Despite the criticism, viewers were immediately drawn to the serial, won over by Coronation Streets ' ordinary ' characters.

Despite criticism by sections of academia, Thomas ' work has been embraced by readers more so than many of his contemporaries, and is one of the few modern poets whose name is recognised by the general public.

Despite receiving some criticism from his peers, he continued to front the BBC's coverage of the Masters and The Open, where he put his language skills to good use by giving an impromptu interview in Spanish with Argentinian Andrés Romero.

Despite the criticism, the registry agreement for the top-level domains < tt > jobs </ tt > and < tt > travel </ tt > includes a US $ 2 fee on every domain the licensed companies sell or renew.

Despite heavy criticism from other religious groups, there are signs that Satanistic beliefs have become more socially tolerated.

" Despite this criticism, the authors acknowledged that they admired Gould's staunch opposition to racism.

Despite such criticism, certain strides were made at COP12, including in the areas of support for developing countries and clean development mechanism.

Despite widespread criticism, VeriSign only reluctantly removed it after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) threatened to revoke its contract to administer the root name servers.

Despite initially attracting positive reviews and selling strongly, the record was soon subjected to strong criticism from music critics, record-buyers and even Noel Gallagher himself for its overproduced and bloated sound.

Despite token criticism of the partition from Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, Austrian statesman Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz was proud of wresting as large a share as he did, with the rich salt mines of Bochnia and Wieliczka.

Despite being regarded as one of the most popular members of the royal family in recent times who helped to stabilise the popularity of the monarchy as a whole, Elizabeth was subject to various degrees of criticism during her life.

Despite generally positive reviews, criticism induced Jansson to refine her style such that in her 1955 solo exhibition her style had become less overloaded in terms of detail and content.

Despite this criticism, the following day, August 30, was one of Longstreet's finest performances of the war.

Despite Lee's brilliant victory at Chancellorsville, Longstreet once again came under criticism, claiming that he could have marched his men back from Suffolk in time to join Lee.

Despite this, the film was reviewed negatively by critics for its perceived amateurish production and self-indulgent content, with the fantasy sequences in particular coming in for some of the harshest criticism.

Despite his prominent position in musical criticism, he did not use his articles to promote his own works.

Despite continual criticism from her father, she becomes more rebellious toward her parents, supporting her brother against them and assisting Goole in his interrogations.

Despite the rivalry of ben Naphtali and the opposition of Saadia Gaon, the most eminent representative of the Babylonian school of criticism, ben Asher's codex became recognized as the standard text of the Bible.

Despite his failure to finish Realschule ( a form of German secondary school ), Ossietzky succeeded in embarking on a career in journalism, with the topics of his articles ranging from theatre criticism to feminism and the problems of early motorization.

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 the criticism, the book sold well, as did all of Irving's books to that date.

Despite such criticism, Barnet concludes: " It should be noted that Christian rock also has millions of supporters, even among the ministry.

Despite this criticism, expansionists embraced the phrase, which caught on so quickly that its origin was soon forgotten.

Despite the criticism targeting his linguistic theories and despite the priority dispute with Bartholin, Rudbeck remained a national icon in Sweden for many years.

Despite his sincerely depicted reverence for Rush, Eakins ' treatment of the human body once again drew criticism.

Despite negative reviews from critics, Pearl Harbor became a major box office success, earning $ 449, 220, 945 at the world wide box office and won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.

Despite the enormous box office success, the critical response to Pearl Harbor at the time of its release tended toward mixed to negative, and the film earned only a 25 % approval rating according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 166 reviews with an average rating of 4. 4 / 10, making it Bay's second worst reviewed movie to date, next to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Despite a hard-fought battle throughout the Mid-1990s by local politicians to have the decommissioned and mothballed USS Missouri, already in the Bremerton Navy Yard, stay in Bremerton as a museum ship and tourist attraction, Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton, awarded the ship to the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, HI in 1998.

Despite this, the Pearl Poet must have been educated and probably of a certain social standing, perhaps a member of a family of landed gentry.

Despite a well reviewed 1976 eponymous début on Island Records and a lone charting single, 1977's " My Pearl ", which reached No. 97 on the Billboard Hot 100., the line-up of Automatic Man was not cohesive.

Despite its losses, the Percy Folio is, like the Exeter Book, the Pearl Manuscript, and the Cotton library's monstrarum librarum of the Beowulf manuscript, one of the most important documents in English poetry.

Despite its dated anti-Japanese slant ( in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor drawing the United States directly into World War II against the Axis powers ), and because the cartoon was not one of The Censored Eleven, it was occasionally shown on television in syndicated packages with other pre-August 1948 Warner cartoons that were under the ownership of Associated Artists Productions.

Despite his apparent rejection of eugenics, Pearl maintained relatively good relations with key eugenicists and was never shy of expressing extremely snobbish and class-oriented views.

Despite its name, it only existed in the immediate vicinity of Greigsville, a small community in the town of York, and did not reach Pearl Creek, a hamlet in Covington.

Despite a tendency to shun such occasions, Weller accepted the award in person, and performed four songs at the ceremony, including the Jam classic " Town Called Malice ".

Despite the controversy, the song reached number 18 on the singles chart in 1977 in the U. S. and Top Ten in the United Kingdom and Australia, while the Ram Jam album reached the U. S. Top 40.

Despite these precautions, on January 16, 2009, at a Monster Jam event in Tacoma, Washington a 6-year-old spectator was killed when struck by one of the driveshaft loops, a safety feature to retain the driveshaft, that was crushed on an earlier jump and thrown into the stands.

Despite the film's financial disaster, critical response for Looney Tunes: Back in Action was mixed to positive, making it more critically successful than the previous Looney Tunes film Space Jam.

Despite this, Island Def Jam could not afford to finance the label anymore so they shut it down in 2003.

Despite not seeking a new contract at the time, then-CEO of Def Jam Jay-Z signed Ne-Yo to a new deal after he performed for the label's executives.

Despite the use of the prefix anti -, the terms Semitic and anti-Semitic are not directly opposed to each other.

Despite this and other hearsay evidence, there were no actual facts to go upon.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

Despite the name, antidepressants are often used to treat other conditions, such as anxiety disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, eating disorders, chronic pain, and some hormone-mediated disorders such as dysmenorrhea.

Despite being younger than the other contenders, Ahmad Shah had several overriding factors in his favor.

Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.

Despite everything, however, there are some who support both dates and even some who support dates other than the two major possibilities presented.

Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with light and other electromagnetic radiation.

Despite this road and those running through a few other passes, in general the escarpment impedes easy communication between the two countries.

Despite the risk factors associated with bicycling, cyclist have a lower overall mortality rate when compared to other groups.

Despite some early cooperative military successes against Japan, by the time that the Japanese surrendered in 1945 neither the CPC nor the KMT trusted each other or were actively cooperating.

Despite the differences between comparative law and these other legal fields, comparative law helps inform all of these areas of normativity.

Despite the region's absence of economic growth on the same scale as other parts of the nation, the Maritimes has changed markedly throughout the 20th century, partly as a result of global and national economic trends, and partly as a result of government intervention.

Despite success in reuniting large sections of the wider Christadelphian community and periodic efforts at reuniting smaller offshoots, there are still a number of groups who remain separate from other bodies of Christadelphians.

Despite the lack of consensus on underlying causation, advocates for specific psychopathological paradigms have nonetheless faulted the current diagnostic scheme for not incorporating evidence-based models or findings from other areas of science.

Despite their practice of blending with dominant groups in order to avoid persecution and because the Druze religion doesn't endorse separatist sentiments, urging the Druze to blend with the communities they reside in, nevertheless the Druze have had a history of brave resistance to occupying powers, and they have at times enjoyed more freedom than most other groups living in the Levant.

Despite the size of the instrument, it is not as loud as many other instruments due to its low range.

Despite this, Jellicoe succeeded in positioning his ships to good advantage, relying on other closer cruisers for final knowledge of the German's position, but necessitating last-minute decisions.

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 the demonstrated efficacy of awards in changing behavior, their use in education has been criticized by proponents of self-determination theory, who claim that praise and other rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.

Despite its beauty, size and numerous recreational opportunities, the lake is scarcely visited sheerly to its distance from Helsinki, and its daunting distance to other similarly-populated areas in the south of the country.

Despite the sexes ' equal educational attainments, and despite a society where sexual differentiation played a smaller role than it did in many other countries, occupational segregation in Finland was marked.

Despite these differences, all known naturally-occurring codes are very similar to each other, and the coding mechanism is the same for all organisms: three-base codons, tRNA, ribosomes, reading the code in the same direction and translating the code three letters at a time into sequences of amino acids.