Despite all of these attacks, Paine never wavered in his beliefs ; when he was dying, a woman came to visit him, claiming that God had instructed her to save his soul.

Despite these developments, the queen was strongly focused on thoughts for her son, the dying Dauphin.

Despite the unpopularity of the Liberals during the dying days of Gladstone's First Government, he became president of the Oxford Union in the Trinity ( summer ) term of his fourth year.

Despite dying in relative obscurity, A. P. Carter was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

Despite his mother's dying in early 1933, Kertész married Elizabeth on 17 June 1933.

Despite Ibn as-Sakkit's agreeance to the task, he actually ended up dying at the hands of al-Mutawakkil ; the caliph asked him " Are my sons more respectable than Hasan and Husayn?

Despite Johnny's reticence about the somewhat imposing and forbidding man, Sarah invites him to their apartment for dinner, and eventually they learn that the man is sad and lonely because he is dying of AIDS.

Despite apparently dying, Allison was recovered by the Covenant and nursed back to health, turning up in the third season.

Despite the fact that the Jesuit missionaries were the chief opponents of the Bandeirantes, priests accompanied the Bandeira for two reasons: 1. to shrive the dying and the dead, 2. to ease the conscience of the men.

Despite having his PMX-003 The O impaled by the Zeta Gundam, a dying Paptimus Scirocco still managed to unleash a mind-crippling blow to Kamille Bidan, leaving him mentally crippled.

Despite Miyagi's father's dying wish for his son and student to make peace with each other, Sato still insists on fighting Miyagi, though, after his sensei's passing, he gives Miyagi three days to mourn.

Despite suffering from a terminal heart condition, he fought the scheme with all his considerable talents, dying shortly before Wolseley had achieved his ends.

Despite Jane denying she wanted to help Hook in this way, Peter calls her a traitor and tells her that because she does not believe in fairies Tinker Bell is dying.

Despite the fact that Russell was dying of cancer of the lymph nodes and that the pair met in person only three times, they managed to collaborate on the song.

Despite her efforts, the game is brought back to the beginning of the story where she fell to the ground dying.

Despite dying in the middle of the game, Lucas encounters her later on.

Despite this change to prevent his demise, the Frenchman start up once again, dying to get a taste of the snail.

Despite a sort of golden age in the 20th century, snake charming is today in danger of dying out.

Despite his father dying when he was young, he credited his mother with getting him through his education at Edinburgh High School and then on to be a Royal Engineer cadet at Woolwich Academy in 1813.

Hippocrates mentions euthanasia in the Hippocratic Oath, which was written between 400 and 300 BC The original Oath states: “ To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death .” Despite this, the ancient Greeks and Romans generally did not believe that life needed to be preserved at any cost and were, in consequence, tolerant of suicide in cases where no relief could be offered to the dying or, in the case of the Stoics and Epicureans, where a person no longer cared for his life.

Despite the FBI's attempt to persuade the LAPD's Chief ( Bruce Dern ) and his squad to drop the case, further investigation leads the detectives to the " atomic soldiers " used as guinea pigs for atomic bomb tests, now dying in a secret military hospital.

Despite a formal request to the AFL being denied, players wore yellow armbands for the match which resulted in the club being fined $ 20, 000.

Despite a request from the Burritos that the remnants of their publicity budget be diverted to promotion of the single, it also flopped.

Despite the efforts of the United States, Israel, Egypt, and others to obtain an extension of the UN role in observing the peace between Israel and Egypt, as called for under the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty of 1979, the mandate could not be extended because of the veto by the USSR in the security council, at the request of Syria.

Despite her personal views, Alexandra supported her son's reluctant agreement to Prime Minister H. H. Asquith's request to create sufficient Liberal peers after a general election if the Lords continued to block the legislation.

Despite this, the authorities did not provide protection for Fortuyn, nor did he request protection.

Despite calls for a boycott by Gazan students, and a request to boycott from PACBI Atwood visited Israel and accepted the $ 1, 000, 000 Dan David Prize along with Indian author Amitav Ghosh at Tel Aviv University in May 2010.

Despite this clause, the will does not contain a formal request or plans for a posthumous journey to Russia.

Despite the U. S. request that those involved be brought to account, Sharon was not prosecuted.

Despite the request, Wannabe Fansubs and a handful of other fansubbing groups continued to produce fansubs of MFI anime series.

Despite having agreed to Sullivan's request that the line " Girl we couldn't get much higher " be changed for the show, Jim Morrison performs it the way it was written and The Doors are banned from the show.

Despite starting the season for Newcastle and scoring in a League Cup win over Coventry City, it was revealed after the game that Milner had handed in a written transfer request the week before.

Despite the fact that he was on the list of war criminals, France decided to consider him as a political prisoner and refused to comply with the British request.

Despite this recognition, the royal family rigidly opposed her potential marriage to the King's uncle, a rejection that deeply wounded her pride and led her to distance herself from the royal family and embrace grassroots causes, such as her answering the request of the Egyptian legion trapped in Falujah during the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict to sing a particular song.

Despite the government decision, the eight municipalities of Södertörn sent another request to the Swedish government that the university college be lifted to full university status.

Despite courting controversy by accusing manager Rafael Benítez of ' treating him like a slave ', he insisted that he had no ill feelings towards the club or anyone associated with it and only wanted to leave after failing to make Poland's World Cup squad, but still stayed on for another year at the manager's request.

Despite the overt request for direct action, many consumers respond to the messages in an infomercial with purchases at retail outlets.

Despite formally retiring at the end of the 2004 season, with a possible view to moving into the World Touring Car Championship, he was to actually find himself invited back to the WRC fold on the request of Citroën, to replace the faltering Belgian driver François Duval.

Despite intense opposition from the traditional Buddhist schools in Nara, his request was granted by Emperor Saga in 822, several days after Saichō died.

Despite the initial request of the Calcutta Club that the trophy be used as rugby's answer to football's FA Cup, the RFU refused to turn the Calcutta Cup into a knock-out competition for English club sides.

Despite evidence of Big Bear's efforts to actually prevent the killings at Frog Lake, he was convicted for participation in the rebellion with a request from the jury for mercy.

Despite Sleeper's request for criticism, none of Hynek's commentary resulted in any substantial changes in Blue Book.

) Despite this, Crittenden refused a request to represent Beauchamp in his murder trial because he wanted to avoid any implication in the matter.

Despite the Kings request for her to be left alone, she was placed under house arrest.

Despite Nevada's request, the petition was submitted and approved in 1974.