fiscal year ( ending in September ) in which Hewitt's revenues reached close to $ 700 million.