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Despite the Blue Jays ' failure to defend their division title from the previous year, Barfield enjoyed his best personal season in 1986.
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Despite this the season proved popular with its young audience who watched in large numbers, even denting the figures for the popular BBC magazine programme, " Blue Peter ".
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Despite group founder and original lead singer Harold Melvin's top billing, the Blue Notes ' most famous member was Teddy Pendergrass, their lead singer during the successful years at Philadelphia International.
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Despite Rip's objections, Booster and three Blue Beetles team up to rescue Ted Kord moments before his death.
Despite his best attempts to bring in new members however, Booster alienates Guy Gardner when he recruits Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes into the roster and later watches in horror as the hero OMAC betrays the team and inflicts more carnage, including teleporting Blue Beetle to the homeworld of the villainous " Reach " species.
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Despite and failure
Despite an ambiguity due to its failure clearly to define `` relative costs '', the above exposition of fully distributed costing goes about as far as one can go toward expressing the basic philosophy of the practice.
Despite his dissatisfaction with McClellan's failure to reinforce Pope, Lincoln was desperate, and restored him to command of all forces around Washington, to the dismay of all in his cabinet but Seward.
Despite the failure of Philip's Bastarnae strategy, the suspicion aroused by these events in the Roman Senate, which had been warned by the Dardani of the Bastarnae invasion, ensured the demise of Macedonia as an independent state.
Despite the failure of this derivation, the equilibrium constant for a reaction is indeed a constant, independent of the activities of the various species involved, though it does depend on temperature as observed by the van't Hoff equation.
Despite its failure to control the rodents, the cane toad was introduced to Puerto Rico in the early 20th century in the hope that it would counter a beetle infestation ravaging the sugarcane plantations.
Despite its relatively recent approval by the Food and Drug Administration and the guideline recommendations, digoxin use is decreasing in patients with heart failure, likely the result of several factors.
Despite the failure of this coup, the United States became concerned over Honduran instability.
Despite the failure of his attempt at unifying the nation under his rule, Kim Il-sung considered the war a victory in the sense that he remained in power.
Despite this, the manuscript tradition of Plautus is poorer than that of any other ancient dramatist, something not helped by the failure of scholia on Plautus to survive.
Despite the failure it was purchased by the Liverpool & Manchester, where it served for two years before being leased to the Bolton and Leigh Railway.
Despite the ferocity of the Baron, the company is a failure.
Despite the apparent failure of the Cabra test, the long term legacy of the X-ray laser program is the knowledge gained while conducting the research.
Despite his failure to produce the results that Henry wanted, there is little doubt that Wolsey was in support of the divorce ; however, he never planned that Henry would marry Anne Boleyn.
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Despite her optimism, the resulting Colloquy of Poissy ended in failure on 13 October 1561, dissolving itself without her permission.
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Despite initial French attempts at settling the region having ended in failure, French fishing fleets began to sail to the Atlantic coast and into the St. Lawrence River, trading and making alliances with First Nations.
Despite its failure, the French continued to encourage Diệm's enemies in an attempt to destabilize him.
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Despite Chiang Kai-shek's support and protection, Tang was blamed for the failure to defend Nanking which resulted in the consequent Nanking Massacre.
Despite his failure to finish Realschule ( a form of German secondary school ), Ossietzky succeeded in embarking on a career in journalism, with the topics of his articles ranging from theatre criticism to feminism and the problems of early motorization.
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