Despite being injured for half of the season in St. Johnstone's return to the SPL in 2009 / 2010, he still managed seven SPL goals plus one in the cup.

Despite extensive oil and gas resources, diamonds, hydroelectric potential, and rich agricultural land, Angola remains poor, and a third of the population relies on subsistence agriculture.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

Despite struggling through the task of plotting a story, his cadenced dialogue and cryptic narrations were musical, evoking the dark alleys and tough thugs, rich women and powerful men about whom he wrote.

Despite the pressure of non-Polish administrations in Poland, who have often attempted to suppress the Polish language, a rich literature has developed over the centuries, and the language is currently the largest, in terms of speakers, of the West Slavic group.

Despite Uzbekistan's rich and varied natural environment, decades of environmental neglect in the Soviet Union have combined with skewed economic policies in the Soviet south to make Uzbekistan one of the gravest of the CIS's many environmental crises.

Despite its brevity, the First Samnite War results in the major acquisition by Rome of the rich land of Campania with its capital of Capua.

Despite the best intentions of landowners such as the Earls of Leicester and Portland to develop the land on the grand scale of neighbouring Bloomsbury, Marylebone and Mayfair, Soho never became a fashionable area for the rich.

Despite token criticism of the partition from Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, Austrian statesman Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz was proud of wresting as large a share as he did, with the rich salt mines of Bochnia and Wieliczka.

Despite repeated citations for recusancy and swingeing fines, he died a rich man, having rooms at the time of his death at the London home of the Earl of Worcester.

Despite enjoying widespread support by the majority of Haitians, the Washington Post informed their readers that regime change was looming on November 21, 2003: " Aristide has pushed with mixed success a populist agenda of higher minimum wages, school construction, literacy programs, higher taxes on the rich and other policies that have angered an opposition movement run largely by a mulatto elite that has traditionally controlled Haiti's economy.

Despite the population loss during the war, abandoned settlements were soon repopulated, and the area recovered as people were again drawn to the rich Camden County land.

Despite this, he refused all invitations to travel internationally to promote his work, writing to Francis Darby: " I would rather be a poor man England than a rich man abroad.

Despite the area's rich ore deposits, investment in mining in the Neihart region remained low because it was too expensive to get ore out.

Despite interest in home automation, by the end of the 1990s there was not a widespread uptake-with such systems still considered the domain of hobbyists or the rich.

Despite this, the horn section contributes greatly to the rich mellow sound of a brass band.

Despite Lamb's bouts of melancholia and alcoholism, both he and his sister enjoyed an active and rich social life.

Despite its rich literature, beginning anonymously in the 16th century and with well-known authors since 1756 ( see the paragraph Literature ), the use of Walloon has decreased markedly since France's annexation of Wallonia in 1795.

Despite declining newspaper circulations in France, and elsewhere, Canard is rich and growing.

Despite being a royal abbey, Netley was never rich, produced no influential scholars nor churchmen, and its nearly 300-year history was quiet.

Despite this, he lived relatively simply in an age when the rich were indulging in more and more luxury.

Despite the rich soil and tropical climate, there is only a tiny amount of agricultural production.

Despite their fame, they often found themselves treated as hired menials ; if a rich client was too demanding, Vernon would quote a fee of a thousand dollars an hour for lessons and often get it.

Despite Isaacs ' screen celebrity as Lucius Malfoy, he maintains a relatively modest, " calm, sedate and suburban " life, which he prefers to the " hideously compromised lives " of the more rich and famous: " I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives.

Despite this, the village was not overly rich, being largely based on a farming community.

Despite the rich soils and favorable weather of the Central Valley, inhabitants of the valley who were unfamiliar with its natural rainfall patterns and started to practice intense irrigated agriculture on the arid land soon found themselves troubled by frequent floods in the Sacramento Valley and a general lack of water in the San Joaquin Valley.

Despite these efforts, however, word of his unreliable reputation had spread throughout the entertainment industry and he could only find work as a television director, helming the pilots for Beverly Hills Buntz ( a Dennis Franz vehicle that purloined the premise of Beverly Hills Cop and lasted for 13 episodes ) and Jake's Journey, a planned collaboration in the Arthurian sword and sorcery vein with Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame.

Despite coming from a sports background, he was able to oversee a successful era of programming across all types and genres, with the introduction of popular new sitcoms such as Porridge, The Good Life, Fawlty Towers, Some Mothers Do ' Ave ' Em, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, and dramas in the vein of Poldark, When the Boat Comes In and The Duchess of Duke Street.

Despite not being a direct production team Basement Jaxx are in a similar vein and they also enjoyed great success during this year.

Despite his plane being on fire, Bush completed his attack and released bombs over his target, scoring several damaging hits.

Despite the step up, his scoring exploits continued and he was runner-up only to Ian Rush in the goalscoring charts the following season and then went one better as he was the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984 – 85 with 24 goals.

Despite their defensive flaws, the Dolphins ' powerful offense led the NFL in scoring ( 513 points ) and total yards gained ( 7, 064 ), and helped the team reach an AFC best 14-2 regular season record.

Despite his injury problems, McNair finished the season as the second leading rusher on the team with 337 yards and scoring 8 touchdowns.

Despite the loss, Leach was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy for scoring a record 19 goals in 16 playoff games.

Despite this, McGrady led the league in scoring with 28. 0 ppg, made the All-NBA 2nd Team and his 4th consecutive All-Star Team.

Despite a prolific scoring career, Gower is often best remembered for his languid, laid-back approach both on and off the field.

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 domestic club troubles, he continued to make progress at international level, scoring the winning goal for the England Under-21 side in a 3 – 2 win over Switzerland.

Despite scoring 39 points in regulation time and fouling out both Dampier and Keith Van Horn, Duncan only made one of seven field goal attempts in overtime against Mavericks reserve center DeSagana Diop, and the Spurs lost Game 7.

Despite their chances of progression being written off by press on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border, Celtic defeated Liverpool 3 – 1 on aggregate with Larsson scoring the opener in a 1 – 1 1st leg draw followed by a 2 – 0 Celtic victory at Anfield.

Despite initially maintaining his decision to retire, he eventually returned to the national side, scoring three goals in four matches and leading Sweden to the quarter-finals, where they were defeated in a penalty shootout by the Dutch.

Despite a decrease in offensive production, Kariya tied winger Brad Boyes for the team lead in scoring with 65 points ( 16 goals and 49 assists ) over 82 games.

Despite Malone's scoring and the presence of players like Harry Mummery, Quebec had a dismal season, finishing last, with four wins and twenty losses.

Despite Aldridge being injured for both matches against Carl Zeiss Jena, the quarter-final away leg was drawn 2 – 2, with Tommy Tynan scoring both goals.

Despite scoring only 12 and 11 with the bat, he took three wickets in the Australians ' first innings.

Despite scoring three tries in the second test at Durban, the Springboks suffered from some woeful goal kicking and failed to land any penalties or conversions, whilst for the Lions Neil Jenkins once again kicked 5 penalties to level the scores at 15 – 15 before Jerry Guscott dropped a goal for an 18 – 15 lead for the Lions.

Despite scoring, Heatley and the Senators suffered a 8 – 3 defeat to his former Thrashers teammates.

Despite the slump, Fowler rallied for the following campaign, and showed a marked improvement in the second half of the 2004 – 05 season, scoring his 150th Premiership goal in the 3 – 2 win over Norwich City on 28 February 2005.

Despite concerns about his fitness, Fowler finished the 2005 – 06 season scoring on a more consistent basis than Liverpool's other strikers.

* Despite playing in an era where seasons totaled no more than 48 games, Joliat remains in 9th place all-time on the Canadiens ' career goal scoring list and second among left wingers to Steve Shutt.

Despite leading the playoffs in scoring through the first three rounds, Kovalchuk was playing through a herniated disc in his back, and was very ineffective against the Kings, scoring just one point in the series, an empty-net goal in Game 4, as the Devils fell to the Kings in six games.

Despite his scoring success, the United States finished the tournament in fifth place.

Despite missing three games with a broken right index finger, an injury he suffered against the Islanders, Stevens would finish the year third on the team in scoring with 61 points ; his 51 assists were also good enough for second on the Capitals.