Despite the polished and complex nature of the Aeneid ( legend stating that Virgil wrote only three lines of the poem each day ), the number of half-complete lines and the abrupt ending are generally seen as evidence that Virgil died before he could finish the work.

Despite party still being secret, Rasulzade managed to found newspaper " Achig Soz "( 1915 – 1918 ), in which Musavat's aims and goals, this time polished and defined in Rasulzade's interpretations, were implicitly advocated.

Despite rising mainstream success, the new pop-oriented direction proved to be too polished and commercial for Michael Aston, who left during the recording of the album and only appears on two songs, leaving Jay Aston as the main songwriter.

Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

Despite wide critical acclaim for its acts and a dedicated fanbase, Jeepster nevertheless found itself financially troubled by 2002, largely due to increasing recording and marketing costs, and difficulty cultivating the images of their acts in the eye of the general public.

Despite marketing claims and popular misconceptions, the Florida resort is not located within Orlando city limits and is actually located about southwest of downtown Orlando within southwestern Orange County, with the remainder in adjacent Osceola County.

Despite the central arguments of Greenberg, Adorno and others, the term " avant-garde " has been co-opted and misapplied by various sectors of the mainstream culture industry since the 1960s, chiefly as a marketing tool to publicise popular music and commercial cinema.

Despite an aggressive marketing campaign directed at U. S. airlines and the USAF, the sales prospects of the Jetliner floundered after the launch customer, Trans-Canada Airlines, reneged on a letter of intent in 1948.

” Despite the settlers ’ intentions, towns failed to develop for two reasons: the generally low level of economic activity in the area and the competition from plantation settlements already providing the kind of marketing and purchasing services typically offered by a town.

Despite the specificity of the name, game engines are often used for other kinds of interactive applications with real-time graphical needs such as marketing demos, architectural visualizations, training simulations, and modeling environments.

Despite the delayed launch, BSB continued to invest heavily in marketing in 1989 to minimize the effects of Sky ’ s timing advantage.

Despite this, the ABL ultimately found the WNBA's stronger financial and marketing resources to be too much to overcome.

" Despite working in marketing, Woodall's love for fashion was not suppressed.

Despite Enix's marketing of Dragon Quest VII in 1999, the game was delayed numerous times and not released until 2000.

Despite UDP Soft lacking the marketing power of GameSpy, ASE's popularity grew swiftly and steadily.

Despite clever marketing, the 126 never achieved the frenzied popularity of the 500.

Despite being the first multiuser database on any PC platform, the first object-based, visual programming tool, and, perhaps, the first relational database on a PC platform, Helix's marketing and ownership problems led it to a life as a niche product on an OS with a small market share.

Despite its ethical claims, the bank does invest substantial amounts from its investment funds in Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco both of which have faced numerous claims of irresponsible marketing to children, and accusations that they provide support to smugglers.

Despite the fact that the indoor tanning industry has been forbidden by the FTC from promoting any health benefits of tanning in its marketing due to a lack of scientific evidence, they still claim that indoor tanning offers a controlled environment to obtain a tan.

Despite the widespread marketing of these devices many case reports exist in which awareness under anesthesia has occurred despite apparently adequate anesthesia as measured by the neurologic monitor.

Despite the cancellation of several MMOs in 2004, Ed Relf, marketing brand manager at Codemasters maintained that the tightly packed MMORPG market was not a reason for the discontinuation.

Despite the series airing on a thematic channel on a satellite network ( Digiturk ) that requires subscription, its popularity among the young generation is increasing steadily thanks to viral marketing and sharing of clips over YouTube and Facebook.

Despite this, the bear appeared roaring on many of the marketing and promotional materials for the club, including the club's official VFL logo.

Despite the hype about ' pre-releasing ' products which did not yet exist, only when the market was sufficiently developed, and a launch was financially justifiable, did IBM commit its marketing resources.

Despite heavy marketing, and many ex-Piccadilly presenters on the new station, Piccadilly 1152 remained Manchester's most popular station, other than sister station Key 103, until the late 1990s when new smaller FM stations in Oldham, Warrington and Bury began to erode away Piccadilly's audience base.

Despite the success of the 787B and its Wankel powerplant, Mazda did not exploit its historic victory through marketing campaigns and advertising.

Despite the " XP " branding, Office XP does not require Windows XP or higher ; rather, " XP " was a marketing term for its era.

Despite this campaign Chaplin was a favourite with the troops, and his popularity continued to grow worldwide.

Despite the successes enjoyed by his troops, Germanicus ' German campaign was in reaction to the mutinous intentions of his troops, and lacked real strategic value.

Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Goebbels ’ most important contribution to the Nazi cause between 1930 and 1933 was as the organizer of successive election campaigns: The Reichstag elections of September 1930, July and November 1932 and March 1933, and Hitler ’ s presidential campaign of March – April 1932.

Despite a platform covering the full range of political subjects, Kemp's primary campaign weapon was a fiscal policy based on tax cuts.

Despite the promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.

Despite friction between the African National Congress and Biko throughout the 1970s the ANC has included Biko in the pantheon of struggle heroes, going as far as using his image for campaign posters in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994.

Despite this, NATO approved a campaign against Afghanistan as self-defense against armed attack.

Despite a large fan campaign, UPN declined to pick up the show.

Despite the fact that McNary had spearheaded a " Stop Willkie " campaign late in the balloting, Willkie selected McNary, who was nominated by acclamation.

Despite running a vigorous campaign against the nation's business elite, Bryan suffered the worst loss in his three presidential campaigns, and Taft won by a comfortable margin.

Despite his brother's interference, John Kennedy was firm that Johnson was who he wanted as running mate and met with staffers such as Larry O ' Brien, his national campaign manager, to say Johnson was to be vice president.

Despite losing a long battle with the Associated Press, called " Rox " by UPI employees, United Press International's legacy was recognized by AP when it made the UPI mantra " get it first but get it right " a cornerstone of a branding campaign launched on ap. org.

Despite the massive amount of world and storyline development, none of the Living Greyhawk storylines or changes to the setting were considered official, since the regional adventure modules were produced by volunteers, and only received a cursory vetting by the campaign administrators of RPGA, and no review by WotC personnel.

Despite the popularity of the Living Greyhawk campaign, Wizards of the Coast did not produce much material for Greyhawk after the 25th anniversary Return to ... series of adventures, other than the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer and The Fright at Tristor.

Despite this military putsch the campaign for the plebiscite was conducted in an atmosphere of political freedom unthinkable in France.

Despite these revelations, Nixon's campaign was never seriously jeopardized, and on November 7, the President was re-elected in one of the biggest landslides in American political history.

Despite the expense of the military and diplomatic campaign that brought Taiwan into the imperial realm, the general sentiment in Beijing was ambivalent.

Despite his brother's interference, John Kennedy was firm that Johnson was who he wanted as running mate ; he met with staffers such as Larry O ' Brien, his national campaign manager, to say Johnson was to be vice president.

Despite this, James continued to retain Black Douglas support allowing him to begin a campaign of political alienation of Albany and his family.

Despite the OAS bombing campaign, the FLN remained resolute in its agreement to the ceasefire and on 17 June 1962 the OAS also began a ceasefire.

Despite the appeal of Bracks, Kennett entered the 1999 election campaign with a seemingly unassailable lead, and most commentators and opinion polls agreed that he would win a third term.

Despite a campaign for its retention for use as a Museum of Cinematography by, among others, Bristol photographer Reece Winstone, Friese-Green's birthplace was demolished by Bristol Corporation in 1958 to provide parking space for six cars.

Despite a scarcity of archaeological evidence, the existence of Moab prior to the rise of the Israelite state has been deduced from a colossal statue erected at Luxor by Pharaoh Ramesses II, in the 13th century BCE, which lists Mu ' ab among a series of nations conquered during a campaign.

Despite this setback, he continued to prepare for the Mt Tantiss campaign, removing Ackbar, his most formidable opponent, via political intrigue.