Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.

Despite their difficulties in New Zealand the tour proved a raging success on-field for the British and Irish.

Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

Despite mission replanning necessitated by Challenger < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s abort to orbit trajectory, the Spacelab mission was declared a success.

Despite Kitna's success, Palmer was promoted to starting quarterback the following season.

Despite initial success, Shapur lifted his siege after his army missed an opportunity to exploit a collapsed wall.

Despite its limited success as a consumer offering, CDPD was adopted in a number of enterprise and government networks.

Despite success in reuniting large sections of the wider Christadelphian community and periodic efforts at reuniting smaller offshoots, there are still a number of groups who remain separate from other bodies of Christadelphians.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Despite success within the NFL, they could not survive in Portsmouth, then the NFL's smallest city.

Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers.

Despite this particular mission, in winning the Albigensians over by persuasion Dominic met limited success, " for though in his ten years of preaching a large number of converts were made, it has to be said that the results were not such as had been hoped for.

Despite its success, Enniskillen was not chosen as a World Cup Stop for 2008.

Despite early singles success in the United Kingdom, the band were initially more successful in the United States, billed as " The English guys with the big fiddles ".

Despite the recognition and success they enjoyed in the States, they were still largely ignored in the United Kingdom until their sixth album, the platinum selling A New World Record, hit the top ten there in 1976.

Despite some initial success, bolstered by heavy advertising, the brand did not prove popular and was eventually withdrawn from sale.

Despite the success of the expedition, the quelling of sporadic rebellions would take another eight years until 1905, when the island was completely pacified by the French under Joseph Gallieni.

Despite its modest critical and commercial success in Italy, and its warm reception by French critics, it failed to interest North American distributors.

Despite the delay in shipping the album to certain stores, In Pieces was another instant No. 1 success, selling a total of about 10 million copies worldwide.

Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to Brooks as Garth Vader ( a play on Darth Vader ) for his " invasion " of the charts and his success in the country genre.

Despite this tragedy the railway was a resounding success.

Despite the bad financial situation, Athens staged the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, which proved a great success.

Despite the early predictions for success, the Astros had a mediocre 44 – 44 record at the All-Star break.

" Despite his success in an " A movie ," Bogart received a tepid twenty-six week contract at $ 550 per week and was typecast as a gangster in a series of " B movie " crime dramas.

Despite QPR's perilous financial condition in 2007 / 2008, the combined personal wealth of the club's new owners ( which included the world's then 8th richest man Lakshmi Mittal ) sparked speculation that QPR would receive significant further investment from their new benefactors drawing parallels to their wealthy West London neighbours Chelsea and Fulham.

Despite the fact that they were expected to sing their first song in their hometown Timişoara, the city that sparked the Romanian Revolution of 1989 that eventually led to the downfall of the Communist regime, their first post-1989 concert took place in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

Despite the fact that the show ended in 1998, the success of the live-action Spider-Man films have sparked more interest in new fans, allowing the series to air in reruns due to its new owners: Disney.

Despite bad blood, Kurupt would again sign with Suge Knight in exchange for the position of Vice President, which sparked a feud between himself and former friends Daz and Snoop Dogg.

Despite a message from the concert managers that the show was a one time benefit for Chris Knox and not the restart of Jeff Mangum's musical career, the show sparked rumors that Mangum would begin recording and touring again.

Despite the inherent dangers of mountaineering described in the book, this reading sparked a passion for the mountains in the young man.

Despite these efforts, the creation by Uganda of the new province of Ituri sparked the ethnic clash of the Ituri conflict, sometimes referred to as a " war within a war ".

Despite this, they have sparked an interest in sciences, leading to the school sending a lot of capable students overseas.

Despite UEFA lifting the ban on English clubs in European competitions for the 1990 – 91 season, Liverpool were unable to compete in the European Cup as ( being the team present at the Heysel disaster that had sparked the ban in 1985 ) they had to serve an extra year of the ban before being allowed to play in European competitions again.

Despite being generally considered one of the first season's best episodes, " Shadows of P ' Jem " sparked controversy at the time of broadcast over a tongue-in-cheek scene in which T ' Pol and Archer, tied back-to-back, try awkwardly to get themselves free, their efforts ultimately resulting in Archer momentarily being smothered by the Vulcan's ample chest.

Despite the controversy which it sparked amongst Sunday School teachers, Spiers and the others were convinced.

Despite the events at the end of the previous game, the KOF tournament was a huge commercial success and sparked a worldwide fighting craze.

Despite Longabaugh and Parker's fame, by the mid-20th century, it was the mysterious vanishing of Place that sparked the most interest, which continues to the present day.

Despite Woodruff's continuing refusal to debate with Pike through the columns of his newspaper, Pike did not let up his attack for a moment.

Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterised by a debate about its identity and the level of American and European influence.

Despite some of these findings, some researchers question whether TMD therapy can reduce symptoms in the ear, and there is currently an ongoing debate to settle the controversy.

Despite the ongoing debate about the dome's future use, the dome opened again during December 2003 for the Winter Wonderland 2003 experience.

Despite critical acclaim, Gattaca was not a box office success but it is said to have crystallized the debate over tampering with human genetics.

Despite these acute challenges, Li shifted his focus away from the day-to-day concerns of energy, communications, and raw materials allocation, and took a more active role in the ongoing inter-party debate on the pace of market reforms.

Despite her condition, the debate as to her fate was the central question of the National Convention after Louis's death.

Despite this, debate did occur but with the use of code words such as the " Senior Officer ", to refer to Gibli, and the " unfortunate business " to refer to the Egyptian operation.

Despite the profound differences regarding their ethical and world visions, Albizu's fiery and charismatic rhetoric captured Balaguer's imagination and his recollection of this occasion was a harbinger of his passion for politics and intellectual debate.

Despite the conflict, the show was picked up for the 1969-70 season on March 14, seemingly ending the debate over the show's status.

Despite this, the Treaty is often the subject of heated debate, and much disagreement by both Māori and non-Māori New Zealanders.

Despite the differences between them, there has been a continuous debate and dialogue between these traditions, leading to a great political awareness among the Kikuyu.

Despite Japan's economic power and political influence, some debate whether or not a country with no standing military can be considered a " world power " that should have a permanent seat on the Council.

Despite being rated highly for her debate performance by media commentators, Carr's performance was poorly rated by the public and her own vote share declined to 25 % in her home constituency of Powell River-Sunshine Coast, 17 % behind the victorious NDP candidate.

Despite the conflict, the show was picked up for the 1969-70 season on March 14, seemingly ending the debate over the show's status.

Despite assertions of the accuracy of the locations, dates, and people mentioned, there is heavy debate on the degree of authenticity.

Despite much public debate ever since on the issue of compulsory voting, the legislation has never been repealed.

Despite lack of major political backing, his performance in a televised debate and last minute television commercials are credited with his victory.

Benjamin Madley wrote: " Despite over 170 years of debate over who or what was responsible for this near-extinction, no consensus exists on its origins, process, or whether or not it was genocide " however, using the " U. N. definition, sufficient evidence exists to designate the Tasmanian catastrophe genocide.

Despite some debate, taxonomists have tended to include at least two of the three genera, and, in general, all three, in this family since at least 1906.

Despite the heavy workload, he joined the school's baseball and debate teams, and participated in the campus ' Jackson Club, an organization for Democrats.

Despite ongoing debate, there are some instances where religious freedom and secular stability have been temporarily balanced.

Despite ongoing debate and investigation into Makhno's personal culpability for the massacres, there is currently no evidence he was present at or sanctioned these actions.

Despite the debate, the portions of the draft dealing with the court remained largely unchanged, as the delegates focused on different matters.

Despite substantial and clear documentation about both kinds of Sabians spanning many centuries from sources as diverse as Greek Christian, Arabic Muslim, Arabic and Persian Bahá ' í, as well as Jewish sources and documents, the actual nature of the Sabians has remained a matter of some heated debate among Orientalists.