Despite this, Caligula relentlessly tormented his uncle: playing practical jokes, charging him enormous sums of money, humiliating him before the Senate, and the like.

* Ivan Rodriguez ( 2003 ) — Despite only playing one season with the Marlins, he put up some the of the best offensive and defensive statistics by a Marlins catcher and was a key cog in the 2003 World Championship team.

Despite playing in five losing Grand Finals, four between 1989 – 1995, its fans waited 44 years until it won another premiership — an AFL-record 119-point victory in the 2007 AFL Grand Final.

Despite initial excitement, the guidance of longtime baseball executives, Eddie Leishman and Buzzie Bavasi as well as a new playing field, the team struggled ; the Padres finished in last place in each of its first six seasons in the NL West, losing 100 games or more four times.

Despite his regular season problems, Elway ended up playing his best during the playoffs.

Despite an initially poor reception, it became a great success, playing 400 times in the next two years.

Despite much speculation that he would retire at the end of the 2006 season, Hird played out the 2007 season, playing 17 of a possible 22 games.

Despite that, Frowde became vital to OUP's growth, adding new lines of books to the business, presiding over the massive publication of the Revised Version of the New Testament in 1881 and playing a key role in setting up the Press's first office outside Britain, in New York in 1896.

Despite being offered a contract by nearby Middlesbrough, the offer made by Dodgin was too attractive to turn down, so he signed for Fulham and moved to London, playing as a wing-half and inside-forward.

Despite a 20 point improvement from last season's efforts, the team failed to reach the playoffs for the second straight year, the first time the Colorado club would do so in their 17 years playing in Denver.

Despite the title Alice is a mere spectator in their fight rather than playing a more active role.

Despite the disappointment, Williams proved to be one of the elite point guards in the league, averaging 19. 4 points and 10. 8 assists per game, second in the league, despite playing the entire season with a lingering ankle injury.

Despite a two-goal effort ( one on a shorthanded breakaway ) from Linden ( who was playing with cracked ribs ), Vancouver lost the game by a 3 – 2 score.

Despite this seeming approval, the financiers only approved a production budget of $ 6 million, forcing the crew to hire most of the cast playing the Hickory basketball team and many of the extras from the local community around New Richmond.

Despite officially retiring from the sport, he continued playing football with the veteran players of Biscay, donating the money collected from these games to charities.

Despite losing their drummer Mick Shrimpton ( R. J. Parnell ) as he inexplicably explodes onstage, the film ends with Spinal Tap playing a series of sold-out arena shows for enthusiastic fans on their Japanese tour.

Despite having under 20, 000 inhabitants, Groesbeek has two clubs playing in the Topklasse, the country's highest amateur level, at the same time ( De Treffers, and Achilles ' 29 ).

Despite finding RADA " straight-laced ", and being told by his tutor that he could never aspire to do more than playing villains in Z-Cars, when he graduated he joined the Everyman Theatre Liverpool Company, eventually becoming the theatre's Artistic Director.

Despite the extra effort needed in playing, many organists prefer tracker action because of a feel and a control of the pipe valve operation.

Despite playing regularly for the national side, Matthews put in 38 games for Stoke in 1938 – 39, helping them to a seventh place finish – there would not be another full season of Football League action until 1946.

Despite the group's competent musicianship, some subsequent singles employed session musicians – including Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Vic Flick – with contributions from the band, although the role of session players on Herman's Hermits records has been exaggerated in the rock media and in liner notes on their ABKCO Records Retrospective ( which does not credit the Hermits ' playing ).

Despite their Beatlesque image, the band's use of minor chords, haunting harmonies, and folky acoustic guitar playing — as heard on their debut single " Laugh, Laugh "— was stylistically very similar to the later folk rock of The Byrds.

Despite playing in the 1996 Rose Bowl, 1997 Citrus Bowl, 2000 Alamo Bowl, 2003 Motor City Bowl, 2005 Sun Bowl, 2009 Alamo Bowl, 2010 Outback Bowl, 2011 TicketCity Bowl, and 2011 Texas Bowl, the last bowl game Northwestern won was the 1949 Rose Bowl.

Despite this achievement Canseco later called his Yankees tenure " the worst time of life " due to receiving limited playing time.

Despite never playing live, they were interviewed by a fanzine named SCUM, in which Sid Vicious proclaimed " I'll just be the yob that I am now ".

Despite the list below, in practice " well-behaved " is almost always applied in an absolute sense.

Despite his seemingly honest and good-hearted personality, there is evidence that he is, at heart, a committed mercenary.

Despite her fragile nature, Emma is good-hearted and kind-natured, though she eventually learns to resist Angela's constant attempts to control her.

Despite this strange upbringing and the bizarre mannerisms she has picked up from it like her use of yakuza slang and a habit of running from the cops when she sees them, Kumiko is a good-hearted girl who has a strong faith in her students even when they think the world is against them.

" Despite Julia's reputation, the people who knew her described her as a good-hearted and kind woman who was very popular with the Roman people not least because of " her kindness and gentleness and utter freedom from vindictiveness.

Despite the disappointment, Hume later wrote, " Being naturally of a cheerful and sanguine temper, I soon recovered from the blow and prosecuted with great ardour my studies in the country ".

Despite occasional flashes of humor and lyricism, the tone is seldom cheerful and happy endings are rare: Kuroshima refrains from accomplishing in fiction what is much harder to attain in actuality.

Despite her deformities, Peggy is incredibly cheerful and upbeat.

Despite the war setting they have a cheerful picnic together.

Despite the fierce denunciations of sinners and the terrible images of damnation in The Day of Doom, its author was known as a " genial philanthropist, so cheerful that some of his friends thought he could not be so sick as he averred.

Despite this cheerful vision of the future, the space station on which the characters live and from which they travel to the past is remarkably dystopic.

Despite the tensions that drove them from their homes in the Eastern States, the crew and passengers " felt more cheerful and secure.

Despite any trouble that occurs for her or her friends, Melody maintains a cheerful, optimistic attitude.

Despite his poor performances for Pompey he remained something of a cult hero with the fans, on account of his cheerful demeanour, and his insistence that he would work hard to regain his place.

Despite the severity of his injuries, Shout maintained consciousness and was dragged out of the firing line, where he remained cheerful, " drank tea and sent a message to his wife ".

Despite his cheerful and collected nature, he has shown hints of a slightly more sinister side, possibly due to his Yakuza background.

Despite his cheerful persona, Rose suffered over three decades of debilitating pain from assorted medical problems.

Despite her tragic fate, Julia remains very cheerful and kind nonetheless.

Despite not having his parents around, he always manages to stay cheerful and have as much fun as any normal fox cub.

Despite his dark and mysterious past, he remains cheerful and other people are easily drawn to him.

Despite this, Sue was an upbeat, cheerful girl who never complained or despaired over her predicament.