Despite his objections to the Commissioner's Plan of 1811, which ran the new Ninth Avenue through the middle of his estate, Moore began the development of Chelsea with the help of James N. Wells, dividing it up into lots along Ninth Avenue and selling them to well-heeled New Yorkers.

Despite the dangers, Scott Sheridan, professor of geography at Kent State University, found that less than half of people 65 and older abide by heat-emergency recommendations like drinking lots of water.

Despite this, local fruit and vegetable shop Booth's sells lots of local produce to Spalding's citizens.

Despite having some of the country's most expensive homes, most of the dwellings are on small lots.

Despite the narrow lots, many row houses are relatively large, some being over 2, 000 square feet.

Despite their fixed presence at state buildings and their patrol cars prowling the parking lots of those buildings there were many Californians who were still unaware that California had a State Police until its merger with the California Highway Patrol received major state news coverage.

Despite the fact that they no longer uses an auction hall theme, the presenters exclusively refer to the products they sell as ' lots ' and to their customers as ' bidders '.

Despite an aggressive advertising campaign, and improvements such as the building of a golf course and club house, only a handful of lots were sold.

Despite Marge's reservations, the couple attend the party, where they meet lots of famous people, including actor Woody Harrelson, then-U. S. President Bill Clinton, TV producer Lorne Michaels and actor Ed Begley, Jr. Max finds out that the garden party is nothing more than an excuse to save a redwood forest from destruction, something which Max does not like.

Despite these protests and with lots of student support, however, the locker room remains pink.

Despite having lots of arguments with Ben and winning most of them.

Despite this, vacant lots ( or ' greens ' as they were popularly known ) were a feature of most of the streets in the town and were used as informal play areas.

Despite his good numbers in the minors, he was just a mediocre hitter in the Major Leagues with good gap power ( resulting in lots of doubles ) and above-average defense at first base.

Despite a request from the Burritos that the remnants of their publicity budget be diverted to promotion of the single, it also flopped.

Despite his influence in the financial world ( at least one source called him the most powerful American financier since J. P. Morgan ), Milken was an intensely private man who shunned publicity.

Despite the poor launch publicity, Spore was still a commercial success.

Despite such publicity, Sobran observed, " he author of the Sonnets expects and hopes to be forgotten.

Despite a huge amount of government sponsored publicity, especially during the Park era, it was not clear by the late 1980s that the Saemaul undong had achieved its objectives.

" And in a June 2009 article published in the Journal of ECT, Iranian researchers observe that, " Despite the wide consensus over the safety and efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy ( ECT ), it still faces negative publicity and unfavorable attitudes of patients and families.

Despite two years of widespread publicity about Fett's appearance in The Empire Strikes Back, script rewrites significantly reduced the character's presence in the film.

Despite the publicity given to the WSPU, the NUWSS ( one of whose slogans was " Law-Abiding suffragists " ) retained the majority of the support of the women's movement.

Despite the all-star cast and a great deal of publicity, the film was a costly box office flop, no attempt being made to describe his inventions in any detail, some of which were completely omitted.

" Despite the negative publicity, Afrodisiac became Norwood's most critically acclaimed album to date, with some highlighting the " more consistently mature and challenging " effect of Timbaland on Norwood's music, and others calling it " listenable and emotionally resonant ," comparing it to " Janet Jackson at her best ".

Despite the lack of an official single or music video as publicity, Kid A became the first Radiohead release to debut at number one in the United States.

Despite much publicity prior to release, the film failed commercially, and he opted to repay distributors who had suffered losses with the film.

Despite Kingsford Smith being exonerated by an official enquiry, many sections of the media and public felt that the forced landing, dubbed the ' Coffee Royal ' incident after the brew of coffee and brandy which the crew had drunk while awaiting rescue, had been a publicity stunt and that Kingsford Smith was responsible for the deaths.

Despite the publicity they have received, Palmer's claims are controversial, and have been dismissed by Michael Keevak, the author of The Story of a Stele, and by David Wilmshurst, the author of The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East.

Despite the monetary success and publicity generated by the tour, Roth's future with Van Halen seemed uncertain.

Despite enormous media publicity that would presumably have discouraged women from admitting strangers into their homes after the first few murders, the attacks continued.

Despite adverse publicity, the novel still went on to win the 1995 Australian Literary Society Gold Medal.

Despite its unofficial censorship, bachata remained widely popular ; while orchestral merengue benefited from the country's major publicity outlets.

Despite massive publicity and repeated displays of the famous photograph in nationwide magazines, she was never claimed.

" Despite the publicity campaign, Bo Xilai failed even to gain a seat in the Liaoning provincial delegation to the Party Congress.

Despite the negative publicity, the band pressed on regardless with a set of live shows in the summer of that year, including T in the Park where they were acclaimed by many as the best live act T in the Park had ever seen, the Glastonbury Festival and the V Festival.

Despite much publicity concerning an improved format and better stunts for Season Six, NBC put the struggling program on hiatus for the remainder of the season to make room for the sitcom Joey, which was removed from the NBC lineup a few weeks later.

Despite the publicity of this work due to Einstein's celebrity status, it never resulted in a resounding success.

Despite the publicity, Sears did not release a copy of the colored ad to allow the public to verify its statement.

Despite the attempts of the boat men to push off again, the weight of people pushing onto the boat caused it to suddenly overturn, throwing many passengers into the cold water of the wharf.

Despite initial resistance, there was an acceptance of these individual identities in the eighties, an era of pushing the edge in BDSM play.

Despite reaching his original goals, Dick continues as a police officer during the day while spending nights as Nightwing, pushing himself to his limits and straining his relationships.

Despite the production of induced pluripotent stem cell research, Castle is still pushing for the funding of embryonic stem cell research.

Despite his age, Glenavy also served as Secretary of the new Department of Industry and Commerce, notably pushing for schemes to increase employment from 1922, which failed, and promoting the Shannon hydroeletric scheme with his minister Patrick McGilligan.

Despite the presence of southern troops during the early years of the war the northern troops succeeded in pushing the Confederate line south of the Rappahannock River and eventually into Fredericksburg.

Despite the objections of Dr. Rosenberg to pushing the analysis equipment beyond its design capacities, Cross and Green are assigned to assist setting up the experiment for Gordon Freeman.

Despite an ear infection that made him miss an early part of the season, he regained his place and forced Michael Essien into the right-back position, effectively pushing Juliano Belletti out of the team.

Despite this Motobu was very interested in the art, spending much of his youth training on his own, hitting the makiwara, pushing and lifting heavy stones to increase his strength.

Despite Liddell pushing the pace with punches and kicks and controlling the fight, At 1: 51 of the second round, Liddell threw a right uppercut just as Evans connected with an overhand right, causing Liddell to fall unconscious to the mat.

Despite his impressive performances making his a fans favourite at Loftus Road throughout the 2011 / 2012 season, new Rangers manager Mark Hughes decided to sign England keeper Robert Green from West Ham United before the 2012 / 2013 campaign began, effectively pushing Kenny down the pecking order.

Despite these caveats, local gay artists have, since the 1980s, been pushing at the boundaries to enable the general public to develop an appreciation for their emotional expression crafted through art.

Despite losing, Walsh stated that from suffering dartitis to pushing the greatest player in the world to the final set at the World Championship was a great victory in its own right.

Despite many fans pushing for it, as of July 2011 the series has not been released on DVD.

Despite consistently lifting and pushing Mortis around the arena ( at one point into Sir Killalot ), Mortis pounded away on the top of Panic Attack with its axe and won on a very close judge's decision to beat Frenzy in the final and win the War of Independence.