Despite his apparently anti-social character, Fred's actions are shown to be usually free of any malice.

Despite Fred's soul supposedly shattering in the process of Illyria taking over her body, Joss Whedon originally intended for either Fred and Illyria to be split in two had Angel gotten a sixth season, as revealed by Amy Acker in an interview: " As I ’ m playing this new character now, it was just some stuff that he was going to do with her and bringing Fred back and getting to work with both characters ", or for Illyria to take on more and more of Fred's memories.

Despite Fred's many years featured in newspapers around the world, he is not as well known as other cartoon characters.

Despite his frequent arguments with his sister ( they are constantly teasing and picking on each other ), the two are quite close.

Despite her lighthearted demeanor and teasing words, her faith in Lambda is absolute and she guards him with her life.

Despite the often fierce rivalry with the SS, the Foreign Office played a key role in arranging the deportations of Jews to the death camps from France ( 1942 – 44 ), Hungary ( 1944 – 45 ), Slovakia, Italy ( after 1943 ), and the Balkans.

Despite the rivalry of ben Naphtali and the opposition of Saadia Gaon, the most eminent representative of the Babylonian school of criticism, ben Asher's codex became recognized as the standard text of the Bible.

Despite the rivalry, Bayern has repeatedly supported 1860 in times of financial disarray.

Despite his career-long rivalry with Ryan, Carlton maintains his greatest rival was Tom Seaver.

Despite their rivalry, they occasionally collaborate, usually to the advantage of both.

Despite their distinctions, however, all open marriages share common issues: the lack of social acceptance, the need to maintain the health of their relationship and avoid neglect, and the need to manage jealous rivalry.

Despite weekly breakfasts together there is a certain extent of rivalry between the two yet-defined posts.

Despite this, many students at both the University of Idaho and at Idaho State University would like to see this rivalry renewed into an annual event.

Despite their rivalry they remain good friends.

Despite being the second team in the city, there is less rivalry with Oxford City due to their lower position in the pyramid system ( there have been no competitive matches between the two since 1959 ).

Despite their rivalry, Daphne and Maggie share a close bond ; Maggie even stands up for Daphne when she is taunted.

Despite the impassioned rivalry between the two universities, there is also much cooperation when the need arises.

Despite these accomplishments, German CAS was not perfect and suffered from the same misunderstanding and interservice rivalry that plagued other nations ' air arms, and friendly fire was not uncommon.

Despite Brom's efforts to humiliate or punish the schoolmaster, Ichabod remains steadfast, and neither contestant seems able to gain any advantage throughout this rivalry.

Despite their long-time rivalry and the conflict implicit in the feelings both have for Agatha, Tarvek has clearly told Gil that he places Agatha's safety and well-being above his own.

Despite assurances from the both the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan Usman Yusupov, Baghirov's rivalry with Barzani spilled over into Uzbekistan and resulted in Barzani himself and much of his followers to be separate and spread across the country to do hard labor.

Despite the adultery or rivalry, Aušrinė remains loyal and continues to serve Saulė in the mornings.

Despite their rivalry, Fletcher and Mackay can occasionally get along.

Despite this rivalry, PEC and Zwolsche Boys merged in 1969, taking the name PEC.

Despite the tough politicking between the two, their aggression disappears once Santos is named the Democratic Presidential Nominee and the rivalry becomes moot.

Despite their early successes, the group were eclipsed in popularity by groups like The Supremes, with whom they shared an intense rivalry and struggled with issues of dismal promotion from Motown, illnesses and mental breakdowns, with Cowart the first to leave in 1963, followed by Georgeanna Tillman two years later and Gladys Horton two years after that.

Despite moving to the U. I. L., Strake Jesuit still maintains its rivalry with Saint Thomas High School ( STH ).

Despite a rivalry, Aubame and M ' ba, now the President of Gabon, formed several political unions which were sufficiently politically balanced to appeal to the electorate.

Despite the fact that it has been a long time since Floriana were in their hey days, the fact that the two cities are near each others the rivalry continued to persist and it is one of the most classic derbies in the Maltese football.

Despite the large number of species in order Asterales, they do not compare in economic benefit for mankind to the Poales or to the Fabaceae.

Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.

Despite this, Ajax managed to hide in the altar of an unnamed deity where the Greeks, fearing divine retribution should they kill him and destroy the altar, allowed him to live.

Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.

Despite their avowed claim to appeal to the entire state, in 2009 the Diamondbacks moved their Triple-A Pacific Coast League farm team, the Tucson Sidewinders, to Reno, where they are now known as the Aces.

Despite advances in the protection offered by ballistic armour against projectiles, as the name implies, modern ballistic body armour is much less impervious to stabbing weapons unless they are augmented with anti-knife / anti-stab armour ( usually a form of mail ).

Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.

Despite these constraints especially those deputies that are elected directly normally try to keep close contact with their constituents and to help them with their problems, particularly when they are related to federal policies or agencies.

Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.

Despite this, Chicago engaged St. Louis in a see-saw battle for first place into August, but the Cardinals played to a torrid 20 – 6 pace that month, designating their rivals to battle in the Wild Card race, from which they were eliminated in the season's final week.

Despite the club's poor record, several Rockies hitters gained notoriety for their exploits at the plate, assisted by the thin and dry air of Denver, which purportedly allows balls to carry farther than they would at sea-level ballparks.

Despite their confusing English dub names, they are indeed cyborgs.

Despite greater toleration, extreme sects were opposed by the upper classes as they were seen as a threat to social order and property rights.

Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

Despite success within the NFL, they could not survive in Portsmouth, then the NFL's smallest city.

Despite this, several individuals in modern times have claimed that they have rediscovered the methods in which the original Damascus steel was produced.

Despite their practice of blending with dominant groups in order to avoid persecution and because the Druze religion doesn't endorse separatist sentiments, urging the Druze to blend with the communities they reside in, nevertheless the Druze have had a history of brave resistance to occupying powers, and they have at times enjoyed more freedom than most other groups living in the Levant.

Despite Reitell's previous misgivings about their relationship they spent the rest of the day and night together.

Despite a booming growth in American periodicals around this time period, fueled in part by new technology, many did not last beyond a few issues and publishers often refused to pay their writers or paid them much later than they promised.

Despite the recognition and success they enjoyed in the States, they were still largely ignored in the United Kingdom until their sixth album, the platinum selling A New World Record, hit the top ten there in 1976.

Despite the revivalists ' various political views and different opinions regarding the nature of authentic folk music, they all shared an understanding of Americanism that grounded the nation's identity in cultural pluralism and political democracy " By the end of the 1930s they along with the musicians and others had turned American folk music into a social movement.

Despite Francis ' different religion, he felt that they were good people, much like Europeans, and could be converted.