Despite the US State Department's opposition, the WJC obtained permission from the US Treasury Department, headed by Henry Morgenthau, to transmit funds to Europe for the rescue and assistance of persecuted Jews.

Despite these concerns, Secretary of Treasury Geithner and Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gensler are not in favor of an outright ban on naked credit default swaps.

Despite speculation following the 2005 general election that he would return as a member of the Government, he did not do so, although in the post-election reshuffle there were reports that he was offered – and accepted – the cabinet post of Chief Secretary to the Treasury, before being told that the post had been assigned instead to Des Browne.

Despite Treasury Board rules requiring a bidding process for contracts of $ 25, 000 or more, Flaherty admitted his office broke government contracting rules in hiring MacPhie & Company to help write the 2007 budget speech and provide advice on how to sell the document.

Despite its foundation resulting from a recommendation in a report on Film and National Life, at that time the institute was a private company, though it has received public money throughout its history-from the Privy Council and Treasury until 1965 and the various culture departments since then.

Despite the pleas of Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln ordered Hunter to disband the black 1st South Carolina Regiment and to retract his proclamation.

Despite the facility's years of faithful service, in 1909 Treasury officials halted minting activity in New Orleans by simply refusing to appropriate funds for its operation.

Despite being defended by Salmon P. Chase, future Secretary of Treasury for Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice of the United States from 1864-1873, Van Zandt was ruled against by the court.

Despite fourteen bullet wounds, he was still conscious, but died three hours later, refusing to utter a word about the identities of the killers.

Despite refusing to announce his candidacy for the Senate, Hampton was elected to the United States Senate by the General Assembly on the same day as the amputation of his leg.

Despite refusing appointment to the High Court of Justice in 1928, he was offered the position again in 1941 and accepted, joining the King's Bench Division.

Despite lacking popular appeal, and refusing to bribe voters in a similar way to those of Hull, he became respected as a man of morals and integrity.

Despite being staunchly in favor of reinstating the monarchy, President Grover Cleveland also reversed himself upon receipt of the Morgan Report, refusing requests from the queen for further aid in her restoration, and acknowledging both the Provisional Government and Republic of Hawaii as the legitimate successors to the Kingdom.

Despite refusing to raise or spend any money in these efforts, Hooker nonetheless finished third in the senatorial primary and second in the gubernatorial primary held on August 3.

Despite the abbey's affiliation with the Balliol family who remained resolutely at odds with the Bruce monarchy, the abbot and canons, before 21 October 1316, expelled two of their rank for refusing to acknowledge Robert as their king ; a grateful King Edward II of England rewarded them by providing them with the rent and fishery of the abbey at Berwick.

Despite continued urging from family, doctors, and her best friend, Marilyn is still adamant about refusing the operation.

Despite this, it has been widely rumoured that Zemmama will be leaving Middlesbrough this summer, after apparently refusing to travel if he was amongst the substitutes in the final matchday against Watford – Mowbray subsequently withdrew him from his travelling squad.

Despite having Dax within her, she does not know Curzon's motivations for refusing to approve her to get a symbiont.

Despite refusing to play old material, the last track from The Firm, " Midnight Moonlight ", was originally an unreleased Led Zeppelin song entitled " The Swan Song ".

Despite a rescue attempt by British and Norwegian teams, which was severely delayed due to the Russians refusing them access, all 118 sailors and officers aboard Kursk died.

Despite their refusal to retaliate, over 150 students were eventually arrested for refusing to vacate store lunch counters when ordered to do so by police.

Despite claiming to offer a no-contract no-risk service, skyDSL is known for predatory billing practices, for refusing to cancel service despite multiple phone and email requests, and for changing upwards of 550 € for cancellation.

Despite the generosity of the British terms, representatives of Vichy made a brief show of refusing them, then dumped the whole mess into General Dentz's lap.

Despite his lack of patronage, he continued to preach at home on King Street in Covent Garden .< William Harris, “ Some Memoirs of the Life and Character of the Reverend and Learned Thomas Manton, D. D .,” in Works, 1: xxix .</ ref > He also continued to write even when imprisoned for refusing to cooperate for six months in 1670 in violation of the Conventicle Act.

Despite these constraints especially those deputies that are elected directly normally try to keep close contact with their constituents and to help them with their problems, particularly when they are related to federal policies or agencies.

Despite this, Crowley recommended a complex system of practices from Eastern and Western sources to help people attain Samadhi.

Despite the severe damage the economy of Georgia suffered due to civil strife in the 1990s, Georgia, with the help of the IMF and World Bank, has made substantial economic gains since 2000, achieving robust GDP growth and curtailing inflation.

Despite the excommunication of Bruce and his followers by Pope Clement V, his support slowly strengthened ; and by 1314 with the help of leading nobles such as Sir James Douglas and Thomas Randolph only the castles at Bothwell and Stirling remained under English control.

Despite his promises to the contrary, John appealed to Innocent for help, observing that the charter compromised the pope's rights under the 1203 agreement that had appointed him John's feudal lord.

Despite their alleged forthcoming help the Venetian fleet carried over the Turkish army from Asia into Europe and failed to sail to Varna, a surprising move that Władysław and his most senior military commander Hunyadi failed to anticipate.

Despite having the baron de Breteuil working on her behalf, the purchase did not help improve the public's image of the queen as frivolous.

Despite the fact that Charles was initially unwilling to help Edward, the French declared war on Burgundy.

Despite the uncomfortable and sarcastic banter throughout the flight, Kate, with the help of a few drinks, is able to tolerate her " rude " and " hygiene deficient " seating partner long enough to arrive safely in Paris.

Despite his macabre sense of humour, he was extremely generous, and would go out of his way to help those whom he considered friends.

Despite hurting the economy as a whole, the bill did help America begin to industrialize as no British manufactured goods could be imported and had to be instead produced domestically.

Despite difficulties solving the differential equation for hydrogen ( he had later help from his friend the mathematician Hermann Weyl ) Schrödinger showed that his non-relativistic version of the wave equation produced the correct spectral energies of hydrogen, in a paper published in 1926.

Despite Shabash ’ s appeals, his persistence, and the missionaries ' help, the Mohican lost the case.

Despite his fiancée's protests he decides to help her, but that unfortunately also means that he suddenly ceases to exist for regular people and becomes real only to the denizens of ' London Below ', whose inhabitants are generally invisible and non-existent to the people of ' London Above '.

Despite the popularity of some of his work, Little failed to launch Indigenous music in the country — from the 1970s onwards, groups such as Coloured Stone, Warumpi Band, and No Fixed Address would help improve the image of the genre.

Despite many research and investigations, only one of these have been translated, which wasn't any help of identifying the serial killer.

Despite winning Game 2 by a score of 96 – 95, with the help of a James buzzer beating three-pointer, it was not enough as Orlando eventually took the series in 6 games.

Despite the small budget, dire predictions, and little help from distributor Orion Pictures, Hoosiers grossed over $ 28 million and received two Oscar nominations ( Dennis Hopper for Best Supporting Actor and Jerry Goldsmith for Best Original Score ).< ref >

Despite this, her career evolved slowly, taking second billing for a number of years but with help in her stage presentation from the American dancer, Loie Fuller, she eventually became a singing star.

Despite their opposite personalities, Eeyore's passive nature and Tigger's optimism and outgoingness help them to accept each other's flaws and understand each other better.

Despite the animosity between them, Space Moose cannot help but see a little of himself in Marlo.

Despite not achieving fame for himself, he was a very astute judge of talent in others, and through his connections in Henny's world, Kelly was able to help promote the early careers of Sam Kinison, Louie Anderson, Roseanne Barr, and several other notable personalities.

Despite some semblance of recovery within two weeks, many houses were damage beyond the point of repair and efforts are still underway to help the homeless.

Despite his advocacy of quantitative analysis, Comte saw a limit in its ability to help explain social phenomena.

Despite the fact that the above cultural controls cannot completely control Microdochium Patch, when they are all used to reduce disease pressure, they can have a noticeable impact and will help to reduce the amount of chemical control that is required.