Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

Despite the opposition of some of their number, the Israelites assemble and send away their foreign wives and children.

Despite vocal opposition from Contre-Admiral Armand Blanquet, who insisted that the fleet would be best able to respond in open water, the rest of the captains agreed that anchoring in a line of battle inside the bay presented the strongest tactic for confronting Nelson.

Despite these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.

Despite the democratic constitution, the government under Chiang was a one-party state, consisting almost completely of mainlanders ; the " Temporary Provisions Effective During the Period of Communist Rebellion " greatly enhanced executive powers, and the goal of retaking mainland China allowed the KMT to maintain a monopoly on power and the prohibition of opposition parties.

Despite rain, and opposition from conservatives based on the amount of money that was being spent, the procession went ahead.

Despite the opposition, Hubble, then a thirty-five-year-old scientist, had his findings first published in The New York Times on, 1924, and then more formally presented in the form of a paper at the January 1, 1925 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Despite considerable popularity amongst the people, Madero ´ s administration soon encountered opposition both from more radical revolutionaries and from remnants of the former regime.

Despite discontent from opposition parties, Bongo has remained president ever since.

Despite anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multiparty National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September – October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.

Despite further anti-government demonstrations after the untimely death of an opposition leader, the first multi-party National Assembly elections in almost 30 years took place in September-October 1990, with the PDG garnering a large majority.

Despite fear of the Gestapo after the mass arrests and executions of the spring, the opposition still plotted and planned.

Despite Gaulish opposition led by Vercingetorix, the Overking of the Warriors, the Gauls succumbed to the Roman onslaught.

Despite a great deal of local opposition the town lost its rail service in 1969, when as part of the controversial Beeching Axe the ' Waverley Line ' from Carlisle to Edinburgh via Hawick was closed.

Despite vigorous opposition from the British, the American proposal was adopted.

Despite his opposition to Operation Barbarossa and a preference for focusing the war effort against Britain, on 28 June 1941, Ribbentrop began a sustained effort to have Japan attack the Soviet Union without bothering to inform Hitler first.

Despite protests from opposition parties, the country has remained relatively stable since.

Despite the fact that the election results were found to reflect the will of the people, opposition protests in the country intensified.

Despite Gandhi's opposition, Bose won a second term as Congress President, against Gandhi's nominee, Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya ; but left the Congress when the All-India leaders resigned en masse in protest of his abandonment of the principles introduced by Gandhi.

Despite opposition from other Christian denominations, Mormonism identifies itself as a Christian religion, the " restoration " of primitive Christianity.

Despite being head of the country, Ćosić was forced out of office in 1993 due to his opposition to Serbian President Slobodan Milošević.

Despite acquiring an increasing percentage of the popular vote — 34 % overall in 2006 — opposition parties gained small numbers of seats in the general elections of 1984 ( 2 seats of 79 ), 1988 ( 1 seat of 81 ), 1991 ( 4 seats of 81 ), 1997 ( 2 seats of 83 ) and 2001 ( 2 seats of 84 ).

Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by a sexist society, she gained education from books in her father's library and from correspondence with famous mathematicians such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss.

Despite the opposition of Rome's patricians, he expanded the Roman franchise and improved the lot and fortune of Rome's lowest classes of citizens and non-citizens.

Despite some opposition, the Burgundian and Provençal nobles paid homage to Conrad in Zürich in 1034.

Despite his criticisms of Eysenck's tough-tender axis, Rokeach also postulated a basic similarity between communism and nazism, claiming that these groups would not value freedom as greatly as more conventional social democrats, democratic socialists and capitalists would, and he wrote that " the two value model presented here most resembles Eysenck's hypothesis.

Despite the initial institutional design of communism implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Eastern Bloc, subsequent development varied across countries.

Despite Tsarist censorship proscribing " the harmful doctrines of socialism and communism ", the Russian censors considered Capital as a " strictly scientific work " of political economy the content of which did not apply to monarchic Russia, where " capitalist exploitation " had never occurred, and was officially dismissed, given that " that very few people in Russia will read it, and even fewer will understand it "; nonetheless, Karl Marx acknowledged that Russia was the country where Capital " was read and valued more than anywhere.

Despite its democratic socialist ideas, the Peoples Party never actually allied with the communism, and the Communist Party remained one of its major rivals in Sindh Province and also mr Imran Khan's PTI become the largest and more popular social democratic party similar to in many respects to the Portugues Social Democratic Party.

: Despite Josip Broz Tito's firm adherence to communism, because of the ideological and personal conflict with Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union-and thereafter all the Warsaw Pact's pro-Soviet governments-denounced his treaty of friendship with Yugoslavia on September 27, 1949.

Despite these disturbances and stoically supported by Ropke ’ s learned newspaper writings, the Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard persevered with foresight, and this eventually amounted to “ a great personal vindication for Röpke ”-Röpke and his allies had “ made West Germany immune to communism .”

" Despite this, the song became the de facto anthem of the collapse of communism ( specifically the Fall of the Berlin Wall which occurred a month into the album's release ) because of its repeated chorus of ' Keep on Rockin ' in the Free World '.

Despite the imminent potential for communism, some economic theorists have hypothesized that communism is more than a thousand years away from full implementation and of course it is the position of anti-communists and those who have " buried " socialism that it will never be realized at all, that the capitalist mode is the end to which historical development drives and halts having reached its " perfect and eternal " form.

Despite the nature and intensity of its work and the fact that it sees itself as advocating a new type of communism inspired by but still separate from the old, the party has remained small throughout its history, staying relatively stable at an estimated few thousand active members, and neither gaining nor losing significant numbers along the way.

Despite these efforts, Dziadek Mróz never gained any popular support among the Polish people and after the fall of communism he disappeared from Poland.

Despite some initial expressions of enthusiasm, Hoxha and Shehu mistrusted Nikita Khrushchev's programs of " peaceful coexistence " and " different roads to socialism " because they appeared to pose the threat that Yugoslavia might again try to take control of Albania.

Despite their professed admiration for Francia, the Colorados dismantled Francia's unique system of state socialism.

Despite this, during the visit of President Nixon in 1972, Mao Zedong told him " We haven't even begun to establish socialism.

Despite this, he was considered by some to be one of the reformers of the Church and one of the founders of the ideals of the French revolution and socialism.

Despite his wealthy origins, Graham was converted to socialism and he began to speak at public meetings.

Despite the introduction of social thought as an object of religious thought, Rerum Novarum explicitly rejects what it calls " the main tenet of socialism ":

Despite noticeable talent, his interests shifted to politics and socialism during his adolescence and young adulthood when he became a prominent leader in the Israeli youth movement, Hashomer Hatzair.

Despite the " ethical " character of his socialism ( though he was initially loath to use the term " socialism "), Bellamy's ideas somewhat reflect classical Marxism.

Despite the official designation of " socialism ", the current Chinese economy is often described by economists as a hybrid of free market capitalism and socialism.

Despite his Marxist socialism, he had pan-Germanic and nationalist ideas, and was disappointed when the Treaty of Versailles eliminated the possibility of a union of Austria with Germany.

Despite its small size ( According to the ISRP historian Lynch, the party never had more than 80 members ) the ISRP is regarded by many Irish historians as a party of seminal importance in the early history of Irish socialism and republicanism.

Despite the Labour Party still being in opposition in Saint Lucia, socialism and left-wing politics were on the rise in the Caribbean as a whole and, during his time out of Parliament, Odlum was the public face of socialism in the region.

Despite campaigning heavily against the government's " socialism ", it did not propose to undo the Liberal Party's labour and welfare reforms.

Despite the fact that Hillquit was not a prolific pamphleteer, he did author of a number of substantial books, including a serious academic history of socialism, History of Socialism in the United States ( 1903, revised 1910 — translated into both Russian and German ); works of popularization, such as Socialism in Theory and Practice ( 1909 ) and Socialism Summed Up ( 1912 ); a short theoretical piece, From Marx to Lenin ( 1921 ); as well as a posthumously published memoir, Loose Leaves from a Busy Life ( 1934 ).

Despite this lessening of emphasis on religion the party's website lists Orthodox Christianity as one of its four main ideological principles, the others being a strong state, aggressive Russian nationalism and non-Marxist socialism.

Despite his negative experiences in Moscow, Bettelheim retained a favorable attitude towards Soviet socialism until the Sixties, citing the economic accomplishments of the Soviet Union, which he appreciated from an independent point of view.