Despite Orkney ’ s protestations, Cadogan insisted on compliance and, reluctantly, Orkney gave the word for his troops to fall back to their original positions on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

Despite his protestations, the delegates drafted him, and he accepted the Democratic nomination with a speech that according to contemporaries, " electrified the nation :"

Despite the protestations of Shamash, Enkidu is marked for death.

Despite John's protestations, Howard started having a friendly discussion with the inexperienced prospector and ended up teaching Scrooge the secrets of the job, and helping him earn ten thousand dollars.

Despite the worried protestations of his foster-father, he set out for the fearful forests.

Despite initial protestations by the king, Sir Orfeo reminds him that he gave him his word and Sir Orfeo returns with Heurodis to Winchester:

Despite Callaghan's protestations that she should go back to university, she campaigned for his victory alongside Neil Kinnock, the future Glenys Kinnock and Rhodri Morgan, whom she would marry in 1967.

Despite their protestations, Jerome takes the children to the restaurant.

Despite Oedipus ' continued deference and protestations, Laius becomes increasingly angry until he suddenly suffers a fatal heart attack.

Despite Roy's protestations that the KPO did not constitute an independent political party, it was not long before it had entered the field with its own candidates for office.

Despite such protestations, the mainstream press of America echoed Green's hostile sentiments, with the Chicago Tribune accusing the Communists of attempting to " stir up race hatred and disorder " and the Philadelphia Record pooh-poohing the entire idea that American blacks could be " bolshevized " as " ridiculously childish.

Despite Theodoros Stamos protestations that he had done nothing wrong, the Tax Court also ruled against him for liability for various self-dealing excise taxes under IRS code section 4941 for the years 1970 through 1976 in the total amount of $ 19, 407, 500, and additions to tax under sections 6651 ( a )( 1 ) and 6684 for the same years in the respective total amounts of $ 724, 375 and $ 2, 957, 500.

Despite Li's own protestations, they overruled him, and put such claims in the published text.

Despite Deleon's earlier protestations of innocence, once his trial began, Deleon's attorney conceded that Deleon had indeed committed all three murders.

Despite Rose's gentle protestations that her grandfather is dead, Jackie insists that he has returned in some capacity and has been visiting her for some time.

Despite the protestations of fellow competitors, it won, though the final cost was to be in excess of £ 100, 000.

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 continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.

Despite being offered the chance to remain as ruler of Bavaria ( under strict terms of an alliance with Austria ), the Elector left his country and family in order to continue the war against the Allies from the Spanish Netherlands where he still held the post of governor-general.

Despite rejecting these terms, Constantius still tried to avert war with the Sassanid Empire by sending two embassies to Shapur II.

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 the Roman victories at sea, the Roman Republic lost countless ships and crews during the war, due to both storms and battles.

Despite the food shortages, no large-scale starvation hit the Finns in southern Finland before the war.

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

Despite the Soviets ' possession of Hitler's remains, Stalin did not believe that his old nemesis was actually dead, a belief that remained for years after the war.

Despite this, in an editorial in his newspaper Das Reich in November 1941 Goebbels quoted Hitler ’ s 1939 " prophecy " that the Jews would be the loser in the coming world war.

Despite Ciano's efforts to persuade Ribbentrop to put off the attack on Poland until 1942, so as to allow the Italians time to get ready for war, Ribbentrop was adamant that Germany had no interest in a diplomatic solution of the Danzig question and only wanted a war to wipe Poland off the map.

Despite his opposition to Operation Barbarossa and a preference for focusing the war effort against Britain, on 28 June 1941, Ribbentrop began a sustained effort to have Japan attack the Soviet Union without bothering to inform Hitler first.

Despite the treaty, the Navajo continued raiding in New Mexico, which they considered a category separate from war, as did the Jicarilla Apache, Mescalero Apache, Ute, Comanche, and Kiowa.

Despite intense bombing, it could not deliver Goring's promise to destroy the British Expeditionary Force, which escaped to continue the war.

Despite the failure of his attempt at unifying the nation under his rule, Kim Il-sung considered the war a victory in the sense that he remained in power.

Despite undercover collaboration with Ronald Reagan on his Contra war in Nicaragua ( including the infamous Iran-Contra Affair ), which had planes flying arms as well as drugs, relations between the United States and the Panama regime worsened in the 1980s.

Despite several historians ' accounts of what happened between 1865 and 1870, Solano López was not wholly responsible for the war.

Despite all the devastation, commercial life reappeared in the ruins around Potsdamer Platz within just a few weeks of war ’ s end.

Despite the simplicity of their grass diet, new developments along the Persian Gulf coastline, particularly artificial island development in Arab states, pollution particularly by oil spills caused during the " Persian Gulf war " and also due to occasional oil spills, and uncontrolled hunting has had a negative impact on the survival of the dugongs.

Despite these obstacles, the film's war footage was stunning and James Coburn, in the lead role of Rolf Steiner, gave one of the finest performances of his career.

Despite the pacific movement in the aftermath of the war, the losses still caused irredentist and revanchist nationalism to became important in a number of European states.

Despite the violation of the agreement with England, William III lacked the support of the ruling elites in England or the United Provinces to declare war against France, and reluctantly recognized Philip as king in April 1701.

Despite the growing pressure to abandon production of war films, Warner continued to produce them, losing money in the process.

Despite administrative and logistic difficulties, a fleet of eighty ships, under General at Sea George Monck, the Commonwealth veteran ( after the Duke of Albemarle ), set sail at the end of May 1666.

Despite officially retiring from the sport, he continued playing football with the veteran players of Biscay, donating the money collected from these games to charities.

Despite the fact that he did not officially endorse Obama, in an October 2 Washington Post article, Gilchrest sharply criticized his own party and their presidential nominee, fellow Vietnam veteran John McCain.

Despite this, he is a crack shot with both pistol and rifle, and is an expert swordsman and veteran duellist.

Despite having backing from former NFL players, veteran coaches, and singer John Mellencamp, the league canceled its 1988 season, folded half of its franchises ( including Mellencamp's ), and made an unsuccessful bid for the remaining three teams to join the AFL.

Despite administrative and logistic difficulties, a fleet of eighty ships under General-at-Sea Monck, the Commonwealth veteran, ( after the Duke of Albemarle ) set sail at the end of May 1666.

Despite early season shoulder and wrist injuries ( with the latter reportedly caused lifting his wife's suitcase the last week of spring training ) forcing Aguilera to miss 6 weeks early in the season, the veteran battled his way to an 8 – 6 record with a 5. 42 ERA in 19 starts, including a pair of complete games.

Despite its controversy and the fact that the cast included Steve Carlson, Jane Elliot ( fresh from her run as Tracy on GH & Carrie on GL ), and Lara Parker ( famous as the witch Angelique on the cult Dark Shadows ) and that it was produced and sometimes directed by daytime veteran actress Susan Flannery, A New Day in Eden only lasted 13 episodes, and its cliffhanger left the question of who was the town's serial rapist up in the air.

Despite the show's connection with The Mary Tyler Moore Show, none of that series ' other regular characters ever appeared ( and were not referred to onscreen ); the only other " crossover " character was MTM recurring character Flo Meredith ( Eileen Heckart ) ( Mary Richards ' aunt ), a churlish veteran journalist with whom Lou had had a brief fling while in Minneapolis, and who appeared on a single episode of Lou Grant.

Despite worrying at first, Gerry makes friends easily at the Chipmunk Cabin ( which the boys have named a long time ago ) Gerald learns that Camp Hope is actually a lot of fun and will not be nearly as bad as he thinks ; as one veteran of the camp put it, Gerald is " not the fat kid, everyone's the fat kid.

Despite having a very low crime rate along with the rest of the South Shore, Charleston was nonetheless home to two crime-related figures, one a perpetrator and the other a victim, as " thrill killer " Richard Biegenwald ( who committed a 1958 murder and was subsequently convicted of another killing that took place in Asbury Park, New Jersey in 1983 ) was born and raised there ; and in 1990, the neighborhood attracted more media attention when an anti-gay hate crime was committed there: James Zappalorti, a 45-year-old disabled veteran of the Vietnam War, was stabbed to death by two assailants, one of whom also resided in Charleston at the time.

Despite inheriting a veteran team with a strong 3-4 defense from Bill Parcells and Al Groh, Edwards decided to transition the team to a 4-3 " Cover 2 " defense.

Despite having a successful pre-season period, Guzan was dropped from the first team in favour of compatriot and Premier League veteran Brad Friedel for Villa's opening game of the 2009 – 10 season, against Wigan Athletic.

Despite being considered as an experienced player, some of Song's mistakes in the tournament were called " self-destructive ": in the first game against Gabon, a defensive error by the veteran defender allowed Daniel Cousin's goal, and against Zambia in the second he headed a cross towards his own goal.

Despite his high salary due in 2008, the Reds cut Stanon from the team, going instead with veteran lefty Kent Mercker.

Despite all the injuries Jerome had accumulated over his long K-1 career Jerome knocked down the Japanese veteran to claim a unanimous decision.