Despite the change to indirect fire, cannon proved highly effective during World War I, directly or indirectly causing over 75 % of casualties.

Despite causing severe damage to the Royal Air Force's infrastructure and British cities during the subsequent Blitz, it failed to achieve the air superiority Hitler demanded for Operation Sea Lion.

Despite the astronauts ' test pilot experience NASA at first envisioned them as " minor participants " during their flights, causing many conflicts between the astronauts and engineers during the spacecraft's design.

From late 1944 until early 1945, the Japanese launched over 9, 300 of these fire balloons, of which 300 were found or observed in the U. S. Despite the high hopes of their designers, the balloons were ineffective as weapons: causing only six deaths ( from one single incident ) and a small amount of damage.

Despite its ambition, however, Bologna had a poor start to the season, causing the sacking of experienced coach Renzo Ulivieri, replaced by former Internazionale defender Andrea Mandorlini.

Despite the burning chemicals even causing him to burst into flames, Melvin survives, and stumbles home.

Despite being from the Atlantic Ocean, Matawan was the site of three shark attacks on July 12, 1916, in Matawan Creek, causing two deaths.

Despite the large number of munitions and successful hits, the 1, 540 ton IS Sahand did not sink until fire reached her ammunition magazine, causing it to detonate, blowing the frigate to bits.

Despite the amount of care taken in regularly trimming the toenails, they would often in-grow, becoming infected and causing injuries to the toes.

Despite the importance of healthy reefs to Cozumel's tourist trade, a deepwater pier was built in the 1990s for cruise ships to dock, causing damage to the reefs, and it is now a regular stop on cruises in the Caribbean.

Despite not being a model soldier and causing difficulties, he spent only a total of fourteen days in jail.

Despite the title, the bus is not depicted as directly causing the strange events of the field trip as it would be in later books and the television series.

Despite promises to Narcissa to stop driving recklessly, he gets into a near wreck with old Bayard in the car, causing old Bayard to die of a heart attack.

Despite scaring Spider-Man away during a confrontation ( with Rhino ready to impale him ), he is defeated by a symbiote-controlled Spider-Man, when he is accidentally hit at the same time by Shocker and Electro, causing him to pass out while standing, and thrown on top of Electro.

Despite the tacit understanding that recorded history cannot be altered, sometimes Doug and Tony's actions are essential in causing history to unfold as it did, and the lives of individual people could be influenced by the actions of the Time Tunnel time travelers and scientists.

Despite his pleas, she orbs into the house where she meets Patience ( Prue ) and the two touch causing their powers to send them away.

Despite this, he is unabashedly murderous, conniving, and villainous, causing all the inhabitants of the entire jungle to fear him.

Despite the personal freedoms enjoyed by the Proles, the Thought Police always plant agents among them, spreading false rumours and marking down and eliminating any individuals deemed capable of causing trouble.

Despite these strains, it would be Edith, the demanding stepmother, who would save Longworth from a life possibly in a wheelchair or on crutches when Longworth came down with a mild form of polio in one leg, causing its muscles to grow shorter than in the other leg.

Despite this, there are questions on the dangers of this, and calls for testing all video games for causing PSE.

Despite this threat, the bull failed to ensure that Kramer got the support he had hoped for, causing him to retire and to compile his views on witchcraft into his book Malleus Maleficarum, which was published in 1487.

Despite attempting to capture the Avengers with Adhesive X and spreading it over the city, the Avengers find an antidote with the help of Paste-Pot Pete, and give it to the Masters in secret, causing them to accidentally free people, and then the Avengers send most of the members to jail.

Despite instructions not to do so, the crew ( perhaps inadvertently ) photographed Area 51, causing a minor dispute between various government agencies as to whether the photographs showing this secret facility should be released.

Despite defeating Superman in one-on-one battle ( by throwing him out of a ring and causing a disqualification, rather than through physical force ), his lack of a superpower meant he was initially given menial chores around the ship and later kicked out of the Legion for trying to take down Grimbor without back-up.

Despite the strategic predicament of the German Army, it had managed to prevent a collapse of its defenses and had survived the battle and withstood the pressure of the Russia and whilst conducting an invasion of Romania.

Despite the desperation of her predicament, she is confident that this will be another of her happy days.

Despite their predicament, Hunter-Weston ordered the New Zealanders, including the Otago Battalion in reserve, to resume that attack at 17: 30.

Despite God Ginrai's rebirth into Victory Leo, it was a severe blow to Autobot morale and the unstable Victory Leo had to prove himself to the others ( similar to the predicament the Dinobots once faced ).

Despite this, Sue was an upbeat, cheerful girl who never complained or despaired over her predicament.

Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.

Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.

Despite the recent modest and stable growth, Djibouti is faced with many economic challenges, particularly job creation and poverty reduction.

Despite the initial success, the Olympic Movement faced hard times, as the 1900 ( in De Coubertin's own Paris ) and 1904 Games were both swallowed by World's Fairs, and received little attention.

Despite this legal framework, Évolués still faced substantial discrimination in Africa and the Metropole alike.

Despite the transcontinental success and millions in government subsidies, the Union Pacific faced bankruptcy less than three years after the golden spike as details surfaced about overcharges Crédit Mobilier had billed Union Pacific for the formal building of the railroad.

Despite this the region is still faced with a deficit in rainfall, particularly in the eastern part of the province ( around Słupcy, Kazimierz Biskupi, Kleczew ) where sometimes experience only 450 mm of rainfall per year, this threatens steppization of the region.

Despite the economic difficulties faced by the First Wilson Government, it succeeded in maintaining low levels of unemployment and inflation during its time in office.

Despite its progress, there are still many fundamental problems faced by this field as " unlike medicine, evaluation is not a discipline that has been developed by practicing professionals over thousands of years, so we are not yet at the stage where we have huge encyclopaedias that will walk us through any evaluation step-by-step ", or provide a clear definition of what evaluation entails ( Davidson, 2005 ).

Despite his landslide victory, Louis-Napoléon was faced with a Parliament dominated by monarchists, who saw his government only as a temporary bridge to a restoration of either the House of Bourbon or of Orléans.

Despite this statement the party is made of several former politicians, who had run Poland before, as well as including ex-members of SLD who left the party when it faced a corruption crisis.

Despite this Harris managed to navigate the delicate situation which faced the left wing press and to keep the Pearson's functioning and solvent during the war years.

Despite his statement opposing the sanctions a month earlier, administrator Mark Fry warned that the club now faced imminent bankruptcy unless a buyer was found.

Despite claiming he thought the concert was sponsored by UNICEF, he faced criticism in the press for receiving a payment of between one and two million pounds from Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, for the performance.

Despite its good reviews, Bugsy faced criticism over its portrayal of Siegel.

Despite a measure of popular support, his rule faced daunting challenges right from the start.

Despite their loyalty, the ethnic group faced economic and political adversity at hands of the white population during times of economic hardship for whites.

Despite having the largest concentration of Allied army forces, Bradley faced difficulties in prosecuting a successful broad-front offensive in difficult country with a skilled enemy.

Despite the changes, many Gurkhas who had not served long enough to entitle them to a pension faced hardship on their return to Nepal, and some critics derided the Government's decision to only award the new pension and citizenship entitlement to those joining after 1 July 1997, claiming that this left many ex-Gurkha servicemen still facing a financially uncertain retirement.

Despite the injury, Mysterio faced Edge for the title again at No Way Out.

Despite leading 11-8 at the half, the Roughriders faced a ten-point deficit in the fourth quarter.

Despite the grave problems which the Nauruan authorities faced in the early 21st Century, the years under the Presidency of Ludwig Scotty saw some measure of stability return to the island Republic, albeit constrained by austerity measures.

" Despite the introduction of the death penalty, many gay Iraqis say they rarely faced overt persecution during Saddam's time.

Despite this, his offensives were very successful, breaking every army that faced his own.