Despite their athletic, sometimes imposing, exterior, the Ridgeback has a sensitive side.

" Despite having a successful high school career, Maddux did not receive many athletic scholarship offers to play college baseball.

( Despite the heavy use of sex appeal, the league does play legitimate football, and most of the league's players have previous athletic experience ; former NFL players have coached LFL teams.

Despite its size, the school has a comprehensive athletic program with over 70 teams among 18 interscholastic sports.

Despite the ban, the Pep Band remains active, performing its traditional roles in Charlottesville events and supporting University of Virginia student athletes outside the jurisdiction of the athletic department, such as at club sporting events.

Despite the promise of renovations, Georgia athletic director Vince Dooley was unswayed, so Austin widened the scope of the renovations, increasing their price tag to $ 49 million, and traveled to Athens, Georgia, to talk with Dooley in person.

Despite being fundamentally non-selective, the school is nonetheless reputed for its strong academic, matriculation, and athletic record.

Despite his generally delicate and unassuming appearance, Tintin is quite athletic and possesses great physical strength, often getting into fights where he is able to knock out enemies much larger than himself with a single blow.

Despite his frequent injuries, Koskie was regarded as one of the more athletic third basemen in the game.

Despite this, he was an athletic youth, and he claimed that as a young boy, he had “ set out to discover exuberance .”

Despite several problems to overcome, including the athletic director's resignation and a slight redesign, the stadium was completed and the first game was played October 5, 1929, against Monmouth College.

Despite the Greek government receiving more than generous funding from Evangelis Zappas, back in 1856, for Athens to host athletic Olympic Games at the Panathinaiko Stadium, in perpetuity, members of the Greek government, notably Trikoupis and Stephanos Dragoumis, were resoundingly against them being athletic games.

Despite the loss of seats, it is still the largest athletic field of any sort in northern New England, ahead of the University of Vermont's 10, 000-seat soccer stadium.

Despite appearing athletic, the characters were depicted as weak and cowardly ; in one skit they were beaten by Lane Bryant employees for popping their tires because they were taking up staff parking spaces.

Despite being relieved of duty as athletic director, his tenure ended on a disappointing note with the Rebels going 2 – 9 in his final season in 2004.

Despite its status as a fairly small school, Coyle has a rich athletic history that is often bolstered by its ability to admit students outside of the city of Taunton.

Despite not offering athletic scholarships, CBC's men's basketball team has won 20 regional championships, has appeared in the NCCAA National Tournament 30 times, and has won the national championship in 1994, 2001, and 2002.

Despite the growth of major industries and urban centers, white rural interests dominated the state legislature until the 1960s, while urban interests and African Americans were under-represented.

Despite its interest in foreign investment to diversify the economy, the Bahamian Government responds to local concerns about foreign competition and tends to protect Bahamian business and labor interests.

Despite a possible conflict of interests, Maskelyne being an advocate of the lunar distance method of determining longitude, the Board of Longitude sent him to Barbados in 1763 to calculate the longitude of the capital, Bridgetown by observation of Jupiter's satellites, and also to test his lunar distance method and compare its accuracy to John Harrison's chronometer, the No. 4 timekeeper.

Despite Binet's extensive research interests and wide breadth of publications, today he is most widely known for his contributions to intelligence.

Despite such arguments, Richelieu remains an honoured personality in France, particularly for his stubborn refusal to let courtly intrigues and foreign interests dominate the government.

Despite having widespread interests in a number of commercial areas, the LMS was first and foremost a railway organisation.

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 seemingly antipodal musical interests, they formed an enduring friendship.

Despite these associations with women, it is clear from his private papers that his interests lay elsewhere and many commentators support this view.

Despite his taking between 20 and 40 pupils from Harrow with him, the school failed after five years, mainly because it could not compete with the extensive interests of Harrow.

Despite lacking full voting privileges on the floor of the House of Representatives, delegates are voting members in U. S. Congressional committees and they lobby their congressional colleagues regarding the District's interests.

Despite its defense of the status quo, especially the interests of rural elites, the Sangkum was not an exclusively right-wing organization.

Despite rumors of his retirement, he vigorously electioneered during the 1768 season, and increased the Rutland interests seats to seven, at some expense.

Despite her faults, Titania was a strong and able queen, whether riding out to face down the forces of Hell at the head of her army or subtley politicking to ensure that Faerie's best interests were met in the wider worlds.

Despite these separatist pressures, Obote's long-term goal was to build a strong central government at the expense of entrenched local interests, especially those of Buganda.

Despite noticeable talent, his interests shifted to politics and socialism during his adolescence and young adulthood when he became a prominent leader in the Israeli youth movement, Hashomer Hatzair.

Despite pressure from commercial interests in the Maritimes and New England who wanted a rail connection closer to the border, the Chaleur Bay routing was chosen, amid the backdrop of the American Civil War, as it would keep the Intercolonial far from the boundary with Maine.

Despite this ruling, on 26 June 2008, on the eve of the Parliamentary summer recess, the SNP-led Standards Committee of the Parliament voted 4 to 3 to propose a one-day ban from the Scottish Parliament as a sanction for not declaring leadership campaign donations as gifts on the Parliament's register of interests.

Despite the potential threats to United States commercial interests, the Roosevelt administration ( 1933 – 1945 ) understood that the United States could not wholly oppose import substitution.

Despite his support of budgetary restraint in other areas, he normally sided with dairy interests and was a proponent of dairy price supports.

Despite this, he still often helps them with defeating the villains they face, claiming that Yugi or one of his friends helped him and he owes them, or that the villain's desires are in direct conflict with his own interests.

Despite vastly different interests and personalities, the pair seem to get along very well and rely heavily upon one another when fights occur between Leonardo and Raphael.

Despite its faults, the treatise remains critically successful because of its " noble tone ," " apt precepts ," " judicious attitude ," and " historical interests ".

Despite training as an engineer, and even with his interests in industrial problems, Le Châtelier chose to teach chemistry rather than pursue a career in industry.