Despite losing Holland – Dozier – Holland, Norman Whitfield, and a number of its other hitmakers by 1975, Motown still had a number of successful artists during the 1970s and 1980s, including Lionel Richie and the Commodores, Rick James, Teena Marie, the Dazz Band and DeBarge.

" Despite this, he also used short shots edited together that trick the audience into seeing one shot ; Richie says in his essay that " there are 407 separate shots in the body of the film ...

Despite any negative stereotypes associated with his incredible wealth, Richie Rich is portrayed as kind and charitable.

Despite sending a very strong team on the 1958 – 59 tour of Australia and New Zealand, England lost The Ashes to Richie Benaud's Australians.

Writing of her storyline with Wilfred, Gaughan said that " Despite the comedic talents of Braid, Sutton and Richie, any hints towards Cockney family comedy were eschewed in favour of Albert Square's preponderance of gloom.

Despite knowing this, when Jennifer came to Richie's apartment and tried to seduce him, Richie was unable to say no.

Despite initial excitement, the guidance of longtime baseball executives, Eddie Leishman and Buzzie Bavasi as well as a new playing field, the team struggled ; the Padres finished in last place in each of its first six seasons in the NL West, losing 100 games or more four times.

Despite this reprieve, Post acting publisher Richard Grozier and city editor Eddie Dunn were suspicious and assigned investigative reporters to check Ponzi out.

Despite this, Eddie later described himself as " satisfied " with the tour.

Despite a superficial rawness, the style is still heard in skilled jazz players like Arnett Cobb, who also became famous for playing " Flying Home " with Hampton, as well as Sonny Rollins, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis and Jimmy Forrest.

" Despite his technique, or perhaps owing to it, within 18 months the store ( as well as Eddie and Ronnie ) was nearly bankrupt.

Despite the misgivings of people closely associated with Crazy Eddie, the company held its initial public offering on September 13, 1984 ( symbol: CRZY ).

Despite plans to expand the chain to a potential ten stores, the new Crazy Eddie did not expand beyond the Wayne store and in 1999 the only store in the revived chain closed.

Despite breaking the. 400 mark, Heilmann finished third in the 1923 American League Most Valuable Player voting behind Babe Ruth and Eddie Collins.

Despite Eddie Jordan's desire to keep de Cesaris for the 1992 season, financial realities meant it wasn't possible.

Despite promises at the time, Crockett buried the UWF, letting its various titles die out and, with the prime exceptions of Sting, the Fabulous Freebirds, Shane Douglas, Rick Steiner, and for a while Eddie Gilbert, and Steve Williams, none of its various stars made headway into Crockett's promotion.

Despite the hatred, the German American community would produce one of America's finest heroes from the war, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, for whom Rickenbacker International Airport in southern Columbus is named.

Despite her distaste for Eddie, she continues working with him back in the U. S. to support herself and her son.

Despite playing little in MLS, Capano was a vital player for the U-20 US national team, along with other notables such as Eddie Gaven, Freddy Adu, Danny Szetela, and Jonathan Spector.

Despite some disagreement, Paul and Lyman decide to continue the hunt for Eddie and Lily, a task made easier when Eddie sends a coded message to Paul requesting another place to meet.

Despite guiding the team to two successive promotions, the club felt it was time for Eddie to move on.

Despite witnessing the tragic events in front of him on the opening lap of the 1964 Indianapolis 500 that claimed the lives of Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald, Wente charged from his 32nd starting spot to take ninth place at the checkers in his number 68, Trevis / Offenhauser.

Despite being born in England, Gray represented Scotland at international level like his father Frank Gray and uncle Eddie Gray.

Despite finishing higher than Paul Tracy in the 2004 championship, Carpentier left the team and the series to join Eddie Cheever's Indy Racing League Indy Car Series Cheever Racing.

Despite numerous line-up changes, The Vibrators are still touring to this date as a three-piece, " Knox " and " Eddie " being the only original members.

Despite the club's tenth success in the Dorset Senior Cup, the team narrowly avoided relegation by finishing 17th in the league, and Jenkins was sacked just a month later in the wake of Eddie Mitchell taking over the ownership of the club.

Despite this unusual and seemingly energetically unfavorable mechanism, such transport does not require ATP.

Despite its seemingly straightforward definition, the concept of the phenotype has hidden subtleties.

Despite the appeal of Bracks, Kennett entered the 1999 election campaign with a seemingly unassailable lead, and most commentators and opinion polls agreed that he would win a third term.

Despite his exhaustion, he continues to walk, seemingly oblivious to the world.

Despite his seemingly honest and good-hearted personality, there is evidence that he is, at heart, a committed mercenary.

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 seemingly having the advantage towards the end of the battle, Cumberland's forces began to retreat.

Despite his seemingly comfortable life, however, Lecter is consumed by a savage obsession with avenging Mischa's death.

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 the seemingly small haul, this heist left investors feeling outraged and vulnerable.

Despite his early legal troubles, and the seemingly fatal stigma of being falsely labeled a pedophile, Sotos continues to garner support for his ideas and literary output.

Despite seemingly antipodal musical interests, they formed an enduring friendship.

Despite this seemingly innocuous change in the name and notation, coproducts can be and typically are dramatically different from products.

Despite the seemingly dangerous nature of the job, fatalities from jumping are rare.

Despite its seemingly innocent reputation, it pushed a few boundaries at the time for " kids television ", even making subtle references to sex and teen partying, though in a lighthearted, contemporary fashion.

Despite the seemingly clear weight of condemnation of such practices, some critics disagree with the division of international legal norms into a hierarchy.

Despite these seemingly genuine concerns for his locality, Roland on many occasions demonstrates his thorough nastiness.

Despite his success and his seemingly enjoyable lifestyle of fighting crime, playing golf, and being the object of a beautiful woman's ( Bouquet's ) attentions, he has been unable to forget his one true love, Miko, a Japanese spy he met 19 years prior.

Despite their seemingly close relationship, he actually dislikes Roritor to the point that his happiest memory is having someone urinate in his boss ' latte ( Roritor's happiest moment, ironically, is drinking the concoction ).

Despite a seemingly successful reconciliation with his first wife, he went on to marry the young, wealthy and attractive widow Ulla Losch only a few months after his release and moved in with her in Feldberg, Mecklenburg.

Despite its seemingly simple nervous system, however, Aplysia californica is capable of a variety of non-associative and associative learning tasks, including sensitization, habituation, and classical and operant conditioning.

Despite having been shown, in her late teens, as a peppy, lively, cheery social butterfly, the adult Mulan Kato is a darker, brooding character who never speaks ( despite physically able to do so, Mulan prefers speaking as little as she can to prevent the much talkative Britt Reid Jr., and seemingly everyone else, from talking back ) and shows little, if no interest at all, for any form of socialization, a thing that seems to distress the second Green Hornet, every bit the suave socialite his father was.

Despite the fact that Rikki seemingly died, Steve Rogers began to have nightmares similar to the ones Rikki had before, suggesting that enough of Nomad's ( and Onslaught's ) energy may have survived to escape death and now seek a new way to return to the main Marvel reality.

" Despite the seemingly unfavorable album response, several tracks received considerable acclaim-the most noteworthy being We Love The Fresh Kills which was a significantly popular single for the duo at the time.