Despite dropping out of high school at the age of sixteen to join the army, Disney was rejected for being underage.

Despite dropping out, his name still appeared in the ballot, and he placed 12th in a field of 135 candidates.

Despite the film dropping to number two in its second weekend, it grossed more in its second weekend, grossing $ 12, 471, 670.

Despite losing, Firpo gained substantial fame all over Latin America after this bout, as many people on different parts of that region spoke about his feat of dropping Dempsey.

Despite over US $ 7 billion spent annually towards arresting and prosecuting nearly 800, 000 people across the country for marijuana offenses in 2005 ( FBI Uniform Crime Reports ), the federally-funded Monitoring the Future Survey reports about 85 % of high school seniors find marijuana “ easy to obtain .” That figure has remained virtually unchanged since 1975, never dropping below 82. 7 % in three decades of national surveys.

Despite dropping to af2 and considering playing in Cedar Park Entertainment Center to cut costs, success did not follow the Wranglers to af2 while financial difficulties continued to plague the team.

Despite its illegality due to the Anti-Socialist Laws of 1878, the Social Democratic Party of Germany's use of the limited universal male suffrage were " potent " new methods of struggle which demonstrated their growing strength and forced the dropping of the Anti-Socialist legislation in 1890, Engels argued.

Despite its density, the overall population of the borough has been dropping between one and two percent since 1990, but still about twenty percent of the current population moved into here from somewhere else in Mexico.

Despite the aircrews of the Squadron having no previous experience in dropping parachutists, these exercises proved to be successful.

Despite the fact that Polish and later Royal Air Force ( RAF ) planes flew missions over Warsaw dropping supplies from 4 August on, the United States Air Force ( USAF ) planes did not join the operation.

Despite his strong faith in the law, he is willing to bend the rules in an unjust situation, exemplified when he blackmails a skinhead's mother into dropping charges against Constable Goody and later Inspector Grim into dropping charges against Habib for withholding drug evidence.

Despite — or perhaps because of — an idyllic world, technology is stagnant, no great art has been produced in generations, and the human population is dropping slowly.

Despite being one of Europe's most sought after performers, her destructive addictions led to her dropping out of sight for years.

Despite Dvorak satellite estimates of, reconnaissance aircraft indicated Isidore remained a Category 3 hurricane, with pressures dropping to, typical of a Category 4 hurricane.

Despite the lack of evidence, and the crown subsequently dropping the charges, at least one of the innocent men publicly identified committed suicide, naming Fantino's intentional destruction of his reputation as the reason for his suicide in the suicide note.

Despite an impressive start, the series was officially cancelled by Fox on May 9, 2012, due to dropping viewership throughout its run.

Despite these past successes, the sport suffers from low media attention and dropping interest due to the popularity of other sports and past underinvestment.

Despite dropping to fourteenth in points in 1992, Shepherd moved back up to seventh in points and won his final race to date at Atlanta in March 1993.

Despite dropping all erotic programming in late 2001, its bad reputation follows RTL II to this day.

Despite winning two away matches in the second half of the season, a series of draws and defeats ( including a crushing 5 – 1 defeat at home to Rijeka ) saw them dropping into the relegation zone with 6 matches left.

Despite impressing in the pre-season frendlies, in the league Dong looked desperately out of his depth and managed to notch just two short appearances before dropping to the reserves.

Despite success on the touring front, COS called it a day in early 2002, with the band being transformed into M3 Classic Whitesnake, dropping recent original material in favour of a purely Whitesnake set.

Despite another skier being dropped, this time by Adam Gilchrist, and the crowd enjoying Gillespie dropping more catches whilst practising in the field, Australia's dominance and fine fielding on the ground saw more England wickets fall.

Despite this, Chicago engaged St. Louis in a see-saw battle for first place into August, but the Cardinals played to a torrid 20 – 6 pace that month, designating their rivals to battle in the Wild Card race, from which they were eliminated in the season's final week.

Despite his unconventional portrayal of the ascendant bourgeoisie, early support came from patrons in the French aristocracy, including Louis XV.

Despite his immense obesity and impending mortality, however, Louis the Fat remained clear-minded.

Despite his age, Louis is in perfect physical condition but is bored.

Despite Louis ' victory, Pope John XXII still refused to ratify his election, and in 1324 he excommunicated Louis, but the sanction had less effect than in earlier disputes between emperors and the papacy.

* Despite successfully invading England in 1216, being proclaimed King Louis of England in London and conquering half the country, under the terms of the treaty of Lambeth Louis is not counted as one of the Kings of England.

Despite his occasional ( if serious ) political setbacks — usually at the hands of his great Machiavellian rival, Louis XI of France — Edward was a popular and very able king.

Despite his signing of the " Civil Constitution of the Clergy ", Louis had been described as a martyr by Pope Pius VI in 1793.

Despite his victories, Louis XV of France, who wanted to appear as an arbiter and not as a conqueror, gave all his conquests back to the defeated enemies with chivalry, arguing that he was " king of France, not a shopkeeper.

Despite his victory, Louis XV, who wanted to appear as an arbiter and not as a conqueror, gave all his conquests back to the defeated enemies with chivalry, arguing that he was " king of France, not a shopkeeper.

Despite the critics, the marquise de Pompadour had an undeniable influence on the flourishing of French arts during the reign of Louis XV, a reign that is often considered the peak of French architecture and interior design ( see: Louis XV style ).

Despite the fact that Louis Stanislas was not infatuated with his wife, he boasted that the two enjoyed vigorous conjugal relations — such declarations were held in low esteem by courtiers at Versailles.

Despite the incursion of troops into Italy on behalf of the reactionary forces, Louis Bonaparte remained attached to ideal of Italian nationalism which he had embraced in his youth.

Despite this on the evening of May 31, 1879, Harrison agreed to allow Louis to scout in a forward party scheduled to leave in the morning, in the mistaken belief that the path ahead was free of Zulu skirmishers.

Despite being a state prison, the Bastille retained the other traditional functions of a royal castle, and was used to accommodate visiting dignitaries, hosting some lavish entertainments given by Louis XI and Francis I.

Despite their poor regular season showing in 1968 – 69, they made the playoffs ; however, they were manhandled by St. Louis in a four-game sweep.

Despite some notable early victories at Duck Lake, Fish Creek and Cut Knife, the rebellion effectively ended for the Métis with their defeat at the siege of Batoche, Saskatchewan, the eventual scattering of their allied Aboriginal forces elsewhere, and the trial and hanging of Louis Riel.

Despite two previous marriages, Louis had no living sons, and sought to produce an heir ; but he died on 1 January 1515, less than three months after marrying Mary, reputedly worn out by his exertions in the bedchamber.

Despite Louis XI having ordered his ships to seize her on her journey, her convoy crossed without incident, reaching Sluys on the evening of the 25th.

Despite having massed forces along the border, Charles ' military attentions were distracted by the problems in Gascony and he eventually chose to settle the rebellion peacefully through the Peace of Arques in 1326, in which Louis was only indirectly involved.

Despite a cold reception from the Spanish royal family, especially by Elisabeth of Parma, the stepmother of her husband, she married Louis of Spain on 20 January 1722 at Lerma.

Despite the Quad-Cities ’ status as " the largest metropolitan area between Chicago, Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Kansas City ," the area remained relatively unheard of.