James Berardinelli of ReelViews gave Generations two and a half stars out of four, saying: " Despite a reasonably original story line, familiar characters, first rate special effects, and the hallmark meeting between Captains Kirk and Picard, there's something fundamentally dissatisfying about movie.

Despite the legal and political complexities, the territory historically occupied by the Tlingit can be reasonably designated as their modern homeland, and Tlingit people today envision the land from around Yakutat south through the Alaskan Panhandle and including the lakes in the Canadian interior as being Lingít Aaní, the Land of the Tlingit.

Despite these defeats, the Red Army was able to fall back on the Don in reasonably good order, and also to evacuate much of the industrial plant of the Donbass.

Despite strong resistance from anti-fascists, including the local Jewish community, the Labour Party, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain, the BUF found a following in the East End of London, where in the London County Council elections of March 1937 it obtained reasonably successful results in Bethnal Green, Shoreditch and Limehouse, polling almost 8, 000 votes, although none of its candidates was actually elected.

Despite this the five College Student Committees, volunteer groups made up of elected officers and supporting volunteers, have retained a reasonably strong presence on campus.

Despite not being specialists in the subject, historians such as Pierre Chanu have put all the weight of their great moral authority behind the development of an anathematizing discourse, and have dismissed any effort to look at the subject reasonably.

Despite minimal publicity, and the lack, for obvious reasons, of a tour, it sold reasonably well, and its title track became a radio hit.

Despite their poverty they lived reasonably happy lives, cultivating some of the wet mountain by hand to make land, to grow very basic vegetables and feed the few cattle.

Despite its reasonably copious strength of numbers, the Providence Petrel is deemed to be in a precarious disposition because its breeding is confined to two mountain tops and one tiny islet, and is therefore at great risk from a catastrophe.

Despite being such a financial flop, the film has developed a reasonably strong cult following, many referring to it as a work of " demented genius.

Despite developing other business interests such as property, Jansen did not rule out a return to professional football, saying in July 2008, " I'm keeping myself reasonably fit ... we'll see what happens.

Despite frequent recent references to Gill as " forgotten " or " unappreciated " he was reasonably well documented during his life.

Despite the low ratings of the channel, the show was reasonably well received by viewers.

Despite being in and out of the side for the next couple of years, Dilley's future as a Test player seemed reasonably bright by 1983 as he played a full part in England's World Cup campaign.

Despite being reasonably well received at the time, it was judged by some to be insensitive to the families of the American soldiers whose family members in the service were in great danger overseas, and resulted in Bush receiving criticism in the press.

Despite legally mandated universal suffrage for males, political barriers were sometimes erected to prevent fair access to elections ( See Civil Rights movement ).

Despite growing unrest and severe economic strains, the 1932 presidential elections in Honduras were relatively peaceful and fair.

Despite the regular holding of relatively free and fair elections to the National Assembly, Kuwait is not a democracy by the usual definition of the term because the prime minister is not responsible to parliament.

Despite the plan to build a permanent civic center, more than half the structures built for the fair were torn down more or less immediately after it ended.

Despite his undergoing the Kolinahr, there is a fair amount of evidence to suggest that he never entirely gained emotional control, and he feels bitterness over his Vulcan heritage.

Despite forcing Walton out, Holmes bought the store's inventory and fixtures for $ 50, 000, which Walton called " a fair price ".

Despite fair ratings, the show was canceled in its second season.

Despite his gruesome legacy, Peter I of Portugal did have a peaceful reign and managed to install a system of justice which was relatively fair for the times.

Despite the cladestine nature of Mongolian poaching for pelican skulls, up to 50 pelican bills can be found in a commercial market there and its known ( due to the species ' rarity ) that a single pelican is considered a fair trade for 10 horses and 30 sheep.

Despite a jaw-dropping violent streak ( including nailing people's heads to the floor and to coffee tables, and screwing people's pelvises to cake stands ), he was beloved by everyone who knew him, most considering him " a cruel man, but fair ".

Despite his family's ancestry being mostly white and himself being blond-haired, blue-eyed, and very fair, White and his family identified as black and lived among the Atlanta black community.

Spencer had also expended effort in beating Higgins 4 – 3 in the final of the Park Drive 2000 event the night before their final commenced Despite this, Spencer in his 2005 memoir made clear that Higgins played the better snooker and won the match ' fair and square '.

Despite the magical trappings, the Lord Darcy stories play fair as whodunnits ; magic is never used to " cheat " a solution, and indeed, the mundane explanation is often obscured by the leap to assume a magical cause.

Despite being “ assumptions about assumptions ,” Level 3 inputs can provide useful information about fair values ( and thus future cash flows ) when they are generated legitimately and with best efforts, without any attempt to bias users ’ decisions.

Despite his eligibility as the eldest son of one of the greatest magnates in northern Italy, with many royal and imperial connections and the fair good looks of his family, he did not marry until he was well into his thirties.

Despite variations in wording and placement of the various fair trial rights, international human rights instrument define the right to a fair trial in broadly the same terms.

Despite the fact that it only ran for two years and appeared only in 30 newspapers ( the largest being the Chicago Sun-Times ), it had a fair sized fan base.

Despite the oath of fair play, one student has been caught cheating and was disqualified.

Despite being very strict, he is fair and sticks to his word, punishing everyone even if the rules are broken by only a few.

Despite only fair reviews and the short run, the show received eight Tony Award nominations: for Best Musical, the book, direction, choreography, lead actor, lead actress and designs but did not win any.

Despite the overall abysmal record of independent candidates and third parties, the political process in Belize still sees its fair share of well-intentioned people stepping forward to serve the nation.

Despite its problems, the fair is fondly remembered by many New Orleans residents as well as for its noteworthy post-modern architecture, such as the groundbreaking Wonderwall designed by noted architect Charles Willard Moore and his partner William Turnball.

Despite this, or perhaps because of it, they enjoy fair popularity across the nation, especially with the middle-aged population.

Despite the fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

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 being closely matched in ratings, Polgár won the match 6 – 2.

Despite gaining initially low audience ratings, by the third series, One Foot in the Grave was making the Top 20 ratings, with some episodes seen by more than 16 million viewers.

Despite decent acclaim and even some respectable ratings, almost every show was canceled quickly, usually within the first season.

Despite having a two-year contract, NBC announced shortly after the season that it was getting out, as the season's later games had garnered the lowest ratings for a major American television network since the Nielsen ratings had begun tracking them, and the league folded shortly afterwards.

Despite Davis's high disapproval ratings, he managed to defeat Simon by a margin of 47. 3 % of the vote to Simon's 42. 4 %.

Despite proving to be a ratings hit, staying in the top twenty for its first four seasons, Green Acres along with another sister show, The Beverly Hillbillies, were cancelled in 1971 in the CBS network's infamous " rural purge "— an attempt to attract a younger viewer demographic, as most viewers of the series were at least 40 years old.

One review written when the series was released on DVD gave it average ratings, commenting that while the show was dubbed into English poorly, it commented positively on the use of characters saying, " Despite his heroic calling as a robot pilot, Akito is remarkably approachable — after all, what could be more down-to-earth than a cook?

Despite the decent ratings for the initial special, the TV series was received with somewhat lukewarm reviews and ratings.

Despite this, the flagship 6 pm state bulletins continued to fall in the ratings.

Despite series-high ratings, the changes were critically panned and many felt that at that point the series had " jumped the shark ".

Despite the high approval ratings from the Spanish mainstream, and in particular the personal popularity enjoyed by the current king and queen, the monarchy has been the focus of acute criticism from the extreme left and extreme right of the Spanish political spectrum, and by regional separatists.

Despite low ratings, the show won 2007 Daytime Emmy Awards for Best Writing and Best Show ( sharing Best Show with The Young and the Restless ).

Despite critical acclaim, the show remained dead last in the ratings, and CBS was under more pressure from affiliates to present a more viable morning competitor.

Despite airing in the so called Friday night death slot, it peaked at # 2 in the ratings ( behind All in the Family ).

Despite its promising start, however, ratings for Millennium after the pilot remained consistently low, and it was cancelled after three seasons.

Despite its modest 8. 4: 1 compression, it was as strong as many earlier engines with higher gross power ratings ; yet like all other 1972-model engines, it could perform on low-octane regular leaded, low-lead or unleaded gasolines.

Despite the negative critical ratings, the film was a box office success, grossing over $ 160 million worldwide based on a $ 60 million budget.

Despite the high pedigree, and the expectations for his first series since Magnum, P. I., low ratings caused the show to be canceled after ten episodes.