" Despite this excellent reputation, D. W. T. C. Vessey has shown that William was certainly not an impartial observer, especially when dealing with the events of the 1170s and 1180s.

Despite this mishap, the remainder of Victor Emanuel II ’ s reign was consumed by wrapping up loose ends and dealing with economic and cultural issues.

Despite the connectivity, oftentimes the " north of Broad " and " south of Broad " populations of the county find each other at odds over county-wide issues dealing with growth management.

Despite these increases in securities activities by bank holding companies that qualified as financial holding companies, the Joint Report found that concentration levels among securities underwriting and dealing firms had not changed significantly since 1999.

Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes involved serious subjects, such as son Theo's experiences dealing with dyslexia, inspired by Cosby's son Ennis, who was also dyslexic.

" Despite his association with Albani, Winckelmann steered clear of the shady world of art dealing which had compromised the scholarly respectability of such brilliant, if much less systematic antiquarians as Francesco Ficoroni and the Baron Stosch.

Despite efforts to ban outdoor relief, parishes continued to offer it as a more cost effective method of dealing with pauperism.

Despite the debate, the portions of the draft dealing with the court remained largely unchanged, as the delegates focused on different matters.

Despite this, he manages to get along with Edward, often when both are sick of dealing with their wives.

Despite her disagreements with Annagramma, she agreed to show her a few useful tips on dealing with livestock when Tiffany asked her to.

Despite her attempts to answer the concerns of the Minbari on Babylon 5, some of the station's Minbari still reject her authority and insist on dealing with their government at home, something she reluctantly agrees to allow.

Despite the ethical problems of dealing in opium, he was known to engage in humanitarian activities, such as commandeering the USS Jamestown to send food to Irish famine sufferers in 1847.

Despite Zorzi dealing with the fire with his on-board extinguisher, two fire marshals ran across the track and one, Jansen Van Vuuren, was struck and killed by the car of Zorzi's team-mate Tom Pryce, who was also killed.

Despite dealing with an antagonistic government, OUSA was able to persuade the government to establish the Ontario Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, a permanent advisory board including student and university representation in 1998, and notable improvements to provincial student financial aid ( 1999, 2000 ).

Despite hard-hitting topical episodes dealing with AIDS, capital punishment, and child abuse, among other topics, the show lost its audience and was soon cancelled.

Despite several different conventions dealing with aspects of international trade, jurisdictional disputes are common.

Despite the large publicity campaign, the sales of Persil and Persil Power did not significantly increase, because Persil by itself was capable of dealing with most stains.

Despite the recognition which must be accorded to colour trademarks in most countries, the graphical representation of such marks sometimes constitutes a problem for trademark owners seeking to protect their marks, and different countries have different methods for dealing with this issue.

Despite the girl being found, Poirot speaks with Detective Inspector Hearn, who has been dealing with the case and is no nearer to solving the mystery of how the girl disappeared.

Assistant Chief Constable David Shaw responded to Naseem's comments by saying that, " Despite certain labels given to those men by the media, what we are dealing with here in its purest sense is criminality ," and Naseem is " wrong ".

Despite his amiable, bumbling ways, Enos is invariably the most capable of the Hazzard police in dealing with real threats: he usually is the one to handcuff the bad guys or draw his gun to cover them, and he usually is a much more capable driver than others when pursuing the Dukes or a criminal.

Despite a fourth straight All-Star season by Helton and 36 homers by outfielder Preston Wilson, the Rockies finished just 74 – 88.

Despite the early predictions for success, the Astros had a mediocre 44 – 44 record at the All-Star break.

Despite questions lingering about the team's struggling offense, the team compiled a 49 – 39 record by the 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, good enough for second place in the NL West.

Despite his lower-than-usual production at bat, Williams made the All-Star team.

Despite this, McGrady led the league in scoring with 28. 0 ppg, made the All-NBA 2nd Team and his 4th consecutive All-Star Team.

Despite the team's poor play, Dwight Howard continued to develop and blossom in his third year in the league, culminating in his first selection to the Eastern Conference All-Star team.

Despite his poor start and subsequent retirement, fans again voted Schmidt to the NL All-Star team.

Despite Bailey's hopes of an annual All-Star Game, it did not become an annual tradition until the 1947 – 48 NHL season.

Despite ballot stuffing by Cincinnati Reds fans, he appeared in the All-Star Game, held at Sportsman's Park.

Despite the limited participation, he was still voted to his second All-Star team.

Despite this, the AWA continued re-running matches in their weekly ESPN time slot, and on their syndicated All-Star Wrestling show.

Despite the injury Barry was named to the ABA All-Star team.

Despite playing in only about half the games, he was named to the Second All-Star team once more before retiring as a player after the 1922 season.

Despite a. 297 average, the wear-and-tear of catching was beginning to take its toll on Munson, and he was overlooked for the American League All-Star team.

Despite being limited to 37 out of his team's 66 games, his strong leadership style of play earned him OHL First All-Star Team honours.

Despite a 5 – 7 record, Saberhagen was selected to the 1990 American League All-Star team, primarily due to his 1989 performance.

Despite his misplay, Nash was named to the tournament All-Star Team for the second consecutive year, finishing with 13 points.

Despite his impressive statline, Pendleton was not selected for the All-Star Game.

Despite not finding a regular position yet, he was first selected to the All-Star team in 1957, the first of nine consecutive years through 1965 in which he made the squad ; he would appear in six of the games ( 1960 to 1964 ), including both 1961 contests.

Despite this setback, Carrasquel was still selected to his fourth All-Star game, this time as a reserve behind Harvey Kuenn.

Despite the off-season controversy, the 2005 season turned out to be another All-Star year for Rodríguez.

Despite struggling to generate offence, Bouwmeester participated in the AHL All-Star game, and was loaned to the Chicago Wolves when it became evident the Rampage would not qualify for the playoffs.

Despite being injury-prone, missing significant playing time in six of his nineteen major league seasons, he won the Gold Glove Award from 1994 – 1996, and was a 12-time All-Star: in the 1988-1991, 1993 – 1997, 1999, 2000, and 2004 seasons.

Despite setting the Angels ' franchise record for home runs and finishing his career with over 1, 000 RBIs, Salmon was never selected as an All-Star during his 14 year career.

Despite not playing his senior season, Fox was voted onto the Indiana All-Star team in 1987.