Despite security advice and warnings from the Garda Síochána, on 27 August 1979 Mountbatten went lobster-potting and tuna fishing in a thirty-foot ( 10 m ) wooden boat, the Shadow V, which had been moored in the harbour at Mullaghmore.

Despite this reputation, and his wooden speaking style and shy demeanor, Ma is also considered a charismatic figure and is popular among women and youth.

Despite the protection, both wooden castles were successfully raided by the Teutonic Knights several times in a row.

Despite extensive alterations both externally and internally, the Tower retains its original medieval wooden roof and battlements, as well as some internal features.

Despite a disappointing IRB Pacific Five Nations campaign in which Japan won only the wooden spoon, Élissalde was reconfirmed as head coach by the top board of the JRFU on 14 July 2006.

Despite these pressures, the Knights managed to avoid a second wooden spoon in three years – offloading the dreaded piece of ' silverware ' to the Penrith Panthers with a last round victory over the Wests Tigers.

Despite wooden construction and the fact that it has fingerholes rather than valves, it is usually classed as a brass, with the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification placing it alongside trumpets.

Despite no functional firefighting system, the wooden grandstand would last long enough to allow more than 11, 000 patrons and employees to escape the inferno.

Despite the flying embers very nearly igniting The Rickshaw Inn across the street and the wooden barns & stables on the backstretch, the damage was contained to the massive grandstand complex.

Despite her role as comic relief for most of the series, she is quite skilled as a warrior, with an enchanted blade ( which unfortunately broke when Raenef defended himself ), replaced with a handmade wooden sword that she is able to use almost as well because of her abilities as a Swordsmaster.

Despite West Adelaide playing their 400th game at Richmond Oval when they faced Sturt on 7 April 2006, neither season would bring any joy for The Bloods or their supporters as they finished with the wooden spoon in each season.

Despite having a squad boasting several players with extensive experience in English football, many pundits did not rate the Knights as serious contenders for the A-League title, and they were considered favourites for the wooden spoon.

Despite the set being merely a wooden facade, Nikki enters to find an illuminated suburban house inside.

Despite having lost to Western Suburbs in round seven, Annandale won the match 15 – 6, avoiding them claiming the wooden spoon.

Despite its age and the fact that it was previously used as a wooden, mess hall, it is used on a frequent and regular basis by a wide range of groups and activities.

Despite the fact that the Rose was 87ft diameter, circular ( or polygonal ) open-air amphitheatre, and Bristol is a narrower indoor playhouse, the perfectly circular shape of the wooden Bristol theatre means that the performer-spectator relationship in both theatres is more comparable than one would expect.

Despite these elaborate protective measures, Petrie found that none of the trapdoors had been slid into place and the wooden doors were open.

Despite this, the interpretation of the impersonal includes a referent of some sort ( dummy ).

Despite appearing in many strips, the real Baxter has never been seen, as he always turns out to in fact be a cardboard replica with a hidden tape recorder ( except for one appearance where he was upgraded to a waxwork dummy with a concealed CD player ).

Despite these disadvantages, the size of East Indiamen meant that from a distance they appeared quite similar to a small ship of the line, a deception usually augmented by paintwork and dummy cannon.

Despite this loss of an obvious military leadership in the camps by July 1940, with war in Europe and Asia, an increasing number of CCC projects focused on resources for national defense, developing infrastructure for military training facilities and forest protection.

Despite the apparent risk, the statistical incidence of injury in supervised training and competition is extremely low.

Despite early problems with recruitment and training, it is becoming effective in fighting against the Taliban insurgency.

Despite these efforts the army is still not in a position to provide forces with the appropriate " level of training and discipline " without significant risk, according to Janes.

Despite the lack of formal ownership, firms can and do gain from high levels of training, in part because it creates a corporate culture or vocabulary teams use to create cohesion.

Despite this careful planning and intensive training ( by Civil War standards ), the day before the attack, Meade, who lacked confidence in the operation, ordered Burnside not to use the black troops in the lead assault, claiming that if the attack failed black soldiers would be killed needlessly, creating political repercussions in the North.

Despite improvements, the road was still considered a challenging drive ; the Victorian Police motor school even using it for training around 1966.

Despite its pledge to support the stabilization of Iraq, Iranian authorities continued to provide lethal support, including weapons, training, funding, and guidance, to Iraqi Shia militant groups that target US and Iraqi forces.

Despite his important role in guiding the economy of China over the course of his career, Zhao had no formal training in economics.

Despite being known for his powerful singing voice, Dio claimed never to have taken any vocal training.

Despite his hatred, the general was obliged to release him and Mengistu went for six months ' training in Maryland, USA.

Despite the specificity of the name, game engines are often used for other kinds of interactive applications with real-time graphical needs such as marketing demos, architectural visualizations, training simulations, and modeling environments.

Despite a bequest from Mary Peabody Mann and efforts to turn the school into a technical training center, Sarah's funds were depleted by the time of her husband's death in 1887, and she spent the last four years of her life retired from public activity.

Despite his occupational training, Rice quickly made a career as a performer.

Despite his training in the classical presentational acting style ( see also Classical acting ) at the Bristol Old Vic, he is a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles.

Despite its evident progress and usefulness, today's quantitative archaeology is often inadequately represented in archaeological training and education.

Despite the poor training of the Lao soldiers, some of whom had never fired a weapon, these raw new units were moved northward out of Luang Prabang over a several month period to garrison Nam Bac.

Despite the importance of Verrocchio's workshop in the training of younger painters, very few paintings are universally recognised as his own work and there are many problems of attribution.

Despite these influences and her classical training, the diverse musical styles that she has used throughout her career and sometimes in the same soundtrack include " rock, electronica, oriental, ambient, industrial, pop, symphonic, operatic, chiptune, and more ".

Despite indifferent training opportunities, Xie became the Chinese girls ' chess champion in 1984.

Despite never having received naval training or participating in naval combat prior to the war, and constantly being outnumbered and outsupplied, he went to his grave as one of few admirals in world history who remained undefeated after commanding as many naval battles as he did ( at least 23 ).

Despite his performances dipping as the result of a persistent groin injury and a reported training ground bust-up with teammate Zlatan Ibrahimović, Vieira helped Juventus retain the Scudetto, which was later stripped.

Despite the fact that he had no formal legal training, Sherman was urged to read for the bar exam by a local lawyer and was admitted to the Bar of Litchfield, Connecticut in 1754, during which he wrote A Caveat Against Injustice and was chosen to represent New Milford in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1755 to 1758 and from 1760 to 1761.

Despite the weakness of its adult organisation, the SDF was instrumental in the development of the movement of Socialist Sunday Schools for children, institutions which taught socialist ideas and ethical principles to youngsters in competition with the Sunday religious training schools of the organised churches.