Despite his three titles, and although John Cooper considered him " the greatest ", Formula One journalist Adam Cooper wrote in 1999 that Brabham is never listed among the Top 10 of all time, noting that " Stirling Moss and Jim Clark dominated the headlines when Jack was racing, and they still do ".

Despite all the progress, there was speculation that Jim O ' Brien was not the coach to lead this team back to the playoffs.

Despite celebrating the club's birthday with an official mid-season function at Crown Casino, shortly afterward chairman Paul Gardner resigned, handing the presidency to former club champion Jim Stynes who inherited a $ 4. 5 million debt, which media pundits suggested would cripple the club.

Despite the truce, Costello was shot dead as he sat in his car on the North Strand Road in Dublin on 5 October 1977 by a member of the Official IRA, Jim Flynn who happened to be in the area at the time.

Despite spending much of the 1990s suffering from financial problems and drug addiction, Rowland made plans to reform Dexys together with Big Jim Paterson, although these resulted in no more than a solitary TV performance in 1993.

Despite having agreed to Sullivan's request that the line " Girl we couldn't get much higher " be changed for the show, Jim Morrison performs it the way it was written and The Doors are banned from the show.

Despite the group's competent musicianship, some subsequent singles employed session musicians – including Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and Vic Flick – with contributions from the band, although the role of session players on Herman's Hermits records has been exaggerated in the rock media and in liner notes on their ABKCO Records Retrospective ( which does not credit the Hermits ' playing ).

Despite the Temple's fear that the IRS was investigating its religious tax exemption, by 1977 Marceline Jones admitted to the New York Times that, as early as age 18 when he watched his then idol Mao Zedong overthrow the Chinese government, Jim Jones realized that the way to achieve social change through Marxism in the United States was to mobilize people through religion.

Despite a winning record, the 1916 Indians season was disappointing, losing twice to the Canton Bulldogs, who were led by Jim Thorpe, and splitting a pair of games with the Columbus Panhandles.

Despite the chaotic events leading up to it, Michelle and Jim eventually get married.

Despite sinking with relatively little trace, Wendy Page and Jim Marr went on to pen some big hits for Martine McCutcheon ( Perfect Moment ) and Billie Piper ( Honey to the Bee, Because We Want To ) and also wrote and produced Dangerous To Know on Hilary Duff's second album.

Despite this seeming willingness to avoid change, Hayes became one of the first major college head coaches to recruit African-American players, including Jim Parker, who played both offensive and defensive tackle on Hayes ' first national championship team in 1954.

Despite gaining votes on the second ballot, Brison was eliminated by a mere three votes and threw his support to Jim Prentice.

Despite a favorable national Republican tide that won North Carolina for George W. Bush, Democrat Mike Easley won by 52 % to 46 %, and succeeded fellow Democrat Jim Hunt as Governor.

Despite their feud in the USWA in 1993, by 1998, Vince McMahon had turned heel in the WWF for the first time and left the announce position, to which Lawler began praising McMahon's name on commentary as part of his own heel persona, much to the chagrin of Jim Ross.

Despite Richard Kollmar's public silence about his late wife, her father Jim Kilgallen, still a highly respected reporter at age 77, did speak for publication.

Despite the contest being held with both men attired in formal wear, it confirmed what Gentleman Jim had long suspected-he could feint Sullivan into knots.

Despite being well over six feet tall, he is popularly known as " Little Jim " as a result.

Despite the coincidence of names, Kermit Love first met Jim Henson after the 1955 creation and naming of Kermit the Frog.

Despite speculation that Neumann might run against Senator Herb Kohl or Governor Jim Doyle, he did not choose to seek elective office during the 2006 election cycle.

Despite this, Republicans in Laughlin's district still saw him as too moderate, and he faced a primary challenge from former Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul, the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 1988, and Jim Deats, Laughlin's Republican opponent from 1994 ( when Laughlin was still a Democrat ).

Despite an endorsement from the right-wing Toronto Sun tabloid newspaper ( which usually supports Tory candidates-and which his opponent was a former employee of ), he came within 3, 000 votes of losing to incumbent Tory MPP Jim Brown.

Despite the allegations, Democrat Jim Webb narrowly defeated incumbent George Allen.

Despite the death of Jim Clark, Lotus won both titles in 1968 with Graham Hill, but Stewart was a serious contender, winning several Grands Prix in the Tyrrell-run Matra MS10.

" Despite the difficulties in recording the album, Crow told the BBC in 2005 that: " My favorite single is ' My Favorite Mistake ,' it was a lot of fun to record and it's still a lot of fun to play.

Despite the reported hiatus and Love's acting career, the band recorded and released a cover of Fleetwood Mac's " Gold Dust Woman " for The Crow: City of Angels ( 1996 ), the band's first studio song to feature Melissa Auf der Maur on bass.

Despite their visual similarities, the Australian Raven and Crow have very different and unique calls.

Despite the disclaimer, the Jack Crow and Felix characters in both novels have many parallels ; Jack Crow is the wisecracking almost-anti-hero in both works, and Felix is the gifted-but-reluctant warrior.

Despite the difficulties in recording the album, Crow told the BBC in 2005 that: " My favorite single is ' My Favorite Mistake '; it was a lot of fun to record and it's still a lot of fun to play.

Despite his academic qualifications, Jim Crow Era segregation laws and the suggestions of a friend of the family led him to attend Morgan State University ( then Morgan State College ) in Baltimore, Maryland.

Despite this, post-emancipation America was not free from racism ; discriminatory practices continued in the United States with the existence of Jim Crow laws, educational disparities and widespread criminal acts against people of color.

Despite improvements in the laws in recent years, Indonesia's intellectual property rights regime remains weak ; lack of effective enforcement is a major concern.

Despite its small size and relatively short existence, the exact nature of the kingdom and its origins, customs, laws, and population is still debated.

Despite that, states like Virginia enacted laws based in eugenics, such as its 1924 Racial Integrity Act, which established the one-drop rule as law.

Despite the devastation wrought by the Romans during the First Jewish-Roman War ( 66 – 73 CE ), which left the population and countryside in ruins, a series of laws passed by Roman Emperors provided the incentive for the second rebellion.

Despite their resistance to pro-slavery laws, several states made free blacks unwelcome.

Despite the fact that successful isolated system perpetual motion devices are physically impossible in terms of the current understanding of the laws of physics, the pursuit of perpetual motion remains popular.

Despite these findings by the courts, there remains some public skepticism over whether the laws are effective.

Despite the state's interest in protecting the public and so-called " learned professions " from having unschooled persons practising them, and the state's insistence on enforcing a monopoly, the existence of laws governing ( or defining ) " unauthorized practice of Law " does not, ipso facto mean that they will be enforced.

Despite the draconian nonconformist laws, there was a large number of non-Anglican meeting houses and nonconformity flourished ; a fifth of the population of the Birstall Parish was estimated to be nonconformist.

Despite these changes retailers still face complicated and confusing trading laws, which stipulate trading hours based on size and product offer.

Despite not being able to sing as Bronco in Mexico, the group still uses the name Bronco for their international concerts, where Mexican copyright laws do not count.

Despite statements as a Senator, where he called for marijuana decriminalization, promises as a presidential candidate where he stated that marijuana laws needed to be reconsidered and explicit statements as president that he would respect state medical marijuana laws, Barack Obama has presided over 1. 7 million marijuana arrests and a nationwide campaign of raiding medical marijuana dispensaries.

Despite the similar name the countries differ greatly in their governments and laws.

Despite these laws, pop singers like Inul Daratista who is known for her hip swaying moves and Agnes Monica who features in sexy attire, still continue exposing their navels but undergo some restrictions during advertising.

Despite his progressive views ( he was an admirer of the Bismarckian German social laws ), his conservative political thinking turned him into a leading opponent of Eleftherios Venizelos.

Despite anti-dowry laws in India, it is still a common illegal practice.

Despite the laws, the violent incidents continue, under a general perception of impunity.

Despite these laws, free parties continue to exist.

Despite the central claim of legal positivism that legal validity depends on sources, legal positivism does not claim that the laws so identified should be followed or obeyed or that there is value in having clear, identifiable rules ( although some positivists may also make these claims ).

Despite this official move, the process of secularism continued throughout the 20th century, culminating with the Jules Ferry laws in the 1880s and then with the 1905 law on separation of the Church and the state, which definitely established state secularism ( known as laïcité ).

Despite this Supreme Court ruling, such laws remained on the books, although unenforceable, in several states until 2000, when Alabama became the last state to repeal its law against mixed-race marriage.

Despite actually being a minority, Scalawags gained power by taking advantage of the Reconstruction laws of 1867, which disenfranchised the majority of Southern white voters as they could not take the Ironclad oath, which required they had never served in Confederate armed forces or held any political office under the state or Confederate governments.

Despite this support, in April 1829, John H. Eaton, Secretary of War ( 1829 – 1831 ), informed Ross that President Jackson would support the right of Georgia to extend her laws over the Cherokee people.