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 Xenarchus's Aristotelian leanings, Strabo later gives evidence to have formed his own Stoic inclinations.

Despite some fans ' reservations about commercial leanings, the album concludes with a ten minute instrumental ' Ice ', showcasing Latimer's lead guitar skills.

Despite the efforts of Calvinists to maintain the dominance of their system, some Congregational churches, especially in the older settlements of New England, gradually developed leanings toward Arminianism, Unitarianism, Deism, and transcendentalism.

Despite his libertarian leanings, Davíð also supported the Reykjavik City Theatre, in particular the building of a new theatre house which was opened in 1989.

Despite his King of the Hill protagonist Hank Hill being identifiable as a conservative and his The Goode Family being essentially a satire of many liberal precepts, Judge avoids discussing his political leanings.

Despite his conservative leanings, Abbott has acknowledged he voted for Labor in the 1988 NSW state election as he thought " Barrie Unsworth was the best deal Premier that New South Wales had ever had.

Despite these artistic and mystical leanings, Guido was expected, as the eldest child, to follow in his father's footsteps as a businessman.

Despite his strong presbyterian leanings, in 1661, Leighton allowed himself to be appointed Bishop of Dunblane by King Charles II.

" Despite BoS's experimental leanings, Poss was a big fan of The Rolling Stones, which was later manifest in covers of the Stones ' songs " Child Of The Moon " and " Paint It Black.

Despite these radical leanings, Abel's business prospered and he was able to be active in public life, becoming one of the Commissioners of Police, essentially a 180 strong town council, in 1836, having responsibility for paving and sanitation.

Despite the universalist leanings of the Enlightenment ( and its echo within Judaism in the Haskalah movement ), many Yiddish-speaking Jews in Eastern Europe continued to see themselves as forming a distinct national group — " ' am yehudi ", from the Biblical Hebrew — but, adapting this idea to European Enlightenment values, they assimilated the concept as that of an ethnic group whose identity did not depend on religion, which under Enlightenment thinking fell under a separate category.

Despite markedly different musical tastes and political leanings, the two soon become romantically involved and begin a " ménage à quatre " with Madeleine's two roommates, Catherine ( Catherine-Isabelle Duport ) and Elisabeth ( Marlène Jobert ).

Despite his leanings toward science, Spengler has a family history of witchcraft ( three ancestors, Zedekiah, Eli and Ezekiel, were wizards ), of which he is not so much ashamed as strongly considers irrelevant, mainly because he sees science as relevant.

Despite Ponting's apparent leanings, White was preferred, and became the 402nd Australian to receive his Test cap.

Despite the fact that Lord Southampton's brother-in-law the Catholic Sir Thomas Howard, Baron Arundell and Sir Ferdinando Gorges had funded the spring 1605 expedition to Allen's Island ( in modern day Newfoundland ), designed to establish a colony for British Catholicism, there is absolutely no way that Wingfield or indeed Hunt, ( described by Wingfield as " a man not in any way to be touched with the rebellious humours of a popish spirit, nor blemished with the least suspicion of a factious schismatic, whereof I had a special care " ), could have had Catholic or Non-conformist leanings, the more so in the wake of the previous year's Catholic Gunpowder Plot.

Despite his oath of allegiance to the restored monarchy, the loyal Ney had rallied to Napoleon's banner immediately upon his landing in southern France and had led a corps into battle at Waterloo.

Despite his switch of allegiance, Tokoi remained barred from a return to Finland due to his prominent involvement as a Red in the Finnish Civil War, however.

Despite these changes in party allegiance, for which he was branded a maverick, Morse won re-election to the United States Senate in 1956.

Despite Eumenes ' undeniable skills as a general, he never commanded the full allegiance of the Macedonian officers in his army and died as a result.

Despite his pre-war allegiance as a Democrat, in Congress he was conspicuous as a Radical Republican in Reconstruction legislation, and wrote the initial version of the Civil Rights Act of 1871 ( Ku Klux Klan Act ).

Despite coming from a predominantly pro-Union area, O ' Ferrall felt his true allegiance to be to Virginia, and he thus joined the Confederate side of the war.

Despite his allegiance determined by the relations of the Promethians with the Ventrue, Wilhem appears to have managed to preserve a good part of his humanity.

Despite this, Henry Tudor loses the battle and the victorious Plantagenet army swears allegiance to their new King Richard IV of England, the nephew of their deceased leader.

Despite his allegiance, he has no special loyalty towards King James, and merely seeks revenge on David Banner, and by association, the Hulk.

Despite their never having sworn allegiance to Edgar, William considered the northerners rebels because they were in the realm of King Edward, whom he regarded as his direct predecessor.

Despite the Pride's allegiance to one another, rifts and alliances had been common amongst the group ; indeed, the most notable of the alliance was the Hayes and Deans, who had plotted to betray the other remaining Pride members because they were human.

Despite its original creation from party militias, the Lebanese Forces accepted new recruits without any specific party allegiance.

Despite receiving an award from Action for Children's Television, favorable reviews, and a ranking in Time magazine's " Best of ' 87 " feature, Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures was canceled by CBS following the controversy.

Despite opposition against the new plan, the Marcos government gained Congressional approval and Philippine troops were sent from the middle of 1966 as the Philippines Civic Action Group ( PHILCAG ).

Despite the decline, several appropriate technology organizations are still existence, including the ITDG which became Practical Action after a name change in 2005.

Despite the 1926 Papal condemnation, the Action Française remained popular during the interwar period, being one of the most important far right leagues, along with the Croix-de-Feu and others.

Despite becoming Herman Miller's most successful project, George Nelson disowned himself from any connection with the " Action Office II " line.

Despite the relative inaction of the British to advance further, the division also fought at the Second and Third Action of Jabal Hamrin ( 16 – 20 October 1917 and 3 – 6 December 1917 ).

Despite the fact that Action 52 was met with a negative reaction from most in the industry, Active was undaunted, and announced at the 1994 Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) its intentions to manufacture and produce the Action Gamemaster.

Despite the CES announcement, it appears little to no work was actually done on the Action Gamemaster by the time Active ceased its video game operations in 1994.

Despite the film's financial disaster, critical response for Looney Tunes: Back in Action was mixed to positive, making it more critically successful than the previous Looney Tunes film Space Jam.

Despite its relatively late introduction as a term, transfeminist work has been around since the early second wave in various forms, most prominently embodied by thinkers such as Sandy Stone, considered the founder of academic transgender studies, and Sylvia Rivera, a Stonewall rioter and founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries.

" Despite this, and contrary to popular belief, the Secret Slime Action was not always performed in the original series.

Despite his absence from the United States, in 1964 Williams was elected president of the US-based Revolutionary Action Movement ( RAM ).

Despite the " Action Office II " line becoming Herman Miller's most successful project, George Nelson disowned himself from any connection with the project.

Despite the fact that the international community addressed the effectiveness issue through the Paris Declaration and the subsequent Accra Agenda for Action, the implementation of this agenda has been difficult.

Despite the worldwide release of the accompanying single " I Am the Future " the album did not chart in most countries, including in the US where it became Cooper's first not to chart since Easy Action.

Despite this, Krrish won numerous awards, including three Filmfare Awards — Best Special Effects, Best Action and Best Background Score — and was nominated for the awards of Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Villain.

Despite many similarities of the plotline to JFK, Executive Action presents a far more direct and unemotional account of the Kennedy assassination than Stone's film.

" Despite requests by the U. S. EPA to the Pesticide Action Network to bring forth scientific evidence of their claims, they have not done so.

However, it was revealed through Ståhl's message logs that Fnatic had paid him not to use SK's ticket to Dallas Despite the closure of SK's investment into the Action RTS scene with the departure of its Defense of the Ancients team in 2009, SK Gaming took in a squad for the relatively unknown title Avalon Heroes in 2010, as well as an American Heroes of Newerth squad and a European League of Legends squad.

Despite statements during the 2006 campaign that he was pro-life, Jubelirer's opposition to the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act and a " pro-choice " rating by both the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood were used by opponents to counter his arguments.