Despite this modest initiative, the financial results were excellent, as it stimulated an increase of foreign trade volume among its members from 3. 5 to 8. 2 billion US dollars between 1959 and 1967.

Despite a long history of warfare between Britain and Spain, Vancouver maintained excellent relations with his Spanish counterparts and even feted a Spanish sea captain aboard his ship during his 1792 trip to the Vancouver region.

Despite the limitations of the computation, agreement was excellent.

Despite its excellent performance, the garrison's food supply had been requisitioned for earlier offensives, a relief expedition was stalled by the weather, ethnic rivalries flared up between the defending soldiers and a breakout attempt failed.

Despite its age, it is still considered an excellent commentary on simple but high quality code.

" Despite this excellent reputation, D. W. T. C. Vessey has shown that William was certainly not an impartial observer, especially when dealing with the events of the 1170s and 1180s.

Despite the excellent postnatal prognosis, 99 % of Turner-syndrome conceptions are thought to end in spontaneous abortion or stillbirth, and as many as 15 % of all spontaneous abortions have the X, O karyotype.

Despite its mixed origins, this aircraft had excellent performance and formed the basis for a number of future fighters.

Despite the ISP's excellent anti-virus software, subscribers are frequently targets for virus attacks from outside the country.

Despite this setback, Dr Kik's excellent care continues to improve Virginia's mental state.

Despite having lost some velocity from his fastball, he retained his excellent curveball and his control, and posted an outstanding 19 – 7 record in 2002.

Despite being a poor walleye lake, Long Lake is an excellent northern pike lake.

Despite these problems, Quad could produce excellent images.

Despite the majority of contemporaneous scholars and writers agreeing that Peter was the true author of the Crusade and that its aims became corrupted and violent over time in contrast to the purer and mostly non-violent People's Crusade, most recent scholars such as Jonathan Riley-Smith consider such views as an excellent instance of the legendary amplification of the First Crusade — an amplification which, beginning during the crusade itself, in the " idolizations " of the different camps ( idola castrorum, if one may pervert Bacon ), soon developed into a regular saga.

Despite clearly Western attitudes, Raab established excellent relations with post-Stalin Soviet Union.

Despite their heavy-bodied appearance, groundhogs are accomplished swimmers and excellent tree climbers when escaping predators or when they want to survey their surroundings.

Despite the fact that he was in his forty-ninth year, and Marie Thérèse had barley passed her fourteenth birthday, Monsieur Geoffrin had inherited a substantial fortune from his first wife, and the chance for " an excellent settlement " was thought to be quite suitable by Madame Chemineau.

Despite his excellent academic record it became obvious at Glasgow that he was better suited to business than to university, and when he was sixteen Law left school to become a clerk at Kidston & Sons.

Despite this, Sir Alex Ferguson was full of praise for the striker, who scored three goals in 13 matches in all competitions during his three-month stay, saying, " He's been fantastic for us, his professionalism, his attitude, everything he's done has been excellent.

Despite his excellent critical reputation, his finances continued to remain precarious.

Despite lack of a progressive economy, general lack of government funding for public services such as public transport, and continued unsustainable urban growth, the city has seen sustained growth in its cultural institutions such as art, music, literature, performance, etc., as many contributors to and patrons of the arts relocate to Melbourne amongst excellent independent community support structures such as press and radio and a thriving cultural community.

Despite his excellent form for Yorkshire in 1954, there was no place for Trueman in any of the Test matches against Pakistan, nor was he selected for the tour of Australia and New Zealand the following winter.

Despite this, he was noted as an excellent judge, although one who suffered from an " excess of zeal " in moral issues.

Despite Oxford quickly racing to the top, a collapse in Oxford's form combined with an excellent run for the Daggers saw them overtake Oxford in the league.

Despite the far distance from the city, the transportation network of Tung Chung is excellent.

Despite the solid offensive performance, the bullpen struggled with 23 blown saves ( a Major League worst ), and the Indians finished a disappointing fourth.

Despite a fourth straight All-Star season by Helton and 36 homers by outfielder Preston Wilson, the Rockies finished just 74 – 88.

Despite the British economy then being in recession, he led the Conservatives to a fourth consecutive election victory, winning the most votes in British electoral history ( 14 million ) in the 1992 general election, albeit with a much reduced majority in the House of Commons.

Despite a serious injury which ruled Shearer out for half the season, Dalglish achieved fourth position with the team in the first year of the new Premier League.

Despite Theremin being only in his second academic year, the deanery of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy recommended him to go to the Nikolayevska Military Engineering School in Petrograd ( renamed from Saint Petersburg ), which usually only accepted students in their fourth year.

Despite out-gaining the Saints on offense by nearly a twofold margin, the Vikings were severely hindered by five turnovers, including a Favre interception in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter ( in Saints territory ).

Despite throwing 60 passes and hindered by a lack of depth at running back, last year's Super Bowl MVP wasn't intercepted and rallied the Saints within 34 – 30 in the fourth quarter.

Despite their great defensive effort, the Giants still trailed 13-9 late in the fourth quarter, but a 30-yard run from linebacker Gary Reasons on a fake punt set up kicker Matt Bahr's fourth field goal, cutting their deficit to 13-12.

Despite the more favourable critical response, Cradle of Life suffered a disappointing opening weekend, as it debuted in fourth place with a take of $ 21. 7 million, a 55 % drop from the original's opening gross of $ 47. 7 million.

Despite the late start, Henderson finished fourth in the AL in stolen bases ( 31 ).

Despite a slight drop-off in performance, the Flyers dominated the Patrick Division with what proved to be their fourth straight division title.

Despite being courted by several suitors, Bess remained single for a relatively long time, until 1568, when she married for the fourth time to become Countess of Shrewsbury.

Despite continuing to improve, the Hornets failed to qualify for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season.

Despite this, Columbus managed its best season record to date, staying above a. 500 game wins average until the very last game of the season and finishing fourth in the Central Division with 80 points.

Despite Richie and Eddie seemingly being killed at the end of series three ( something which also happened in the episode " Hole ", only for them to reappear unharmed in the following episode ), a fourth series was written but turned down by the BBC, and several of their live shows as well as Guest House Paradiso have been written and performed since then.

Despite the unpopularity of the Liberals during the dying days of Gladstone's First Government, he became president of the Oxford Union in the Trinity ( summer ) term of his fourth year.

Despite retaining their strong fan base, Living Colour disbanded in January 1995, after failing to settle on a common musical goal during sessions for their fourth studio album.

Despite problems within the band, Suede's fourth album Head Music ( 1999 ) was a British chart-topper.

Despite being backed by their second-highest charting single " Electricity ", Suede's fourth album, Head Music divided both fans and critics, though it once again took the band to number one on the UK Albums Chart.

Despite the show's steady decline, ABC agreed to a fourth season of Mork & Mindy, but executives wanted changes.

Despite falling ill from the apples he finished in fourth place.

Despite being tightly knit, Sook Jai's downward spiral continued as they lost immunity for the fourth consecutive time, and the tribe tearfully sent Erin to the jury, as the first member.

Despite ranking as the second-best team in the West, Nashville seeded fourth in their conference ( divisional winners within the conference take the top three seeds ; Detroit beat the Predators by there points in the Central Division ).

Despite the injury, Oates finished fourth in the NHL with 41 assists in a season disrupted by a work stoppage.