Despite the difficulties facing a congregational Rabbi raising a family, Klein volunteered for the U. S. Army during World War II as a chaplain, motivated by a cause he saw as clearly right with important implications for the Jewish People.

Despite facing an oil crisis due to the OPEC embargo, the economy of Japan witnessed a large boom in this period, overtaking the economy of West Germany to become the second-largest in the world.

Despite facing many obstacles, the Lovers are always united by the play's close.

Despite the eventual termination of the supply of manna, Exodus states that a small amount of it survived within an omer-sized pot or jar, which was kept facing the Testimony ( possibly, adjacent to the Ark of the Covenant ); it indicates that Yahweh instructed this of Moses, who delegated it to Aaron.

Despite being blinded and exiled and facing violence from Creon and his sons, in the end Oedipus is accepted and absolved by Zeus.

Despite facing public condemnation from FVBC's Loenen, Free Your Vote recruited hundreds of volunteers for the province-wide effort, building a far larger citizen organization than either ECCO or FVBC.

Despite the changes, many Gurkhas who had not served long enough to entitle them to a pension faced hardship on their return to Nepal, and some critics derided the Government's decision to only award the new pension and citizenship entitlement to those joining after 1 July 1997, claiming that this left many ex-Gurkha servicemen still facing a financially uncertain retirement.

Despite pleading " no contest " to child molestation and possibly facing up to life in prison, Lewis managed to be let off with probation and a $ 500 fine.

Despite repeated denials about his complicity in extraordinary rendition — he once dismissed the suggestion of UK involvement in the practice as a " conspiracy theory "— Straw has been dogged for years over his alleged leading role in it, most recently facing scrutiny over the case of Abdel Hakim Belhadj.

Despite a reduction of the levy, Tyne Tees was one of the contractors facing collapse.

Despite the seizure of his computer equipment ; searches of his business, person, and home ; grand jury investigations ; FBI and ATF questioning ; facing years in prison and hundreds of death threats ; he did not reveal the identities of members of the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front movements.

Despite notionally facing a deficit of 550 votes, MacAskill won by over 2000 votes.

Despite her rationalism, she often tends to exaggerate any problem she's facing.

Despite the immense difficulties facing the new party the KPRP promoted the unification of the trade union movement and opposed the war on the country ’ s eastern frontier.

Despite Ford's engines being well regarded for their ease of service, the Endura-E has a very awkward placing for its oil filter, which is quite high up, at the back of the engine and facing from left to right rather than pointing downwards or out – meaning it is very difficult to access from underneath the car ( without a mechanic's ramp ), and despite being very short, the can-type oil filter still manages to protrude past the tip of the adjacent starter motor, meaning it is very difficult to remove using chain-type grips.

Despite briefly being locked out of Boothferry Park by bailiffs and facing the possibility of liquidation, Hull qualified for the Third Division play-offs in the 2000 – 01 season, losing in the semi-finals to Leyton Orient.

Despite the many problems facing the province, it is one of the more stable in the southeast of the country and there has been a concerted effort to improve the civic infrastructure, giving Paktia a reasonable rate of reconstruction.

Despite this bravado, and despite receiving units from McClellan's Army of the Potomac that swelled the Army of Virginia to 70, 000 men, Pope's aggressiveness exceeded his strategic capabilities, particularly since he was now facing Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Despite facing government concerns and policy confusion, a number of people have developed commercial enterprises that have centred on utilising the best elements of their homelands.

Despite the Jets ' offensive struggles and facing a 10-0 deficit, the Jets defense and special teams rallied to score 17 unanswered points.

Despite the setback at the French Open, Sabatini reached the Quarterfinals at 1993 Wimbledon, facing Jana Novotna, a player she had beaten in 6 consecutive matches.

Despite facing a numerically superior enemy, 29th Infantry Brigade held its positions for 3 days.

Despite its whimsical appearance, fairy painting is strongly rooted in the literary and theatrical influences of Romanticism, as well as in the cultural issues facing the Victorian era.

Despite facing a difficult market, Jetstar Asia took delivery of a fifth aircraft in 2005 and sought approval for new routes.

" Despite the desertions in March and April 1943, the auxiliary Police remained heavily Ukrainian, and Ukrainians serving the Nazis continued pacifications of Polish and other villages.

Despite losses for the SPD, the Red-Green coalition government commanded a very slight majority in the Bundestag and was renewed, with Joschka Fischer as foreign minister, Renate Künast as minister for consumer protection, nutrition and agriculture, and Jürgen Trittin as minister for the environment.

Despite the only French naval victory ( during the Napoleonic Wars ) of Battle of Grand Port on 19 and 20 August 1810 by a fleet commanded by Pierre Bouvet, Mauritius was captured on 3 December 1810 by the British under Commodore Josias Rowley.

Despite the fact that Sextus Pompeius was controlling Sicily and Domitius Ahenobarbus still commanded the republican fleet, the republican resistance had been definitively crushed at Philippi.

Despite an advance of the cavalry commanded by Fitzhugh Lee, the Confederate Army was checked by the arrival of Union cavalry commanded by Gen. Philip Sheridan and two divisions of infantry.

Despite never having commanded a naval battle in his life, he won the Battle of Okpo, Battle of Sacheon, and several others in quick succession.

Despite the respect he commanded, his constituents were in desperate economic straits and tired of the UFA's orthodoxy, which had failed to raise their condition.

Despite the US aid, FANK ( commanded by General Sosthene Fernandez ) was seriously handicapped by corruption, particularly by officers claiming salaries for non-existent troops, and military incompetence.

Despite having a later start than his rivals and lacking both the material resources and social status they commanded, Liu Bei overcame his many defeats to carve out his own realm, which at its peak spanned modern day Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, part of Hubei and part of Gansu.

Laelianus represented a strong danger to Postumus because of the two legions he commanded ( Primigenia in Mainz and VIII Augusta in Strasbourg ); Despite this, his rebellion lasted only about two months before he was executed, reputedly by his own soldiers, or by Postumus ' troops after a siege of Laelianus ' capital.

Despite his faux pas, Godfrey still commanded a strong presence and a loyal fan base.

Despite capturing a trench line, the Germans were unable to capitalise due to the actions of a platoon commanded by Second-Lieutenant James Leach.

Despite offering vital tactical and operational support to Army Group South, after the defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad he was moved to the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, where he commanded Luftwaffe forces in the Italian Campaign.

Despite being manned by only 800 militia and Ordenanças, commanded by Major José Talaya, the town held out for seven days — surrendering only when an entire face of the bastion crumbled under the bombardment from Mortier's artillery.

Despite Eumenes ' undeniable skills as a general, he never commanded the full allegiance of the Macedonian officers in his army and died as a result.

Despite support in various quarters for his reinstatement as Air Force chief, and promotion to air marshal in 1940, he never again commanded the RAAF.

Despite a stiff fight between the boats, commanded by Captain Charles John Napier and the American batteries, the Bastion was unharmed and Brooke called off the attack and withdrew before dawn.

Despite these difficulties, the city, commanded by Deputy Voivode Samuel Drucki-Sokoliński, held out throughout 1633 while the Commonwealth, under its newly elected King Władysław IV, organised a relief force.

( Despite his fame throughout the Confederacy, for almost three years Lee had commanded only the army in northern Virginia.

Despite never having commanded a division in battle, he was further promoted to acting lieutenant-general and sent to Egypt to command the Eighth Army's XIII Corps, under Montgomery.

Despite his attempts to avoid becoming embroiled in the Thirty Years ' War, Bogislaw in the Capitulation of Franzburg was forced to allow imperial troops commanded by Albrecht von Wallenstein to use his territories as a base in 1627.