Despite the hopefulness of Wolfe ’ s artistic drive, he becomes the story's tragic hero, as his yearning for a better life leads to his imprisonment and ultimate death.

Despite being a cover, the song's wistful yearning for the simpler days of a bucolic childhood had personal significance for Battin, as he explained during a 1979 interview: "' Lazy Waters ' was a serious song.

Despite the army demanding his rehabilitation, Hitler would only go as far as naming him honorary colonel of an artillery regiment.

Despite later claiming to have been a colonel, Georgiou's highest British Army rank attained was that of corporal, and he never received officer training.

Despite this he was appointed major in the 19th U. S. Infantry and brevet colonel in the regular army.

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 this all of the games released on ROM were packaged as ' serial ROMS ', from which the micro would load programs into main memory in exactly the same way as if it were loading from tape.

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

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 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 its failure to control the rodents, the cane toad was introduced to Puerto Rico in the early 20th century in the hope that it would counter a beetle infestation ravaging the sugarcane plantations.

Despite the club's poor record, several Rockies hitters gained notoriety for their exploits at the plate, assisted by the thin and dry air of Denver, which purportedly allows balls to carry farther than they would at sea-level ballparks.

Despite this, at first he thought staying and founding a city would serve well for his honor.

Despite heroic efforts, Old Prussian sovereignty would eventually collapse after a succession of wars instigated by Pope Honorius III and his frequent calls for crusade.

Despite proclaiming high clinical standards for himself to gather information ' by means of expert analysis of individual cases ', he would also draw on the reported observations of officials not trained in psychiatry.

Despite the fact that El Cid's mother's family was aristocratic, in later years the peasants would consider him one of their own.

Despite this, the club had recruited many talented young players in the late 70s who would emerge as club greats.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

Despite the success of the expedition, the quelling of sporadic rebellions would take another eight years until 1905, when the island was completely pacified by the French under Joseph Gallieni.

Despite most Guatemalans ' attachment to the original ideals of the 1944 uprising, some private sector leaders and the military began to believe that Arbenz represented a Communist threat and supported his overthrow, hoping that a successor government would continue the more moderate reforms started by Arevalo.

Despite that a proposed bill in American Senate would allow the reserve to continue to sell the gas.

Despite this naval defeat, it was on the ground that this war would be won, Napoleon inflicted the Austrian and Russian Empires one of their greatest defeats at Austerlitz ( also known as the " Battle of the Three Emperors " on 2 December 1805 ), destroying the Third Coalition.

Despite midseason trade rumors, Beltrán would prove instrumental to the team's hopes, hitting eight home runs in the postseason.

Despite the competition, Harley-Davidson was already pulling ahead of Indian and would dominate motorcycle racing after 1914.

Despite fears by the Linux gaming community that Id Tech 5 would not be ported to that platform, Timothee Besset in his blog has stated " I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done ".

Despite the need to start back at the bottom of the naval hierarchy, Cook realised his career would advance more quickly in military service and entered the Navy at Wapping on 7 June 1755.

Despite this, in an editorial in his newspaper Das Reich in November 1941 Goebbels quoted Hitler ’ s 1939 " prophecy " that the Jews would be the loser in the coming world war.

Despite this, Madison still feared that the states would compel congress to call for a new constitutional convention, which they had the right to do.

Despite his claim to unique authority within England, John would sometimes justify his actions on the basis that he had taken council with the barons.

Despite an ambiguity due to its failure clearly to define `` relative costs '', the above exposition of fully distributed costing goes about as far as one can go toward expressing the basic philosophy of the practice.

Despite this and other hearsay evidence, there were no actual facts to go upon.

Despite this regional organization, some bus and tram routes operated by STIB / MIVB go beyond the regional border, and some bus routes operated by TEC or De Lijn transport passengers from the Flemish or Walloon regions to the capital city.

Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.

Despite decades of research, where these animals go for the rest of the year remains unknown.

Despite Theremin being only in his second academic year, the deanery of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy recommended him to go to the Nikolayevska Military Engineering School in Petrograd ( renamed from Saint Petersburg ), which usually only accepted students in their fourth year.

Despite suffering from a serious flare-up of his chronic colitis, Lawrence decided to go, but he became ill while in Geneva, and was rushed to the hospital at Stanford University.

Despite the police surveillance, McCauley and his crew decide to go through with a bank holdup with an estimated $ 12 million payoff.

Despite his belief that the attack on Poland would cause only a local war, on 15 August 1939 Raeder took the precaution of ordering two Panzerschife the Admiral Graf von Spee and the Deutschland, a number of U-boats and the Dithmarschen ships Altmark and Westerwald to the Atlantic in case Britain should go to war.

Despite his macabre sense of humour, he was extremely generous, and would go out of his way to help those whom he considered friends.

Despite his efforts, he was not considered suitable for a front line position because of his capriciousness and tendency to go against the grain.

Despite popular perceptions of the Vineyard as " Hollywood East ", the island is very low-key and quiet ; celebrities go to the Vineyard to enjoy the atmosphere, and not to be seen.

) Despite all of this the girl remained good and pious, and would always go to her mother's grave to cry and pray to God to give better circumstances for herself.

Despite reports that the band began work on a sixth studio album in 2002 that reportedly would go back to their Core-era sound and planned on releasing it in 2003, the band had dissolved by the end of 2002, after reports of an altercation between Dean DeLeo and Weiland after the last show of Stone Temple Pilots ' fall 2002 tour.

Despite early proposals for the Jubilee Line Extension to go to Thamesmead, via the Isle of Dogs and the Royal Docks, Thamesmead was not included and after reaching the Greenwich Peninsula, the line then heads north to Stratford, London ( via Canning Town and West Ham ), despite Stratford also being on the major Central Line tube link into London.

Despite this complete success, Brock felt he needed to go further.

Despite the celebrations, Elisabeth Farnese urged her son to go on to Parma.

Despite his five-year contract with the BBC, Alan claims to his old school teacher " Sweaty " Frank Raphael in " The Talented Mr. Alan " that there was " bad blood " between them and they were " bitter bastards " plus every profession has its " shits ", so they had to let him go.

Despite the objections, he convinces the staff to go along with it, and Robbins starts the plane's engines.

Despite these successes, the campaign did not go according to plan.

Although Burke ultimately won the chart war, Burke broke rank and supported his rival: “ I would go to the radio stations and say, ‘ Hi, I ’ m Solomon Burke, and I ’ m here promoting the new record “ If You Need Me ”… by Wilson Pickett .’” Despite his efforts, Burke's version jockeyed with Pickett's for position in the Hot 100, before " beating Pickett to the punch " because of " Solomon ’ s popularity and Atlantic ’ s distribution.

Despite fame and fortune, Jessica remains a resident of Cabot Cove, a cozy coastal town in Maine, and maintains her links with all of her old friends, never letting her success go to her head.

Despite being let go from his post under the Department of Education in 1925, Siqueiros remained deeply entrenched in labor activities, in the union as well as the Mexican Communist Party, until he was jailed and eventually exiled in the early 1930s.

Despite this, the sect of Shiva or of the Devi did not go into decline.