Despite the cars ' appreciation in value, the company was often financially troubled.

Despite wide critical acclaim for its acts and a dedicated fanbase, Jeepster nevertheless found itself financially troubled by 2002, largely due to increasing recording and marketing costs, and difficulty cultivating the images of their acts in the eye of the general public.

Despite past opposition to state intervention the Chirac government approved a 2. 8 billion euro aid package to troubled manufacturing giant Alstom.

Despite troubled relations with the Roman Catholic Church, Richelieu did not support the complete repudiation of papal authority in France, as was advocated by the Gallicanists.

Despite setbacks caused by the troubled gold and aloe industries, Aruba's economy didn't suffer long.

Despite the region's troubled early years in the Soviet Union, it gradually began to recover with much of the area's infrastructure rebuilt and improved.

Despite the rich soils and favorable weather of the Central Valley, inhabitants of the valley who were unfamiliar with its natural rainfall patterns and started to practice intense irrigated agriculture on the arid land soon found themselves troubled by frequent floods in the Sacramento Valley and a general lack of water in the San Joaquin Valley.

Despite her family's wealth and high social status, Edie's early life was troubled.

) Despite serving with valor on the Battle of the Line, David was deeply troubled.

Despite his troubled term as territorial governor of Kansas, Shannon served the longest continuous term of any Kansas territorial governor, more than nine and one-half months of an eleven-month term.

Despite his troubled past, he is a relatively good-natured young man who is somewhat clueless about romantic relationships, particularly with Iris Irine.

Despite his perfect grades and popularity, he has a troubled home life and develops a crush on Shia.

Despite their troubled past, he spends time with Colleen to help her combat her grief.

Despite this success, he became a free agent as his contract at Shelbourne was not renewed due to the club's troubled financial situation.

Despite a childhood dream to play for the Oakland Raiders, he turned down the scholarships on the advice of his mother, who argued that football players had shorter careers.

Despite coming from a typical all-American family, Dexter speaks with an accent, a reference to Tartakovsky's own accent that he spoke with during childhood.

Despite Amadis ' celebrated fidelity, his childhood sweetheart, Oriana, heiress to the throne of Great Britain, becomes jealous of a rival princess and sends a letter to chastize Amadís.

Despite having purchased the childhood residence of Paul McCartney, the National Trust showed no interest in acquiring the Menlove Avenue property, claiming that, unlike McCartney's home, no Beatles ' songs had been composed at Mendips.

Despite her country's ongoing struggle with Spain, Catherine enjoyed a happy, contented childhood in her beloved Lisbon.

Despite having become a popular senior at Gold Crown Academy () and known throughout the student body to be a very talented ballet dancer, he possesses no emotions, and is largely dependent on his roommate and childhood friend Fakir for his well-being and survival.

Despite numerous rumours that Halford would reunite with Priest, Owens recorded two studio albums with his childhood heroes, as well as two live albums and a 2002 DVD release.

Despite her title as " new talent " at that time, she had already been a singer for more than 10 years from street and club performances during her childhood.

Both his parents came from wealthy backgrounds, and his father, George Noble Plunkett, had been made a papal count .< ref > Despite being born into a life of privilege, young Joe Plunkett did not have an easy childhood.

Despite a childhood that included health problems like rickets, and a serious case of either asthma or pneumonia when he was three, Gibson was active in sports in both informal and organized settings, particularly baseball and basketball.

Despite this, however, from an early childhood he was trained for war in the traditional Spartan fashion and on reaching maturity had been elected to a military mess, his dues contributed by a wealthier Spartiate patron.

Despite a difficult childhood, during the 1950s Abashidze was able to obtain degrees in history and philosophy at Batumi University and in economics at Tbilisi State University.

Despite some financial problems, Darnell insisted on having had a joyful childhood and loving parents.

Despite her privileged childhood, von Harbou had the desire to earn a living on her own, thus driving her to become an actress, regardless of disapproval from her father.

Despite the limited amount of information on sexually violent men, it appears that sexual violence is found in almost all countries ( though with differences in prevalence ), in all socioeconomic classes and in all age groups from childhood onwards.

Despite reports that Red Grange and the newly formed AFL had signed him, Nevers's childhood friend and Duluth Eskimos owner Ole Haugsrud had actually signed him.

Despite a childhood aptitude for music and literature, Rawsthorne's parents tried to steer him away from his dreams of becoming a professional musician.

Despite not living in his hometown since his childhood, he remains an avid supporter of Rotherham United F. C., his hometown football team.

Despite his success following David Copperfield, Bartholomew's childhood film stardom was marred by nearly constant legal battles and payouts which eventually took a huge toll on both his finances and his career.

Despite this, some elements which originated in the animated series have been used in subsequent stories, most notably the details of Spock's childhood and Vulcan culture revealed in the episode " Yesteryear ", which were alluded to in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Unification ", in the Star Trek: The Original Series remastered episode " Amok Time ", and in Star Trek: Enterprise.

Despite financial hardship, causing his sisters and him to share a single room, he had a relatively carefree childhood: he describes it as " time when I had no responsibility in my life, I played football on the street with cousins and friends, and we never had any contact with drugs or violence ".

Despite the widely attributed meaning of this name to " Nonstop beats ", Dembo's childhood friends and especially his young brother believes that The name " Barura " could have been inspired from the mountain in Buhera called Barura Mountain, since his mother hailed from that area.

Despite her own involvement in politics, his mother tried to dissuade him from entering politics, due to his childhood struggles with asthma, believing that the stress of campaigning would be detrimental to his frail health.

Despite her handicap which was the result of childhood polio, she went on to become one of the continents most popular singers on the strength of her charming, vivacious voice and her songwriting.

Despite Davout's reports to the contrary, Napoleon ordered him to attack the Austrians on his front in the morning, with the proviso that Lefebvre's equally depleted corps would support him if he needed help ( A total of approximately 36, 000 men for both corps ).

Despite years of protesting by tennis pioneer Billie Jean King and others, in 2005 the French Open and Wimbledon still refused to pay women's and men's players equally through all rounds.

Despite this difference, in practice the major and minor triads are treated equally in Schenkerian analysis.

Despite a dismal start to 2009, the equally faltering form of their rivals allowed Wolves to retain the top spot.

Despite Zaphod's apparent affinity for this drink, Algolian cuisine is equally noted for its unpleasantness.

Despite a hierarchical, feudal society, everything is painted equally and in sharp focus.

Despite still producing some of the most original works in Spanish of the twentieth century — the existential-surrealist novel El hombre perdido Lost Man ( 1947 ) and his extraordinary neo-baroque autobiography Automoribundia ( Automoribund ) — his life in exile was one of pathetic isolation and increasing poverty, neither of which were helped by the knowledge that he had left behind ( and in 1947 donated to the Spanish State ) the celebrated painting of the Pombo Tertulia by Gutiérrez-Solana ( now given pride of place in Madrid ’ s Reina Sofia Museum ) and the equally famous cubist portrait of him painted in 1915 by Diego Rivera ( which was lost without trace during the civil war but has apparently resurfaced to become the ‘ property ’ of a Mexican millionaire ).

Despite being widely renowned as the best player of the hook and pull shots in the world, Ponting is equally adept on both the front and back foot.

Despite advice to the contrary, Potemkin pursued an equally defensive strategy, though in the Caucasus Generals Tekeeli and Pavel Potemkin were making some inroads.

Despite having injured his left wrist in training, Urquidez proceeded with the bout and narrowly dominated his equally aggressive opponent with kicking attacks.

Despite her already hectic schedule, however, Helen finds the time to develop a genuine affection for her new dependents, as well as an equally genuine attraction to Dan Parker ( John Corbett ), the kids ' school principal and local Lutheran pastor.

Despite the absence of a written contract with the singer, proceeds from the book were split equally between the two men.

Despite many later fabrications that Strauss ' work was initially ignored, first night press reviews do not proclaim in favor of either work although posterity seemed to pronounce in favor of Strauss ' uplifting work with the ' Abendblätter ' waltz being equally impressive.

Despite his absolute disdain for those around him, Spider is quite loyal to those few who he considers friends and is equally quick to hurt those who would betray him.

Despite suggestions to the contrary, Sabbath is not based on the equally corpulent character Sunday from the novel The Man Who Was Thursday ( 1904 ) by G. K. Chesterton, though this is jokingly alluded to in the Doctor Who novel History 101 ( 2002 ).

Despite his overbearing attitude, he is an expert pilot who brings Flight Two home safely along with Captain Anson Harris, an equally expert pilot who is actually pilot-in-command, but is being given his six-month " check ride " by Demerest.

Despite the opening description of the plane stats, both planes operate equally, and are only available to the first or second player respectively.

Despite this large difference, their comparable tractive efforts were much closer ( around three-quarters as diesels ) and so they could start and work equally heavy trains as diesels, but not to the same speeds.

Despite the differences in the backgrounds of the players, Hirst was equally respected at Eton and when he acted as a coach to the Yorkshire team.