Despite struggling through the task of plotting a story, his cadenced dialogue and cryptic narrations were musical, evoking the dark alleys and tough thugs, rich women and powerful men about whom he wrote.

Despite victories at Dupplin Moor and Halidon Hill, in the face of tough Scottish resistance led by Sir Andrew Murray, the son of Wallace's comrade in arms, successive attempts to secure Balliol on the throne failed.

Despite the utter cruelty, there are occasional hints that Nelson does not harbor any real hatred towards Martin and only does so to maintain his ' tough guy ' reputation.

Despite the team's losing record, the Warriors demonstrated that they could be a tough opponent with a healthy lineup and a strong bench.

Despite this, the widespread perception of " marine products " as " tough " led to domestic outdoor varnishes being branded as " Spar varnish " and sold on the virtue of their weather-and UV-resistance.

Despite Hayes ' apparent fear of playing more than one " tough " game a year, Ohio State still managed to schedule regular-season games with Nebraska, Washington, Southern California, UCLA, and Oklahoma during his tenure.

Despite a tough fight, Billings and his backers were forced to capitulate ; he resigned the presidency June 9.

Despite controlling the play and having the majority of the chances, the Italians were undone by poor finishing, and a strong, tough opposition who sought to stop their more skillful opponents playing through hard tackles and a defensive strategy.

Despite his success in his first term in office, pundits suggested that Savoy faced a tough battle for re-election especially with the creation of the new Conservative Party of Canada out of the old Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties whose combined vote in 2000 was 63 %.

Despite a reputation for being tough and ruthless, the Tellarites were honor-bound in their business dealings.

Despite her recent final appearance in New Havan, Petrova suffered a shock first round defeat in the hands of a tough opponent in World No. 38 Andrea Petkovic 2 – 6, 6 – 4, 6 – 7 ( 4 ).

Despite his tough exterior, Alice is surprised to learn he works as a postman in a small quiet town.

Despite later company literature that depicts Lewis E. Waterman as a golden-hearted innocent, all evidence indicates that he was a tough, savvy, and innovative businessman.

Despite Mermoz finding the flying conditions over the Andes to be tough, he became the project's main pilot, determined to reach the Pacific Ocean, and he was able, after multiple stops, to reach Santiago, Chile.

Despite her tough exterior, she still feels intensely, and begins a rocky relationship with the womanizer Charles de Etouard.

Despite, as guitarist Robert Davis put it, having enough hometown popularity to " play in front of 1, 500 people every Friday night ," the band set their sights for L. A. Orco began playing L. A. venues but had a tough time early on, being kicked out of a rented one-room bedroom and having a dismissive manager with whom they periodically spoke with.

Despite the tough politicking between the two, their aggression disappears once Santos is named the Democratic Presidential Nominee and the rivalry becomes moot.

" Gamespot's score for the game was 7. 5 / 10, commenting, " Despite some strategic elements, it really is a pure action game at heart, filled with plenty of targets to shoot at, plenty of power-ups to collect, and a good variety of tough missions to accomplish.

Despite the tough personality he displays, Gareth also appears to be actually very vulnerable and anxious.

Despite his rebel appearance and tough personality he slowly grows to befriend Dino and is actually quite friendly.

Despite having a chest cold, Müller continued to hang tough and held on for the silver medal.

Despite the tough battle, Big Hero 6 ends up victorious.

Despite this tough image, according to his second wife and widow Susan Rescorla in her book, Touched by a Hero, music was " so central " to Rick's life that he sang to his troops in Vietnam to calm them – something he would later employ during 9 / 11.

Despite facing a tough home stretch, the Titans placed admirably in their pursuit of an inaugural finals campaign.

Despite some optimistic talk in the foreign press the impetus of these reforms has not been followed with, for example, a large-scale decollectivization such as occurred in China under Deng.

Despite being the talk of London society, only his followers and possibly the Prince of Wales know the Pimpernel's true identity.

Despite an increase in transmission power, WHLD found that Air America with local morning talk format unsustainable and dropped the format for the Totally Gospel Radio Network programming in December 2006.

Despite pregame talk about a weak Eagles secondary, Owens struggled throughout the game.

Despite Jeffrey Wigand's commitment to honor the confidentiality agreement and his initial refusal to talk to Lowell Bergman, producer of 60 Minutes, Wigand claimed that he and his family were anonymously stalked, intimidated and threatened with death should he talk.

Despite suffering from the " terrifying " director Otto Preminger, Darnell completed the film and was praised by reviewers so widely that there was even talk of an Oscar nomination.

Despite his silent persona in films, she found Marx to be " a warm, fun, darling man to talk to ".

Despite Air America's demise, progressive talk radio has endured.

Despite its overnight success, WBZ had little interest in keeping the show as a part of its schedule ( partially because the station wanted to give priority to the upcoming Group W-distributed talk show, The Wil Shriner Show ).

Despite having been a moderate Republican as a County Supervisor and Mayor, as a talk show host and practicing Roman Catholic, he moved rightward by taking conservative stances on most political, economic, and social issues, especially opposition to illegal immigration, abortion, homosexuality, and equal rights under the law for homosexuals, even though he courted the gay / lesbian vote during his campaigns for County Supervisor and Mayor of San Diego, and in October 2011 endorsed fellow Republican and San Diego mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio, an openly gay member of the San Diego City Council.

( Despite being compiled with Watcom C ++, Build is plain C .) There was some talk of Matt Saettler using this to port EDuke to Windows, but nothing came of it.

Despite this, he had one recurring character ( Leo Waxman, husband to Denny Dillon's Pinky Waxman on the recurring talk show sketch, " What's It All About?

Despite the promise of renovations, Georgia athletic director Vince Dooley was unswayed, so Austin widened the scope of the renovations, increasing their price tag to $ 49 million, and traveled to Athens, Georgia, to talk with Dooley in person.

Despite this acrimonious termination, Coren made regular talk show appearances on CFRB in July 2006, at the start of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, as he happened to be in Israel at the time.

Despite talk of bringing the murderers to justice, no criminal charges were filed and the war rolled on.

Despite the grand success, all members continued their separate careers, yet there was talk of some work on writing and recording new material, and by 2007 all five members finally found the time to get together in the studio.

Despite all the talk of something awaiting up top of the ( now unguarded ) flight of stairs, there is no mention of anyone going up to retrieve it.

Despite much talk, he downplayed the thought of a third championship.

Despite talk of constructing a replacement station nearby, this has not been provided for in the Crossrail Act 2008.

Despite the apparent death of the Hulk in the 1990 film, more Incredible Hulk television movies were planned, including a proposed Revenge of the Incredible Hulk where the Hulk would actually be able to talk.

Throughout his life, the press would contact his home to ask for interviews and he trained his wife and children to give excuses such as he “ was on a fishing trip in Canada .” Even during the filming of the movie the Sands of Iwo Jima in 1949, Bradley told his wife to tell the townspeople that he was “ on a business trip ” in order to avoid attention that would be drawn to him .” Despite his reluctance to talk to the media, family, and friends about the incident, he told his parents in a letter shortly after the battle that raising the flag was “ the happiest moment of my life .”

Despite widespread opposition against that deal, the known existence of at least four other serious and much less controversial contenders to buy the Radiomédia stations, and numerous allegations to the effect that Corus Entertainment's offer was actually part of a larger plan to prevent any meaningful competition to its new FM talk format ( as Corus seemed to try to weaken and steal listeners from CKAC and not from the increasingly popular CBF-FM, and its sales representatives claimed to clients that they would be better advised to buy advertising at CHMP-FM and not CKAC as they pretended the latter was going to close shortly no matter what would happen ), the deal was approved in January 2005 by the CRTC in the midst of strong rumours that Astral Media would close CKAC if the deal was not approved.

Despite being possessed, and acting as a major antagonist for much of Sailor Moon S, he appeared to be kind and considerate of his underlings ( despite occasional frustration with them ), and at times even encouraged them or engaged them in friendly small talk, in contrast to other villains in the series.