Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.

Despite its secretive nature, the northern bobwhite is one of the most familiar quails in eastern North America because it is frequently the only quail in its range.

Despite being Mike's closest friend, Mike frequently ignores Geoff's issues, and their conversations often serve to reinforce Mike's beliefs.

( Despite being the " wrong side ," reverse stockinette is frequently used as a pattern in its own right.

Despite the presence of prickles, roses are frequently browsed by deer.

Despite Lady Sayer's establishment background, she was a fearless and impassionedfighter in the defence of Dartmoor: frequently she deliberately interrupted army live-firing exercises on Dartmoor's military ranges, and in 1985 snubbed The Prince of Wales over the Duchy of Cornwall's management plan for Dartmoor, since this allowed for a continuance of military usage.

Despite the fact that they appear to work at different companies, they are friends who frequently phone each other and hang out together.

" Despite AIM's assertion of political neutrality, it is frequently described by the mainstream media and other media watchdog groups as a conservative organization.

Despite having taken several years off from recording, Sir Mix-a-Lot is still known to mix frequently.

Despite being frequently told so, Plug is oblivious to his hideous looks, having never seen his reflection.

Despite its origins, the Charleston is most frequently associated with white flappers and the speakeasy.

Despite the ISP's excellent anti-virus software, subscribers are frequently targets for virus attacks from outside the country.

Despite this success, which included numerous film award nominations, Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote in November 2008 that the film was frequently labeled as dated among liberals.

Despite the album's official title, which emphasised group identity, studio efforts on The Beatles captured the work of four increasingly individualised artists who frequently found themselves at odds.

Despite this, Māori frequently used the Treaty to argue for a range of issues, including greater independence and return of confiscated and unfairly purchased land.

Despite family problems, Strauss senior continued to tour frequently and was always prepared to write novelty pieces for numerous charitable organizations.

Despite his criticism of Zhao, Chen Yun was the Party elder most respected by Zhao, and Zhao would frequently attempt to consult with Chen before implementing new policies.

Despite Ataru's lack of interest in Lum ( due of immense shame that the tag game brought to him ) and attempts to rekindle his relationship with Shinobu, Lum frequently interferes and eventually Shinobu loses interest in Ataru.

Despite the lack of consensus, by the end of 2000 the album was appearing frequently in critics ' top ten lists as praise for Radiohead's experimentation appeared to outweigh reservations.

Despite the provision for private confession in every edition of the Book of Common Prayer, the practice was frequently contested during the Ritualist controversies of the later nineteenth century.

Despite its position as one of the minor political parties in the Finnish parliament it has frequently been one of the partners forming the governing coalition cabinets.

Despite this, feral pigeons usually reach their highest densities in the central portions of cities, so they are frequently encountered by people, which leads to conflict.

Despite the new tube station opening sequence, the occasionally seen exterior shots of the show's locales along with brief glimpses of Sadie's home and the frequently visited Charnham Common suggested that Charnham was a modern, green and spacious small town.

Despite serving as leader of the opposition from 1863 to 1867, Archibald frequently sided with the Conservative ministry against his own caucus on important legislative initiatives.

" Despite Kennedy's rhetoric, he did not immediately come to a decision on the status of the Apollo program once he became president.

Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Goebbels ’ most important contribution to the Nazi cause between 1930 and 1933 was as the organizer of successive election campaigns: The Reichstag elections of September 1930, July and November 1932 and March 1933, and Hitler ’ s presidential campaign of March – April 1932.

Despite this, North Korea maintained its hostile rhetoric against the U. S., South Korea and Japan.

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 this, many parts of Latin America and Europe continue to have large Trotskyist groupings, with followings both young and old, who are attracted to its " anti-Stalinist " positions and its rhetoric of workers ' internationalism.

Despite al-Bakr's and the Iraqi-led Ba ' ath Party's radical rhetoric, their economic policies were neither radical or very socialistic.

Despite his oppositional rhetoric, Perón frequently sought cooperation with the U. S. government on various issues.

Despite their rhetoric, Arab armies committed few atrocities and no large-scale massacre of prisoners took place when circumstances might have allowed them to happen, as when they took the Old City of Jerusalem or the villages of Atarot, Neve Yaakov, Nitzanim, Gezer and Mishmar Hayarden.

Despite such strong rhetoric, Mussolini considered evacuating Fascists into Switzerland, although this was opposed by Germany, which instead proposed that Mussolini and key Fascist officials be taken into exile in Germany.

Despite attempts to broaden their appeal, the issue of foreigners remained central to the party's rhetoric.

Despite the populist rhetoric of the " father of the poor ", the gaúcho Vargas was ushered into power by planter oligarchies of peripheral regions amid a revolution from above, and was thus in no position to truly meet substantive popular demands.

Despite a polished marketing campaign that saw Drašković change his personal appearance and tone down his fiery rhetoric, he ended up with only 4. 5 % of the total vote, well behind Vojislav Koštunica ( 31. 2 %) and Miroljub Labus ( 27. 7 %), both of whom moved on to the second-round runoff.

Despite universalist rhetoric ( and in contrast with Islam in general, or the Bektashi order ), Alevi communities do not generally acknowledge the possibility of conversion to Aleviness.

Despite the many criticisms of the speech in later years, Hal Bochin ( who wrote a book about Nixon's rhetoric ) suggests that Nixon succeeded at the time because of his use of narrative, spinning a story which resonated with the public:

Despite the anti-Ottoman rhetoric of the king, commercial relations with the Turks expanded.

Despite the heated rhetoric, opinion in the country was divided.

Despite traditional Republican Party rhetoric, the CEA supported an activist contracyclical approach that helped to establish Keynesianism as a bipartisan economic policy for the nation.

Despite the organization's rhetoric about its proletarian exclusivity, however, the movement was guided by intellectuals throughout its entire brief history, with its efforts to promote workers from the bench to leadership positions largely unsuccessful.

Despite its fierce rhetoric, support from the local administration and certain popularity of its goals, the Society proved to be largely unsuccessful as were the projects it promoted.

Despite Laffoon's rhetoric, the sales tax was again defeated.