Despite the arguments by the Giants, the league upheld O ' Day's decision and ordered the game replayed at the end of the season, if necessary.

Despite briefly toying with the name " rational Mesmerism ", Braid ultimately emphasised his approach's uniqueness, carrying out informal experiments throughout his career to refute the arguments invoking supernatural practices, and demonstrate instead the role of ordinary physiological and psychological processes such as suggestion and focused attention in producing the observed effects.

Despite arguments prevailing on the ivory trade for the last thirty years through CITES, there is one fact that virtually all informed parties now agree-poaching of African elephants for ivory is now seriously on the increase.

Despite the arguments " in favor of an adaptive immune response in s-IBM, a purely autoimmune hypothesis for s-IBM is untenable because of the disease's resistance to most immunotherapy.

Despite theoretical arguments against the existence of faster-than-light particles, experiments have been conducted to search for them.

Despite arguments that realism cannot be achieved in reality shows because the outcomes may or may not have been scripted, Geoff King argues in his book, Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond that even though the contestants are in a fabricated setting and the situation has been set up for a certain outcome, as in real love shows such as The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, these contestants still harbor feelings that make their participation in the show real to them.

Despite the original mix-up, monkey-and-typewriter arguments are now common in arguments over evolution.

Despite these arguments, " Mong " was not added to the bill.

Despite having arguments with Gandhi, Patel respected his instincts and leadership.

Despite the central arguments of Greenberg, Adorno and others, the term " avant-garde " has been co-opted and misapplied by various sectors of the mainstream culture industry since the 1960s, chiefly as a marketing tool to publicise popular music and commercial cinema.

Despite such arguments, Richelieu remains an honoured personality in France, particularly for his stubborn refusal to let courtly intrigues and foreign interests dominate the government.

His arguments against the doctrine of revolutionary unions known as anarcho-syndicalism were later developed in a series of articles, where he wrote “ I am against syndicalism, both as a doctrine and a practice, because it strikes me as a hybrid creature .” Despite their drawbacks, he advocated activity in the trade unions, both because they were necessary for the organization and self-defense of workers under a capitalist state regime, and as a way of reaching broader masses.

Despite these arguments, advocates of “ financial modernization ” predicted consumers and businesses would enjoy cost savings and greater convenience in receiving financial services from integrated “ financial services firms .”

Despite arguments about the actual population size, Las Casas's accounts of widespread slaughter are not widely disputed.

Despite the secrecy rule, details of the votes and the arguments in Council are sometimes leaked to the press, resulting in ( generally fruitless ) investigations and criminal prosecutions of the leaking staff member.

Despite this uneven relationship, Aberhart was not all together closed-minded, and would entertain — and sometimes even be convinced by — arguments from his staff.

Despite the arguments and his differences with Rothermere, Trenchard was able to put in place planning for the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.

Despite arguments defending the traditional direct-impingement system, the Enhanced M4 uses an articulating link piston operating system.

Despite the difficulties, most theories of syntax and grammar distinguish on the one hand between arguments and adjuncts and on the other hand between optional arguments and adjuncts, and they grant a central position to these divisions in the overarching theory.

Despite her almost exclusive intercourse with Christians and her utter lack of prejudice, her purpose, apparently, was to equip English Jewesses with arguments against conversionists.

Despite being friends, Patchy and Potty usually get into arguments sometimes.

Despite these arguments, this theory was rejected by later scholars such as Finnur Jónsson, Fredrick Sander, and Felix Niedner, in favor of identifying Hárbarð with Odin, based, among other things, on Odin's statement in Grimnismál 47 that Hárbarð is one of his by-names.

Despite his claim to unique authority within England, John would sometimes justify his actions on the basis that he had taken council with the barons.

Despite his election to the Chatham town council, Bennett's days in the town were numbered.

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 Nestorius ' agenda of prosecuting Cyril, Theodosius intended for the council to focus strictly on the christological controversy.

Despite three separate summons, Nestorius refused to acknowledge Cyril's authority to stand in judgment of him and considered the opening of the council before the arrival of the Antiochene contingent as a " flagrant injustice ".

Despite her love for him and his position as co-ruler, Maria Theresa never allowed her husband to decide about matters of state and often dismissed him from council meetings when they disagreed.

Despite scholars ' concern that the tapestry was becoming damaged the council refused to return it to the Cathedral.

Despite warnings from Enkidu, and the council of elders, Gilgamesh will not be deterred.

Despite being a large municipality, Fishers, unlike nearby Noblesville and Carmel, doesn't have a mayor and city council.

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 disappearance of the county council, Middlesex is still used as an area name and was retained as a postal county ; which is now an optional component of postal addresses.

Despite having been specifically refused permission Theobald sneaked away in a fishing boat, presumably accompanied by Gilbert Foliot, who attended the council with him.

Despite being non-profit based, they charge generally higher rents than council properties.

Despite a sense of urgency ( the colonists were still working on the fortifications at the time of the council ), the attack, now known as the Battle of Bunker Hill, did not begin until that afternoon.

Despite having been elected to a soldiers council after the 1918 armistice Brüning did not approve of the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919 which ended with the establishment of the Weimar Republic.

Despite his earlier statements to the contrary, observers of Barry's council victory expressed beliefs that he was laying ground for a mayoral run in 1994.

Despite much opposition, including an abortive effort to recall his 1992 council election, Barry won a three-way Democratic primary contest for mayor with 48 % of the vote on September 13.

Despite persistent council attempts to clear horses off public land, horses still appear in parks and on canal banks from time to time.

Despite this, there are a number of members who do not identify specifically as anarchist-communists, but are libertarian socialists, council communists and so forth.

Despite generally good performance, overall user satisfaction levels with the council are below average and not improving.

) Despite his convalescence he was kept apprised of events occurring in and around Boston, and was elected president of the executive council of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress.

Despite Seattle being one of the " whitest " major cities in the United States, it has had an African-American mayor ( Norm Rice ), at least four African-American city council members, and at least half a dozen Asian-American city council members including Wing Luke, the first Asian American elected to public office in Washington ( in 1962 ).

Despite allegations being made against him by fellow councillor Ron Rose, Hughes avoided blame in the " Donnygate " scandal, which resulted in 21 former member of Doncaster council being convicted for fraud offences, and he retained his seat in the House of Commons in 1997, despite being opposed by an " anti-fraud " candidate, and again in 2001.