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Despite and column
Despite Van Buren's defeat, Johnson was instrumental in keeping Greene County in the Democratic column.
Despite their use of a Gatling gun, a flying column of Canadian militia and army regulars, government forces were defeated.
Despite devastating flanking fire the Allied column, made up of British and Hanoverian infantry, burst through the French lines to the point of victory.
Despite numerous earthquakes in the past, the column today leans at an angle of less than half a degree.
Despite the personal flavor of the piece -- with Couric saying how she still remembered receiving her first library card -- it was later determined that a producer had written the commentary instead of Couric, and that she had plagiarized from Zaslow's column.
Despite the name, the hardness of the water can be easily removed using a water softener, or ion exchange column.
Despite aesthetic differences, the approximate height of the base, column, and capital units of the colonnade was five meters, a height which contributed to the spaciousness of the porticoes.
Despite her similar protests upon her return, the Graysons find various inventive reasons to avoid renaming it, or for removing the 4 meter tall heroic statue sitting atop an 8 meter column depicting her martyred self outside the main entrance to Grayson's Parliament building –— much to her embarrassment.
Despite the name, his column " With Malice Towards One and All " regularly contains secular exhortations and messages of peace.
Despite the classical column concept, the building's design was deliberately modern, featuring none of the neoclassical style that Sullivan held in contempt.
Despite the victory, the remaining royalist forces could not be pursued as the column led by Justo Bermúdez had moved further than calculated for.

Despite and formation
Despite the fact that numerous fossils have been found in the contemporary parts of the formation in Canada, no pterosaur specimens have ever been found there.
Despite this consensus on likely chemical, thermal and compositional conditions required to promote pegmatite growth there are three main theories behind pegmatite formation ;
Despite the prevalence of the quintet formation and the ABABC compositional structure, Piazzolla consistently experimented with other musical forms and instrumental combinations.
Despite the fact that this event took place in the series Star Trek: Enterprise, before the formation of both the Federation and the Prime Directive, it reflects the views of space-faring humans and their allies in the years leading up to the creation of the Federation ( ENT episode " Dear Doctor ").
Several silanones have been studied in argon matrices and in the gas phase, but they are highly reactive .< ref > Despite their reactivity, silanones are important as intermediates in gas-phase processes such as chemical vapor deposition in microelectronics production, in the formation of ceramics by combustion ,< ref > and in astrochemistry.
Despite having warned of the difficulty of provisioning Britain for a long war, he was blamed for the shortage of shells in the spring of 1915 – one of the events leading to the formation of a coalition government – and stripped of his control over munitions and strategy.
Despite the secession of the Southern states and the formation of the Confederate States of America, Breckinridge remained in the Senate until he felt threatened by the military government of his state and fled Washington to the Confederacy on October 2, 1861.
Despite its ad-hoc formation, the Americal Division fought well at Guadalcanal.
Despite the formation of the Council of Ministers, the question as to the form of permanent Government and of the person of its ruler was constantly under discussion in the Coffee houses, in the tents of the Sheikhs, or wherever Iraqis met in social and political gatherings.
Despite the formation of new coalitions against him, Napoleon ’ s forces continued to conquer much of Europe.
Despite a tactical victory of French armies against the League at the battle of Fornovo, the formation of the League to his rear forced Charles to withdraw to France, Fornovo itself being merely a successful fighting withdrawal.
Despite the fact that such objects are permitted theoretically, they are not taken as seriously as black holes by physicists, since there would be no processes that would naturally lead to their formation, they could only exist if they were built into the initial conditions of the Big Bang.
Despite the formation being a parachute brigade, the only way to transport the anti-tank guns and the jeeps required to pull them when they had landed, was by glider.
Despite the lack of enthusiasm among most Brazilians for adopting a republican form of government, on 15 November 1889, after a 58-year reign, the Emperor was overthrown in a sudden coup d ' état that had almost no support outside a clique of military leaders whose goal was the formation of a republic headed by a dictator.
Despite never achieving major success, 45 Grave are recognized as being one of the first American gothic bands, predating the formation of Christian Death.
Despite the explicit rejection of Socialism, in the more Catholic countries of Europe the encyclical's teaching was the inspiration that led to the formation of new Christian democratic parties.
Despite further protests from the Indonesian President, Sukarno, the formation of Malaysia was proclaimed on September 16, 1963.
Despite this boom, Baldwin faced many challenges including the constraints of space in the Philadelphia facility, inflation, increased labor costs, the substantial increase in the size of the locomotives being manufactured, labor tensions, and the formation of the American Locomotive Company, an aggressive competitor which eventually became known simply as ( ALCO ).
Despite considerable disagreements, especially between the Khmer Rouge and the KPNLF-Son Sann remaining firmly opposed to any agreement whatsoever-this resulted in the formation of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea subsequent to the signing of an agreement in Kuala Lumpur in June 1982.
Despite these efforts, PUTERA-AMCJA failed to overturn the decision to adopt the Constitional Proposals which led to the formation of the Federation of Malaya on January 31, 1948.
Despite its strong showing, the PCRM was left in opposition due to the formation of a center-right coalition government, Alliance for Democracy and Reforms.
Despite its early formation, the New Brunswick CCF was slow at establishing itself on the provincial political scene.
Despite this excess bone formation, people with osteopetrosis tend to have bones that are more brittle than normal.
Despite an expected tendency for premature termination codons to yield shortened polypeptide products, in fact the formation of truncated proteins does not occur often in vivo.

Despite and French
Despite the lack of formal secondary and tertiary level education, Nobel gained proficiency in six languages: Swedish, French, Russian, English, German and Italian.
Despite heavy casualties the Prussians attempted to storm the great battery, whilst the Danes, under Count Scholten, attempted to drive the French infantry out of the copses beyond the village.
Despite pleas from Nelson and Hamilton, King Ferdinand of Naples refused to lend his frigates to the British fleet, fearing French reprisals.
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 his unconventional portrayal of the ascendant bourgeoisie, early support came from patrons in the French aristocracy, including Louis XV.
Despite the drawbacks, sustained artillery fire proved deadly during the engagement, especially during the French cavalry attack.
Despite being deprived of his French troops after the conquest of those two cities, Borgia returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph and to receive the title of Papal Gonfalonier from his father.
Despite these improvements, a second invasion by the former Katangan gendarmerie, known as Shaba II in May – June 1978, was only dispersed with the despatch of the French 2e régiment étranger de parachutistes and a battalion of the Belgian Paracommando Regiment.
Despite the success of the expedition, the quelling of sporadic rebellions would take another eight years until 1905, when the island was completely pacified by the French under Joseph Gallieni.
Despite its modest critical and commercial success in Italy, and its warm reception by French critics, it failed to interest North American distributors.
Despite this preference for Anglophone works, he also read a number of French novels, such as General Dourakine, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later.
Despite the modern view that longbows had trouble penetrating high-quality plate armour after about 1350, as late as 1415 the hail of arrows created by massed ranks of thousands of longbowmen helped to win the battle against plate-armoured French knights at Agincourt.
Despite several brief interludes of British occupation, including once during the Seven Years ' War and twice during the Napoleonic Wars, Martinique has remained a French possession.
Despite French and Moroccan military aid, Polisario raids against the Zouerate railway and mines threatened to bring about economic collapse, and there were deep misgivings in the military about the Saharan adventure.
Despite the only French naval victory ( during the Napoleonic Wars ) of Battle of Grand Port on 19 and 20 August 1810 by a fleet commanded by Pierre Bouvet, Mauritius was captured on 3 December 1810 by the British under Commodore Josias Rowley.
Despite the weakness of its authority, the Alaouite dynasty distinguished itself in the 18th and 19th centuries by maintaining Morocco's independence while other states in the region succumbed to Turkish, French, or British domination.
Despite the occasional recurrence of a border conflict over Lete Island in the Niger River, Benin and Niger, both former French subjects of French West Africa, relations are close.
Despite his foreign origin, Lully established an Academy of Music and monopolised French opera from 1672.
Despite this, Trudeau found himself an outsider – a French Catholic living for the first time outside of Quebec in the predominantly Protestant American Harvard University .< This isolation deepened finally into despair, and led to his decision to continue his Harvard studies abroad.
Despite this alliance between the Plantagenets and the Capetians, the dynasty on the French throne, the two houses were sometimes in conflict.
Despite this, numerous important individual poems appeared in the years 1923 – 1926 ( including Gong and Mausoleum ), as well as the abundant lyrical work in French.
Despite French attempts to maintain control by encouraging sectarian divisions and isolating urban and rural areas, the revolt spread from the countryside and united Syrian Druze, Sunnis, Shiites, Allawis, and Christians.
Despite its initial focus on the elites, the Union was successful in raising funds from across French society.

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