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Despite seventeen pregnancies, Anne died without surviving children and was the last monarch of the House of Stuart.
Despite having had ten pregnancies, none of Anne's children survived, and the Stuart dynasty died with her in 1714.
Despite being established by one of the key figures in the field, Richard Hoggart, and being later directed by the renowned theorist Stuart Hall, the department was controversially closed down.
Despite being widely influential within cybernetics, systems theory and, more recently, complex systems, Ashby is not as well known as many of the notable scientists his work influenced, including Herbert A. Simon, Norbert Wiener, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Stafford Beer, and Stuart Kauffman.
Despite his inexperience, Peterson nevertheless came within 45 votes of defeating Stuart Smith on the third and final ballot of a delegated convention held on January 25, 1976.
Despite his many commissions, however, Stuart was habitually neglectful of finances and was in danger of being sent to debtors ' prison.
Despite these accusations, a group of individuals within Scotland have embraced the book as an accurate account of what they believe to be a secret history of the Royal House of Stuart, and continue to support Lafosse in his claim to the throne of Scotland.
Despite the predictions of the pundits, Stuart went on to retain the seat at the 2010 general election, against a national tide of Labour defeat.
Despite not being a box office success, the film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, awarded to Kevin Mack, Joel Hynek, Nickolas Brooks, and Stuart Robertson.
Despite criticism over the years, in particular from Will Carling and ex-Bath fly-half Stuart Barnes, he cemented the outside centre position as his own with a partnership with inside centre Will Greenwood, playing in the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
Despite calls from Jason Gillespie and Ian Chappell for his inclusion in the side for the 2006 – 07 Ashes series in Australia, Tait did not get a place in the team with the selectors opting for Stuart Clark who proved effective and quashed hope of Tait cracking the side for a while longer.
Despite this good all-round performance, leg spinner Stuart MacGill was favoured by the selectors for the remaining Tests in the series.
Despite the lower level of activity, some of the cavalrymen and the newspaper reporters at the scene complained that all Stuart was doing was feeding his ego and exhausting the horses.
Despite this claim, Moore married three other men after 1949 ; including her eleven year marriage to Stuart Cramer with whom she has two children.
Despite the reluctance of his superior, Major General George G. Meade, Sheridan convinced General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant to allow him to deploy the cavalry in long-range raids, the first of which, at Yellow Tavern, resulted in the death of Confederate commander Jeb Stuart.
Stuart Galbraith IV DVD Talk said of the film, " Despite some good direction and a sincere, even daring performance by character actor Joe Spinell ( Rocky ), who also co-produced and co-wrote its screenplay, Maniac ( 1980 ) is alternately repellent and boring, despite the obvious intelligence that went into its making.
Despite the Confederacy's defeat, Stuart remained the head of the postwar Confederate Army.
Despite his fine all round cricket game he was rarely considered for One Day Internationals and in 1981 he was controversially left out of the Ashes squad which toured England ( Stuart Macgill, Yardley and fellow West Australian Bruce Reid are the only three bowlers to take 100 wickets for Australia without playing a Test there ).

Despite and family
Despite being offered the chance to remain as ruler of Bavaria ( under strict terms of an alliance with Austria ), the Elector left his country and family in order to continue the war against the Allies from the Spanish Netherlands where he still held the post of governor-general.
Despite the disdain of the Imperial family, it seems that from very early on the general public respected Claudius.
Despite his lack of capital, Newson was determined to be successful and in 1841, at the age of 29, he moved his family and devoted wife again, this time back to Suffolk, where he bought a barley and coal merchants business in Snape, constructing a fine range of buildings for malting barley.
Despite the fact that El Cid's mother's family was aristocratic, in later years the peasants would consider him one of their own.
Despite her family ’ s vehement disapproval, she eloped with Urbano in 1917 to live at his parents ' home in Gambettola.
Despite a fairly effective family planning program that has been in place since the 1960s, the population is expected to grow to around 264 million by 2020 and 308 million by 2050, falling to sixth behind Pakistan and Brazil sometime before 2050.
Despite the difficulties facing a congregational Rabbi raising a family, Klein volunteered for the U. S. Army during World War II as a chaplain, motivated by a cause he saw as clearly right with important implications for the Jewish People.
Despite their similarities, jackals do not all stem from the same branch on the canid family tree.
Despite the fact that her family had close links to the Church of Ireland, her marriage to a Protestant student caused a rift with her parents, who did not attend her wedding.
Despite her many attempts, Mei is unable to show her family Totoro's tree.
Despite the promise to spare his family, Bukharin's wife, Anna Larina, was sent to a labor camp, but she survived to see her husband officially rehabilitated by the Soviet state under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988.
Despite Qatar's coming under British " protection ," Abdullah bin Jassim was far from secure: recalcitrant tribes refused to pay tribute ; disgruntled family members intrigued against him ; and he felt vulnerable to the designs of Bahrain, not to mention the Wahhabis.
Despite coming from a religious family, Noyce was an agnostic.
Despite repeated attempts by family members and others to have it expunged, his conviction has never been overturned.
Despite his lack of significant family connections or success in office, he achieved praetorship in either 39 or 40, at the youngest age permitted ( 30 ), during a period of political upheaval in the organisation of elections.
Despite his poor health, he still welcomed a steady stream of visitors from family members, business partners, political associates and his constituents.
Despite this he has several times attempted to quit, staying at home with his family as he realizes his constant absence has nearly destroyed his wife.
Despite these alleged liaisons, Stravinsky was considered a family man and devoted to his children.
Despite being regarded as one of the most popular members of the royal family in recent times who helped to stabilise the popularity of the monarchy as a whole, Elizabeth was subject to various degrees of criticism during her life.
Despite this, the family was deeply in debt and lived abroad from 1883, in order to economise.
Despite Schiele's family connections in Krumau, he and his lover were driven out of the town by the residents, who strongly disapproved of their lifestyle, including his alleged employment of the town's teenage girls as models.
") Despite some opposition from the Harms family, Schiele and Edith were married on 17 June 1915, the anniversary of the wedding of Schiele's parents.
Despite his London birth, he retained a strong family connection with his ancestral home of The Hendre, near Monmouth, Wales.
Despite the preoccupation with fighting the Qing, the Zheng family was concerned with aboriginal welfare on Taiwan.

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