Despite tangles with the law and a disastrous tour of music halls in the United Kingdom, Keaton was a rising star in the theater.

Despite the defeat of the Communities, the city's resultant economic boom continued into the sixteenth century, its population rising to 27, 000 in 1594.

Despite a strong 17 – 3 start and an 11-game winning streak between February and March, the Spurs stayed relatively under the radar of the major trades and other quickly rising teams.

Despite announcing after the 2005 general election that he would vacate the role of party leader, Howard performed a substantial reshuffle of the party's front bench on the 10 May in which several rising star MPs were given their first shadow portfolios, including George Osborne and David Cameron.

Despite rising success, the band began to experience personal and legal problems related to drug and alcohol abuse, leading to multiple stints in drug rehabilitation for Hoon.

Despite being a Blairite, his very radical views may have prevented his ministerial career from rising any further or even the influence of Brownites in Labour government.

Despite the rising interest in reputation, few companies have reputation officers.

Despite the disappointment of the 2004 season, Räikkönen was still seen as one of the rising stars of the sport, along with BAR's Button, Renault's Alonso and 2005 McLaren teammate Montoya.

Despite the decline in burials from an already low level, rising land values in the post war years meant that the LNC was a valuable and successful company.

Despite a conservative political climate in the United States, the magazine quickly a critical mass of subscribers, with its paid circulation rising to 2, 500 in 1950 and to 6, 000 in 1954.

Despite the rising tensions, director of the Tobacco Régie Julius Ornstein arrived in Tehran in April and was assured by Prime Minister Amin al-Sultan that the concession had the full support of the Qajar dynasty.

Despite a solid 3. 79 ERA and playing for a rising team, he posted a 9 – 18 record.

Despite there being trillions of these creatures in Mono Lake, it was felt that rising levels of salinity and sodium hydroxide concentration of the lake would endanger them because of the increase in pH.

Despite the rising government deficit, there is to be a big increase in military spending, reflecting tension with Pakistan.

Despite its potential dangers, C. perfringens is used as the leavening agent in salt rising bread.

Despite having failed on his promise to get the team promoted within two years, City's rising attendances and resulting better profits for the club kept the directors happy, and the club were confident of promotion in 1914 – 15.

Despite, and perhaps fueled by, Selena's death and crossover success, the " Latin explosion " continued in the late ' 90s as a handful of rising stars who shared a Latin heritage — like Ricky Martin, Marc Anthony, Enrique Iglesias and Jennifer Lopez, who rendered a Golden Globe performance as Selena on film -- were touted as proof that sounds from Latin countries were infiltrating the pop mainstream.

Despite the Dutch falling short, Kluivert will be remembered for rising to the occasion in front of partisan home crowds, scoring five goals in as many games, jointly claiming the Golden Boot with Savo Milošević.

Despite the price tag and the expensive lists of prerequisites for each new module, the game system caught on and new modules continued to be produced twenty-five years after the original release-a feat unheard of in the board wargaming industry, especially with the decline in sales due to rising popularity of console and PC games.

Despite his leap to fame, Béart's singing career was soon swamped by the rising tide of American rock and roll.

Despite their growing strength, the United Irish leadership decided to seek military help from the French revolutionary government and to postpone the rising until French troops landed in Ireland.

Despite the band's rising popularity, however, Revis would be dropped from Epic Records and forced to acquire new management after their first album.

Despite rising costs, the state governments of the period continued to make assurances that the line would be built, but by 1984 land for the line had been sold.

Despite rising oil wealth, the kingdom was fiscally insolvent.

Despite considerable investments, other dual carriageways are partially up to either motorway or state road standards as they contain unfinished overpasses, lack of medians, roundabouts, uncontrolled access points, and absent entry and exit ramps.

Despite over ten years of large investments of capital, creditors forced him out of business in 1900 although they also did not succeed with the plantations.

Despite being among the best-paid players of the pre-free agency era, Mantle was a poor businessman, having made several bad investments.

Despite the demand for electrical consumer goods and large investments in heavy engineering and nuclear power, profits began to fall for the first time in the face of increasing competition and internal disorganisation.

Despite huge investments by their parent companies, neither Viewtron nor Gateway lasted into the second half of the decade.

Despite large infrastructure investments, the city's economy declined in the 1990s but is now growing again.

Despite years of population and industrial decline, Farrell has made progress in rebuilding itself due to new industrial investments on tax abated land and several new housing starts.

Despite the growing clamor for non-Tagalog, and non-English music, and greater representation of other Philippine languages, the local Philippine music industry, which is centered in Manila, is unforthcoming in venturing investments to other locations.

Despite this, many Serbian cities still suffer from water supply problems, due to mismanagement and low investments in the past, as well as water pollution ( like the pollution of the Ibar River from the Trepča zinc-lead combinate, affecting the city of Kraljevo, or the presence of natural arsenic in underground waters in Zrenjanin ).

Despite lobbying by the British government, no other donor was willing to help finance the purchase of land and only the African Development Bank, EU and Kuwait Fund to pay for the other investments required by the new settlers.

Despite sizable gas deposits and incoming investments from gas companies, the regional administration does not yet have plans for the installation of gas services on the island.

Despite Japan's successful modernisation and growing military power, British banks continued to overestimate the risk involved in investments in Japan.

Despite investments in players, including former Ferencváros stars, the season 2007 / 08 brought further trouble.

Despite the success of Burns, Philp & Co, Philp made some poor personal investments, such as his loss of £ 5000 on the " Comet " mine.

Despite eventually losing control of both the AM & O railroad and the political power that went with the Readjuster Party, Mahone accumulated substantial wealth, partially through the foresight of valuable personal investments in bituminous coal lands in the western regions of Virginia where he had hoped to extend the AM & O.

Despite the considerable investments made by several companies, proteins chips have yet to flood the market.

Despite earning a considerable income through the sale of his paintings, Stevens found that a combination of bad investments and excessive spending caused him great financial difficulties during the 1880s.

In a 2007 Foreign Policy magazine article, Harvard Business School Professor Pankaj Ghemawat argued that 90 % of the world's phone calls, Web traffic, and investments are local, suggesting that Friedman has grossly exaggerated the significance of the trends he describes: " Despite talk of a new, wired world where information, ideas, money, and people can move around the planet faster than ever before, just a fraction of what we consider globalization actually exists.