Despite being a qualified engineer, a successful businessman, a multiple record-breaker in his own right and a highly effective advocate of his own cause, Campbell was not an easy man and seemed driven to emulate, if not surpass, his father's achievements.

Despite this assertion, Lindh had multiple opportunities to announce his American citizenship.

Despite his favorable comments on the Grecian scenery, he criticized the graphics for its small, bicolored and barely animated sprites, its black backgrounds, and the absence of multiple scrolling layers.

Despite a rotator cuff injury during the 1985 season, Smith posted career highs in multiple offensive categories in 1987.

Despite his international arrest warrant, Omar al-Bashir was re-elected in the 2010 Sudanese presidential election, the first democratic election with multiple political parties participating in nine years .< ref >

Despite saving the universe on multiple occasions, he seems unable to gain any respect from society, and works as a " sanitation engineer " ( in one form or another ) throughout the series.

Despite international validation of the elections by multiple political and independent observers ( virtually all from among U. S. allies ) the United States refused to recognize the elections, with President Ronald Reagan denouncing the elections as a sham.

Despite the repetition, there may have been multiple landings along the part of the coast known to the Saxons as Cerdic's Shore.

Despite the large array of tools available to the ninja, the Bansenshukai warns one not to be overburdened with equipment, stating "... a successful ninja is one who uses but one tool for multiple tasks ".

Despite the fact that SRY seems to be the main gene in determining male characteristics, it requires the action of multiple genes to develop testes.

Despite his penchant for coming in " under budget ," Capra spent an additional five shooting days in multiple takes, testing angles and " new " perspectives, treating the production as a type of workshop exercise.

Despite multiple seats being displayed on some maps, the formal county seat is Taunton ; Fall River and New Bedford are not county seats, but there are some courthouses and other county-operated facilities in those two places.

Despite multiple lineup changes, the band has remained commercially successful and continues to tour and record.

Despite multiple investigations of the battlefield, Charles ' skull and his clothes, it is not known where he was hit exactly, and whether the shot came from the ranks of the enemy or from his own men.

Despite being unable to get a new resolution authorizing force and citing section 3 of the Joint Resolution passed by the U. S. Congress, President George W. Bush asserted peaceful measures could not disarm Iraq of the weapons he alleged it to have and launched a second Gulf War, despite multiple dissenting opinions and questions of integrity about the underlying intelligence.

Despite being constantly followed by paparazzi and being the source of multiple controversies, Guzmán still remains relatively accessible to her fans, and she signs autographs for them whenever she can.

Despite multiple victories and an initially successful expedition into Syria, mounting conflict in Europe and the earlier defeat of the supporting French fleet by the British Royal Navy at the Battle of the Nile decided the issue.

Despite multiple name changes to the service and its client software over the years, the Messenger service is often referred to colloquially as " MSN ", due to the history of MSN Messenger.

Despite multiple uses of profanity, the Parental Advisory sticker was never added.

Despite the death of its namesake, the OT continued to exist as an engineering organization and drew multiple further assignments.

Despite rising success, the band began to experience personal and legal problems related to drug and alcohol abuse, leading to multiple stints in drug rehabilitation for Hoon.

Despite the multiple official inquiries that failed to find evidence of assassination, some continue to believe that the death of Hammarskjöld was not an accident.

Despite his reputation as a Social Darwinist, Spencer's political thought has been open to multiple interpretations.

Despite their effectiveness, CCB's often have a high mortality rate over extended periods of use, and have been known to have multiple side effects.

Despite the UNIP boycott, the elections took place peacefully, and five presidential and more than 600 parliamentary candidates from 11 parties participated.

Despite other drunken instances, his parliamentary career is probably most notable for his staunch support of slavery.

Despite determined resistance from the House of Lords, this Bill gave more parliamentary power to the liberals, while reducing the political force of the working class, leaving them detached from the main body of middle class support on which they had relied.

Despite this he said little about Home Rule until the passing of the Parliament Act in 1911, calling it the " Home Rule In Disguise Act " and saying it was an attempt to change parliamentary demographics so as to allow Home Rule " through the back door ".

Despite being a well-known and popular figure, Brougham had to wait before being offered a parliamentary seat to contest.

Despite possessing greater support in the parliamentary party than Howard, Peacock unexpectedly resigned and Howard was comfortably elected Opposition Leader on 5 September.

Despite all the criticism, the NRP had a reputation of honesty and dedication to its parliamentary duties.

Despite his vow to act as a constitutional monarch who would defer to the power of the parliamentary government, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi increasingly involved himself in governmental affairs.

Despite further opposition in 1722 and after a new timber bridge was built at Putney in 1729, the scheme received parliamentary approval in 1736.

Despite renaming itself to " Freedom Party " in 1994, the FPS lost all national mandates in the 1999 elections and, as of 2006, retains but a very few parliamentary seats in some cantonal and municipal parliaments.

Despite widespread fears of civil unrest, the takeover of the parliamentary complex by George Speight on 19 May 2000 ( one year to the day since Chaudhry's appointment as Prime Minister ) happened without warning.

Despite the age of the senior religious leaders, however, parliamentary candidates in Iran must be under 75.

Despite being overseas on legitimate parliamentary business, his staff had failed to file the necessary paperwork with the Speaker to give notice of his absence.

Despite civil disorder, aggravated by incidents of repression by Bhutto's Federal Security Force, the PPP won parliamentary elections in 1977 by a wide margin.

Despite establishing himself an autocrat in a bloodless coup d ' état that ended parliamentary rule in 1772, his political powers did not give him the right to start a war.

Despite the hype, the campaign was a failure as the party only won one state and three parliamentary seats.

Despite such activities being permitted under parliamentary rules, the MPs in question have received criticism from some sections of the media for what is perceived to be a lack of participation in the parliamentary proceedings while they are using the social networking tools.

Despite the UNIP boycott, the elections took place peacefully, and five presidential and more than 600 parliamentary candidates from 11 parties participated.

Despite a preference for 9 May, with the European Union's greater visibility, 5 May is still observed by some Europeans due to the Council's role in seeking to defend human rights, parliamentary democracy and the rule of law.

Despite the declining economy, President Allende's Popular Unity coalition increased its vote to 43. 2 percent in the March 1973 parliamentary elections ; but, by then, the informal alliance between Popular Unity and the Christian Democrats ended.

Despite the democratic tendencies of this parliamentary form of government, the Hegemony has at times taken actions viewed as tyrannous, using its small but elite military, known as FORCE, to invade the sea planet Maui Covenant, which had resisted integration into the Hegemony as a protectorate.

Despite declining economic indicators, Allende's Popular Unity coalition actually increased its vote to 43 percent in the parliamentary elections early in 1973.

Despite being in the opposition, UPADS chose to participate in the June 2007 parliamentary election, which was boycotted by many other opposition groups.