Despite his family's poor background, he performed well after entering the Church and rose quickly through the ranks.

Despite this advantage of his family's status, the Hong Kong neighborhood Lee grew up in became over-crowded, dangerous, and full of gang rivalries because of the mass number of people fleeing communist China to Hong Kong,:

Despite submitting to Otto III, Crescentius shut himself in his family's stronghold, the Tomb of Hadrian, out of fear of retribution.

Despite her family's objections, soon they were living together, and although Hébuterne was the current love of his life, their public scenes became more renowned than Modigliani's individual drunken exhibitions.

Despite the rumors, the imperial family's association with Rasputin continued until Rasputin was murdered in 1916.

Despite the rumors, the imperial family's association with Rasputin continued until his murder on December 17, 1916.

Despite later reverses in the family's fortunes, on 13 August 1504 their only child, Jeanne de Commines ( d. 1513 ), made a splendid marriage to the heir of Brittany's most powerful family, René de Brosse comte de Penthièvre ( d. 1524 ).

Despite his family's objections and the added pressure of raising a second daughter, France, born on 12 July, Brel left Brussels for Paris in the fall of 1953.

Despite his advocacy for modern methods of organization, including crews of soldiers doing the bulk of a family's illegal work under the supervision of a capo, at bottom Maranzano was a " Mustache Pete " — an old-school mafioso too steeped in Old World ways.

Despite his family's precarious financial situation, his grandfather and uncles made sure the young Giuseppe received a solid education: he was taught by a tutor and later became a novice in the Catholic Order of St. John of God, from which he was eventually expelled.

Despite the family's mainly Jerusalem ancestry, some members of the family were from Beirut, in what is today Lebanon.

Despite the family's long history of Catholicism, Viscount Gage had adopted the Anglican Church in 1715.

Despite the taint of treason and the family's impoverishment, his niece Louise of Lorraine-Mercouer, was chosen to became the Queen consort of Henry III of France in 1575.

Despite being involved in several tragedies in his family's acts, Wallenda continued with his stunts.

Despite his youth, he had demonstrated his strength in several general elections when he had been able to get as many as twenty MPs elected to seats he controlled through his family's wealth and political patronage.

Despite her family's lack of money, Belle received a good education.

Despite being slashed several times with a straight razor, Stretch grabs a chainsaw held by the mummified remains of the family's grandmother in a ritual shrine in the rock tower.

Despite his family's ancestry being mostly white and himself being blond-haired, blue-eyed, and very fair, White and his family identified as black and lived among the Atlanta black community.

Despite his inexperience, Bronfman's involvement was accepted because of his connections and access to financing through his family's wealth.

Despite their vast differences, she recognizes Dharma's place in their family's life, once famously telling her " We both know you're not the girl I would have picked for Greg.

Despite her family's wealth and high social status, Edie's early life was troubled.

Despite the press campaign against Germans, Germanophobic feelings did not develop in Russia to any widespread extent, and died out, due to the Imperial family's German roots and the presence of many German names in the Russian political elite.

Despite his family's straitened circumstances following the death of his father, Richard Jr. attended a private boarding school and the University of Kentucky.

Despite the Tresham family's close links with the royal court they were also on good terms with Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and when he returned from Ireland in 1450 Tresham and his father went to greet him.

Despite the dangers from the intense hurricane, evacuations in Bluefields were met with resistance and disbelief from residents.

Despite Mal's encouragement to be her own woman, Saffron cooks him a meal as Zoe looks on in mocking disbelief.

Despite the original group's premature break-up, many of its members found considerable success elsewhere: founding member John Felice formed the seminal Real Kids, Jerry Harrison later joined Talking Heads, David Robinson co-founded the Cars, and Ernie Brooks would later work with David Johansen, Arthur Russell, Elliott Murphy, and Gary Lucas.

Despite being described by supporters of the deal as the best deal possible, Elliott Feldman an international and economic law specialist from the firm Baker & Hostetler in Washington, D. C. and a former director of the Canadian – American Business Council criticized the deal as " one-sided " and a " bad deal for Canada ".

Despite this chain of command, Granville Elliott saw significant action in battle, and was seriously wounded.

Despite his many film and TV roles, ( including civil servant Sir Frederick Stewart in Yes, Minister ), it was only during the 1990s when he joined the cast of Coronation Street as the bellicose but romantic butcher Fred Elliott that he became a household name.

Despite some improved performances Elliott could not prevent relegation to the Northern Premier League for the 2011 – 12 season.

Despite having five men run out, Bangladesh compiled 246 ( Gazi Ashraf 77 ) against West Africa, and this proved more than enough as their opponents fell to 96 / 7 before a late-innings rally from S Elliott ( 38 ) restored some respectability to leave them 76 runs short on 170 / 9.

Despite the efforts of previous kings, western, democratic style of the government was alien to the kingdom.

Despite the vast number of Green Lanterns, certain sectors of space apparently do not recognize the authority of the Corps, as alien superhero Icon claims that his status as a citizen of the interstellar civilization known as the Cooperative makes him immune to prosecution from Guardians or their agents.

Despite the alien nature of the scenes and science fictional elements of the setting, the imagery of the film is related back to mankind and how we relate to our surroundings.

Despite his links to the UK, he was temporarily declared an enemy alien in consequence by the British Government, and his UK oil assets sequestered, though returned with compensation at the end of the War.

Despite being killed by the alien invader along with Nabeshin, Kumi-Kumi apparently saved her husband using acupuncture, and they are both alright at the end of the second part.

Despite the name, alien Kafer ( bugs ) are not similar to the Bugs of Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers.

Despite alien attacks such as in " Lost City " and " Ex Deus Machina ", all attempts are made throughout the series to keep the existence of the Stargate Program secret, assuming there would be mass panic if the public found out.

Despite being a fan of the show and finding the role interesting, he turned it down, declaring that he only wanted to play an alien.

Despite this, the Helmacrons seem to be no wiser than if they had only one, or even no mind at all ; despite their tiny size and relative weakness, they have inflated personalities and further inflated egos, constantly proclaiming that they will crush all other races even when their ships can be threatened by large bricks-on one occasion they even vowed to take control of " this vast expanse of huge blue fur " and then use it as a base when their ship was lost, apparently unaware that they were on Ax's fur, and of all the alien species in the Animorphs universe, seem to be the least mentally stable.

Despite being Jewish, in 1940 he was interned as an enemy alien in Huyton Camp.

Despite the Golovans ' mental and intellectual abilities that easily surpass those of humans, they don't have even basic technology and prefer to use alien ones ( although they can easily live without it ).

Despite tourism generated by people searching for signs of alien life, only " an average of about 200 cars drive some portion of the Extraterrestrial Highway every day, making it one of the state ’ s least traveled routes.

Despite the fact that it is strictly forbidden for them to initiate a contact with any human or alien civilization without an authorization from COMCON, they try to do just this-and fail, having misinterpreted the situation.

Despite the focus on survival, the show " will also focus on exploration and adventure – and, by extension, the occasional alien encounter as well ".

Despite her loyalty to Luthor, she has still shown some humanity even while in his employ ; when Superman was searching for Lois Lane after she was abducted and impersonated by the Parasite, Mercy saw him during his search, and, in that moment, saw him not as an alien, but as a man who had lost everything.