Despite the legend of his divorce and remarriage, Amram was also held to have been entirely sinless throughout his life, and was rewarded for this by his corpse remaining without any signs of decay.

Despite the regard in which he was held by the Venetians, Dürer returned to Nuremberg by mid-1507, remaining in Germany until 1520.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

Despite this as of 2010 calls for cancellation of its remaining $ 1 billion debts came strongly from civil society groups such as the Jubilee Debt Campaign in reaction to the effects of the earthquake that hit the country.

Despite decentralization and the sale of government assets, Cohdefor's remaining debt was US $ 240 million in 1991.

Despite Orbison's death, the remaining group members recorded a second and final studio album, which they intentionally misnumbered Traveling Wilburys Vol.

Despite remaining a minor party in Italian Parliament for fifty years, its leader Giuseppe Saragat became President of Italy in 1964.

Despite the fact that Switzerland covers only 14 % of the Alps total area ( 192, 753 km² ), many alpine four-thousanders ( 48 of 82 ) are located in the Swiss Alps and the remaining few are within 20 km of the country's border.

Despite remaining a Democratic stronghold, In the 2008 Presidential election John McCain carried the county with 69 % of the vote.

Despite this, everyone complains of exhausting hard labor and difficulties of living with the remaining inconveniences.

Despite this, Charles refused to return the lands in Aquitaine to the English king, resulting in a provisional agreement under which Edward resumed administration of the remaining English territories in early 1326 whilst France continued to occupy the rest.

Despite wielding such power over the king, Diane's status depended on the king's welfare, and his remaining in power.

Despite an offer from the private-equity firm Najafi Companies, Borders was not able to find a buyer before its July 17 bidding deadline, and therefore began liquidating its remaining 399 retail outlets on July 22, with the last remaining stores closing their doors on Sunday, September 18, 2011.

Despite these shortcomings, the failed attempts to gather water and repair the casks that were issued ultimately caused Córdoba to distribute his remaining sailors and abandon his smallest ship, a brigantine paid for on credit.

Despite being greatly praised by all contemporary writers, and remaining a great name in Italy, Giorgione became less known to the wider world, and many of his ( probable ) paintings were assigned to others.

Despite being the only two remaining members of the group, Love and Erlandson still continued with Hole.

Despite the relatively poor reception of Mardi Gras and deteriorated relationships among the remaining band members, Creedence immediately embarked upon a two-month, 20-date U. S. tour.

Despite being pressed by French cavalry, Waldeck was able to create a new line with his remaining forces further back.

Despite a politically turbulent mandate ( in 1994, the Social Democratic Party of Slovenia left the coalition ), the Party gained votes in 1996, remaining the largest party in the government.

Despite media rumours that drummers including Cozy Powell, Phil Collins, Carmine Appice, Barriemore Barlow, Roger Taylor, Simon Kirke or Bev Bevan, among others, would join the group as his replacement, the remaining members decided to disband Led Zeppelin after Bonham's death.

Despite speculation of cancellation early in 2011, it was announced on 14 November 2011 that the remaining books would indeed be filmed in 2012.

Despite the little time remaining, Lakers point guard Derek Fisher hit a buzzer beater for an upset Lakers win.

Despite the low production run, the aerodynamic qualities and styling of the " droopsnoot " were incorporated, with improved productionisation, into most of Vauxhall's remaining 1970s new models: the Chevette, Cavalier and Carlton.

Despite this, Barrichello ultimately finished the race in second place after Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica collided with just 2 laps remaining.

Despite his defense of himself in the final paper of the Englishman and in his speech before the House, their efforts were successful.

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 reforms, weak control over privatization led many successful state enterprises to bankruptcy.

Despite Cotton Mather's efforts, he never became quite as well known and successful in politics as his father.

Despite being a qualified engineer, a successful businessman, a multiple record-breaker in his own right and a highly effective advocate of his own cause, Campbell was not an easy man and seemed driven to emulate, if not surpass, his father's achievements.

Despite his lack of capital, Newson was determined to be successful and in 1841, at the age of 29, he moved his family and devoted wife again, this time back to Suffolk, where he bought a barley and coal merchants business in Snape, constructing a fine range of buildings for malting barley.

Despite early singles success in the United Kingdom, the band were initially more successful in the United States, billed as " The English guys with the big fiddles ".

Despite a history of important and successful productions, the industry has often been characterised by a debate about its identity and the level of American and European influence.

Despite recording the most successful home and away season in the game's history, the club went one win short of back-to-back premierships in losing the 2008 AFL Grand Final, but won the 2009 Grand Final against St Kilda.

Despite these handicaps, at war's end the club recruited many players who represented the club during its most successful era in the early 1950s.

" Despite the acrimony, the film was successful.

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 a relatively successful career in film and stage, Alexander never managed to repeat his Seinfeld-level of success in television.

Despite being one of the founders of Cominform, he was also the first ( and the only successful ) Cominform member to defy Soviet hegemony.

Despite diminishing government financial support over the past quarter century, MIT launched several successful development campaigns to significantly expand the campus: new dormitories and athletics buildings on west campus ; the Tang Center for Management Education ; several buildings in the northeast corner of campus supporting research into biology, brain and cognitive sciences, genomics, biotechnology, and cancer research ; and a number of new " backlot " buildings on Vassar Street including the Stata Center.

Despite Paramount's losses, DeMille would, however, give the studio some relief and create his most successful film at Paramount, a 1956 remake of his 1923 film The Ten Commandments.

Despite its initial focus on the elites, the Union was successful in raising funds from across French society.

Despite some flaws, it is generally ( although not universally ) thought to have been successful.

Despite the album's erratic lyrical content and instrumentation, the latter of which kept it away from mainstream audiences, Boys for Pele is Amos's most successful simultaneous transatlantic release, reaching # 2 on both the Billboard 200 and the UK Top 40 upon its release at the height of her fame.

Despite not selling as many copies as Eliminator, 1985's Afterburner was still as successful commercially, becoming their highest-charting album, and racking up sales of 5 million units.

Despite the decline in Milan's manufacturing production, the city has found alternative and successful sources of revenue, including publishing, finance, banking, food processing, information technology, logistics, transport and tourism.

Despite many successful firings, American nuclear rockets did not fly before the space race ended.

Despite these problems, the premiere was a triumph, and the opera was hailed as one of Wagner's most successful works.

Despite several successful evasions of the blockade by the French navy, it failed to inflict a major defeat upon the British.