Despite the biblical prohibition on sexual relations between half-brothers and sisters, () Amnon had an overwhelming desire for her.

Despite her continuing production and accolades, however, Beaux was working against the current of tastes and trends in art.

Despite her active participation in urging social change and working as a caseworker, Hall's mother says Camilla became dissatisfied with her work.

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 the efforts of his successor Emperor Yohannes IV to establish a relationship with the United Kingdom, Ethiopia was ignored by the world powers until the opening of the Suez Canal, and more important, the Mahdist War, drew outside attention to her once more.

Despite Guy Montag's attempts to break her from the spell society has on her, Mildred continues to be shallow and indifferent.

Despite her family ’ s vehement disapproval, she eloped with Urbano in 1917 to live at his parents ' home in Gambettola.

Despite her private religion, she did not attempt to reimpose Catholicism on her largely Protestant subjects, thus angering the chief Catholic nobles.

Despite widespread condemnation of her scholarship some minor aspects of her work continued to have supporters.

Despite the age gap the two had a close relationship until her suicide in 1987.

Despite her rejection of religion, she continued to maintain a personal belief in a God of some sort, relating in her autobiography that she believed in " an unseen over-ruling Power ," " which science calls Nature and religion calls God.

Despite the fact that her family had close links to the Church of Ireland, her marriage to a Protestant student caused a rift with her parents, who did not attend her wedding.

Despite her many attempts, Mei is unable to show her family Totoro's tree.

Despite the controversy, many designers who allowed her to borrow clothing noted that the arrangement was good for their businesses as well as for the American fashion industry overall.

Despite the promise to spare his family, Bukharin's wife, Anna Larina, was sent to a labor camp, but she survived to see her husband officially rehabilitated by the Soviet state under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988.

Despite being friends with Margaret, she has driven Margaret mad a few times, notably in " Only a Story ", when she moved in with the Meldrews after her flat had been flooded and drove Margaret to the point of distraction with her complaining and laziness.

Despite token criticism of the partition from Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, Austrian statesman Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz was proud of wresting as large a share as he did, with the rich salt mines of Bochnia and Wieliczka.

Despite international academic success, he remained proud of his Cornish roots.

In the late 1990s, during the release of her album Bathhouse Betty, Midler commented on her time performing there, " Despite the way things turned out the AIDS crisis, I'm still proud of those days.

Despite the aridness, the residents of the province are proud tillers of the earth and like most Nguni tribes in Southern Africa they practise animal husbandry to supplement their diets.

( Despite occasional contradictory evidence, Edward Abbey considered himself a liberal --" I'm a liberal, and proud of it ," he wrote in Abbeys ' Road.

Despite having an anti-collectivist and anti-statist party with an emphasis on personal rights and duties that was responsible for privatizing the industrial sectors nationalized during the revolutionary period, he increased social spending during his term, supported land reform and its redistribution in Alentejo and he was proud that his party had been adopted by the working, middle-class blue-collar worker and middle-low class workers and that his party defended " the construction of a socialist society in liberty ".

Despite his numerous career-related awards, Hanna was most proud of this Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.

Despite this loss, Kiefer claimed that he was proud that he had played up to a fifth set against one of the best tennis players of the world in clay, since clay is Kiefer's least favourite surface.

Despite his behaviour, James is an engine proud of his red paint, hard-working and reliable and is generally considered to be a really useful engine.

Despite being on a sports-talk station, Cole at times rarely talks about any sports other than golf and boxing – a fact he is proud of.

Despite spending most of his life living and ministering in England, Lloyd-Jones was proud of his roots in Wales.

Despite ending the tournament as runners-up, Van Bronckhorst stated that he was proud of what the team had achieved.

Despite his reserved and soft-spoken manner, he is extremely passionate and proud of his job, in some ways more so than Sam.

Despite Ravana's faults, Mandodari loves him and is proud of his strength.

Despite the fact that he was exiled from his own clan after his First Death in 1622, he remains proud of, and faithful to, his Scottish heritage.

Despite representing President Bush's top political advisor Karl Rove, Luskin is a proud Democrat and has donated to numerous Democratic causes .. See: Ronald Fino

Despite the small size and lack of municipal services, the citizens of this community remain proud and unaffected.

Despite their movement in the 18th Century to its present place, the religious relics of the Roman Catholic Church were taken from the original settlement, where its Roman Catholic population it highly proud of extending an invitation to visit the " Señor Sepultado " ( The Buried Lord ) image, which has a five-century existence.

Despite winning a Leinster Senior Football Championship in 1956, reaching the National League final in 1958 and 1968, and winning the All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship in 1965, Kildare footballers seemed to have difficulty maintaining their proud tradition.

Despite a tram connection being provided from Portstewart to Cromore to link with the railway, the town developed with a more genteel character.

Despite the occasion being bittersweet ( it is also the third anniversary of Vera's death ), he's in his element: loud, brash, and boisterous-lighting a candle for his deceased wife before ordering rounds of drinks and proudly showing his son's photo around.

Despite his " Playmaker " style on the field and flashy personality that was evident in his animated, brash commentary as a top NFL analyst for ESPN, Irvin is most remembered by his fellow Cowboys as a consummate teammate.

Despite the money thrown at the project, Oberst considers The Uneventful Vacation — a loud, sometimes brash alt-rock album that still manages to encompass Oberst's awkward but powerful personal music style — to be " somewhat of a failure musically.

Despite his rather confident and brash exterior as well as showing a disdain for college work, Owaru is a gifted student at Kyowa College.

Despite the fact that he is a " Very Small Animal " of a generally timid disposition, he tries to be brave and on occasion conquers his fears.

Despite sharing in the widespread early enthusiasm for the war among German intellectuals, he soon developed a pacifist disposition.

Despite its reasonably copious strength of numbers, the Providence Petrel is deemed to be in a precarious disposition because its breeding is confined to two mountain tops and one tiny islet, and is therefore at great risk from a catastrophe.