Despite his arrogance and " betrayal " of ECW, over time Van Dam became applauded by fans recognizing his athleticism and unique maneuvers.

Despite his open protests and subterraneous counter-mining, war was actually declared against Sweden in 1675, and his subsequent policy seemed so obscure and hazardous to those who did not possess the clue to the perhaps purposely tangled skein, that the numerous enemies whom his arrogance and superciliousness had raised up against him, resolved to destroy him.

Despite the arrogance of words-they rule traditional theatre with an iron fist-not all experience can be translated into a linguistic code ” ( Holmberg 50 ).

Despite the rebuff, the party stayed within the ADOC until April 1991, when its ministerial delegation was ousted by President Guillermo Endara for displaying " disloyalty and arrogance ".

Despite his now-and-then arrogance, the Third Doctor genuinely cared for his companions in a paternal fashion, and even held a thinly veiled but grudging admiration for his nemesis, the Master, and for UNIT's leader, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, with whom he eventually became friends.

Despite claims made by the new Black Panther T ' Challa that they need help, the Elders believe, to the point of arrogance, that they can defend themselves.

Despite his arrogance and stubbornness, when the elephants and gorillas engage in jungle warfare, Moyo plays a big part in helping Tarzan lead the gorillas to victory.

Despite his arrogance however, family means a lot to him and he cares about and would protect his orphaned cousin, Roger.

Despite his failure in politics, Cao Zhi was hailed as one of the representatives of the poetic style of his time, together with his father Cao Cao, his elder brother Cao Pi and several other poets.

Despite initial success on the invasion, Cao Cao's subordinate Zhang Miao rebelled and allowed Lü Bu to take over Cao's base in Yan Province ( present day western Shandong ), forcing Cao to retreat from Xu Province.

Despite this failure, Cao continued to hold on to state power firmly.

Despite Wang Jing's urging for him to dismiss the idea, Cao went to meet Empress Dowager Guo and tell her about his intentions.

Despite his failure on the battlefield, however, Cao Shuang held onto power firmly.

Despite having surrendered to enemy forces at the Battle of Fancheng, Yu Jin was considered by Chen Shou, the Jin Dynasty historian and author of the Records of Three Kingdoms, to be one of the Five Elite Generals of Cao Cao, along with Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Yue Jin, and Zhang He.

Despite his inability, Cao Shuang and his brothers, Cao Xi and Cao Xun wielded great power in Cao Wei, and he was often at conflict with Sima Yi, who had greater influence and support.

Despite his obesity, Cao Zhen was well known for his archery.

Despite Empress Dowager Guo's intentions and Cao Mao's own intelligence, they made very little impact in trying to stem the tide of the Simas ' growing power.

Despite his victory over Lü, who was able to regroup his forces, Cao Xiu was defeated by Wu reinforcements sent by Xu Sheng and Quan Cong.

Despite the fact Ling Cao did not come from an influential family, he had gained the fifth highest rank within the Sun forces via military accomplishment, and became a renowned general the sun family relied upon.

Despite its arid climate, the island is also home to a surprisingly large insect fauna.

Despite the historically connectional structure of Presbyterianism, this issue is, surprisingly, relatively new.

Despite their usual slow movements, European bison are surprisingly agile and can clear three metre wide streams or two metre high fences from a standing start.

Despite the massive loss of natural habitat in Australia over the last 200 years, it is adaptable and capable of living in surprisingly small patches of remnant bush, particularly if it does not have to cross large expanses of cleared land to reach them.

Despite the fact that the far-reaching independence assumptions are often inaccurate, the naive Bayes classifier has several properties that make it surprisingly useful in practice.

Despite their bright plumage, they can be surprisingly difficult to see in their wooded habitats.

Despite evidence that she had made a good income as an actor, surprisingly, McDaniel's final estate was less than $ 10, 000.

Despite this, he is a surprisingly agile and formidable martial artist.

Despite the issues generally associated with developing countries, such as poverty, over-population and food security, there is surprisingly a growing concern for the environmental vitality of Manila Bay.

Despite all that, Zero is a surprisingly knowledgeable coin collector.

Despite the long-time backing of Bears founder George Halas, Steelers founder Art Rooney and, more recently, Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, Philadelphia Eagles owner Jeff Lurie, the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and former commissioner Paul Tagliabue, the NFL ’ s other owners, led, not surprisingly, by the Cardinals, still continue to vote it down ( 30-2 ).

Despite their mutual horror, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre II and Doctor Manhattan all agree to keep quiet about the true nature of the events when the United States surprisingly does enter into a peace accord with the Soviet Union.

Despite his mental instability, Rorschach was described as " tactically brilliant, and unpredictable " by Nite Owl, and possesses surprisingly good detective skills, as displayed when he is able to locate the Comedian's costume in his apartment when the police could not.

Despite living in close proximity, as well as sharing many personal and political connections, but perhaps not surprisingly, the two have not spoken to each other in almost a decade.

Despite appearances, beneath her silver jewelry and heavy eye makeup, Magrat is surprisingly practical.

Despite flowing through an arid region, the Virgin River is home to a surprisingly diverse array of plants and animals.

Despite the fact that he had been absent from it for a decade, and with lingering suspicions that his commitment to Liberalism was less than full, he then became leader of the party in 1945 after Archibald Sinclair surprisingly lost his seat in the electoral debacle of that year that reduced the Liberals to just 12 seats in the House of Commons.

Despite, achieving great prominence already, Čolić continued appearing at the occasional festival such as the Zagreb one in 1976 where surprisingly he finished in fourth place singing " Ti si bila, uvijek bila ".

Despite his excellent form at the time ( where he finished joint Premier League top scorer alongside Michael Owen with 23 goals ), he was surprisingly omitted from England's squad for the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Despite being the club's joint top scorer with 13 goals, including a hat trick against Crystal Palace, Baroš was surprisingly dropped for the League Cup final defeat to Chelsea.

Despite the simplicity of the model, sorting network theory is surprisingly deep and complex.

Despite the fact that the Lexington area receives well over of precipitation annually, the limestone, karst geology of that area means that surprisingly little natural surface water is found in the region.

Despite receiving widespread attention in popular books on dinosaurs, and the usage of a complete mounted skeleton cast in museums throughout the world, Dromaeosaurus is surprisingly poorly known from actual fossils.

Despite the fact that Studebaker's V8 was a heavy engine for its size, the Hawk was, by most accounts, a car with surprisingly good handling, as well as strong straight-line performance.

Despite the fact that he had only four years to develop his art, Gaudier-Brzeska has had a surprisingly strong influence on 20th-century modernist sculpture in England and France.