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 Louis in round one, and once again in round four, he lost a 15 round split decision.

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 heavy casualties the Prussians attempted to storm the great battery, whilst the Danes, under Count Scholten, attempted to drive the French infantry out of the copses beyond the village.

Despite popular opinion the substitution did not change the game as Franz Beckenbauer had scored before Charlton left the field, hence Charlton had failed to cancel out the German.

Despite its on-field success, it was one of the four teams contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season.

Despite questions of its source, the prayer carries out an important function in the narrative as a whole.

Despite being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.

Despite being well out of playoff contention the Cubs went 24 – 13 under Quade, the best record in baseball during that 37 game stretch and was hired as manager on October 19.

Despite assurances against reprisals, the returning Spanish authorities proved to be merciless with the rebels and, in the process of ferreting out participants in the Quito revolt, jailed and abused many innocent citizens.

Despite this setback, Baresi refused to give up his dream and tried out for the Milan youth team, where he was accepted.

Despite its promising start, Fresh Horses plateaued quickly, topping out at quadruple platinum.

Despite briefly toying with the name " rational Mesmerism ", Braid ultimately emphasised his approach's uniqueness, carrying out informal experiments throughout his career to refute the arguments invoking supernatural practices, and demonstrate instead the role of ordinary physiological and psychological processes such as suggestion and focused attention in producing the observed effects.

Despite this, Hitler never quite trusted the Foreign Office and was always on the lookout for someone like Ribbentrop to carry out his foreign-policy goals.

Despite the good news off the field, and winning four out of five games to start the season, the Wizards just missed out on a playoff berth with a loss to the New York Red Bulls on the final day, finishing with a 10 – 14 – 8 record.

Despite a serious injury which ruled Shearer out for half the season, Dalglish achieved fourth position with the team in the first year of the new Premier League.

Despite his new record deal, he had a falling out with The Beast Crew when he signed over fellow member Champtown ( the two have become friends again since ).

Despite the popularity of Gayoom, those connected to the former President hired ex-SAS mercenaries in 1980 to carry out a coup to oust him.

Despite their best efforts, many gays and lesbians were still unwilling to come out.

Despite the team's 2-14 record, they sold out six of their eight home games in 2006.

Despite finishing with a 6 – 10 record in the 2005 – 2006 season, the Eagles ranked second in the NFL in merchandise sales, and single-game tickets for the next season were sold out minutes after phone and Internet lines opened.

Despite popular conceptions promoted by movies and television, many US police departments prefer not to maintain officers in non-patrol bureaus and divisions beyond a certain period of time, such as in the detective bureau, and instead maintain policies that limit service in such divisions to a specified period of time, after which officers must transfer out or return to patrol duties.

Despite these official acts, violence broke out between the two groups, and Boniface was seized by the Prefect's police and taken to a lodging outside the walls where he was detained under the surveillance of the Prefect's agents.

Despite its undoubted success, this in turn led to what many saw as an " Americanisation " of the area, with even its private security force kitted out in something resembling New York Police uniforms.

Despite having completely dropped out of the public eye for five years after the gold-selling Test for Echo ( which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 ) and the band being relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the U. S., Vapor Trails reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release in 2002 with 108, 000 albums sold.

Despite being on a public staircase, he is reported to have shouted ' You tell Harold Wilson he must bloody well come to see me ... and if he doesn't watch out, I won't join his bloody government ...

James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave Generations two and a half stars out of four, saying: " Despite a reasonably original story line, familiar characters, first rate special effects, and the hallmark meeting between Captains Kirk and Picard, there's something fundamentally dissatisfying about movie.