Despite the attempt to keep the show fresh, the changes alienated many of its longtime viewers while failing to gain the hoped-for younger viewers, and the ratings continued their decline.

Despite the success in domestic cups, Liverpool was 17th in the table over the second half of the season to finish the season eighth, their worst showing in the league since 1994, failing to qualify for Europe's Champions League for a third straight season.

Despite his rapidly failing health, Morgan asserts his right to travel up the tower in a one-man ' spider ' to rescue them.

Despite failing in Scotland, Winter was an immediate success at the Crown Ground.

Despite their move to the brand-new ESA, the Hurricanes played lackluster hockey in 1999 – 2000, failing to make the playoffs.

Despite failing to qualify for the Champions League, Rosenborg had enjoyed another great season and it looked like Hareide's beginning reforms were paying off, but 2003 turned out to be his one and only season at the club as he accepted an offer to lead the Norwegian national team in December of that year.

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Despite retaining their strong fan base, Living Colour disbanded in January 1995, after failing to settle on a common musical goal during sessions for their fourth studio album.

Despite failing to be elected to the shadow cabinet, Castle remained as the Labour shadow spokesperson on Employment in the early days of the incoming Conservative government in 1970, which introduced many of her policy suggestions as part of their Industrial Relations Act.

The Boston Globes Renée Graham wrote of the artists ' ambivalence towards the term in a 2003 article on neo soul's standing, " Despite its critical success, if neo-soul had an initial failing, it was the media-created label itself-a term that the artists, whom it was meant to represent, generally rejected ".

Despite failing twice, he claims to have passed the bar exam legitimately on the third try after eight weeks of study, because " Louisiana at the time allowed you to take the Bar over and over as many times as you needed.

Despite courting controversy by accusing manager Rafael Benítez of ' treating him like a slave ', he insisted that he had no ill feelings towards the club or anyone associated with it and only wanted to leave after failing to make Poland's World Cup squad, but still stayed on for another year at the manager's request.

Despite failing to eliminate John Connor, it is later revealed in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines that the T-1000 " inadvertently interfered " with the development of his relationships with Kate Brewster ( Claire Danes / Bryce Dallas Howard ), whom he attended school with, and her father, Robert ( David Andrews ), who was the true creator of Skynet by using Cyberdyne Systems ' research.

Despite failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010.

Despite his new capacity as King of Jerusalem, Frederick II continued to take his time in setting off, and in 1227, he was excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for failing to honour his crusading pledge.

Despite his failing health, Minton remained active in the Democratic Party.

Despite Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse failing to meet the $ 1 million ' stretch goal ', Revolution Software announced that the success of its crowdfunding campaign had inspired it to begin work on Beneath a Steel Sky 2.

Despite the reference designs being identical, a number of digibox lines have specific faults or traits, such as failing modems on Grundig units, and unstable tuners on older model Pace boxes.

Despite much stage work and acclaim, their records were still failing to sell at all well.

Despite failing the campaign, Dong's unit was the only unscathed unit of the Han forces.

Despite his failing health, he was still a high-standing member, and he usually presided over the meetings of the Secretariat when Suslov was not around.

Despite failing to be selected for this contract Veolia have refused to rule out the possibility of them building their own energy from waste site to dispose of commercial and industrial waste.

Despite finally uniting Japan, Ieyasu's health was failing.

Despite failing to carry out a proper DNA test in 1999 and its ' Inconclusive ' results.

Despite his health failing towards the end of his life he remained in this office until his death.

Despite this opinion among researchers, evidence has accumulated that supports the existence of complex biological effects of weaker non-thermal electromagnetic fields, ( including weak ELF magnetic fields, although the latter does not strictly qualify as EM radiation < ref >), and modulated RF and microwave fields.

Despite losing the election, Tancredo managed to secure major party status for the Constitution Party in Colorado, as that state requires a party to surpass 10 % in a gubernatorial election to qualify for such status.

Despite their role as hosts, Italy were still required to qualify, the first and only time the host nation was not granted automatic qualification.

Despite continuing to improve, the Hornets failed to qualify for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive season.

Despite these moves, the Oilers were unable to qualify for the playoffs for the sixth straight season, finishing fourteenth in the Western Conference.

Despite this England still needed a late equalizer at home to Greece to qualify automatically.

Despite defeating North Korea in the final group game 3 – 0, Ivory Coast failed to qualify for the knock-out stages.

Despite a 3 – 0 win over Panathinaikos in their first match, courtesy of a Vincenzo Iaquinta hat trick, the team failed to qualify for the knockout rounds, coming in third in their group, equal on points with second placed Werder and behind eventual champions Barcelona.

Despite achieving a Scottish record of nine points in the group stage, Celtic failed to qualify for the latter stages and parachuted into the UEFA Cup.

Despite these reinforcements, the Fire failed to qualify for the playoffs for only the second time in club history.

Despite poor starts in their last two Third Division campaigns, on both occasions Queen's Park did enough to qualify for the end of season playoffs.

Despite getting an initial warm response from the crowd ( and Hankey was seen smiling and taking the pantomime booing in good spirit ) Hankey indicated after last year's defeat, that he would not return for the 2011, event should he indeed qualify for it.

Despite winning his first match in the qualifiers against Wales, Bulgaria under Matthäus were unable to qualify for Euro 2012, following draws with Switzerland and Montenegro, as well as a home loss against England.

Despite their success in the Gold Cup, Canada's senior men's side failed to qualify for either the 2002, 2006 or 2010 World Cup.

Despite winning a major piece of silverware, Manager Barry Powell was sacked after a poor league showing ended with them failing to qualify for the newly created Conference North and Powell was replaced by fans favourite Chris Brindley.

Despite struggling to generate offence, Bouwmeester participated in the AHL All-Star game, and was loaned to the Chicago Wolves when it became evident the Rampage would not qualify for the playoffs.

Despite these performances he still wasn't ranked in the top 16 and so had to qualify for the World Championship, where he managed to beat Fergal O ' Brien 10 – 9 on the final black to qualify for the first time since 2008.

Despite SCHIP, the number of uninsured children continued to rise, particularly among families that cannot qualify for SCHIP.

Despite this record, he finished 49th in GAA and 56th in save percentage as the Leafs failed to qualify for the playoffs.

Despite Legace's numbers, the Blues failed to qualify for the playoffs for the third consecutive season.

Despite all these attempts some of the mine's neighbours do not qualify for compensation for the mine's impact.

Despite these successes, Bell was upset that he was unable to better make his name on the world stage when England failed to qualify for the World Cup in 1974, a failure which also forced England manager Alf Ramsey's departure.