Despite their dedication to their jobs, however, the citizens of Mega Tokyo tend to dislike and distrust members of the A. D. Police, seeing them as corrupt and ineffectual.

Despite the Dukes often coming to his rescue ( see below ), Hogg forever seems to have an irrational dislike of the clan, particularly Bo and Luke, often accusing them of spying on him, robbing or planning to rob him, and other supposedly nefarious actions as he believes they are generally out to get him.

Despite his strong dislike of Wegener, Raeder agreed that it had been a huge mistake on the part of Germany not to have occupied Norway, the " Gate to the Atlantic " in 1914 as control of Norway would allowed Germany to escape the North Sea by breaking the British distant blockade.

Despite his strong dislike of Dönitz, Raeder recognized the success of the U-boats, and lobbied Hitler for more funding of submarine construction.

Despite his dislike of politics, Rundstedt could not remain uninvolved in these matters.

Despite The Times declaring, " We can remember no better Petruchio ", the opportunity of working again with David Lean, in The Passionate Friends ( 1949 ), drew Howard back to film and, although he had a solid reputation as a theatre actor, his dislike of long runs, and the attractions of travel afforded by film, convinced him to concentrate on cinema from this point.

Despite their critical and monetary success, Graves later professed a dislike for the books and their popularity.

Despite their intense mutual dislike, and fights over the screenplay, My Little Chickadee was a moderate box office success, but the film outgrossed Fields's previous film, You Can't Cheat an Honest Man ( 1939 ), and the later The Bank Dick ( 1940 ).

Despite this apparent dislike, the narrator betrays his roots, declaring that he is " all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors ".

Despite his dislike of grass courts, he became the first Russian man to reach the semi-finals of Wimbledon at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.

Despite his dislike for humans, Dogbert is known to protect and help Dilbert when he falls victim to sinister motives.

Despite their ideological antipathy, both Germany and the Soviet Union shared a mutual dislike for the outcome of World War I.

Despite being against racism, Carl has some sort of dislike of Muslims, visible in Mypods and Boomsticks.

Despite the band's dislike of the album, it reached No. 2 in the album charts.

Despite the mutual dislike and distrust between the Duke and his Bavarian subjects, Charles Theodore left a distinctive mark on the city of Munich: it was during his reign that the English Garden, Munich's largest park, was created, and the city's old fortifications were dismantled to make place for a modern, expanding city.

Despite this preferential treatment, Johnny remains totally clueless about Nanette ’ s affections, even though he doesn't seem to dislike her like Angela, Gordy and Gina do ( even in the episode " Puppy Love " he even cries at the fact that Nanette's poodle was missing, though in the episode " Touched By an Angel-a " he is seen scowling at Nanette after Nanette insulted Gina about her weight and in the episode " Snow Mercy " after it is revealed that Nanette was the one who ruined Gina's first ever hot dog he turns against her and showers her, January and Karlene with snowballs ).

Despite their long and adversarial history, she supports Robert Romano through the ordeal with the loss of his arm ; and similarly she overcomes her deep dislike of Kerry Weaver to be supportive of her following the death of her lover Sandy Lopez, although they never really mend fences and this plays a large part in her exit from County.

Despite their early dislike for one another, Goldman and de Cleyre came to respect each other intellectually.

Despite his initial dislike of Shuri, they reach and understanding as they defend Okinawa's independence and eventually develop an unbreakable friendship.

Despite the two of them often stating that they dislike each other, he seems to have a good relationship with Kobayashi.

Despite Dicko's dislike of religious songs, he gave O ' Connor a ' yes ' along with Mark and Marcia sending him into the top 100.

Despite many differences in belief and opinion between various circles and cities of the Covenant, they typically dislike the Lancea Sanctum.

Despite his bitter anti-Catholicism, his political ideas won him wide support among the Irish Catholic population, who shared his dislike of English and Anglican dominance.

Despite his dislike of cold, Errtu chose the place because of its natural barriers.

Despite this she was an independent woman, travelling without her husband and acting as a helpmate to Coke.

Despite all this little was known about them ; they had never played outside of South America and their international experience had mainly been spent travelling across the harbour from Buenos Aires to Montevideo.

Despite the conditions of travelling by foot from Mexico to the United States and treatment by coyotes, a survey run at Mexico's largest international airport by a North American newspaper showed that 50 percent of those returned to Mexico by air would be willing to try to return to the United States illegally again.

Despite leading early in the game, a resurgent Richmond stamped out the Raiders and stampeded to a 82-67 victory, in front of 1, 700 travelling Plymouth fans at the Nynex Arena, in Manchester.

Despite this, it has been widely rumoured that Zemmama will be leaving Middlesbrough this summer, after apparently refusing to travel if he was amongst the substitutes in the final matchday against Watford – Mowbray subsequently withdrew him from his travelling squad.

Despite giving the impression that the thing will roll over, this is highly unlikely while travelling forward.

Despite its small functional capacity the station is a principal stop on the East Coast Main Line and is called at by many intercity services travelling the route.

Despite his weak state, Toosey insisted on travelling 300 miles ( 500 km ) into the jungle to oversee the liberation of his men.

Despite playing two divisions lower than Chievo and missing out on travelling supporters from the large Serie A teams, Hellas Verona the city's traditionally bigger team still managed to maintain higher average attendances than their rival during the 2009 / 10 season.

Despite its label as an England side, the team which toured South Africa in 1891 contained several Scots.

Despite the difficulties of 2003, 100th Window sold over a million copies and was toured extensively ( including Queen Square, Bristol-a one-off sell out concert set up in the city centre park, which was seen as a homecoming ).

Despite the band's aversion to press coverage, the album was successful in both Europe and the United States ( where it sold more than 150, 000 copies even before the band toured there ).

Despite the dispute between Erlandson and Love, the new Hole album was released in April 2010 and the band toured Europe and North America in support of the record.

Despite negative reviews from the Paris critics at the opening night, it became one of Sardou's most successful plays and was toured by Bernhardt throughout the world in the years following its premiere.

Despite this, he was stripped of the captaincy when India toured England in 1979 for a four Test tour.

Despite having toured as a child singer in Africa she didn't do the singing for Jem.

Despite the departure of Guns, the group continued and toured in support of Waking the Dead with the lineup, in 2003, consisting of Lewis, Riley, Hamilton, former guitarist Brent Muscat and Keri Kelli ( formerly of Big Bang Babies and Slash's Snakepit ).

Despite having toured successfully, the squad did not win any title in Argentina.

Despite positive reviews from the media the band called it a day and Helme re-established himself as a solo artist with the self released debut album, Ashes in May 2008 and extensively toured around the UK.

Despite the lack of support, the band still toured tirelessly for two years, mostly on their own support, even using their own tour van, which racked up over 100, 000 miles during the time.

Despite that, the band toured all over France.

Despite this, the selectors named him to lead an Australian Second XI to New Zealand — while the first choice team toured the Indian subcontinent — hoping that he was still good enough to secure a long-term future in the Australian team.

Despite this, the original group reunited for several tracks on Costello's 1994 album Brutal Youth and toured together over the next two years.

Despite this growing sporting isolation, a New Zealand women's team toured South Africa in the 1971 – 72 season.

Despite this, one hundred guests toured the new mill at its official opening.

Despite his fine all round cricket game he was rarely considered for One Day Internationals and in 1981 he was controversially left out of the Ashes squad which toured England ( Stuart Macgill, Yardley and fellow West Australian Bruce Reid are the only three bowlers to take 100 wickets for Australia without playing a Test there ).

Despite the variable performances, he was kept in the side that toured Pakistan in 1985-86.