Despite entering the LM forty minutes ahead of schedule, Young and Duke completed preparations only ten minutes early due to numerous delays in the process.

Despite its toxicity, a considerable fraction of petroleum oil entering marine systems is eliminated by the hydrocarbon-degrading activities of microbial communities, in particular by a remarkable recently discovered group of specialists, the so-called hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria ( HCCB ).

Despite entering December with a record of 8 – 3, Dallas lost its slim grip on 1st place in the division with losses to the New York Giants and San Diego.

Despite the high priority given by the Dutch government to fighting illegal drug trafficking, the Netherlands continue to be an important transit point for drugs entering Europe.

Despite his family's poor background, he performed well after entering the Church and rose quickly through the ranks.

Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal politics, entering the House of Commons in the 1972 election and winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976.

Despite a 2 – 0 Boxing Day home win over Crystal Palace, the Saints ' poor form continued into the new year, where they were dubbed by the media as having a ' New Years Hangover ', entering 2012 with a 3 – 0 away defeat to South coast rivals Brighton, which saw talisman Rickie Lambert sent off with a straight red card.

Despite a left eye that had a cut over it, Dávila was leading on the judges ' scorecards entering the 10th round.

Despite the statement made by Bentley about entering the studio in April, he noted that the recording date was now May 1.

Despite Pickford's embrace of the new medium it seems she was as concerned as everyone else about how her voice would record, despite the fact she had a stage career before entering film.

“ Despite well over 2, 000 mail-order marriages a year, there is no information on the amount of mail-order brides entering the US.

Despite entering as heavy favorites for being the reigning world champions ( having won the 1986 FIFA World Cup ), playing at home and having a team largely composed of its World Cup winners led by the legendary Diego Maradona, Argentina would finish in a disappointing fourth place after being beaten by defending champions Uruguay 0-1 in the semifinals.

Despite entering the union through sport, he had been influenced in joining it by wider events ; in 1980, the far-right General Luis García Meza seized power in a military coup, banned other political parties and subsequently declared himself president in what observers widely declared a dictatorship.

Despite this, the NDH's leader Ante Pavelić designated Zadar as the capital of the Sidraga-Ravni Kotari County, although its administrator was prevented from entering the city.

Despite her family background, her father disapproved of women entering the acting profession because he believed it conflicted with the traditional maternal duties and responsibility of women in the family.

Despite entering the race long after his primary opponent, California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Westly's campaign picked up considerable momentum, receiving endorsements from such figures as Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, Congressmembers Grace Napolitano, Diane Watson, and Brad Sherman, State Senators Carole Migden, Martha Escutia, and Nell Soto, County Supervisor Yvonne Burke, Assembly Members Judy Chu, Ted Lieu, Rudy Bermudez, and Nicole Parra, former Assembly Speaker and current Los Angeles City Councilman Herb Wesson, the majority of the Los Angeles City Council, and other elected officials at the federal, state, and local levels.

Despite the lack of airplay or a hit single JackInABox still sold quite well, entering the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart in its first week.

Despite many very well known names entering, Knott won at the age of 29.

Despite a bout with Bell's palsy, which left him with slightly slurred speech, Kiner is still broadcasting, entering his 51st year of doing Mets broadcasts as of the start of the 2012 baseball season, though only as an occasional guest analyst.

Despite finishing as the NHL's top-scoring team, the Canucks entering the 2002 playoffs as the eighth seed in the West for the second consecutive season.

Despite their initial success, by the time the last examples were entering service they were already being replaced on some top-link duties by more powerful locomotives.

Despite Lahti entering the race, a unanimous decision was made to keep Jyväskylä as the rally headquarters.

Despite the plane's life giving effects, living creatures entering the positive energy plane quickly become overloaded with life energy and may explode.

Despite entering a very crowded, competitive segment in which almost every member has been recently redesigned, the M managed to claim several key distinctions.

Despite this campaign Chaplin was a favourite with the troops, and his popularity continued to grow worldwide.

Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

Despite the successes enjoyed by his troops, Germanicus ' German campaign was in reaction to the mutinous intentions of his troops, and lacked real strategic value.

Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Goebbels ’ most important contribution to the Nazi cause between 1930 and 1933 was as the organizer of successive election campaigns: The Reichstag elections of September 1930, July and November 1932 and March 1933, and Hitler ’ s presidential campaign of March – April 1932.

Despite a platform covering the full range of political subjects, Kemp's primary campaign weapon was a fiscal policy based on tax cuts.

Despite the promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.

Despite friction between the African National Congress and Biko throughout the 1970s the ANC has included Biko in the pantheon of struggle heroes, going as far as using his image for campaign posters in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994.

Despite this, NATO approved a campaign against Afghanistan as self-defense against armed attack.

Despite a large fan campaign, UPN declined to pick up the show.

Despite the fact that McNary had spearheaded a " Stop Willkie " campaign late in the balloting, Willkie selected McNary, who was nominated by acclamation.

Despite running a vigorous campaign against the nation's business elite, Bryan suffered the worst loss in his three presidential campaigns, and Taft won by a comfortable margin.

Despite his brother's interference, John Kennedy was firm that Johnson was who he wanted as running mate and met with staffers such as Larry O ' Brien, his national campaign manager, to say Johnson was to be vice president.

Despite losing a long battle with the Associated Press, called " Rox " by UPI employees, United Press International's legacy was recognized by AP when it made the UPI mantra " get it first but get it right " a cornerstone of a branding campaign launched on ap. org.

Despite the massive amount of world and storyline development, none of the Living Greyhawk storylines or changes to the setting were considered official, since the regional adventure modules were produced by volunteers, and only received a cursory vetting by the campaign administrators of RPGA, and no review by WotC personnel.

Despite the popularity of the Living Greyhawk campaign, Wizards of the Coast did not produce much material for Greyhawk after the 25th anniversary Return to ... series of adventures, other than the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer and The Fright at Tristor.

Despite this military putsch the campaign for the plebiscite was conducted in an atmosphere of political freedom unthinkable in France.

Despite these revelations, Nixon's campaign was never seriously jeopardized, and on November 7, the President was re-elected in one of the biggest landslides in American political history.

Despite the expense of the military and diplomatic campaign that brought Taiwan into the imperial realm, the general sentiment in Beijing was ambivalent.

Despite his brother's interference, John Kennedy was firm that Johnson was who he wanted as running mate ; he met with staffers such as Larry O ' Brien, his national campaign manager, to say Johnson was to be vice president.

Despite this, James continued to retain Black Douglas support allowing him to begin a campaign of political alienation of Albany and his family.

Despite the OAS bombing campaign, the FLN remained resolute in its agreement to the ceasefire and on 17 June 1962 the OAS also began a ceasefire.

Despite the appeal of Bracks, Kennett entered the 1999 election campaign with a seemingly unassailable lead, and most commentators and opinion polls agreed that he would win a third term.

Despite a campaign for its retention for use as a Museum of Cinematography by, among others, Bristol photographer Reece Winstone, Friese-Green's birthplace was demolished by Bristol Corporation in 1958 to provide parking space for six cars.

Despite a scarcity of archaeological evidence, the existence of Moab prior to the rise of the Israelite state has been deduced from a colossal statue erected at Luxor by Pharaoh Ramesses II, in the 13th century BCE, which lists Mu ' ab among a series of nations conquered during a campaign.

Despite this setback, he continued to prepare for the Mt Tantiss campaign, removing Ackbar, his most formidable opponent, via political intrigue.