Despite selling off all of those farms that were at Ballynally, " there was barely enough to keep up New Park and pay for the blasted summer holiday " ( i. e., at New Park ).

Despite his favorable comments on the Grecian scenery, he criticized the graphics for its small, bicolored and barely animated sprites, its black backgrounds, and the absence of multiple scrolling layers.

Despite his great power and prestige, the Dagda is sometimes depicted as oafish and crude, even comical, wearing a short, rough tunic that barely covers his rump, dragging his great penis on the ground.

Despite the vast size of its coma, Halley's nucleus is relatively small: barely 15 kilometers long, 8 kilometers wide and perhaps 8 kilometers thick.

Despite this, with the increase in the size and importance of the reredos, most altars were built against the wall or barely separated from it.

Despite barely missing the playoffs and receiving the least chance of gaining the top draft pick with only one ball in the lottery, the Magic won the first pick in the 1993 NBA Draft Lottery.

Despite the films romantic subject, Holden and Jones could barely stand each other on set.

Despite of new retail space, the population of Pineville in 2000 ( 3, 449 ), was barely greater than it was in 1990 ( 2, 970 ).

Despite the Emperor's ambitions for him, Gregory, then barely twenty years old, withdrew to Mount Athos in the year 1316 and became a novice there in the Vatopedi monastery under the guidance of the monastic Elder St Nicodemos of Vatopedi.

Despite the corrective surgery to his mouth in 1882, Merrick's speech remained barely intelligible.

Despite being barely a village back then, King Harald Fairhair lived at Avaldsnes, very close to the modern town of Haugesund.

Despite this, the 1987 team barely missed the playoffs.

Despite being barely twenty years of age and in love with Mlle du Vigean ( Marthe Poussard, called mademoiselle du Vigean, daughter of the king's gentleman of the bedchamber François Poussard, marquis de Fors and baron du Vigean, by his wife Anne de Neubourg, daughter of Roland, sieur de Sercelles ), he was compelled by his father to marry his fiancée, a child of thirteen.

Despite providing an exciting climax to the season, the race wasn't successful from the hosts ' standpoint, as the promoters barely broke even ; when prize money checks bounced, Charles Moran and Briggs Cunningham paid the money to save face for their country.

Despite reaching the championship game, the team's attendance fell again, to a barely sustainable 17, 509.

Despite a language barrier between the two artists ( Noguchi barely spoke French, and Brâncuşi did not speak English ), Noguchi was taken in as Brâncuşi's assistant for the next seven months.

Despite this, the season was unsuccessful for Killebrew, whose batting average barely passed. 200 most of the year ; after a strong start, he hit below. 200 in both May and June and his average stood at. 204 with 13 home runs going into the all-star break.

Despite his brother's promotion to yokozuna that year, creating the first ever sibling grand champions, the two were barely on speaking terms.

However, according to Crosby biographer Edith Blumhofer: " Despite her education, her handwriting was barely legible, and on legal documents she signed her name with an X witnessed by friends ".

Despite spending over $ 800, 000 from his vast warchest collected as Speaker, for a job that paid barely $ 45, 000, Householder won the election by fewer than 270 votes.

Despite lasting for a full month, John barely affected land at all, bringing only minimal effects to the Hawaiian islands and a United States military base on Johnston Atoll.

Despite the essentially elaborate scope of the plot revealed in the novel's conclusion ( i. e. the eventual emergence of cloning as a replacement for the sexual reproduction of the human race ), the narrative focuses almost exclusively on the bleak and unrewarding day-to-day lives of the protagonists ; two half-brothers who barely know each other.

Despite a widespread belief that the team would barely win enough to stay in the J1, the team won four games in a row since its opening game and managed to finish at the 7th spot.

Despite running only 80 minutes ( barely more than a third of the 1959 version's running time ), it introduced the story to a whole new generation.

Despite Berlioz not understanding spoken English and Harriet not knowing any French, on 3 October 1833, they married in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy with Liszt as one of the witnesses.

Despite knowing three of the five kings who reigned during his lifetime, there is no evidence that he was knighted.

Despite knowing the correct film, Stempel gives the wrong answer, allowing Van Doren to get a question he previously answered while in Enright's offices ; he provides the winning response.

Despite not knowing English, he is by far the most competent employee of Sebben & Sebben.

Despite being aware of the fact that he could not divulge the content of the conversation to her, without losing his life, Kaikeyi's mother insisted on knowing the cause of the King's mirth.

Despite having seen few operas and not knowing how to read music, he began stage-directing them in the 1970s and has since become one of the world's leading opera directors with several classic productions to his credit.

Despite knowing of the Māori predilection for killing and eating the conquered, and despite the admonition by some of the elder chiefs that the principle of Nunuku was not appropriate now, two chiefs — Tapata and Torea — declared that " the law of Nunuku was not a strategy for survival, to be varied as conditions changed ; it was a moral imperative.

Despite knowing that Bird had a year of college eligibility remaining, he drafted Bird in the 1978 NBA Draft and waited for a year until the future Hall-of-Fame forward Bird finally arrived, finally setting aside his team salary rules when it became clear that he would have to either pay Bird a huge rookie salary or watch him simply re-enter the 1980 draft.

Despite knowing that Taylor's season was over in Week 3 of 2001, Jaguars coach Tom Coughlin listed him on the injury report as " questionable " every game for the remainder of the season, further fueling the doubts of Taylor's toughness in the minds of fans.

Despite his misgivings about its defensibility, Johnston agreed to advice from Beauregard that he should reinforce Fort Donelson with another 12, 000 men, knowing that a defeat there would mean the inevitable loss of Middle Tennessee and the vital manufacturing and arsenal city of Nashville.

Despite not knowing that the Queen has two birthdays, Bez still managed to win.

Despite Paige wanting to pull out of the show, her mother insisted that she should continue until her contract had finished, and Paige's sister, Marion Billings, admitted, " That was very hard for Elaine, having to go on stage night after night knowing she wanted to be with Mum ".

Despite knowing about the narrator and interacting with same, at no time does the Hooded Claw / Sneekly acknowledge that he and all the people of his world are merely characters in a scripted film.

Despite her apparent lack of common sense and intelligence, she has a few surprises up her sleeve — such as occasionally knowing certain " smart " things, which usually tends to surprise everyone else.

Despite knowing that it could lead to permanent catatonia, Luke decides to go ahead with the treatment as all of Laura's children desperately need her.

Despite knowing this, Fitch agrees to pay Marlee to be certain of the verdict.

Despite it being only the 2nd race of the season Piquet tried to persuade officials to allow him to compete knowing any lost points could lose him the championship ( which he ultimately won ).

Despite knowing the truth of Dawn's origins, Joyce still loves her, realizing that she is an innocent who belongs in the Summers family.

Despite not knowing English, Gracie accepted the offer and moved to California.

Despite knowing exactly who and what Chrono is, she doesn't seem the least bit afraid of him and trusts him indefinitely as her partner.

Despite protests from Tucker ( who admits to a knowing T ' Les that he is in love with T ' Pol ), T ' Pol reluctantly agrees to marry Koss.

' Despite knowing from the start who was responsible the Israeli Army dynamited 15 buildings in Beita.

Despite knowing that Lightborn is there to kill him, Edward asks him to stay by his side.

Despite Doc's insistence on not knowing details of the future, a note Marty leaves in his pocket in the past saves him from being killed by the terrorists.