Despite his later well-known fondness for Reagan, Meese was initially reluctant to accept the Reagan appointment because Meese saw himself as a non-partisan figure.

Despite this, he is portrayed as immature and dimwitted, given his fondness for toys and inability to pronounce certain words, such as pistachio.

Despite the " personal fondness " of the President and his wife for Welles, he continued, the President sided with Hull because supporting a subordinate would promote revolts in other government agencies, Hull was politically connected and popular with Congress, and the Senate, he was told, would not support Welles for Secretary of State or any other office.

Despite these adverse conditions, Gavin remembered his time in Panama with fondness.

Despite her fondness for Captain Jonsen and the fact that she promised not to tell about what really happened, Emily quickly tells the truth to a stewardess.

Despite his opposition to many US government and economic policies, he professed his love of America until the end of his life, and his songs often reflected his fondness for his homeland.

Despite his a short-tempered nature, he has a soft spot for animals and an engrossing fondness for ( in-universe ) children's television cartoons.

Despite this rocky start, Grissom seemed to develop a paternal fondness for Greg, evident by Season Two episode Chasing the Bus, where Grissom encourages Greg and denies that he " messed up " in the field.

Despite the collapse of the New Universe, Peter David retained a fondness for the character, and in late 1993 re-introduced a version of Justice in the Marvel 2099 line's Spider-Man 2099 comic-book as the " Net Prophet ," a. k. a. the Prophet of Thor.

Despite Woodruff's continuing refusal to debate with Pike through the columns of his newspaper, Pike did not let up his attack for a moment.

Despite the many avenues for the exchange of ideas between faculty and administration, complaints of a lack of communication persist.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

'' Despite Company threats, duly carried through, to cut off supplies of powder, ball, and thread for fishing nets, about 350 persons stayed in the village.

Despite this prohibiton, by 1844 some of the Fort Garry merchants were trading with the Indians for furs.

Despite Giffen's warning, Palfrey still had plans for freeing his slaves in Louisiana.

Despite his personal distaste for obesity ( `` disgusting '' ), Dr. Keys has only an incidental interest in how much Americans eat.

Despite the bitterness of the defeat for Lincoln, his articulation of the issues gave him a national political reputation.

Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.

Despite this, the eggs are laid singly, a behaviour not conducive for external fertilisation.

Despite the large number of species in order Asterales, they do not compare in economic benefit for mankind to the Poales or to the Fabaceae.

Despite these facts, most mathematicians accept the axiom of choice as a valid principle for proving new results in mathematics.

Despite continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.

Despite these activities, for some time, the Alemanni seem to have continued their pagan cult activities, with only superficial or syncretistic Christian elements.

Despite his initial reluctance, Johnson agreed to run for re-election for governor in 1855, and became the nominee at the party convention.

Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.

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

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

Despite the fact that four of his sons ( Aban, Abd al Rahman, Muhammad and Ahmad ) were alive at the time of his death, all of them were passed over for succession.

Despite trailing the Nintendo Entertainment System in terms of number of units sold, the 7800 was a profitable enterprise for Atari Corp., benefiting largely from Atari ’ s name and the system's 2600 compatibility.

Despite having the capability to support sound chips in cartridges, almost no 7800 cartridges feature POKEY hardware for enhanced sound.

Despite a brief spell at a traditional preparatory school at the age of seven for one year, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá received no formal education.

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.

Despite exceptions such as usage in The New York Times, the names of sports teams are usually treated as plurals even if the form of the name is singular.

Despite advances in the protection offered by ballistic armour against projectiles, as the name implies, modern ballistic body armour is much less impervious to stabbing weapons unless they are augmented with anti-knife / anti-stab armour ( usually a form of mail ).

Despite the group ’ s eventual break up, one of its members, Seido Kobayashi, went on to form the group Oedo Sukeroku Daiko, which is credited for being the very first professional Taiko group.

Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on, 1924, and then more formally presented in the form of a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Despite the above, the noun form in English (" attendant ") is someone who waits on another, generally with menial tasks and in a temporary fashion, as on an airplane or hotel ; whereas ' assistant ' implies a longer-term, higher level, and often contractual (= employment ), relationship.

Despite not representing characters and licensed properties as intended, companies often view these works as a free form of license recognition and advertising through dedicated fandom.

Despite the fact that Argentina was never the main destination for Irish emigrants it does form part of the Irish diaspora.

Despite wartime restrictions, he was granted British citizenship in 1942 and signed an Official Secrets Act declaration form.

Despite its recognised importance, by the second half of the 19th century nearly all of its clauses had been repealed in their original form.

Despite these differences, English as it is spoken in both Canada and the United States is similar, with the United Empire Loyalists who fled the American Revolution having had a large influence on the early spoken form of Canadian English.

Despite a tendency of American perjury law toward broad prosecutory power under perjury statutes, American perjury law has afforded potential defendants a new form of defense not found in the British Common Law.

Despite the similarity to its American counterpart in that the outcome of the matches remains predetermined, the phenomena are different in the form of the psychology and presentation of the sport ; it is treated as a full contact combat sport as it mixes hard hitting martial arts strikes with shoot style submission holds, while in the U. S. it is rather more regarded as an entertainment show.

Despite ideological differences and holding territorial claims on the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler admired Stalin and his politics and believed that Stalin was in effect transforming Soviet Bolshevism into a form of Nazism.

Despite saving the universe on multiple occasions, he seems unable to gain any respect from society, and works as a " sanitation engineer " ( in one form or another ) throughout the series.

Despite this, Huxley strongly supported Darwin on evolution ; though he called for experiments to show whether natural selection could form new species, and questioned if Darwin's gradualism was sufficient without sudden leaps to cause speciation.

Despite the popularity of the DISCiPLE and + D systems, most software released for them took the form of utility software.

Despite the orthodox bishops ' predominance in CELAM, a more radical form of liberation theology remained much supported in South America.

Despite close links to the American colonies ( and the material aid provided the continental rebels in the form of a hundred barrels of stolen gunpowder ), Bermudian privateers turned as aggressively on American shipping during the American War of Independence.

Despite their diversity of form, crustaceans are united by the special larval form known as the nauplius.

Despite its contrary nature, scalability also may be found in lossless codecs, usually in form of coarse-to-fine pixel scans.

Despite his agony, he comforted Io with the information that she would be restored to human form and become the ancestress of the greatest of all heroes, Heracles ( Hercules ).

Despite the increased cost, the more modern variation ( which can be considered as " heavier " than old streetcar systems, even though it is called " light rail ") is the dominant form of urban rail development in the United States.

Despite the acceptance of Surak's teachings, generations of imperfect copies of his writings, combined with changes in the Vulcan language over time, resulted in a diluted form of the culture he instituted.