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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 popular opinion the substitution did not change the game as Franz Beckenbauer had scored before Charlton left the field, hence Charlton had failed to cancel out the German.
Despite the xenophobia and intellectual introspection characteristic of the increasingly popular new school of neo-Confucianism, China under the early Ming Dynasty was not isolated.
Despite its difficulty of learning, this method remains popular in Chinese communities that use traditional Chinese characters, such as Hong Kong and Taiwan ; it is also the first method that allowed users to enter more than a hundred Chinese characters per minute.
Despite popular perception that the CRTC banned Sirius Canada from broadcasting Howard Stern's program, this is not the case.
Despite the pragmatism of classical economists, their views were expressed in dogmatic terms by such popular writers as Jane Marcet and Harriet Martineau.
Despite his high profile as one of the world's most popular and recognizable superheroes, Rogers also has a broad understanding of the espionage community, largely through his ongoing relationship with S. H. I. E. L. D.
Despite the archaeological discoveries, the Garden Tomb has become a popular place of pilgrimage among Protestants.
Despite its popular support, the CCC was never a permanent agency.
Despite controversial press coverage of his personal life, Eriksson was consistently popular with the majority of fans.
Despite some initial success, bolstered by heavy advertising, the brand did not prove popular and was eventually withdrawn from sale.
Despite all this, the film is also one of the most widely seen Godzilla films in the United States — it was popular in its initial theatrical release, largely due to an aggressive marketing campaign, including elaborate posters of the two title monsters battling atop New York City's World Trade Center towers, presumably to capitalize on the hype surrounding the Dino De Laurentiis remake of King Kong, which used a similar image for its own poster.
Despite considerable congressional resistance, presidential and popular pressure led to a November 1993 agreement brokered by the Catholic Church between the administration and Congress.
Despite the popular adulation of gladiators, they were set apart, despised ; and despite Cicero's contempt for the mob, he shared their admiration: " Even when have been felled, let alone when they are standing and fighting, they never disgrace themselves.
Despite the speech's prominent place in the history and popular culture of the United States, the exact wording and location of the speech are disputed.
Despite being incomprehensible to outsiders, the slang became popular in MIT's computing environments outside the club.
Despite the great controversy that accompanied this switch, he remained one of the most popular politicians in West Germany.
Despite its fame, it was in this period that Rabbinical Judaism, led by Hillel the Elder, began to assume popular prominence over the Temple priesthood.
Despite these efforts the regime lacked a broad popular base or a mass movement supporting it.
Despite general agreement that the rainbow uniforms identified with the team had become tired ( and looked too much like a minor league team according to the new owners ), the new uniforms and caps were never especially popular with fans.
Despite his reputation as a serious composer of large, complex musical structures, some of Brahms's most widely known and most commercially successful compositions during his life were small-scale works of popular intent aimed at the thriving contemporary market for domestic music-making ; indeed, during the 20th century, the influential American critic B. H. Haggin, rejecting more mainstream views, argued in his various guides to recorded music that Brahms was at his best in such works and much less successful in larger forms.
Despite their similarities as polemicists, novelists, adapters, and playwrights, Sartre's literary work has been counterposed, often pejoratively, to that of Camus in the popular imagination.
Despite Kitagawa Utamaro ’ s success and celebrity status among his own world of popular culture, history of his life and career is insufficient.
Despite the popular enthusiasm that greeted the February revolution, the new government lacked a clear program.

Despite and lore
Despite his successes, Buckner is best remembered for a fielding error during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series against the New York Mets, a play that since became prominently entrenched into American sports lore.
Despite its close proximity to Lake Manasarovar — over the road to Purang County, Lake Rakshastaal does not share the lore of worship with its east neighbor.
Despite being lost to the Wyvernspur family's lore, he continues to watch over the descendants of his brother.

Despite and seems
Despite the disdain of the Imperial family, it seems that from very early on the general public respected Claudius.
Despite his importance to the myths and imaginative literature of ancient Greece, the religious cult of Prometheus during the Archaic and Classical periods seems to have been limited.
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 the Dukes often coming to his rescue ( see below ), Hogg forever seems to have an irrational dislike of the clan, particularly Bo and Luke, often accusing them of spying on him, robbing or planning to rob him, and other supposedly nefarious actions as he believes they are generally out to get him.
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 success and growing reputation as an illustrator, Jones seems to have become disaffected by the medium.
Despite his initial scepticism the deal seems to have the support of Russian security-chief Colonel Stok and Hallam in the British government's Home Office.
Despite his questionable competency at being an officer, Wiggum seems to be very attached to both the police force and his fellow officers.
Despite Wayne, Garth, Cassandra, Glen, and Ben addressing the viewer, no one else seems aware that they are in a film.
Despite owning a large corporate empire, he seems to enjoy micromanaging WNYX.
Despite the Puritans ' rousing opposition in the country ( which her zealously anti-catholic councillor Sir Francis Walsingham secretly approves of ), Elizabeth seems taken with the witty and flower-tongued François.
Despite Drake's obvious hatred of him and his wife, Herb seems to not notice it due to his low intellegence.
Despite the anti-German hysteria of the time, there seems to have been no adverse comment on his German origins.
Despite the withdrawal of Tiberius from Rome's political scene, the presence of Livia seems to have checked Sejanus ' overt power for a time.
Despite Pickford's embrace of the new medium it seems she was as concerned as everyone else about how her voice would record, despite the fact she had a stage career before entering film.
" Despite this admission, it seems Descartes ' project for understanding the world was that of re-creating creation-a cosmological project which aimed, through Descartes particular brand of experimental method, to show not merely the possibility of such a system, but to suggest that this way of looking at the world-one with ( as Descartes saw it ) no assumptions about God or nature-provided the only basis upon which he could see knowledge progressing ( as he states in Book II ).
* Despite the goal of vast accumulation of wealth, income mobility among the Ferengi seems to be quite high.
Despite the fact that the Cooke design was patented in 1893 it seems that the use of achromatic triplet designs in astronomy appeared as early as 1765.
Despite the ease with which Catesby seems to have inspired his fellow conspirators, that it was he and not Fawkes ( today most often associated with 5 November ) who devised what became known as the Gunpowder Plot, has largely been forgotten.
Despite attempts to present himself as a " simple man " and, by default, unable to appreciate post-classical art, Lowry seems to have been aware of major trends in 20th century art.
Despite the presence of these counsellors, Babar's rule seems to be totally independent of any elected body, and completely autocratic ; however his leadership style seems to be one that works for the overall benefit of his elephant subjects ; a form of benevolent dictator.
Despite his best intentions, Tejada seems to have been disdained by the Bolivian military leaders from the very beginning.
Despite what seems to be obvious limitations to minister because of ordination, women have been given great latitude and numerous opportunities to serve in ministry in COGIC.

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