Despite only receiving average reviews by critics, the movie became a box office success, earning more than 120 million US dollars domestically and US $ 157m worldwide.

Despite negative reviews from critics, Pearl Harbor became a major box office success, earning $ 449, 220, 945 at the world wide box office and won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.

Despite earning critical acclaim and a sizable fanbase, commercial success eluded the group.

Despite the band's short tenure and limited output it was one of the most influential of its era, earning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recognition and spawning fellow Hall honorees Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Poco, as well as popular acts Loggins and Messina and Crazy Horse.

Despite the mixed response from critics, the film was a commercial success, earning $ 532 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005.

Despite earning $ 1000 a day, Basinger never enjoyed modelling, saying " It was very hard to go from one booking to another and always have to deal with the way I looked.

Despite not charting as high as Things Fall Apart, reaching a peak of No. 28 on the charts, Phrenology was commercially successful, eventually going gold, and earning a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album.

Despite having the smallest enrollment of any Big East Conference school, the Friars have routinely averaged over 10, 000 fans per game during the 30-plus year history of the facility, all while earning postseason berths and placing many players in the National Basketball Association.

Despite not returning to the Grey Cup game to defend their title, 2005 saw the Argos post their best season of football since 1997 with an 11 – 7 record and first place in the East, earning the right to host the East Championship.

Despite earning a shutout in their first game, a 5 – 0 win over the Montreal Canadiens on December 22, 1920 — the only team ever to do so up to that point — the Tigers were as noncompetitive as the Bulldogs.

Despite the popularity of MTV and VH1 and Alpha earning the rights to Greek soccer matches, the company soon went under, leaving Nova as the only company providing pay-TV services in Greece to this day.

Despite being a gory remake of a classic made by a controversial, non-mainstream director, the film was a huge commercial success, the biggest of Cronenberg's career, and was the top-grossing film in the United States for two weeks, earning a total domestic gross of $ 40, 456, 565.

Despite earning 80 stolen bases in his first four seasons, he only stole three bases the whole season, and in fact went the rest of his career without stealing more than ten.

Despite mixed reviews, the film became a box office success, earning back its $ 34, 200, 000 budget by grossing $ 234, 801, 895 worldwide, making the film a marketable success.

Despite the burgeoning demand for his talents, however, Struzan was still only earning $ 150 to $ 250 per album cover.

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 Girl being a top 30 album and earning a gold record, Modular ended the band's contract.

Despite finishing with a 35 – 27 – 17 – 3 record, earning 90 points, the Coyotes failed to reach the playoffs in the 2000-01, as Phoenix finished in ninth place in the Western Conference.

Despite their divergent backgrounds, the 29th Massachusetts and the rest of the brigade fought well together, earning plaudits for hard campaigning during the Seven Days Battles ; most notably at Savage's Station, Glendale, and Malvern Hill.

Despite this, Owen was the most popular member of the group, on account of his boyish good looks and sweet demeanour, regularly earning awards such as Smash Hit's " Most Fanciable Male in the World " and " Best Haircut ".

Despite earning more than US $ 2 million during his lifetime, Robinson died penniless in 1949, at the age of 71 from heart failure.

Despite earning and spending a fortune his memories of surviving on the streets as a child never left him, prompting many acts of generosity.

Despite losing in qualifying competitions at different countries, Ali became the only Iraqi to qualify for the 2004 Olympic Games, earning a wild-card spot because of his sportsmanship, among other things.

Despite the rigorous and time-consuming workload involved with earning the badge, it is not uncommon for a midshipman to fail the qualification ride.

Despite this Jones brought in several new faces and by November Cardiff found themselves in a play-off spot, earning Jones the Championship manager of the month for October.

Despite the increasing rate of exogamous marriages, the population has been able to sustain, at least to some degree, the consciousness of its intermediate status in society.

Despite his own desperate struggle, the Imperial Prince at once complied, demonstrating the high degree of confidence and mutual co-operation between the two generals.

Despite his unprecedented use of Army troops to enforce a federal desegregation order at Central High School in Little Rock, Eisenhower was criticized for his reluctance to support the civil rights movement to the degree which activists wanted.

Despite various characters having appeared within company publications for decades, few if any have aged to any appreciable degree.

Despite the wide regional variations in climate by latitude and other geographic factors, the long-term average global climate is quite stable during interglacial periods, and variations of a degree or two of average global temperature have historically had major effects on the ecological balance, and on the actual geography of the Earth.

Despite killing 34 people, Baader-Meinhof garnered a degree of support from the West German population.

Despite holding a master's degree in an era when American conscripts often lacked a high school diploma, Lehrer served as an enlisted soldier, achieving the rank of Specialist Third Class ( later retitled " Specialist-4 " and currently " Specialist "), which he described as being a " corporal without portfolio ".

Despite restrictions on education of blacks during apartheid, Mandela earned a degree in social work from the Jan Hofmeyer School in Johannesburg, and several years later earned a Bachelor's degree in international relations from the University of Witwatersrand, also in Johannesburg.

Despite the irregular scheduling, the program's hard-hitting reports attracted a steadily growing audience, particularly during the waning days of the Vietnam War and the gripping events of the Watergate scandal ; at that time, few if any other major-network news shows did in-depth investigative reporting to the degree carried out by 60 Minutes.

Despite the fact that the participant in a defined contribution plan typically has control over investment decisions, the plan sponsor retains a significant degree of fiduciary responsibility over investment of plan assets, including the selection of investment options and administrative providers.

Despite his great love of knowledge Montgomery did not receive a degree.

Despite this, she graduated from high school on time and earned a degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she was in the Psi Chi Honor Society.

Despite these concerns, small numbers of Black Bermudians have chosen to describe themselves on census returns as mixed-racial, and the Native American demographic, which had disappeared for centuries, is slowly re-emerging, as more Bermudians-especially on St. David's Island-choose to identify to some degree, if not exclusively, with their Native American ancestry ( although many may feel that, in an increasingly polarised climate, this is a safer option than identifying themselves as in any way White, or European ).

Despite these obstacles, readers and commentators have reached a broad consensus about the book's central cast of characters and, to a lesser degree, its plot.

Despite this, and Xenakis's other activities, he was able to graduate in 1947, with a degree in civil engineering.

Despite this, Alexander and Aspasia's marriage did have some degree of popular support.

Despite the fact that he held no formal degree, employees, friends, and the press respected his scientific accomplishments by calling him Dr. Land.

Despite the relative simplicity of the material, paper automata require a high degree of technical ingenuity.

Despite its high degree of symmetry, the Petersen graph is not a Cayley graph.

Despite assertions of the accuracy of the locations, dates, and people mentioned, there is heavy debate on the degree of authenticity.

Despite being isolated from the surviving portions of the Roman Empire, Syagrius managed to maintain a degree of Roman authority in northern Gaul for twenty years, and his state survived longer than the Western Empire itself, the last Emperors being overthrown or killed in 476 and 480.

Despite a certain degree of standardisation, the tachanka's armament was, in most cases, improvised.

Despite the encouraging degree of success so far, the Numbat remains at considerable risk of extinction and is classified as an endangered species.

Despite the Bologna Process which saw the demise of most traditional academic degree courses such as the Diplom and Magister Artium in favour of the more internationally known Bachelors and Masters system, the University of Munich continues to offer more than 100 areas of study with numerous combinations of majors and minors.