Despite his defense of himself in the final paper of the Englishman and in his speech before the House, their efforts were successful.

) Despite the general avoidance of the Imperatorial era, he penned a defense of Cicero against the charges of Asinius Gallus.

Despite this loss of an obvious military leadership in the camps by July 1940, with war in Europe and Asia, an increasing number of CCC projects focused on resources for national defense, developing infrastructure for military training facilities and forest protection.

Despite his admiration and defense for religions like Christianity, he is said to be an agnostic.

Despite a tendency of American perjury law toward broad prosecutory power under perjury statutes, American perjury law has afforded potential defendants a new form of defense not found in the British Common Law.

Despite an impressive defense, the team struggled offensively.

Despite this, the drug has a long history of safe use, making it one of the more popular anti-convulsants prescribed by doctors, and a common " first line of defense " in seizure cases.

Despite the realization that he could not risk annihilation of the Chinese army in a futile defense of the capital, Chiang was also well aware of the political damage he would suffer if he abandoned Nanking without a fight.

Despite Cutler's defense and critiques about the prosecution's performance, according to mob writers Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain, when the jury's deliberations began a majority were in favor of convicting Gotti.

Despite the second setback, by mid-January Karzai had 14 out of the 24 ministers confirmed, including the most powerful posts at foreign, defense and interior ministries.

Despite Marshal Davout's suggestion of a maneuver to outflank the weak Russian left, the Emperor instead ordered Davout's First Corps to move directly forward into the teeth of the defense, while the flanking maneuver was left to the weak Fifth Corps of Prince Poniatowski.

Despite winning the first 2 games against Croatia ( 1 – 0 ) and Australia ( 2 – 0 ), the " Magic Square " didn't seem to work as expected and struggled to beat the opponents ' defense.

Despite Downey's lawyer, John Stewart Holden, assembling for his client's 1999 defense the same team of lawyers that successfully defended O. J.

Despite such, the defense has been successful roughly 1 out of 6 times it has been used from 1970 to 2003.

Despite this legal precedent, the availability of the abuse defense has been criticized by several legal experts, particularly in the aftermath of the trials of Lorena Bobbitt and the Menendez brothers.

Despite Williams ' innovations and his defense of education for the masses, the State Board of Education saw Williams ' curriculum as elitist.

Despite a desperate defense by crossbowmen, more than 50 Portuguese were killed.

Despite his wound, Brown had helped maintain troop morale throughout the siege, thus contributing to the success of the defense of the Fort.

Despite desperate defense operations, the County fell and was merged with Qalawun's empire.

Despite a defense organized by Walter Skinner with numerous witnesses, the judges sentence Mulder to death.

Despite his success on the field, Bell had a love-hate relationship with fans in Toronto, particularly in his later years as his poor defense came to overshadow his bat.

Despite his defense of King's as an evangelical institution, the first person Olasky hired at King ’ s was Anne Hendershott, a popular sociology professor and a practicing Roman Catholic.

Despite its defense of the status quo, especially the interests of rural elites, the Sangkum was not an exclusively right-wing organization.

Despite initial opposition from Army leaders, who still hoped that Guadalcanal could eventually be retaken from the Allies, on 31 December 1942 the Imperial General Headquarters, with approval from the Emperor, agreed to evacuate of all Japanese forces from the island and establish a new line of defense for the Solomons on New Georgia.

Despite their larger numbers, they were not centralized enough to mount a united defense and were unable to withstand the Iroquois.

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 fear of the Gestapo after the mass arrests and executions of the spring, the opposition still plotted and planned.

Despite these efforts the regime lacked a broad popular base or a mass movement supporting it.

Despite its diameter of 0. 4 light-years, Barnard 68 only has twice the mass of the Sun, making it both very diffuse and very cold-about 16 degrees Kelvin.

Despite this advantage of his family's status, the Hong Kong neighborhood Lee grew up in became over-crowded, dangerous, and full of gang rivalries because of the mass number of people fleeing communist China to Hong Kong,:

Despite the initial mass of < sup > 1 </ sup > H being used as the natural unit for atomic weight, it was suggested by Wilhelm Ostwald that atomic weights would be best expressed in terms in units of 1 / 16 weight of oxygen.

Despite his being taken for a doddering fossil, it is Chips who keeps his wits about him during an air raid, averting mass panic and sustaining morale.

Despite the limited land mass, there has also been a tendency for place names to be repeated ; there are, for instance, two islands named " Long Island ", three bays known as " Long Bay " and the town of St. George is located within the parish of St. George on the island of St. George ( each known as St. George's ), whereas Bermuda's capital, the City of Hamilton, lies in Pembroke Parish, not Hamilton Parish, on the largest island, " Main Island ", which itself is sometimes called " Bermuda " ( or " Great Bermuda ").

Despite being completely inconsistent with a common-sense approach and the expected behavior of " normal " matter, negative mass is completely mathematically consistent and introduces no violation of conservation of momentum or energy.

Despite the ideologic promise of industrialisation — that the mechanisation of industrial production would raise the mass of the workers, from a brutish life of subsistence existence, to the self-respect of honourable work — the division of labour inherent to the capitalist mode of production, thwarted the human nature ( Gattungswesen ) of the worker, and so rendered each man and woman into a mechanistic part of an industrialised system of production, from being a person capable of defining his and her value through direct, purposeful activity.

Despite a better-than-expected performance and a successful return flight to Canada in 1930, the R100 was broken up following the tragedy that befell its " sister " ship, the R101 ( which was designed and built by a team from the Government's Air Ministry ); the later crash of the Hindenburg led to the abandonment of airships as a mode of mass transport.

Despite these null results, LEPS results continue to show the existence of a narrow state with a mass of, with a statistical significance of 5. 1 σ .< ref >

Despite this, the culture of canteen mass meetings has continued for the last decade, and workplace meetings open to all workers are ongoing as of 2011.

Despite a conservative political climate in the United States, the magazine quickly a critical mass of subscribers, with its paid circulation rising to 2, 500 in 1950 and to 6, 000 in 1954.

Despite the sheer mass of notes he now uses, his playing is never fatty.

Despite these and other assassinations the hoped-for mass uprising and armed struggle against the Khomeiniists was crushed.

Despite claims by the Poles, the Soviet Union blamed Nazi Germany for the mass murders and attempted to hide their involvement, going as far as to ban all mention of the Katyn massacre in the USSR.

Despite its enormous mass, it rotates through 180 ° in five-and-a-half minutes using very little power.

Despite a forecast for severe thunderstorms, though, the sun shone relentlessly for most of that Friday because of a fourth element: a stable air mass at about 2, 000 feet, which served as a " lid " on the brew beneath.

Despite dismissing the idea of a party as a ' rigid fiction ', the CEDA leaders created a stable party organisation which would lead the Spanish right into the age of mass politics.

Despite not being formally ordered to take part, psychiatrists such as Eberl were at the center of every stage of justifying, planning and carrying out the mass murder of those with mental disorders, and constituted the connection to the later annihilation of Jews and other " undesirables " in the Holocaust.

Despite alien attacks such as in " Lost City " and " Ex Deus Machina ", all attempts are made throughout the series to keep the existence of the Stargate Program secret, assuming there would be mass panic if the public found out.

Despite the government's guarantees, mass protests erupted in late January, with demonstrations held in Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław and Kielce.

Despite his failing health, construction had advanced far enough that Bishop Loras was able to offer his first mass in the new Cathedral on Christmas Day, 1857.

Despite their enormous power, the short low velocity slugs still suffered the penetration issues which plagued guns of this era, particularly for the toughest shot of all: defeating the bone mass for a frontal brain shot on an elephant.