Despite Kitna's success, Palmer was promoted to starting quarterback the following season.

Despite this black mark, Tycho also began corresponding with Kepler, starting with a harsh but legitimate critique of Kepler's system ; among a host of objections, Tycho took issue with the use of inaccurate numerical data taken from Copernicus.

Despite a fallout from record sales, Brown enjoyed something of a resurgence in this period starting with cameo roles in the feature films The Blues Brothers, Doctor Detroit and Rocky IV, as well as guest starring in the Miami Vice episode " Missing Hours " ( 1988 ).

Despite the loss of a starting pitcher in Sabathia, the Brewers were able to sign all-time save leader Trevor Hoffman.

Despite their great starting field position, Dallas was unable to score a touchdown and thus had to settle for kicker Mike Clark's 14-yard field goal to give them a 3 – 0 lead.

Despite starting his life in the suburb of Ainslie, Hird soon moved to a traditional 1970s house in Latham, an outer northern suburb.

Despite being filmed in the first half of 1968, roughly between Mardi Gras and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, with production starting on February 22 the film did not have a U. S. premiere until July 1969, after having won an award at the Cannes film festival in May.

Despite his promise not to tour following Tammi Terrell's death, due to pressure from fans and Motown, Gaye agreed to his first tour in four years, starting off at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on January 4, 1974.

Despite starting the season for Newcastle and scoring in a League Cup win over Coventry City, it was revealed after the game that Milner had handed in a written transfer request the week before.

Despite losing Internacional's most important match ever, it set a precedent of great moments to come in this decade, as the team went on to win the Campeonato Gaúcho four years in a row starting in 1981.

Despite starting badly and carrying the top weight of 116 lb ( 53 kg ), Seabiscuit won by five lengths.

Despite starting well with the team's return to the First Division, Dick Campbell was sacked on 27 March 2007.

Despite the ideological similarity of the two parties, the clash of egos both inside and outside the National Assembly became increasingly fierce, starting with the Federal governments decision to oust the NAP provincial government in Balochistan Province for alleged secessionist activities and culminating in the banning of the party and arrest of much of its leadership after the death of a close lieutenant of Bhutto's, Hayat Sherpao, in a bomb blast in the frontier town of Peshawar.

Despite his opening statement, Ranke largely treated all of the nations under examination separately until the outbreak of the wars for the control of Italy starting in 1494.

Despite slow maturation so that growing up is rarely achieved by two and a half years, bulldogs ' lives are relatively short and at five to six years of age they are starting to show signs of aging.

Despite these acquisitions, the Whalers struggled at the beginning of the season, starting off with a record of 2-7-2.

Despite Carr's reluctance, the Vancouver Art Gallery, a major curator of Carr's work, records Carr in this period as abandoning the documentary impulse and starting to concentrate instead on capturing the emotional and mythological content embedded in the totemic carvings, which she did by jettisoning her painterly and practiced Post-Impressionist style in favour of creating highly stylized and abstracted geometric forms.

Despite the King's protest, who pointed out that this was against international law, an estimated 70, 000 men and women were forced to leave their homes, starting in January 1945, before the war had even ended.

Despite the improvements, the island airport did not become a passenger airline hub, and its existence came into question, starting in the 1960s.

Despite the destruction of the keep and fortifications of the upper bailey, some rock cut cellars and medieval pointed arches survive beneath the mansion, together with a long passage to the bottom of the rock, commonly known as Mortimer's Hole, through which guided tours take place, starting at the Castle and ending at Brewhouse Yard.

Despite the fact that Episode I had never been released in Europe, Sony and Namco released the Xenosaga series in Europe starting with the second episode.

Despite the thoughts that he wasn't going to play, on February 23, 1985, he made his NHL debut when he replaced the Canadiens starting goaltender Doug Soetaert in the third period.

Despite starting 15th in the race ( due to a last qualifying lap spin by Marty Roth during the second knockout session ), Tracy finished 4th behind Justin Wilson, Hélio Castroneves, and winner Scott Dixon.

Despite the website starting up two years after Canadian Money Tracker, it is the most popular of the Canadian currency tracking sites.

Despite the name, these are not piano solos ; most include orchestral backup, and some have vocals as well.

Despite his backup role, he achieved international glory with the Czech Republic team, backstopping them to a gold medal at the 1996 World Championships.

Despite regaining his starting role midway through the 2003 season, Bettis again found himself a backup to start the 2004 season, this time to Duce Staley.

Despite a slow start, he picked up his play while backup goalie Antti Niemi excelled behind him as well.

Despite Green's injury, the Chiefs continued to stay in contention, largely thanks to backup quarterback Damon Huard and Pro Bowl running back Larry Johnson.

Despite the attraction, Don never took steroids, although his backup player did.

Despite the lack of strings and horns, backup singers and hit singles, the album went gold, although it did not make the Billboard 200 chart until 1962, following the success of her second album, Joan Baez, Vol.

Despite Grossman's loss, Smith and Ron Rivera used a dominant defense and the timely play of backup quarterback Kyle Orton to earn a 11 – 5 record, after starting the season with a 1 – 3 record.

Despite the strong showing, new head coach Chan Gailey decided to go with Trent Edwards as the starter for the 2010 season, relegating Fitzpatrick to the backup role.

Despite the 4 imports dressed rule, it is not uncommon for some teams to sign a 5th import as ' backup ' in case of injuries to an ' active ' import.

Despite the buzz he created in 2005, he was relegated to sharing the backup quarterback role behind Matt D ' Orazio with Asad Abdul-Khaliq.

Despite the support of Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland he did not gain a ministerial position until 1967, joining Ray Gunter at the Ministry of Labour.

Despite fielding experienced players like Shaun Bartlett, Chris Henderson, Chris Woods, Roy Wegerle and Marcelo Balboa, and English Head Coach Bobby Houghton, the team finished dead last in the Western Conference with the worst record in the league.

Despite the tumultuous marriage, the two had four children together, Roy Jr., Laura, Zulema, and Sam.

Despite his long absence during the U. N. Wars and the death of Hikaru's father, Hikaru still remained a close friend to Roy and considered him his sempai ( upperclassman / big brother figure ).

Despite having a strong team with players like Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg and Patrick Roy, the Avalanche were eliminated quickly in the playoffs by the Edmonton Oilers.

Despite this setback, Roy Thomas had sufficient faith in him to give him the art chores on issues # 66 and # 67 of The Avengers ( July – August 1969 ) after he had returned to the U. K., and he continued to work at a distance for Marvel Comics for several years, providing the art for a number of stories in the horror anthology titles Tower of Shadows and Chamber of Darkness.

Despite the intervention of Green Arrow, Roy cruelly butchers Buchinsky with his knives, then burns away his house and all his possessions, becoming a dark, broody vigilante enacting his brand of deadly justice on lowlifes and criminals.

Despite not being technically part of his " costume ", Roy uses his prosthetic right arm only when acting as Arsenal, removing it while going incognito.

Despite finishing 11th in 1949, in 1950 – under the captaincy of Nigel Howard – Lancashire shared the county championship with Surrey, winning 16 matches ; Roy Tattersall and Malcolm Hilton claimed nearly 300 wickets between them.

Despite these criticisms, the team responsible for the film was reassembled for another film Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue.

Despite the extremely unlikely pairing, Tracy drugs Roy by slipping Rohypnol into his drink at Peter Barlow ( Chris Gascoyne ) and Shelley Unwin ( Sally Lindsay )' s wedding reception, takes him home and claims to have slept with him.

Despite his imprisonment, Roy still managed to contribute to the Indian national liberation movement.

Despite making multiple recordings, sharing The Hollies ' manager and supporting slots with the likes of Roy Orbison, Arwyn had minimal mainstream success and only released one single: a cover of the Graham Nash song " Simple Man ".

Despite these opportunities Jones found it hard to break into the first team ahead of Roy Keane and Paul Scholes and spent much of the remainder of his Manchester United career either in the reserves or out on loan.

Despite paid lobbying on Mason's behalf by such heavyweights as former Governor Roy Barnes, in the end the city held firm with the original intention of preserving the corridor as transit and greenspace.

Despite finishing his daily show with BBC Radio Norfolk in September 2009, Roy continued to present Rodeo Norfolk on the station.

Despite all odds, Roy has a Cinderella run through the tournament, defeating both pro bowlers Mark Roth and Randy Pedersen on his way to face McCracken in the final.

Despite the high-profile names missing from their roster, Atlanta Thrashers ' sniper Dany Heatley opened the scoring for the Eastern Conference by scoring a fine goal past Colorado Avalanche's Patrick Roy just five and a half minutes into the first period.

Despite having little interest in football, he worked on Roy of the Rovers, including drawing the character's final appearance in 1995.

The local kirkyard is the final resting place of Rob Roy ; his grave is marked with the appropriately defiant motto ' MacGregor Despite Them '.

Despite being an FA Cup and League-winning captain, he never won any further England caps to add to the one he picked up at Southampton, with Roy Goodall and Tom Cooper keeping him out of the national side.

Despite this, at Kanpur in the Fourth Test he took nine wickets in the match, and lead England to victory, alongside his off-spinning Lancastrian colleague Roy Tattersall.