Despite conceding a 71 first innings lead, Tendulkar struck 155 in India's second innings, as India won by 169 runs.

Despite conceding 21 points per frame, Spencer did not even drop a frame until the final.

Despite not having a star-studded line-up, the Greek team won the championship, conceding no goals in the knockout stage.

Despite these hardships Palestine finished group play at the 2012 AFC Challenge Cup without conceding a goal after 2-0 wins over Nepal and Maldives along with a 0-0 draw against Turkmenistan.

Despite his ineffectiveness against South Africa, Kartik was retained in the ODI squad, but after conceding 64 runs from nine overs in the first ODI loss against Pakistan, he was replaced in early-2006 in the Test and ODI squad by 17-year-old legspinner Piyush Chawla and off-spinner Ramesh Powar respectively.

Despite Mancini being a striker during his playing career, Mancini places great emphasis on building from the back, stressing the importance of not conceding a goal means the team will always have an opportunity to win, going as far to say, " I like 1 – 0 wins.

Despite repeated attempts by Cynthia to assure him otherwise, he is firm before finally conceding " are you sure?

" Despite Holt later conceding to being a Ratt fan himself ( along with guitarist Lee Altus ), he still criticized the image-driven mentality of glam metal, and described Exodus and other thrash metal bands as being more " based on musicianship, chops, songwriting and performance ".

Despite a convincing 2-0 win over Fort Wayne Fever in their second fixture, the Internationals lost four and tied two of their next six ( including conceding a 90th minute goal in a 3-2 loss to the Michigan Bucks ) and were struggling to catch up with the league leaders half-way through the year.

Despite conceding two goals, he made some impressive saves and in doing so kept the score down to 2 – 0.

Despite the Spiders ' second half run, the Beaneaters swept the series, five games to none.

Despite only five appearances throughout the entire show, Vicious is arguably the series ' main antagonist, or at any rate the only recurring one.

Despite recent gains, 40 % of the population lives below the poverty line, more than double the rate five years ago.

Despite the popularization of these five events, there is no fine line separating them from other extinction events ; indeed, using different methods of calculating an extinction's impact can lead to other events featuring in the top five.

Despite those efforts, he failed to gain control over Hungary and Bohemia in the Bohemian War ( 1468-1478 ) and was even defeated in the Austrian-Hungarian War ( 1477-1488 ) by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in 1485, who managed to maintain residence in Vienna until his death five years later ( see Siege of Vienna ( 1485 )).

Despite playing in five losing Grand Finals, four between 1989 – 1995, its fans waited 44 years until it won another premiership — an AFL-record 119-point victory in the 2007 AFL Grand Final.

Despite their simple construction, the tentacles of hydras are extraordinarily extensible and can be four to five times the length of the body.

Despite the good news off the field, and winning four out of five games to start the season, the Wizards just missed out on a playoff berth with a loss to the New York Red Bulls on the final day, finishing with a 10 – 14 – 8 record.

Despite issuing orders that the 60 million francs were to be spent on the construction of five new canals in France, Bonaparte spent the whole amount on his planned invasion of the United Kingdom.

Despite a strong push in the middle of the 2007 season, winning five straight games, the Vikings lost their final two games to finish the season at 8 – 8, missing the playoffs.

Despite out-gaining the Saints on offense by nearly a twofold margin, the Vikings were severely hindered by five turnovers, including a Favre interception in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter ( in Saints territory ).

Despite having completely dropped out of the public eye for five years after the gold-selling Test for Echo ( which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 ) and the band being relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the U. S., Vapor Trails reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release in 2002 with 108, 000 albums sold.

Despite Gorbachev's attempts to discourage Russia's electorate from voting for him, Yeltsin was popularly elected as president, handily defeating five other candidates with more than 57 percent of the vote.

Despite his inability to contribute with either bat or ball in England, Benaud was the only bowler selected for all five Tests of the 1954-55 series when England visited Australia.

Despite the complexity of making the map, Beck was paid just five guineas for the work.

Despite the controversy, five years after the premiere Paul McCullough of Take One observed that Night of the Living Dead was the " most profitable horror film ever [...] produced outside the walls of a major studio ".

Despite the UNIP boycott, the elections took place peacefully, and five presidential and more than 600 parliamentary candidates from 11 parties participated.

Despite the departure of Stevie Nicks, Christine remained loyal to Mick Fleetwood and her former husband, recording five songs for the band's 1995 effort Time.

Despite this, the Labour government remained in power for the full five year term.

Despite a final victory against Napoleon, five of seven coalitions saw defeat at the hands of France.

Despite Asser's comment that the dyke ran " from sea to sea ", it is now thought that the original structure only covered about two-thirds of the length of the border: in the north it ends near Llanfynydd, less than five miles ( 8 km ) from the coast, while in the south it stops at Rushock Hill, near Kington in Herefordshire, less than fifty miles ( 80 km ) from the Bristol Channel.

Despite its size, the equivalent of five city blocks long with a three story high conning tower, it has so far remained undetected.

Despite active research spanning five decades, extensive regulatory actions, and an effective ban on their production since the 1970s, PCBs still persist in the environment and remain a focus of attention.

Despite being released from the play after five weeks, Milland felt that he had gained valuable acting experience.

Despite the step up, his scoring exploits continued and he was runner-up only to Ian Rush in the goalscoring charts the following season and then went one better as he was the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984 – 85 with 24 goals.

Despite this, Hitler never quite trusted the Foreign Office and was always on the lookout for someone like Ribbentrop to carry out his foreign-policy goals.

Despite outgaining the Titans in total offensive yards in the first half, 294 – 89, the Rams held merely a 9 – 0 halftime lead on three field goals.

Despite Roosevelt's continued decline and loss of over 50 pounds ( 20 kg ) of his original 220, Commander Rondon had been repeatedly slowing down the pace of the expedition in dedication to his commission's mapmaking and other geographical goals that demanded regular stops to fix the expedition's position by sun-based survey.

Despite their similarity, psychological and sociological researchers tend to differ in their goals, approaches, methods, and terminology.

Despite this turbulence, Newcastle were able to finish twelfth at the end of the season, with one particular highlight being a 4-4 home draw against Arsenal which saw Newcastle come back from four goals down to claim a point.

Despite awareness and the political power struggle existent in the play, Antony and Cleopatra both fail to achieve their goals by the play ’ s conclusion.

Despite the loss, Leach was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy for scoring a record 19 goals in 16 playoff games.

Despite the fact that Chinese communities now enjoy greater mainstream acceptance than they did 40 years ago and that some Chinese North Americans may take associating with other Chinese North Americans for granted as well as an unquestioned way of life, the goals and endeavors of the Taiwan Study tour remain the same.

Dick Harris booted 7 goals in the Tigers ' 1943 premiership win. Despite the tribulations created by the Second World War, the Tigers were able to maintain a commendable level of consistency on the field.

Despite Hull breaking his own record by four goals in 1968 – 69, the Hawks missed the playoffs for the first time since his rookie season.

Despite these goals, a clause in Newcastle's purchase of Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa resulted in Milner being loaned to Villa for the rest of the season.

Despite sitting a comfortable 14 points clear from the relegation zone at the time of his departure, Millwall would go onto to suffer the drop ( by virtue of goals scored ) after McCarthy's departure.

Despite research showing almost no relation between growth and the achievement of the goals 2 to 7 and statistics showing that during periods of growth poverty levels in some cases have actually risen ( e. g. Uganda grew by 2. 5 % annually between 2000 – 2003, yet poverty levels rose by 3. 8 %), researchers at the ODI suggest growth is necessary, but that it must be equitable.

Despite being a midfielder, he held the national team top scorer record until striker Thierry Henry surpassed the 41 goals mark in 2007.

Despite one of the major goals of the revolution being to join the pan-Arabism movement and practice qawmiyah policies, Qasim soon modified his views, once in power.

Despite this, Sir Alex Ferguson was full of praise for the striker, who scored three goals in 13 matches in all competitions during his three-month stay, saying, " He's been fantastic for us, his professionalism, his attitude, everything he's done has been excellent.

Despite initially maintaining his decision to retire, he eventually returned to the national side, scoring three goals in four matches and leading Sweden to the quarter-finals, where they were defeated in a penalty shootout by the Dutch.

Despite his age, he continued to score regularly ( being the second highest Premier League scorer in 1996 – 97 with 23 goals ), and on 13 September 1997 he broke Cliff Bastin's Arsenal goalscoring record with a hat-trick against Bolton Wanderers ( a record since surpassed by Thierry Henry in October 2005 ).

Despite a decrease in offensive production, Kariya tied winger Brad Boyes for the team lead in scoring with 65 points ( 16 goals and 49 assists ) over 82 games.

Despite his lack of offensive production, his excellence at his position was credited with significantly reducing the Capitals ' goals against average, which enabled them to finally make the playoffs.

Despite Aldridge being injured for both matches against Carl Zeiss Jena, the quarter-final away leg was drawn 2 – 2, with Tommy Tynan scoring both goals.

Despite these generalizations, it should be noted that eco-terrorism encompasses a broad array of organizations, goals, and philosophies.

Despite the 70 goals netted by Dave Taylor and Marc Lloyd-Williams, in the 1993-4 season, the results were very inconsistent as they finished in 11th spot.

Despite reaching his original goals, Dick continues as a police officer during the day while spending nights as Nightwing, pushing himself to his limits and straining his relationships.