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Despite his dispatch box successes ( Smith was always more effective in the House of Commons than on platforms or at Prime Minister's Questions, though he began to improve at the latter during the final months of his life ), Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were, under Smith's leadership, restless and anxious in private that the party had adopted a " One more heave " approach and had become overly cautious in tackling the legacy of " tax and spend ".
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Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.
Despite protests in the northern cities of the United States organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and others, it took many millions at the box office.
Despite the movie's poor box office and critical reception at the time of its original release, it is gradually becoming a favorite among fans due to its dark nature, brief but entertaining kaiju battles, and the return of series veterans Ishiro Honda and Akira Ifukube.
Despite the anachronistic police box shape, the TARDIS's presence is rarely questioned when it materialises in the present-day United Kingdom.
Despite critical acclaim, Gattaca was not a box office success but it is said to have crystallized the debate over tampering with human genetics.
Despite another nomination for Best Picture and winning two Oscars for frequent collaborator Russell Boyd's cinematography, and for sound effects editing, the film's box office success was moderate ($ 93 million at the North American Box Office ).
Despite receiving a rather mixed to negative response, the film became a box office success, grossing US $ 180 million internationally.
Despite its poor box office showing, the film began to attract a devoted fan base.
Despite initially being considered a box office flop due to high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic and is a staple of Christmas television around the world.
Despite the lackluster box office receipts from her more recent films, in 1949, she negotiated a four-film contract with Warner Bros., which paid $ 10, 285 per week and made her the highest-paid woman in the United States.
Despite the all-star cast and a great deal of publicity, the film was a costly box office flop, no attempt being made to describe his inventions in any detail, some of which were completely omitted.
Despite the film's success at the box office, Harry Warner remained concerned about the economic threat presented by the Edison Trust.
Despite being panned by critics, the sequel took over $ 39 million in its first five days in the U. S. box office charts and went on to gross $ 90 million in the US.
Despite only receiving average reviews by critics, the movie became a box office success, earning more than 120 million US dollars domestically and US $ 157m worldwide.
Despite negative reviews from critics, Pearl Harbor became a major box office success, earning $ 449, 220, 945 at the world wide box office and won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing.
Despite the enormous box office success, the critical response to Pearl Harbor at the time of its release tended toward mixed to negative, and the film earned only a 25 % approval rating according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 166 reviews with an average rating of 4. 4 / 10, making it Bay's second worst reviewed movie to date, next to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Despite mixed reviews, the film was a commercial success, grossing $ 149 million at the box office.
Despite the box office success of Disney's Lilo & Stitch, the failure of their much-hyped Treasure Planet seemed to ensure that there would be major cutbacks at Disney's animation studio.
Despite positive reviews from child viewers, Max Keeble's Big Move was a box office bomb.
Despite negative reviews, the film was a financial success and debuted at the number one spot on the U. S. box office.
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 positive reviews from some critics, including Roger Ebert, the film was a box office flop.
Despite making over $ 57 million at the North American box office, Willow was not the blockbuster hit insiders had anticipated.
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Despite some early cooperative military successes against Japan, by the time that the Japanese surrendered in 1945 neither the CPC nor the KMT trusted each other or were actively cooperating.
Despite its many successes, this picture is not sufficient to explain the variety of structure we see in galaxies.
Despite the successes enjoyed by his troops, Germanicus ' German campaign was in reaction to the mutinous intentions of his troops, and lacked real strategic value.
Despite initial successes, the German army was stopped close to Moscow in December 1941.
Despite successes such as the revival of economic growth and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by the mid-1990s the Conservatives were embroiled in ongoing " sleaze " scandals involving various MPs and even Cabinet Ministers.
Despite these successes, the Germans were pushed back from Moscow and could never again mount a simultaneous offensive along the entire strategic Soviet – German front.
Despite many successes, RISC has made few inroads into the desktop PC and commodity server markets, where Intel's x86 platform remains the dominant processor architecture.
Despite successes in neutrino astronomy and neutrino astrophysics, Kamiokande did not achieve its primary goal, the detection of proton decay.
Despite only modest military successes, Henry and his allies now controlled the south-west, the Midlands and much of the north of England.
Despite a brief delay caused by a mechanical problem early in the first act, the performance was an unqualified success, and the play went on to become one of the year's biggest West End successes.
Despite its successes, there were problems: Front de libération du Québec militants had initially threatened to disrupt the exhibition, but were inactive during this period.
Despite his successes and one-time popularity, Harold Wilson's reputation took a long time to recover from the low ebb reached immediately following his second premiership.
Despite all these notable successes in diagnostics and detection techniques ectopic pregnancy remains a source of serious maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide, especially in countries with poor prenatal care.
Despite several albums over the next three years he failed to repeat his earlier successes, with no singles managing to reach the Billboard Hot 100 except for 1982's " Change ," climbing into the Billboard R & B Top 20 (# 12 ).
Despite these successes, de Moivre was unable to obtain an appointment to a Chair of Mathematics at a university, which would have released him from his dependence on time-consuming tutoring that burdened him more than it did most other mathematicians of the time.
Despite undoubted successes, Boleslaus III Wrymouth committed serious political errors, even against Zbigniew of Poland, his half-brother.
Despite its successes, the Dutch Republic was unable to sustain a prolonged naval war.
Despite his many successes, Rivers was still a markedly reticent man in mixed company, hampered as he was by his stammer and innate shyness.
Despite his successes at MGM, Paramount Pictures, and RKO Pictures, Selznick longed to be an independent producer with his own studio.
Despite the conquest of Nice by a Franco-Ottoman fleet, the French remained unable to advance into Juarez, while a joint Anglo-Imperial invasion of northern France, led by Charles himself, won some successes but was ultimately abandoned, leading to another peace and restoration of the status quo ante in 1544.
Despite Dundee's initial successes in the north, Gordon eventually surrendered on 14 June, due to dwindling supplies, and having lost 70 men during the three-month siege.
Despite these successes, integration issues were long apparent.
Despite the previously highlighted criticisms of his work, Orosius ’ s books were considered to be successes from virtually the day of their publication.
Despite ample reserve forces that could have been deployed to exploit localized successes, McClellan failed to destroy Lee's army.
Despite enjoying what some might consider a reasonable amount of time on Greenland in conjunction with varying times of successes and failures, the Norse settlement in Greenland did not last more than 500 years.
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