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Despite Labor holding a majority in the House of Representatives, Kerr appointed the Leader of the Opposition, Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister, conditional on the passage of the Whitlam government's Supply bills through the Senate and the calling of an election for both houses of parliament.
Despite its internal differentiation among the conservative Old Slovenes and the progressive Young Slovenes, the Slovene nationals defended similar programs, calling for a cultural and political autonomy of the Slovene people.
Despite the fact that Manning was unable to attract a majority ( and Parliament was thus unable to sit ), he delayed calling elections until October 2002.
Despite his earlier atheism, Powell became a devout member of the Church of England, thinking in 1949 " that he heard the bells of St Peter's Wolverhampton calling him " while walking to his flat in his ( then future ) constituency.
Despite the trial, the film was still a success, with critics calling it a masterpiece on par with Broken Blossoms and Four Horsemen.
Despite privately calling Cleveland a " coarse-grained man " and a " bully ", Chamberlain gradually favoured Salisbury's pragmatic strategy.
Despite political grandstanding from the Calderón administration calling of an earlier withdrawal, the Navy left Vieques on May 1, 2003, the very same date President Clinton and Governor Rosselló had agreed upon.
" Despite the negative publicity, Afrodisiac became Norwood's most critically acclaimed album to date, with some highlighting the " more consistently mature and challenging " effect of Timbaland on Norwood's music, and others calling it " listenable and emotionally resonant ," comparing it to " Janet Jackson at her best ".
One review written when the series was released on DVD gave it average ratings, commenting that while the show was dubbed into English poorly, it commented positively on the use of characters saying, " Despite his heroic calling as a robot pilot, Akito is remarkably approachable — after all, what could be more down-to-earth than a cook?
Despite the fact that he held no formal degree, employees, friends, and the press respected his scientific accomplishments by calling him Dr. Land.
Despite repeatedly calling Ali out, Foreman was unable to secure a rematch with the champion before he ( Foreman ) abruptly decided to retire after a loss to Jimmy Young in 1977.
Despite this he said little about Home Rule until the passing of the Parliament Act in 1911, calling it the " Home Rule In Disguise Act " and saying it was an attempt to change parliamentary demographics so as to allow Home Rule " through the back door ".
Despite Bartók calling the third section a " recapitulation " it is not a straight repetition of the music from the prima parte, being somewhat varied and simplified.
Despite other claims as to the name " Chicken Dance ", the name had come about because an Austrian tour guide translated " Bird Dance / Dance Little Bird " and other similar names, from German to English by calling it " The Chicken Dance " when Norm Edlebeck's Band appeared in Austria in the fall of 1981.
Despite her relatively low public profile, Aline Chrétien was also recognized as a powerful advisor to her husband ; Maclean's magazine once wrote, " Never mind calling her the power behind the throne — she shares the seat of power ", and columnist Allan Fotheringham later called her the second most powerful political figure in Canada, behind her husband but ahead of any elected Member of Parliament or any staffer in the PMO.
Despite a warning from the judge, Erskine attacked Lord Sandwich calling him " the dark mover behind the scene of iniquity ".
Despite the advantages of giant size, Janet usually preferred to remain the diminutive Wasp, calling on her growth power only in times of extreme emergency.
Despite geographic proximity, these two dialects are very dissimilar, with Kocievian being much closer to Kuyavian, to the point of some scholars calling it a variant of that dialect.
Despite some fans calling for Yates to resign, Cheltenham started the 2011 / 12 season impressively, with a side including new signings Darryl Duffy, Luke Summerfield, and highly-rated England U-21 goalkeeper Jack Butland.
Despite this, the MOC has claimed that it does not care about anyone's opinion outside its Council calling it irrelevant and is determined to forcibly reclaim their property in Montenegro, currently occupied by SOC.
Despite the show's introduction describing Kent as " mild-mannered " and colleagues constantly calling him " timid " and even " spineless ", Clark Kent is mildly assertive and authoritative during situations when he is not Superman.
Despite significant political differences and disagreements between the Thirteen Colonies, tensions occasioned by the harsh Parliamentary response to the 1773 Boston Tea Party prompted the calling of the First Continental Congress, which produced a united response to the Intolerable Acts of 1774.
Despite the fierce fighting as the Japanese laid siege to the island, on April 21, 1942 Moore held a roll call — known as muster in army terms — calling the names of each of the Aggies under his command.
Despite the plot being a source of significant criticism, the majority of academics and musicians agree in calling it a magnum opus, particularly lauding its craftmanship.

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Despite three warnings, no sense of moral urgency impelled him to distinguish his situation, and thus his responsibilities, from Wilson's.
Despite the fact that he was regarded as an outstanding engineer, he seemed to be a very poor administrator, although no one quite knew what was wrong with him.
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 his dissatisfaction with McClellan's failure to reinforce Pope, Lincoln was desperate, and restored him to command of all forces around Washington, to the dismay of all in his cabinet but Seward.
Despite this, Ajax managed to hide in the altar of an unnamed deity where the Greeks, fearing divine retribution should they kill him and destroy the altar, allowed him to live.
Despite the alliance, one of the high-ranking Batavi, Julius Paullus, to give him his Roman name, was executed by Fonteius Capito on a false charge of rebellion.
Despite being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.
Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.
Despite a victory at Alexandria on 31 July 30 BC, more of Mark Antony's men deserted, leaving him with insufficient forces to fight Octavian.
Despite this huge show of force, the battle will be short-lived, for Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation all say that this last desperate attempt to destroy the people and the city of God will end in disaster: " I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed.
Despite this, Caligula relentlessly tormented his uncle: playing practical jokes, charging him enormous sums of money, humiliating him before the Senate, and the like.
Despite these complaints, Clement is generally not considered a heretic in the Catholic Church, but such concerns about his orthodoxy led to him being removed from the Roman martyrology in 1586, and he is not revered as a saint in contemporary Roman Catholicism.
Despite this, Almagro still obtained an important fortune for his services, and the King awarded him in November 1532 the noble title of " Don " and he was assigned a personal coat of arms.
Despite the fact that El Cid's mother's family was aristocratic, in later years the peasants would consider him one of their own.
Despite a chronic shortage of money, he succeeded in learning Greek by an intensive, day-and-night study of three years, continuously begging his friends to send him books and money for teachers in his letters.
Despite Bacon's advice to him, James and the Commons found themselves at odds over royal prerogatives and the king's embarrassing extravagance.
Despite all and as a mark of gratitude the pope appointed him legate at Bologna in 1367, but he died at Viterbo the same year.
Despite these precedents, George V was still very reluctant to accept Scullin's recommendation of Sir Isaac Isaacs, and asked him to consider Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood.
Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.
Despite the thousands of political cartoons and hundreds of illustrative works attributed to him, a measurable amount of Tenniel ’ s fame comes specifically from his work as the illustrator of Alice.
Despite greatly outnumbering Caesar, who only had his Thirteenth Legion with him, Pompey did not intend to fight.

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