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Despite being a Republican and a self-styled conservative, Evans became known for his administration's liberal policies on environmental protection ( he founded the country's first state-level Department of Ecology, which became Nixon's blueprint for the federal EPA ) and strong support of the state's higher education system, including founding Washington's system of community colleges.
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Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.
Despite being able to crawl on land, many of these prehistoric tetrapodomorph fish still spent most of their time in the water.
Despite being quite religious, he was also interested in mathematics and science, and sometimes is claimed to have contradicted the teachings of the Church in favour of scientific theories.
* 1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels.
Despite being outscored over the season, the Diamondbacks posted the best record in the NL with 90 wins and 72 losses.
Despite being at one time a defender of metaphysical realism, Hilary Putnam later abandoned this view in favor of a position he termed " internal realism ".
Despite being epileptic, Charles achieved respect both as a commander and as a reformer of the Austrian army.
Despite being younger than the other contenders, Ahmad Shah had several overriding factors in his favor.
Despite this, there were also several superstar hitters, the most famous being Honus Wagner, held to be one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game, and Detroit's Ty Cobb, the " Georgia Peach.
Despite being offered the chance to remain as ruler of Bavaria ( under strict terms of an alliance with Austria ), the Elector left his country and family in order to continue the war against the Allies from the Spanish Netherlands where he still held the post of governor-general.
Despite being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.
Despite strenuous efforts, Captain Hood's isolated ship came under heavy fire and was unable to cut off the trailing Justice as the French survivors escaped seawards, Zealous being struck by a number of French shot and losing one man killed.
Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.
Despite fox hunting being banned by the Hunting Act in 2004, Boxing Day remains the biggest hunt of the year for most hunts in the UK by use of scent drag trails instead of live quarry.
Despite being predominantly peaceful in nature, the revolution was not without violent clashes between security forces and protesters, with at least 846 people killed and 6, 000 injured.
Despite being attached to the curse, Colavito said that he never placed a curse on the Indians but that the trade was prompted by a salary dispute with Lane.
Despite being well out of playoff contention the Cubs went 24 – 13 under Quade, the best record in baseball during that 37 game stretch and was hired as manager on October 19.
Despite being extensively hunted, the coyote is one of the few medium-to large-sized animals that has enlarged its range since human encroachment began.
Despite swimming being a part of imperial education, Caligula could not swim.
Despite being a Methodist, he made reference to the Buddha in his diary, and encouraged the establishment of a Buddhist political party under Master Taixu.
" Despite being significantly more advanced than its predecessors, the Armstrong gun was rejected soon after its integration, in favor of the muzzle-loading pieces that had been in use before.
Despite being one of Mather's most well-known works, many have openly criticized it, labeling it as hard to follow and understand, and poorly paced and organized.
Despite its being a non-metric unit, a number of metric countries have used this unit for its limited range of application.
Despite these complaints, Clement is generally not considered a heretic in the Catholic Church, but such concerns about his orthodoxy led to him being removed from the Roman martyrology in 1586, and he is not revered as a saint in contemporary Roman Catholicism.
Despite not being natural persons, corporations are recognized by the law to have rights and responsibilities like natural persons (" people ").
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Despite his inelegant appearance — many in the audience thought him awkward and even ugly — Lincoln demonstrated an intellectual leadership that brought him into the front ranks of the party and into contention for the Republican presidential nomination.
Despite the efforts of groups like the Ku Klux Klan to intimidate black voters and white Republicans, assurance of federal support for democratically elected southern governments meant that most Republican voters could both vote and rule in confidence.
Despite the military defeat suffered by the Republicans and a loss of manpower and weaponry that would severely hamper Republican forces for the rest of the revolution, the battle and defence mounted by the Indonesians galvanised the nation in support of independence and helped garner international attention.
Despite their ill-discipline raising the prospect of anarchy, without pemuda confronting foreign and Indonesian colonial forces, Republican diplomatic efforts would have been futile.
Despite recent Republican dominance at the local office level, Clermont has seen heavy union and non-partisan influence in its politics.
Despite its Democratic heritage, Red River Parish is represented in the Louisiana State Senate by a Republican, Gerald Long, the only member of the Long dynasty not to have been elected to office as a Democrat.
Despite Radical Republican associations, John Dahlgren's younger brother Charles G. Dahlgren ( 1811 – 1888 ) was a strong proponent of slave ownership and was a Confederate Brigadier General, Commander of the 3rd Brigade, Army of Mississippi, which he personally funded.
Despite having recently elected Democratic mayors, Lebanon can be considered to be highly Republican when it comes to national and state politics.
Despite this, there are a number of pockets where the Republican Party often wins marginal majorities.
Despite Hanna's efforts on his behalf, Ohio Senator John Sherman failed to gain the Republican nomination for president in 1884 and 1888.
Despite the poor economic times in Ohio, he remained popular, and spoke across much of the nation for Republican candidates.
Despite the opposition of Illinois ' Republican political machine, Dawes and Hanna were able to secure all but a few of Illinois ' delegates for McKinley, giving the former Ohio governor a strong advantage going into the convention.
Despite Harris's support of many Republican causes and her previous statewide victories, some party leaders expressed doubt about her statewide appeal:
Despite this political similarity, Miller and Cahan differed as to the political orientation of the paper and Cahan left after just 4 months to join the staff of The Commercial Advertiser, a well-established Republican newspaper also based in New York City.
Despite initial success, poor communication between the Soviet Republican armor and Spanish Republican infantry caused the isolation of Captain Arman's force and the subsequent destruction of a number of tanks.
Despite a widespread belief that Vice President Chester A. Arthur was a puppet of the Stalwart factions of the Republican Party, and particularly New York Senator Roscoe Conkling, Garfield's cabinet at least informally discussed scenarios under which Arthur could act as President.
Despite rumors that Carter might pull out an " October Surprise " and get the hostages home before the election, negotiations dragged on for months, even after Republican Ronald Reagan's landslide victory in November.
Despite carrying the South and all the West except California and Oregon, Bryan lost the more populated, industrial North and East — and the election — to the Republican William McKinley with his campaign slogan " A Full Dinner Pail ".
Despite not having the Republican nomination, Lindsay was still on the ballot as the candidate of the New York Liberal Party.
Despite disharmony within the ticket, the worsening of the Great Depression under Republican President Herbert Hoover and Governor Sampson ensured a Democratic victory.
Despite the reelection of incumbent Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, the inexperienced Mikan lost by a close margin of 52 % to 48 %.
Despite a campaign promise to the people of California not to do so, Wilson also unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for President in the 1996 election, making formal announcements on both coasts.
Despite reforms and the Clark administration, a powerful Democratic patronage organization eventually replaced the old Republican one.
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