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Despite and PQ
Despite its social-democratic past, the PQ failed to gain admission into the Socialist International, after the membership application was vetoed by the federal New Democratic Party.

Despite and comeback
Despite this, she was still determined to make a comeback in the fashion industry.
Despite a desperate comeback towards the end of the season, Udinese were relegated to Serie B.
Despite generally bad reviews from critics ( who claimed that the band had " dumbed themselves down " not only lyrically, but musically as well ) it was considered by fans of the band as their " comeback album ", with the title track, " Cyco Vision " and " We Are A Family " becoming fan favorites ( although no singles from the album were released ).
Despite her comeback, she was still battling with addiction in the mid 1980s, at one point breaking her jaw tripping on a flight of stairs while under the influence.
Despite this, he attempted to make a comeback at the end of the season to play in the FA Cup final against Portsmouth and was included in the 18-man match squad.
Despite the Mariners ' subsequent loss to the Cleveland Indians in the American League Championship Series, the late-season comeback and postseason run renewed the public's interest in keeping the team in Seattle.
Despite this Steve Young kept throwing to Owens and he redeemed himself by catching the game-winning touchdown ( immortalized by the impassioned game call of 49ers radio play-by-play announcer Joe Starkey ) for a 30-27 comeback victory.
Despite a horrid 12. 00 ERA in the World Series that year, he was the pitcher of record in the Mets ' dramatic Game 6 comeback victory, getting the win despite giving up the two runs which surrendered the lead to Boston in the top of the 10th inning.
Despite the comeback, Smith was relegated for the second time in his career as Newcastle lost by a single goal to Aston Villa.
Despite his stellar performance, and a late 4th quarter comeback, the Steelers wound up losing the game 24-17.
Despite two reunion comeback albums ( in 1987 and 1990 ), the band could not repeat the early success.
Despite his inconsistency, he scored a number of key goals, including an overtime game winner in a comeback against the Tampa Bay Mutiny in 2000.
Despite the lineup changes, the original lineup recorded the comeback album Doručak kod Trulog ( Breakfast at Rotten's ), featuring nine cover versions of old Film songs, including " Zona sumraka " (" Twilight zone ") with Majke vocalist Goran Bare on lead vocals, and cover of Šarlo Akrobata single " Ona se budi " (" She is waking up "), recorded live in the Zagreb KSET on October 12, 2002.
Despite failing to qualify for the spring Rockingham race, Green won three races and finished second in the points in what was a comeback season for both Green and the team.
Despite these woes, the fans hoped bayamonesa a " comeback ".
Despite several comeback attempts, his elbow troubles kept him out of baseball for five full years.

Despite and Charest
Despite a vigorous challenge from Environment Minister Jean Charest, Campbell emerged victorious from the June leadership election and became Canada's first female prime minister.
Despite the PQ's recovery of support, Charest appeared as a viable alternative for people in desire of change, especially during the Leaders ' Debate.
Despite the nebulous aspect of this preliminary web article, Charest surprised Bernard Landry with it during the leaders ' debate on live television.

Despite and presented
Despite Frankish advances in the years that followed, Alaric was not afraid to take the military initiative when it presented itself.
Despite everything, however, there are some who support both dates and even some who support dates other than the two major possibilities presented.
Despite vocal opposition from Contre-Admiral Armand Blanquet, who insisted that the fleet would be best able to respond in open water, the rest of the captains agreed that anchoring in a line of battle inside the bay presented the strongest tactic for confronting Nelson.
" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.
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 this ruling, a bill to add discrimination based on subculture affiliation to the definition of hate crime in British law was not presented to parliament.
Despite his criticisms of Eysenck's tough-tender axis, Rokeach also postulated a basic similarity between communism and nazism, claiming that these groups would not value freedom as greatly as more conventional social democrats, democratic socialists and capitalists would, and he wrote that " the two value model presented here most resembles Eysenck's hypothesis.
Despite the political campaigns launched in order to put Sardinian on an equal footing with Italian, and any emotive value linked to Sardinian identity, the sociolinguistic situation in Sardinia due to several reasons, mainly political and socioeconomic ( the gradual depopulation of the island's interior and rural exodus towards more urbanized and industrialized areas, the forced use of Italian presented as a prerequisite to get jobs and as one of the keys to social advancement, the barriers to communication between the dialectal varieties etc.
Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by a sexist society, she gained education from books in her father's library and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss.
Despite the allure of a newly lucrative law practice, there was little hesitancy on Garfield's part in deciding to stand for re-election in 1866, due primarily to the urgency presented by Reconstruction.
Despite their drawbacks, Haüy promoted their use with zeal: the books presented a new and handsome system which could be readily comprehended by those with eyesight.
Despite Chamberlain's organisational skills and immense popularity, many Conservatives still mistrusted his Radicalism, and Chamberlain was aware of the difficulties that would be presented by being part of a Liberal Unionist minority leading a Conservative majority.
Despite the film's success at the box office, Harry Warner remained concerned about the economic threat presented by the Edison Trust.
Despite his suspicions, he begins to relax, changing his clothes and taking a shower, after which he is presented with a meal served on a silver platter.
Despite the use of magic or other fantastic elements such as dragons, the world is normally presented as one that would function normally, one in which people could actually live, making economic, historical, and ecological sense.
Despite being initially accepted for presentation, the paper was controversially rejected at the last moment ; but Braid arranged for a series of Conversaziones at which he presented its contents.
Despite great success and appreciation among artists, collectors, and the more generous critics, his many friends considered, nevertheless, that he was officially neglected, and in 1874, a short time before his death, they presented him with a gold medal.
Despite the plan presented to the provisional government by Lieutenant Sigel, the new insurgent government did not go on the offensive.
Despite the circumstantial evidence presented against her, Stephens won an acquittal for the woman.
Despite Stuart's meticulous journal of the trip, which he presented to Astor and President James Madison, and published in France, the location of the South Pass did not become widely known.
Despite these rumours, Konami presented a trailer for a new Suikoden game on Tokyo Game Show 2011: Genso Suikoden: The Woven Web of a Century ( Genso Suikoden Tsumugareshi Hyakunen no Toki ).
They are not of Moorish or Jewish caste or of those recently converted to Our Holy Catholic Faith .” Despite Francisca ’ s race, she was allowed entrance into the Americas in 1601 when a ‘ Decree from His Majesty ’ was presented, it read, “ My presidents and official judges of the Case de Contraction of Seville.
Despite their opposition, however, the Republicans presented no alternative plan.
Despite the similarities The Taking of Ilios is an independent poem, unlike Quintus Smyrnaeus ' Posthomerica which was presented as a continuation of the Iliad.
Observers reported being able to see all the disks presented for at least 10 s, and being able to perceive at least some of the disks after 60 s. Despite a long period of time to enumerate the number of disks presented when the number of disks presented fell outside the subitizing range ( i. e., 5 – 12 disks ), observers made consistent enumeration errors in both the 10 s and 60 s conditions.

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