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Despite having condemned this legislation as unworkable after an anti-grizzly bear hunting initiative by her husband, proponent Paul George failed to gather and submit sufficient signatures, Carr threw the energies into this campaign which, although it too failed to gather sufficient signatures in all but four ridings, The nearly 100, 000 signatures gathered created the largest voting reform organization in the province and increased awareness and support amongst Greens and non-Greens alike for electoral reform.
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Despite having the capability to support sound chips in cartridges, almost no 7800 cartridges feature POKEY hardware for enhanced sound.
Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.
Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.
Despite his ferocious reputation though, there are no verified accounts of his ever having murdered or harmed those he held captive.
Despite having a simple architecture, Berkeley DB supports many advanced database features such as ACID transactions, fine-grained locking, hot backups and replication.
Despite its faintness, Capricornus has one of the oldest mythological associations, having been consistently represented as a hybrid of a goat and a fish since the Middle Bronze Age.
" Despite having the quote presented to a notable organisation, it has also appeared in books such as " The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken " as it is deemed by some Westerners as a prime example of a lack of understanding of foreign culinary traditions in the Western world.
Despite both forces having similar numbers, the Japanese were easily defeated due to the Ming cannon.
Despite having a tremendous chronology, their use was not at all consistent or unchanging.
Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible and his having retired, Slocum rebuilt a derelict sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.
Despite having the stronger army, Carinus held the weaker position.
Despite having no debris shields, the spacecraft survived the comet passage intact.
Despite having invented much of the technology of software, Dijkstra eschewed the use of computers in his own work for many decades.
Despite not having a civil ensign, the EU's Fishery Inspection teams display a blue and yellow pennant.
Despite the efficacy of epilepsy surgery, some patients decide not to undergo surgery owing to fear or the uncertainty of having a brain operation.
Despite popular lore, it seems unlikely that he reached Cape Horn or the eponymous Drake Passage, because his descriptions do not fit the first and his shipmates denied having seen an open sea.
Despite having " lost " its Soviet periphery, Russia has 9 time zones, stretching slightly over half the world's longitude.
Despite having direct access to Hitler, Heydrich's loyalty to Himmler remained firm.
Despite opposing the United States in favour of the Sandanistas on the country's northern border, stern warnings against the US Bay of Pigs invasion, along with repelling Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's invasion after turning to the Organization of American States, and border disputes with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has held firmly to its belief against ever having a military.
Despite having the go-ahead runs on base, Smith was able to escape the inning without any further damage.
Despite having just turned 21, Cronje was made captain of Orange Free State for the 1990-91 season.
Despite this, the office was not legally hereditary, and the heir could not title himself " Emperor " without having been personally elected.
Despite having defeated Prussia at the Battle of Langensalza, the city of Hanover became a Prussian provincial capital.
Despite having interest rates down near zero for a long period of time, the Quantitative easing strategy did not succeed in stopping price deflation.
Despite Valenti's two-year marriage to Johnson's personal secretary, the investigation focused on rumors that he was having a gay relationship with a commercial photographer friend.
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Despite the fact that Palamism has never been officially condemned by the Catholic Church, Western theologians have tended to reject it, often equating it with quietism.
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 his magnificent oration in his defence ( which so impresses Demosthenes that he resolves to study oratory ), Callistratus is condemned to death.
Despite the popularity of his book, both it and his prequel book on the life of Pantagruel's father Gargantua were condemned by the academics at the Sorbonne for their unorthodox ideas and by the Roman Catholic Church for their derision of certain religious practices.
Despite the fact that there were Jacobins among those who brought down Robespierre and the rest of The Mountain, the resulting Thermidorian reaction shuttered all of the Jacobin clubs, removed all Jacobins from power, and condemned many, well beyond the ranks of the Mountain, to death or deadly exile.
Despite all this, the Count is unwilling to sacrifice his daughter and is condemned to hell.
Despite being repeatedly condemned by the US State Department, Abacha did have a few ties to American politics.
Despite Cicero's defence, Hybrida was condemned and went into exile at Kefalonia.
Despite little evidence, he was accused of collusion with the enemy and condemned to death by " slow slicing " at Ganshiqiao () in Beijing.
Despite Yellow Peri's contrary advice, Doctor Occult trusts her with the Unspoken Principum, a mysterious and universal truth that every condemned soul knows, but s / he can never communicate by any means.
Despite the loss of local employment, the village, which at the end of World War II was so poor that large sections were condemned, has become affluent with a high proportion of professional and managerial residents ( 38. 4 % compared to a county average of 26. 1 %, as of 2001 ).
Despite never personally witnessing these events, he was nonetheless willing to pass on descriptions which were provided to him, in which a condemned man was eaten:
Despite being condemned as a Category D village in the 1960s – doomed to wither on the vine without financial aid – Haswell refused to lie down and die.
Despite occasional objections to aspects of his thought, Teilhard was never condemned by the magisterial church.
Despite much press attention, the Days of Rage did not spark a Communist led revolutionary movement as predicted and fellow revolutionaries, like Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers, condemned the action as counterproductive and amateurish.
Despite the mostly negative response to the film, the animated series still did well during Fox Kids ' Saturday morning line-up and was praised by those who condemned the film.
Despite Goldman's praise of him in the book, Paul McCartney did not return the favor, and condemned Goldman's account of his old bandmate, telling fans and the press " Look, don't buy it.
Despite his praise of the design, Gramm condemned the Mint's approach to marketing the coin, stating that if the United States Mint were the Franklin Mint, they would be " sued for deceptive advertisement.
Despite his own acquittal for Weib und Welt on technical grounds, the court condemned the work as obscene and blasphemous and ordered that it be burned.
Despite this, the Sobor of 1504 condemned the Novgorod-Moscow heresy of the Sect of Skhariya the Jew, which repudiated some of the dogmas and rites of the Eastern Orthodoxy, thus confirming Gennady's major activity during his archiepiscopate.
Despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places and in the face of much local protest, the city of Reno condemned the building and demolished it on January 30, 2000.
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