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 objections from shareholders such as Joan Whitney Payson, majority owner Horace Stoneham entered into negotiations with San Francisco officials at around the same time that the Dodgers ' owner Walter O ' Malley was courting the city of Los Angeles.

Despite these concerns, DVDs for reality shows have sold briskly ; Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, The Amazing Race, Project Runway, and America's Next Top Model have all ranked in the top DVDs sold on Amazon. com, and in the mid-2000s, DVDs of The Simple Life outranked scripted shows like The O. C.

Despite his brother's interference, John Kennedy was firm that Johnson was who he wanted as running mate and met with staffers such as Larry O ' Brien, his national campaign manager, to say Johnson was to be vice president.

Despite her harsh treatment, O grants permission beforehand for everything that occurs, and her permission is consistently sought.

Despite the excellent postnatal prognosis, 99 % of Turner-syndrome conceptions are thought to end in spontaneous abortion or stillbirth, and as many as 15 % of all spontaneous abortions have the X, O karyotype.

Despite skepticism from other investigators, O ' Keefe and his co-workers, especially Lynn Nadel, continued to investigate this question, in a line of work that eventually led to their very influential 1978 book The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map.

Despite his brother's interference, John Kennedy was firm that Johnson was who he wanted as running mate ; he met with staffers such as Larry O ' Brien, his national campaign manager, to say Johnson was to be vice president.

Despite a hundred years of being told to and made to change, the Tohono O ' odham have retained their traditions into the 21st century, and their language is still spoken.

Despite its name, the gunfight actually occurred in a narrow lot six doors west of the rear entrance to the O. K.

Despite all the progress, there was speculation that Jim O ' Brien was not the coach to lead this team back to the playoffs.

Despite an extensive tour and an appearance on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, the album was not commercially successful, and when the label folded, the band and the label parted ways.

Despite signing up some promising talent ( notably Arthur Hodgson and the Kneecaps and the ' French Beach Boys ,' Les Garçons de la Plage ), poor financial management ( mainly on the part of Stig O ' Hara's financial planner, Ron Decline ) finally led to the label's ultimate failure.

Despite the revelations in O ' Brian's essay, O ' Brian's stepson Nikolai Tolstoy through O ' Brian's marriage to Mary Tolstoy disputes this, although he confirms that O ' Brian worked as a volunteer ambulance driver during the Blitz, where he met Mary, the separated wife of Russian-born nobleman and lawyer Count Dimitri Tolstoy.

Despite Chief Guyasuta's violent history, General O ' Hara furnished a cabin for him on O ' Hara's estate north of the Allegheny River ( now Fox Chapel ), and provided necessities during the declining years of his life.

Despite vigorous opposition by both townships, on August 3, 1934, a court ordered the incorporation of Fox Chapel Borough from of O ' Hara Township and of Indiana Township.

Despite this Haughey moved against O ' Malley and in February 1985, O ' Malley was charged with " conduct un-becoming ".. At a Party Meeting, even though O ' Malley did not have the Party whip, he was expelled from the Fianna Fáil organisation by 73 votes to 9 in roll-call vote.

Hughes responded by getting Scott a small part in a George O ' Brien film called Sharp Shooters ( 1928 ). Despite its title and the presence of O ' Brien, Sharp Shooters is not a western, as some film historians claimed.

Despite being one of the nation's top prospects, O ' Neal's future in college basketball was uncertain.

Despite the presence of more than 9, 000 UN forces ( UNOCI ) in Côte d ' Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to work in Ivorian cocoa plantations.

Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with light and other electromagnetic radiation.

Despite the presence of Portuguese troops, which grew to more than 35, 000, the PAIGC steadily expanded its influence until, by 1968, it controlled most of the country.

Despite a strong Presbyterian presence on its campus, Occidental cut ties to the church in 1910.

Despite the presence of both sex organs, it is thought unlikely that both are simultaneously active.

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

Despite these insecurities, she became a renowned public presence, eventually helping to lead the women's movement.

Despite the presence of an EU observer mission, canceled ballots and illegal voting took place, the majority of which in RPT strongholds.

Despite the anachronistic police box shape, the TARDIS's presence is rarely questioned when it materialises in the present-day United Kingdom.

Despite some more contemporary building developments further away from the centre, Uppsala's historic centre continues to be dominated by the presence of the university.

Despite Margaret's betrothal and continued presence at the French court, Anne arranged a marriage between Charles and Anne of Brittany.

( Despite recent finds indicating a Roman presence near the modern city of Minden, its location remains disputed ; other sites near Minden or Rinteln have been suggested by the historian Hans Delbrück ( 1848 – 1929 ) and the military writer Kurt Pastenaci ( 1894 – 1961 ), respectively.

Despite the presence of three Yes musicians, Cinema was not originally intended to be a continuation of Yes.

Despite its presence in deer, proponents of the aquatic ape hypothesis claim that the similarity between the descended larynx in humans and aquatic mammals supports their theory.

Despite two years of widespread publicity about Fett's appearance in The Empire Strikes Back, script rewrites significantly reduced the character's presence in the film.

Despite the presence of traffic lights and traffic policemen, the U. S. Embassy advises drivers to exercise extreme caution, especially at intersections.

Despite his years of residence in Canada and the presence of family members there, he never became a Canadian citizen.

Despite the presence of some Decorated work it is largely Perpendicular in style.

Despite the presence in the story of Neptune, Mercury, Venus and other immortals, she does not date from Classical times, was born around 1000, and has a character almost diametrically opposed to that cited for her namesake in the previous paragraph.

Despite the presence of some natural fluorocarbons such as tetrafluoromethane, which has been reported in rocks, man-made fluorocarbons are potent greenhouse gases.

" Despite this, and despite the presence of a raised mound in the village called Gelert's Grave, historians do not believe that Gelert ever existed.

Despite the presence of a raised mound in the village called Gelert's Grave, now a tourist attraction, there is absolutely no evidence for Gelert's existence.

Despite being very similar to standard Italian, Swiss Italian presents some differences to the Italian spoken in Italy due to the presence of French and German from which it assimilates words.

Despite " ambushing " Rukeyser, the show's trend of losing viewers continued as the show floundered on without Rukeyser's trusted presence and was terminated in early 2005.