Despite spending some three months of the season out with a muscle injury, the 1952 – 53 campaign proved Smith's words to be accurate, as a 38 year old Matthews won an FA Cup winners medal in a match which was, despite Mortensen's hat-trick, subsequently dubbed the ' Matthews Final '.

Despite his dispatch box successes ( Smith was always more effective in the House of Commons than on platforms or at Prime Minister's Questions, though he began to improve at the latter during the final months of his life ), Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were, under Smith's leadership, restless and anxious in private that the party had adopted a " One more heave " approach and had become overly cautious in tackling the legacy of " tax and spend ".

Despite his powerful run-making in the County Championship Smith's batting was class a fragile and he was dropped from the England team for three years.

Despite its well-intentioned approach to traditionalism, the Kingsway was a neighbourhood built for the automobile, and all houses were built with discreetly placed garages, as per Smith's wishes.

Despite Smith's departure to West Bromwich Albion in December 1997, United finished twelfth the following season under his successor, and former captain Malcolm Shotton.

Despite Smith's brilliance and popularity in academia, his success in this new role was limited.

Despite Smith's vision, he was unable to successfully integrate GM's major acquisitions, several of which also failed to tackle the root causes of GM's fundamental problems.

Despite Smith's departure, the U. K. division of Rough Trade retained Roback's original record deal, contractually obligating him to supply a follow-up to Opal's debut LP.

Despite Terry's misgivings, Sheila persuades him to take the relics to Fu Manchu without Smith's knowledge.

Despite this spectacular success, chairman Robert Maxwell failed to improve Smith's contract, which led to his resignation from Oxford to take the job of manager at Queens Park Rangers.

Despite Smith's great experience in Turkish waters, his knowledge of the Turkish court, and his personal popularity with the Turks, he was kept in a subordinate role.

Despite the numerous claims of forgery against Smith's finding, Smith was seen as a dedicated scholar when it came to research.

Despite the fact that the Penguins won the series, the Flyers ' turnaround from the worst team in the league to their status in 2007 – 08 was a credit to Smith's leadership abilities.

Despite winning the Stanley Cup that year, however, Smith's production began to tail off with the Rangers, scoring only 24 points that championship year.

Despite Smith's presence Shipp again led the team in rushing with 830 yards on the season.

Despite his defense of himself in the final paper of the Englishman and in his speech before the House, their efforts were successful.

Despite their efforts, the problems seemed to grow graver all the time.

Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

Despite Hahn's efforts, the contributions of Meitner and Frisch were not recognized.

Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.

Despite significant efforts, British control of Northern European waters rendered these ambitions impractical in the short term, and the Royal Navy remained firmly in control of the Atlantic Ocean.

Despite strenuous efforts from the Culloden < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s boats, the brig Mutine and the 50-gun HMS Leander under Captain Thomas Thompson, the ship of the line could not be moved, and the waves drove Culloden further onto the shoal, inflicting severe damage to the ship's hull.

Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.

Despite these efforts, Cairo's population has doubled since the 1960s, reaching close to seven million ( with an additional ten million in its urban area ).

Despite Cotton Mather's efforts, he never became quite as well known and successful in politics as his father.

Despite efforts at containment, the upheaval in Eastern Europe inevitably spread to nationalities within the USSR.

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 efforts of his successor Emperor Yohannes IV to establish a relationship with the United Kingdom, Ethiopia was ignored by the world powers until the opening of the Suez Canal, and more important, the Mahdist War, drew outside attention to her once more.

Despite heroic efforts, Old Prussian sovereignty would eventually collapse after a succession of wars instigated by Pope Honorius III and his frequent calls for crusade.

Despite considerable research efforts by seismologists, scientifically reproducible predictions cannot yet be made to a specific day or month.

Despite those efforts, he failed to gain control over Hungary and Bohemia in the Bohemian War ( 1468-1478 ) and was even defeated in the Austrian-Hungarian War ( 1477-1488 ) by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in 1485, who managed to maintain residence in Vienna until his death five years later ( see Siege of Vienna ( 1485 )).

Despite his efforts to rise above the rank of private — he even called upon Frank Capra to intercede on his behalf — he never achieved officer's status or any commendations during his six months of service.

Despite some efforts, no suitable substitutes with the stability and low cost of gelatin have been found.

Despite the efforts of the growers, coffee prices plunged on the international market from a high of more than US $ 2. 25 per kilogram in the mid-1970s to less than US $ 0. 45 per kilogram in the early 1990s.

Despite British efforts to curb immigration, during the 14 years of the Aliyah Bet, over 110, 000 Jews secretly entered Palestine.

Despite these efforts the regime lacked a broad popular base or a mass movement supporting it.

Despite the efforts of philologists from all parts of the world, and despite the use of modern cryptographic analysis, the signs remain undeciphered.

Despite these efforts, the rank is still below regional peers and an unfavourable investment climate persists.

Despite efforts to restore ( or at least improve ) the popularity of the Conservative party, Labour remained far ahead in the opinion polls as the 1997 election loomed, despite the economic boom that had followed the exit from recession four years earlier, and the swift fall in unemployment.

Despite efforts and considerations of expanding his political domain, Kemp never held a fundraiser outside of his suburban Western New York district until well into his eighth term in Congress.

Despite the setbacks, Gandhi chose to continue studying in England and spent a few months at the Badminton School in Bristol before clearing the Oxford entrance exam in 1937.

Despite the failure of the Cantiones of 1575 some of his other collections sold well, while Elizabethan scribes such as the Oxford academic Robert Dow, the Windsor lay clerk John Baldwin and a school of scribes working for the Norfolk country gentleman Sir Edward Paston copied his music extensively.

Despite violent opposition from some printers in the Sheldonian, this ended the friction between Oxford and the Stationers, and marked the effective start of a stable university printing business.

Despite his extraordinary academic success at Oxford, Williams was denied the opportunity to pursue a career in the United Kingdom.

Despite not winning a decisive victory, the Parliamentarians forced the Royalists to withdraw to Oxford.

Despite the unpopularity of the Liberals during the dying days of Gladstone's First Government, he became president of the Oxford Union in the Trinity ( summer ) term of his fourth year.

Despite its name, New College is one of the oldest of the Oxford colleges: it was founded in 1379.

Despite being one of the newest and smallest of the colleges, its architecture is designed to conform to the traditional college layout, and its modernist spire is a landmark for those approaching Oxford from the west.

Despite being the smallest college of Oxford University, Harris Manchester boasts the sixth largest college library and offers the best student population to book ratio.

Despite his parents being poor and semi-illiterate, he won a place at St Austell County Grammar School ( now Poltair School-which has named part of its curriculum the Rowse Pathway ) and then a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford in 1921.

Despite Oxford having a lead when the race was stopped, the boats were restarted level with each other ; this decision was highly contentious, especially when Cambridge went on to win after the restart.

Despite some social success he soon became depressed and unhappy with Oxford life.

Despite an Oxford education his accent was utterly classless and between questions to which he appeared to be paying no attention whatever, he applied himself to solving the crossword in the latest Times to arrive from Britain.

Despite this, however, they decide to sit on the same bench, next to each other, in the Botanic Gardens at Oxford each year for an hour at noon on Midsummer's Day, so that they might find themselves in each other's presence.

Despite being the second team in the city, there is less rivalry with Oxford City due to their lower position in the pyramid system ( there have been no competitive matches between the two since 1959 ).

Despite Oxford quickly racing to the top, a collapse in Oxford's form combined with an excellent run for the Daggers saw them overtake Oxford in the league.

Despite many ancient buildings in both Oxford and Cambridge, there are also distinct differences in architecture.

Despite both universities stressing that there is no significant difference between them in either the sciences or humanities today, this disparity in the popular imagination has existed since at least the late 1820s, when The Times newspaper reported on the appointment of Oxford and Cambridge academics to the newly established professorships of University College London: " it is known to be the intention to choose classical professors at Oxford, and mathematical at Cambridge ", although in the event both the classical and mathematical professors were eventually chosen from Cambridge.

Despite its small size, pupils then ,( as now ), regularly gained places and scholarships to Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Despite having no university degree, Gubbins was awarded an honorary Master's degree from Balliol College and was made Lecturer in Japanese language at Oxford University ( 1909-12 ).

Despite the recognition he received for his scholarly work, Sweet never received a university professorship, a fact that disturbed him greatly ; he had done poorly as a student at Oxford, he had annoyed many people through bluntness, and he failed to make every effort to gather official support.

Despite their diminutive stature his Oxford crew won a dramatic Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race by the smallest ever recorded margin ( one foot ), and in so winning, they overturned the biggest weight deficit in the history of the contest.