Despite his own background within the UNO's humanitarian branches, Farrow has sharply and repeatedly criticized the UN's political bodies, including the predecessor to its Human Rights Council, which he called, in the Wall Street Journal, " a cancer on the United Nations ".

Despite those hopes, however, usable land has always been severely limited.

Despite midseason trade rumors, Beltrán would prove instrumental to the team's hopes, hitting eight home runs in the postseason.

Despite these hindrances, his aim ( and that of his collaborator John Dryden ) was to establish serious opera in England, but these hopes ended with Purcell's early death at the age of 36.

Despite such publicity, Sobran observed, " he author of the Sonnets expects and hopes to be forgotten.

Despite Gabrielle's hopes that she would " be good ", Hope killed Xena's son Solan before being poisoned by Gabrielle herself.

" Despite " unlike coincidence and occasional melodrama " in the plotting, Williamson concluded that " the novel is a fine juvenile reflects hopes and fears we all have known.

From late 1944 until early 1945, the Japanese launched over 9, 300 of these fire balloons, of which 300 were found or observed in the U. S. Despite the high hopes of their designers, the balloons were ineffective as weapons: causing only six deaths ( from one single incident ) and a small amount of damage.

Despite Conservative hopes, the first GLC consisted of 64 Labour and 36 Conservative councillors and Labour Group leader Bill Fiske became the first Leader of the Council.

Despite his lack of experience, Ford called American designer Cathy Hardwick every day for a month in hopes of securing a job at her mid-price sportswear company.

Despite orders to seek no direct military assistance from France, the American commissioners were instructed to work to acquire most favored nation trading relations with France, along with additional military aid, and also encouraged to reassure any Spanish delegates at that the United States had no desire to acquire Spanish lands in the Americas in the hopes that Spain would in turn enter a possible Franco-American alliance.

Despite Catholic Spain's moves toward diplomacy with England, Catesby still harboured hopes of foreign support and a peaceful solution.

Despite all these hopes, no children were born during the marriage.

Despite his superiors ' warnings, Leclerc did not consolidate his victory by disarming L ' Ouverture's old officers and they and the black and Creole population rose up again when news reached the island of the reestablishment of slavery on Guadeloupe, bringing the prospect of a similar restoration on Saint-Domingue and swinging the tide inexorably against French hopes for reimposing control.

Despite hopes for an immediate return to the top flight, their 2004 – 05 campaign began dismally, and at one point the side sunk as low as 19th place.

Despite high hopes the 2008 Destroyers weren't able to capitalize on the previous two years success and finished with a 3-13 record.

Despite a period of three years in the wilderness, he always believed that he would return to the national team and, in September 2009 he was called-up to the squad for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers against the Czech Republic and Slovakia by interim manager Stefan Majewski: after being on the bench for the first match in Prague, which saw Poland's slim World Cup hopes shattered, Dudek won his 59th cap against the latter on 14 October, in Poland's final competitive game before Euro 2012: in a match which was played in heavy snow and in front of a near-empty Stadion Slaski in Chorzów, he was denied a clean sheet by a Seweryn Gancarczyk own goal, as Poland lost 0 – 1.

Despite the loss, hopes were high for the team's second game, against the Milwaukee Badgers.

Despite Bailey's hopes of an annual All-Star Game, it did not become an annual tradition until the 1947 – 48 NHL season.

Despite this, Okalik continues to have great hopes in the territory and believes that Nunavut has great economic potential.

Despite hopes that the railway would bring further economic development to Rickmansworth and would serve the small factories and warehouses which had developed along the Grand Union Canal, it was Watford which grew at a faster pace and drew business from Rickmansworth.

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Despite all this, seggae music survives as one of Kaya's legacy and is often viewed as a voice exposing the angst and hopes of many of the poorest Mauritians.

Despite their hopes of winning more support in the west, they won only two seats west of Ontario.

Despite the arrival of reinforcements in the form of the 53rd ( Welsh ) Division on 9 August and the 54th ( East Anglian ) Division on 10 August, any hopes the British had of a swift victory at Suvla were now gone as the Ottomans consolidated their hold on the surrounding ridges.

Despite continuous wars or imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and one year-long civil war over the imperial succession, the Mediterranean world remained at peace for more than two centuries.

Despite his unprecedented use of Army troops to enforce a federal desegregation order at Central High School in Little Rock, Eisenhower was criticized for his reluctance to support the civil rights movement to the degree which activists wanted.

Despite not having a civil ensign, the EU's Fishery Inspection teams display a blue and yellow pennant.

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 this as of 2010 calls for cancellation of its remaining $ 1 billion debts came strongly from civil society groups such as the Jubilee Debt Campaign in reaction to the effects of the earthquake that hit the country.

Despite this, clashes intensified until civil war broke out in early May 1994.

Despite being surrounded by Anglo-Saxon Common Law territories, Louisiana's civil code has kept its Roman roots, and some of its aspects feature influences by the Napoleonic Code, but remains based more on Roman and Spanish civil traditions.

Despite Berlioz not understanding spoken English and Harriet not knowing any French, on 3 October 1833, they married in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy with Liszt as one of the witnesses.

Despite his previous support of the patronage system, Arthur, nevertheless, became an ardent supporter of civil service reform as president.

Despite the efforts of Plectrude to silence her rival's child by imprisoning him, he became the sole mayor of the palace — and de facto ruler of Francia — after a civil war, which lasted for more than three years after Pepin's death.

Despite the passage of time, Major Quilan still suffers grief and bereavement from the death of his wife, killed during the Chelgrian civil war when both were soldiers.

Despite his initial support of Lentulus Spinther, in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, Pollio sided with Caesar.

Despite its large number of black residents, McIntosh County politics continued to be dominated by whites well into the 1970s, even following the federal civil rights legislation of the decade previous.

Despite the cancellation in 1983 of the experimental Shanghai Y-10, China is still developing its civil aerospace industry.

Despite this, and Xenakis's other activities, he was able to graduate in 1947, with a degree in civil engineering.

Despite progressive agricultural reforms, under the Derg, agricultural output suffered due to civil war, drought and misguided economic policies.

Despite this decentralization there was a remarkable concord wthin the Dayan Khanid aristocracy and intra-Chinggisid civil war remained unknown until the reign of Ligden Khan ( 1604 – 34 ).

" Despite the development in 1941 of the Joint Army / Navy Phonetic Alphabet and its replacement, circa 1956, by the NATO phonetic alphabet ( currently used by U. S. military, civil aviation, telecommunications, and some law enforcement agencies ), the LAPD and other law enforcement and emergency service agencies throughout the United States continue to use it.

Despite his domestic troubles Robert decided to intervene in the civil war in Flanders between Baldwin V, Count of Flanders and his father Baldwin IV whom the younger Baldwin had driven out of Flanders.

Despite intervention in the civil war by the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ), INPFL forces captured most of Monrovia in the late summer of 1990.

Despite the title of the degree and concentration in mechanical engineering, the curriculum included courses in all engineering disciplines of the time ; mechanical, civil, chemical, and electrical.

Despite military use of the airfield, civil services operated by Qantas Empire Airways and Australian National Airways ( ANA ) commenced from the location in 1944.

Despite being literate, young Yue Fei chose the military path because there had never been any tradition of full-fledged Confucian civil service in his family history.

Despite nearly 30 years of the Charter, it has never been applied as rigorously as intended because to do so would violate civil liberties.