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Despite the song's name, Poison Ivy wasn't the inspiration for this song but, due to the lyrics describing a girl with a very similar attitude to Ivy, it was quickly associated to the character.
Despite its small size of some 1, 100 people at the time, it had been the subject of a book describing its customs and locals in 1906 ( F. J. E.
Despite controversial media reports describing Wallace as a ' dead man walking ', he told a packed media conference after the Round 4 loss to Melbourne that he would not be resigning and would coach out the 2009 season at Richmond, the final year of his five year contract.
Despite describing Insane Clown Posse as " imbecilic white rappers ", the magazine complimented the album for its " charming, good-natured idiocy.
Despite the Chicken Whopper's initial success, just over a year after the Chicken Whopper's introduction enthusiasm for the product was waning ; Burger King's largest franchisee, Carrols Corporation, was complaining that the product line was a failure, describing the sandwich as a pedestrian product with a great name.
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 a relatively happy marriage Sheila isn't physically attracted to Gordon, describing the first time she saw him naked as " like a road accident.
Despite having written several books describing marriage as an " old-fashioned superstition ", Mortimer Brewster ( Cary Grant ) falls in love with Elaine Harper ( Priscilla Lane ), who grew up next door to him in Brooklyn, and, on Halloween day, they marry.
Despite his normal height, Napoleon's name has been lent to the Napoleon complex, a colloquial term describing an alleged type of inferiority complex which is said to affect some people who are physically short.
Despite this, however, she held Kneale in high esteem, describing him as “ a fantastic writer ... hugely imaginative ... considering the impact his work has had, I think he's undervalued ”.
Despite Driver's character being well known for her Lancashire hotpot, in real life she was a vegetarian who seldom cooked, describing herself as a poor cook.
Despite this, his funeral saw widespread grieving, with Ralph Gonsalves, the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, describing him simply as a " giant of a man ".
Despite describing himself as a " double hard bastard ," he secretly enjoys things that could be characterised as " effeminate ," such as 1940s " love story " movies and Emmerdale Farm.
Despite its informal character ( there was no formal legal base describing its competencies ), the Tagsatzung was an important instrument of the eight, later thirteen cantons to decide inter-cantonal matters.
Despite his status and condition, his fantastic subjects and extraordinarily detailed style were generally well-received, with one period reviewer describing his work as " exquisitely ideal ".
Despite the separation of " I " from the " It " and " Thou " in this very sentence describing the relationship, Buber's two notions of " I " require attachment to a word partner.
Despite being rather common, the SVEA is not required to formulate a simple wave equation describing the propagation of optical pulses.
Despite speaking to audiences of up to 60, 000, Buchman was critical of the large-scale approach, describing it as " like hunting rabbits with a brass band ".
Despite describing his injuries as " nothing to write home about ", he was invalided to Australia in August, arriving in Sydney on 9 October.
Despite his vocal talents, Swofford was unable to sustain further success on the charts, and in 1983, People magazine ran a feature article on Swofford, describing him as a happily married father who kept his distance from the music industry, selling real estate.
Despite this difference in the source of failure between software and hardware — software does not wear out — some in the software reliability engineering community believe statistical models used in hardware reliability are nevertheless useful as a measure of software reliability, describing what we experience with software: the longer software is run, the higher the probability that it will eventually be used in an untested manner and exhibit a latent defect that results in a failure ( Shooman 1987 ), ( Musa 2005 ), ( Denney 2005 ).
Despite this Boucher was pleased with Calder's performance describing Calder as " a class act " whose " performance was immaculate ".
Despite a common misunderstanding, " random " does not mean the same thing as " chance " as this idea is often used in describing situations of uncertainty, nor is it the same as projections based on an assessed probability or frequency.
Despite describing Abbie Carmichael as a " great character ", Harmon nonetheless was frustrated with the fact that her shooting schedule on the show caused her to miss out on roles in the movies Charlie's Angels and Spy Kids.

Despite and test
Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.
Despite the 31 August 1998 North Korean missile test which overflew the Home Islands, Japan has maintained its support for the Korean Energy Development Organization ( KEDO ) and the Agreed Framework, which seeks to freeze the North Korean nuclear program.
Despite the astronauts ' test pilot experience NASA at first envisioned them as " minor participants " during their flights, causing many conflicts between the astronauts and engineers during the spacecraft's design.
Despite the apparent failure of the Cabra test, the long term legacy of the X-ray laser program is the knowledge gained while conducting the research.
Despite a possible conflict of interests, Maskelyne being an advocate of the lunar distance method of determining longitude, the Board of Longitude sent him to Barbados in 1763 to calculate the longitude of the capital, Bridgetown by observation of Jupiter's satellites, and also to test his lunar distance method and compare its accuracy to John Harrison's chronometer, the No. 4 timekeeper.
Despite the apparent accuracy of the test, if an individual tests positive, it is more likely that they do not use the drug than that they do.
Despite the fact that Echeandía's emancipation plan was met with little encouragement from the novices who populated the southern missions, he was nonetheless determined to test the scheme on a large scale at Mission San Juan Capistrano.
" Despite the fact that Echeandía's emancipation plan was met with little encouragement from the neophytes who populated the southern missions, he was nonetheless determined to test the scheme on a large scale at Mission San Juan Capistrano.
Despite his disheveled appearance he was sent for a test assignment: to observe and write about a luncheon at the Astor House.
Despite receiving financing from other sources, including Saul Zaentz ( who agreed to distribute the soundtrack album on his Fantasy Records label ), the budget was tight enough to exclude pencil tests, so Bakshi had to test the animation by flipping an animator's drawings in his hand before they were inked and painted.
Despite the dissension, the trio put its new work ethic to the test in the studio, releasing the Top 10 single " Sweet Hitch-Hiker " in July 1971, backed with Stu Cook's " Door to Door.
Despite mild paraparesis, they were able to stand, walk, perform demanding motor test and demonstrated no signs of incontinence.
Despite these early reports, So I Married an Axe Murderer scored high at test screenings.
Despite these difficulties, fMRI has been used clinically to map functional areas, check left-right hemispherical asymmetry in language and memory regions, check the neural correlates of a seizure, study how the brain recovers partially from a stroke, test how well a drug or behavioral therapy works, detect the onset of Alzheimer's, and note the presence of disorders like depression.
Despite the descent engine programming error, NASA deemed the mission a success in demonstrating the LM systems, and a second unmanned flight test using LM-2 was canceled.
Despite the time needed to test such a new product, it will pay off in the future for the sales department.
Despite her success, Jana's toughest test by far would be against top seeded Steffi Graf of Germany in the semifinals.
Despite scoring three tries in the second test at Durban, the Springboks suffered from some woeful goal kicking and failed to land any penalties or conversions, whilst for the Lions Neil Jenkins once again kicked 5 penalties to level the scores at 15 – 15 before Jerry Guscott dropped a goal for an 18 – 15 lead for the Lions.
Despite all the largesse, test scores in the magnet schools did not rise ; the black-white gap did not diminish ; and there was less, not greater, integration.
Despite this problem, the British government hailed this test as a successful thermonuclear explosion, and the government announced to the world that the U. K. had become a thermonuclear power.
Despite failing to carry out a proper DNA test in 1999 and its ' Inconclusive ' results.
Despite vocal opposition within his own party, Tony Blair claimed that this proposal was the only way to secure the necessary funds, and the issue was seen as a key test of his leadership.
Despite the smooth and speedy ride the BBR offered riders, it ultimately failed and the test route fell into disuse, along with the Boynton train itself and the shed that was built to house it.

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