Despite its strong Australian showing, and having an American producer ( Peter McIan ), Business as Usual was twice rejected by Columbia's parent company in the United States.

Despite these objections to restricting immigration, between 1875 – 1888 all Australian colonies enacted legislation which excluded all further Chinese immigration.

Despite being acknowledged as the leading expert on the Australian Constitution, he was never appointed to the High Court of Australia.

Despite a rise in the number of Australians covered by health insurance plans following the end of the Second World War, a large proportion of the Australian population continued to lack coverage for health risks by the early Seventies.

* Despite critical acclaim, the 1958 Australian musical " Lola Montez " was short-lived.

Despite his potential, Bradman was not chosen for the Australian second team to tour New Zealand.

Despite his absence, England employed what were already becoming known as the Bodyline tactics against the Australian batsmen and won an ill-tempered match.

Despite his explorations, the various Australian governments at the time turned their respective backs on his achievements once they had been completed, and refused to patronise any further exploits or give him much in the way of financial reward.

Despite one score of 89 during the series, Gower failed to consistently perform, and thus the Australian team have set this very attacking field.

Despite his position as the most celebrated Australian writer of the time, Lawson was deeply depressed and perpetually poor.

Despite this setback, the offensive continued with minimum delay, and by the end of 6 December Australian besieged and took Bardia, which fell along with 40, 000 more prisoners and 400 guns.

Despite their visual similarities, the Australian Raven and Crow have very different and unique calls.

Despite complaints to have it removed, the Advertising Standards Bureau ruled that it did not contain excessive nudity for its M rating. The Australian Advertising Standards Bureau ruled that it did not infringe any advertising standards.

Despite acquiring almost all the land necessary for the building of the Badgerys Creek airport, and multiple studies and reports commissioned that recommend building the airport, in 1995 new airport leasing legislation was blocked in the Australian Senate, and construction was delayed until after the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Despite repeated requests, Australian, German and U. S. consuls in Kabul had been denied any meetings with Taliban authorities for a week.

Despite his many business successes in early life, he was known as an increasingly eccentric figure in American and Australian history.

Despite military use of the airfield, civil services operated by Qantas Empire Airways and Australian National Airways ( ANA ) commenced from the location in 1944.

Despite its usually peripheral role in Australian politics and its ultimate failure, the Communist Party had an influence far beyond its numbers.

Despite missing out on a wild card spot, the organisers awarded her a wild card for the Australian Open main draw.

Despite adverse publicity, the novel still went on to win the 1995 Australian Literary Society Gold Medal.

Despite its rough operation and inefficiency, the BW35 was popular in the North American and Australian markets.

Despite protesting the strenuous nature of the players ' workload in this new era, Chappell found himself leading the team to Pakistan two weeks after the end of the Australian season.

Despite sharing a common name this association had nothing to do with the original United States based National Bicycle Association that was formed in California in 1974 and ironically merged with the National Bicycle League and ceased operations as an independent body in December 1981, the same month and year the Australian namesake was formed.

Despite display rules and guidances, accidents have continued to happen.

Despite these stereotypes, however, there are actually quite strict rules governing tackling.

Despite its editorial issues, the 3rd edition rules were well-received enough to win the 1986 / 1987 Gamer's Choice Award for " Best Science-Fiction Roleplaying Game " ( Rabe 1987 ).

Despite the facade of a mutant paradise, Nightcrawler, who intends on becoming a Genoshan resident, soon learns that Magneto is an oppressive ruler who unfairly incarcerates Genosha mutants who do not abide by his rules.

Despite the game's small size and admittedly joking nature, there are more than 30 fan-authored websites devoted to Risus, some including several rules variants, simple worldbooks, and wholly rewritten adaptations of the game.

Despite unconditional blackout rules in the NFL that normally would have prohibited the live telecast from being shown locally, the NFL allowed the game to be telecast in the Los Angeles area on an experimental basis when all tickets for the game were sold.

" Despite the artistic expressions used in these types of friendship books, the basic rules of passing the friendship book to person to person is the same.

Despite appearances, however, there are no rules to the game, and both the naming of stations and the specification of " rules " are based on stream-of-consciousness association and improvisation.

Despite being told that it was against the rules, Ender sacrifices most of his fighters fleet to launch a Molecular Disruption Device at the planet, destroying the planet and the entire Formic fleet.

Despite making many attempts over a ten hour session, none of the subjects worked out the rules of the system.

Despite regulations or rules that deny access to animals in restaurants and other public places, in many countries, guide dogs and other types of assistance dogs are protected by law, and therefore may accompany their handlers most places that are open to the public.

Despite its complicated rules, hazard was very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and was often played for money.

Despite the apparent effort, the rules and regulations of the LAC were not fairly implemented.

Despite being a giveaway, Billboard chart rules at that time allowed the single itself to chart, and it peaked at # 13 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in March 1978.

( 1 ) Despite the rules of common law, a person described in subsection ( 2 ) who voluntarily and without reasonable expectation of compensation or reward provides the services described in that subsection is not liable for damages that result from the person's negligence in acting or failing to act while providing the services, unless it is established that the damages were caused by the gross negligence of the person.

Despite the interest and realism of the system, which makes a case demonic invocations no Mage can not afford to treat lightly, this part of the system has not been well integrated with the rules of magic and is confined to the end of the rules, and also the mixture of styles, the Judeo-Christian demonology adjacent to the Thousand and One Nights, all sprinkled with a touch of mythology came from the writings of Tolkien.

Despite Moynihan's warnings, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children ( AFDC ) program included rules for payments only if the " Man out of the house.

Despite the central claim of legal positivism that legal validity depends on sources, legal positivism does not claim that the laws so identified should be followed or obeyed or that there is value in having clear, identifiable rules ( although some positivists may also make these claims ).

Despite there not being much change in the basic definition, 49 new metropolitan areas were formed as a result of the new rules for them.

Despite knowing that Bird had a year of college eligibility remaining, he drafted Bird in the 1978 NBA Draft and waited for a year until the future Hall-of-Fame forward Bird finally arrived, finally setting aside his team salary rules when it became clear that he would have to either pay Bird a huge rookie salary or watch him simply re-enter the 1980 draft.

Despite acknowledging that Bart may be too young for emancipation, she rules in his favor and declared him legally emancipated.

Despite such activities being permitted under parliamentary rules, the MPs in question have received criticism from some sections of the media for what is perceived to be a lack of participation in the parliamentary proceedings while they are using the social networking tools.