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Despite pleading " no contest " to child molestation and possibly facing up to life in prison, Lewis managed to be let off with probation and a $ 500 fine.
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Despite this, he wrote an encyclical pleading for international reconciliation, Pacem, Dei Munus Pulcherrimum There is a statue in Saint Peter's Basilica of the Pontiff absorbed in prayer, kneeling on a tomb which commemorates a fallen soldier of the war, which he described as a " useless massacre.
Despite this, Alberta Liberal leader John R. Boyle sent a letter to his fellow Liberal, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon MacKenzie King, pleading with him to delay any agreement until after the expected 1925 election so that the UFA could not claim success.
Despite Scott abandoning her, Maddie videotaped a message for him, pleading that he find their child.
Despite Rita's begging and pleading, Lord Zedd vaporized Rita's magic wand and shrank her down to the size of a toy before again exiling her into space in a space dumpster.
Despite his frequent arrests for illegal gambling and bookmaking, Rosenthal was convicted only once, pleading no contest in 1963, for allegedly bribing New York University player Ray Paprocky to shave points for a college basketball game in North Carolina.
Despite this fact, however, he refused the offer of a place in the ministry of the former revolutionary and Bonapartist Talleyrand, pleading both a long absence from France and an ignorance of its conditions.
Despite Munceford's frantic pleading, Finlander does nothing to save his ship, perhaps because he recognises that there is no way of escaping.
Despite pleading for mercy and understanding from Ash Williams, Dazzler and the Scarlet Witch, Ash surprises Druid and blows his head off with his shotgun.
Despite an online petition from upset and angry fans pleading for them not to be axed, both characters left the show in July 2006.
" Despite continued pleading from the players and coaches to stop the practice, students continued the behavior.
Despite pleading guilty, Stanford claimed that what he had done was legal as " someone on the inside ... put in a redirect ".
Despite pleading to be brought back to Japan, Dembei was instead brought to St. Petersburg, where he told Peter the Great what he could about Japan ; he also began teaching the Japanese language to a few Russians, making him the father of Japanese language education in Russia.
Despite pleading with Terry and Lisa's father to return him, they refused.
Despite Mariani's pleading invitation to Verdi on 19 August 1869, Verdi replied on the same day indignantly that he would not attend.
Despite and no
Despite three warnings, no sense of moral urgency impelled him to distinguish his situation, and thus his responsibilities, from Wilson's.
Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.
Despite the fact that he was regarded as an outstanding engineer, he seemed to be a very poor administrator, although no one quite knew what was wrong with him.
Despite the frequency with which this name is used as a polemical label, there has been no historically continuous survival of Arianism into the modern era.
Despite this and other hearsay evidence, there were no actual facts to go upon.
Despite complaining of his lack of a formal classical education, Dürer was greatly interested in intellectual matters and learned much from his boyhood friend Willibald Pirckheimer, whom he no doubt consulted on the content of many of his images.
Despite Phillip's earlier order that Aboriginal Australians must never be slain, and his insistence that no retaliation be taken to avenge his own non-fatal spearing, Phillip's stance toward Aboriginals changed markedly after the death of his gamekeeper, John MacIntyre.
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 having the capability to support sound chips in cartridges, almost no 7800 cartridges feature POKEY hardware for enhanced sound.
Despite a brief spell at a traditional preparatory school at the age of seven for one year, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá received no formal education.
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 having no experience with women, their other signature traits are a shared obsession with sex, and their tendency to chuckle and giggle whenever they hear words or phrases that can even remotely be construed as sexual or scatological.
Despite the presence of more than 9, 000 UN forces ( UNOCI ) in Côte d ' Ivoire since 2004, ethnic conflict continues to spread into neighboring states who can no longer send their migrant workers to work in Ivorian cocoa plantations.
" Despite Gropius's protestations that as a war veteran and a patriot his work had no subversive political intent, the Berlin Bauhaus was pressured to close in April 1933.
Despite Edmund's respected intelligence and abilities, he has no personal fortune to speak of, apart from his frequently fluctuating wage packet from the Prince, as he says: " If I'm running short of cash, all I have to do is go upstairs and ask Prince Fat-head for a rise.
Despite his ferocious reputation though, there are no verified accounts of his ever having murdered or harmed those he held captive.
Despite Sihanouk's allegations, there is no evidence that this coup was planned by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
Despite rumors to the contrary, there is no scientific evidence linking cycling with testicular cancer.
Despite the increasing evidence of a military build-up on Cuba, no U-2 flights were made over Cuba from September 5 until October 14.
Despite no wins, the RCR team finished the season 5th in the final standings.
Despite this requirement, many of the stories are fictional, often appearing as " original submissions " and presenting no further sources than unverified ( and unreliable ) " eyewitnesses ".
Despite his heavy drinking his liver showed no sign of cirrhosis.
Despite a human chain making a shoulder-to-shoulder search of Robin Hood Hills, searchers found no sign of the missing boys.
Despite having no debris shields, the spacecraft survived the comet passage intact.
Despite the popularization of these five events, there is no fine line separating them from other extinction events ; indeed, using different methods of calculating an extinction's impact can lead to other events featuring in the top five.
Despite and contest
Despite not having entered any contest, he promptly told Mario about the mansion and the two agreed to meet up outside it that evening.
Despite this significant defeat, Mayor McKibben, who still held office until the ballots had been certified by the Georgia Secretary of State later that week, said that she would contest the results.
Despite being robbed of some quickness and athleticism, he still managed to score 27. 0 points per game, and he also added 6. 7 assists per contest, his highest average as a member of the Jazz.
Despite Seddon's promise, however, there was no vote – by convincing his party colleagues that a leadership contest would split the party in two, or at least leave deep divisions, Seddon managed to secure a permanent hold on the leadership.
Despite being one of the presenters, Terry Wogan still managed to provide his trademark comedy commentary to the contest for the BBC.
Despite being told that Lungren's case was " flimsy at best ", Fuhrman said he pleaded no contest because the odds were so greatly against him that it wasn't worth having his family being hassled by the press.
Despite being a well-known and popular figure, Brougham had to wait before being offered a parliamentary seat to contest.
Despite much opposition, including an abortive effort to recall his 1992 council election, Barry won a three-way Democratic primary contest for mayor with 48 % of the vote on September 13.
Despite this, the organizer Ms. Wardroe ( Pam Grier ) assures them a slot in the contest as the final act.
Despite her efforts to build support among women, minority groups and the party's left-wing, she began and ended the leadership contest well behind the overwhelming favourite, Paul Martin, whose supporters controlled the party machinery ; John Manley departed from the running before the vote.
Despite his defeat by Jack Lynch in the leadership contest four years earlier, Colley had remained loyal to the party leader and had become a close political ally.
Despite being so drunk that it was difficult for him to sit fully upright in his chair, Hank easily won the contest.
Despite its mixed fortunes, Malta is the most successful country never to have won the contest, having come 2nd twice ( 2002 and 2005 ) and 3rd twice ( 1992 and 1998 ) with singers including Chiara and Ira Losco.
Despite a contest to name the character, it was never given an official name.
Despite speculation that she would be challenged for preselection in her seat of Mackellar for the next election, this did not eventuate and she later reaffirmed her intention to contest the next election.
Despite the contest being held with both men attired in formal wear, it confirmed what Gentleman Jim had long suspected-he could feint Sullivan into knots.
Despite the Eurovision contest's taking place more than a month before the planned vote and despite Cinquetti's going as far as taking second place, Italian censors refused to allow the contest and song to be shown or heard.
Despite a fourth consecutive semi-final failure, as well as increasing pressure to withdraw from the Contest SRG SSR has confirmed that they have no current plans to withdraw from the contest, claiming that " the Eurovision Song Contest costs the broadcaster less than some entertainment shows ".
Despite the defeat, for the first time in history a club then known as Dynamo Žilina broke into Europe to contest in the UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup.
Despite his previous declaration, Pinto da Costa returned to contest elections in 1996, but was narrowly defeated, taking 47. 26 % of the vote, by Trovoada.
Despite being one of the favorites to win the contest according to many bookmakers, the song failed to get past the semi-final stage on May 12.
Despite their diminutive stature his Oxford crew won a dramatic Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race by the smallest ever recorded margin ( one foot ), and in so winning, they overturned the biggest weight deficit in the history of the contest.
Despite being widely seen as a frontrunner in the leadership contest, UK Labour leader Ed Miliband was unable to recall Ken Macintosh's name during a TV interview with BBC Scotland, during the September 2011 Labour Party Conference.
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