Despite decisively defeating the Marathas, what might have been Ahmad Shah's peaceful control of his domains was disrupted by many challenges.

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 these setbacks, the Roman forces were more capable in siegecraft than the Carthaginians and recaptured all the major cities that had joined the enemy, as well as defeating a Carthaginian attempt to reinforce Hannibal at the battle of the Metaurus.

Despite sustainining enormous casualties, the Serbian army managed to recover, regrouped and returned to the Macedonian front to lead a final breakthrough through enemy lines on 15 September 1918, liberating Serbia and defeating the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Bulgaria.

Despite defeating North Korea in the final group game 3 – 0, Ivory Coast failed to qualify for the knock-out stages.

Despite these difficulties, the Corps played a key role in defeating Superboy-Prime.

Despite the opposition of many in his own party, including not only Vare ’ s powerful Philadelphia machine, but also many “ wets ” who revolted and created a separate Liberal Party that autumn — thereby giving the Democratic candidate two lines on the November ballot — Pinchot narrowly prevailed, defeating Hemphill by a margin of 1, 068, 874 to 1, 010, 204.

Despite this early setback Bangor ended the 2008 – 09 season with yet more silverware as they retained the Welsh Cup by defeating Aberystwyth Town 2 – 0 in a match held at Parc Y Scarlets, Llanelli.

Despite his inexperience, Peterson nevertheless came within 45 votes of defeating Stuart Smith on the third and final ballot of a delegated convention held on January 25, 1976.

Despite this, Filipović was given a wildcard into the world tournament where he shocked the kickboxing world by defeating highly regarded K-1 fighter Mike Bernardo.

Despite early defeats, elements of the US II Corps, reinforced by British reserves, rallied and held the exits through mountain passes in western Tunisia, defeating the Axis offensive plans.

Despite the Mongol's territorial gains, in September 1260, the Egyptian Mamluks rallied, defeating the Mongols at the historic battle of Ain Jalut and driving them back across the Euphrates River.

Despite their financial troubles, Wrexham went on to win the 2004 – 05 Football League Trophy by defeating Southend United 2 – 0 after extra time, in Wrexham's first appearance at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Despite the ruling she remained in place as the candidate for the 1997 general election, when she became an MP defeating Conservative MP Nirj Deva.

Despite being pushed all the way by Stockport County, Hereford secured third place and promotion with a match to spare by defeating Brentford 3 – 0 at Griffin Park.

Despite his absence, the Crawfords finally lived up to their promise, taking the first-half title with a 26-6 record, then defeating the New York Cubans in a close seven-game series for their only undisputed NNL pennant.

Despite this, he still often helps them with defeating the villains they face, claiming that Yugi or one of his friends helped him and he owes them, or that the villain's desires are in direct conflict with his own interests.

Despite being able to launch his missile, the Legion are soundly defeated by the League, with Wonder Woman, Flash, Batman, and Green Lantern defeating Cheetah, Mirror Master, Bane, and Star Sapphire in that order, respectively.

Despite the censorship going on in Britain at the time, this battle was the first indication the British public had that defeating Germany would not be as easy as some had thought.

Despite being a one-legged creature, the character is believed to be very agile and powerful, always defeating his enemies.

Despite the changes, the Torontos won the Stanley Cup in 1914, defeating the Montreal Canadiens in a playoff to decide the NHA champion.

Despite Dani defeating Legion, he maintains this attitude and she leaves.

Despite the unrest, Chelsea, under Mourinho, won the League Cup again by defeating Arsenal FC in the final at the Millennium Stadium.

Despite this, Mourinho achieved what was hailed as one of his career highlights after Inter managed to progress to the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals by defeating Mourinho's former team Chelsea in both legs ( 2 – 1 win at San Siro, then followed by a 1 – 0 win at Stamford Bridge ).

Despite the fact that parallels between Captain Marvel and Superman seemed more tenuous ( Captain Marvel's powers came from magic, unlike Superman's ), the courts ruled that substantial and deliberate copying of copyrighted material had occurred.

Despite Superman destroying his base, Luthor apparently escapes, with Superman destroying the machine and the scientist who made it committing suicide to prevent its reinvention.

Despite his rejection of the Macchiaioli approach, Modigliani nonetheless found favour with his teacher, who referred to him as " Superman ", a pet name reflecting the fact that Modigliani was not only quite adept at his art, but also that he regularly quoted from Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Despite the success Superman gave the studio, a major blow to the studio would occur when the married Dave started having an adulterous affair with the Miami secretary.

Despite the high budgets that came from the series — triple the budget of typical Popeye one-reelers — Superman became the most successful cartoons in the late period of the studio.

Despite the disappointing performance of the feature films, the Superman series continued to do well.

Despite the Riddler showing a set of playing cards with ( from left to right ) Gleek, Zan, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Robin, Batman, and Superman he then burns to ashes in his introduction in " Wanted: The Super Friends ", the Wonder Twins and Gleek did not appear in Challenge.

Despite The Cannonball Runs commercial success, earning $ 72, 179, 579, making it the sixth highest grossing film of 1981, behind Raiders of the Lost Ark, On Golden Pond, Superman II, Arthur, and Stripes, the film received mixed to negative reviews.

Despite the show's introduction describing Kent as " mild-mannered " and colleagues constantly calling him " timid " and even " spineless ", Clark Kent is mildly assertive and authoritative during situations when he is not Superman.

Despite their combined efforts, events play out exactly as they did in Red Son # 2, with Batman imprisoning Superman briefly under red sun lamps, and detonating the bomb in his intestine upon his escape.

Despite the victory, flyers announce that Superman is not a messiah, but rather the devil incarnate ; the villain disappears.

Despite having many iconic elements that spring from the Silver Age / Bronze Age of the classic Marvel Universe, the setting includes archetypes drawn from the DC comics as well, including a " trinity " of major heroes based loosely on Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

Despite its critical reception, NPD Group data shows that Superman was a top seller in North America during the month of June 1999.

Despite its critical reception, NPD Group data shows that Superman was a top seller in North America during the month of June 1999.

Despite his use of foes such as Mongul, Solomon Grundy, Lady Shiva, and Nightshade, Superman and Batman are able to deduce the mind behind the attacks, and quickly dispose of Grodd.

Despite this, Superman and his allies rescue all the residents of Limbo, who then help assist in the battle against the cosmic threat of Mandrakk.

Despite the odds against him, Superman managed to hold the villains back, later finding Black in his apartment, apparently having killed Lois Lane while Superman was occupied.

Despite fantasizing about killing Black, Superman resisted temptation and told Black that he would devote the rest of his life to keeping the villain behind bars, and not in the morgue, as vengeance isn't justice.

Despite the loss of the other black diamonds, the disembodied Eclipso then tries to possess Superman by antagonizing him through many deaths.

Despite the Linear Men's policy of non-intervention in the timeline-to the point that the previously actively-interfering Waverider was discouraged from preventing Superman's death during his first battle with Doomsday-Waverider came to Superman's aid when he discovered that Doomsday had returned to life and was now working with the Cyborg Superman.

Despite the heroes scoring some victories in later confrontations, such as the Flash knocking out Züm with a punch at near-lightspeed or Green Lantern taking out Armek by exploiting the fact that they thought his ring was still vulnerable to yellow, the Hyperclan eventually managed to capture all of the Justice League, keeping Superman tortured with a mental illusion of green kryptonite.

Despite rumors that Jenner had previously turned down the role of Superman in the 1978 film, the book The Making of Superman by David Michael Petrou and a February 1980 People magazine article claims that Jenner tested for, but was never offered, that role.