Despite this, he displays an intense devotion to his work ; after being thawed out from cryogenic freezing and informed that Dr.

Despite his stalwart devotion to the young emperor and his mother the empress Anna of Savoy, his friendship with the late emperor had aroused both the jealousy of the Patriarch of Constantinople and his former protégé Alexios Apokaukos, and the paranoia of the empress who suspected him to be an usurper.

Despite his aloofness, Fonzie had more whimsical traits, such as a devotion to the Lone Ranger, whom he excitedly meets in an episode.

Despite his training in the classical presentational acting style ( see also Classical acting ) at the Bristol Old Vic, he is a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles.

Despite their financial struggles, her family had always been encouraged by their firm belief in their devotion to causes rather than comforts.

Despite their name the group had a poorly defined ideological basis at their beginning, being brought into being more by a fear of left-wing politics than a devotion to fascism.

Despite their unyielding devotion to Nanette they are fickle ; such as in the episode " Fairweather Friends " when Nanette was bedridden with a head cold, they found themselves without a leader and instantly latched onto Angela, who had the high-status job of organizing the school ’ s spring fling decorations.

Despite occasional criticisms-his colleagues found his style peremptory and his point of view " bourgeois ", and he was openly criticised by Hou Yuon at the Party's 1971 Congress-his devotion to Saloth Sar and his closeness to the Party ' Centre ' guaranteed his senior position.

Despite remnants of anti-clerical statutes, there is no real enforcement of them, and the Catholic Church enjoys overwhelming liberties from the Government, as well as devotion from the people.

Despite this, the water is itself a strong symbol of devotion for Lourdes pilgrims, and many buy statues and rosary beads containing small vials of it, and take home large plastic containers of it.

Despite their knowledge of Arabic and their devotion to Islam, Nubians retained a considerable self-consciousness and tended to maintain tightly knit communities of their own in the towns.

Despite their owners ' strong devotion to the product, sales of new units were modest and on September 24, 2001 SONICblue discontinued the line.

Despite their final estrangement, their mutual devotion, at its highest, could be considered a model of relations between two spiritually complex individuals.

Despite his devotion to public work, Singer published some important works.

Despite this, out of devotion, ruling clans established their own shrines and Kavus for Theyyam deities where non-sattvic rituals and customs are observed.

Despite her total devotion towards him, Satsuki's feelings are rarely returned.

Despite being sent off on his debut against Leyton Orient, he quickly gained the devotion of the Vale fans, scoring the goal that took Vale to their first Wembley performance in the then Autoglass sponsored Football League Trophy.

Despite the dormitory-style accommodations, the gathering is infused with much spiritual devotion and unity of purpose.

Despite the preeminence of Tikunei haZohar and despite the topmost priority of Torah study in Judaism, much of the Zohar has been relatively obscure and unread in the Jewish world in recent times, particularly outside of Israel and outside of Chasidic groups.

Despite the Torah redactor usually, according to the hypothesis, interlacing together the sources, the stories here were evidently difficult to combine, as the redactor appears to have cut the end of the JE version, and beginning of the Priestly source version, joining the remaining ends of each source together.

Despite the connection to this general geographic region, it is difficult to determine from the Torah the exact boundaries of the tribe, to the extent that it is even uncertain whether Asher even had continuous territory.

Despite his worldly inclinations, he was an original member of the more traditionally oriented Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah ( council of great Torah sages ), and was also known to be a person of great moral conduct and piety.

Despite its simultaneous acceptance of both Torah and secular knowledge and culture, Torah Umadda, as a philosophy, prioritises a Torah outlook and Torah knowledge, and in its practice, requires strict adherence to Halakha ( Jewish law ).

Despite some Greek and Latin manuscripts of the Septuagint version of the Torah stating that Jochebed was Kohath's cousin, the Hebrew masoretic text states that she was Kohath's sister-Amram's aunt-although Jochebed's relationship to Levi is not explicitly stated.

Despite the club's poor record, several Rockies hitters gained notoriety for their exploits at the plate, assisted by the thin and dry air of Denver, which purportedly allows balls to carry farther than they would at sea-level ballparks.

Despite these strains, however, Nigerians had assisted in the halting process of achieving stability in Chad, and both nations reaffirmed their intention to maintain close ties.

Despite the problems they encountered because of the fencing, the Byzantines ultimately managed to ferry the Magyar forces led by Árpád's son Liüntika across the Danube, possibly near modern Galaţi, and assisted them in pillaging the nearby Bulgarian lands.

Despite the enmity between the two, Eurybiades was assisted by the Athenian naval commander Themistocles.

Despite his leg wound, Butler assisted the wounded officer to the rear.

Despite never succeeding Spellman as Archbishop, he greatly assisted in the governance of the Archdiocese while Spellman was busied by his additional duties as Apostolic Vicar for the Military Forces.

Despite not always playing on the same team, Gretzky assisted on 364 of Kurri's 601 career goals, while Kurri had an assist on 196 Gretzky goals.

Despite the revelations that Corll was, in reality, killing the boys whom he and Brooks had assisted in abducting, Henley nonetheless became an active participant in the abductions and murders.

Despite staying in retirement and focusing on his salvaging company, Rhodes assisted Stark on occasion.

Despite not winning any of their first 4 games ( including a 5 – 1 defeat at Newcastle ), the Saints, assisted by 3 goals from loanee signing Ronnie Ekelund, then won 4 out of 5 games in September lifting them to 7th in the table.

Despite partisan differences, he also assisted the Progressive Conservative government of Gary Filmon on matters relating to francophone education.

* Rosemary Hickman, transplantation surgeon whom Naki assisted and taught in the laboratory, and who worked with Naki for nearly 30 years: " Despite his limited conventional education, he had an amazing ability to learn anatomical names and recognize anomalies.

Despite this, rumours swirl around him, one about his wife's death ( an assisted suicide ) just out of the range of hearing.

Despite this, Bulk and Skull were close to Lt. Stone and would be shown trying to perform police duties ( albeit incompetently ) and occasionally try to help people out: in " The Changing of the Zords Part 1 " they rushed to save children from drowning ( who weren't ), in " Follow That Cab " they tried to stop a thief who'd stolen Kimberly's car and did manage to apprehend him, in " Rita's Pita " they used their own money as donations to an elderly home to cover for their mistake, and they assisted in a housing project in " Another Brick in the Wall ".

Despite having no filmmaking training, Dylan decided to re-edit the film himself, assisted by longtime associate Howard Alk and with ( uncredited ) assistant editor Gordon Quinn, co-founder of Kartemquin Films.

Despite a bad case of influenza, Valentine famously assisted on both goals ( with corner kicks ) Canada scored to defeat Honduras 2-1 to advance to the World Cup Finals for the first ( and until now, only ) time.

Despite his faults, Cicero assisted him in every way and evidently wrote several letters to him.

Despite their marginal status as Avengers, members of the GLA appeared in the climax of the JLA / Avengers miniseries, where they assisted in the defeat of Krona.

Despite this, he is also commonly assisted by his unpopular, geeky only friend Greg in accomplishing goals that he frequently sets for himself such as being elected class president or earning the money to purchase his desires, although episodes normally end with more misfortune and unhappiness for Chris as his plans often may backfire on him somehow or end with him about to receive harsh discipline or a scolding from Rochelle.

Despite the breach in the relationship, she turned to them in her moment of need and they assisted.