Despite knowing that Taylor's season was over in Week 3 of 2001, Jaguars coach Tom Coughlin listed him on the injury report as " questionable " every game for the remainder of the season, further fueling the doubts of Taylor's toughness in the minds of fans.

Despite having reached the Western Front after the Armistice, Taylor's casket was draped with a Union Jack and buried with full military honours.

Despite the unease at his appointment, England lost just once in Taylor's first 23 matches ( a 0 – 1 defeat to Germany at Wembley Stadium in September 1991 ).

" Despite moderate success in the US, Taylor's solo material failed to catch on in his native UK.

Despite its success, In the Pocket fell shortly to repeat the success of Taylor's previous album Gorilla, reaching only # 16 on the Billboard album charts ( it was Taylor's lowest chart position during the seventies and also the lowest since his debut album ).

Despite his extensive career as a character actor in a wide array of varying roles, Taylor's niche was in Westerns, of which he appeared in literally dozens of films.

Despite a poor 2006 and 2007, he found his form at the 2008 World Championship, ending Taylor's record of reaching every PDC World Darts Championship final on 29 December 2007 by defeating him 5 sets to 4 in a quarter-final match having trailed 3-0 and 4-2.

Despite briefly toying with the name " rational Mesmerism ", Braid ultimately emphasised his approach's uniqueness, carrying out informal experiments throughout his career to refute the arguments invoking supernatural practices, and demonstrate instead the role of ordinary physiological and psychological processes such as suggestion and focused attention in producing the observed effects.

Despite the revision, 1, 000 copies of the world maps had since been distributed, and the original suggestion took hold.

Despite the studio's suggestion that Davis play the role as a young woman, the 38-year-old insisted on aging her appearance to fit the part.

Despite a suggestion of suicide, an army court of inquiry concluded that he had tripped and that the shooting was an accident .< ref >

Despite Marshal Davout's suggestion of a maneuver to outflank the weak Russian left, the Emperor instead ordered Davout's First Corps to move directly forward into the teeth of the defense, while the flanking maneuver was left to the weak Fifth Corps of Prince Poniatowski.

Despite repeated denials about his complicity in extraordinary rendition — he once dismissed the suggestion of UK involvement in the practice as a " conspiracy theory "— Straw has been dogged for years over his alleged leading role in it, most recently facing scrutiny over the case of Abdel Hakim Belhadj.

Despite the number of important posts that he held during his career, Sandwich's incompetence and corruptness inspired the suggestion that his epitaph should read: " Seldom has any man held so many offices and accomplished so little.

Despite showing initial reluctance, Forsythe began an acting career at the suggestion of his father.

Despite having two painter sons, at the suggestion ( if not the order ) of the Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Eitoku adopted Kanō Sanraku ( 1561 – 1635 ), who married his daughter and succeeded him as head of the school.

Despite being a mathematician, he is not remembered for any work in that field ; rather, his major contribution ( made at the age of sixty, in 1885 ) was an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom, the study of which he took up at the suggestion of Eduard Hagenbach also of Basel.

Despite this connection, his son, only 13 years old at the time of his father's death, was latterly to refute any suggestion that it was Ulf, and not fellow rally-driving cousin ( and occasional Peugeot factory squad team-mate at various points during the early 2000s ), Sebastian Lindholm, who tempted him into following in his father's footsteps by also participating in the sport.

Despite this, Thompson quickly withdrew the suggestion, saying it was " not an idea we can or should try ", and characterizing his comment as an " off-the-cuff " remark born of frustration with recent violence.

Despite these claims, Talkback Thames has denied any suggestion of product placement.

Despite the most popular suggestion for the new name being Nelson Mandela Drive, and Nkululeko Drive emerging as the chosen replacement, Hans Strijdom Drive was renamed Malibongwe Drive at the end of September 2007.

Despite their platonic relationship, there have been instances where other characters believe that Natalie suppresses romantic feelings for Monk through gestures and comments, or even think they are a couple, though Natalie tends to find the suggestion very amusing: in " Mr. Monk and the Class Reunion ", when Dianne Brooks ( Cynthia Stevenson ) first spots Monk with Natalie, Dianne points between Monk and Natalie, as if to indicate " dating ", Natalie can be seen visibly smirking.

Despite declining his suggestion, the legislature nonetheless entrusted Tyndale with designing the new seal.

Despite several army mutinies and increasing civic concern both at his erratic style and arbitrary, corrupt method of governing he was re-elected for another 6-year term in September 1999.

Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.

Despite some claims that shotgun sequencing was in some ways less accurate than the clone-by-clone method chosen by the Human Genome Project, the technique became widely accepted by the scientific community and is still the de facto standard used today.

Despite their success, however, Eisenhower had faith only in the traditional method of advancing across a broad front to avoid the problem of flanking attacks, which most account for the decision to halt the Third Army.

Despite a possible conflict of interests, Maskelyne being an advocate of the lunar distance method of determining longitude, the Board of Longitude sent him to Barbados in 1763 to calculate the longitude of the capital, Bridgetown by observation of Jupiter's satellites, and also to test his lunar distance method and compare its accuracy to John Harrison's chronometer, the No. 4 timekeeper.

Despite these concerns, they believed that Nasser would use the Ba ' ath as the primary method of controlling Syria.

Despite their considerable differences of subject, and often also of method, they continued their close interaction with each other and with Derrida, from the early 1970s.

Despite many new approaches, it is still a robust strategy and often the best method.

Despite the relative low number of Polynesian languages, and the relative abundance of data already available on many of them, the comparative method was often reduced to comparisons of vocabulary, its shared sporadic sound changes and, as Wilson did in 1985, comparison of pronominal systems which is perhaps the second most commonly described aspect of " minor " languages often available for comparison after the lexicostatistical lists.

Despite his training in the classical presentational acting style ( see also Classical acting ) at the Bristol Old Vic, he is a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles.

" Despite this admission, it seems Descartes ' project for understanding the world was that of re-creating creation-a cosmological project which aimed, through Descartes particular brand of experimental method, to show not merely the possibility of such a system, but to suggest that this way of looking at the world-one with ( as Descartes saw it ) no assumptions about God or nature-provided the only basis upon which he could see knowledge progressing ( as he states in Book II ).

Despite efforts to ban outdoor relief, parishes continued to offer it as a more cost effective method of dealing with pauperism.

Despite this difference in method, the midrashim of the older and of the younger halakha alike believed that they had sought only the true meaning of the Scriptures.

Despite the variety of methods of evaluation of comorbidity, the absence of a singular generally accepted method, devoid of the deficiencies of the available methods of its evaluation, causes disturbance.

Despite this proposal, Guillotin was opposed to the death penalty and hoped that a more humane and less painful method of execution would be the first step toward a total abolition of the death penalty.

Despite these shortcomings, today the Delphi method is a widely accepted forecasting tool and has been used successfully for thousands of studies in areas varying from technology forecasting to drug abuse.

Despite its usefulness, the concept of a partial atomic charge is somewhat arbitrary, because it depends on the method used to delimit between one atom and the next ( in reality, atoms have no clear boundaries ).

Despite the philosophical questions raised, the hypothetico-deductive model remains perhaps the best understood theory of scientific method.

Despite considerable public scepticism, Telford was confident the construction method would work: he had previously built at least one cast iron trough aqueduct – the Longdon-on-Tern aqueduct on the Shrewsbury Canal, still visible in the middle of a field, though the canal was abandoned years ago.

Despite the ruling, the Labour Party did not force candidates already chosen via this method ( including Cryer ) to seek re-selection.

Despite this, it is still possible to estimate the threshold and slope by fitting psychometric functions to the obtained data, although estimates of psychometric slope are likely to be more variable than those from the method of constant stimuli ( for a reasonable sampling of the psychometric function ).

Despite the early end to the experiment, Thor Heyerdahl estimated that this method for a 20-ton statue over Easter Island terrain would allow per day.