Despite the conservative nature of the times, Housman, as distinct from the prudence of his public life, was quite open in his poetry, and especially his A Shropshire Lad, about his deeper sympathies.

Despite this religious purging, the spiritual significance assigned to the heretofore " sacred " numbers had not disappeared ; several numbers, such as the " Jesus number " have been commented and analyzed by Dorotheus of Gaza and numerology still is used at least in conservative Greek Orthodox circles.

Despite its internal differentiation among the conservative Old Slovenes and the progressive Young Slovenes, the Slovene nationals defended similar programs, calling for a cultural and political autonomy of the Slovene people.

" Despite AIM's assertion of political neutrality, it is frequently described by the mainstream media and other media watchdog groups as a conservative organization.

Despite thirty years of freedom of expression, the world view of the fallero can still be socially conservative, is often sexist and may involve some of the amoralism of Valencian politics.

Despite this result, the area still showed strong support for the conservative mayoral candidate Boris Johnson who won the largest share of the votes for the area before going on to be elected Mayor of London.

Despite his popularity, the Catholic People's Party refused to nominate him as the lijsttrekker for the Dutch general election of 1971 because of his alleged " conservative image " and he was replaced by his Minister of Education and Science Gerard Veringa who had a more " progressive image ".

Despite this, his relations with the conservative members of the fellowship ( and indeed the porters ) of Peterhouse subsequently proved to be difficult.

Despite his conservative credentials, Cosgrave adopted a somewhat positive attitude to the Just Society document.

Despite being placed in a position to shape the office of the presidency via precedent, Hyde by and large opted for a quiet, conservative interpretation of the office.

Despite limited television airtime, most of which went to conservative Speaker of Parliament and favored candidate Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri, Khatami received 70 percent of the vote.

Despite old guard opposition, the conservative forces formed a party of their own in 1913, the Rikken Dōshikai, a party that won a majority in the House over the Seiyūkai in late 1914.

Despite the opposition from conservative Saudis to his reforms, however, King Faisal continued to pursue modernization while always making sure to couch his policies in Islamic terms.

Despite strong support in rural central Ontario, a very socially conservative area which had been the backbone of previous provincial Tory governments, vote splitting with the national Tories allowed the Liberals to win all but one seat in Ontario.

Despite his progressive views ( he was an admirer of the Bismarckian German social laws ), his conservative political thinking turned him into a leading opponent of Eleftherios Venizelos.

Despite being repeatedly debunked by the efforts of the scientific community and denounced as a tool of Satan by conservative Christians, Ouija remains popular among many people.

Despite being a Republican and a self-styled conservative, Evans became known for his administration's liberal policies on environmental protection ( he founded the country's first state-level Department of Ecology, which became Nixon's blueprint for the federal EPA ) and strong support of the state's higher education system, including founding Washington's system of community colleges.

Matthews in October 2007 Despite having worked for Democrats, Matthews has said, " I'm more conservative than people think I am ....

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 strong opposition from conservative evangelicals, much of which dovetailed with their hostility toward the denomination's perceived focus on social action that the Confession of 1967 in particular appeared to endorse, nine-tenths of the presbyteries approved the new documents.

Despite a conservative political climate in the United States, the magazine quickly a critical mass of subscribers, with its paid circulation rising to 2, 500 in 1950 and to 6, 000 in 1954.

Despite his Democratic affiliation, he considered himself a " Pinto ", or rural, Democrat and his voting record was very conservative.

Despite Chafee's high approval ratings statewide, Whitehouse pointed out that Chafee supported his party's more conservative leadership.

" Despite such conservative sentiments, Haggard did not view women as inferior to men.

Despite the heavy pressure from the King, the army and conservative circles in Rome, Giolitti neither treated strikes – which were not illegal – as a crime, nor dissolved the Fasci, nor authorised the use of firearms against popular demonstrations.

" Despite this ruling, a bill to add discrimination based on subculture affiliation to the definition of hate crime in British law was not presented to parliament.

Despite its religious affiliation, the curriculum is secular.

Despite his apparent affiliation with Richard, Baron Stanley's wife, Lady Margaret Beaufort, was Henry Tudor's mother.

Despite its name, it is in no affiliation with the Walt Disney Company or Walt Disney himself.

Despite showing his face, giving away his code name, and revealing his FBI affiliation, Hanssen escaped arrest when the Bureau's investigation didn't go anywhere.

Despite its name, the Neoist Alliance had no affiliation with the international Neoist network which had been active since 1980.

Despite its name and the inclusion of selections from the Bible, as well as from some major Christian theologians and philosophers in the program, the College has no religious affiliation.

Despite the Catholic-Polish family name with which she is associated, her affiliation with the Polish Home Army, and her connection with the Catholic rite while living in Quebec, her father, a wealthy industrialist, is thought to have been killed in a concentration camp during the war.

Despite his political affiliation, Astor quickly demonstrated his independence by his support for the so-called " People's Budget " and the National Insurance Act of 1911.

Despite the change in name and affiliation of TND-34, Seven Central remained as a fully Seven Network-aligned service for remote Australia.

Despite his past affiliation with the Progressive Party, Richardson blamed both the party and its Progressive movement with excess in his inaugural speech, replacing the Southern Pacific Railroad political machine with a Progressive machine.

Despite its Roman Catholic affiliation, it is open to students of all faiths.

Despite the different policy affiliation, he became one of Barack Obama's earliest Congressional endorsers.

Despite his affiliation to the Falangists, from 1939, when he returned to Santiago to take up a university post, he increasingly distanced himself from the party.

Despite the abbey's affiliation with the Balliol family who remained resolutely at odds with the Bruce monarchy, the abbot and canons, before 21 October 1316, expelled two of their rank for refusing to acknowledge Robert as their king ; a grateful King Edward II of England rewarded them by providing them with the rent and fishery of the abbey at Berwick.

Despite the two parties ' fierce antagonism, they were more likely to gain recruits from their opposing party than from moderates with no affiliation to either.

Despite being one of the strongest independent stations in the country, WTTO turned down the Fox affiliation when that network started up.

Despite his conservative viewpoint and longtime affiliation with the Republican Party, Warner was also a close friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and supported him during the early 1930s.

Despite its MyNetworkTV affiliation ( which took effect on-air on September 5 ), WNYA aired the last two weeks of UPN programming.

Despite the station's call sign, KPRI has no affiliation with Public Radio International, which is also known by its initials, PRI.

Despite the fact that Hyde mentions God ( such as stating his hair was a gift from God in " Eric's Hot Cousin ") he does not express any sort of organized religious affiliation.

Despite his well-known affiliation with the Wu-Tang Clan, the album has no features, nor production from any of the clan members.

Despite the non-partisan affiliation, Pages are typically divided to serve the party that appointed them.