Amalric was pious and attended mass every day, although he also " is said to have absconded himself without restraint to the sins of the flesh and to have seduced married women …" Despite his piety he taxed the clergy, which they naturally opposed.

Despite his political preoccupations, which certainly led to him being largely absent from York, he has been credited with sponsoring a lively revival of personal religious piety in the northern province.

Despite his piety and biological relationship through his mother to Al as Shaykh family, and his support for the pan-Islamic movement in his struggle against pan-Arabism, he decreased the ulema's power and influence.

Despite the absence of actions of the gods, religion and piety play critical roles in the actions of the Spartans, and to a lesser degree, the Athenians.

Despite his piety, Charles did not hesitate in ordering the massacre of 2000 civilians after the siege of Quimper.

Despite his worldly inclinations, he was an original member of the more traditionally oriented Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah ( council of great Torah sages ), and was also known to be a person of great moral conduct and piety.

Despite his piety, Hugh was in constant conflict with the abbey of St. Maixent.

Despite their difficult relationship, and the events following Carloman's death, Charlemagne would later name his second legitimate son ' Carloman ' after his deceased brother.

Despite strenuous efforts from the Culloden < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s boats, the brig Mutine and the 50-gun HMS Leander under Captain Thomas Thompson, the ship of the line could not be moved, and the waves drove Culloden further onto the shoal, inflicting severe damage to the ship's hull.

Despite swimming being a part of imperial education, Caligula could not swim.

Despite the improved guns, production of the Panzer III was ended in 1943, as the tank still could not match the T-34, and was replaced by the Panzer IV and Panther tanks.

Despite success within the NFL, they could not survive in Portsmouth, then the NFL's smallest city.

Despite the official names " National Comics " and " National Periodical Publications ", the line used the logo " Superman-DC " throughout ( the DC logo could be seen on their covers and ads as early as 1940 ), and the company became known colloquially as DC Comics for years before the official adoption of that name in 1977.

Despite Francis ' different religion, he felt that they were good people, much like Europeans, and could be converted.

Despite Stephenson's losing some routes to competitors due to his caution, he was offered more work than he could cope with, and was unable to accept offers for additional work.

Despite the Pagan beliefs at its core, Boccaccio believed that much could be learned from antiquity.

Despite this, the office was not legally hereditary, and the heir could not title himself " Emperor " without having been personally elected.

Despite the passport union with Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland Finland could not join the Nordic Council until 1955 because of Soviet fears that Finland might become too close to the West.

Despite Roe's somewhat casual use of the term ' atheist ', he could not quite put his finger on Jahangir's real beliefs.

Despite his success with Cooper, Brabham was sure he could do better.

Despite winning the League Cup, Liverpool could only finish 8th in the Premier League, and Dalglish was dismissed in May 2012.

Despite intense bombing, it could not deliver Goring's promise to destroy the British Expeditionary Force, which escaped to continue the war.

Despite systematic searches since 1931,, they have never been observed, and could very well not exist.

Despite this, Najibullah was not the only choice the Soviets had ; a GRU report claimed he was unfit to be leader considering the fact that he was a Pashtun nationalist, a stance which could decrease the regimes popularity even more.

Despite a warming by the Comintern, German tensions were raised when the Soviets stated in September that they must enter Poland to " protect " their ethnic Ukrainian and Belorussian brethren therein from Germany, though Molotov later admitted to German officials that this excuse was necessary because the Soviets could find no other pretext for the Soviet invasion.

Despite this new information, Schreiber decided to continue with the rescue operation as originally planned and the new information could not reach the snipers since they had no radios.

Despite the contributions of Duffy and Mendez, there were no female members, as stipulated in the NCS ' constitution which specified that “ any cartoonist ( male ) who signs his name to his published work ” could apply for membership.

Despite these successes, the Germans were pushed back from Moscow and could never again mount a simultaneous offensive along the entire strategic Soviet – German front.

Despite this, a small number of mainstream scholars have argued that he could have visited Italy.

" Despite fears that too much propaganda could diminish Hollywood ’ s entertainment appeal, reducing its targeted audience and decreasing profits, military enlistment increased and morale was considered to be higher, in part attributed to America's innovative propaganda.

Despite papal support, Otto could not oust his rival Philip until the latter was murdered in a private feud.

Despite the damage which the affair was inflicting on the church, it was not until after Julius ' death in 1555 that anything could be done to curb Innocenzo's visibility.

Despite its advantages, the concept of implementing the game logic in a separate scripting language and writing an interpreter for it was soon dropped ( even by John Carmack who had implemented this concept ) because of the overall inflexibility of an interpreted language, the increasingly complex game logic and the fact that the game logic could be packaged into a native Dynamic link library whose source code could be released to the mod community.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

Despite the fact that he was regarded as an outstanding engineer, he seemed to be a very poor administrator, although no one quite knew what was wrong with him.

Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

Despite the lack of a categorical counterindication, the belief that alcohol and antibacterials should never be mixed is widespread.

Despite this, several features that would later be associated with BBC Master and Archimedes were first features of Electron expansion units, including ROM cartridge slots and the Advanced Disc Filing System — a hierarchical improvement to the BBC's original Disc Filing System.

Despite Acorn themselves effectively shelving the Electron in 1985, games continued to be developed and released by professional software houses until 1991.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

Despite Phillip's earlier order that Aboriginal Australians must never be slain, and his insistence that no retaliation be taken to avenge his own non-fatal spearing, Phillip's stance toward Aboriginals changed markedly after the death of his gamekeeper, John MacIntyre.

Despite several differences in definitions, their importance becomes apparent as different methods of analysis when applied to acid – base reactions for gaseous or liquid species, or when acid or base character may be somewhat less apparent.

Despite causing the predicament faced by the Medieval soldiers, Ash initially demands to be returned to his own time.

Despite having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.

Despite the outstanding victories, Germany was near defeat, which meant that Bulgaria would be left without its most powerful ally.

Despite this, there were also several superstar hitters, the most famous being Honus Wagner, held to be one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game, and Detroit's Ty Cobb, the " Georgia Peach.

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 its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with light and other electromagnetic radiation.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

Despite this huge show of force, the battle will be short-lived, for Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation all say that this last desperate attempt to destroy the people and the city of God will end in disaster: " I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed.

Despite his lack of experience, Claudius proved to be an able and efficient administrator.

Despite the lack of complexity, there does seem to be forethought and skill in making these tools and should be considered such.

Despite these advances in Cognitive psychology, there is still much to be discovered in terms of the operating mechanisms of declarative memory.

Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

Despite the reorganization, money continued to be a problem for the institution.