Despite these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.

Despite this, several of the young players showed promise.

Despite intense bombing, it could not deliver Goring's promise to destroy the British Expeditionary Force, which escaped to continue the war.

Despite the promise to spare his family, Bukharin's wife, Anna Larina, was sent to a labor camp, but she survived to see her husband officially rehabilitated by the Soviet state under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988.

Despite this promise, and against protest and revolts from the nobility, Wang Mang claimed that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the Han Dynasty and the beginning of his own: the Xin Dynasty ( 9 – 23 CE ).

Despite its promise of nuclear safety, SDI was described by many of its critics ( including Soviet nuclear physicist and later peace activist Andrei Sakharov ) as being even more dangerous than MAD because of these political implications.

Despite this, the promise of a Pan-Arab state including Palestine were dashed as Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan declared independence from their European rulers, while western Palestine festered in the developing Arab-Jewish conflict.

Despite his love for Louise and his promise to be an obedient husband, Count Alfred finds his role as a figurehead unbearable.

Despite his original promise to fight to the last man, he seemed eager to do anything to avoid a showdown in the city in order to save the capital and its inhabitants.

Despite the promise shown in the Toronto series, the Islanders had a slow start to the 2002 – 03 NHL season.

Despite her earlier promise, Jeanette recoils from him and runs to her room on hearing that he is a commoner.

Despite the promise to spare his family, Bukharin's wife, Anna Larina, was sent to a labor camp, but she survived to see her husband rehabilitated.

Despite his success, the mayor reneged on his promise and refused to pay the rat-catcher the full amount of money.

Despite his promise not to tour following Tammi Terrell's death, due to pressure from fans and Motown, Gaye agreed to his first tour in four years, starting off at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on January 4, 1974.

Despite the promise of safe passage, and Constantine's assumption of clerical offices, Constantius imprisoned the former soldier and had him beheaded on his way to Ravenna in either August or September 411.

Despite Biff's promise as an athlete in high school, he flunked senior year math and never went to college.

Despite the promise of the Kelly-led " Nobody but Me ", the record failed to chart and the brothers soon switched labels again, signing with United Artists in early 1964, where they recorded an early version of " That Lady ", titled " Who's That Lady ".

Despite the ideologic promise of industrialisation — that the mechanisation of industrial production would raise the mass of the workers, from a brutish life of subsistence existence, to the self-respect of honourable work — the division of labour inherent to the capitalist mode of production, thwarted the human nature ( Gattungswesen ) of the worker, and so rendered each man and woman into a mechanistic part of an industrialised system of production, from being a person capable of defining his and her value through direct, purposeful activity.

Despite this and a promise later the same day to raise base rates again to 15 percent, dealers kept selling pounds, convinced that the government would not stick with its promise.

Despite her promise, the $ 10 million never materialized.

Despite Ney ’ s promise to the King, he joined Napoleon at Auxerre, on 18 March 1815.

Despite his rookie mistakes, Dinwiddie showed promise going into the 2008 season.

Despite his earlier promise, the government announced the same day that the state would supply the necessary funds to keep the banks afloat, with Kenny stating that seeking the money from bondholders would be neither " reasonable or logical.

Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;

Despite their dedication to their jobs, however, the citizens of Mega Tokyo tend to dislike and distrust members of the A. D. Police, seeing them as corrupt and ineffectual.

Despite everything, however, there are some who support both dates and even some who support dates other than the two major possibilities presented.

Despite this however, the fatality rate per head of population is moderately high, comparable to the United States.

Despite her continuing production and accolades, however, Beaux was working against the current of tastes and trends in art.

Despite incorporating non-Christadelphian hymns however, Christadelphian hymnody preserves the essential teachings of the community.

Despite the support of executive Si Siman, however, he soon was fired for not sounding " country enough.

Despite his immense obesity and impending mortality, however, Louis the Fat remained clear-minded.

Despite the controversy however, EastEnders pulled in rating highs of 9 – 10 million throughout the duration of the storyline.

Despite these stereotypes, however, there are actually quite strict rules governing tackling.

Despite this, however, the country continued to receive aid and investment from capitalist countries such as the U. S ..

Despite the advent of print however, hand-written grimoires remained highly valued, as they were believed to contain inherent magical powers within them, and they continued to be produced.

Despite this almost exclusive focus, however, Greek fire is best understood as a complete weapon system of many components, all of which were needed to operate together to render it effective.

Despite his influence, however, Parsons has yet to be inducted.

Despite those hopes, however, usable land has always been severely limited.

Despite this, however, Italy's alleged 1987 GDP growth of a phenomenal 18 %, it was shortly re-overtaken by both France and the United Kingdom during the 1990s, when Italy's economic growth was particularly stagnant, with an average of 1. 23 % compared to an EU average of 2. 28 %.

Despite this fancifulness, however, Ivanhoe does make some prescient historical points.

Despite the high sales and critical acclaim of the Lee-Kirby titles, however, Kirby felt treated unfairly, and left the company in 1970 for rival DC.

Despite these strains, however, Nigerians had assisted in the halting process of achieving stability in Chad, and both nations reaffirmed their intention to maintain close ties.

Despite Paramount's losses, DeMille would, however, give the studio some relief and create his most successful film at Paramount, a 1956 remake of his 1923 film The Ten Commandments.

Despite the economy's general expansion after 1983, however, inflation threatened its modest gains, as did serious fiscal and balance-of-payments deficits and the growing debt.

Despite the historical meekness of the presidency, however, it has been at the centre of some high-profile controversies.

Despite ongoing and potential disputes, however, it was unlikely in 1989 that Romania's borders would be redrawn in the foreseeable future.

Despite the immense economic growth, however, the standard of living for city laborers and farmers was still low.

Despite their height, however, the mountain system does not create a major barrier between the northern and the southern portions of the Meseta Central because several passes permit road and railroad transportation to the northwest and the northeast.