Despite having minor supporting roles, Abbott and Costello stole the film with their classic routines, including an abbreviated version of " Who's On First?

" Despite the territorial configuration for statistical purposes ( National Statistical System in Portugal ), in force since 2007, matching the NUTS II the Lisbon, Region Greater Lisbon ( AML )-composed only NUTSIII Greater Lisbon and Setúbal Peninsula-the area of intervention of the CCDRLVT-Steering Committee and Regional Development, abbreviated to CCDR-( the Lisbon and the Tagus Valley ), continues to be composed of 5 NUTSIII ( Sub-regions: Greater Lisbon, Setúbal Peninsula, Middle Tagus, and Lezíria West Coast ).

Despite the abbreviated model year a total of about 8, 400 were sold.

Despite her abbreviated schedule, she finished runner-up to Ricky Craven for Rookie of the Year honors.

Despite entering the LM forty minutes ahead of schedule, Young and Duke completed preparations only ten minutes early due to numerous delays in the process.

Despite critical success, sales lagged, and the publication schedule change from monthly to bimonthly.

Despite her reservations, Christine complied with the band's touring schedule, and then performed for the group's 1998 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the Grammy Awards show, and the BRIT Awards in the UK.

" Despite Spielberg's support, DreamWorks and Mendes fought constantly over the schedule and budget — although the studio interfered little with the film's content.

Despite these changes, the Memorial was finished on schedule.

Despite STV's explanation of expense, ITV plc were angered by the decision, as a recent schedule change had made The Bill central to their programming, and broadcast the programmes on ITV3 as well to ensure Scottish viewers could see the programmes.

Despite the grueling schedule, the Heat emphatically lived up to expectations during the 50-game season, claiming the 1st seed in the East just as they were favored to.

Despite the problems during filming, Spielberg was able to complete Temple of Doom on schedule and on budget, finishing principal photography on August 26.

Despite enormous difficulties ASCOM was able to finish numerous projects on time and some ahead of schedule.

Despite the Bolivian tax crisis of 1879, Chile voted in a new Congress on schedule.

Despite Hayes ' apparent fear of playing more than one " tough " game a year, Ohio State still managed to schedule regular-season games with Nebraska, Washington, Southern California, UCLA, and Oklahoma during his tenure.

Despite a couple of delays due to bad weather, the rocket was launched only one hour behind schedule.

Despite these findings, a number of scientists continued to search for " factor X ", an unknown exogenous factor associated with the earth's rotation that was driving circadian oscillations in the absence of a light dark schedule, until the mid twentieth century.

Despite paying lip service to the campaign, the GLC set a legal rate on schedule, passed by moderate Labour councillors with the support of Conservative opposition members.

Despite the schedule change, the show continued to do well until the fall of 1972, when the ratings slipped.

Despite improvements seen in these studies, interference effects would not be attributed to their improvements, and it would have been a coincidence of task characteristics and schedule of practice.

Despite the arrests, the Bulletin ' continued to appear on schedule '.

Despite his active schedule, Hammer took the stage with Jeff Beck in December 1983 for the nine U. S. benefit concerts that raised money for Ronnie Lane's A. R. M. S.

Despite the downturn in record sales, the Levellers performed a heavy gig schedule through late 2000 and 2001.

Despite its overnight success, WBZ had little interest in keeping the show as a part of its schedule ( partially because the station wanted to give priority to the upcoming Group W-distributed talk show, The Wil Shriner Show ).

Despite the complex and demanding work schedule, Occidental made the decision to continue operating the platform in phase 1 mode throughout this period and not to shut it down, as had been originally planned.

Despite her ill health, Mrs. Wallace maintained a brutal campaign schedule throughout 1966 and gave a 24-minute speech her longest everat her January 1967 inauguration.

Despite this setback, the Filene Center opened on schedule on July 1.

Despite the tight schedule, Cock and his team were able to prepare several sample programmes, and the Radiolympia event was a great success in advertising the potential of the new medium and encouraging the audience to purchase sets in the run-up to the launch proper.

Despite these extensive changes, ratings continued to decline as NBC began to move the show around to various spots in its schedule ( the show averaged out at # 42 in the Nielsens for season six, which was actually 7 spots higher than in its third season, when NBC evidently gave the show more support ).

Despite this, Cross and Green are able to return safely and Keller congratulates them on their success.

Despite a 9th place finish in points, Keller was never competitive.

Despite not visiting victory lane again in 1996, Keller drove his Slim Jim-sponsored Chevy into a sixth place points finish.

* Despite his power and high batting average, Keller was the first Yankees player to strike out over 100 times in a single season, whiffing 101 times in 1946.

Despite several years of front-page stories, the average citizen was unable to get a complete picture of McCarthy until he saw on the television screen what the reporters had been seeing all along but had no effective way of communicating.

Despite the opposition of the city newspapers, the Pratt Hall meeting `` brought together a very respectable audience, composed in part of those who had been distinguished for years for their radical views upon the subject of slavery, of many of our colored citizens, and of those who were attracted to the place by the novelty of such a gathering ''.

Despite Giffen's warning, Palfrey still had plans for freeing his slaves in Louisiana.

Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.

Despite his success against the Gepids, Alboin had failed to greatly increase his power, and was now faced with a much stronger threat from the Avars.

* Despite its heritage, Applesoft lacked commands common to most other Microsoft BASIC interpreters, such as INSTR ( which searched for a substring in a given string ; this had to be done manually with loops and the MID $ function ), PRINT USING ( which formatted numbers with commas and currency signs according to a format string ), and INKEY $ ( which checked for a keypress without stopping the program as Applesoft's GET command — analogous to the INPUT $ function — did, although a PEEK location did provide this functionality ).

Despite such a tremendous victory, Abd al-Rahman had to continuously put down rebellions in al-Andalus.

Despite the biblical prohibition on sexual relations between half-brothers and sisters, () Amnon had an overwhelming desire for her.

Despite being younger than the other contenders, Ahmad Shah had several overriding factors in his favor.

Despite the up-or-out system, under President José Sarney the army became top-heavy as generals began to occupy many positions that previously had been reserved for colonels.

" Despite Gropius's protestations that as a war veteran and a patriot his work had no subversive political intent, the Berlin Bauhaus was pressured to close in April 1933.

Despite popular opinion the substitution did not change the game as Franz Beckenbauer had scored before Charlton left the field, hence Charlton had failed to cancel out the German.

Despite the failure of Philip's Bastarnae strategy, the suspicion aroused by these events in the Roman Senate, which had been warned by the Dardani of the Bastarnae invasion, ensured the demise of Macedonia as an independent state.

Despite the fact that their actions were ultimately fruitless, the Eretrians and in particular the Athenians had earned Darius's lasting enmity, and he vowed to punish both cities.

Despite testimony from " Soldier F " that he had fired at a man holding and firing a pistol, Widgery acknowledged that the photographs showed Doherty was unarmed, and that forensic tests on his hands for gunshot residue proved negative.

Despite these achievements, Attlee's government failed to introduce the comprehensive education for which many socialists had hoped ( as a means of making the educational system less meritoric ).

Despite the potential for a financially strong owner, Stouffer had some non-baseball related financial setbacks and, consequently, the team was cash-poor.

Despite the fact that the Cubs had won 89 games, this fallout was decidedly unlovable, as the Cubs traded superstar Sammy Sosa after he had left the season's final game early and then lied about it publicly.

" Despite being significantly more advanced than its predecessors, the Armstrong gun was rejected soon after its integration, in favor of the muzzle-loading pieces that had been in use before.

Despite the fact that Barks had done little traveling his adventure stories often had the duck clan globe trotting to the most remote or spectacular of places.

Despite their practice of blending with dominant groups in order to avoid persecution and because the Druze religion doesn't endorse separatist sentiments, urging the Druze to blend with the communities they reside in, nevertheless the Druze have had a history of brave resistance to occupying powers, and they have at times enjoyed more freedom than most other groups living in the Levant.