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 ").

Despite the prescribed safety of GET requests, in practice their handling by the server is not technically limited in any way.

Despite the controversy, the United Nations proceeded to created a mandate in Kosovo, in which the province technically remained a part of Serbia ( or the FRY as it was then ), but was completely autonomous.

Despite its name, it is technically a fairly standard commercial lager rather than a bitter.

Despite their name, these courts are technically not " District Courts of the United States.

Despite being technically a glen ( the area is in the valley between Cave Hill and Carnmoney Hill ), Glengormley sits at 700 feet above sea level, and is noted for a climate noticeably colder than the adjacent Lagan valley area.

Despite being technically a civilian, she remained as first officer of the Enterprise and the crew continued to refer to her by her High Command rank of Sub-Commander during the mission.

Despite coming from a technically purely human background, Susan has inherited abilities from her adoptive Grandfather through a way that is more than conventional means: Into Death's family, her mother, Ysabell was merely adopted, into Death's family, her father, Mort merely married, but, into Death's family, Susan was conceived and born ; " some things were inherited through more than genetics ... some things were inherited through the soul ... some things were in the bones.

Despite his personal absence from the prisoners ' dock, however, Krupp remained technically still under indictment and liable to prosecution in subsequent proceedings.

Despite being technically a dictator, Lord Vetinari does not exercise the despotic rule that characterised some of his predecessors.

Despite not technically being the correct section of wall where Mazeroski's famous home run cleared, it is often locally referred to as " Mazeroski's Wall.

Despite its name, it was technically not a bank, in that it did not collect deposits from the public, its liabilities being government bonds.

Despite not being technically part of his " costume ", Roy uses his prosthetic right arm only when acting as Arsenal, removing it while going incognito.

Despite that it was technically not under the Japanese Manchurian Army but directly under Imperial General Headquarters to attack Primorsky Krai politically, the division was substantially under Manchuria HQ under the commander's decision.

Despite not being technically related to the Smythe's and Madison's creations, when Spider-Man refits all the Octobots confiscated from Doctor Octopus and kept in the New York Police Precinct to carry an antidote able to reverse the mutations turning all the New York population into Man-Spiders, he humorously renames them his own Spider-Slayers.

Despite being technically barred from owning guns, he carried at least one pistol all his life, and kept a sawed-off shotgun close by.

Despite the fact that New Fist of Fury is technically the " official " sequel ( due to both director Lo Wei and leading actress Nora Miao returning ), many martial arts film fans prefer the first of the Bruce Li sequels over Jackie Chan's sequel.

Despite being severely scaled down, it was still technically impressive, and was very well received by reviewers.

Despite attempts by the Wealden Line Campaign to have the line from through Isfield to reopened to passenger traffic, a July 2008 study concluded that although technically feasible, the line would be " economically unviable ".

Despite several minor battles and skirmishes, in which the Russian army suffered significant losses, the advance could not be stopped by the Polish forces, which were both numerically and technically inferior.

Despite the earlier presentation of Simula as extensible, by 1975, Standish's survey does not seem in practice to have included the newer abstraction-based technologies ( though he used a very general definition of extensibility that technically could have included them ).

Despite being technically an inner-city suburb of Newcastle, Stockton has a country town atmosphere because of its isolation.

Despite it rural setting, for many years Kempston Hardwick was technically part of Kempston town.

Despite the sheer age of the game and the fact that it is both technically and graphically inferior to modern racing simulators, F1GP still has a small community and on-going developments relating to the game.

Despite starting from the rear he managed to finish 8th and 9th respectively, although Terry Labonte is technically credited with the finishes.