Despite declaring loyalty to the neighboring Wuyue, the Southern Tang finished its conquest of Min in 945.

" Despite this, there is a bronze plaque attached to the corner of the building declaring that exact spot to be the place where the phrase " Give ' em hell, Harry " was first uttered.

" Nintendojo and Gamasutra also criticized the similarities to Dragon Quest, with Gamasutra declaring EarthBound an " unabashed Dragon Quest clone ..." Despite the criticism, Gamasutra regarded the title " as one of the greatest RPGs on the SNES.

Despite The Times declaring, " We can remember no better Petruchio ", the opportunity of working again with David Lean, in The Passionate Friends ( 1949 ), drew Howard back to film and, although he had a solid reputation as a theatre actor, his dislike of long runs, and the attractions of travel afforded by film, convinced him to concentrate on cinema from this point.

Despite this apparent dislike, the narrator betrays his roots, declaring that he is " all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors ".

Despite declaring inspiration from Marx, Bevan did not visibly support insurrectionist concepts of proletarian revolution, or the Leninist organisational model of democratic centralism typical of many Communist parties.

* Despite declaring " death to Israel " in his public appearances, Nasrallah said in an interview to The New Yorker, " At the end of the road no one can go to war on behalf of the Palestinians, even if that one is not in agreement with what the Palestinians agreed on.

Despite that Rock Island management had been able to move 80 % of pre-strike tonnage, at the behest of the Carter Administration, the ICC declared a transportation emergency declaring that the RI would not be able to move the 1979 grain harvest to market.

Despite Bertuzzi's agent, Pat Morris, declaring that they would cease negotiations once the season began, Bertuzzi signed a four-year, $ 27. 8 million deal with the Canucks on October 23, 2003.

Despite this ruling, on 26 June 2008, on the eve of the Parliamentary summer recess, the SNP-led Standards Committee of the Parliament voted 4 to 3 to propose a one-day ban from the Scottish Parliament as a sanction for not declaring leadership campaign donations as gifts on the Parliament's register of interests.

Despite the vote, the cantonal authorities pressed ahead with plans for the merger, declaring that the municipalities would be merged on 1 October 2004.

Despite declaring the Inquisitor to be an atheist, Ivan also has the Inquisitor saying that the Catholic Church follows " the wise spirit, the dread spirit of death and destruction ," i. e. the Devil, Satan.

Despite declaring her a failure, he let her go unharmed for reasons unknown, perhaps hoping that she would lead him to the human he sought as he still suspected there was a human connected somehow.

Despite being a fan of the show and finding the role interesting, he turned it down, declaring that he only wanted to play an alien.

Despite six summer acquisitions including Milan Baroš and Kevin Phillips who added more quality to the squad, the 2005 – 06 season brought a disappointing turn for the worse for O ' Leary and his fragile relationship with fans deteriorated even further when he described them as fickle and offended supporters unfurled a banner declaring ' we're not fickle.

Despite a neurosurgeon being flown in from Delhi, all efforts went in vain and finally his ventilator was removed declaring him dead.

Despite immense pressure from associates, friends, and the Washington County Whig Party, McKennan again refused to run for another term in Congress, declaring that he had done his duty by serving in public office, and it was time to return to Washington, Pennsylvania, and focus on his law practice.

Despite the fact that that Sukkondat receives less than 2 % of all visitors to Phaic Tăn every year, this statistic hasn't stopped its local Tourism Bureau from declaring the province ' the place to be '.

Despite a clear system for declaring donations to campaign funds, officials and experts say that Ukraine ’ s election law is consistently flouted, with spending from candidates ’ official funds representing only a fraction of the amount truly spent while it ’ s rarely clear where the funding comes from.

Despite this, Ahmad remained in Mujib's cabinet and was appointed a member of the BAKSAL executive committee when Mujib banned other political parties, declaring himself president.

Despite his declaring to Rubinstein that he would " publish the concerto exactly as it stands " ( something that the composer actually did ), in 1876 Tchaikovsky happily accepted advice on improving the piano writing from German pianist Edward Dannreuther, who had given the London premiere of the work, and from Russian pianist Alexander Siloti several years later.

Despite having previously shown little inclination toward politics, Brown surprised political observers by declaring his candidacy for governor in 1979.

Despite vigorously declaring his innocence, Parker Wickham was never granted a trial and was sentenced to death if he returned to New York.

Despite having several popular artists on its roster, Tetragrammaton permanently closed its doors after declaring bankruptcy in 1971.

Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

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 efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

Despite the lack of a categorical counterindication, the belief that alcohol and antibacterials should never be mixed is widespread.

Despite this, several features that would later be associated with BBC Master and Archimedes were first features of Electron expansion units, including ROM cartridge slots and the Advanced Disc Filing System — a hierarchical improvement to the BBC's original Disc Filing System.

Despite Acorn themselves effectively shelving the Electron in 1985, games continued to be developed and released by professional software houses until 1991.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

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 several differences in definitions, their importance becomes apparent as different methods of analysis when applied to acid – base reactions for gaseous or liquid species, or when acid or base character may be somewhat less apparent.

Despite causing the predicament faced by the Medieval soldiers, Ash initially demands to be returned to his own time.

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 outstanding victories, Germany was near defeat, which meant that Bulgaria would be left without its most powerful ally.

Despite this, there were also several superstar hitters, the most famous being Honus Wagner, held to be one of the greatest shortstops to ever play the game, and Detroit's Ty Cobb, the " Georgia Peach.

Despite vocal opposition from Contre-Admiral Armand Blanquet, who insisted that the fleet would be best able to respond in open water, the rest of the captains agreed that anchoring in a line of battle inside the bay presented the strongest tactic for confronting Nelson.

Despite strenuous efforts from the Culloden < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s boats, the brig Mutine and the 50-gun HMS Leander under Captain Thomas Thompson, the ship of the line could not be moved, and the waves drove Culloden further onto the shoal, inflicting severe damage to the ship's hull.

Despite its invisible interior, the presence of a black hole can be inferred through its interaction with other matter and with light and other electromagnetic radiation.

Despite such diversity, it is possible to classify the indigenous people into three major cultural groups: the northern people, who developed rich handicrafts and were influenced by pre-Incan cultures ; the Araucanian culture, who inhabited the area between the river Choapa and the island of Chiloé, and lived primarily off agriculture ; and the Patagonian culture Patagonia composed of various nomadic tribes, who supported themselves through fishing and hunting ( and who in Pacific / Pacific Coast immigration scenario would be descended partly from the most ancient settlers ).

Despite this huge show of force, the battle will be short-lived, for Ezekiel, Daniel, and Revelation all say that this last desperate attempt to destroy the people and the city of God will end in disaster: " I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed.

Despite his lack of experience, Claudius proved to be an able and efficient administrator.

Despite the lack of complexity, there does seem to be forethought and skill in making these tools and should be considered such.

Despite these advances in Cognitive psychology, there is still much to be discovered in terms of the operating mechanisms of declarative memory.

Despite its rare use, Italian orthography allows the circumflex accent ( î ) too, in two cases: it can be found in old literary context ( roughly up to 19th century ) to signal a syncope ( fêro → fecero, they did ), or in modern Italian to signal the contraction of ″- ii ″ due to the plural ending-i whereas the root ends with another-i ; e. g., s. demonio, p. demonii → demonî ; in this case the circumflex also signals that the word intended is not demoni, plural of " demone " by shifting the accent ( demònî, " devils "; dèmoni, " demons ").

Despite the reorganization, money continued to be a problem for the institution.