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 this impairment to his bowling shoulder, his team played with an aggressive strategy leading them to lose only one Test match and no other matches during the tour, honouring his pre-series pledge.

Despite aggressive pressure by Truman's aides to avoid forcing the issue on the Convention floor, Humphrey chose to speak on behalf of the minority plank.

Despite their often fearsome appearance they are not normally aggressive to humans.

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 RIAA's aggressive tactics, online file-swapping has continued to grow.

Despite this relative stubbornness, it is quite unusual for the Great Pyrenees to become aggressive or turn on its master.

" Despite being trained to be aggressive towards fellow dogs they had to be of good temperament with people as the handler would have to bring the dog back to scratch for each round.

Despite their small size, they are aggressive and fearless, and will attack much larger species if their nest or young are threatened.

Despite aggressive treatment, his condition gradually worsened, and seven weeks after the release of the remake of The Unholy Three, he died of a throat hemorrhage.

Despite some further missteps, including wearing a gaudy secondhand tuxedo to court and sleeping through Trotter's opening statement, Vinny shows that he can make up for his ignorance and inexperience with an aggressive, perceptive questioning style.

Despite Iorga's ambition of fusing research and pedagogy, his students, both rivals and friends, often noted that he was inferior to other colleagues when it came to teaching, in particular in directing advanced classes — his popularity, it was claimed, dropped with time, after the aging Iorga became aggressive toward some of his students.

Despite this boom, Baldwin faced many challenges including the constraints of space in the Philadelphia facility, inflation, increased labor costs, the substantial increase in the size of the locomotives being manufactured, labor tensions, and the formation of the American Locomotive Company, an aggressive competitor which eventually became known simply as ( ALCO ).

Despite the title of the memo, in response to aggressive questioning from Richard Ben-Veniste – a Democratic member of the 9 / 11 Commission – Rice stated that the document " did not warn of attacks inside the United States.

Despite being disturbed at the idea of Frasier or Niles being homosexual, he is willing to accept it, and even pretends to be homosexual once to avoid an aggressive woman.

Despite his aggressive nature and excessive gambling, the guardian of the friary saw a better side to his nature, and continually tried to bring that out in him.

Despite having injured his left wrist in training, Urquidez proceeded with the bout and narrowly dominated his equally aggressive opponent with kicking attacks.

" Despite his aggressive style, Brown has not missed a game due to injury in four seasons.

Despite a possible decrease in its ability to assemble and supply large armies, Rome maintained an aggressive and potent stance against perceived threats almost to the end of the fourth century.

Despite their aggressive nature and history, The Drakulians are also masters of diplomacy ( although the practice of Diplomacy was forbidden as heresy as recently as 200 Spans ago and has only lately come into use ), and will in most cases employ reason before arms.

Despite Hotze's aggressive harassment of the French retreat, Charles did not follow up on the withdrawal ; Masséna established himself on the opposite bank of the Limmat without threat of pursuit from the main body of the Austrian Army, much to the annoyance of the Russian liaison officer, Alexander Ivanovich, Count Ostermann-Tolstoy.

Despite their local infiltrative and aggressive behavior, mortality is minimal to nonexistent for peripheral tumours.

Despite being seen frequently in the aquarium trade, it is a very aggressive fish and not suitable for community aquarium tanks.

Despite the extensive evidence presented by the prosecution that showed that the company had been deeply involved in Germany's rearmament after World War I from the onset, the tribunal rejected the charges for preparing an aggressive war and for conspiration to that end.

Despite his astuteness in dealings with matters at home, Osorkon II was forced to be more aggressive on the international scene.

Despite Methadone's much longer duration of action compared to either heroin and other shorter-acting agonists, and the need for repeat doses of the antagonist naloxone, it is still used for overdose therapy.

Despite some of these findings, some researchers question whether TMD therapy can reduce symptoms in the ear, and there is currently an ongoing debate to settle the controversy.

" And in a June 2009 article published in the Journal of ECT, Iranian researchers observe that, " Despite the wide consensus over the safety and efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT ), it still faces negative publicity and unfavorable attitudes of patients and families.

Despite drug therapy to help her condition, the disease progressed for about eight years.

Despite these difficulties, fMRI has been used clinically to map functional areas, check left-right hemispherical asymmetry in language and memory regions, check the neural correlates of a seizure, study how the brain recovers partially from a stroke, test how well a drug or behavioral therapy works, detect the onset of Alzheimer's, and note the presence of disorders like depression.

Despite treatment with chemotherapy, radiation therapy or sometimes surgery, the disease carries a poor prognosis.

Despite the work of Masters and Johnson the field in the US was quickly overrun by ethusiastic rather than systematic approaches, blurring the space between ' enrichment ' and therapy.

Despite being used for over 50 years to treat respiratory distress syndrome, glucocorticosteroid therapy is still controversial.

Despite her participation in therapy, in September 1982 her condition deteriorated, and Carpenter called her psychotherapist to tell him she felt dizzy and that her heart was beating irregularly.

Despite several failed attempts by both Melfi and Tony to end their therapy sessions, a dinner party Melfi attends with colleagues, during the penultimate episode of the series (" The Blue Comet "), breaks the balance.

Despite research dead ends, the horror of watching their son's health decline, and being surrounded by skeptics ( including the coordinators of the support group they attended ), they persisted until they finally hit upon a therapy involving adding a certain kind of oil ( actually containing two specific long chain fatty acids, isolated from rapeseed oil and olive oil ) to their son's diet.

Despite lack of clinical verification, colored light therapy, or chromatotherapy, has been said to treat various conditions, such as sleep disorders, diabetes, allergies, high blood pressure, and heart and lung problems.

Despite huge advances in emergency therapy, antivenom is often still the only effective treatment for envenomation.

Despite that it probably would not happen in the near future, some expect that stem-cell therapy will result.

Despite the biblical prohibition on sexual relations between half-brothers and sisters, () Amnon had an overwhelming desire for her.

Despite her continuing production and accolades, however, Beaux was working against the current of tastes and trends in art.

Despite her active participation in urging social change and working as a caseworker, Hall's mother says Camilla became dissatisfied with her work.

Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.

Despite the efforts of his successor Emperor Yohannes IV to establish a relationship with the United Kingdom, Ethiopia was ignored by the world powers until the opening of the Suez Canal, and more important, the Mahdist War, drew outside attention to her once more.

Despite Guy Montag's attempts to break her from the spell society has on her, Mildred continues to be shallow and indifferent.

Despite her family ’ s vehement disapproval, she eloped with Urbano in 1917 to live at his parents ' home in Gambettola.

Despite her private religion, she did not attempt to reimpose Catholicism on her largely Protestant subjects, thus angering the chief Catholic nobles.

Despite widespread condemnation of her scholarship some minor aspects of her work continued to have supporters.

Despite the age gap the two had a close relationship until her suicide in 1987.

Despite her rejection of religion, she continued to maintain a personal belief in a God of some sort, relating in her autobiography that she believed in " an unseen over-ruling Power ," " which science calls Nature and religion calls God.

Despite the fact that her family had close links to the Church of Ireland, her marriage to a Protestant student caused a rift with her parents, who did not attend her wedding.

Despite her many attempts, Mei is unable to show her family Totoro's tree.

Despite the controversy, many designers who allowed her to borrow clothing noted that the arrangement was good for their businesses as well as for the American fashion industry overall.

Despite the promise to spare his family, Bukharin's wife, Anna Larina, was sent to a labor camp, but she survived to see her husband officially rehabilitated by the Soviet state under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988.

Despite being friends with Margaret, she has driven Margaret mad a few times, notably in " Only a Story ", when she moved in with the Meldrews after her flat had been flooded and drove Margaret to the point of distraction with her complaining and laziness.