Despite this support, in April 1829, John H. Eaton, the secretary of war ( 1829 – 1831 ), informed Ross that President Jackson would support the right of Georgia to extend its laws over the Cherokee Nation.

Despite his " registered opportunist " political beliefs, from 1985 to 1995 he owned The Nation.

Despite the partition of Ireland into Northern Ireland and Irish Free State ( including subsequent political developments leading to the Republic of Ireland ), Ireland continues to have a single team representing the entire island and is therefore sometimes still referred to as a Home Nation-despite not being a Home Nation of the United Kingdom.

Despite these efforts, the Nation of Celestial Space is thought to have become defunct with the death of its founder.

Despite its particular flaws, he said, its importance was widely recognized and meets the test of being " deeply rooted in this Nation ’ s history and tradition.

Despite its avowed independent editorial style, Reforma has been labeled as a right-wing newspaper in references by The Guardian, Clarin, the San Antonio Express-News, the University of Miami school of communication, and the The Princeton Progressive Nation.

Despite the death of their leader Yahweh ben Yahweh in 2007, the Nation of Yahweh is still active.

Despite persistent rumors, encouraged by some Islamic publications and websites, Cousteau did not convert to Islam, and when he died he was buried in a Roman Catholic Christian funeral.

Despite its theme, the Shrine is not connected to Islam.

Despite the influences of Christianity and Islam, over half of the people of Togo follow native animistic practices and beliefs.

Despite claiming he thought the concert was sponsored by UNICEF, he faced criticism in the press for receiving a payment of between one and two million pounds from Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, for the performance.

Despite Russian efforts at proselytizing in Sarai, the Mongols clung to their traditional animist or shamanist beliefs until Uzbeg Khan ( 1312 – 41 ) adopted Islam as a state religion.

Despite his conversion to Islam, his works continued to be studied at the Jewish Baghdad Academy, a well-known academy, into the thirteenth century.

Despite Hadithic sayings against the wearing of silk, the Byzantine and Sassanian traditions of grand figured silk woven cloth continued under Islam.

Despite their isolation from Georgia, many Georgians have preserved their language and some traditions, but embraced Islam.

Despite his love for Islam, Goldziher remained a devout Jew all his life.

Despite his criticisms of Islam, he does not take the view that it cannot be reformed ; and he works with liberal Muslims in his group.

Despite his criticism of Islam, he said that he is not opposed " to an understanding and reconciliation between the two communities.

Despite the absence of Christianity, which in our history considerably influenced early Islam, Muhammad did start his prophetic career — but was assassinated by a perceptive Roman agent, nipping Islam in the bud and thus precluding the spread of any Monotheistic religion through the Roman Empire.

Despite Orthodoxy predominance, in the past Catholic churches and temples of Islam and Judaism were also built.

Despite being repeatedly accused of atheism by the political and military establishment, Faiz's poetry suggested his complicated relationship with religion in general and Islam in particular.

Despite universalist rhetoric ( and in contrast with Islam in general, or the Bektashi order ), Alevi communities do not generally acknowledge the possibility of conversion to Aleviness.

Despite feeling considerable resentment over not being consulted over the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 ( Convention of St. Petersburg ), Afghanistan remained neutral during the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ), resisting considerable pressure from the Ottoman Empire when it entered the conflict on the side of Imperial Germany and the Sultan ( the titular leader of Islam ) called for a jihad against the Allies.

Despite the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th century CE by the Islamic Caliphate, Persia continued to exercise enormous influence in the Middle East during the Islamic Golden Age, and was particularly instrumental in the growth and expansion of Islam.

) Despite his later writings, Muir's reputation as an unfair critic of Islam remained strong in Muslim circles.

Despite being one of the most significant developments in Indonesian history, historical evidence is fragmentary and generally uninformative such that understandings of the coming of Islam to Indonesia are limited ; there is considerable debate amongst scholars about what conclusions can be drawn about the conversion of Indonesian peoples.

Despite its predominance, the practice of Islam is far from monolithic.

Despite a reported spread of Islam among Uzbekistan's younger population, the survey suggested that Islamic belief is still weakest among the younger generations.

Despite their putative Jewish origins, the overwhelming majority of the Yibir, like the Somali population in general, adhere to Islam and know practically nothing of Judaism.

Despite their knowledge of Arabic and their devotion to Islam, Nubians retained a considerable self-consciousness and tended to maintain tightly knit communities of their own in the towns.

Despite his growing admiration for Wallace and his cause, Robert is dominated by his father, who wishes to secure the throne for his son by submitting to the English.

Despite these problems, the growing inflow of American silver from mid-16th century, the justified military reputation of the Spanish infantry and even the navy quickly recovering from its Armada disaster, made Spain the leading European power, a novel situation of which its citizens were only just becoming aware.

Despite growing unrest and severe economic strains, the 1932 presidential elections in Honduras were relatively peaceful and fair.

Despite the advent of file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent, as well as the increased use of blogs, formal discussion forums, and social networking sites, coupled with a growing number of service providers blocking access to Usenet ( see main article ), newsgroups continue to be widely used.

Despite the economy's general expansion after 1983, however, inflation threatened its modest gains, as did serious fiscal and balance-of-payments deficits and the growing debt.

Despite its growing dominance in the constitutional hierarchy, the Premiership was given little formal recognition ; the legal fiction was maintained that the Sovereign still governed directly.

Despite unfavourable growing conditions ( atmospheric pollution from London, dry soils and low rainfall ) Kew remains one of the most comprehensive plant collections in Britain.

Despite a high emigration rate, the population is growing rapidly, about 1. 2 % per year.

Despite his growing alcoholism and controversial reputation, Peckinpah was extremely prolific during this period of his life.

Despite this growing popular support for independence, Congress lacked the clear authority to declare it.

Despite the growing pressure to abandon production of war films, Warner continued to produce them, losing money in the process.

Despite the irregular scheduling, the program's hard-hitting reports attracted a steadily growing audience, particularly during the waning days of the Vietnam War and the gripping events of the Watergate scandal ; at that time, few if any other major-network news shows did in-depth investigative reporting to the degree carried out by 60 Minutes.

Despite having growing sales worldwide, Hyundai struggled in Japan, having sold only 15, 000 passenger cars from 2001 to 2009.

Despite the value and investment of public capital, growing delays in air and surface transportation, aging electric grid, an untapped renewable energy sector, and inadequate school facilities all have justified additional funding in public capital investment.

Despite temporary periods of desolation and disuse, the Grand Canal furthered an indigenous and growing economic market in China's urban centers through all the ages since the Sui period.

Despite his success and growing reputation as an illustrator, Jones seems to have become disaffected by the medium.

Despite growing issues with Great Britain, Lord Dunmore had been a popular governor in Virginia, even though he served only five years.

Despite growing discontent with the National Convention as a ruling body, in June the Convention drafted the Constitution of 1793, which was ratified by popular vote in early August.

Despite Nixon's growing political difficulties and an increasingly hostile working relationship with the legislature over Vietnam, Thiệu, and most of the Saigon leadership, remained optimistic about ongoing aid.

Despite his growing celebrity, it failed to chart within the Billboard 200.

Despite growing white settlements in Texas, Indian tribal presences remained.

Despite all this, Forest County has become the fastest growing county in the state of Pennsylvania by percent, growing over 38 % from 2000-2008.

" Despite this Biblical reference, the trees that were growing in Babylon along the Euphrates River in ancient Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq ) and named gharab in early Hebrew, are not willows ( Salix ) in either the modern or the classical sense, but the Euphrates Poplar ( Populus euphratica ), with willow-like leaves on long, drooping shoots, in the related genus Populus.

Despite 10 years of planning, Iran's own Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization was not aware of the broad areas of flooding during much of this time and there is growing concern about the effects the dam will have on Persepolis's surrounding areas.