Despite being called Centrum, the district is lying far southeast of the geographical center.

Despite the numerical advantage lying with the numerically stronger KANU, a form of Federalism involving Kenya's 8 provinces was adopted in Kenya's independence.

Despite Ernie's attempts to cover up the crime Bert knows Ernie is lying ; for example in one sketch Bert wants to have his chocolate ice cream but when he finds that Ernie has eaten it he charges but then Ernie tries his best to cover up his crime by making a disgusting dish ; Mashed Bananas with Ice Cubes and Gold Beef Gravy at the same time Bert is shouting at him that he knows better.

Despite lying on a minor B road the town has, in common with several other towns close to the Wales-England border, assumed the motto, " Gateway to Wales ".

Despite repeated orders from Adolf Hitler that the French capital " must not fall into the enemy's hand except lying in complete debris " to be accomplished by bombing it and blowing up its bridges, von Choltitz, as commander of the German garrison and military governor of Paris, surrendered on 25 August at the Hôtel Meurice, the newly established headquarters of General Leclerc.

Despite the failure of attempts to find it, this appeared regularly on maps lying south west of Galway Bay until 1865, by which time it was called Brasil Rock.

Despite playing regularly as a deep lying midfielder, he lost his place after the January transfer window with the arrival of Wayne Routledge and Danny Guthrie's excellent form in central midfield.

Despite this turmoil, the 1950s proved a successful era for club and it was while at MTK that Hidegkuti, together with Péter Palotás and coach Márton Bukovi, pioneered the deep lying centre-forward position.

Despite being on the fringe of London, Thames Ditton retains the character of a village with all of its shopping area lying in its conservation area Elmbridge Borough Conservation Area Map, Thames Ditton, with its many private mooring riverside houses and two pubs opposite Hampton Court Park.

Despite lying in Canadian waters, the island was privately owned for years by various U. S. owners, until it was purchased in 1999 by the Nature Conservancy of Canada, then donated to the Canadian national park system on September 6, 2000.

Despite the alleged cancellation of Fair Game, he reported that, " Deprival of property, injury by any means, trickery, suing, lying or destruction have been pursued throughout and to this day with the fullest possible vigour.

Despite Jin's inability to speak English, he can understand it better than most characters think, deducing that Sun and Sayid are lying to him in " The Glass Ballerina ".

Despite an assistant District Attorney's suspicions that Sam is lying, Elliot, through his close friendship with highly-placed city officials, manages to get Steve's death listed as a justifiable homicide, thus ending Sam's legal troubles.

Despite all this turmoil in al-Andalus, Abd al-Rahman wanted to take the fight back east to Baghdad.

Despite being east of the 180 meridian, a 1995 realignment of the International Dateline by the Republic of Kiribati " moved " Christmas Island to west of the dateline.

Despite this, in 1405 James was under the protection and tutelage of Bishop Henry Wardlaw of St Andrews on the country's east coast.

Despite the treaty's clear statement that the demarcation line passes 17 ° east of the Moluccas, some sources place the line just east of the Moluccas.

Despite running in an east – west direction, it is signed north – south, as the rest of Route 238 is more north – south than east – west.

Despite the number, this is an east – west highway — the ' H '- series ( for Hawaii ) numbering reflects the order in which routes were funded and built.

Despite failure of the town bank in 1921 and the onset of the Great Depression, the announcement of a new dam project five miles east, there was hope for growth to return.

Despite these misgivings, Paullus thought it unwise to withdraw the army after the initial success, and camped two-thirds of the army east of the Aufidus River, sending the remainder of his men to fortify a position on the opposite side.

Despite the Valley's potential for productive farmland, colonial settlement from the east was long delayed by the barrier of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Despite limited genetic variation in the species, body size increases from west to east, with the birds from southwest Europe ( Spain and south France ) averaging about 10 % smaller than the vultures from central Asia ( Manchuria, Mongolia and northern China ).

Despite this breakthrough, however, Reform failed to win any seats east of Manitoba.

Despite this though, Ghazan continued to strengthen ties with Temur Khan and the Yuan Dynasty in the east.

Despite the scholarly consensus that ancient Dilmun encompasses three modern locations: ( 1 ) the eastern littoral of Arabia from the vicinity of modern Kuwait to Bahrain ; ( 2 ) the island of Bahrain ; ( 3 ) the island of Failaka east of Kuwait, few have taken into account the radically different geography of the basin represented by the Persian Gulf before its reflooding as sea levels rose about 6000 BCE ; the earliest known site is Qal ' at al-Bahrain which is dated no earlier than c. 2200 BC according to Flemming Hojlund.

Despite the east – west orientation, Route 413 runs north – south, but PA Route 413 is signed north – south.

Despite being all but invisible east of Manitoba, Reform cemented its status as the nation's major right-wing party.

Despite these occurrences, the Arrigoni Bridge was completed over the Connecticut River in 1938, which connects Middletown to Portland and points east, replacing an earlier bridge.

Despite its number, I-278 does not connect to I-78 ; however, there were once plans to extend I-278 west to I-78 east of the Route 24 interchange in Springfield, New Jersey.

Despite this, the storm quickly strengthened to attain peak sustained winds of 60 mph ( 95 km / h ), with tropical storm-force winds extending up to 230 miles ( 370 km ) east of the center, and a minimum central pressure of 1000 mbar.

Despite the quick campaign in the east, along the Franco-German frontier the war settled into a quiet period.

Despite a large CTV sign on its east façade, the CTV network itself and its Toronto station, CFTO-TV have relatively little presence at the Queen Street facility, apart from the aforementioned eTalk and Marilyn, as well as CTV Toronto's downtown bureau.

Despite its name, the station is close to the Marlborough Gate entrance to Hyde Park / Kensington Gardens, about 300m to the east of the Lancaster Gate entrance.

Despite the decree, there has been a continual Jewish presence in Jerusalem for 3, 300 years, and 43 Jewish communities in Israel remained in the 6th century: 12 on the coast, in the Negev, and east of the Jordan, and 31 villages in Galilee and in the Jordan valley.

Despite successes such as the revival of economic growth and the beginnings of the Northern Ireland Peace Process, by the mid-1990s the Conservatives were embroiled in ongoing " sleaze " scandals involving various MPs and even Cabinet Ministers.

Despite the fact that her family had close links to the Church of Ireland, her marriage to a Protestant student caused a rift with her parents, who did not attend her wedding.

Despite affordable and often free land, many arriving newcomers, mostly from Britain and Ireland, found frontier life with the harsh climate difficult, and some of those with the means eventually returned home or went south.

Despite all of Peel's efforts, his reform programs had little effect on the situation in Ireland.

Despite the law, around Halloween and New Year's Eve a large amount of fireworks are set off, many smuggled across the border from Northern Ireland.

Despite the Irish origins of the genre, Celtic metal is not known to be popular in Ireland.

Despite its small land area, Singapore has a population, economy and armed forces that place it in a similar league to small, but full-fledged nations like New Zealand, Ireland, Israel and the Nordic countries ( i. e., Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden ), rather than semi-dependent microstates.

Despite some progress ( and Chamberlain's statement that they were united on ninety-nine out of a hundred issues ), the problem of Home Rule for Ireland could not be resolved.

Despite its numerical minority, however, the Church of Ireland remained the official state church until it was disestablished on 1 January 1871 by the Liberal government under William Ewart Gladstone.

Despite these translations, the Church of Ireland largely served The Pale and the plantations and failed to win support from the old Hiberno-Norman aristocracy, still less the native Irish, who saw it as an instrument of English occupation.

Despite this the car has become an iconic sports car, including in countries from the Western World ( mainly the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and Canada ).

Despite NTL Ireland turning a profit, in May 2005, NTL sold their Dublin, Galway, and Waterford cable business ( which they had acquired in 1999 for € 825 million from the Irish government ) to UGC Europe for € 325 million — this after having spent in excess of € 100 million on network infrastructure ( i. e. making a gross loss of € 500 million-more than 50 %-over what they paid ).

Despite its limited airplay, it reached No. 16 in the United Kingdom, as well as No. 1 in the Republic of Ireland and No. 1 in Spain.

Despite HarperCollins ' predictions-and, according to Moore, their deliberately limited promotion of the book-the book became enormously popular, becoming the largest-selling nonfiction book for 2002 at such major outlets as Barnes & Noble and Amazon. com, and occupying the # 1 spot in the U. S., the UK ( including being the number one seller on Amazon. co. uk before a British printing was even proposed ), Germany, Ireland, and elsewhere.

Despite its status as an official language, Irish has been reduced to a minority language in Ireland as a result of English rule, as is the case in North and South America where various indigenous languages have been replaced by that of the colonists.

Despite the proximity to the large winter numbers in Great Britain, only very small numbers occur in Ireland and France.

Despite the name, the Annales Cambriae record not only events in Wales, but also events in Ireland, Cornwall, England, Scotland and sometimes further afield, though the focus of the events recorded especially in the later two thirds of the text is Wales.

Despite his dislike of travelling, he toured in Britain, Ireland, and, on five occasions, North America.

Despite a gift of £ 50, 000 in 1916, and receiving Field Marshal ’ s half pay, owning two properties in Ireland which he could not use left French again short of money, although he did not improve matters by staying often at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris.

" Despite its status as an official language, the Irish language has been reduced to a minority language in Ireland as a result of centuries of English rule, as is the case in North America where their indigenous languages have been replaced by that of the colonists.

Despite this, the show in Belfast, Northern Ireland went on and the rest of the tour was completed, which included stops in the UK at Sonisphere Festival and the Kerrang!

Despite the many holes in Bridey's story, it was still a remarkably detailed account of life in 19th century Ireland — information unlikely to have come Virginia Tighe's way.

Despite a popular image of modernity, artificial islands actually have a long history in many parts of the world, dating back to the crannogs of prehistoric Scotland and Ireland, the ceremonial centers of Nan Madol in Micronesia and the still extant floating islands of Lake Titicaca.

Despite being the fourth largest city in Northern Ireland, however, it is not the fourth largest settlement.