Despite making up the bulk of Bowser's ( known as " King Koopa " in Japan ) army, known as the " Koopa Troop ", Koopas as a species are generally known to be peaceful, some even teaming up with Mario such as Kooper from Paper Mario.

Despite the failure of Philip's Bastarnae strategy, the suspicion aroused by these events in the Roman Senate, which had been warned by the Dardani of the Bastarnae invasion, ensured the demise of Macedonia as an independent state.

Despite the economic difficulties, what truly produced the demise of the UAR was Nasser's inability to find a suitable political system for the new regime.

Despite Nirvana's demise, the band has continued to be successful posthumously.

Despite Rita and Les being killed in the process they successfully destroy all the zombies until Lionel's mother, who ( assumedly because she was the one originally bitten ) has become a gargantuan monster, pursues Lionel and Paquita to the rooftop, where Lionel finally confronts his mother about the truth regarding his father's demise.

Despite the demise of Factory Records in 1992, the catalogue was still active, additions including the 24 Hour Party People film ( FAC 401 ), its website ( FAC 433 ) and DVD release ( FACDVD 424 ), and a book, Factory Records: The Complete Graphic Album ( FAC 461 ).

Despite the shortcomings of length, weight, bearing friction, and torsional vibrations that led to the straight-8's post-war demise, the straight-8 was the performance engine design of choice from the late 1920s to the late 1940s, and continued to excel in motorsport until the mid-1950s.

Despite the demise of the START II treaty, the last of the LGM-118A " Peacekeeper " ICBMs ( but not their warheads ) were decommissioned on September 19, 2005.

Despite concerns that this new league would see the demise of the Alberta and Saskatchewan leagues, the governing bodies in both provinces sanctioned the new league.

Despite strong concerns being voiced by local retailers at the time, the retail outlets have not led to a demise of the existing shops.

Despite the Stars ' demise, Salt Lake City had proven it could support big-time professional basketball.

Despite the Bologna Process which saw the demise of most traditional academic degree courses such as the Diplom and Magister Artium in favour of the more internationally known Bachelors and Masters system, the University of Munich continues to offer more than 100 areas of study with numerous combinations of majors and minors.

Despite initial strong ratings, the show failed to capitalise on this despite the demise of TFI Friday ( also a Ginger production ) and figures slowly dropped.

Despite these provisions, no amendments were made to the imperial constitution from the time it was adopted until its demise in 1947.

Despite Air America's demise, progressive talk radio has endured.

Despite its success and sweeping impact on the American theater landscape for many years to come, by 1940, impending war, the lure of fame and fortune in Hollywood, the lack of institutional funding and the friction of interpersonal relationships within the Group eventually led to its demise.

Despite the relatively short life of the band, The Teardrop Explodes has continued to sustain interest and praise since its demise and the band ’ s back catalogue of recordings has been reissued several times over the last thirty years.

Despite the demise of all of the original members, it still thrives and continues to meet for lunch every year either on, or close to, Hobbs ' 16 December birthday.

Despite being on the losing end of the battle with IPW: UK and the XWA promotion purportedly taking its lineage, in May 2009, over two years after its original demise, Tony Simpson and Alex Shane announced their intention to revive the national promotion.

Despite media predictions once again of his demise, Ford himself was elected third in South Antrim, with over 13 % of the poll.

Despite the advent of free agency in 1976, which led many to predict the demise of the farm system, it still remains a strong component of a winning baseball strategy.

Despite five shorts ending with a depiction of Tom's apparent death, his demise is never permanent ; he even reads about his own death in a flashback in Jerry's Diary.

Despite initially strong ratings, the show failed to capitalize on the demise of TFI Friday ( also a Ginger production ), and figures slowly dropped.

Despite its fairly short run ( 47 issues, just short of 4 years, and a one-off " Gold " special in 1993 ), and many years since its demise, it still enjoys a fan following on the internet.

Despite their demise, the period of Odrysian rule was of decisive importance for the future character of south-eastern Europe, under the Roman Empire and beyond.

Despite the inquest's outcome, Robert Dudley was widely suspected to have orchestrated his wife's demise, a view not shared by most modern historians.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

Despite this limited franchise, Athenian democracy was certainly the first — and perhaps the best — example of a working direct democracy.

Despite this, several features that would later be associated with BBC Master and Archimedes were first features of Electron expansion units, including ROM cartridge slots and the Advanced Disc Filing System — a hierarchical improvement to the BBC's original Disc Filing System.

Despite the victory, voter apathy was a major issue, as turnout fell below 60 % for the first time in history, 12 % down on 1997.

Despite this, aircraft today are much more extensively used as the primary tools for both army and navy, as evidenced by the prominent use of helicopters to transport and support troops, the use of aerial bombardment as the " first strike " in many engagements, and the replacement of the battleship with the aircraft carrier as the center of most modern navies.

Unfortunately in the literature the definition is given in two variants: Despite the fact that Bernoulli defined B < sub > 1 </ sub > = 1 / 2 ( now known as " second Bernoulli numbers "), some authors set B < sub > 1 </ sub > = − 1 / 2 (" first Bernoulli numbers ").

Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.

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 major changes made to the team in the offseason, the team wound up with its first winning season since 1997.

Despite the recession of the late 1950s, the company sold $ 94, 000 worth of these modules during 1958 alone, turning a profit at the end of its first year.

Despite this, at first he thought staying and founding a city would serve well for his honor.

Despite the group ’ s eventual break up, one of its members, Seido Kobayashi, went on to form the group Oedo Sukeroku Daiko, which is credited for being the very first professional Taiko group.

Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on, 1924, and then more formally presented in the form of a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Despite popular lore, it seems unlikely that he reached Cape Horn or the eponymous Drake Passage, because his descriptions do not fit the first and his shipmates denied having seen an open sea.

Despite anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multiparty National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September – October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.

Despite further anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multi-party National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September-October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.

Despite the less than spectacular response to the Chris Gaines project, Brooks gained his first – and only – US Top 40 pop single in " Lost in You ", the first single from the album.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

Despite being from the South, he did not become seriously interested in country music until his time at Harvard, where he heard Merle Haggard for the first time.

Despite suffering from antenna problems, Galileo conducted the first asteroid flyby near 951 Gaspra and discovered the first asteroid moon, Dactyl, around the asteroid 243 Ida.

Despite the abundance of well-known seeps in southern California, the first commercial oil well in California was drilled in Humboldt County, northern California in 1865.

Despite his difficult relationship with the Senate, Tiberius's first years were generally good.

Despite its being his first film in twenty years, Cagney was immediately at ease.