Despite their drawbacks, Haüy promoted their use with zeal: the books presented a new and handsome system which could be readily comprehended by those with eyesight.

Despite his seventy three years, Sir William is still a fine, erect and handsome man.

Despite the best efforts of Halyard, his housekeeper Thelma, and Marine Colonel Reade, romance blossoms between the three girls and a trio of handsome leathernecks.

Despite being offered a handsome salary for the time, she turned it down, believing that she could have a greater impact branching off on her own.

Despite being young, handsome, and moderately wealthy, he is known ( at least through the narrative ) as " The Accidental Virgin ".

Despite an increasingly unpredictable domestic and international environment, policy making conforms to well established postwar patterns.

Despite the sustained economic growth that marked the postwar period, the distribution of economic benefits was highly inequitable.

Despite the political-economical adversities of the postwar years, the company manufactured automobiles and, eventually, became a world powerhouse for producing sports cars.

Despite the postwar social unrest, migrants flocked to Texas for new opportunities.

Despite claims at the time that more German aircraft than British had been shot down ( 106 kills were claimed by the RAF ) postwar analysis showed Allied aircraft losses amounted to 106, including 88 RAF fighters and 18 bombers.

Despite the necessary means of the United States to advance a different vision of postwar Europe, Joseph Stalin viewed the re-emergence of Germany and Japan as the Soviet Union's chief threats, not the United States.

Despite the fact that Scottish Presbyterians strongly supported the Williamites in the Williamite war in Ireland in the 1690s, they were excluded from power in the postwar settlement by the Anglican Protestant Ascendancy.

Despite being steeped in aviation history, Castle Vale became infamous from the 1970s onwards as a large scale example of a failed postwar overspill estate, which suffered from poor construction and maintenance, social deprivation and high levels of crime.

Despite its high quality cars, Talbot-Lago struggled for postwar survival along with other prewar marques such as Hotchkiss and Delahaye, and production ceased when Simca took over during 1959.

Despite being noted as one of Akira Kurosawa's most critically renowned postwar films, Nora Inu was once not held in such high regard by the director himself.

Despite these efforts, Döblin was disappointed by the apparent continuity between the Nazi years and the postwar climate.

Despite the performance, the Indian Parachute Regiment was disbanded in late 1945 as part of the reduction and restructuring of the postwar British Indian Army.

Despite its problems, Newark tried to remain vital in the postwar era.

Despite the Confederacy's defeat, Stuart remained the head of the postwar Confederate Army.

Despite initial postwar plans to break up Agip, administrator Enrico Mattei converted it to a state monopoly, renamed Eni.

Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.

Despite being short on cash at times, he often refused money that his friends offered him out of their own pockets.

Despite the influx of advertisers and their cash, or perhaps because of them, the 1940s were not without bumps for the radio networks.

Despite serious cash flow problems, they moved UPI's headquarters from New York City to Washington DC, incurring additional major costs due to construction cost overruns.

Despite no history of radio programming to draw on and perennial cash shortages, DuMont was an innovative and creative network.

Despite total sales of $ 40 million, TSR ended 1996 with few cash reserves.

Despite painting 10, 000 works rated of ' national importance ' by the British Museum he had only £ 12 cash in his possession ( having never opened a bank account ), and owed £ 2 million to various creditors.

Despite the use of feudal levies, Norman warfare traditionally depended on rulers raising and spending large sums of cash.

Despite Chamberlin making " tons of cash " as a carpenter, he would soon give up his job and move to Chicago to devote himself to the band.

Despite Stoke being strapped for cash, Tony Waddington gave him a two year contract at £ 50 a week – this was double the wages he received at Blackpool.

Despite this success, Lane's compulsive generosity with her family and friends often found her strapped for cash and forced to work on material that paid well, but did not engage her growing interests in political theory and world history.

Despite these two bright spots, the bulk of Orion's offerings fared poorly, and Kluge, who had kept the studio afloat through periodic injections of cash, announced that his stake in the company was up for sale.

Despite being armed with a pistol and an AK-47 assault rifle, and provisioned with US $ 750, 000 in cash, Saddam did not resist capture.

Despite very strong economic headwinds the company ’ s share price rebounded over tenfold compared to March 2009, and it roughly doubled its cash and cash equivalents to $ 124 million at the end of the first quarter, from $ 62 million a year earlier.

Despite the ending of cash payments for the rest of 1922, the main cause of Germany's inability to pay, the steady depreciation of the mark, was ongoing.

Despite being “ assumptions about assumptions ,” Level 3 inputs can provide useful information about fair values ( and thus future cash flows ) when they are generated legitimately and with best efforts, without any attempt to bias users ’ decisions.

Despite this, he considers himself a " veritable superstar " and has paranoid delusions about everyone he meets wanting to either cash in on his fame or assassinate him.

Despite a large cash injection made by Israeli businessman Arcadi Gaydamak ($ 400, 000 ) in the hope of promoting peace and harmony among the citizens of Israel, and a return to their rebuilt home stadium ( largely financed by the Emir of Qatar, hence the renaming to Doha Stadium ), Sakhnin were relegated at the end of 2005-06 season, finishing nine points from safety.

Despite a very good tally of 89 goals in 165 games for the Bianconeri, Inzaghi was soon benched in favour of David Trézéguet, and later signed for A. C. Milan for reported 70 billion Italian Lire, or 45 million lire cash plus Cristian Zenoni.

Despite these ups and downs, ADC continued to survive and on July 13, 2010, the company released this announcement: " Tyco Electronics ( NYSE: TEL ) and ADC ( Nasdaq: ADCT ) announced today a definitive agreement under which Tyco Electronics will acquire ADC for $ 12. 75 per share in cash, or an enterprise value of approximately $ 1. 25 billion.

Despite predictions that it would be unable to raise the cash needed, VU bought out one of the two minority shareholders in Cegetel, taking its holding to 60 percent, with Vodafone holding the remaining 40 percent.

Despite the death of his wife and young son in Bermuda, he went on to Virginia, and in 1611, successfully cultivated new strains of tobacco, providing a critical cash crop for the colonists to grow and export beginning in 1612.

Despite the fact that they had money held by the US government from the sale of their land, for nearly five years, during the depression of the 1870s, the Osage did not receive their full annuity in cash ; like other Native Americans, they suffered through the reduced rations that the government supplied during this period, and some people were starving.