Despite his initial reluctance, Johnson agreed to run for re-election for governor in 1855, and became the nominee at the party convention.

Despite initial success, Shapur lifted his siege after his army missed an opportunity to exploit a collapsed wall.

Despite initial activity in the Lords, his career there was cut short by the House of Lords Act 1999.

Despite its initial recklessness, the alliance was very prestigious for both families.

Despite his initial high profile after the end of the Monkees, Jones struggled to establish himself as a solo artist.

Despite some initial success, bolstered by heavy advertising, the brand did not prove popular and was eventually withdrawn from sale.

Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.

Despite the initial popularity of the measure, the newspapers praised Cleveland's veto.

Despite initial successes, the German army was stopped close to Moscow in December 1941.

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 its initial dismal commercial showing, " Forever Changes " has since gained recognition as one of the all-time great rock albums.

Despite the initial distrust of the King and Crown Prince, and the loathing of Queen Augusta, Bismarck soon acquired a powerful hold over the King by force of personality and powers of persuasion.

Despite great initial excitement, the seed was found to be that of a European Juncaceae or Rush plant that had been glued into the fragment and camouflaged using coal dust.

Despite the initial success, the Olympic Movement faced hard times, as the 1900 ( in De Coubertin's own Paris ) and 1904 Games were both swallowed by World's Fairs, and received little attention.

Despite initial media reports, the affidavit made no mention of Clemens or Pettitte.

Despite the marginalised Left Opposition's demand for the restoration of Soviet democracy, Stalin developed a bureaucratic, authoritarian government, that was condemned by democratic socialists, anarchists and Trotskyists for undermining the initial socialist ideals of the Bolshevik Russian Revolution.

Despite a period of instability known as the Battle of the Booksellers when the initial copyright terms under the Statute began to expire, the Statute of Anne remained in force until the Copyright Act 1842 repealed it.

Despite an initial period of compliance, the principle of donating copies of books to certain libraries lapsed, partly due to the unwieldiness of the statute's provisions and partly because of a lack of cooperation by the publishers.

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 an initial reluctance to develop for video game consoles, Square entered the Nintendo Famicom market in December 1985 with the porting of Thexder.

Despite initial excitement, the guidance of longtime baseball executives, Eddie Leishman and Buzzie Bavasi as well as a new playing field, the team struggled ; the Padres finished in last place in each of its first six seasons in the NL West, losing 100 games or more four times.

Despite initial setbacks, he won increasing support among the natives.

Despite its initial focus on the elites, the Union was successful in raising funds from across French society.

Despite their initial cooperation against " revisionism ," Hoxha denounced Mao as a revisionist, along with almost every other self-identified Communist organization in the world.

Despite the initial failure of the story, it changed the course of Clarke's career.

Despite recent gains, 40 % of the population lives below the poverty line, more than double the rate five years ago.

Despite the severe damage the economy of Georgia suffered due to civil strife in the 1990s, Georgia, with the help of the IMF and World Bank, has made substantial economic gains since 2000, achieving robust GDP growth and curtailing inflation.

Despite being a superpower and having a superior arsenal of weapons at its disposal, the United States was unable to make substantial gains against North Vietnam's proxy guerilla army in South Vietnam, the Viet Cong.

Despite the economy's general expansion after 1983, however, inflation threatened its modest gains, as did serious fiscal and balance-of-payments deficits and the growing debt.

Despite the gains in computational performance during this time period according to Moore's law, Office 2007 performed the same task at half the speed on a prototypical year 2007 computer as compared to Office 2000 on a year 2000 computer.

Despite the extent of Israel's quick military gains, for the first four days the general population in the Arab states believed the fabrications of Arab radio stations which claimed an Arab victory was near.

Despite their territorial gains following the Paris Peace Conference, the Greeks still hoped to achieve the Megali Idea and annex Constantinople and larger areas of Ottoman Asia Minor ; they therefore invaded Anatolia beyond Smyrna and sought to take Ankara, with the aim of destroying the Turkish resistance led by Mustafa Kemal ( later known as Atatürk ).

Despite a desire for peace, many in the British parliament opposed the return of hard-fought gains.

Despite the gains which have been made in efficiency, the Panama Canal Authority ( ACP ) estimates that the canal will reach its maximum sustainable capacity between 2009 and 2012.

Despite two consecutive elections of impressive gains, the Green Party in the 2000 election remained all but ignored by the national media.

Despite the gains of amphibious floats, small flying boat amphibians continued to be developed into the 1960s, with the Republic Seabee and Lake LA-4 series proving popular, though neither was a commercial success due to factors beyond their makers control.

Despite such gains in authority, however, the Commons still remained much less powerful than the House of Lords and the Crown.

Despite the Mongol's territorial gains, in September 1260, the Egyptian Mamluks rallied, defeating the Mongols at the historic battle of Ain Jalut and driving them back across the Euphrates River.

Despite this, they posted gains in subsequent elections.

Despite the huge gains made by Democrats during the 2006 elections, Mica's seat remained safe.

Despite substantial gains in the 1970s, Czechoslovakia entered the 1980s with a housing shortage that was likely to take years to remedy.

Despite the degradation in the value of the $ 100 banknote since 1969, competition with the 500 Euro banknote, and clear gains in efficiency, there are no plans to re-issue banknotes above $ 100.

Despite what looks like on paper modest gains in reality the power to weight ratio was significantly improved on over the F355, this was due to the combination of both a lighter car and more power.

Females " now hold approximately 44 percent of the positions in both professional and administrative occupations, which constitute the pipeline for positions at the highest grade and pay levels, including the Senior Executive Service "; 2 ) Despite these gains, women still only account for roughly 30 % of the Senior Executive Service.

It made gains at radio for three months consecutively ( her longest-growing hit since " Take a Bow "), and also spent a long time on the club-play chart .< ref > Despite spending only one week at number one ( most of her recent dance hits have spent at least two, and " Music " five ), it managed 14 weeks on the chart, out-lasting " Music " and tying with " Ray of Light " as Madonna's longest running club hit since " Bedtime Story " in 1995.

Despite early gains, the operation was a prime example of Hitler's reckless military judgement towards the end of the war.

Despite early gains, the LVII Panzer Corps was unable to achieve decisive results.

Despite the decrease in music videos, CMT has experienced significant ratings gains since its acquisition by MTV Networks in 1999.

Despite the ruling Barisan Nasional ( BN ) coalition suffering significant losses in the election, it was Keadilan and PAS that absorbed the gains, while the DAP's support eroded due to its supporters ' suspicions of PAS and its hardline Islamic stance.

Despite significant early gains, they were unable to effect a breakthrough and the situation reverted to stalemate.