Despite this, Caligula relentlessly tormented his uncle: playing practical jokes, charging him enormous sums of money, humiliating him before the Senate, and the like.

Despite the development of a revolutionary virtual memory system that allowed games to be much larger than the average personal computer's normal capacity, the enormous mainframe-developed game had to be split into three roughly equal parts.

Despite the enormous power of the Propaganda Ministry over German cultural life, Goebbels ’ status began to decline once the Nazi regime was firmly established in power.

Despite enormous rewards being offered, he was never captured nor betrayed.

Despite the enormous resources invested by the UK into security sector reform in Sierra Leone, there are continuing financial pressures.

Despite of all this, the VOC in 1780 remained an enormous operation.

Despite the enormous costs and increase in city powers ( opposed by many ) nearly all cities in the developed world instituted good water and sewage treatment facilities.

Despite the enormous impact of the Watergate scandal, the actual purpose of the break-in of the DNC offices has never been conclusively established.

Despite having a reputation of being an enormous flop, it was actually very successful in certain parts of the country.

Despite this enormous quantity, the area's significance was often overlooked by scholarly publications and commercial journals, largely because very little of the wine being produced was classified under an appellation contrôlée until the 1980s ( Joseph 2005: 190 ).

Despite the enormous box office success, the critical response to Pearl Harbor at the time of its release tended toward mixed to negative, and the film earned only a 25 % approval rating according to review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes based on 166 reviews with an average rating of 4. 4 / 10, making it Bay's second worst reviewed movie to date, next to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.

Despite enormous public demand, Plant declined a $ 200 million offer to tour with Led Zeppelin after the 2007 show.

Despite the enormous commercial success of Middle of Nowhere, the band suffered from the merger that eliminated their label, Mercury Records.

Despite enormous career success, Dalida ’ s private life was marred by a series of failed relationships and personal problems.

Despite the enormous losses of the disastrous 1940 – 1942 period, known to the Germans as the " First " and " Second Happy Time ", the Air Ministry refused to invest in trade defence.

Despite enormous difficulties ASCOM was able to finish numerous projects on time and some ahead of schedule.

Despite enormous differences in size, the various species of cat are quite similar in both structure and behavior, with the exception of the cheetah, which is significantly different from any of the big or small cats.

Despite providing an enormous gain in worker productivity, the Chinese spinning wheel fell into disuse over the subsequent centuries and was completely unknown by the 17th century, whereas the mechanical automation of spinning in Europe in the 18th century ( from manual spinning wheel precursors of the 13th century ultimately sourced from Asia Minor ) led directly to a process of technical refinement and engineering improvements that resulted in the Industrial Revolution and widespread mechanization of production of goods beyond yarn.

Despite possessing, this engine could not be turbo-supercharged and Republic finally modified the design again, this time to accommodate the enormous Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine, which produced.

Despite the high prevalence of English literature on medical anthropology there is an enormous quantity of medical anthropological research available in other languages, in books, or chapters of books and also in periodicals.

Despite his history of political and legal controversies, Barry remains a figure of enormous popularity and influence on the local political scene of Washington D. C.

Despite this, Gernsback had an enormous impact on the field: the creation of a specialist magazine for science fiction spawned an entire genre publishing industry.

Despite being an enormous success at the box office, the film was initially panned by many critics: one indicated that the dogs had " the dimensions of hippos ," another that " the artists ' work is below par ".

Despite initial criticisms of the perceived Disneyfication of the museum, its enormous costs, unique architecture, and unfinished exhibits from many quarters ( including the Conservative government of Brian Mulroney ), the museum soon became a major tourist attraction and was embraced by different political factions as a national symbol of " a pluralistic, multicultural society.

Despite heavy casualties the Prussians attempted to storm the great battery, whilst the Danes, under Count Scholten, attempted to drive the French infantry out of the copses beyond the village.

Despite the change to indirect fire, cannon proved highly effective during World War I, directly or indirectly causing over 75 % of casualties.

Despite the assassination attempt on Saleh, and the eventually signed Saudi brockered agreement on Saleh's resignation the conflict kept inflicting casualties nationwide in late 2011.

Despite having inflicted heavy casualties against the Somalis, the two Delta snipers were too outnumbered and outgunned.

Despite total destruction to the ship, no casualties were recorded.

Despite suffering some 6, 000 casualties, the battle was a clear victory for the French commander ; yet typical of the period it proved far from decisive.

Despite the fact that Napoleon was the uncontested winner, he failed to secure a complete victory and the Austrian casualties were only slightly greater than those of the French and Allies.

Despite having taken heavy casualties during his attack, Molitor resolutely defended the position and it took the numerous Austrians in the sector two full hours before they were able to finally expel him.

Despite the setbacks, the units assembled with only slight casualties but the changing circumstances at Arnhem meant that their roles were quickly changed.

Despite their successes, they had sustained high levels of casualties and even higher levels of loss of equipment, both of which were impossible to replace.

Despite these conditions, the Canadian casualties were low, morale was high and success came easily and swiftly.

Despite the mounting casualties, General Sunderji ordered a fourth assault by the Commandos.

Despite the mounted assault, however, the French 2nd Division suffered high casualties and lost five colors, a significant blow to its morale and pride.

Despite heavy casualties, the Spaniards were able to hold their ground against a Russian force 7 times larger and supported by tanks.

Despite taking casualties, the brigade cleared the area of German forces, and by 13: 45, the brigade reported it had secured all of its objectives.

Despite the absence of prisoners, the raid was executed with a high degree of success, incurring only two minor casualties and the loss of two aircraft, one of which had been part of the plan from the start.

Despite their victory, the Iroquois also suffered a significant number of casualties.

Despite gaining the advantage towards the end of the day, the British commander called off the attack so that the division's casualties, close to 3, 500, were suffered in vain.

Despite being under constant artillery fire, the six British and two Hannovarian battalions drove off repeated cavalry charges with musket fire and inflicted serious casualties on the French.

Despite firing some 304 shells and 1, 500, 000 rounds of small arms ammunition ( SAA ), some of the well designed trenches and redoubts of the Ottoman Army were still held and the British infantry casualties were substantial.

Despite being heavily outnumbered, the British forces inflicted severe casualties on the Germans.

Despite evidence that Israel is taking unprecedented steps to avoid civilian casualties, some in the media have accused the IDF of using disproportionate force against a harmless civilian population.

Despite the large casualties inflicted by the Japanese and more significantly, the ever-changing weather over the Himalayas, the logistics flights ran around the clock, from April 1942, until the end of the war.

Despite suffering many casualties the Chinese continued their attack, closing in and attacking the Australians with hand grenades.