( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

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 the ambiguity of Locke's definition of property, which limited property to " as much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivates, and can use the product of ", this principle held great appeal to individuals possessed of great wealth.

Despite the limitations imposed on ancient Chinese concubines, history and literature have examples of concubines achieving great power and influence.

Despite his leanings toward Deism, Alexander has retained a respect for the Catholic Church, believing it to embody a great deal of accumulated human truth within its rituals.

Despite the disappointment, Hume later wrote, " Being naturally of a cheerful and sanguine temper, I soon recovered from the blow and prosecuted with great ardour my studies in the country ".

Despite his own great reputation as a military administrator, Hadrian's reign was marked by a general lack of major military conflicts, apart from the Second Roman-Jewish War.

Despite the great controversy that accompanied this switch, he remained one of the most popular politicians in West Germany.

Despite the bad financial situation, Athens staged the revival of the Olympic Games in 1896, which proved a great success.

Despite a great deal of local opposition the town lost its rail service in 1969, when as part of the controversial Beeching Axe the ' Waverley Line ' from Carlisle to Edinburgh via Hawick was closed.

" Despite Afghanistan's great poverty, they had little interest in social, economic and technological development – at one time explaining that " we Muslims believe God the Almighty will feed everybody one way or another.

Despite his lack of political experience, Claudius proved to be an able administrator and a great builder of public works.

Despite its initial dismal commercial showing, " Forever Changes " has since gained recognition as one of the all-time great rock albums.

Despite the offseason losses and controversies, the Brewers fans still looked forward to the 2012 season with great optimism, as the Brewers, by the end of February, had sold over 1. 5 million tickets, the most before the month of March.

Despite the great number of geometric microliths that have been found in Western Europe, few examples show any clear evidence of their use, and all the examples are from the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods.

Despite his physicians ' predictions to the contrary, after great effort Baba managed to walk again, but from that point on he was in constant pain and was severely limited in his ability to move.

Despite a significant technological advantage, the Cetagandans are finally driven off at great cost after many years of occupation and guerrilla warfare, in large part due to the leadership of General Count Piotr Vorkosigan, Miles ' paternal grandfather.

The armistice was celebrated in Pyongyang with a military parade in which Kim declared " Despite their best efforts, the imperialist invaders were defeated with great loss in men and material.

Despite being a time of great attrition for the religion in England before Catholic Emancipation in the 19th century, the recusant period reaped an extensive harvest of saints and martyrs.

Despite their great starting field position, Dallas was unable to score a touchdown and thus had to settle for kicker Mike Clark's 14-yard field goal to give them a 3 – 0 lead.

Despite their great defensive effort, the Giants still trailed 13-9 late in the fourth quarter, but a 30-yard run from linebacker Gary Reasons on a fake punt set up kicker Matt Bahr's fourth field goal, cutting their deficit to 13-12.

Despite an initially poor reception, it became a great success, playing 400 times in the next two years.

Despite his great power and prestige, the Dagda is sometimes depicted as oafish and crude, even comical, wearing a short, rough tunic that barely covers his rump, dragging his great penis on the ground.

Despite his initial reluctance, Johnson agreed to run for re-election for governor in 1855, and became the nominee at the party convention.

Despite initial success, Shapur lifted his siege after his army missed an opportunity to exploit a collapsed wall.

Despite initial activity in the Lords, his career there was cut short by the House of Lords Act 1999.

Despite its initial recklessness, the alliance was very prestigious for both families.

Despite his initial high profile after the end of the Monkees, Jones struggled to establish himself as a solo artist.

Despite some initial success, bolstered by heavy advertising, the brand did not prove popular and was eventually withdrawn from sale.

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 initial popularity of the measure, the newspapers praised Cleveland's veto.

Despite initial successes, the German army was stopped close to Moscow in December 1941.

Despite some initial expressions of enthusiasm, Hoxha and Shehu mistrusted Nikita Khrushchev's programs of " peaceful coexistence " and " different roads to socialism " because they appeared to pose the threat that Yugoslavia might again try to take control of Albania.

Despite the initial distrust of the King and Crown Prince, and the loathing of Queen Augusta, Bismarck soon acquired a powerful hold over the King by force of personality and powers of persuasion.

Despite the initial success, the Olympic Movement faced hard times, as the 1900 ( in De Coubertin's own Paris ) and 1904 Games were both swallowed by World's Fairs, and received little attention.

Despite initial media reports, the affidavit made no mention of Clemens or Pettitte.

Despite the marginalised Left Opposition's demand for the restoration of Soviet democracy, Stalin developed a bureaucratic, authoritarian government, that was condemned by democratic socialists, anarchists and Trotskyists for undermining the initial socialist ideals of the Bolshevik Russian Revolution.

Despite a period of instability known as the Battle of the Booksellers when the initial copyright terms under the Statute began to expire, the Statute of Anne remained in force until the Copyright Act 1842 repealed it.

Despite an initial period of compliance, the principle of donating copies of books to certain libraries lapsed, partly due to the unwieldiness of the statute's provisions and partly because of a lack of cooperation by the publishers.

Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by a sexist society, she gained education from books in her father's library and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss.

Despite an initial reluctance to develop for video game consoles, Square entered the Nintendo Famicom market in December 1985 with the porting of Thexder.

Despite initial excitement, the guidance of longtime baseball executives, Eddie Leishman and Buzzie Bavasi as well as a new playing field, the team struggled ; the Padres finished in last place in each of its first six seasons in the NL West, losing 100 games or more four times.

Despite initial setbacks, he won increasing support among the natives.

Despite its initial focus on the elites, the Union was successful in raising funds from across French society.

Despite their initial cooperation against " revisionism ," Hoxha denounced Mao as a revisionist, along with almost every other self-identified Communist organization in the world.

Despite the initial failure of the story, it changed the course of Clarke's career.