Despite his growing admiration for Wallace and his cause, Robert is dominated by his father, who wishes to secure the throne for his son by submitting to the English.

Despite these problems, the growing inflow of American silver from mid-16th century, the justified military reputation of the Spanish infantry and even the navy quickly recovering from its Armada disaster, made Spain the leading European power, a novel situation of which its citizens were only just becoming aware.

Despite growing unrest and severe economic strains, the 1932 presidential elections in Honduras were relatively peaceful and fair.

Despite the advent of file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent, as well as the increased use of blogs, formal discussion forums, and social networking sites, coupled with a growing number of service providers blocking access to Usenet ( see main article ), newsgroups continue to be widely used.

Despite the economy's general expansion after 1983, however, inflation threatened its modest gains, as did serious fiscal and balance-of-payments deficits and the growing debt.

Despite its growing dominance in the constitutional hierarchy, the Premiership was given little formal recognition ; the legal fiction was maintained that the Sovereign still governed directly.

Despite unfavourable growing conditions ( atmospheric pollution from London, dry soils and low rainfall ) Kew remains one of the most comprehensive plant collections in Britain.

Despite a high emigration rate, the population is growing rapidly, about 1. 2 % per year.

Despite his growing alcoholism and controversial reputation, Peckinpah was extremely prolific during this period of his life.

Despite this growing popular support for independence, Congress lacked the clear authority to declare it.

Despite the growing pressure to abandon production of war films, Warner continued to produce them, losing money in the process.

Despite the irregular scheduling, the program's hard-hitting reports attracted a steadily growing audience, particularly during the waning days of the Vietnam War and the gripping events of the Watergate scandal ; at that time, few if any other major-network news shows did in-depth investigative reporting to the degree carried out by 60 Minutes.

Despite having growing sales worldwide, Hyundai struggled in Japan, having sold only 15, 000 passenger cars from 2001 to 2009.

Despite the value and investment of public capital, growing delays in air and surface transportation, aging electric grid, an untapped renewable energy sector, and inadequate school facilities all have justified additional funding in public capital investment.

Despite temporary periods of desolation and disuse, the Grand Canal furthered an indigenous and growing economic market in China's urban centers through all the ages since the Sui period.

Despite his success and growing reputation as an illustrator, Jones seems to have become disaffected by the medium.

Despite growing issues with Great Britain, Lord Dunmore had been a popular governor in Virginia, even though he served only five years.

Despite growing discontent with the National Convention as a ruling body, in June the Convention drafted the Constitution of 1793, which was ratified by popular vote in early August.

Despite Nixon's growing political difficulties and an increasingly hostile working relationship with the legislature over Vietnam, Thiệu, and most of the Saigon leadership, remained optimistic about ongoing aid.

Despite growing white settlements in Texas, Indian tribal presences remained.

Despite all this, Forest County has become the fastest growing county in the state of Pennsylvania by percent, growing over 38 % from 2000-2008.

" Despite this Biblical reference, the trees that were growing in Babylon along the Euphrates River in ancient Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq ) and named gharab in early Hebrew, are not willows ( Salix ) in either the modern or the classical sense, but the Euphrates Poplar ( Populus euphratica ), with willow-like leaves on long, drooping shoots, in the related genus Populus.

Despite 10 years of planning, Iran's own Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization was not aware of the broad areas of flooding during much of this time and there is growing concern about the effects the dam will have on Persepolis's surrounding areas.

Despite this, Thomas became a familiar radio voice and within Britain was " in every sense a celebrity ".

Despite Kitagawa Utamaro ’ s success and celebrity status among his own world of popular culture, history of his life and career is insufficient.

Despite this, he had tremendous success and soon became a world famous celebrity.

Despite these problems, Fernando remained an accessible and popular celebrity, known for signing many autographs.

Despite this success, Butch Trucks recalls of the time that, “ celebrity is the worse thing that ever happened to the Allman Brothers.

Despite the anchor turnover through the years, the broadcast had set a consistent tone which emphasized news and ideas over celebrity gossip or self-help tips.

Despite his acting commitments, he has still continued a successful career of celebrity impersonator on the BBC Radio and also did re-voicing of video footages of ' The Sports Review of the Year ' and Match of the Day which has turned him into a sideline sporting celebrity.

Despite Isaacs ' screen celebrity as Lucius Malfoy, he maintains a relatively modest, " calm, sedate and suburban " life, which he prefers to the " hideously compromised lives " of the more rich and famous: " I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives.

Despite being ' saved ' by Stewart Copeland on the first night, on 3 January 2007 she was the second celebrity to be eliminated, after judge CeCe Sammy described her as having the vocal characteristics of " a cat on speed ".

Despite the disclaimer at the beginning of the film that asserts that the story is fictitious, Marked Woman is loosely based on the real-life crimefighting exploits of Thomas E. Dewey, a District Attorney for Manhattan who became a national celebrity in the 1930s, and two-time Republican Party presidential nominee in the 1940s, due to his fight against organized crime in New York City.

Despite being a JDM-only model, the Figaro is one of the most imported models of the K10 derivatives ; its popularity among numerous celebrity owners helped it earn cult status.

Despite the publicity of this work due to Einstein's celebrity status, it never resulted in a resounding success.

Despite Pitman's new found political celebrity he narrowly lost his seat in the 1962 election by 500 votes, and was again defeated in the 1963 election by less than 1000 votes.

Despite the often larger celebrity status of his guest stars, Thomas himself usually played the lead in the sketches, with his celebrity guests in co-starring roles.

Despite popular rumour, often mentioned in jest, he has not had a relationship with the television celebrity Carol Vorderman.

Despite his loss to Jesse Camp, MTV hired Holmes to conduct celebrity interviews.

Despite the fact that Sanchez was a world champion, he had reached celebrity status only in his native Mexico and among hardcore boxing fans.

Despite being known for his celebrity clients, he rarely gives shoes away – offering discounts instead to his high-profile fans.

Despite attracting celebrity buyers including Hans Stuck and Georg " Schorsch " Meier, the car never once reached more than 10 % of the sales volumes achieved by its Stuttgart rival, the Mercedes-Benz 300SL.