Despite missing two months, Hossa managed 15 goals and 15 assists for 30 points in 60 games to earn NHL All-Rookie honours and finish second to Colorado's Chris Drury in Calder Trophy voting for rookie of the year.

Despite the suspension, and the public threat, Quinn agreed to meet with Calder but reached no agreement.

Despite being distinguished as the league's top rookie, however, Bure was left off the NHL All-Rookie Team, making him the only Calder recipient to not be named to the lineup.

Despite his considerable contribution to civil engineering, his death went almost unnoticed, although the civil engineer John Smeaton, writing to the Calder and Hebble Navigation in 1757, noted that Steers was an esteemed man of character and ability in his profession.

Despite this Boucher was pleased with Calder's performance describing Calder as " a class act " whose " performance was immaculate ".

Despite holding on to the starting role for much of the season, Auld disappointed in the playoffs, and Flaherty took over as starter, helping the team reach the third round of the Calder Cup playoffs.

Despite two failed attempts to reestablish Parliament and pass the bill, the King succeeded in labelling the Whigs as subversives and as closet nonconformists.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

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 the American boycott, the Bern meeting went ahead as scheduled.

Despite these challenges, the USFSA continued its planning for the games, adopting in its first program for the meeting eight articles to address, only one of which had to do with the Olympics.

James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave Generations two and a half stars out of four, saying: " Despite a reasonably original story line, familiar characters, first rate special effects, and the hallmark meeting between Captains Kirk and Picard, there's something fundamentally dissatisfying about movie.

Despite the meeting, Ní Mháille later returned to her old ways, though nominally directing her raids against the " enemies of England " during the Nine Years War.

Despite later attempts to portray the two as rivals, there's no evidence that their meeting was not cordial.

Despite the fact that the meeting had been postponed due to World War 2, the council took place in Amsterdam with the theme of “ Man ’ s Disorder and God ’ s Design ”.

Despite the accounts of the Irish annals, English and Scandinavian writers appear to see Mac Bethad as the rightful king of Moray: this is clear from their descriptions of the meeting with Cnut in 1027, before the death of Máel Coluim mac Máil Brigti.

Despite the lack of consensus among political forces in Peru regarding this proposal, the ad hoc OAS meeting of ministers nevertheless approved Fujimori ’ s offer in mid-May, and elections for the CCD were held on 22 November 1992.

Despite the draconian nonconformist laws, there was a large number of non-Anglican meeting houses and nonconformity flourished ; a fifth of the population of the Birstall Parish was estimated to be nonconformist.

Despite the fact that his career in propane is later shown to have started with a chance meeting with Buck Strickland, in episode " Order of the Straight Arrow " a flashback to 1966 shows younger Hank, Dale, Bill and Boomhauer on a scouting trip, talking about what they're going to do when they grow up.

Despite the custom of meeting on a Thursday, after the appointment of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister the meeting day was switched to Tuesday.

Despite meeting with influential politicians such as Lamartine and Lamennais, the France of Louis-Philippe also remained neutral.

Despite Glass ' assurances, Lane discovered that on the day of the alleged meeting the conference room had been closed.

Despite having been shown tapes of a similar meeting between Weaver and former president Bill Clinton, the Secret Service were not able to catch him.

" Despite this, Heke and George Grey were reconciled at a meeting in 1848.

Despite speculation that the game would be based on Super Metroid, Ken Lobb, Nintendo of America's Director of Game Development, quelled rumors by stating, " One of the things I wanted to get across in today's meeting is that Metroid is not Super Metroid.

Despite the hard landing, Genesis has met or anticipates meeting all its baseline science objectives.

Despite their brutal first meeting, the two have since formed a close bond.

Despite this meeting, a result was not found in time to keep the NHL from cancelling the 2004 – 05 season.

" Despite meeting resistance from Prime Ministers Asquith and Lloyd George, MacNeil continued his campaign until losing his seat after the 1918 election.

Despite the coin's legal tender status, economic sanctions against South Africa for its policy of apartheid made the Krugerrand an illegal import in many Western countries during the 1970s and 1980s.

Despite the high priority given by the Dutch government to fighting illegal drug trafficking, the Netherlands continue to be an important transit point for drugs entering Europe.

Despite the persistence of racial stereotypes, humor and epithets in much everyday language, racial discrimination is illegal in many countries.

Despite being illegal, squats exist in many of the larger cities.

Despite the presence of an EU observer mission, canceled ballots and illegal voting took place, the majority of which in RPT strongholds.

Despite this he is kept out of the loop on a highly covert and illegal CIA operation approved by corrupt National Security Advisor Admiral Cutter.

Despite his age, and more pertinently the media's constant references to his age, Arsenal manager Tom Whittaker tried, unsuccessfully, to lure Matthews to Highbury with a lucrative, if somewhat illegal approach.

Despite his advocacy for modern methods of organization, including crews of soldiers doing the bulk of a family's illegal work under the supervision of a capo, at bottom Maranzano was a " Mustache Pete " — an old-school mafioso too steeped in Old World ways.

Despite the presence of these Flyer ( pamphlet ) | flyers, prostitution itself is illegal in the Las Vegas Valley

Despite it being a Sunday and therefore illegal, he agreed to open the bar and served the visiting war party with beer.

Despite anti-dowry laws in India, it is still a common illegal practice.

Despite the government's close watch, an illegal salt trade was still active on Lantau Island.

Despite Perry's notoriety for doctoring baseballs ( i. e. throwing a spitball ), and perhaps even more so for making batters think he was throwing them on a regular basis – he even went so far as to title his 1974 autobiography Me and the Spitter – he was not ejected for the illegal practice until August 23, 1982, in his 21st season in the majors.

Despite the close links to the banned KPD made the new party liable to be declared illegal, no such declaration was requested by the German government as West German authorities were liberalizing the attitude towards the communist bloc and East Germany in particular.

Despite rumours that it is illegal for them to be sold under their usual name in the United States, they are in fact widely available in imported food sections of grocery stores and by mail order.

Despite British efforts to curb the illegal immigration, during the 14 years of its operation, 110, 000 Jews immigrated to Palestine.

Despite the heavy pressure from the King, the army and conservative circles in Rome, Giolitti neither treated strikes – which were not illegal – as a crime, nor dissolved the Fasci, nor authorised the use of firearms against popular demonstrations.

Despite the 205 T16s passing the pre-rally scrutiny, the stewards had decreed on re-examination that the cars ' underbody fins were in fact illegal side skirts.

" Despite the Commissioner's enthusiasm, the pitch remained illegal.

Despite the terminology used by consumers, it is illegal to sell soy milk under that name in the European Union, where-with certain exceptions-EC Regulation ( 1898 / 87 ) has restricted the term ' milk ' to mammary secretions since 1987 ; in such countries the term ' soy drink ' is commonly used.

Despite being made illegal in Britain in 1835, dogfighting has been gaining ground in some communities in the UK.

Despite death threats, he has exposed illegal logging activities to the Brazilian government over the past 10 years.

Despite having been a moderate Republican as a County Supervisor and Mayor, as a talk show host and practicing Roman Catholic, he moved rightward by taking conservative stances on most political, economic, and social issues, especially opposition to illegal immigration, abortion, homosexuality, and equal rights under the law for homosexuals, even though he courted the gay / lesbian vote during his campaigns for County Supervisor and Mayor of San Diego, and in October 2011 endorsed fellow Republican and San Diego mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio, an openly gay member of the San Diego City Council.

Despite advertising being illegal (" ad " is, in fact, a dirty word ), corporations control consumers through the celebrities they set up, and product placement.