Despite its name, it is technically a fairly standard commercial lager rather than a bitter.

Despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced career woman, Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter, Saffron, a secondary school pupil ( and later university student ) whose constant care for her mother has left her a bitter cynic.

Despite Napoleon's pleas that he abdicate and leave Mexico, Maximilian refused to abandon the Mexican conservatives who had supported him, and remained alongside them until the bitter end, when he was captured by the Republicans and then shot on 19 June 1867.

Despite the fading of bitter wartime memories, the general public, according to opinion polls, continued to show strong support for this constitutional provision.

Despite his five-year contract with the BBC, Alan claims to his old school teacher " Sweaty " Frank Raphael in " The Talented Mr. Alan " that there was " bad blood " between them and they were " bitter bastards " plus every profession has its " shits ", so they had to let him go.

Despite ample warning and thorough defensive preparations, the battle soon degenerated into a bitter, close-quarters infantry affair, with artillery restricted by the need to avoid friendly troops and tanks unable to reach the scene.

Despite their joint success, the two commanders regarded each other as bitter rivals and after the war built competing temples to demonstrate divine favor.

Despite his disappointment over the Court's positions on some issues, Minton remained popular among his colleagues on the Court as he didn't take sides in their personal disagreements ; he proved a soothing presence during a period marked by bitter personal feuds between strong personalities such as William O. Douglas and Felix Frankfurter.

Despite the excitement of the affair, Scott was bitter and burned out.

Despite guiding the club to its first trophy in eight seasons, Graham could not achieve a finish higher than tenth in the Premiership and remained unpopular with a large section of the supporters, because of his previous role at Arsenal, Tottenham's most bitter rivals.

Despite what became a much more bitter debate, Howe's bill carried.

Despite the bitter disagreements on design and engines, the 247 was still a remarkable achievement and was Boeing's showcase exhibit at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.

Despite bitter criticism of the entry of low ' folk culture ' into television by the director of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme, it was an instant success.

Despite such characteristics, survivors counted religious faith as integral to their lives following the attack in Rosewood, to keep them from becoming bitter.

Despite its strong smell and bitter taste, the fruit is nevertheless eaten as a famine food and, in some Pacific islands, even a staple food, either raw or cooked.

Despite their bitter kernel, they are eaten by deer, squirrels and birds.

Despite drawing much attention in the sometimes bitter campaign against her former party leader, Brown lost by a significant margin, and retired permanently from politics.

Despite Odin's best intentions, his sons become bitter enemies, with the feuding often requiring Odin's mediation.

Despite bitter battles between SPS and Alumni Association President and Attorney Robert Zoffel, the school would later change its mascot to the " Wildcats ".

Despite his bitter anti-Catholicism, his political ideas won him wide support among the Irish Catholic population, who shared his dislike of English and Anglican dominance.

Despite competition between the two operators, bitter " bus wars " that broke out in other cities and towns across Scotland were largely avoided, and Eastern did not persevere with loss-making operations, but settled for economy by reducing use of St. Andrew Square Bus Station by running through the Edinburgh city centre to Charlotte Square, Haymarket and Silverknowes, and connecting traditional routes to Balerno and Wallyford end-to end ( ironically adopting the LRT Route No. 44 ).

Despite this, Lawrence still made 23 starts and 10 substitute appearances for the club, scoring stunning goals against Fulham, Chelsea, and Sunderland's bitter rivals Newcastle United at St James ' Park.

Despite bitter opposition from the military, the Soviet government endorsed Korolov ’ s approach and issued decrees on 22 and 25 May 1959 that ordered the development of three different spacecraft, all based on the same basic, Object OD-2, design.

" Despite this, Greenbury talked openly about the problems with the leadership succession that ultimately caused a slump at the retailer, as the four possible candidates for the job engaged in a bitter power struggled that stimulated headlines such as " Sparks Fly at Marks ", in a Channel 4 documentary.

Despite this, there has been unofficial interactions in the economic level between the two countries.

Despite the low interaction between discrete hubs, the disease can jump to and spread in a susceptible hub via a single or few interactions with an infected hub.

Despite recent improvements, there are still difficulties in using density functional theory to properly describe intermolecular interactions, especially van der Waals forces ( dispersion ); charge transfer excitations ; transition states, global potential energy surfaces and some other strongly correlated systems ; and in calculations of the band gap in semiconductors.

Despite their well-established efficacy, indications for monoamine oxidase inhibitors are currently very limited, due to their significant potential for adverse effects, many interactions, and the availability of newer and safer ( although not necessarily more efficacious ) antidepressants.

Despite the relatively small number of cards used in each game, card interactions and strategy can become surprisingly intricate, especially in the later rounds.

Despite their complexity, some interactions between species in the soil are not easily classified by food webs.

Despite facing many obstacles, the Lovers are always united by the play's close.

Despite the change of personnel, the fortunes of The Four Lovers did not change in the beginning of 1960, when they failed an audition for a lounge at a Union Township, Union County, New Jersey bowling establishment.

" Despite the last few years of frustration of the Four Lovers, this proved to be the turning point of the group: on a handshake between keyboardist / composer Bob Gaudio and lead singer Frankie Valli, the Four Seasons Partnership was formed.

Despite a 1995 apology regarding World War II by Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, tensions still remain, mostly because many Chinese feel there is a lack of true remorse for wartime crimes committed by Imperial Japanese forces.

Despite the return of Harris as manager from 1935 – 42 and again from 1950 – 54, Washington was mostly a losing ball club for the next 25 years, contending for the pennant only during World War II.

Despite affordable and often free land, many arriving newcomers, mostly from Britain and Ireland, found frontier life with the harsh climate difficult, and some of those with the means eventually returned home or went south.

Despite having a single Chinese spelling, 太極拳, there are two different spellings in English usage, one derived from the Wade-Giles and the other from the Pinyin transliteration, with the West mostly being familiar with the Wade-Giles, t ' ai chi ch ' uan.

Despite supporting mostly liberal legislation during his career as a consumer advocate, Nader received more votes from Republicans than Democrats.

Despite the legal usage of the Old Ruthenian language ( the predecessor of both modern Belarusian and Ukrainian languages ) which was used as a chancellery language in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the literature was mostly non-existent, outside of several chronicles.

Despite the constant shelling and the sinking of the Spanish fleet small ( mostly by himself Lezo, to block the harbor entrance ), the defenders managed to avoid landing the rest of the British troops, who were forced to remain in the boats for a month without sufficient reserves.

Despite production problems and mostly negative critical reception, The Fog was another commercial success for Carpenter.

Despite some inter-Testamental Jewish missionary activity, contemporary Judaism states clearly that missionary activities are mostly taboo.

Despite the novel approach of the family being ( mostly ) supernatural creatures, the show followed the typical family sitcom formula – the bumbling, well-meaning dad, the practical mom, the eccentric extra-nuclear live-in relative, and the precocious kid.

Despite its connections to the Furukawa zaibatsu, Fujitsu escaped the Allied occupation of Japan mostly unscathed.

Despite this uplift, the county mostly consisted of poor sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

Despite this, the character of Biloxi remained mostly French.

Despite the initial success of the Mark IV tanks at Cambrai, German artillery and infantry defences exposed the frailties of their armour and the vehicles became mostly ineffective after the first day.

Despite being a commercial faliure and mostly panned by critics, Zardoz has since developed a large cult following and found success on the home video market.

Despite this, Takara Tomy has reissued this toy numerous times in Japan ; mostly to commemorate the anniversary of the Transformers franchise.

Despite the majority of contemporaneous scholars and writers agreeing that Peter was the true author of the Crusade and that its aims became corrupted and violent over time in contrast to the purer and mostly non-violent People's Crusade, most recent scholars such as Jonathan Riley-Smith consider such views as an excellent instance of the legendary amplification of the First Crusade — an amplification which, beginning during the crusade itself, in the " idolizations " of the different camps ( idola castrorum, if one may pervert Bacon ), soon developed into a regular saga.

Despite its proximity to the University of Warwick on Coventry's southern outskirts, it has only a small student population of mostly postgraduate students, although many staff at the university choose to live in Kenilworth.

Despite its size, therefore, this work exists mostly in the viewer's mind.

Despite these mostly successful demonstrations, Morey could not find a buyer, and became frustrated.

Despite Giovanni Battista Mancini's claim that Hasse was the padre della musica, and despite the composer's massive popularity as a figure at the very forefront of 18th-century serious Italian opera, after his death Hasse's reputation vastly declined and his music lay mostly unperformed ( with the exception of some of his sacred works, which were revived now and again in Germany ).

Despite Arnauld's achievements in various fields, his name is mostly known because of Pascal's acclaimed writings, which were more fit for the general public than Arnauld's technical essays.

Despite having 88 incorporated cities and towns, including the state's most populous, 65 % of the land in Los Angeles County is unincorporated, this mostly consisting of Angeles National Forest and sparsely populated regions to its north.

Despite solid sales, the game was met with mostly tepid critical reviews.