Despite the firm's name, Burnham was the nominal survivor ; the Drexel name only came first at the insistence of the more powerful investment banks, whose blessing was necessary for the merged firm to inherit Drexel's position as a " major " firm.

Despite the fact that Eck was thus virtually forced to abandon his position, he succeeded, through his good memory and his dialectic skill, in confusing the heavy-witted Karlstadt and carried off the nominal victory.

Despite his extensive knowledge of ancient history, classics, archaeology and what would be termed today cultural anthropology, he apparently had not even read enough in his nominal major to pass the required examination.

Despite its nominal submission to the Merovingians, the ethnic make-up of new realm Aquitaine wasn ´ t Frankish, but Gallo-Roman north of the Garonne and main towns and Basque, especially south of the Garonne.

Despite the easy recapture of Madrid, and nominal control by Joseph's government over many cities and provinces, Joseph's reign over Spain was always tenuous at best, and constantly resisted by pro-Bourbon guerrillas.

Despite the great human cost, the Soviet Union under Molotov's nominal premiership made great strides in the adoption and widespread implementation of agrarian and industrial technology.

Despite its " Republic " moniker, the Centauri Republic is a nominal constitutional monarchy ruled by an Emperor, or, in the event of an interregnum, a Regent.

Despite those earlier private undertakings, during the principal period of spaceflight in the mid-twentieth century, only nation states developed and flew spacecraft above the Karman Line, the nominal boundary of space.

Despite inflation, this fee was not changed until 1992 when it was doubled to $ 200, thus remaining a nominal sum to many Albertans.

Despite the nominal power reductions sales surged.

Despite the nominal offensive position of the insurgents in the vicinity of Guantánamo Bay, Spanish regulars and guerrillas held Guantánamo City, the port of Caimanera and the railroad connecting the two cities, the large sugar mills, and other outlying strong points.

Despite hard times during the Great Depression the college continued to maintain nominal levels of enrollment.

Despite its nominal Danish setting, the landscape has come to be seen as quintessentially English.

Despite this, the traditional Armenian Democratic Liberal Party ( in Armenian Ռամկավար Ազատական Կուսակցություն ( ՌԱԿ )) continued its nominal existence.

Despite cordial relations, however, including payment of responsions to Malta and participation of delegates from the Bailiwick in the Chapter General of the Order of Malta in 1776, nominal reunion of the two Orders was prevented by the withholding of papal approval.

Despite his wishes to stop wanton violence, Berlichingen found himself powerless to control the rebels and after a month of nominal leadership he deserted his command and returned to the Schloss Jagsthausen to sit out the rest of the rebellion.

Despite the extent of the geological Fox Valley, the nominal region, in practice, only refers to areas south of Carpentersville, Illinois and north of Plano, IL

Despite not being recognised as currency by the rest of the world when they were issued, the banknotes were afterwards sold as curios ( typically at 2 / 6 (=. 0125 GBP ) for 1 pound notes in London philately / notaphily shops ) and are now traded among banknote collectors at well above their original nominal value.

Despite retirement, Husserl gave several notable lectures.

Despite announcing his retirement from acting in 1980, Brando subsequently gave supporting performances in movies such as A Dry White Season ( for which he was again nominated for an Oscar in 1989 ), The Freshman in 1990 and Don Juan DeMarco in 1995.

Despite his age and bulk, Grace continued to play minor cricket for several years after his retirement from the first-class version.

Despite four 50-win seasons, the Bulls began to fall apart after an injury to Sloan and the retirement of Walker.

Despite Miller's effort, the Pacers lost, sending Miller into retirement without an NBA Championship in his 18-year career, all with the Pacers.

Despite his comparatively short career, Koufax's 2, 396 career strikeouts ranked 7th in history as of his retirement, trailing only Warren Spahn ( 2, 583 ) among left-handers.

Despite his controversial public image, Warner remained a force in the motion picture industry until his retirement in the early 1970s.

Despite these early settlements, nearly all of present-day Ormond-By-The-Sea remained undeveloped until the 1950s, when the area began to develop in earnest as a retirement community.

Despite his professed desire to fade from public attention, these questions followed him into retirement, eventually exploding into a series of political, financial and personal scandals tarnished his image and reputation.

Despite still retaining an acceptable amount of his boxing ability, Zarate was nonetheless, a shadow of what he was before his 5-year retirement.

Despite his failures in these attempts to become a world champion again, he has not announced a retirement.

Despite the changes, many Gurkhas who had not served long enough to entitle them to a pension faced hardship on their return to Nepal, and some critics derided the Government's decision to only award the new pension and citizenship entitlement to those joining after 1 July 1997, claiming that this left many ex-Gurkha servicemen still facing a financially uncertain retirement.

Despite her mooted retirement, Lawrence was induced to return to work in 1914 for her company ( Victor Film Company ), which was later acquired by Universal Studios.

Despite playing a key role in forcing Laurier to commit Canadian forces in the Boer War, after his retirement from politics, Mulock spoke out against militarism.

Despite any appearance of retirement, the old shogun didn't abandon any of his powers, and Yoshimitsu continued to maintain authority over the shogunate until his death.

Despite his retirement, however, he retained ultimate power until his death in 1799.

Despite his poor start and subsequent retirement, fans again voted Schmidt to the NL All-Star team.

Despite lingering effects from previous injuries, Sammartino agreed to come out of retirement to help his son launch his career.

Despite this, or perhaps because of it, Louis XVIII forced Gazan into retirement in Grasse, where the aging general dabbled unsuccessfully in politics.

Despite the loss of defensive stalwarts Scott Stevens ( retirement ), Scott Niedermayer ( free agency ), and Ken Daneyko ( retirement ), as well as a series of rule changes designed to increase offence, the Devils have remained one of the league's least scored on and least penalized teams.

Despite Madden's retirement as a broadcaster in 2009, he continues to lend his name and provide expertise for the game.

Despite his retirement he continued at Hanslope to make clocks, some of which survive.

Despite his retirement Josephson continues to be active within the Mind-Matter Unification project.