Despite his tough talk concerning traitors, Johnson in many cases authorized early release of prisoners and commutation of sentences to facilitate Reconstruction.

Despite some optimistic talk in the foreign press the impetus of these reforms has not been followed with, for example, a large-scale decollectivization such as occurred in China under Deng.

Despite being the talk of London society, only his followers and possibly the Prince of Wales know the Pimpernel's true identity.

Despite an increase in transmission power, WHLD found that Air America with local morning talk format unsustainable and dropped the format for the Totally Gospel Radio Network programming in December 2006.

Despite pregame talk about a weak Eagles secondary, Owens struggled throughout the game.

Despite Jeffrey Wigand's commitment to honor the confidentiality agreement and his initial refusal to talk to Lowell Bergman, producer of 60 Minutes, Wigand claimed that he and his family were anonymously stalked, intimidated and threatened with death should he talk.

Despite suffering from the " terrifying " director Otto Preminger, Darnell completed the film and was praised by reviewers so widely that there was even talk of an Oscar nomination.

Despite his silent persona in films, she found Marx to be " a warm, fun, darling man to talk to ".

Despite Air America's demise, progressive talk radio has endured.

Despite its overnight success, WBZ had little interest in keeping the show as a part of its schedule ( partially because the station wanted to give priority to the upcoming Group W-distributed talk show, The Wil Shriner Show ).

Despite having been a moderate Republican as a County Supervisor and Mayor, as a talk show host and practicing Roman Catholic, he moved rightward by taking conservative stances on most political, economic, and social issues, especially opposition to illegal immigration, abortion, homosexuality, and equal rights under the law for homosexuals, even though he courted the gay / lesbian vote during his campaigns for County Supervisor and Mayor of San Diego, and in October 2011 endorsed fellow Republican and San Diego mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio, an openly gay member of the San Diego City Council.

( Despite being compiled with Watcom C ++, Build is plain C .) There was some talk of Matt Saettler using this to port EDuke to Windows, but nothing came of it.

Despite this, he had one recurring character ( Leo Waxman, husband to Denny Dillon's Pinky Waxman on the recurring talk show sketch, " What's It All About?

Despite the promise of renovations, Georgia athletic director Vince Dooley was unswayed, so Austin widened the scope of the renovations, increasing their price tag to $ 49 million, and traveled to Athens, Georgia, to talk with Dooley in person.

Despite this acrimonious termination, Coren made regular talk show appearances on CFRB in July 2006, at the start of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, as he happened to be in Israel at the time.

Despite talk of bringing the murderers to justice, no criminal charges were filed and the war rolled on.

Despite the grand success, all members continued their separate careers, yet there was talk of some work on writing and recording new material, and by 2007 all five members finally found the time to get together in the studio.

Despite all the talk of something awaiting up top of the ( now unguarded ) flight of stairs, there is no mention of anyone going up to retrieve it.

Despite much talk, he downplayed the thought of a third championship.

Despite talk of constructing a replacement station nearby, this has not been provided for in the Crossrail Act 2008.

Despite the apparent death of the Hulk in the 1990 film, more Incredible Hulk television movies were planned, including a proposed Revenge of the Incredible Hulk where the Hulk would actually be able to talk.

Throughout his life, the press would contact his home to ask for interviews and he trained his wife and children to give excuses such as he “ was on a fishing trip in Canada .” Even during the filming of the movie the Sands of Iwo Jima in 1949, Bradley told his wife to tell the townspeople that he was “ on a business trip ” in order to avoid attention that would be drawn to him .” Despite his reluctance to talk to the media, family, and friends about the incident, he told his parents in a letter shortly after the battle that raising the flag was “ the happiest moment of my life .”

Despite widespread opposition against that deal, the known existence of at least four other serious and much less controversial contenders to buy the Radiomédia stations, and numerous allegations to the effect that Corus Entertainment's offer was actually part of a larger plan to prevent any meaningful competition to its new FM talk format ( as Corus seemed to try to weaken and steal listeners from CKAC and not from the increasingly popular CBF-FM, and its sales representatives claimed to clients that they would be better advised to buy advertising at CHMP-FM and not CKAC as they pretended the latter was going to close shortly no matter what would happen ), the deal was approved in January 2005 by the CRTC in the midst of strong rumours that Astral Media would close CKAC if the deal was not approved.

Despite being possessed, and acting as a major antagonist for much of Sailor Moon S, he appeared to be kind and considerate of his underlings ( despite occasional frustration with them ), and at times even encouraged them or engaged them in friendly small talk, in contrast to other villains in the series.

Despite the SCEA servers shutting down, online play is still available in European countries.

Despite shock from his own wound, Vance was able to assist the copilot in " feathering " the propellers, shutting down the over-strained fourth engine, and optimizing the glide of the crippled aircraft.

Despite his yearning, the colonel would not go down to see the men come through the lines.

Despite efforts by Washington last week to play down the significance of the meeting, it clearly was going to be one of the crucial encounters of the cold war.

Despite such a tremendous victory, Abd al-Rahman had to continuously put down rebellions in al-Andalus.

Despite the victory, voter apathy was a major issue, as turnout fell below 60 % for the first time in history, 12 % down on 1997.

Despite these shortcomings, and his promise to step down at the end of the transition, Bozizé contested the 13 March 2005 presidential elections in which all of the leading opposition candidates were allowed to run except for Patassé.

Despite its unpopularity, the Rump was a link with the old constitution, and helped to settle England down and make it secure after the biggest upheaval in its history.

Despite the best intentions, their guarded editorial and business skills forced the company to close down soon after cancelling Pasolini ’ s project, Accattone ( 1961 ).

Despite their work, Nintendo turned them down, saying they had no interest in expanding to the PC market, and that Mario games were to remain exclusive to Nintendo consoles.

Despite having interest rates down near zero for a long period of time, the Quantitative easing strategy did not succeed in stopping price deflation.

Despite the drop-off of work in 1926, 1927 was another busy year, the Court sitting continuously from 15 June to 16 December, handing down 4 orders, 4 judgments and 1 advisory opinion.

Despite zero interest rates and expansion of the money supply to encourage borrowing, Japanese corporations in aggregate opted to pay down their debts from their own business earnings rather than borrow to invest as firms typically do.

Despite Roosevelt's continued decline and loss of over 50 pounds ( 20 kg ) of his original 220, Commander Rondon had been repeatedly slowing down the pace of the expedition in dedication to his commission's mapmaking and other geographical goals that demanded regular stops to fix the expedition's position by sun-based survey.

Despite the efforts of Kealty, various members of his administration and Pavel Laska, Kealty's kingmaker and a devout enemy of Ryan who sought to bring Ryan's administration down by connecting him to a then-fugitive John Clark, Ryan wins the election by a narrow margin ; overcoming all of Kealty's efforts to harm him.

Despite assistance from France the Irish Rebellion of 1798 was put down by British forces.

Despite the existence of mills, the drawing of wire down to fine sizes continued to be done manually.

Despite being considered one obstacle, each element may result in penalty points if knocked down.

Despite images having these problems in relation to the sampling theorem, the theorem can be used to describe the basics of down and up sampling of images.

Despite its name, Little Domesday was actually larger as it is far more detailed, down to numbers of livestock.

Despite the plan to build a permanent civic center, more than half the structures built for the fair were torn down more or less immediately after it ended.

Despite this turbulence, Newcastle were able to finish twelfth at the end of the season, with one particular highlight being a 4-4 home draw against Arsenal which saw Newcastle come back from four goals down to claim a point.

Despite the Bishop's words, we later find that the police mark the event down in Valjean's permanent record.

Despite a childhood dream to play for the Oakland Raiders, he turned down the scholarships on the advice of his mother, who argued that football players had shorter careers.

Despite the fact Wouk had already worked the material from the novel into a stage play, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which premiered on Broadway in January 1954 and ran for a year, Herman Wouk's attempt at writing the screenplay was considered " a disaster " by director Edward Dmytryk, and he was replaced by Stanley Roberts, who later quit when told to cut the film down to two hours.

Despite being offered a contract by nearby Middlesbrough, the offer made by Dodgin was too attractive to turn down, so he signed for Fulham and moved to London, playing as a wing-half and inside-forward.

Despite warnings about her presumption, she did not turn back but dared to sit herself down on Ereshkigal's throne.