Despite these assertions, however, it is largely recognized and accepted by practitioners and researchers that leadership is important, and research supports the notion that leaders do contribute to key organizational outcomes ( Day & Lord, 1988 ; Kaiser, Hogan, & Craig, 2008 ).

Despite these organizational efforts, the socialist movement in America remained deeply divided over tactics.

Despite initially being a very high profile candidate for leadership, his organizational efforts were disappointing, placing him in the bottom rank of remaining candidates.

Despite there being no ostensible references to the country of Israel or Jewish religion in most open source literature on the subject of Gangster Disciples, some rival Vice Lord members will at times refer to someone suspected of being an organizational infiltrator, mole, spy, supporter, or sympathizer as being " Jewish.

Despite Kirk's opposition, Cramer attributed his retention in 1968 as national committeeman to the loyalty of organizational Republicans: " I had proved myself an effective congressman.

Despite the team's success, in 2005 Cashman considered leaving the Yankees due to conflicts with owner George Steinbrenner and organizational disputes between team officials in New York City and Tampa.

Despite great sympathy for the traditional organizational moniker, the convention voted to formally acknowledge the participation of engineers among its membership and changed its name to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen ( B of LF & E ).

Despite Saadeh's claims, some authors state that when the party began overt activity, it was the object of many critiques due to having many ideological and organizational resemblances to European fascism, and due to the resemblance of its external symbols to those of German Nazism.

Despite the absence of organizational activity, some of the original Matzpen members continue to write and be active politically.

Despite Hooker's organizational changes, the new Cavalry Corps gave a poor accounting of itself during the Chancellorsville Campaign.

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Despite the major changes made to the team in the offseason, the team wound up with its first winning season since 1997.

Despite logo changes since 2005, the old " DC bullet " continues to be used only on the DC Archive Editions series.

Despite the attempt to keep the show fresh, the changes alienated many of its longtime viewers while failing to gain the hoped-for younger viewers, and the ratings continued their decline.

Despite these changes the highlands remained very poor and traditional, with few connections to the uplift of the Scottish Enlightenment and little role in the Industrial Revolution.

Despite this incident, the 1983 season was also notable for some transitional changes.

Despite Motörhead's many member changes over their 35-year history, the current lineup of Lemmy, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee has remained constant since 1995.

Despite the rise in popularity of feature films in 1912 – 1913 from independent producers and foreign imports, the MPPC was very reluctant to make the changes necessary to distribute such longer films.

Despite these changes and its past reliance on this military and economic assistance, North Korea proclaims a militantly independent stance in its foreign policy in accordance with its official ideology of Juche, or self-reliance.

Despite the myriad of these ultimate responses, they are all directly due to changes in particular cell proteins.

Despite changes in the prop, the TARDIS has become the show's most consistently recognisable visual element.

Despite the trappings of institutional change, the first years of independence saw more resistance than acceptance of the institutional changes required for democratic reform to take hold.

Despite these changes, the layout remained identical to that of the 128.

Despite considerable cultural continuity, life for Aborigines was not without significant changes.

Despite New Zealand's immigration liberalisation in the 1980s, Britons are still the largest group of migrants to New Zealand, due in part to recent immigration law changes which privilege fluent speakers of English.

Despite the massive amount of world and storyline development, none of the Living Greyhawk storylines or changes to the setting were considered official, since the regional adventure modules were produced by volunteers, and only received a cursory vetting by the campaign administrators of RPGA, and no review by WotC personnel.

Despite these changes, the Memorial was finished on schedule.

Despite the acceptance of Surak's teachings, generations of imperfect copies of his writings, combined with changes in the Vulcan language over time, resulted in a diluted form of the culture he instituted.

Despite recent changes in the field of anthropology and a shift in Taiwanese government ( Republic of China ) objectives, the Gaoshan and Pingpu labels in use today maintain the form given by the Qing to reflect aborigines ' acculturation to Han culture.

Despite these recent administrative changes, there is no indication that the Alxa, Hinggan, and Xilingol Leagues will convert to prefecture-level cities in the near future.

Despite these changes, the Bastille remained a state prison, subject to special authorities, answering to the monarch of the day and surrounded by a considerable and threatening reputation.

Despite these changes, the team in regressed even further, hampered by injuries to key players.

Despite the changes, the Oilers placed third overall in the NHL.

Despite the staggering amount of changes, the Oilers produced a comparable season to 1990 – 91, finishing third in the Smythe Division with 36 wins and 82 points.

Despite numerous cast and production changes over the years, Last of the Summer Wine continued to be popular with viewers and was renewed year after year despite reports to the contrary.

Despite the growth of major industries and urban centers, white rural interests dominated the state legislature until the 1960s, while urban interests and African Americans were under-represented.

Despite this, " there is ample evidence that the medieval clergy were the main practitioners of magic and therefore the owners, transcribers, and circulators of grimoires " while several grimoires were actually attributed to various Popes.

Despite the terror and unprecedented propaganda, the last free General Elections of 5 March 1933, while resulting in 43. 9 % failed to bring the majority for the NSDAP that Hitler had hoped for.

Despite their proximity to Qatar ( Suwād al Janūbīyah is only 1. 4 km from the Qatari mainland at the peninsula of Ras Abruq, while Rubud Al Gharbiyah, the island closest to the main island of Bahrain, lies at a distance of 19. 7 km to it ), the islands belong to Bahrain but were the subject of a dispute between Bahrain and Qatar.

Despite the promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.

Despite the weakness of its authority, the Alaouite dynasty distinguished itself in the 18th and 19th centuries by maintaining Morocco's independence while other states in the region succumbed to Turkish, French, or British domination.

Despite not making the playoffs, the Brewers had some other memorable moments, as Pat Listach hit. 290 and stole 54 bases while winning the AL Rookie of the Year award, while Robin Yount got his 3000th career hit.

Despite yet another losing season, the Mets made history in 2011 when Jason Isringhausen converted his 300th save with the team, the third player in franchise history to reach the milestone while with the organization behind John Franco and Billy Wagner.

Despite the similarity to its American counterpart in that the outcome of the matches remains predetermined, the phenomena are different in the form of the psychology and presentation of the sport ; it is treated as a full contact combat sport as it mixes hard hitting martial arts strikes with shoot style submission holds, while in the U. S. it is rather more regarded as an entertainment show.

Despite the apparent failure of the Cabra test, the long term legacy of the X-ray laser program is the knowledge gained while conducting the research.

Despite the problems, the Big Park at the Tirana Artificial Lake has some effect on absorbing CO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions, while over 2000 trees have been planted around sidewalks.

Despite his earlier atheism, Powell became a devout member of the Church of England, thinking in 1949 " that he heard the bells of St Peter's Wolverhampton calling him " while walking to his flat in his ( then future ) constituency.

Despite suffering from a serious flare-up of his chronic colitis, Lawrence decided to go, but he became ill while in Geneva, and was rushed to the hospital at Stanford University.

Despite these hit singles, the album failed to do well in the United States, while in the UK it went triple platinum and remained in the album chart for two years.

Despite the failure of the Cantiones of 1575 some of his other collections sold well, while Elizabethan scribes such as the Oxford academic Robert Dow, the Windsor lay clerk John Baldwin and a school of scribes working for the Norfolk country gentleman Sir Edward Paston copied his music extensively.

Despite this, the number ends with another example of Sullivan's counterpoint, with the chorus singing the second melody of the piece (" Let us gaily tread the measure ") while the orchestra plays the first (" Climbing over rocky mountain ").

Despite Asser's comment that the dyke ran " from sea to sea ", it is now thought that the original structure only covered about two-thirds of the length of the border: in the north it ends near Llanfynydd, less than five miles ( 8 km ) from the coast, while in the south it stops at Rushock Hill, near Kington in Herefordshire, less than fifty miles ( 80 km ) from the Bristol Channel.

Despite this, the promise of a Pan-Arab state including Palestine were dashed as Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan declared independence from their European rulers, while western Palestine festered in the developing Arab-Jewish conflict.

Despite a considerable movement among Inner Mongolia's Mongols ( who comprised then around 15 % of Inner Mongolia's population, while Han Chinese around 83 %) for unification with Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia remained part of China.

Despite its promising appearance and engineering novelty the Pipit did not fly as well as expected, the elevator being criticised as heavy while the rudder was weak and the type was longitudinally unstable.

Despite having valuable technology, CDC still suffered from huge losses in 1985 and 1986 while attempting to reorganize.

Despite their common origins, the two technologies diverged, with each technology retaining a subset of the features of the original Objective-C code base, while adding some new features.