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Despite and mission
Despite this particular mission, in winning the Albigensians over by persuasion Dominic met limited success, " for though in his ten years of preaching a large number of converts were made, it has to be said that the results were not such as had been hoped for.
Despite the presence of an EU observer mission, canceled ballots and illegal voting took place, the majority of which in RPT strongholds.
Despite these misgivings and a loss of operational surprise, the SEALs of TU Papa proceeded with their mission.
Despite forced conversions to Catholicism ( as evidenced by the establishment of a mission at each surviving pueblo ) by the Spanish, the Pueblo tribes have been able to maintain much of their traditional lifestyle.
Despite the Rebellion's true mission, they are looked upon as anarchists and dissidents, partly due to Imperial propaganda, though several cells on various planets take their duty too seriously and attack Imperial targets indiscriminately.
Despite their mission army of 14, 000, the Jesuits submitted without resistance.
Despite occasional successes, the mission failed to produce a consistent and sustained supply of pig iron.
Despite his vast numeric superiority, Davout's mission was not easy, as the Austrians had a numerous cavalry and artillery available to support their infantry.
Despite its official isolation, however, the government in Mmabatho managed to set up a trade mission in Tel Aviv, Israel, and conducted some business with neighbouring Botswana in an effort to sway attitudes ; furthermore, Botswana agreed on " informal arrangements " short of official recognition in order to facilitate cross-border travel.
Despite heavy losses, in the Winter War the Red Army's 20th Tank Brigade, equipped with T-28s, fulfilled its mission to break the defensive Mannerheim Line.
Despite her efforts to end their threat, which even included exiling them to empty pocket-dimensions, the Dark Judges always manage to return eventually, ever determined to fulfil their mission.
Despite the descent engine programming error, NASA deemed the mission a success in demonstrating the LM systems, and a second unmanned flight test using LM-2 was canceled.
Despite being technically a civilian, she remained as first officer of the Enterprise and the crew continued to refer to her by her High Command rank of Sub-Commander during the mission.
Despite her mission, she still finds time to rape Akemi, but Jyaku Amano intervenes and destroys her.
Despite the pressure of being outqualified by debutant team-mate Michael Schumacher de Cesaris was on a mission all weekend.
Despite their casual approach to the mission, he successfully surveyed the airstrip, installed remotely operated infrared lights and a strobe to outline a landing pattern for pilots, and took soil samples to determine the load-bearing properties of the desert surface.
Despite the destruction of the stage, the mission was classified as a success, having achieved all of its primary objectives and validating the design concept of the restartable dash-500 version.
Despite these objections, in 1881, a large fact-finding mission was sent to Japan to stay for seventy days observing Japanese government offices, factories, military and police organizations, and business practices.
Despite the fact that they were under a constant attack from enemy artillery, tank, and air forces, they still succeeded in the completion of their mission.
Despite the premature shutdown, the vehicle safely achieved a slightly lower orbit and was able to complete the mission as planned.
Despite Sub-commander T ' Pol and Commander Tucker's objections to the delay in Enterprises mission, Archer orders Tucker to return to the ship and repair the hatchery's bio-support.
Despite the failure of UNAMIR in its main mission, its humanitarian services during the 1994 genocide are recognized to this day as having saved the lives of thousands or tens of thousands of Rwandan Tutsi and Hutu moderates who would have otherwise been killed.
Despite this, Dolby was sent on a mission and during this mission he panicked and accidentally killed a man.

Despite and necessitated
Despite Lord Hastings ' less-than-stellar opinion of Raffles before ( which had necessitated his trip to England to clear his name at the end of his tenure as Governor-General of Java ), the now well-connected and successful Raffles was able to secure the permission to set up a settlement where in Malaysian history the name Lion City was applied and was in a strategically advantageous position.
Despite its performance and media buzz generated by articles in Car and Driver magazine, the project was discontinued because of the engine's oil pan having just of ground clearance, necessitated by the comparatively tall engine block.
Despite his athletic interests, Dmitri Pavlovich's health had always been somewhat frail, and in the 1930s his chronic tuberculosis became acute and necessitated extended stays at a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, where he died in 1941 from acute uremia following complications after having been pronounced cured.
Despite attending only one year, he became an extremely active Harvard alumnus, joining ( and, at times, leading ) Harvard Clubs in several cities both in the U. S. and participating for several years in the Board of Overseers even though it necessitated several transcontinental trips each year to attend meetings.

Despite and by
Despite the lip service paid by local governments, the anti-secrecy statutes have been continuously subverted by reservations and rationalizations.
Despite all this, the idea apparently has captured the imagination of countless youths whose parents are probably more surprised by the response than anybody else.
Despite the excitement being caused by the trial and sentence of John Brown, Rhode Islanders turned their attention to the state elections.
Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.
Despite this prohibiton, by 1844 some of the Fort Garry merchants were trading with the Indians for furs.
Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.
Despite a too long sustained declamatory flight, this final speech is convincing, and we see why British audiences apparently were impressed by `` Roots ''.
Despite these achievements, the influence of Aristotle's errors is considered by some to have held back science considerably.
( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.
Despite the debut of Donald Bradman, the inexperienced Australians, led by Jack Ryder, were heavily defeated, losing 4 – 1.
Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.
Despite the service he rendered to the Qajar government, Hasan Ali Shah was dismissed from the governorship of Kerman in 1837, less than two years after his arrival there, and was replaced by Firuz Mirza Nusrat al-Dawla, a younger brother of Muhammad Shah Qajar.
Despite this, some towns, like Alcácer do Sal in 1217, were conquered from the Moors by the private initiative of noblemen.
Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.
Despite these troubles Andronikos III secured the extension of Byzantine control over Thessaly in 1333 and Epirus in 1337, by taking advantage of succession crises in these principalities.
Despite Acorn themselves effectively shelving the Electron in 1985, games continued to be developed and released by professional software houses until 1991.
Despite advances in the protection offered by ballistic armour against projectiles, as the name implies, modern ballistic body armour is much less impervious to stabbing weapons unless they are augmented with anti-knife / anti-stab armour ( usually a form of mail ).
Despite the regard in which he was held by the Venetians, Dürer returned to Nuremberg by mid-1507, remaining in Germany until 1520.
Despite his subsequent defeat by the Prussians, Russians and British allies, exile and death, no victorious power has reversed that decision or tried to remove Corsica from France.
Despite decisively defeating the Marathas, what might have been Ahmad Shah's peaceful control of his domains was disrupted by many challenges.
Despite the much-vaunted capabilities, the Phoenix was rarely used in combat, with only two confirmed launches and no confirmed targets destroyed in US Navy service, though a large number of kills were claimed by Iranian F-14s during the Iran – Iraq War.
Despite causing the predicament faced by the Medieval soldiers, Ash initially demands to be returned to his own time.
Despite the Democratic majority in Congress, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by George J. Mitchell failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994.

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