Despite fourteen bullet wounds, he was still conscious, but died three hours later, refusing to utter a word about the identities of the killers.

Despite refusing to announce his candidacy for the Senate, Hampton was elected to the United States Senate by the General Assembly on the same day as the amputation of his leg.

Despite the Treasury refusing to help by extending the coal and wine dues which paid for the Board, it went ahead with the plans, but saw its Private Bill rejected by the House of Commons.

Despite lacking popular appeal, and refusing to bribe voters in a similar way to those of Hull, he became respected as a man of morals and integrity.

Despite being staunchly in favor of reinstating the monarchy, President Grover Cleveland also reversed himself upon receipt of the Morgan Report, refusing requests from the queen for further aid in her restoration, and acknowledging both the Provisional Government and Republic of Hawaii as the legitimate successors to the Kingdom.

Despite refusing to raise or spend any money in these efforts, Hooker nonetheless finished third in the senatorial primary and second in the gubernatorial primary held on August 3.

Despite the abbey's affiliation with the Balliol family who remained resolutely at odds with the Bruce monarchy, the abbot and canons, before 21 October 1316, expelled two of their rank for refusing to acknowledge Robert as their king ; a grateful King Edward II of England rewarded them by providing them with the rent and fishery of the abbey at Berwick.

Despite continued urging from family, doctors, and her best friend, Marilyn is still adamant about refusing the operation.

Despite this, it has been widely rumoured that Zemmama will be leaving Middlesbrough this summer, after apparently refusing to travel if he was amongst the substitutes in the final matchday against Watford – Mowbray subsequently withdrew him from his travelling squad.

Despite having Dax within her, she does not know Curzon's motivations for refusing to approve her to get a symbiont.

Despite refusing to play old material, the last track from The Firm, " Midnight Moonlight ", was originally an unreleased Led Zeppelin song entitled " The Swan Song ".

Despite the facility's years of faithful service, in 1909 Treasury officials halted minting activity in New Orleans by simply refusing to appropriate funds for its operation.

Despite a rescue attempt by British and Norwegian teams, which was severely delayed due to the Russians refusing them access, all 118 sailors and officers aboard Kursk died.

Despite their refusal to retaliate, over 150 students were eventually arrested for refusing to vacate store lunch counters when ordered to do so by police.

Despite claiming to offer a no-contract no-risk service, skyDSL is known for predatory billing practices, for refusing to cancel service despite multiple phone and email requests, and for changing upwards of 550 € for cancellation.

Despite the generosity of the British terms, representatives of Vichy made a brief show of refusing them, then dumped the whole mess into General Dentz's lap.

Despite his lack of patronage, he continued to preach at home on King Street in Covent Garden .< William Harris, “ Some Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Reverend and Learned Thomas Manton, D. D .,” in Works, 1: xxix .</ ref > He also continued to write even when imprisoned for refusing to cooperate for six months in 1670 in violation of the Conventicle Act.

Despite these successes, de Moivre was unable to obtain an appointment to a Chair of Mathematics at a university, which would have released him from his dependence on time-consuming tutoring that burdened him more than it did most other mathematicians of the time.

Despite his later well-known fondness for Reagan, Meese was initially reluctant to accept the Reagan appointment because Meese saw himself as a non-partisan figure.

Despite the custom of meeting on a Thursday, after the appointment of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister the meeting day was switched to Tuesday.

Despite missing the deadline to apply for Congressional appointment to the military academy, Stilwell gained entry through the use of family connections who knew President William McKinley.

Despite this, he continued to lobby for a formal appointment as governor.

Despite the accusations of nepotism that greeted his appointment on January 3, 1903, Sifton fast became a well-respected judge.

Despite the presence of the merit system, many governors have been criticized for abusing their appointment power.

Despite Wilson advising French that the reasons for their objections were largely personal, he was not able to dissuade them from blocking the appointment, which went instead to the BEF Quartermaster-General " Wully " Robertson early in 1915.

Despite these titles, in fact since the pontificate of Pope John XXIII almost all Cardinals who were not already bishops at the time their appointment was announced have been ordained bishops prior to the conclusion of the formal installation, though in the last years the Jesuit priests made cardinals when they are already over 80 have generally petitioned not to become bishops and have received permission in this sense.

Despite this appointment, Pitt is uncomfortable with his desk job, and still personally heads projects in the field, becoming entangled in villainous plots just as easily as before his promotion.

Despite widespread fears of civil unrest, the takeover of the parliamentary complex by George Speight on 19 May 2000 ( one year to the day since Chaudhry's appointment as Prime Minister ) happened without warning.

Despite this suspected Communist alliance, the French authorities did not oppose M ' ba's appointment as head chief of the Estuaire Province by his colleagues.

Despite both universities stressing that there is no significant difference between them in either the sciences or humanities today, this disparity in the popular imagination has existed since at least the late 1820s, when The Times newspaper reported on the appointment of Oxford and Cambridge academics to the newly established professorships of University College London: " it is known to be the intention to choose classical professors at Oxford, and mathematical at Cambridge ", although in the event both the classical and mathematical professors were eventually chosen from Cambridge.

Despite the great fanfare which greeted Goerdeler's appointment, he was given little real power.

Despite the unease at his appointment, England lost just once in Taylor's first 23 matches ( a 0 – 1 defeat to Germany at Wembley Stadium in September 1991 ).

Despite this there was a minor political row over Erler's appointment with allegations of her being appointed due to their friendship.

Despite rumors of privateering, Bland received a recess appointment from President Monroe to a seat to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, vacated by James Houston, on November 23, 1819.

Despite the elder Adams having been convinced that the high-profile Willie was his son since 1977, when he read about the younger Adams ' appointment to the Senate, he made no attempt to contact him, thinking that " he has his own life.

Despite widespread resistance to his appointment amidst allegations of his involvement in numerous massacres, Dweh served as Speaker of the National Transitional Legislative Assembly of Liberia ( NTLA ) from October 2003 to 14 March 2005, when he was suspended from the body after being accused of financial mismanagement and corruption.

Despite his opposition to the appointment of Monash, Bean later acknowledged Monash's success in the role, noting that he had made a better Corps commander than a Brigade commander ( and as an aside admitting that his role in trying to influence the decision had been improper ).

Despite the appointment of famous names such as Gurban Gurbanov, Vlastimil Petržela, Anatoliy Demyanenko and Hans-Jürgen Gede, the club did not achieve any success and squandered large sums of money on unsuccessful signings.

Despite this, and a failed bid to gain appointment to the Supreme Court, Montague was respected by his colleagues, even acquiring the nickname " Judge ".

Despite remaining successful at the highest level attainable by a non-regional side, Pontypridd RFC has seen a huge loss in their fan base due to the disenfranchisement of Welsh rugby supporters in the Valleys over to the appointment of Cardiff Blues as their ' regional ' team.

Despite the unpopularity of his appointment, Cauchon remained Speaker of the Senate until June 30, 1872 ( though he stepped down on a temporary basis on two occasions, for eleven days in total ).