Despite the lack of Bolan's endorsement, " Jeepster " peaked at number two.

" Despite this legal endorsement and the AF Secretary approval, the USAF did not award the medal to any Iran hostages until November 2011.

Despite bidding the entire sum of his endorsement deal, Happy is summarily outbid by Shooter, who has purchased the house to leverage a deal with Happy-he will let him have the house back in return for quitting the tournament.

Despite the endorsement of Breaux, the most prolific vote-getter in the history of Louisiana, Chris John was defeated by Republican David Vitter of the New Orleans suburbs in the primary, Vitter garnering 51 percent of the vote, compared to only 29 percent for John.

Despite endorsement by the Charlotte Observer, on election day, Marshall came up short to incumbent Richard Burr, who had 55 % of the votes.

Despite his endorsement of his opponent, Tuttle garnered 48, 051 votes ( 22 percent of the vote ) in the actual election.

Despite the importance of the endorsement, local media such as 1010 WINS: emphasized minor snafus, arguing that " Ferrer's golden opportunity was nearly wasted as miscommunication between Clinton's office and Ferrer's campaign caused some snags and disarray.

Despite receiving the endorsement of party founder Roger Douglas, he was eventually defeated by Rodney Hide.

Despite a high-profile endorsement of the party from former Premier Douglas Campbell, no candidate managed to place higher than a distant third place.

Despite an endorsement from the right-wing Toronto Sun tabloid newspaper ( which usually supports Tory candidates-and which his opponent was a former employee of ), he came within 3, 000 votes of losing to incumbent Tory MPP Jim Brown.

Despite some initial buzz and the endorsement of five-term former Democratic Governor Howard Dean, he was defeated, 38 % to 59 %.

Despite receiving an implied endorsement from the White House as the preferred candidate, Marin was attacked by her fellow Republicans, in particular, former California Secretary of State Bill Jones, the leading candidate for the GOP nod, for her perceived waffling on another hot button immigration issue: driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.

Despite trying to win the public endorsement of C. S.

Despite being the incumbent candidate, Smith lost the endorsement of the NDP going into the 2010 civic election in favour of Pat Martin's constituency assistant Keith Bellamy.

Despite the book's pornographic surface, respected authors have given their endorsement.

Despite the endorsement from the incumbent Democratic governor William Donald Schaefer, she was defeated in the Republican primary by the more conservative Ellen Sauerbrey.

Despite having the endorsement of the party's Black Caucus, he was passed over for the position, in favor of Illinois Comptroller Roland Burris.

Despite failing to secure endorsement of the school district's labor union for certified staff, Leys did receive the endorsement of several local media outlets including the Journal & Topics Newspapers, the Pioneer Press Newspapers, and Daily Herald and a number of local elected officials.

Despite this endorsement, the opera was never fully staged during his lifetime.

Despite this declared neutrality, Greece became a target for Mussolini's expansionist policies.

Despite this evidence of Mercian involvement in the southeast there is very little indication that Æthelred had expansionist ambitions to the south.

Despite its opposition to the expansionist policy of the most chauvinistic aspects of the Israeli bourgeoisie and its support for the struggle of the Palestinian people and to gain this right to an independent state, OAKKE, unlike all the other organizations and parties in Greece with reference to the left, defends the right of Israel to defend itself against attacks received from forces such as Hamas and Hezbollah, and believes these two organizations are Islamo-Nazi and hidden arms of the neo-Nazi axis.

Despite being significantly weaker militarily and economically than its often violently expansionist neighbors, the Confederation has survived for over seven centuries, through the fall of the Star League, four Succession Wars, the Clan invasion, and the Word of Blake Jihad.

Despite these constraints especially those deputies that are elected directly normally try to keep close contact with their constituents and to help them with their problems, particularly when they are related to federal policies or agencies.

Despite the ban on factionalism, the Workers ' Opposition continued its open agitation against the policies of the Central Committee, and before the 11th Party Congress ( March 1922 ) the Workers ' Opposition made an ill-conceived bid to win support for their position in the Comintern.

Despite an estimated loss of 300 lives over the course of four days, nonviolent protesters continued to return to Bamako each day demanding the resignation of the dictatorial president and the implementation of democratic policies.

Despite anti-Polish policies, such Polish-language newspapers as the Pruski Przyjaciel Ludu ( Prussian People's Friend ) or the Kalendarz Królewsko-Pruski Ewangelicki ( Royal Prussian Evangelical Calendar ) or bilingual journals like the Oletzkoer Kreisblatt-Tygodnik Obwodu Oleckiego continued to be published in Masuria.

Despite a general trend toward disarmament in the early 1990s, the George W. Bush administration repeatedly pushed to fund policies that would allegedly make nuclear weapons more usable in the post – Cold War environment,.

Despite his " isolationist " policies, Francia conducted a profitable but closely supervised import-export trade with both countries to obtain key foreign goods, particularly armaments.

Despite popular conceptions promoted by movies and television, many US police departments prefer not to maintain officers in non-patrol bureaus and divisions beyond a certain period of time, such as in the detective bureau, and instead maintain policies that limit service in such divisions to a specified period of time, after which officers must transfer out or return to patrol duties.

Despite the name, these pro-capitalist policies are radically different from the many non-capitalist free-market socialist theories that have existed throughout history.

Despite disagreeing with many of Grant's policies, Rod supports him.

Despite Uzbekistan's rich and varied natural environment, decades of environmental neglect in the Soviet Union have combined with skewed economic policies in the Soviet south to make Uzbekistan one of the gravest of the CIS's many environmental crises.

Despite the difference in styles, Taft had demonstrated for the most part that the substance of his policies echoed those of Roosevelt.

Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, Zamyatin was deeply disturbed by the policies pursued by the CPSU following the October Revolution.

Despite enjoying widespread support by the majority of Haitians, the Washington Post informed their readers that regime change was looming on November 21, 2003: " Aristide has pushed with mixed success a populist agenda of higher minimum wages, school construction, literacy programs, higher taxes on the rich and other policies that have angered an opposition movement run largely by a mulatto elite that has traditionally controlled Haiti's economy.

Despite this emphasis on the differences between standard Slovene and the dialects of the Slavia Italiana, the very same policies of Italianization that were first applied to the neighboring Julian March were extended to the Slavia, thus paradoxically bringing the local populations, which diverged in their historical experiences, closer together.

Despite commonality in religious identification, however, evangelical Christians in general and eventually the newly-formed Moral Majority in particular would come to be disappointed with Carter ’ s policies.

Despite his criticism of Zhao, Chen Yun was the Party elder most respected by Zhao, and Zhao would frequently attempt to consult with Chen before implementing new policies.

Despite progressive agricultural reforms, under the Derg, agricultural output suffered due to civil war, drought and misguided economic policies.

Despite the artistic drawbacks imposed by Terry's inflexible business policies, Terrytoons was nominated four times for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film: All Out for V in 1942, My Boy, Johnny in 1944, Mighty Mouse in Gypsy Life in 1945, and Sidney's Family Tree in 1958.

Despite espousing liberal social policies and having in its ranks the openly gay Colm O ' Gorman, the Progressive Democrats did not support same-sex marriage.

Despite his considerable success in fighting the effects of the Great Depression of 1929, his fiscal policies involving reduction of military expenditures created many enemies within the military, and he was among those assassinated by rebelling military officers in the February 26 Incident of 1936.

Despite the relative unpopularity of the elements of the special, those at Lucasfilm responsible for licensing have kept the special in continuity, due to their canon policies.

" Despite the dissent's favorable attitude toward state medical marijuana policies, federal law still controls, and for medical marijuana to be considered legal, change must be effected through legislation by Congress.

Despite personal issues with Castlereagh, he continued many of his foreign policies, such as the view that the powers of Europe ( Russia, France, etc.